The book "History of Summers County from the earliest settlement to the present time (1908)" is available on archive.org for free download if anyone is interested. Here is the link...
http://archive.org/details/historyofsummers02mill

Can You Trace Your Line To Robert Lilly ? Yes

WOULD YOU PLEASE SEND ANY INFORMATION YOU HAVE?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

Can You Trace Your Line To Robert Lilly ? no

Hi Theodore,
Some of the WV Lillys did move to Pennsylvania. If you would post a copy of your Lilly ancestry I am willing to search my database to see if it is in there. Please indicate name, dates, locations and spouses names. I will also be sending this message to yout email address. Bob Zingo

Can You Trace Your Line To Robert Lilly ? yes

When you do online research, you are getting the raw, unfiltered and probably 85 pct. inaccurate information. When you go to primary sources, you are cleaning things up quite a bit -- but you have to remember only an estimated 5% of Virginia historical records have been digitized. Most Lilly family on line histories fall into the Flippen, Billups and Forney-Clark groups, each connecting Robert back to immigrant John Lilly in some way. There are some exotic others, including French Huguenot links, and other unproven lines that jump clearly smack into the middle of the 15th century in England.
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There are 50 boxes of documents in WV state archives relating to the family from the work of James Richardson, but the problem is, while we know what Mr. Richardson wrote, we don't know what he didn't. And even he is not without error, killing off my great-great grandfather in a Union prison camp when it was his father who died.
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My own work is focused on colonial Virginia at large, and the in-law lines, Some such as the Meador/Meadows family have quite a bit to share. There is of course rich history in all of the English colonial family lines.
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My own puzzles at the moment, why a successful country squire in Bedford, VA would relocate to the "flaming frontier" on the Bluestone. My own development is along the lines there is an extra Robert in there somewhere, not just 2 but 3.
But that is entirely unproved . It would just be a convenient "if" and explain a lot. Unfortunately, the English custom of naming sons for fathers, and dropping the junior later on has its consequences as does the custom of naming daughters for mothers,and grandmothers.
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Another puzzle: linked as closely as he is to Josiah Meadows, Robert Lilly doesn't always show in the same places Josiah Meadows does, though they live we believe on adjoining farms, are from allied families and come purchase a track of land together on the Bluestone. We don't have a Revolutionary War history for him, although he could have just as well been there as not, given that enlistments were for brief periods and records, incomplete. The only family record I have to work from, remembering as a child my great-grandfather Acil [that is how he spelled it: shows up everywhere as Acel] telling me his father told him, the idea was they would develop a farm, a homestead and then sell it and parley the earnings into more land. Maybe it was all that simple, and the rich bottomland on the Bluestone was the final payoff.

Hi Russ,

Jim Richardson and I corrsponded occasionally and talked a few times. His collected information surely contains a lot on the Lillys and related lines. He was very sincere in saying that he did not know the names of the parents of Robert Lilly and he mentioned that at one time he, or possibly someone else, offered a reward for verifiable information leading to Robert's parents.

He was a wonderful resource and very passionate about his research.

If you would like to discuss a Lilly(s) line feel free to contact me. I can trace my roots back to Robert and Mary Lilly 6 different ways and I have been tracing Lilly descendant lines for about 10 years. At present I have about 600 Lilly obituaries on file that still need to be transcribed so I will probably be working on this line for a bit yet. Cousin Bob

Can You Trace Your Line To Robert Lilly ? Yes

Russ,
I have been researching my line for almost four years and I am at a dead stop with my gggggrandfather David R. Lilly. What I know is that he married Ruth Ann Lewis in 1820 in Shelbyville, Kentucky and died in Missouri in mid 1840s. I also know he spent time in Indiana as some of his children have birth records in Indiana. And two of his children were born in Missouri in the early 1840s. Prior to, I have nothing. Do you have him in your data? Thanks.

Can You Trace Your Line To Robert Lilly ? ??

From what I can gather, Pleasant Lilly was "involved" with Millie and Nancy Solesberry/Solesbury/Shrewsberry. Nancy is my direct ancestor, through her daughter Frances Shrewsberry and Frances' daughter Sarah Jane Shrewsberry who married James Richmond. Sarah and James had a daughter Almeda who married William Wesley Cadle and they were the parents of my father Cecil Clark Cadle. I found Nancy's grave in the Odd area a few years ago at the Lilly Cemetery and her stone said Nancy Solesbury, even though she supposedly at some point married Pleasant Lilly. I live in WV in Summers County, but have not had enough time to do the research I wish I could do. I would love to know if my line goes to Robert Lilly................. Thank you for your help.

Can You Trace Your Line To Robert Lilly ? No

Hi
In your research did you come across a Henry Wilson Lilly born 1789 in Virginia or Kentucky. Married 1811 to Mary Elizabeth Laurence, Died 1844 in Randolph County Missouri.

My husband in Robert Benton Lilly a descendent of Henry Wilson Lilly. Thanks

Can You Trace Your Line To Robert Lilly ? unsure but husbands name is Robert Benton Lilly

do you have any other birthdate for Robert Lilly who is the father of Edmund, Thomas, William S & Juda that are listed on the big family tree? Seems the date has been questioned for many years.
I just realized you posted this in 2004, 10 years is a long time to have info...thank you for your patience.

Can You Trace Your Line To Robert Lilly ? yes