Hoot: Sounds like we may have set on some of the same sofas.

Yup, and it's "Ruben R.G." on his headstone, typical. The Hall Brothers on that same Roan Mountain release were a tangle of "Roys" as well.

IIRC Lilly Mae's kin jumped the Stone Gap in great-grandfather Amos Ledford's generation or maybe before. Just had a look online, nothing before Amos from the NC side of the records. More fodder for the reading list!