1. Samuel McVay - Born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in about 1832, Samuel McVay is the farthest descendent in the McVay family I have been able to find. He moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he was a Lieutenant in the calvalry during the Civil War, serving under General Custer. He married Margaretta Watterson and supposedly had eight kids. One of them was William McVay (2). Samuel died around 1915.

2. William McVay - William was a printer by trade and ended up getting printer's consumption (which was poison due to bad ink), and died. His wife, Alice Hall, died before he did. Their son, Samuel Melvin McVay (3), then went and grew up with his grandparents, Samuel and Margaretta McVay.

3. Samuel Melvin McVay - Born on June 27, 1886, Samuel Melvin McVay grew up in his grandparents home when both of his parents died at an early age. He moved to a farm in Nevada, Ohio and married Mary Reinhart in 1909. They had eight children.

4 Alice, b. 1910
5 Ethel, b. 1913
6 Tom, b. 1915
7 Hazel, b. 1919
8 Mary Jo, b. 1920
9 Richard, b. 1924
10 Barbara, b. 1929
11 Robert, b. 1936

7. Hazel McVay, my grandmother, was one of eight children who grew up on a farm in rural Ohio. She married Frederick Fisher in 1939 when she was 20 and they moved to East Toledo and opened up a small neighborhood grocery store, which they had until the early 1970s, when grandpa Fred died. She passed away on Memorial Day 2004, surrounded by her family.