My name is Michael D. Tolley. My dad was Willie Sherman Tolley, and I do not wish to be confused with the Mike Tolley who was the son of Billy Ray Tolley, son of my uncle Clayton, who has something of a checkered past.

I grew up near Lake Stephens in Metalton, Raleigh County, West Virginia. My great-grandfather, Christopher Wellington Tolley, founded Tolleytown, and my dad and my two brothers and I used to mow the grass in the Tolleytown Community Cemetery there when I was a boy. I now live in Daniels, West Virginia, near the Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, where other relatives are buried. I do a lot of genealogy research with my niece, Cathy Johnston on Ancestry. I also run a group on Facebook called Tolleytowners for people who are kin to that branch of the Tolley family that settled in Tolleytown. Some branches of the family that I am interested in include Tolley, Hutchinson or Hutchison, Barber, McGehee/McGhee, Deck, Janney, Patton, and Webb.

My name is Michael D. Tolley. My dad was Willie Sherman Tolley, and I do not wish to be confused with the Mike Tolley who was the son of Billy Ray Tolley, son of my uncle Clayton, who has something of a checkered past.

I grew up near Lake Stephens in Metalton, Raleigh County, West Virginia. My great-grandfather, Christopher Wellington Tolley, founded Tolleytown, and my dad and my two brothers and I used to mow the grass in the Tolleytown Community Cemetery there when I was a boy. I now live in Daniels, West Virginia, near the Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, where other relatives are buried. I do a lot of genealogy research with my niece, Cathy Johnston on Ancestry. I also run a group on Facebook called Tolleytowners for people who are kin to that branch of the Tolley family that settled in Tolleytown. Some branches of the family that I am interested in include Tolley, Hutchinson or Hutchison, Barber, McGehee/McGhee, Deck, Janney, Patton, and Webb.