25 Thursday May 2017
Posted in Cemeteries, Civil War, Logan, Pecks Mill
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Appalachia, Blacksburg, Brandon Kirk, cemeteries, civil war, Confederate Army, Edge Hill, genealogy, history, J.E. Peck, Logan, Logan County, Mary C. Peck, Peck Family Cemetery, Pecks Mill, photos, Phyllis Kirk, Virginia, West Virginia
J.E. Peck grave, Pecks Mill, Logan County, WV (2017). Photo by Mom.
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Hi Brandon:
You are standing at the grave of my grandfather, John Edwin Peck. in Pecks Mill. i am his grandson, John E. Peck III. i came across this while taking a break at Fox News here in New York City on an overnight shift, while doing a search on my grandfather, and our long-known connections to the Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield family and story. We learned about a decade ago that my grandfather was an honorary pallbearer of Devil Anse at his funeral.
It’s really interesting as well that you posted the articles about Granddad filing for Circuit Judge. My father, the late Dr. Frank Peck from Huntington, never mentioned that much, but we did hear of Granddad as “Judge Peck” as kids from the Logan relatives and we had just a few pics of him. And my father’s grave is just feet away from where you are standing, as are other Peck relatives, which of course you probably know about as well. Our family would come to the gravesite every so often when visiting Logan and I would come there to see relatives, some on Stratton Street in Logan. My grandfather died in 1948 from pancreatic cancer, and I never had a chance to know him, although my grandmother, Minerva White Peck, lived until I was 8 years old, and died just days after the death of President John F. Kennedy.
Are you from the Logan area? My aunts and uncle used to live on Stratton Street all the way back into the 1970’s and ’80’s, My aunt Helen taught math at Logan Junior High School for many years. Though the direct Peck family is gone from the area for a few years, it’s great to refresh on things like this
This is such interesting history, I’ll pass this on to the family. if you have a story as to why you posted these pics and articles about my grandfather, I’d love to hear them/ Feel free to email me at cmaurban@yahoo.com on this if you’d like.
Thanks again for filling in some great Peck family history. Our newsroom in Manhattan has at least one West Virginia hillbilly – that’s me! Always fun to tell them West Virginia tales, too.
Sincerely,
John Peck
Fox News
Oops Brandon, sorry…
I just realized you’re standing at the grave of my great-grandfather and great-grandmother, Mary Norvell Peck… my grandfather and grandmother’s graves are just ahead of those markers. Also…my understanding is that behind the fencing where you are standing around the Peck family area, are grave markers that note where former slaves or family servants were buried, and apparently those freed slaves/servants chose (I hope) to come to West Virginia with the family. I’d love to know how true or untrue that might be. I hope my family did the right thing by them and treated them well.
We heard stories about my great-grandfather, he was called, “Major Ed” by older family members and from the stories I heard, served in the same regiment as General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, but I have never seen documentation to confirm anything about his Civil War record. it may be an “urban legend”, but one thing we as family kids heard about him is that he was with Jackson when Jackson was shot accidentally by Confederate forces at the battle of Chancellorsville, but I have never seen records to confirm his presence in Jackson’s unit.
Another story told to us is that at the end of the Civil War, John Edwin Peck sold the family land in Blacksburg, VA that came to be the site for the founding of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now called Virginia Tech, before settling into southern West Virginia. Supposedly, there are records for that transaction in the Giles Co. Virginia courthouse or other place where those records would have been kept, but I have never seen those, either, to confirm that transaction.
If you ever come across anything about the service record of “Major Ed” Peck, I would love to know it. These are missing pieces from a family history I hope can someday be filled in. Thanks again, Brandon! – John Peck / Fox News