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Narrows, VA (2017)

25 Monday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Civil War, Giles County, Native American History

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Plenty of my ancestors once lived in Giles County, VA. 10 August 2017.

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Here we are near Narrows, VA. 10 August 2017. Photo by Mom.

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Entering Narrows, VA. 10 August 2017. The New River is visible on the right.

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I enjoyed this little section of old buildings in Narrows, VA. 10 August 2017.

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Narrows, VA. 10 August 2017. For more info, follow this link: http://townofnarrows.org/history/

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Confederate victory here in Narrows, VA. 10 August 2017. Photo by Mom.

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The MacArthur Inn in Narrows, VA. 10 August 2017. For more info, follow this link: http://www.macarthur-inn.com/

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Bluegrass music every Thursday at MacArthur Inn in Narrows, VA. 10 August 2017. Photo by Mom. For more info, follow this link: https://www.myswva.org/tcr

Mrs. Henry Clay Ragland’s Obituary (1914)

25 Monday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Civil War, Huntington, Logan, Matewan, Women's History

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From the Logan Banner of Logan, WV, we find the following story dated April 17, 1914:

“GRANDMA” RAGLAND PASSES TO THE BEYOND

MATE OF MAJOR HENRY CLAY RAGLAND, EDITOR OF THE LOGAN BANNER FOR MANY YEARS, PLACED BESIDE HIM EASTER SUNDAY

Mrs. Lou Ragland, mother of the Buskirk family, of this region died last Friday a.m. at the home of her son, Robert W. Buskirk, in the Urias Hotel at Matewan, Mingo county. She had married Henry Clay Ragland, for a long time editor of the Logan Banner, after the death of her first husband, Urias Buskirk. By her first marriage she raised a most interesting family of sons and daughters who are still residing in this section. Mrs. Buskirk was a most remarkable woman in many respects. She had always lived an exemplary and Christian life and assumed her responsibilities after the death of her first husband with efficiency and diligence. She was true to friend and family and was a good and faithful mother and a loving wife. Through her long life she has retained the confidence and respect of all who knew her. We grieve with her relatives and friends at her death. She was near the ninety-two milestone when she died and had been sick only for a few days.

“Grandma” Ragland’s exact age was 91 yrs. 11 mo. 20 days; born on Blain creek, Lawrence county, Ky., May 1st, 1823. For 30 years a member of the Christian church.

On May 1st also (1911) Major Ragland died. He was born on May 7th, 1844; belonged to Co. B 5th Va. Cavalry; member of the Aracoma Baptist church.

Mrs. Ragland’s last request, to rest one night in her old bedroom–the present residence of Rev. Bradshaw–was complied with. This parsonage now becomes the property of the Baptist church, according to the terms of Major Ragland’s deed, at her death.

Her age indicates her wonderful physical endurance, and while she knew she must die soon, retained her usual discretion and fortitude. She made plans with her kindred as to where her last resting place should be and desired that none of her children and friends be troubled about her demise. Up to the last she kept her mind intact and conversed with those near to her.

The mother of the Buskirks has gone, we hope, to a happier sphere. Mother is the dearest friend on earth. We grieve at the bier of the departed with the bereaved, and shed a tear with them in their desolation as we think of our own dear mother. Our sympathies go out to the bereaved ones in the loss of their one best comforter, but we hope and continue to hope that we may meet again in the unknown hereafter.

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On April 17, 1914, the Logan Banner offered a small additional item: “Among those in attendance at the funeral of ‘Grandma’ Ragland last Sunday were: B.B. Goings, Williamson; Jno. A. Sheppard, Huntington; G.B. Hamilton, Matewan; in addition to the sons of the deceased.”

Stone Branch Gas Well (1911)

22 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Stone Branch

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Appalachia, Big Creek, Dingess Run, gas, history, James Stowers, Logan County, Logan Democrat, Parrot, Pelham Oil & Gas Company, Stone Branch, Virginia, West Virginia

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Logan (WV) Democrat, 6 April 1911.

Old Dan Tucker (1926)

22 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Logan, Music

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Appalachia, history, Logan, Logan Banner, music, Old Dan Tucker, Paul Bunyan, Walter Barnes, West Virginia

From the Logan Banner of Logan, WV, dated 2 November 1926, we find this story:

Remember the old song about “Old Dan Tucker”? And did you ever dance to the rollicking tune?

In the November number of the West Virginia Review there appears a sketch entitled “The Epic of Old Dan Tucker” written by Walter Barnes.

“Have the Review readers heard of the tales of Old Dan’s escapades, sung to the accompaniment of a rasping fiddle?” asks Barnes; and then he adds:

“A wonderful old man! He was a graceless rascal, no doubt. But a picturesque character, full of sap, scented with the soil, flinging himself into one amazing and amusing feat after another, ‘the talk of the country,’ and ‘the life of the party.’ The rhymes insist that he was a ‘fine old man’: well, he wasn’t fine and he didn’t act like an old man–he was rather what we call a regular fellow.

“Who was he? When and where did he live? I have no idea. Perhaps he lived in West Virginia in frontier and pioneer days. Tucker is probably a composite like Paul Bunyan. There may have been a real person by that name.”

Here are a few of the nine stanzas that Mr. Barnes has assembled:

OLD DAN TUCKER

Old Dan Tucker was a fine old man,

He washed his face in a frying pan,

He combed his hair with a wagon wheel,

And died with the tooth-ache in his heel.

Chorus:

Get out of the way for Old Dan Tucker.

He’s too late to get his supper.

Old Dan Tucker, he got drunk,

He fell in the fire and kicked out a chunk,

But he got ashes in his shoe,

And laws-a-massy how the fire flew!

Old Dan Tucker is a lovely man,

He swallowed a barrel of whiskey down,

The hoops flew off, the barrel did bust,

Away went Dan in a thunder gust.

Old Dan Tucker is a fine old man,

He tried to ride a Darby ram,

He rode him east, he rode him west,

He rode him into a hornet’s nest.

Old Dan Tucker went out one day

All alone in a one-hoss sleigh;

The sleigh was broke, and the hoss was blind,

And he had no hair on his tail behind.

Source: Logan (WV) Banner, 2 November 1926.

Arena (Elkins) Headley

22 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Fourteen, Wewanta, Women's History

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Appalachia, Arena Elkins, Arena Headley, Emarine Elkins, Emily Sias, Fourteen, Fourteen Mile Creek, genealogy, history, Jesse Headley, Lincoln County, Marion Elkins, photos, West Virginia, Wewanta

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Arena (Elkins) Headley, daughter of Joseph Marion and Nancy Emarine (Elkins) Elkins and wife of Jesse F. Headley. Arena is a sister to my great-great-grandmother, Emily (Elkins) Sias. She was born in 1898 and died in 1987.

Old-Timey Children’s Games in Appalachia (1900)

22 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Huntington

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A.J. Miser, Appalachia, bull pen, Cabell County, circuit clerk, duck-legs, history, Huntington, Huntington Advertiser, J.L. Thornburg, marbles, R.W. McWilliams, spelling bee, West Virginia

From the Huntington Advertiser of Huntington, WV, we find the following story dated 13 January 1900:

WHEN WE WERE BOYS

THREE CITIZENS TELL OF GAMES WITH WHICH THEY WHILED AWAY THEIR HOURS

“When I was a boy,” said J.L. Thornburg, “great attention was paid to spelling. A long string of youngsters would stand up, and the good spellers would turn the others down. The one who stood at the head of the class received, as a badge of honor, a silver dollar with a hole in it, through which was slipped a ribbon to wear about his neck. I stood next to the top when, for some misdemeanor, I was sent to the foot of the class, and sentenced to carry a stick of wood with me for an entire day. The spelling lesson that day had several breakers in it, but I was not distressed, as I could go no lower in the class. Finally a particularly hard orthographic nut was given to the wearer of the silver dollar. He failed, and one after another, the scholars missed the terrible word as it came down the line. I happened to know the word, spelled it, and with my badge of ignominy, the stick of wood, on my shoulder, went to the top of the class. That evening I wore the silver dollar home.”

“When I was a boy,” said Squire A.J. Miser, “there was a time in the year when all the boys, at the same time, would be seized with the desire to play marbles. Nobody could account for this simultaneous seizure. It appeared and disappeared like an epidemic. There was another epidemic that appeared much like marbles, ravaged the country and was gone for another twelve month. This was stilt-walking, and it was desperately contagious. Perhaps the most malignant form was ‘duck-legs.’ These were short stilts, the handles being sawed off so that they reached the boy’s knees, and from there to the foot-rests were strapped to the legs with rope or leather. It was no easy matter to take off one’s duck-legs when properly strapped on and cross-gartered, and many a time have I gone without dinner rather than take off my wooden pins, my mother having an old-fashioned prejudice running in favor of natural legs at meal time. On some occasion I escaped this maternal surveillance and succeeding in sleeping in my duck legs, to the great disturbance of the circulation off the blood. Heigh-ho! I haven’t seen a pair of duck-legs for forty years or more.”

“When I was a boy,” said Circuit Clerk R.W. McWilliams, a number of out door games, common at that time have long since passed away. One of these was bull pen. It was played by eight boys. Four stood, one at each corner of a rectangular square, and four in the center of the pen. The four on the corners passed the ball rapidly from one to the other, and when it was ‘warm’ the holder threw it at one of the victims in the center. When one in the pen picked up the ball the boys on the corners scattered, for the boys in the pen could then throw at the corner lads. It was a rough game and boys were often struck hard. This was in the early days of India rubber. The rubber shoes were made in South America in a crude way. An old rubber shoe was cut up into strings to make this ball; the strings were wound, covered with yarn and then covered with leather. There was a good deal of bounce in such a ball, and when it kissed a boy there was plenty of sting in it. Another game of that time was fox and hounds. One boy, as the fox, carried a horn. He was given about a hundred yards’ start of the hounds, who were to catch him. I have known such a race to last nearly all day.”

Generosity of Island Creek Coal Company (1926)

19 Tuesday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Coal

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Appalachia, Christmas, coal, history, Holden, Island Creek Coal Company, Logan County, West Virginia

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Logan (WV) Banner, 31 December 1926.

Chapmanville News 06.29.1926

19 Tuesday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Chapmanville, Logan

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Appalachia, Bob Hale, Brookie Rowsey, Chapmanville, Dr. Ferrell, genealogy, history, Horace Mullins, James Wagner, Leonard T. Hicks, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, Martha Whitman, Mt. Gay, Nelson Bentley, Virginia Coberly, West Virginia

An unknown correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on June 29, 1926:

Nelson Bentley passed Mrs. Brookie Rowsey’s and failed to stop. What’s wrong, Brookie?

Mr. and Mrs. ___ Whitman are visiting Mrs. Martha Whitman this week.

Mrs. Horace Mullins and little son of Logan spent the weekend here.

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hale of Logan spent the week with Mr. Hale’s mother, Mrs. Wagner.

Mrs. James Wagner, who has been very ill, is much improved.

Leonard T. Hicks of Mt. Gay was calling on his wife here last Sunday.

Miss Virginia Coberly of Logan was a visitor here Sunday.

Daily happenings: Mildred looking for Virgil; Fannie meeting all trains; Minnie and his dinner bucket; Thelma and her mulberries; Grace and her knickers; Gladys calling on Minnis; Dr. Ferrell going to see Miss Queen; Harold and his pony; Nute and his gas station; Fat and his ice cream cone; Diana hoeing corn; Gillia carrying water; Brookie watching for Bentley; Goldie calling on Mildred.

Funkstown, MD (2015)

19 Tuesday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Civil War, Fourteen

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11th Georgia Regiment, 34th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Andrew Lewis Sias, Battle of Funkstown, Battle of Gettysburg, Brandon Kirk, Chaney House, Chester, civil war, Confederate Army, Funkstown, General Hospital, Georgia, H.D. McDaniel, Hagerstown, Hammond General Hospital, history, J.E.B. Stuart, Jerusalem, John Buford, Keller Home, Maryland, Pennsylvania, photos, Phyllis Kirk, Point Lookout, Potomac River, Robert E. Lee, Seminary Hospital

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My great-great-great-grandfather Andrew Lewis Sias participated with the 34th Battalion Virginia Cavalry (Co. D) under Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart at Gettysburg and was thereafter captured (according to one military record) on July 8, 1863 in Funkstown, MD. He was held at Seminary Hospital in Hagerstown, MD, then admitted to General Hospital in Chester, PA, on September 17, 1863. He was thereafter sent to Hammond General Hospital at Point Lookout, MD, on October 4, 1863. 9 April 2015. Photo by Mom.

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The Battle of Funkstown, a Confederate victory, occurred shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg. My ancestor missed this battle, having already been captured. 9 April 2015.

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Originally named Jerusalem in 1767, the town was incorporated as Funkstown in 1840. 9 April 2015.

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Major H.D. McDaniel of the 11th Georgia Regiment was treated here at the Keller Home after the Battle of Funkstown (July 10, 1863). Mr. McDaniel survived the battle and later became governor of Georgia. 9 April 2015.

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Part of the Keller Home. 9 April 2015.

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Dozens of beautifully-designed old residences are yet visible in Funkstown. 9 April 2015.

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Funkstown’s population was 904 in 2010. 9 April 2015.

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Most of my favorite old structures in Funkstown were located on this street. 9 April 2015.

Chapmanville News 06.03.1921

19 Tuesday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Boone County, Chapmanville, Huntington, Logan

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Boone County, C.B. Hainor, Chapmanville, Cora McKinney, Decoration Day, E.P. Stowers, Emma Stowers, Erie Blevins, Floyd Barker, genealogy, Henlawson, history, Hughey, Huntington, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, Lottie Hainor, Lula Blevins, Manila, Nellie Barker, Robert Hainor, St. Albans, Thermal Hainor, W.G. Willis, West Virginia, Wilsondale

An unknown correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on June 3, 1921:

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hainor attended the decoration exercises at Manila Sunday.

W.G. Willis made a business trip to Logan Saturday.

E.P. Stowers and Miss Emma Stowers returned Wednesday from a business trip to Huntington.

Uncle Floyd Barker, of St. Albans, is visiting relatives here this week and attending decoration.

Mrs. Lottie Hainor and daughter Thermal left Sunday afternoon for a visit with relatives at Henlawson.

Mrs. Cora McKinney spent Sunday with friends here.

Miss Erie Blevins, who is staying at Hughey, spent Sunday with her parents at this place.

Miss Nellie Barker was called to Wilsondale Sunday on account of the illness of her sister.

We are glad to say that Miss Lula Blevins, who has been staying at Hughey, has returned to her home here.

Mrs. C.B. Hainor visited friends at Manila Sunday.

An exciting incident occurred on last Saturday evening that might have caused serious loss to the firm of Stowers and Garrett and besmirched the glorious record they have been making the past few weeks as peddlers. As they were returning home, Mr. Garrett noticed a large fowl in a wheat field, he proceeded to capture it and confine it in his chicken coop. Thinking he had captured some rare bird of the tropical jungles, he drove with all speed to the home of Mr. Stowers where some of the family promptly pronounced it to be a turkey but Messrs. Stowers and Garret had their own opinion on the matter and had already decided they had captured a parrot. They had christened him “___m” and were already beginning to teach him to talk. However he didn’t show much aptitude as a pupil, but stood with dull expressionless eyes and his long crooked bill of a mouth wide open. After much deliberation they were finally convinced that they had not captured a “Poll Parrot” but a vulture or more commonly speaking, a buzzard. When they were convinced of this they opened the coop and Mr. Buzzard flew away to his rightful dominion, while their golden dream of selling a parrot to some enterprising Loganite vanished away on the soaring wings of the “Buzzard.”

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