08 Thursday Feb 2018
Posted in Cemeteries, Fourteen, Gill, Ranger
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Appalachia, Barber Hollow, Beaver Pond, cemeteries, genealogy, history, Lincoln County, photos, West Virginia
Beaver Pond Road, Lincoln County, WV. 4 November 2017.
Compressor Station, Barber Hollow Ridge, Lincoln County, WV. 4 November 2017.
Compressor Station, Barber Hollow Ridge, Lincoln County, WV. 4 November 2017.
Barber Cemetery at Barber Hollow Ridge, Lincoln County, WV. 4 November 2018. Three graves are located here: a woman (center) and her two husbands (on each side).
04 Sunday Feb 2018
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Cemeteries, Ferrellsburg, Halcyon, Women's History
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Appalachia, Babe Dingess Family Cemetery, Brandon Kirk, Brandon Ray Kirk, cemeteries, Clementine Dingess, Ferrellsburg, genealogy, Halcyon, Harry Kirk, Harts Creek, history, Jake Adkins, Lettie McKibbon Adkins, Lincoln County, Logan County, Morning Star Freewill Baptist Church, photos, West Fork, West Virginia
Julius David “Babe” Dingess (c.1847-bef.1900) was the son of Julius C. and Eliza (Smith) Dingess. He married Venila Stollings. 3 February 2018.
This cemetery is located near Morning Star Freewill Baptist Church on West Fork of Harts Creek in Logan County, WV. I last visited here on October 20, 1997. 3 February 2018.
Clementine “Tine” (Adkins) Dingess grave… Tine was the daughter of Enos “Jake” and Lettie Kib (Toney) Adkins of Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV. 3 February 2018. Photo by Dad.
28 Sunday Jan 2018
Posted in Cemeteries, Halcyon, Lincoln County Feud
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Appalachia, Auglin Watts, Bearwallow Gap, Bill's Branch, Blood in West Virginia, Brandon Kirk, Bryant-Dingess Cemetery, Burl Bryant, cemeteries, French Bryant, genealogy, Harry Kirk, Harts Creek, history, Hugh Dingess Hollow, Lincoln County Feud, Logan County, Mosco Dingess, photos, Piney Fork, Smokehouse Fork, West Fork, West Virginia
Dad and I recently cleared the Bryant-Dingess cemetery at Bearwallow Gap in the head of Piney Fork and Hugh Dingess Hollow on Harts Creek, Logan County, WV. I last visited this cemetery over twenty years ago. 27 January 2018.
The cemetery was overgrown with saplings. Four persons are buried here: French Bryant, Burl Bryant, Auglin Watts, and Mosco Dingess. 27 January 2018.
French Bryant (1855-1938), son of Rufus Bryant, is a major character in my feud book, “Blood in West Virginia: Brumfield v. McCoy.” My Kirk family liked French. 27 January 2018
Burl Bryant grave (lower) and Auglin Watts grave. 27 January 2018.
Looking downhill toward cemetery. 27 January 2018.
Up above the cemetery are these magnificent rocks. 27 January 2018.
Looking from the rocks down into Hugh Dingess Hollow of Smokehouse Fork of Harts Creek. 27 January 2018.
The ridge above the cemetery. 27 January 2018.
08 Monday Jan 2018
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Cemeteries, Civil War
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129th Regiment Virginia Militia, Appalachia, Brandon Kirk, cemeteries, civil war, Confederate Army, Garland Conley Family Cemetery, genealogy, Harts Creek, history, Logan County, Phyllis Kirk, Smokehouse Fork, West Virginia
Garland B. Conley (d.1895) was a veteran of Carter’s Company, 129th Regiment Virginia Militia. I recently revisited his grave on Smokehouse Fork of Harts Creek, Logan County, WV. 7 January 2018. Photo by Mom.
06 Wednesday Dec 2017
Posted in Atenville, Cemeteries, Harts, Lincoln County Feud
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Absalom Spry, Ann Brumfield, Appalachia, Bill Brumfield, Brandon Kirk, Charley Spry, E.J. Elkins, Harts, history, Kyle Topping, Lewis Dempsey, Lincoln County, Paris Brumfield, Phyllis Kirk, Rachel Spry, Sherman Nelson, Ward Brumfield, Wesley Ferguson, West Virginia
Commissioners Record Book No. 13, page 135, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV. Rachel Spry (1863-1922) was the daughter of Paris and Ann (Toney) Brumfield and the wife of Absalom “App” Spry. I descend from her brother, Bill.
Aunt Rachel’s grave, Harts, Lincoln County, 10 May 2016. Photo by Mom.
01 Wednesday Nov 2017
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Cemeteries
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Abner Vance, Appalachia, Brandon Kirk, Elisha Vance, genealogy, Harts Creek, history, Kathy Adams, Lincoln County, photos, Salena Vance, West Fork, West Virginia
Abner Vance-Elisha Vance-Salena Vance Homeplace on West Fork of Harts Creek, Lincoln County, WV. 21 October 2017. Abner Vance and his family were prominent residents of the West Fork section of the Harts Creek community.
Likely from the old Vance residence, West Fork of Harts Creek, Lincoln County, WV. 21 October 2017.
Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV.
Vance Family Cemetery on West Fork of Harts Creek, Lincoln County, WV. 21 October 2017. This section of ground is said to be “full” of graves. Today, only three headstones are visible.
Vance Family Cemetery on West Fork of Harts Creek, Lincoln County, WV. 28 March 2015. Photo by Kathy Adams. The Vances were somewhat involved in the Lincoln County Feud. For more about the feud, follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-West-Virginia-Brumfield-McCoy/dp/1455619183
Vance Family Cemetery on West Fork of Harts Creek, Lincoln County, WV. 20 July 2016.
Vance Family Cemetery on West Fork of Harts Creek, Lincoln County, WV. 20 July 2016.
Vance Family Cemetery on West Fork of Harts Creek, Lincoln County, WV. 28 March 2015. Photo by Kathy Adams. Just behind me, a bit further down the hill, are two McCloud graves.
31 Tuesday Oct 2017
Posted in Cemeteries, Guyandotte River, Logan
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Decoration Day, Dingess Run, Foley Cemetery, Guyandotte River, history, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, mayor, Order of Owls, Robert Bland, Stollings, Stratton Street, West Virginia
Logan (WV) Banner, 9 May 1913.
From the Logan Banner of Logan, WV, comes this story dated May 23, 1913:
The Call to Arms
Ladies of Logan, we need you, and ask your unfailing support against filth and flies. With your full assistance we expect to make the men “help the women do the work.” We want you to help us develop the pride and civic duty which promotes cleanliness. Enlist the whole household in this crusade against filth and flies–breeders of disease.
With the homes, the yards and the streets clean, screened receptacles for kitchen waste, which we will remove without expense, the free use of lime daily, our city will be respectable and commendable.
Lend us your aid and imbibe the slogan, “Cleaner, Healthier and Better Logan.”
Respectfully,
ROBERT BLAND, Mayor
By order of the Common Council
***
From the Logan Banner of Logan, WV, comes this story dated August 22, 1913:
Spreading Their Tracks
What has become of the city cow-bell ordinance? If it can’t be enforced, why not repeal it and substitute one demanding that each animal provide itself with a portable bathroom with regulation sewer connection–or, to use plain every-day English, a slop-bucket securely tied to its tail. One “special privilege” lady cow has been roaming the streets at night with a bell that makes you think the ice man is coming, but that ain’t him at all. It’s the milk maid patting along up the walk! Yes, right up the front steps and rings the bell! This particular lady cow is not satisfied with brick pavements and macadam roads, she prefers cement sidewalks. A blind man could tell you which way she went and where she stopped–in fact she don’t stop at all. If she did, there would be no occasion to write this article. She plods along all night, leaving her trail behind her. We don’t know who owns this madam bovine and we don’t care Adam. We have told her “past and present” just as we might have told of “John Brown’s Raid”–up the Guyan–the “raid that made the Chafins famous!” But we leave that also for the “city papers” to dope out. Good night!
29 Sunday Oct 2017
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Cemeteries, Civil War, Lincoln County Feud, Pecks Mill, Warren, Whirlwind
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10th Kentucky Cavalry, Anderson Blair, Appalachia, Aracoma, Barbara Kovach Morris, cemeteries, Chapmanville District, civil war, Confederate Army, Dingess Cemetery, Harts Creek, history, John Blair, John S. Blair, Logan, Logan County, Logan County Banner, Pecks Mill, photos, Polly Blair, Pop Dingess, Tommy Isaacs, Upper Hart, West Virginia
Anderson Blair, son of John S. and Polly (Baisden) Blair. Photo posted online by Barbara Kovach Morris.
Logan County Banner (Logan, WV), 9 January 1890. During the Lincoln County Feud, Anderson Blair was a justice of the peace in Chapmanville District, Logan County, WV. His district included Upper Hart.
Logan County Banner (Logan, WV), 14 August 1895.
Logan County Banner (Logan, WV), 17 April 1902.
Dingess Cemetery, Pecks Mill, Logan County, WV. June 2016. John Blair and Tommy Isaacs installed the military headstone in May of 2014.
26 Thursday Oct 2017
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Adkins-Davis Family Cemetery, Al Brumfield, Albert Adkins, Appalachia, Boone County, Brandon Kirk, Douglas Branch, Elizabeth Jane Hager, Emery Mullins, Emma Jane Adkins, Ferrellsburg, genealogy, Giles County, Gilmer County, Green McCoy, Green Shoal, history, Jacob Douglas, Jake Adkins, Lettie Adkins, Lincoln County, Lincoln County Feud, Logan County, Milt Haley, Philip Hager, photos, Phyllis Kirk, Sallie Fry, Virginia, West Virginia
Douglas Branch, located in present-day Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV, was named for Jacob Douglas, husband of Sallie Fry, who settled in the area by 1829-30 from Giles County, Virginia. Mr. Douglas, born about 1804, appears in the 1830 Logan County Census. In 1850, he lived in Boone County. He died in 1855 in Gilmer County.
Enos “Jake” and Leticia “Lettie” McKibbon (Toney) Adkins were early residents of Douglas Branch. Following the Haley-McCoy murders at the mouth of Green Shoal in 1889, Al Brumfield rode up this hollow and spent the night under a beech tree. In the early 1920s, my great-great-grandfather Emery Mullins just up this hollow and to the left.
Emma Jane (Hager) Adkins was the daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Jane (Dalton) Hager. On July 14, 1888, she married Albert G. Adkins, a son of Jake and Lettie Adkins. Adkins-Davis Family Cemetery, Douglas Branch, Lincoln County, WV. 21 October 2017. Photo by Mom.
25 Wednesday Oct 2017
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Cemeteries, Chapmanville, Logan, Queens Ridge, Whirlwind
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Anthony Adams, Appalachia, Bob Dingess, Bob Mullins Cemetery, Burl Adams, Chapmanville, Christian Church, Elias Workman, genealogy, Harts Creek, history, Howard Adams, Isaac Marion Nelson, John Adams, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, Queens Ridge, R.G. Short, Trace Fork, Viola Adams, West Virginia, Whirlwind
An unknown correspondent from Whirlwind in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on January 18, 1927:
The Trace Sunday school is progressing nicely. A large crowd attended Sunday.
Anthony Adams of Logan was visiting relatives on Harts Creek Saturday.
Viola Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Adams, died of appendicitis Monday. Funeral services were held at the Mullins cemetery.
Burl Adams of Chapmanville was visiting relatives on Harts Creek Sunday.
Cole Baisden made a business trip to Logan Monday.
David Dingess…
Rev. I.M. Nelson and R.G. Short are going to hold a revival at the Christian church on Trace, beginning January 16.
R.L. Dingess of Whirlwind spent Saturday with his parents at Queen’s Ridge.
Some of the daily acts: Grover and his dogs; Phillip collecting the news; Charley and his kodak; Pearly looking for Burl; Carl cold trailing and Clinton carrying the news.
Howard Adams was seen going through town Saturday. Guess he was out on business.
Elias Workman has been on the sick list for the past two weeks.
24 Tuesday Oct 2017
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Cemeteries, Lincoln County Feud, Spottswood, Timber, Warren
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A.J. Mullins, Annie Butcher, Appalachia, Ben Adams, Ben Adams Family Cemetery, Brandon Kirk, Cecil Butcher, Chatillon's Improved Spring Balance, Dave Fry, distiller, Emalina Baisden, feud, Garland Fly Conley, genealogy, Harts Creek, Henderson Bryant, history, Kathy Adams, Lincoln County, Lincoln County Feud, Logan County, logging, Matthew Babe Dempsey, Melvin Conley, Mont Baisden, Mose Workman, Nab Smith, New York, photos, Pilgrims Rest Church, Reece Dalton, Rosabelle Fry, Smokehouse Fork, Spottswood, timber, Trace Fork, Van Butcher, Warren, West Virginia
Benjamin “Ben” Adams (1855-1910), son of Joseph and Dicy (Mullins) Adams, was a prominent logger, splasher, distiller, and tavern operator at Warren-Spottswood in Logan County, WV. He was a key participant in the Lincoln County Feud.
Ben Adams residence (built 1892), located on Harts Creek between the mouth of Trace Fork and Smokehouse Fork in Logan County, WV. Photo taken c.1995.
Ben Adams well, Trace Fork of Harts Creek, Logan County, WV. Photo taken c.1996.
Ben Adams home and still site on Trace Fork of Harts Creek, Logan County, WV. Photo taken c.1996.
Ben Adams millstone on Trace Fork of Harts Creek, Logan County, WV. Photo taken c.1996.
Ben Adams scale
Ben Adams scale
Ben Adams Baptism Record, Pilgrims Rest United Baptist Church Record.
Ben Adams grave, Trace Fork of Harts Creek, Logan County, WV. October 2014. Photo by Kathy Adams.
04 Tuesday Jul 2017
Posted in Cemeteries, Giles County, Harts, Native American History
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American Revolution, Appalachia, Beech Fork, Beech Fork State Park, Billy Adkins, Brandon Kirk, cemeteries, Continental Line, genealogy, Giles County, Harts, Hezekiah Adkins, Hezekiah Adkins Cemetery, history, Isaac Adkins, John Lucas, Lincoln County, Missionary Baptist, Molly Adkins, Montgomery County, Native Americans, New River, photos, preacher, Revolutionary War, Ronnie Adkins, tourism, Virginia, Wayne County, West Virginia, Winslow
In 1990, Ronnie Adkins published THE definitive Adkins genealogy book. A great many researchers appreciated his work on Hezekiah Adkins’ line of the family. Hezekiah Adkins was born in 1759 in Virginia, served in the American Revolutionary War, moved from Giles County, Virginia, to present-day Wayne County, West Virginia, about 1810, and died in 1842. His grave markers are yet visible at Winslow on Beech Fork in Wayne County, WV. If you visit the grave site, you will find Hezekiah Adkins buried on the left and his wife Mary “Molly” buried on the right (unlike in this photo). Any Adkins researcher owes a great debt to Ronnie Adkins and his book. THANK YOU, RONNIE.
Here is a photo of my good friend and mentor Billy Adkins visiting the grave site in 1991. Years ago, Billy assisted Ronnie in gathering information about members of the Adkins family who settled in the Harts area of Lincoln County, WV.
Here is Hezekiah’s grave as it appears today (left). His wife Molly is buried to the right.
Hezekiah Adkins is my paternal great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather through his son, Isaac Adkins (1790-1854).
Here is Molly Adkins’ grave as it appears today. She is my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother.
Hezekiah Adkins has a nice military marker positioned at his feet.
I recently visited Hezekiah Adkins’ grave. 30 June 2017.
A short distance from the cemetery, beside of the highway, is this great historical marker commemorating Hezekiah Adkins’ service in the Revolutionary War. Beech Fork State Park is less than five minutes away. 30 June 2017.
21 Wednesday Jun 2017
Posted in Big Creek, Cemeteries, Chapmanville
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Appalachia, Barker School, baseball, Bertie Barker, Big Creek, Billy Carper, Bob Hale, Chapmanville, Chapmanville School, Charles Farrette, Ed Haner, Edward Turner, Eliza Garrett, Emma Stowers, Farmers Telephone Company, genealogy, George Seagraves, history, Hot Springs Bryant, Howard Barker, John Dent, Johnny Fry, Lacy Browning, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, Lola Ferrell, measles, Myrna Sanders, Nora Stollings, Peter Ferrell, Ravenswood, Robert Homer, Robert Vickers, teacher, W. Conley, W.J. Bachtel, Wanda Ferrell, Wayne Brown, West Virginia
An unknown correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on March 11, 1921:
The Chapmansville school is progressing nicely under the management of J.W. Batchel and Robert Vickers and Miss Eliza Garrette.
Some of the girls are looking to get plenty of boys in school, especially Miss Wanda Ferrell and Lola Ferrell. “Come on, Mr. Wayne,” is what Wanda says.
Mr. Steward can’t cobble shoes to do any good any more for the girls of Chapmansville.
Mr. Bob Hale bought in three fine Holstein cows from Ravenswood.
Mr. Edward Turner is swinging the girls now.
Mr. Charles Farrette of Big Creek is attending school now.
Miss Wanda Ferrell of Big Creek is going to be baptized Sunday.
Chapmansville is coming out of the kinks. She is going to organize a baseball team under the management of W.J. Bachtel.
Wayne Brown is getting sporty lately. He is sweeting the girls on candy, especially one on Big Creek.
Billy Carper and Jonnie Fry have no girls now. They visit the school house often. Cheer up.
Chapmansville is on a boost now. A soda fountain came in today for W. Conley and Hot Springs Bryant.
Six houses are being built in this village at present for Peter Ferrell.
Miss Eliza Garrett, who is teaching the primary department at Chapmansville, visited her home folks Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Howard Barker and John Dent, who have been working at Big Creek, returned to their homes Saturday. They claim they have been exposed to measles.
Mrs. George Seagraves, who is teaching the primary department at the Barker school, says she will finish her school upstairs on account of her room being cold. She is behind three weeks. Miss Emma Stowers is principal, her term for this year closing March 9th.
Miss Emma Stowers and Bertie Barker attended church at the Lane Sunday.
Miss Bessie Barker, who has been visiting her homefolks for the past week, returned to her work at Logan Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Homer attended church at Lane Sunday.
Mrs. Ed Haner is on the sick list.
Misses Myrna Sanders and Nora Stollings attended church at the Lane Sunday.
Mr. Lacy Browning is on the sick list. The attending physician says he is threatened with fever.
The Farmers Telephone Company of this place have rebuilt their line and we hope that adjoining lines will do likewise.
20 Tuesday Jun 2017
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Cemeteries, Chapmanville, Gill, Hamlin, Harts, Huntington, Logan, Ranger, West Hamlin, Whirlwind
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Appalachia, Bertha Haines, Bob Adkins, Bob Dingess, Brooke Adkins, Caroline Brumfield, Chapmanville, Christopher Columbus Pack, Columbus, Cora Adkins, county clerk, deputy sheriff, Dr. J.T. Ferrell, Earl Wysong, Elizabeth Tomblin, Ellis Hans Isaac, Fisher B. Adkins, genealogy, Gill, Grover Gartin, Hamlin, Harts, Harts Creek, Herb Adkins, history, Huntington, Ira Tomblin, Jack Browning Cemetery, Jack Marcum, Jessie Brumfield, Lincoln County, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, Maezelle Brumfield, Mary Marcum, Nola Adkins, Nora Brumfield, Ohio, Pauline Scites, pneumonia, Ranger, Republican Party, Toney Johnson, typhoid fever, Verna Johnson, Vina Porter, Virginia Scites, Ward Brumfield, Wesley Tomblin, West Hamlin, West Virginia, Whirlwind
An unknown correspondent from Harts in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on October 22, 1926:
Grover Gartin of Ranger was calling on Miss Nola Adkins Sunday.
Herbert Adkins was transacting business in Huntington Monday.
Ward Brumfield was looking after business matters in Hamlin Tuesday.
Earl Wysong and Miss Bertha Haines of Logan were visiting friends and relatives at Harts Saturday and were entertained by Miss Jessie Brumfield.
Miss Cora Adkins spent Sunday at Gill.
Mr. and Mrs. Toney Johnson of Columbus, Ohio, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Chas. Brumfield of Harts.
Mrs. Ellis Hans Isaac of West Hamlin was calling on friends here Sunday.
Miss Pauline Scites and little sister Virginia of Huntington were the guests of Miss Jessie Brumfield Sunday at Harts.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dingess of Whirlwind passed through Harts Saturday evening enroute to Logan.
Jack and Mary Marcum of Ranger were in Harts Sunday.
Mrs. C.C. Pack and Miss Jessie Brumfield and little sister, May Zell, attended the funeral of Mrs. Wesley Tomblin, which took place at the Browning cemetery on Harts Creek Tuesday.
Ira Tomblin is very ill at present with typhoid fever.
We are very sorry to announce the death of Mrs. Wes Tomblin, who died at her home on Harts Creek Monday morning of pneumonia fever.
Mrs. Jas. Porter is very ill at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adkins and Mrs. Brooke Adkins of Hamlin were calling on friends in Harts Sunday afternoon.
Ward Brumfield, deputy sheriff of Lincoln county, is loading ties today (Wednesday).
Fisher B. Adkins, Republican nominee for county clerk, is making a progressive campaign. Go to it, Fisher. We are going to elect the whole ticket this time.
Dr. Ferrell of Chapmanville was calling on patients in Harts and on Harts Creek Saturday.
School is progressing nicely here with Mrs. Nora Brumfield for teacher.
Good luck to The Banner!
04 Sunday Jun 2017
Posted in Cemeteries, Ferrellsburg, Harts
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Appalachia, Charley Davis, Ferrellsburg, genealogy, Harts, history, Jake Adkins, Lincoln County, Mandy Davis, photos, Samp Davis, West Virginia
Charley Davis (1907-1995), son of Samp and Mandy (Messer) Davis, was a great man and a good friend. He always greeted me with a smile and shared many stories. Charley was one of the key persons who inspired me to seek out local history. In this photo, he is standing near the grave of his great-grandfather, Enos “Jake” Adkins (1825-1907). I really miss Charley and I always think of him when I drive past his old house.
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.
11 Thursday May 2017
Posted in Cemeteries, Chapmanville, Coal
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Appalachia, barber, Bernard Forbes, Bethesda, C&O Railroad, Chapmanville, Chapmanville High School, coal, Columbus, Dallas Hollingsworth, genealogy, Godby Branch Cemetery, history, Hugh Thompson School, Huntington, J.D. Price, L.H. Strader, Logan Banner, Logan County, marbles, Odell Butcher, Ohio, Peter Dingess, Philippi, Tennis Hatfield, Tim's Fork, Vickers Coal Mine, W.A. McCloud, West Virginia
An unknown local correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 20, 1926:
The Hugh Thompson school is progressing nicely under the tutorship of Mr. Bernard Forbes.
Dallas Hollingsworth of Tim’s Fork has left for his home in Bethesda, Ohio.
Peter Dingess was seen looking at a barber shop. Wonder why?
O’Dell Butcher is visiting Chapmanville this week. O’Dell Butcher is the best marble player in Chapmanville.
J.D. Price of this place died in a Huntington hospital last Saturday night. Interment was made in the Godby Branch cemetery on Tuesday.
Mr. Bias, the ladies man, is back on duty with the C. & O. this week.
The Vickers mines are resuming work after being closed down for quite a while.
H.T. Butcher is attending federal court at Charleston this week.
The high school is up to the voters now. The election has been called.
There were five transactions in real estate here last week. Pretty good for a village like this.
W.A. McCloud is planning a trip to Columbus, O., in the next few days.
Prof. L.H. Strader of Philippi was visiting friends here last week.
Now that the election contest is over, the people are expecting great things from Sheriff Hatfield and the county court. No further reason why this district should not have a member to represent us.
Next week I will give a list of all whom are sick, unless the list is too big for publication.
03 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in Cemeteries, Chapmanville
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Albert Joker Dingess, Appalachia, Chapmanville, Decoration Day, Dingess Cemetery, Ed L. Carter, Ferrell Cemetery, Godby Crossing, Guy Johnson, Hubert Lowe, J.D. Price, J.D. Turner, James I. Dingess, Jeff Hale, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Logan Banner, Logan County, Peter M. Dingess, West Virginia
A local correspondent known only as “An Eagle” offered this writing about Decoration Day in Chapmanville, West Virginia, which the Logan Banner printed on June 4, 1926:
The Knights of the Golden Eagle invited a number of people in their hall [on] Decoration Day when they served sandwiches, ice cream, and pop. Everybody present had a real nice time.
After refreshments were served, the members dressed in their regalia, and carrying the Stars and Stripes visited the graves of the deceased members. They marched from their hall to the Dingess cemetery at Godby crossing, when they decorated the graves of Hubert Lowe and Guy Johnson. This is a beautiful location for a cemetery, a high rolling knoll overlooking the river. It is surrounded by a nice fence–has a few cedars, and a giant oak stands sentinel at the farther end. As we walked among the graves the writer noticed the grave of Peter M. Dingess who was thrown from a horse and killed many years ago. But what attracted my attention was the age, 52 years. I being a boy then thought him a very old man, and now about that age myself look and wonder how it happened so soon and what changes can take place in so few years. I noticed the graves of James I. Dingess and Jeff Hale, and it seemed but yesterday that I shook their hand and talked with them. I must not neglect to state that this, for a country cemetery, is well kept, and from the flowers and other evidence, had been visited earlier in the day by a large crowd. Albert (Joker) Dingess accompanied us to the cemetery and showed us his plot, so if anyone should outlive him we will know where poor old Joker’s body lies.
We tramped back from there and decorated the graves of J.D. Price and Dr. J.D. Turner in the cemetery at Godby Branch. This is also a nice cemetery, and in good shape.
After leaving there we came back to the Ferrell cemetery, and decorated the grave of Ed L. Carter.
Of the four members whose graves we decorated, all were comparatively young, and all died very suddenly. Hubert Lowe was killed by a train. Dr. Turner in an auto accident. Carter and Price died after a very brief illness. Such is the uncertainty of life, and should remind us that our going out might be as brief.
The crowd disbanded, hoping to live and perform the same duties again next year.
18 Tuesday Apr 2017
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Cemeteries, Harts
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Adkins-Brumfield Family Cemetery, Appalachia, Caney Branch, cemeteries, Charles Adkins, genealogy, Harts Creek, Harts Creek District, history, Isaiah Adkins, justice of the peace, Lincoln County, Mary Jane Adkins, miller, Minerva Adkins, photos, West Virginia
This cemetery is occupied by the family of Charles and Minerva (Dingess) Adkins. Charles Adkins (1850-1919), a resident of Caney Branch of Harts Creek, was a miller and justice of the peace in Harts Creek District, Lincoln County, WV. He is my great-great-great-grandfather. In recent weeks, we have been busily restoring this cemetery.
Charles Adkins (1850-1919), son of Isaiah and Mary Jane (Toney) Adkins.
11 Tuesday Apr 2017
Posted in Cemeteries, Harts
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Appalachia, Billy Adkins, cemeteries, Elizabeth Adkins, genealogy, Harry Edward Mullins, history, Isaac Adkins, photos, Wayne County, West Virginia
Harry Edward Mullins, a genealogist, appears here visiting Adkins-Fry graves in Wayne County, WV. Harry was dedicated: he purchased modern headstones for several noteworthy Harts area residents, including Isaac and Elizabeth Adkins. Photo courtesy of Billy Adkins.
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