Bridge Completed in Logan, WV (1915)
06 Saturday Mar 2021
Posted in Guyandotte River, Logan
Category Archives: Guyandotte River
Anthony Lawson Survey (1849)
16 Tuesday Feb 2021
Posted in Atenville, Guyandotte River, Little Harts Creek
Tags
Appalachia, Charles I. Stone, Dry Branch, Evermont Ward, genealogy, Guyandotte River, history, James Lawson, Joel Elkins, John Brooks, Lincoln County, Little Harts Creek, Logan County, Reece W. Elkins, surveyor, Virginia, West Virginia
Ben Walker Deed to Hezekiah “Kiah” Adkins (1887)
15 Monday Feb 2021
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Appalachia, Ben Walker, Burbus C. Toney, Cain Adkins, Canoe Tree Fork, Eliza Adkins, Ellen Ferguson, genealogy, George Dickinson, Green McCoy, Green Shoal Creek, Guyandotte River, Harts Creek District, Hezekiah Adkins, history, justice of the peace, Lincoln County, Lincoln County Feud, timber, timbering, West Virginia
Elias Hatfield Property in Logan County (1869-1894)
12 Friday Feb 2021
Posted in Big Sandy Valley, Guyandotte River, Hatfield-McCoy Feud, Logan, Matewan
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Appalachia, Big Island, Big Sandy River, E.K. Counts, Elias Hatfield, genealogy, George W. Duty, Hardee District, Hatfield-McCoy Feud, history, Logan County, Logan County Banner, Logan District, Magnolia District, Magnolia Township, Mates Creek, Mingo County, Oliver Perry, Warren Alderson, West Virginia
The following land information is derived from Land Book 1866-1872, Land Book 1873-1874, Land Book 1880-1886, Land Book 1887-1892 , and Land Book 1893-1899 at the Logan County Clerk’s Office in Logan, WV:
Elias Hatfield
No property listed in 1865-1868.
1869-1870: Magnolia Township
100 acres Mates Creek $4.00 per acre no building $400 total from E.K. Counts
30 acres Mates Creek $10 per acre no building $300 total from E.K. Counts
50 acres Mates Creek $20 per acre no building $1000 total from E.K. Counts
1871: Magnolia Township
100 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre $50 building $300 total
30 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre no building $90 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre no building $150 total
1872: Magnolia Township
100 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre $50 building $300 total
30 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre no building $90 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre no building $150 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre no building $150 total
350 acres Mates Creek $0.25 per acre no building $87.50 total from W. Alderson (assessor)
1873: Magnolia District
100 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre no building $300 total
30 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre no building $40 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $150 total
400 acres Two Tracts Mates Creek $1 per acre no building $400 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $150 total
350 acres Mates Creek $0.25 per acre no building $87.50 total
1874: Magnolia District
100 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre $50 building $300 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $150 total
30 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre no building $40 total
400 acres Two Tracts Mates Creek $1 per acre no building $400 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $150 total
350 acres Mates Creek $0.25 per acre no building $87.50 total
1875-1876: Magnolia District
100 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre $50 building $300 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $150 total
30 acres Mates Creek $3.00 per acre no building $40 total
400 acres Two Tracts Mates Creek $1 per acre no building $400 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $150 total
[Note: In 1875, Elias transferred his 350-acre tract but records do not identify the recipient.]
1877: Magnolia District
Records are blank for this district.
1878: Magnolia District
100 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre $50 building $300 total
30 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre $90 building $90 total
400 acres 2 Tracts, Mates Creek $0.25 per acre no building $100 total
50 acres Mates Creek $2 per acre no building $100 total
[Note: Records for this year spelled his name as Allias Hatfield.]
1879: Magnolia District
Records are missing for this year
1880: Magnolia District
100 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre $50 building $300 total
30 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre $90 building $90 total
400 acres 2 Tracts, Mates Creek $0.25 per acre no building $100 total
50 acres Mates Creek $2 per acre no building $100 total
1881: Magnolia District
100 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $300 total
30 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $90 total
400 acres 2 Tracts, Mates Creek $0.25 per acre no building $100 total
50 acres Mates Creek $2 per acre no building $100 total
[Note: The 100-acre tract was noted with this: “yrs from G.W. Duty.” The 30 acre tract was noted as “change to Hardee Dist on Book 1882.”]
1882: Magnolia District
The Hatfield page is missing.
1883: Magnolia District
The record is blank for this district
1884: Magnolia District
100 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre $50 building $300 total
30 acres Mates Creek $4 per acre $30 building $120 total
400 acres 2 Tracts, Mates Creek $1 per acre no building $400 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $150 total
1885: Magnolia District
100 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre $50 building $300 total
30 acres Mates Creek $4 per acre $30 building $120 total
400 acres 2 Tracts, Mates Creek $1 per acre no building $400 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $150 total
749 acres Mates Creek $1 per acre no building $749
322 acres Mates Creek $1 per acre no building $322 total
[In 1885, he acquired the 749-acre tract from a commissioner. No indication is given about the source of the 322 acres.]
1886: Magnolia District
100 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre [blank]
30 acres Mates Creek $4 per acre [blank]
50 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre [blank]
1471 acres 4 Tracts Mates Creek $1 per acre [blank]
600 acres Sandy River $1.90 per acre no building $56 total
1887: Magnolia District
100 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre $50 building $300 total
30 acres Mates Creek $4 per acre $30 building $120 total
50 acres Mates Creek $3 per acre no building $150 total
1471 acres 4 Tracts, Mates Creek $1 per acre no building $1471 total
600 acres Sandy River $1.90 per acre $40 building $1140 total
1888: Magnolia District
600 acres Sandy River $1.90 per acre $40 building $1140 total
1889-1891: Magnolia District
600 acres Sandy River $1.90 per acre $40 building $1140 total
1889-1891: Logan District
30 acres Big Island $20 per acre no building $600 total
13 acres Big Island and Washed Part $1 per acre no building $13 total
[Note: The 30-acre tract was acquired from Oliver Perry. No indication of the source for the 13 acres. According to the 21 March 1889 issue of the Logan County Banner: “On the 18th inst., Elias Hatfield, purchased of Oliver Perry, the property known as the ‘Big Island’ near this place.”]
1892-1894: Magnolia District
400 acres Sandy River $5 per acre $50 building $2000 total
1892-1894: Logan District
25 acres Big Island Guyandotte River $20 per acre no building $500 total
18 acres Big Island Guyandotte River $1 per acre no building $18 total
Warning Issued to State Tourists (1925)
11 Thursday Feb 2021
Posted in Guyandotte River
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chief sanitary engineer, E.S. Tisdale, history, Logan Banner, tourism, typhoid fever, West Virginia
From the Logan Banner of Logan, WV, comes this item regarding streams in West Virginia. The item is dated September 11, 1925.
Warning Is Issued to State Tourists
Warning was issued Wednesday by officials of the state health department for tourists in West Virginia and to residents generally to be careful of the source of supply from which they may obtain their drinking water.
The drought in the state has caused numerous streams and wells to dry up, thus rendering persons liable to typhoid, which already has reached huge proportions, even beyond that of former years.
The typhoid germ, under such conditions, can easily breed, owing not only to safe wells becoming dry, but from low water in streams being unable to wash sewage and refuse away from communities.
Incidentally when rain does come, officials pointed out that precautions must be taken as the accumulated refuse and sewage which ordinarily is taken away gradually will be removed en-masse and often is thrown by high water upon banks to be left there after the waters recede.
E.S. Tisdale, chief sanitary engineer of the department, announced that his division is working out a system of seals which the officials plan to put on all safe water supplies for the benefit of tourists and residents. This system is similar to that of Ohio, which is called the “seal of safety,” and has been in successful effect in that state for a year. Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania also are employing the same method to insure safe water.
The season is so late, however, that it is not likely the drive to mark all safe water supplies will be put into effect before spring of next year.
The drought is not only causing disease menace but is causing the trees to die, thus creating fire menace in the forests and thousands of fish are dying in the streams for lack of water.
Robert Lilly Survey (1850)
02 Tuesday Feb 2021
Posted in Guyandotte River
Tags
Appalachia, Charles I. Stone, genealogy, Guyandotte River, history, James Lawson, Lillys Branch, Logan County, Robert Lilly, surveyor, West Virginia
James Toney Survey (1849)
03 Sunday Jan 2021
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Guyandotte River, Lincoln County Feud
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Charles I. Stone, county clerk, Daniel Nester, Guyandotte River, Harts Creek, James Lawson, James Toney, Joel Elkins, Lincoln County, Logan County, Virginia, West Virginia
Paris “Witch” Brumfield to Tomblin and Rigsbey Deed (1911)
02 Saturday Jan 2021
Posted in Atenville, Guyandotte River, Little Harts Creek
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Appalachia, Charles Adkins, county clerk, genealogy, Guyandotte River, Harts Creek District, history, J.B. Rigsbey, justice of the peace, Lincoln County, Little Harts Creek, Paris "Witch" Brumfield, Vira Brumfield, W.C. Holstein, West Virginia, William Harrison Tomblin, William Workman
Enos “Jake” Adkins Survey (1849)
28 Monday Dec 2020
Posted in Guyandotte River, Little Harts Creek
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Anthony Lawson, Appalachia, Charles I. Stone, Enos "Jake" Adkins, genealogy, Guyandotte River, Hiram Heeter, history, James Lawson, Lincoln County, Little Harts Creek, Logan County, Price Lucas, Sand Creek, Short Hand Fork, surveyor, Virginia, West Virginia
Guyandotte River Pollution (1925)
15 Tuesday Dec 2020
Posted in Coal, Guyandotte River, Wyoming County
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Appalachia, coal, Elmore, Gulf Smokeless Coal Company, Guyandotte River, history, L.A. Anderson, Logan, Logan Banner, Mullens, Pineville, pollution, W.P. Tams Jr., West Virginia, Wyco, Wyoming County
From the Logan Banner of Logan, WV, in a story dated May 22, 1925, comes this bit of history about pollution in the Guyandotte River:
Making Hard Drive To Remove Pollution From Guyan River
Game Protector L.A. Anderson, of Pineville, Wyoming county, under the supervision of the game and fish commission of West Virginia, arranged a number of parties before a local justice of the peace at Mullens, W.Va., the other day on charges of violation of the law against the pollution of streams.
It seems that a restaurant keeper, a tailor, a barber shop, a pool room, all of Mullens, had been guilty of throwing trash boxes and papers and refuse from the restaurant into the Guyan river at that point, but the chief point of interest to the coal industry was the arrest of the Gulf Smokeless Coal Company, operating at Wyco, a point above Mullens, on the Guyan river. At this operation a very modern plant for the cleaning of coal by the screen and air method has been installed and the particular charge against this coal company, which is one that affects the entire industry in Wyoming county, was that they were discharging coal laden water from the mines into the Guyan river.
Both Major W.P. Tams, Jr., president of the Gulf Smokeless Coal Company, and Superintendent Lynch were present at the trial of the case and paid the small nominal fine imposed, explaining to the court that at no time in the past had they been advised that they were violating any provision of the fish and game laws, and moreover, were not aware that they were doing so.
Officer Anderson also swore out a warrant against the Virginian Railway Company for polluting the water at Elmore, W.Va. by throwing cinders from shops and yards. By agreement of both parties the trial of this case was set forward a few days.
The final outcome of these cases will be watched with interest by the coal industry in Wyoming county. If the officials of that county are to construe the law as prohibiting the draining water from the mines in that section into the waters of the Guyan river, then the further development of that country should cease. It would be extremely difficult to interest capital in any form to invest in the mining business, which at best is beset with many difficulties, if it is made practically impossible to effect the drainage of the properties.
