05 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Huntington
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Appalachia, Cabell County, crime, history, Huntington, Huntington Advertiser, Huntington Detective Agency, J.A. Rau, J.W. Valentine, Scott Turner, T.S. Scanlon, West Virginia, William Bowden
Huntington (WV) Advertiser, 8 February 1898.
05 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Logan
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Appalachia, C. Russell Christian, history, Logan, Logan County, poems, poetry, Rambling Rhymes, The Loganite, West Virginia, writing
C. Russell Christian, a poor country teacher and poet who died at the age of twenty-nine years, authored 151 poems, mostly about his native Logan County, West Virginia. This poem, titled “The Loganite,” was published as part of Mr. Christian’s Rambling Rhymes in 1888.
To live devoid of want and fear;
To dress in jeans when winter comes;
To labor just three months a year,
And spend the nine around our homes.
To sleep two feather beds between,
Whose oaken stead adorns the scene;
If I’ve surveyed the scenes aright,
This is to be a Loganite!
To shoulder up the gun at morn,
And start in quest of deer or bear;
To hunt at night through the fields of corn
To find the ‘coons and ‘possums there;
To chase the boar thru many a ‘scald’
Where long and loud the sengers called–
If I’ve surveyed the scenes aright,
This is to be a Loganite.
To have our friends around the door,
When Sabbath brings the welcome day;
To have no knowledge of the poor
Whom Sunday brings no Sabbath day!
To feast, and laugh, and sing, and chat
And talk of This, and hint at That–
This is the way we took delight,
When I myself a Loganite!
The pawpaws in the wooded dell.
The chestnuts on the mountain top;
The huckleberries, loved so well;
The various fruits–a various crop.
This land is rich in nature’s store,
And fruits that nature always bore,
And all who will, may share the sights.
Presented to the Loganites.
I know there are impressions made
Against the genius of this land;
The homely manners, oft arrayed,
Speak-horror to the great and grand;
But Logan lives at home, the same,
Unmindful of the voice of Fame,
And shares her pleasures and delights,
With her own sons–the Loganites!
The day will come, nor far remote,
When palaces shall take the place
Of hovels that offend the sight,
And lend a proverb to the race;
A glorious future now appears.
The fruit of all our hopes and fears;
And prophecy reveals the sight
Of many a cultured Loganite!
And thou, Guyan! — clear, placid stream,
When future Bards thy beauties sing,
O let them think, as in a dream,
My humble Muse there tried her wing!
I ask no glory but to stand,
In memory of my native land,
And be, when Logan’s name is bright,
Remembered as a Loganite!
05 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Barboursville, Guyandotte River
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Appalachia, Barboursville, C&O Railroad, Cabell County, Fred B. Lambert, Guyandot Valley Railroad, history, Huntington, Huntington Advertiser, Marshall University, Virgil Bostic, West Virginia
Virgil Bostic Section Crew, GVRR. Photo from Fred B. Lambert Papers, Special Collections Department, James E. Morrow Library, Marshall University, Huntington, WV.
“The railroad contractors have the pile driver at work above here [Barboursville] and are getting ready to construct the trestles along the line,” said the Huntington Advertiser on April 19, 1900.
“Men are working day and night on the river above here [Barboursville] putting in coffer dams for the railroad bridge,” said the Huntington Advertiser on April 21, 1900.
“Contractor Allen has put on a night force above here where the foundation for the piers for the Guyandot Valley Railway bridge are being constructed,” said the Huntington Advertiser on May 9, 1900. “One of the river abutments will be completed tomorrow.” On May 16, it added this: “Work on the trestle over the ‘Big Gut’ just above here [Barboursville] will commence this week. This is the first trestle on the line of the Guyandot Valley requires considerable timber.”
05 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Civil War, Harts, Lincoln County Feud
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Appalachia, Confederate Army, genealogy, Harts, Harts Creek District, Henry H. Hardesty, history, James M. Napier, James M. Ross, John H. Napier, Julia A. Napier, Lincoln County, Lincoln County Feud, Mariah J. Napier, Mary Napier, merchant, Nettie Ross, Robert L. Napier, Robert Napier, Tennessee Napier, Thomas B. Napier, Wayne County, West Virginia
From “Hardesty’s History of Lincoln County, West Virginia,” published by H.H. Hardesty, we find this entry for John H. Napier, who resided at Hart in Lincoln County, West Virginia:
A son of Robert and Mary (Osburn) Napier, residents of Wayne county, West Virginia, was born in that county, August 22, 1843, and came to Lincoln county in 1879. He wedded Julia A. Ross, a native of Wayne county, born March 24, 1850, the marriage ceremony having taken place in that county June 4, 1865. The birth record of the six children of Mr. and Mrs. Napier is: James M.., born April 4, 1867; Robert L., February 11, 1870; Thomas B., March 4, 1863; Mary, June 14, 1875; Maria J., April 14, 1878; Tennessee, January 31, 1881. James M. and Nettie (Adkins) Ross, residents of Wayne county, are the parents of Mrs. Napier. John H. Napier was at one time superintendent of free schools in Wayne county. He was a faithful soldier in the late war, serving in the Confederate army. Mr. Napier is a prosperous merchant in Hart Creek district, with business headquarters at the mouth of the creek. He also owns 100 acres of good land in Wayne county. John H. Napier may be addressed at Hart, Lincoln county, West Virginia.
Source: The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (Richwood, WV: Jim Comstock, 1974), p. 136.
04 Saturday Mar 2017
Posted in Culture of Honor, Wyoming County
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Appalachia, crime, history, Huntington Advertiser, Lee Ford, Mary Martha Ford, West Virginia, Wyoming County
Huntington (WV) Advertiser, 17 December 1900. You can see Mr. Ford’s marriage record here: http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=594769&ImageNumber=136 or here: http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=594769&ImageNumber=135
04 Saturday Mar 2017
Posted in Big Ugly Creek, Yantus
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Abel Hall, Appalachia, Arnold Christian, Bee Bud Campbell, Bethesda, Big Ugly Creek, Bill Chapman, Bilton Conley, Bud Chapman, Cecil Butcher, Charleston, Dallas Hollingsworth, Dillard Farris, Ed Chapman, genealogy, Grace Stollings, H.T. Butcher, Hassel Butcher, history, Hubb Vance, Hugh Butcher, Hugh Thompson School, Hurst Butcher, Ida Sanders, John Cabell, Johnnie Butcher, Linnie White, Logan Banner, Logan County, Mitch Stollings, Odell Butcher, Ohio, Tim's Fork School, West Virginia, Wilson Butcher, Yantus
An unknown local correspondent from Yantus in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 30, 1926:
Here we come with a bit of news from Yantus.
We are having pretty weather down here and lots of farming is going on.
Miss Ida Sanders was horse back riding Sunday.
Misses Linnie White and Grace Stollings were visiting her parents Sunday.
We are sorry to say that Bee Bud Campbell broke a plow Saturday and was cutting a shine about it.
Bud Chapman made a flying trip to Ugly Sunday evening in a Ford roadster.
Mr. Mitch Stollings held a dance at his home Saturday night and it was well attended by the local people. The music was furnished by Hurst Butcher and Dillard Farris.
Hassel and Wilson Butcher attended the dance and reported a fine time.
H.T. Butcher is attending federal court at Charleston this week.
The Hugh Thompson school is progressing nicely under the tutorship of Mr. Bernard Forbes.
Arnold Christian’s sick cow is improving nicely under the care of Ed Chapman.
Dallas Hollingsworth has left for his home in Bethesda, Ohio after leaving his school at Tim’s Fork of Crawley.
Hubb Vance has got Cecil Butcher employed to grub for him.
The wedding bells will soon be ringing as John Cabell is farming for Bilton Conley.
We are sorry to report the sickness of Mr. Johnnie Butcher; he is very ill at this writing.
Bill Chapman is painting his Ford.
Odell Butcher is becoming a shark at shooting pool. If you don’t think so, ask the boys.
Abel Hall is making a road for his Studebaker. We think summer is coming at last.
Daily happenings–Hugh Butcher and his pistol; Hazel and her new slippers; Gracie and her new hose; Floyd and his wide belt; Andrew and his uniform; Bernard and his dinner bucket; Wilson and his Ford; John Cabell calling on Tiny; Clell and his mattock; Hurst and his banjo; Johnnie and his Studebaker watch.
Hurrah for the dear old Banner!
04 Saturday Mar 2017
Posted in Harts
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Appalachia, architecture, Charley Brumfield, Harts, history, Lincoln County, photos, West Virginia
The Charley Brumfield residence is one of only a few remaining historic landmarks in Harts, WV.
The Charley Brumfield residence as it appeared in the late 1920s-early 1930s.
04 Saturday Mar 2017
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Boone County, Harts, Lincoln County Feud
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Albert Mullins, Appalachia, Big Branch, Boone County, Buchanan County, Dicy Collins, Dorcas Mullins, genealogy, Harts, Harts Creek, Henry H. Hardesty, history, Isham Collins, James A. Mullins, James P. Mullins, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Louisa Jane Mullins, Mary J. Mullins, merchant, Minnie B. Mullins, Victoria Mullins, Virginia, West Virginia
From “Hardesty’s History of Lincoln County, West Virginia,” published by H.H. Hardesty, we find this entry for James P. Mullins, who resided at Big Branch of Harts Creek in Lincoln County, West Virginia:
Came to Lincoln county in 1877, and now owns 250 acres of fine farming land on Hart creek. The farm has good improvements, and a large orchard. Mr. Mullins was born in Kentucky in 1848, and he is a son of James P. and Dorcas (Mullins) Mullins, residents of Boone county, West Virginia. Elizabeth J., daughter of Isham and Dicy (Johnson) Collins, was born in Kentucky, October 5, 1855, and in Buchanan county, Virginia, May 25, 1872, she became the wife of James P. Mullins. Five children are the result of their union: Mary J., born October 5, 1873; Victoria, April 23, 1876; Albert, July 18, 1877; Minnie B., July 1, 1879; James A., November 13, 1883. Mr. Mullins is a man of good business qualifications, and is prosperously engaged in merchandising, with business headquarters on Hart creek, one and one-half miles from its mouth. He may be addressed at Hart, Lincoln county, West Virginia.
Source: The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (Richwood, WV: Jim Comstock, 1974), p. 136.
02 Thursday Mar 2017
Posted in Huntington
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antiques, Appalachia, architecture, Cabell County, Central City, history, Huntington, photos, West Virginia
Central City Historic Antique District in Huntington, WV. April 2016. For more information, follow this link: http://www.oldcentralcity.org/
02 Thursday Mar 2017
Posted in Chapmanville
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Andrew Chambers, Appalachia, Banny Shelton, baseball, Chapmanville, Charley Adams, Chester Chambers, Chester Farley, Clell Adams, Dillard Farris, Ernest Sanders, Fanny Chapman, Floyd Stollings, genealogy, Grace Stollings, Hattie Chambers, Hazel Stollings, history, Hurst Butcher, Ida Sanders, Jim Adams, John Cabell, Linna White, Logan Banner, Logan County, Lola Adams, Murman Campbell, Omar, Opal White, Raymond Lilly, Rhoda Adams, Ritchie Lilly, Russell Butcher, Staten Farley, Stratton Gore, Tina Conley, Vinal Stolliings, Virgil Farley, West Virginia, Yantus
An unknown local correspondent from Yantus in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 20, 1926:
Here we come with more news from Yantus.
We are glad that people are beginning to plant their gardens and flower beds at last.
We had an interesting ball game at the ball park, Sunday. Those present were Messrs. Ritchie Lilly, Floyd Stollings, Ernest Sanders, Charley Adams, Saleb Adams, Stratton Gore, Hurst Butcher, Jim Adams, Dillard Farris, Chester Farley, Staten Farley, Virgil Farley, Opal White, Hazel Stollings, Vinal Stollings, Linna White, Grace Stollings, Lola Adams, Rhoda Adams. All reported a nice time.
Mr. and Mrs. Muman Campbell were here visiting his father last week, but have returned to their home at Omar.
Misses Linna White and Grace Stollings were visiting their parents Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Russel Butcher of Chapmanville was visiting her parents, Sunday.
Charley Adams, Jim Adams, Chester Farley, Ernest Sanders, Ida Sanders, Grace Stollings and Hazel Stollings were out horse back riding Sunday.
Banny Shelton and wife were seen out walking Sunday.
Miss Linna White was the all day guest of Miss Opal White Sunday.
Ernest was looking blue Sunday. Wonder why?
Chester Chambers was visiting Bee Bud Campbell Saturday.
Clell Adams and Opal White were out walking Sunday. Wonder how they enjoyed the snow storm?
Raymond Lilly was visiting his parents, but has returned to Big Kanawha.
Dell Adams looked lonesome Sunday.
Bur Chambers was calling on Bessie Stollings Sunday. Look out Johnnie.
Mrs. Fanny Chapman was visiting her parents Sunday evening.
Charley was all smiles Sunday.
Miss Vinal Stollings made a flying trip to Chapmanville Saturday.
Mrs. Elva Scaggs is visiting her sister at Rocky.
I think the men will be wearing long hair before long as Peter Dingess has started the style.
Stratton Gore was calling on Linna White Sunday.
Mrs. Kate Chambers has started a beef shop. Come and buy your beef.
Mark Stollings called on Allen Adkins Sunday.
Mrs. Hattie Chambers was calling on her mother, Sunday.
Andrew Chambers is afraid to turn his horse out to range, he says the wind will blow him away.
Miss Tina Conley and John Cabell were seen plowing Saturday.
Combinations–Ritchie and his note book; Stratton and his big hat; Earnest and his blues; Andrew and his chickens; French and his axe handles; Hazel and her red dress; Linna and her coat; Grace and her slippers; Opal getting dinner; Ida and her boquet; Floyd and his sweetie; Charley meeting the train; Clell talking to Opal; Tina looking for John; Hurst and his glove; Dillard and his cap; Bee Bud and his plow stalks; Peter and his curly locks; Burl looking for Bessie; Woodrow and his pony; Charley and his tie; Raymond looking for a sweetheart; Mary and her geese; Emma and her yellow coat; Andrew and his fat horse; Sadie and her dirt; Bee Bud and his tobacco.
02 Thursday Mar 2017
Posted in Big Ugly Creek, Gill
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Appalachia, Gill, history, Lincoln County, nature, West Virginia
Gill is a former town situated at the mouth of Big Ugly Creek in Lincoln County, WV. Photo taken in May of 2016.
02 Thursday Mar 2017
Posted in Fourteen
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Andrew Elkins, Appalachia, Cabell County, Elizabeth Elkins, farming, Fourteen, Fourteen Mile Creek, genealogy, George Thomas Holton, Henry H. Hardesty, history, James Holton, Lincoln County, Linville Marion Holton, Margaret Holton, Minnie Holton, teacher, West Virginia, Yantus Holton
From “Hardesty’s History of Lincoln County, West Virginia,” published by H.H. Hardesty, we find this entry for George Thomas Holton, who resided at Fourteen in Lincoln County, West Virginia:
Was born in Cabell county, (now) West Virginia, February 11, 1847, and came to Lincoln county in 1872. His parents, James and Margaret (Cooper) Holton, were here when the county was organized. In Lincoln county, December 23, 1878, the Rev. W.A. Snodgrass united in marriage George Thomas Holton and Yantus Elkins. She was born in Logan county, West Virginia, June 16, 1860, and her parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Elkins) Elkins, were residents of Lincoln county at the time of its organization. Mr. and Mrs. Holton have been blessed with two children: Minnie, born October 26, 1879, died August 29, 1882; Lenville Marion, born July 22, 1881. George Thomas Holton is a school teacher and a farmer in Hart Creek district, and receives his mail at Fourteen, Lincoln county, West Virginia.
Source: The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (Richwood, WV: Jim Comstock, 1974), p. 135.
01 Wednesday Mar 2017
Posted in Ed Haley
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Appalachia, architecture, Boyd County, Catlettsburg, Ed Haley, Ella Haley, fiddler, fiddling, history, Kentucky, music, photos
April 2016.
The Elks Building, April 2016.
April 2016.
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View of the Ohio River from Catlettsburg, KY. April 2016.
01 Wednesday Mar 2017
Posted in Huntington, West Hamlin
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Appalachia, Charleston, Cora Adkins, Dr. Ferrell, Ed Brumfield, Ed Zane Adkins, Enos Dial, Fed Adkins, genealogy, Hardin Marcum, Harts, Herb Adkins, history, Huntington, Inez Adkins, Lincoln County, Logan, Marshall College, measles, Robert Black, Robert Powers, Ward Brumfield, Watson Adkins, West Hamlin, West Virginia
An unknown local correspondent from Harts in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 20, 1926:
Harts is on a splash again.
Everybody in Harts is planning for the big show at Huntington the 27th.
Measles are raging very bad at this place.
Wonder why Dr. Ferrell is going to Fred Adkins so often?
Ward Brumfield is transacting business in Charleston this week.
Edward Adkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Watson Adkins, is very ill at present with the measles.
Robert Powers is awful well pleased since he got to be section foreman on the railroad. Oh, gee, Miss Sadie can wear fine kid gloves now.
Wonder why Hardin Marcum is hanging around the Thomas hotel so much?
Mrs. Gibson and little daughter of Maubar were calling on Mrs. Robert Powers at Harts Sunday evening.
Enos Dials is still squeezing the Big Creek kids.
All the teachers here are planning for the summer term in Marshall College.
Robert Black of Logan was seen in Harts Sunday.
Herbert Adkins is a business caller in Logan this week.
Miss Jewell Elizabeth and Ed Brumfield are very busy these days, reading Educational News.
Cora Adkins seems to be enjoying herself these days.
The ocean is wide, the sea is deep. It takes a railroad boy to make a fool out of me.
There were six made 8th grade diplomas in the diploma test here.
Quite a lot of the West Hamlin boys were seen in Harts Sunday.
28 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Logan
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Appalachia, baseball, history, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, photos, Sports, West Virginia
Logan Banner, 9 April 1926.
28 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Harts
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Appalachia, Bob Dingess, Charles Curry, Frank Mullins, genealogy, Georgia Curry, Harts, history, John Dalton, Josephine Robinson, Lincoln County, Lizzie Nelson, Lizzie Tomblin, Logan Banner, Nora Browning, Roxie Tomblin, Russell Curry, Thompson Branch School, West Virginia, Willie Browning
An unknown local correspondent from Harts in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 16, 1926:
Here I come again with news from Harts.
Georgia Curry and Roxie Tomblin were the guests of Mrs. Willie Browning Sunday.
Russell Curry and John Dalton were guests of Chas. Curry, Sunday.
John Dalton was calling on Miss Georgia Curry, Sunday evening.
Nora Browning was visiting her aunt Lizzie Tomblin Monday.
Russell Curry, Georgia Curry, and Roxie Tomblin took a joy ride Sunday evening.
Daily sights–Georgia and her pink hat; Roxie and her purple hat; Roxie and her hat going to Huntington.
Robert L. Dingess is going to close his school at Thompson Branch May 1st. Everybody is invited and are expecting to have a big time.
John Dalton was calling on Josephine Robinson Sunday.
Frank Mullins was calling on Lizzie Nelson Sunday.
28 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Hatfield-McCoy Feud, Logan
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Appalachia, Cap Hatfield, deputy sheriff, genealogy, history, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, Stirrat, Tennis Hatfield, West Virginia
William Anderson “Cap” Hatfield applies for a revolver license, Logan Banner, 7 May 1926.
28 Tuesday Feb 2017
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Anthony Headley, Appalachia, Ballard Headley, Benjamin F. Headley, Caleb D. Headley, Caleb Headley, Caleb S. Headley, Catlettsburg, Christian Church, civil war, commissioner of revenue, Elisha Headley, Elizabeth J. Headley, Elizabeth Jane Farley, Fourteen, Fourteen Mile Creek, genealogy, George W. Headley, Guyandotte River, Henry H. Hardesty, history, Ida Cosby Fry, Johnny Headley, justice of the peace, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Logan County, Margaret Headley, Methodist Church, Nancy Headley, Pennsylvania, physician, Sarah A. Headley, Sarah Headley, Sulphur Spring Fork, Thomas Headley, Thomas J. Headley, Union Army, Virginia, West Virginia, Wetzel County, Will Headley, William Farley
From “Hardesty’s History of Lincoln County, West Virginia,” published by H.H. Hardesty, we find this entry for Caleb Headley, who resided at Fourteen in Lincoln County, West Virginia:
Has for nearly fifty years been a practicing physician. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1808, and his parents Thomas and Sarah (Asher) Headley, are both deceased. Caleb Headley has been twice married, his first wife, Nancy Wright, a Pennsylvanian, left him eight children: Elizabeth J., born June 2, 1829; Thomas J., November 23, 18931; Sarah A., December 8, 1833; Caleb S., March 30, 1838; George W., May 21, 1839; Benjamin F., May 31, 1841; Anthony, June 3, 1844; Elisha, born August 1, 1850. Mr. Headley was again married in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, to Sarah A. Farley, and the children of this union number six, born as follows: John T., April 20, 1867; Ida C., March 23, 1869; Caleb D., February 22, 1872; William F., August 25, 1875; Margaret, March 28, 1878; Ballard C., April 14, 1880. Mrs. Headley was born in Logan county, (now) West Virginia, May 26, 1849, and her parents, William and Elizabeth Jane (Clark) Farley, settled in Lincoln county in 1844. Caleb Headley came to Lincoln county in 1866, and is now a prosperous farmer, owning 600 acres of good land on Fourteen-mile creek, a portion of which is heavily timbered with oak, poplar and pine; coal and iron ore in abundance. There is a fine sulphur spring upon the land, on the creek three miles from Guyan river, which has been visited by people from many parts of the United States, and it is pronounced of excellent medicinal quality by all. Dr. Headley was commissioner of revenue one term, and was justice of the peace sixteen years in Wetzel county, West Virginia. He was in the late war, and ranked as captain of a company. Dr. Headley was a member of the Methodist Church for forty years, but on coming to Lincoln county, there was no church of that denomination, and he united with the Christian Church. His father was also a physician for many years. Direct mail to Fourteen, Lincoln county, West Virginia.
Source: The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (Richwood, WV: Jim Comstock, 1974), p. 135.
Note: Caleb Headley is my great-great-great-grandfather through his daughter, Ida Cosby (Headley) Fry.
28 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Hatfield-McCoy Feud, Logan
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Albert J. Kirk, Appalachia, genealogy, history, Joe Hatfield, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, photos, Republican Party, sheriff, Tennis Hatfield, West Virginia
Tennis Hatfield, Republican, is Sheriff of Logan County, WV. Source: Logan Banner, 20 April 1926. My Kirk family was aligned with Tennis and Joe Hatfield. Uncle Albert Kirk served as a deputy under Sheriff Joe Hatfield.
28 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Chapmanville, Yantus
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Allen Sanders, Andrew Chambers, Appalachia, Berbard Forbes, Bud Campbell, Chapmanville, Charley Adams, Clel Adams, Cris Jackson, Emmazetta Stollings, genealogy, Grace Stollings, Hazel Stollings, history, Hurst Butcher, Ida Sanders, Logan Banner, Logan County, Martha Farley, Mason Sanders, Mitch Stollings, Oma Butcher, Sammy Stollings, Samp Dingess, Tom Stollings, West Virginia, Yantus
An unknown local correspondent from Yantus in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 16, 1926:
Here we come with a bit of news from Yantus.
We have plenty of mud down here and who ever wants a sack full is welcome.
We had an interesting ball game at Sammy Stollings’ Sunday.
Tom Stollings was the all day guest of Mitch Stollings Sunday.
Mrs. Mason Sanders and Ida Sanders made a flying trip to Chapmanville Saturday.
Mrs. Martha Farley was visiting Mrs. Emmazetta Stollings Saturday and Sunday.
Maybe winter is over. Andrew Chambers was seen sitting out in the sun Monday.
Bee Bud Campbell is going to send a wagon load of plow stacks to the shop when his horse gets out of the hospital.
Hurst Butcher was the all day guest of Kahler Butcher at Chapmanville, Friday.
Miss Gracy Stollings was visiting her parents Saturday and Sunday.
French Butcher made a fine horse trade Saturday: he traded a good horse for a bridle, but the horse’s head was in it.
Ernest Sanders and Grace Stollings were out walking Sunday evening.
Floyd Stollings was calling on Miss Cris Jackson, Sunday. Look out, Lee.
Charley Adams was horse back riding Saturday evening.
Bernard Forbes and Miss Oma Butcher were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Sanders Saturday.
Bee Bud Campbell is repairing plow stocks.
Samp Dingess got a hair cut Saturday at Chapmanville.
Clel Adams and Opal White broke a date. Hope they make up again.
Hurst Butcher was calling on Miss Hazel Stollings Sunday.
Combinations: Jake and his sled; Jonah and his curls; Hassell and his Essex; Floyd looking for Cris; Jim and his horse; Hurst and his gold tooth; Ernest and his tie; Dell and his guitar; Floyd and his No. 12; Charley and his smiles; Hazel and her blues; Opal and her hair cut; Clel and his freckles; Mont and his overcoat; Sherman and his grip; Martha and her dust cap; Tom and his eye brows; Cecil and his red socks; French and his formal horse; Bernard and his toboggan.
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