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Chessie System in Southern West Virginia

15 Tuesday Nov 2022

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Boone County, Ferrellsburg, Holden

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Appalachia, Boone County, C&O Railroad, Chessie System, Ferrellsburg, Goldenseal, history, Holden, Iona Mae Richardson, Jim Mullins, Lincoln County, Logan County, Madison, West Virginia

This model train caboose is one of many made by my great-uncle J.M. “Jim” Mullins, Jr. (born 1932) of Madison, Boone County, WV. He made this particular model for his sister, Iona Mae (Mullins) Richardson of Holden, Logan County. Jim and Mae, the children of a C&O section foreman in Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, were longtime employees of the C&O and Chessie. Uncle Jim was profiled as “The Caboose Man” in Goldenseal magazine.

Tice Elkins in Ferrellsburg, WV

28 Sunday Mar 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ferrellsburg

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Appalachia, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Church of Christ, Doc Mullins, Ferrellsburg, genealogy, history, Lincoln County, minister, preachers, Route 10, Tice Elkins, West Virginia

Tice Elkins, popular Church of Christ minister, standing in the yard of J.M. “Doc” Mullins at Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV. Note C&O labor house in the background.

Ferrellsburg Resident

06 Monday Jul 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ferrellsburg

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Appalachia, Ferrellsburg, genealogy, history, Lincoln County, Martha Mullins, photos, West Virginia

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Unknown person. Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV. From the photos of Martha (Farley) Mullins.

Harts Creek District Teachers (1915)

25 Saturday Apr 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Atenville, Big Harts Creek, Ferrellsburg, Gill, Green Shoal, Hamlin, Harts, Little Harts Creek, Queens Ridge, Sand Creek, Toney

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App F. Queen, Appalachia, Atenville, Blackburn Holton, Carrie Tomblin, Charley Pack, Clerk Lucas, Decker Toney, education, Ferrellsburg, genealogy, Gill, Green Shoal, Green Shoal School, Hamlin, Harts Creek District, Hendricks Lucas, history, Ida Pack, J.B. Johnston, Jasper Shelton, Kile Topping, Lincoln County, Lincoln Republican, Logan County, Martha Fowler, Maud Stollings, Nancy Payne, Queens Ridge, Ross Fowler, Sand Creek, Sheridan, Sherman Smith, Shirley Holton, teacher, Thomas J. Manns, Toney, Victor Shelton, Watson Adkins, West Virginia, William H. Tomblin, William Wirt Stephens

From the Lincoln Republican of Hamlin, WV, comes this history about early 20th century teachers in Lincoln County:

In 1915, 59 teachers enrolled to take the State Uniform Examination at Hamlin and Sheridan. Here are the teachers from Harts area who attended the institute:

Rebel Adkins, Queens Ridge

Clerk Lucas, Toney

Thomas J. Mans, Atensville

Sherman Smith, Logan County

Carrie Tomblin, Queens Ridge

W.H. Tomblin, Queens Ridge

Decker Toney, Queens Ridge

Kile Topping, Queens Ridge

Source: Lincoln Republican (Hamlin, WV), 1 April 1915

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Certificates issued:

2nd Grade

Rebel Adkins, Queens Ridge

Watson Adkins, Ferrellsburg

Martha Fowler, Ferrellsburg

Maud Gill, Gill

B.B. Holton, Ferrellsburg

Shirley Holton, Ferrellsburg

J.B. Johnston, Queens Ridge

Clerk Lucas, Toney

Charley Pack, Queens Ridge

App F. Queen, Queens Ridge

Jasper Shelton, Sand Creek

William Wirt Stephens, Ferrellsburg

Maud Stollings, Queens Ridge

William H. Tomblin, Queens Ridge

Decker Toney, Queens Ridge

3rd Grade

W.E. Fowler, Queens Ridge

Hendricks Lucas, Ferrellsburg

Ida Pack, Queens Ridge

Nancie Payne, Queens Ridge

Victor Shelton, Sand Creek

Kile Toppings, Queens Ridge

The teacher institute for Harts Creek District is scheduled for Green Shoals school house on November 19.

Source: Lincoln Republican (Hamlin, WV), 16 September 1915

Note: These items were printed during the brief time when Queens Ridge Post Office served most residents of Big Harts Creek and Little Harts Creek and other areas near the Wayne County line. Queens Ridge is not located in these watersheds.

Big Creek News 04.28.1922

22 Sunday Mar 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Creek, Ferrellsburg, Hamlin, Huntington, Sand Creek, Stone Branch

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Albert Messer, Appalachia, Big Creek, C&O Railroad, crime, Dr. Whitehall, Earl McComas, Ferrellsburg, Frank Stone, genealogy, H.B. McComas, Hamlin, history, Howard Fry, Huntington, Ike Dean, Indiana, Lewis Stowers, Logan Banner, Logan County, murder, Peter M. Toney, pneumonia, Sand Creek, South Bend, Stone Branch, West Virginia

A correspondent named “Phil” from Big Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following news, which the Logan Banner printed on April 28, 1922:

Earl McComas, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.B. McComas, died last week of pneumonia.

Dr. Whitehall who has been visiting friends and relatives in South Bend, Ind., for the past week or ten days has returned.

Mr. P.M. Toney has been attending business matters in Huntington for the past week.

Mr. Howard Fry of Sand Creek died last week of pneumonia and influenza.

Big Creek is coming to the front more every day. We note that the picture theatre is running three days a week instead of two.

Additional News:

Mrs. Lewis Stowers who has been in for some time died Monday night and was buried Tuesday evening.

Serious murder case at Ferrellsburg last Sunday evening; it is said that Albert Messer killed Ike Dean which was a very bloody and sad affair, which is said to be the result of an old grudge. Messer surrendered to authorities and was taken to Hamlin to jail Tuesday morning.

Mrs. Stone has been away visiting relatives in Huntington for the past week and taking a rest after a spell of sickness.

Frank Stone brakeman on the switch engine at Big Creek was hit by a switch lever, slightly injuring the left side of his face, and has been off from duty for the past ten days on that account. He returned to work on Tuesday.

There was a large freight wreck just below Stone Branch Monday at noon. 15 freight cars derailed and caused passenger trains to transfer Monday evening. The wreck was cleared after several hours work with the tool cars.

Guyan Valley High School Graduates (1932)

17 Tuesday Mar 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ferrellsburg, Gill, Harts, Midkiff, West Hamlin

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Appalachia, Brady, Branchland, Cecil Dean, Earl Brumfield, education, Emma Adkins, Ferrellsburg, Fred B. Lambert, Gill, Guyan Valley High School, Hallie Messinger, Harry Pinson, Harts, Hazel Adkins, history, Huntington, Juanita Cline, Lincoln County, Macil Covey, Marshall University, Midkiff, Morrow Library, Philip Adkins, Pleasant View, Reva Pierson, Roncie White, Samuel Adkins, West Virginia, Wilford Dingess

Fred B. Lambert, a prominent educator in the Guyandotte Valley, compiled this list of early Guyan Valley High School graduates. Guyan Valley High School was located in Pleasant View, Lincoln County, WV.

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GVHS students, 1928.

List of 1932 graduates

1. Earl Brumfield     Harts, WV

2. Samuel Adkins     Harts, WV

3. Roncie White     Gill, WV

4. Emma Adkins     Branchland, WV

5. Hazel Adkins     Branchland, WV

6. Philip Adkins     Harts, WV

7. Macil Covey     West Hamlin, WV

8. Juanita Cline     Bradyville, WV

9. Hallie Messinger     Branchland, WV

10. Reva Pierson     West Hamlin, WV

11. Wilford Dingess     Midkiff, WV

12. Harry Pinson     Midkiff, WV

13. Cecil Dean     Ferrellsburg, WV

Source: Fred B. Lambert Papers, Special Collections Department, James E. Morrow Library, Marshall University, Huntington, WV.

Ferrellsburg, WV (1921)

20 Wednesday Mar 2019

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ferrellsburg, Guyandotte River

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Appalachia, C&O Railroad, Crispin S. Stone, Ferrellsburg, Guyandotte River, Harts, history, Kirk Street, Lincoln County, Lincoln County Commission, Logan, Main Street, map, Railroad Avenue, River Avenue, West Virginia

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Today, the county road and Main Street are called Kirk Street. Railroad Avenue is Mullins Avenue. In the 1980s, the county road became Kirk Street, Main Street became River Avenue, and Railroad Avenue retained its original name. In the late 1990s, the Lincoln County Commission approved the names of several new streets in town. In the early 2000s, 911 disregarded history and our county commission and improperly renamed many of our streets–and required that we use HARTS as our town address. NOTE: The county road led to a ferry at the river.

Ferrellsburg News 04.06.1923

09 Saturday Mar 2019

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Chapmanville, Ferrellsburg, Huntington, Logan

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Appalachia, Belle Dingess, Chapmanville, Charles Curry, Cora Adkins, Cora Kelly, Dude Tomblin, Easter, Ferrellsburg, Ferrellsburg School, fox hunting, genealogy, Gracy Horns, history, Homer Tomblin, Hugh Farris, Huntington, John Dan, John Lucas, John Pitts, Lincoln County, Logan, Logan Banner, Logan County, Lula Tomblin, Martha Fowler, Martha Mullins, merchant, Piney Fork, Ross Fowler, Route 10, sawmilling, Stella Mullins, Walt Stowers, Wayne Brumfield, West Virginia, Wilburn

A correspondent named “Blue Eyes” from Ferrellsburg in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 6, 1923:

The hard road is being rapidly worked on here at this place. We hope Logan County will keep her part of this road worked to make a speedy finish.

Mr. J.W. Stowers is still at home; he doesn’t go out much. Sometimes he fox hunts with his hounds.

Hugh Farris, a merchant from Piney, is here looking after business interests.

Mr. John Lucas made a rushing trip to Chapmanville Tuesday.

Mr. Bartley returned from a home visit in Huntington Monday.

Miss Martha Fowler made a trip to Logan Monday looking after business matters.

Mrs. Belle Dingess is visiting her sister Miss Martha Fowler this week.

Rev. Charles Curry and other Baptist ministers preached at Ferrellsburg school house Easter Sunday.

A Holiness revival will begin here this week by Brother Wellman and wife. We are certainly proud to announce the meeting because the people in this section have got their eyes on this highway of holiness. We are expecting a large crowd and a good meeting.

Mrs. Cora Adkins has been very ill for the past few weeks, but is improving now.

Mrs. Stella Mullins is visiting her sister in Ferrellsburg, Mrs. M. Tomblin.

Mr. John Pitts was on his way to work Saturday night when he fell and shot himself and now is in the Logan hospital.

The beauty of this place left here yesterday—Miss Cora Kelly.

Mr. W.E. Fowler, a merchant of Ferrellsburg, has gone to saw milling.

Mrs. Martha Mullins isn’t very well pleased with this noisy place.

Miss Gracy Horns returned to Ferrellsburg yesterday after visiting her sister at Wilburn, W.Va.

Mr. W.C. Brumfield was calling on Miss Lula Tomblin Saturday and Sunday.

The girls in Ferrellsburg are very sad at this writing on account of bad weather and bad roads, and are hoping the hard roads will be completed in a short time so they can begin joy riding.

Mr. Homer Tomblin and friend John Dan are taking a vacation this week. They will begin work Monday.

Guyandotte Valley Drought of 1881

18 Friday Jan 2019

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Ferrellsburg, Guyandotte River, Harts, Pecks Mill

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Albert Dingess, Appalachia, black tongue, Ferrellsburg, Guyandotte River, Harts, Harts Creek, history, J.E. Ned Peck, Lincoln County, Logan Banner, Logan County, Pecks Mill, West Virginia

On June 4, 1937, the Logan Banner of Logan, WV, offered an interview with an elderly resident who recounted a terrible dry season in the Guyandotte Valley in 1881.

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Guyandotte River between Harts and Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV. June 2015.

Pioneer Citizen Recalls Dreadful Drought of 1881

Attorney J.E. (Ned) Peck Says Weather Was So Hot That Corn Was Hoed In Moonlight; Animals Died From “Black Tongue”

Attorney J.E. (Uncle Ned) Peck was in a reminiscent mood early this week as a result of the hot weather which preceded the storms yesterday and the day before.

While everyone else was complaining about the extremely hot weather coming so early in the spring. Uncle Ned contentedly maintained his usual tenor of life and kept himself cool with memories of the summer in 1881 when a drought of proportions such as have never been heard of before or since struck Logan county and lasted for four months.

Attorney Peck told how the weather became so hot that everybody hoed their corn by moonlight to keep the stalks from withering under the blazing sun which would begin to bear down at 7 o’clock each morning and increase in intensity until 6:30 in the evening when the mountain peaks would give some surcease from the bright yellow infernos of mid-day heat which surrounded everything in a furnace-like grasp.

Uncle Ned related that the banks of the Guyan were lined with animals from the hills, all enmity forgotten, staking their thirst side by side for days on end.

He was just 13 years old then, but he says he distinctly remembers standing in the yard of his home at Pecks Mill with his mother and counting more than a score of deer in a river bottom cornfield below the house.

Wild animals died like flies and a plague of “Black Tongue” ravaged the many herds of deer which roamed the mountains and river valleys of Logan county.

A total of 1500 deer died that summer, Uncle Ned said, and Albert Dingess, old resident of Harts Creek, found 101 deer, dead and dying, their tongues blackened and swollen from their mouths, packed, in a lick near his home.

Deer pelts sold for $4 each, but the flesh was inedible after the animal had died of the plague. Licks throughout the county were rancid with the smell of burning carcasses which had been skinned and stacked in huge piles to be made into pyres.

Water in Guyan river became so low that one could stop the flow over shoals with the hand, and his father had to slow corn meal production to one grinding a week at their grist mill, Attorney Peck said.

The only way that corn could be ground was to allow the dam which spanned the river to fill and then run the mill until the water was used. Then it would take another week for the dam to refill.

No persons died of heat in the county that summer and the crops were not materially damaged, though the toll on animal life was high.

When the leaves began to turn and light frosts added a crispness to the air, the animals started an exodus from the river valley back to their haunts along creeks and in dark hollows and Logan countians knew that the drought was ended.

With such an experience, and with the summer of 1881 in mind, it is easy for Uncle Ned Peck to say in all sincerity: “We’re having a mighty cool spring this year.”

Guyan Valley High School Students (c.1945)

28 Friday Dec 2018

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ferrellsburg

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Appalachia, Ferrellsburg, Guyan Valley High School, history, Iona Mae Mullins, Lincoln County, photos, Pleasant View, West Virginia

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Guyan Valley High School students, c.1945. Fifth from left: Iona Mae Mullins of Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV.

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Guyan Valley High School students, c.1945. Pleasant View, Lincoln County, WV.

Jake Adkins Heirs Deed to Ann Davis (1908)

23 Friday Nov 2018

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ferrellsburg, Guyandotte River, Lincoln County Feud

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Albert Adkins, Ann Davis, Appalachia, Ben Walker, Bob Adkins, Brooke Adkins, C.E. Burns, Catherine Adkins, Clementine Dingess, Douglas Branch, Ed Dingess, Ferrellsburg, Fisher B. Adkins, Floyd Enos Adkins, Guyandotte River, Harts Creek District, Henry Adkins, Jake Adkins, Lincoln County, Marshall County, notary public, Ruby Adkins, Susan Adkins, West Virginia, Yantus Walker

Tine Dingess to Ann Davis 2

Deed Book __, page ___, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV. This property was located on or near Douglas Branch in Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV.

Tine Dingess to Ann Davis 3

Deed Book __, page ___, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV. I knew Bob Adkins, the infant referenced in this deed. He was a key source about the Lincoln County Feud.

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Deed Book __, page ___, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV. Note who could and who could not sign their name.

Tine Dingess to Ann Davis 5

Deed Book __, page ___, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV. Note: Albert Adkins was incarcerated at the West Virginia State Penitentiary at the time of this deed, which is the reason for a Marshall County notary.

Chapmanville News 09.20.1927

15 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Chapmanville, Ferrellsburg

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Appalachia, Chapmanville, Chapmanville High School, Courtney Stollings, Curry, Dennie Blevins, Ferrellsburg, genealogy, history, Logan Banner, Logan County, Lula Blevins, Millard Curry, Opal Bryant, Peter Garrett, Roy Stollings, Ruby Baisden, Walt Chapman, West Logan, West Virginia

An unknown correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on September 20, 1927:

The 7th and 8th grades and Junior high school are progressing nicely under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Rigdon and Mr. Dobbin.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chapman and children motored to Ferrellsburg Sunday.

Mrs. Dennie Blevins and children of West Logan passed through this town Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Millard Curry were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Peter Garrett, Sr., of Curry Sunday.

Miss Lula Blevins was visiting home folks over the week end at Curry.

Misses Opal Bryant, Courtney Stollings, Ruby Baisden and Roy Stollings are attending high school here.

Julius David “Babe” Dingess Family Cemetery (2018)

04 Sunday Feb 2018

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk 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

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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.

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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.

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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.

Elias Adkins Deed to Enos “Jake” Adkins (1855)

01 Friday Dec 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ferrellsburg, Green Shoal

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Appalachia, Douglas Branch, Elias Adkins, Enos "Jake" Adkins, Ferrellsburg, genealogy, Green Shoal Creek, history, Lincoln County, Logan County, Lorenzo D. Hill, Susannah Adkins, Virginia, West Virginia, William Straton

Elias Adkins to Enos Adkins 1

Deed Book C, page 381, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. Elias and Susannah (Fry) Adkins were the parents of Enos “Jake” Adkins.

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Deed Book C, page 381, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. This property is located in present-day Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV.

Albert Adkins, Ferryman of Ferrellsburg, WV (1910)

23 Thursday Nov 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ferrellsburg, Hamlin

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A.E. Wagner, Albert Adkins, Appalachia, Ben Walker, Benjamin Scragg, E.G. Pauley, Ferrellsburg, ferryman, genealogy, Hamlin, history, Jake Adkins, Lettie Adkins, Lincoln County, Matthew Farley, W.C. Holstein, West Virginia

Albert Adkins ferryman 1

General Bonds No. 1, page 20, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV. Albert G. Adkins (1866-1952), son of Enos “Jake” and Lettie M. (Toney) Adkins, operated a ferry in Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV. 

Albert Adkins ferryman 2

General Bonds No. 1, page 20, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV.

Albert Adkins ferryman 3

General Bonds No. 1, page 20, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV.

Douglas Branch (2017)

26 Thursday Oct 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Boone County, Cemeteries, Ferrellsburg, Giles County, Green Shoal, Lincoln County Feud, Women's History

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

Big Creek Regular Baptist Church (1850)

20 Friday Oct 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Creek, Ferrellsburg

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Anderson Barker, Appalachia, Big Creek, Boone County, Crispin S. Stone, Elias Adkins, Ferrellsburg, genealogy, Hezekiah Adkins, history, Lincoln County, Logan County, Martin's Field, Mary Adkins, Obediah Godby, Regular Baptist, Virginia, West Virginia, William Martin, William Straton

Elias Adkins and Regular Baptist Church at Big Creek 1850 1

Deed Book C, page 231, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. Elias Adkins, son of Hezekiah and Mary (Levon) Adkins, oversaw a plantation at present-day Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV.

Chapmanville News 07.09.1926

19 Thursday Oct 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Creek, Chapmanville, Ferrellsburg

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A.L. Samson, America, Appalachia, Big Creek, board of education, Cap Adkins, Chapmanville, constable, county clerk, Edgwright, Ferrell Hill, Ferrellsburg, Fisher B. Adkins, genealogy, history, Jim Bryant, John Dingess, Ku Klux Klan, Lincoln County, Logan Banner, Logan County, Lumbago, O.J. Phipps, Republican Party, Route 10, The Old Rugged Cross, West Virginia

An unknown correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on July 9, 1926:

O.J. Phipps is now on his vacation.

Cap Adkins of Kentucky has been visiting his grand children on Big Creek this week.

Grading on our new road is being finished this week.

Several of our citizens motored to Big Creek Monday evening to get their part of the hot air dispensed by John (Corn) and others.

A white-robed crowd of men of mystery assembled on the Ferrell Hill last Monday night and burned a very beautiful cross and sang “America” and “The Old Rugged Cross.”

Mrs. Jim Bryant is visiting her parents at Edgwright this week.

Fisher B. Adkins of Ferrellsburg was attending the meeting of the Board of Education here Monday. Fisher is a candidate for Clerk of the County Court of Lincoln county.

John Dingess is confined to the house with Lumbago this week.

A.L. Samson is a candidate here for constable on the Republican ticket. He says he served seven years in Lincoln county and never took any one with him to arrest a man in his life. We say hurrah for Abe.

Chapmanville News 05.27.1921

14 Thursday Sep 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Banco, Chapmanville, Ferrellsburg, Huntington

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A.H. Curry, Appalachia, Arnold Saunders, Banco, Chapmanville, Charles Hainor, Cleophas Saunders, Emma Stowers, Erie Blevins, Ferrellsburg, genealogy, George Seagraves, ginseng, Glenna Beckett, Hewlette Curry, history, Homer McDonald, Howard Barker, Hughey, Huntington, Ida Blevins, Jeffrey, Jesse Mullins, Jessie Adkins, Lace Browning, Lacy Ball, Logan Banner, Logan County, Nellie Barker, Opal Bryant, Peach Creek, Ross Stowers, Ruth Beckett, Saunders and Barker, Sid Croft, Thermal Hainor, Walton Garrett, West Virginia, Willard Curry

An unknown correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on May 27, 1921:

Mr. Cleophas Saunders and Sid Croft motored over from Jeffrey Monday to attend to business matters here.

Mrs. George Seagraves was calling on Miss Emma Stowers Tuesday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Hewlette Curry of Huntington are spending the week with Mr. Curry’s parents here.

Arnold Saunders, the popular young clerk in the store of Saunders and Barker, was called to his home the first of the week on account of the death of a friend.

Miss Jessie Adkins of Ferrellsburg is staying with her sister, Mrs. Lace Browning, of this place.

Mr. and Mrs. Hewlette Curry were the guests of Mrs. Willard Curry Friday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. George Seagraves were calling on Mrs. A.H. Curry Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Walton Garrett visited relatives at Banco Sunday.

Miss Erie Blevins left Monday for an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. Homer McDonald at Hughey.

Miss Ross Stowers is spending the week with her sister at Peach Creek.

Lacy Ball of Jeffrey was calling on Miss Nellie Barker Sunday.

Jesse Mullins and family were motoring Sunday.

Miss Ida Blevins was calling on Miss Thermal Hainor Sunday afternoon.

Charles Hainor and  Howard Barker were out ginseng digging Friday. They made a tour of about twelve miles through the hills and only dug six bunches each. Better luck next time, boys.

Misses Glenna and Ruth Beckett were calling on Miss Opal Bryant Sunday.

Note: This entry was dated May 18, 1921.

R.H. “Bob” Adkins (c.1904)

08 Saturday Jul 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ferrellsburg, Hamlin, Lincoln County Feud

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Bob Adkins as Child

Robert Henderson “Bob” Adkins (1903-1999), son of Albert G. and Mary “Brooke” (Dingess) Adkins. Bob, born in my hometown of Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, WV, spent most of his life in Hamlin where he operated a lucrative gas business. In 1984, he was chosen West Virginia Oil and Gas Man of the Year. I first met Bob in March of 1995. I really miss him.

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Feud Poll 2

Do you think Milt Haley and Green McCoy committed the ambush on Al and Hollene Brumfield in 1889?

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Feud Poll 3

Who do you think organized the ambush of Al and Hollene Brumfield in 1889?

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Ed Haley Poll 1

What do you think caused Ed Haley to lose his sight when he was three years old?

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