Don Chafin’s Deputies (1921)

21 Monday Dec 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Battle of Blair Mountain, Coal, Logan

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The following list of Don Chafin’s deputies prior to the Battle of Blair Mountain is based on Record of Bonds E in the Logan County Clerk’s Office in Logan, WV:

Name, Date of Appointment, Surety, Surety Amount, Page

Lawrence Adkins…25 January 1921…Albert Gore…$5000…144

Red Akers…23 August 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…279

J.T. Ashworth…1 February 1921…J.H. Ford…$5000…155

B.F. Baker…28 February 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…172

Sherwood Baldwin…2 August 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…269

N.L. Barger…1 February 1921…J.H. Ford…$5000…153

Lee Belcher…1 February 1921…Charles Stollings, Anderson Dempsey, M. Elkins…$5000…149

C.W. Bias…5 April 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…210

R.F. Booton…31 January 1921…Cassa Booton and Simpson Booton…$5000…148

George M. Browning…8 February 1921…C.E. Browning…$5000…158

Charles Bryant…18 June 1921…A.A. Vance, G.F. Gore…$5000…244

G.L. Burgess…4 April 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…207

E.M. Burke…10 June 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…240

Albert Butcher…24 January 1921…W.F. Butcher…$5000…143

Lee Callaway…13 May 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$______…226

Wayne Chafin…12 February 1921…Milton Stowers…$5000…164

Earl Cook…15 July 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…260

Jess Cook…15 July 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…259

Bruce Davidson…20 May 1921…G.F. Gore…$5000…230

Elbert Dempsey…26 February 1921…Milton Stowers…$5000…171

George Dimitrijevich…17 February 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…167

G.F. Downey, Jr….3 August 1921…J.B. Ellis, Evert Dingess…$5000…272

Charles Duty…11 April 1921…George Chafin…$5000…212

R.W. Estep…8 March 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…183

H.H. Farley…24 March 1921…L.E. Steele…$5000…198

Lewis Farley…15 July 1921…G.F. Gore…$5000…258

J.H. Ford…27 May 1921…P.J. Riley…$5000…235

Jesse Gartin…31 January 1921…J.O. Hill…$5000…147

John L. Gearhart…5 March 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…173

J.J. Gilmore…17 March 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…193

E.D. Gore…14 June 1921…William Gore, Guy F. Gore…$5000…243

B.M. Hager…5 April 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…209

F.H. Hall…1 February 1921…J.H. Ford…$5000…154

C.W. Hamilton…21 April 1921…W.E. White…$5000…218

E.S. Harmon…12 August 1921…E.S. Harman and George Chafin…$5000…277

J.C.L. Harris…23 May 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…233

W.D. Henshaw…23 March 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…197

W.C. Holbrook…23 March 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…196

C.H. Huffman…5 August 1921…C.H. Huffman and P.M. Toney…$5000…273

Allie Johnson…8 February 1921…J.C. Gore…$5000…157

J.F. May…19 July 1921…W.F. Farley…$5000…262

Frank Maynard…25 January 1921…G.F. Gore and Charles Stollings…$5000…145

Lucian Mitchell…1 July 1921…Fult Mitchell…$3500…270

Allen Mounts…1 April 1921…T.C. Chafin, K.F. Mounts…$5000…204

Ed Mullins…12 February 1921…F.C. Mullins…$5000…163

F.C. Mullins…25 January 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…146

John Mullins…28 March 1921…J.E. Mullins…$5000…211

George H. Munch…23 August 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…278

Patrick L. Murphy…22 February 1921…W.E. White and Allen Mounts…$5000…169

W.M. Patrick…13 July 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…256

Bilton Perry…27 April 1921…Buren Browning…$5000…219

C.H. Perry…5 February 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…151

Erastus Perry…1 August 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…267

E.H. Scaggs…10 March 1921…Ed Cook…$5000…184

John E. Sewell…10 June 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company…$3500…239

L.E. Steele…24 March 1921…H.H. Farley…$5000…199

N.E. Steele…18 July 1921…George C. Steele…$5000…261

Ren Stollings…9 February 1921…Charles Stollings and Milton Stowers…$5000…160

J.T. Walsh…12 March 1921…Milton Stowers…$5000…188

Ed White…21 January 1921…Joe Blair…$5000…142

W.C. Whited…8 February 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…159

B.B. Young…4 April 1921…Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland…$3500…208

This list will be updated soon to include more names.

Harts Creek District (c.1883)

08 Saturday Apr 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Big Ugly Creek, Fourteen, Green Shoal, Guyandotte River, Harts, Leet, Little Harts Creek, Timber, Warren, Wewanta

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Adam Lambert, Andrew D. Robinson, Appalachia, B.C. Curry, Big Ugly Creek, Boone County, Burbus Toney, Charles Spurlock, constable, Edley Elkins, education, Fourteen Mile Creek, genealogy, Guyandotte River, Harts Creek, Harts Creek District, Henry H. Hardesty, Hezekiah Adkins, history, Isaac Elkins, James White, Jefferson District, Jeremiah Lambert, Jesse Gartin, John Fry, John H. Brumfield, John Lucas, justice of the peace, Kiahs Creek, Laurel Hill District, Lewis Queen, Lincoln County, Little Harts Creek, Little Ugly Creek, Logan County, Methodist, miller, Rhoda Elkins, Richard Adkins, Richard Elkins, Sarah Elkins, Squire Toney, timber, timbering, Wayne County, West Virginia, William Lucas, William West

From “Hardesty’s History of Lincoln County, West Virginia,” published by H.H. Hardesty, we find this entry for Harts Creek District in Lincoln County, West Virginia:

This is the most southern subdivision of the county. It derives its name from Harts creek, a tributary of the Guyandotte river. On the north is Laurel Hill district, on the northeast is Jefferson, east Boone county, on the south Logan, and on the west Wayne. Guyandotte river flows northwest and divides the district into two nearly equal parts. There are several small streams, among which are Little and Big Harts creeks, Little and Big Ugly creeks, Kiahs creek, and Fourteen Mile creek.

The first settler was Richard Elkins, who reared his cabin in the month of September, 1807. Here he removed his family, and here Charles Spurlock became his first neighbor. Other early settlers were: Esquire Toney, John Lucas, Edley Elkins, John Fry, Hezekiah Adkins, John Brumfield, and Richard Adkins. Rhoda, a daughter of Edley and Sarah Elkins, was the first white child born in the district. The first grist mill was built by James White about the year 1821. It was a small tub-wheel mill, water being the propelling power. Isaac Elkins built the first saw mill in 1847 or 1848. It was constructed on the old sash-saw plan, and had a capacity for cutting from 800 to 1,000 feet per day.

The first school was taught in a log cabin one mile above the mouth of Big Harts creek about the year 1832, but who the teacher was cannot now be ascertained. The date, however, is remembered by an old resident, because it was the year in which he first visited this section. The first house for educational purposes was built near the mouth of Big Harts creek in 1834. It was a five-cornered building, one side being occupied by the ever-present huge fire place. There are now ten public school houses in the district, “some of which,” says an informant, “are in bad condition, but will soon be replaced by frames;” 334 boys and girls attend school in this district.

The first sermon was preached here in the year 1823 by a Methodist minister named William West, and here the same year he gathered a little church, one of the first ever formed in the valley of the Guyandotte river; but of its history or who composed its membership, nothing is known. When the writer asked of an old settler the question: “Who were the first members?” his reply was: “The register is gone, and no one living can tell.” When asked who organized the first Sabbath school, he replied: “There never was one in the district.”

The first township officers were as follows: Supervisor, Burbus Toney; justice of the peace, Jeremiah Lambert; constable, Jesse Gartin; clerk, Andrew Robinson; treasurer, B.C. Curry; school commissioners, Adam Lambert, William Lucas, and Lewis Queen. According to the census of 1880, the population was 1,116.

Source: The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (Richwood, WV: Jim Comstock, 1974), p. 106-107.

NOTE: I descend from Richard Elkins, John Fry, John H. Brumfield, and Jeremiah Lambert.

Brandon Ray Kirk

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