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Aracoma (Part 4)

04 Sunday Dec 2022

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Logan, Native American History, Women's History

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American Primitive, Appalachia, Aracoma, Battle of Point Pleasant, Camp Charlotte, Chief Cornstalk, Chief Logan, Circleville Elm, genealogy, history, Horn Papers, James Logan, John Breckenridge, Lawnsville, Logan, Lord Dunmore, Michael Cresap, Native American History, Native Americans, surveyor, Tahgahinte, The Aracoma Story, Thomas Dunn English, Thomas Patterson, West Virginia, West Virginia Women, William Madison, William Penn, William Preston

Doris Miller (1903-1993), a longtime educator, historian, writer, and poet operating in the area of Huntington, West Virginia, composed this biography of Aracoma, a well-known Native American figure who lived in present-day Logan, West Virginia. This is Part 4 of her composition.

One other detail of the legend, not generally known but occasionally heard, is the story that Aracoma was Cornstalk’s daughter by adoption, that her mother was a sister of Cornstalk who had married Chief Logan and died soon after Aracoma’s birth. For this reason, the infant was taken into the lodge of Chief Cornstalk, where there were squaws to rear her, and this kinship by marriage and common interest in Aracoma was the secret of the alliance between the two famous Indian leaders who joined forces at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. There is nothing in Aracoma’s dying words to refute this claim—she still would have considered Cornstalk her father and have been the last of his line, through a niece. But Logan’s words do carry a refutation.

At the time Logan made this speech under the Circleville Elm, and it was written down to be dispatched to Lord Dunmore at Camp Charlotte, where peace was being negotiated, he could not have said, “There runs not a drop of my blood in any living creature” if Aracoma had been his daughter.

Some historians have discounted Logan’s speech, but it is fully in keeping with the man pictured by his contemporaries in the Horn Papers and other sourcebooks of American history. Scottish Lord Dunmore must have [p. 10] accepted it as authentic, when it was brought to him wrapped in a wampum belt by a man he had sent to fetch Logan.

Logan had been friendly to white settlers of Virginia and Pennsylvania. As a boy, he lived in the home of James Logan, former secretary of William Penn, who educated the youth, a son of a friendly Indian chief. Thereafter Logan bore the name of his foster-father instead of Tahgahinte, his Indian name. Chief Logan remained friendly to the settlers until his family was treacherously murdered by white men. Later it was established that Colonel Cresap was not a party to the deed, though Logan thought so for a long time.

Colonel Madison who led the Virginians against Aracoma’s settlement, is said to have been a son-in-law of Colonel William Preston, a noted Virginia surveyor. Some of the earliest land surveys in present Logan County were recorded in names of members of the Preston, Madison and Breckenridge families, and it is quite likely others went to men who served under Madison and Breckenridge of the Battle of the Island, or members of their families. So the Legend of Aracoma came into the Guyandotte Valley in the memories of the white settlers who came first after her, and in their imaginations.

Another reason for discounting the story that Aracoma was the daughter of Logan is her name. Cornflower seems the logical name of a daughter of Cornstalk.

The residents of the Guyandotte Valley have treasured their legend and have honored the name of Aracoma in many ways. In the early 1800s, the town which grew up in the area of Aracoma’s settlement and grave was known as Lawnsville. During the 1850s, Thomas Dunn English, a physician and poet who was the first mayor of the town, insisted on changing the name to Aracoma, which it remained until its incorporation as a city in 1907. The change then may have been due to men’s custom of referring to the town as “Logan Courthouse” rather than by its true name. Since that time, the name of Aracoma has been given to a smaller community in the county.

When Logan County observed its Centennial in 1952, Thomas Patterson, the author of American Primitive and other well known plays, was commissioned to write a drama based on the legend of Princess Aracoma. The pageant was produced on successive days of the celebration and was considered one of the highlights. [p. 11]

Source: West Virginia Women, Richwood, WV: Jim Comstock (1974), p. 11.

For more about Doris Miller, go here: https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1284&context=sc_finding_aids

James Butcher Survey (1857)

01 Sunday May 2022

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek

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Appalachia, Big Harts Creek, genealogy, history, James Butcher, James Lawson, Josephus Workman, Logan County, Shannon Butcher, Smokehouse Fork, surveyor, Virginia, West Virginia, William A. Dingess

James Butcher survey, 50 acres on Smoke House Fork of Big Harts Creek in Logan County, VA (1857)

E. Hatfield Survey (1878)

01 Thursday Apr 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Sandy Valley, Matewan

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Appalachia, Big Sandy River, C.H. Gore, Double Camp Fork, Ephraim Hatfield, Floyd Hatfield, genealogy, history, John Gore, John Lee Buskirk, Logan County, Mate Creek, Mingo County, sheriff, surveyor, Valentine Hatfield, West Virginia, William Anderson Dingess

E. Hatfield survey, 95 1/2 acres, Mate Creek (1878), Surveyors Record Book B, page __, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. Note: This property is located in present-day Mingo County.

Abner Vance, Jr. Survey (1849)

11 Thursday Mar 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek

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Abner Vance Jr., Appalachia, Charles I. Stone, East Fork, genealogy, Harts Creek, Henry Adkins, history, James Lawson, Logan County, surveyor, Virginia, West Fork, West Virginia

Abner Vance, Jr., East/West Fork of Big Harts Creek (30 acres), Surveyors Record Book B, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. Note: East Fork is also called West Fork.

Patton Thompson Survey (1853)

10 Wednesday Mar 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek

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Appalachia, Dick Elkins Branch, genealogy, Harts Creek, history, James Lawson, Jefferson Thompson, John Gore, Lincoln County, Patton Thompson, surveyor, Thompson Branch, West Virginia, Zachariah Tomblin

Patton Thompson, Jr. Survey (30 acres), Surveyors Record Book B, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. Note: Patton Thompson is my great-great-great-grandfather. Note also: Dick Elkins Branch is now called Thompson Branch and it is located in present-day Lincoln County.

Aly Hatfield Survey (1849)

01 Monday Mar 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Wharncliffe

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Anthony Lawson, Appalachia, Ben Creek, James Lawson, Joseph Hatfield, Logan County, Mingo County, Right Hand Fork, surveyor, Virginia, West Virginia, William A. Dempsey, William Collins

Surveyors Record Book B, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV.

Anthony Lawson Survey (1849)

16 Tuesday Feb 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Atenville, Guyandotte River, Little Harts Creek

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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

Anthony Lawson survey (1849), 400 acres, Dry Branch of Guyandotte River, Surveyors Record B, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. Note: This property is contained in present-day Lincoln County.

Robert Lilly Survey (1850)

02 Tuesday Feb 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Guyandotte River

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Appalachia, Charles I. Stone, genealogy, Guyandotte River, history, James Lawson, Lillys Branch, Logan County, Robert Lilly, surveyor, West Virginia

Robert Lilly, 125 acres, Lillys Branch, Surveyors Record Book B, page __, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan WV.

Ephraim Hatfield Survey (1850)

02 Tuesday Feb 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Sandy Valley, Hatfield-McCoy Feud

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Appalachia, Big Sandy River, Ephraim Hatfield, genealogy, Henderson Varney, history, James Lawson, Logan County, Mate Creek, Reece Browning, surveyor, Tug Fork, Valentine Hatfield, Virginia, West Virginia, William A. Dempsey

Ephraim Hatfield, 50 acres, Surveyors Record Book B, page 231, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV.

John Fry Survey (1849)

02 Saturday Jan 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Green Shoal

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Appalachia, Baptist Fry, Charles I. Stone, Charles Lucas, Christian Fry, Druzilla Fry, Emily Fry, genealogy, Green Shoal Creek, history, James Lawson, John Fry, Lincoln County, Logan County, surveyor, Virginia, West Virginia

John Fry survey (1849), 44 acres, Left Hand Fork of Green Shoal Creek, Logan County, VA. Surveyors Record Book B, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. This property is located in present-day Lincoln County, WV. Note: I descend from three of John Fry’s children: Christian Fry, Emily Fry, and Druzilla Fry.

Enos “Jake” Adkins Survey (1849)

28 Monday Dec 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk 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

Enos Adkins survey (1849), 90 acres, Little Harts Creek, Logan County, VA. Surveyors Record Book B, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. This property is located in present-day Lincoln County, WV.
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Garland Conley, Jr. Survey (1850)

27 Sunday Dec 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek

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Anthony Lawson, Appalachia, Charles I. Stone, Garland Conley Jr., genealogy, Harts Creek, history, Israel Canfield, James Lawson, John Conley, John Hopkins, Logan County, Robert Hensley, Smokehouse Fork, surveyor, West Virginia, William Farley

Garland Conley, Jr. Survey (1850), 32 acres, Smoke House Fork of Harts Creek, Logan County, VA. Surveyor Record Book B, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. This land is located in present-day West Virginia.

Stephen Hart and Harts Creek (1937)

14 Sunday Jul 2019

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Creek, Big Harts Creek, Civil War, Hamlin, Harts, Logan, Midkiff, Ranger, Spurlockville, Toney

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Appalachia, assistant postmaster, Big Creek, Cabell County, Charles Spurlock, Cheat River, Cincinnati, civil engineer, civil war, doctor, genealogy, gunsmith, Hamlin, history, Jane Spurlock, John Spurlock, Lifas Spurlock, Lincoln County, Logan Banner, Logan County, Logan Post Office, Marshall Spurlock, Midkiff, Montgomery County, Omar, Pete Spurlock, preacher, Ranger, Robertson Spurlock, Seth Spurlock, Sheridan, sheriff, Spurlockville, Stephen Hart, surveyor, Union Army, Virginia, West Virginia

From the Logan Banner of Logan, WV, comes this bit of history about Stephen Hart and Harts Creek in Lincoln and Logan counties, West Virginia. The story is dated April 14, 1937.

Stephen Hart Settled at Cheat River, Pete Spurlock, A Great Grandson, Reveals

P.A. (Pete) Spurlock, assistant postmaster at the Logan post office, this morning revealed the destination of Stephen Hart, who went went after he had lived for a short time at the forks of the creek in the lower end of Logan county which now bears his name.

Spurlock said that Hart went to the Cheat River and settled permanently there to hunt deer and rear a family. He said the family name of Hart is as familiar there as the name Dingess is familiar in Logan county.

A daughter of Stephen, Jane, was Spurlock’s grandmother. She lived until 1913 and told her grandson much of the early history of the family which made its home in and around Spurlocksville, Sheridan, Ranger, and Midkiff.

Charles Spurlock, the progenitor of the Spurlock family, came to what used to be the Toney farm below the mouth of Big Creek in 1805 from Montgomery county, Virginia.

“Uncle Charley was a funny old cuss,” his great grandson Pete said this morning. “The story is told that a sheriff of Cabell county was given a capias to serve on the old codger for some minor offense when he was growing old and rather stout.

“Meeting him in the road one day, the sheriff informed Uncle Charley he had a capias to serve on him.

“None abashed, the old man informed the sheriff he was a law-abiding citizen and laid down in the middle of the road and told the sheriff to take him to jail.

“The ruse worked, for the sheriff chose to look for less obstinate prisoners,” Uncle Charley’s grandson said, chuckling.

Another story about the eccentric “Uncle Charley Spurlock” which has gone down in history, whether true or not, was that he lived for a short time below Big Creek under a rock cliff (known as a rockhouse) during the early summer while he was getting his cabin in shape for winter.

The tale is out that “Uncle Charley” explained his strange dwelling place in this way to his neighbors:

“Well I took Sarah (his wife) in a good substantial frame house in Virginia and she wasn’t quite satisfied. I took her to a log house and she wasn’t satisfied. I took her to a rail pen and still she grumbled. Then I took her to a rock house built by God Almight and still she wasn’t satisfied.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do with Sarah.”

Sarah evidently became accustomed to “Uncle Charley” for the couple reared four sons. They were John, Seth, Lifas and Robertson. There were no daughters.

Seth was P.A. Spurlock’s grandfather. His father, Marshall, is 78 and lives on his farm near Cincinnati.

Spurlock says “Uncle Charley” is buried on a point at Spurlocksville overlooking the haunts of his early manhood.

Robertson was a gunsmith and lived near Hamlin. Seth was a civil engineer and helped survey much of Logan county. He was a Union soldier. John was a country doctor who practiced at Ranger.

Lifas was a preacher for sixty years and lived at Sheridan.

Charles Spurlock, of Omar, is a distant cousin, the assistant postmaster said. He is the only relative that lives in this section of Logan county, Spurlock said.

Spurlock, at Omar, was born at Spurlocksville and is a grandson of one of the original “Charley’s” boys.

Chapmanville, WV (1923-1924, 1942)

26 Friday Apr 2019

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Chapmanville, Guyandotte River

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Appalachia, Ball Addition, C&O Railroad, Chapmanville, Dingess Street, Division Street, Ed Conley, engineer, Ferrell Street, George S. Ferrell, Guyandotte River, history, Huntington, J.D. Perry, J.D. Turner, J.H. Vickers, Logan, Logan County, map, O'Dell Street, R.E. Vickers, Riverside Drive, Rupert W. Stone, surveyor, West Virginia, William J. Ellis

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Sub-division of Chapmanville, WV.

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Sub-division of Chapmanville, WV.

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Ball Addition to Chapmanville, WV.

John Gore

15 Wednesday Mar 2017

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Cemeteries, Halcyon

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Appalachia, cemeteries, Chloe Mullins, Floyd S. Gore, genealogy, Harvey Gore, history, John Gore, John Gore Family Cemetery, Joseph Gore, Leander Gore, Logan, Logan County, Logan County Banner, Margaret Gore, Martha Gore, Martha Lawson, Mary Ann Lawson, Nancy Jane Toney, photos, Rebecca McDonald, surveyor, West Fork, West Virginia

John Gore copyright

John Gore (1816-1895), son of Joseph and Martha (Pine) Gore. Husband to Margaret “Peggy” Dingess. Settled on the West Fork of Harts Creek in Logan County, WV.

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John Gore Land Grant (1848), Logan County, (West) Virginia.

John Gore Obit 1 LCB 10.9.1895

John Gore obituary, Logan County Banner (Logan, WV), 9 October 1895.

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John Gore grave, West Fork of Harts Creek, Logan County, WV. 5 June 2015.

James S. Aldredge

04 Wednesday Mar 2015

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Logan

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Alice B. Aldredge, Appalachia, Cora B. Aldredge, Floyd County, genealogy, George L. Aldredge, Henry H. Hardesty, history, James S. Aldredge, Logan County, Logan Court House, R.A. Brock, Richmond, Stanton Aldredge, surveyor, Thomas E. Aldredge, Virginia, Virginia and Virginians, West Virginia

From “Virginia and Virginians, 1606-1888,” published by H.H. Hardesty, we find this entry for James S. Aldredge, who resided at Logan Court House in Logan County, West Virginia:

Late Logan county surveyor, residing at Logan Court House, W.Va., was born in Floyd county, Va., Jan. 26, 1859; was married in Logan county, W.Va., on Mar. 16, 1879, to Miss Alice B. Perry, who was born in Logan county Aug. 14, 1855; their home has been brightened by the following sons and daughters, all now residing with their mother: Stanton and George L., born Feb 10, 1880; Cora B., born Jan. 31, 1882; Thomas E., born June 21, 1884; James C., born Jan. 2, 1887. Mr. J.S. Aldredge was elected surveyor of Logan county in 1884, which office he filled most acceptably until his death, Aug. 4, 1887. This sad occurrence was deeply lamented by all who had known him. He was a man of the highest nobility of character, and though cut down in the prime of his young manhood, yet had done much to endear him to many friends who regret his untimely death. His widow and children reside in the beautiful home he had made for them at Logan Court House, [W]Va.

Source: Dr. R.A. Brock, Virginia and Virginians, 1606-1888 (Richmond, VA: H.H. Hardesty, Publisher, 1888), 814.

Logan County (WV) Democratic Primary, 1952

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Chapmanville, Logan

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Alton S. Isaacs, assessor, Bill Brewster, Bill Turley, Bird Dingess, board of education, Bob Barker Jr., C.C. Chambers, C.L. Williams, Carl Kane, Carlos Lowe, Charlie Staton, Chris Holt, circuit clerk, Claude A. Joyce, Cole Blair, constable, Curtis B. Trent Jr., Democrat Party, E.R. Hall, Earl Hager, Edward R. Chapman, Elbert Mounts, Election of 1952, Eugene Chapman, Floyd Crook Murphy, Floyd Dingess, Frank Adams, Frank L. Chambers, Frank Workman, Glenn Jackson, Greenway Christian, Grover Lowe, H.T. Elliott, Harvey D. Dingess, history, Jack Johnson, James C. Ferrell, Jim Toney, Jimmie Singleton, John Asbury, John C. Barber, John Edward Estep, John Vance, justice of the peace, Lee Collins, Logan County, Lon McCoy, Martin L. White, politics, prosecuting attorney, R.F. Hill, Ray Ellis, Ray McCloud, Ray Porter, Ray Watts, Roy L. Hatcher, sheriff, surveyor, Tony Tiolo, Vernon Dingess, Virgil Belcher, Virgil Farley, W.E. Flannery, Wallace Bryant, Wallace E. Ferrell, West Virginia

U.S. Senator

Harley M. Kilgore, 9985

J. Horner Davis, 3583

Dallas Arthur Tickle, 542

Congressman, 6th District

Robert C. Byrd, 6944

Dale G. Casto, 2545

Ned H. Ragland, 1959

Lewis A. Hatcher, 800

Garland F. Wilkinson, 312

John M. Eckard, 245

Governor

Dr. E.H. Hedrick, 9018

William C. Marland, 4666

Cyrus S. Kump, 2564

Everett Ray Shafer, 267

Secretary of State

Sam B. Chilton, 4112

D. Pitt O’Brien, 3289

Fred D. Wolfe, 2226

Superintendent of Schools

W.W. Trent, 7895

Homer H. May, 1911

J. Alfred Poe, 1458

Auditor

Edgar B. Sims, 5599

James M. Hatch, 4071

Treasurer

William H. Ansel, Jr., 6559

Attorney General

Chauncey Browning, 12,042

W.C. Haythe, 1399

Commissioner of Agriculture

James Blaine McLaughin, 4306

V.L. Martin, 4014

Judge of the Supreme Court

W.T. Lovins, 6783

Frank C. Haymond, 5190

State Senator, 7th District

Glenn Jackson, 6527

Harvey D. Dingess, 4096

John Edward Estep, 1976

Judge of Circuit Court, 7th Judicial Circuit

C.C. Chambers, 10,151

Sheriff

Ray Watts, 9576

Floyd (Crook) Murphy, 8406

Prosecuting Attorney

Claude A. Joyce, 8180

Curtis B. Trent, Jr., 6587

House of Delegates

W.E. Flannery, 5817

C.L. Williams, 3939

Earl Hager, 3784

Carl Kane, 3141

H.T. Elliott, M.D., 3107

Frank L. Chambers, 3104

Virgil Belcher, 2856

R.A. “Bob” Barker, Jr., 2852

Alton S. Isaacs, 2848

R.A. “Jack” Jackson, 2512

James C. Ferrell, 2323

Chris Holt, 2276

John Asbury, 1979

Bevley Burks, 1889

Rasha “Barber” Smith, 1362

Charlie Staton, 1303

Greenway Christian, 1171

Ray Porter, 1016

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Mrs. Simon Dingess, ___

Grover Lowe, 2335

Tony Tiolo, 2153

Assessor

Floyd Dingess, 5128

Jim Toney, 4614

W.C. “Bill” Turley, 4248

John C. “Dutch” Barber, 3945

Wallace E. Ferrell, 3696

J.A. “Jimmie” Singleton, 3130

Roy L. Hatcher, 2696

Vernon Dingess, 1564

County Surveyor

E.R. Hall, 5885

Justice of the Peace, Precincts 1-11 (Chapmanville area)

Frank Workman, 598

Ray Ellis, 407

Carlos Lowe, 381

Frank Adams, 352

Edward R. Chapman, 305

Bird Dingess, 284

Martin L. White, 239

Cole Blair, 193

R.F. Hill, 169

Constable, Precincts 1-11 (Chapmanville area)

Wallace Bryant, 553

John Vance, 560

Virgil Farley, 500

Lee Collins, 435

Eugene Chapman, 329

Lon McCoy, 190

Elbert Mounts, 176

Ray McCloud, 142

Bill Brewster, 63

Board of Education

Woodrow Gordon, 5014

M.C. Totten, 4227

Grady E. Yeager, 2645

J.E. “Ed” Dingess, 2060

W.M. Webb, 1521

Raymond E. Hatfield, 1246

Charles Harris, 1210

Charles E. Price, 1090

David Chapman, 793

Aaron Darnell, 158

Should voting machines be used in Logan County?

Yes, 15,349

No, 4532

Philip Hager

08 Tuesday Apr 2014

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Ugly Creek, Rector

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Appalachia, Big Ugly Creek, county road engineer, genealogy, Hamlin, history, life, Lincoln County, merchant, Philip Hager, photos, Rector, senator, surveyor, timbering, U.S. South, West Virginia

Philip Hager (1872-1966), prominent resident of Hamlin, Lincoln County, WV

Philip Hager (1872-1966), surveyor, road engineer, timber man, merchant, and state senator of Hamlin, Lincoln County, WV

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If you had lived in the Harts Creek community during the 1880s, to which faction of feudists might you have given your loyalty?

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

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