Don Chafin’s Deputies (1912-1913)

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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 C in the Logan County Clerk’s Office in Logan, WV:

Don Chafin was elected sheriff on November 5, 1912 and appeared on December 28, 1912 with his bondsman U.B. Buskirk for $40,000 (p. 215)

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

Garland A. Adams…28 January 1913…J.W. Chambers…$5000…236

Joe Adams…14 October 1913…G.F. Gore, A. Dingess, David C. Dingess, Anthony Adams, Sol Adams, Sr., and Sol Adams, Jr….$5000…297

John Barker…5 February 1913…F.P. Hurst…$5000…241

J.E. Barlow…26 April 1913…S.B. Lawson…$5000…268

Joe Blair…28 December 1912…J.W. Chambers and Allen Mounts…$5000…224

Bert Bush…6 January 1913…Monroe Bush…$5000…230

John L. Butcher…28 December 1912…Lewis Butcher, J.W. Chambers, Albert Gore…$5000…221

J.A. Chafin…20 June 1913…J.W. Chambers and A.A. Vance…$5000…275

John Chafins…31 January 1913…H.H. Farley and A.J. Browning…$5000…240

Nim Conley…18 July 1913…Ed Chapman and W.W. Conley…$5000…281

R.J. Conley…25 March 1913…Albert Gore…$5000…252

Riley Damron…5 July 1913…Millard Elkins and J.E. McCoy…$5000…278

David Dingess…3 April 1913…J.W. Chambers and George Justice…$5000…254

Everett Dingess…10 November 1913…John F. Dingess and Burl Adams…$5000…304

Vincent Dingess…7 July 1913…Georgia Dingess, William Gore, and Albert Gore…$5000…279

Ed Eggers…21 April 1913…Paul Hardy…$5000…264

Joseph A. Ellis…30 January 1913…O.M. Conley…$5000…239

R.H. Ellis…undated…Elizabeth Ellis…$5000…233

H.H. Farley…29 January 1913…L.E. Steele…$5000…237

W.F. Farley…28 December 1912…Robert Bland…$5000…223

Harry S. Gay, Jr….15 October 1913…S.B. Lawson…$5000…299

Albert Gore…28 December 1912…J.W. Chambers, G.F. Gore, Millard Elkins…$5000…222

Guy F. Gore…31 July 1913…Albert Gore and William Gore…$5000…286

Joe Hall…23 April 1913…C.P. Donovan, Paul Hardy…$5000…267

A.A. Hamilton…14 June 1913…A.A. Hamilton…$5000…273

Paul Hardy…20 February 1913…W.F. Farley…$5000…244

John Harrison…19 April 1913…J.S. Miller, M. Elkins, W.E. White, and James Ellis…$5000…262

Tennis Hatfield…14 June 1915…James Ellis and Lewis Chafin…$5000…396

William Hatfield…28 December 1912…J.S. Miller and George Justice…$5000…229

J.O. Hill…17 April 1913…Katie Mounts…$5000…261

B.J. Hiner…23 April 1913…C.P. Donovan and Paul Hardy…$5000…266

Mat Jackson…13 October 1913…Albert Gore, Van Mullins, G.F. Gore, and David C. Dingess…$5000…296

S.B. Lawson…12 April 1913…J.W. Chambers…$5000…256

G.W. Lax…21 April 1913…Paul Hardy…$5000…263

Allen Mounts…226

Cecil Mounts…11 June 1913…Allen Mounts…$5000…272

K.F. Mounts…28 December 1912…Allen Mounts…$5000…225

George Robinett…17 July 1913…George Justice…$5000…284

Joe Scaggs…231

F.A. Sharp…28 December 1912…W.F. Farley and L.G. Burns…$5000…217

L.E. Steele…29 January 1913…H.H. Farley…$5000…238

Noah Steele…6 September 1913…L.E. Steele, Jr….$5000…290

Charley Stollings…21 July 1913…Matilda Stollings, Tom Butcher, Bettie Stollings, W.I. Campbell, and Milton Stowers…$5000…283

T.B. Stowe…13 January 1913…Martha J. Stowe…$5000…234

Elias Thompson…16 April 1913…W.I. Campbell and K.F. Mounts…$5000…258

George E. Thompson…17 April 1913…A.F. Gore and Willis Gore…$5000…260

Moses Williamson…29 April 1913…L.H. Thompson…$5000…270

Clay Workman…28 December 1912…S.B. Lawson…$5000…228

This list will be updated soon to include more names.

Whirlwind News 05.11.1923

11 Tuesday Jun 2019

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Whirlwind

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Appalachia, Brown's Run, Charles Curry, genealogy, Harts Creek, history, J. Jackson., Logan Banner, Logan County, preacher, T. Vance, Van Mullins, West Virginia, Whirlwind

A correspondent named “Punch and Judy” from Whirlwind on Harts Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on May 11, 1923:

Rev. C. Curry delivered a delightful sermon at Brown’s Run Sunday.

Miss A. Baisden was visiting home folks here last week.

Van Mullins is making rails.

Wonder how T. Vance and J. Jackson are getting along selling copper wire and scrap iron?

Harts Creek News 05.11.1923

09 Sunday Jun 2019

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Chapmanville

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A correspondent named “Punch and Judy” from Harts Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on May 11, 1923:

Mr. Roy McCloud was visiting home folks last week.

Wonder why Mattie seems so downhearted now a days.

Here’s Elbert Adams so chubby and short; he goes to Mr. Maynard’s and drinks milk by the quart.

Randy Baisden seems to be enjoying life to beat sixty at present.

Here’s “Uncle” T. Vance so sportly, you know; who takes his Ruth for a walk, her bobbed hair to show.

Come on, Charley. Let’s go to the Trace. Don’t bother your brains with that other place.

Mr. C.H. McCloud is putting up ice at present.

Mr. Van Mullins is planting a double crop of everything. He said he expected a son-in-law.

Mr. Reece and Grover Mullins are on the steady lookout for a brighter day.

Mr. McCloud is awaiting his old faithful worker, who we all know by the name of T. Vance, to arrive with their farm implements.

Mr. Garfield and Elbert Adams made a business trip to Branch Fork last week.

There was a quiet but happy wedding at the home of Mr. H. Dingess last week.

Ina Dingess seems very lonesome now days.

Little Ida McCloud has joined the Happy Crockers.

Mr. Bob Jonas and Ruth McCloud took a ride last Sunday on Bob’s black pony.

Mrs. Shirley Mullins is riding for her health.

Mr. Tom Baisden made a business trip to Chapmanville last week.

Mr. Anthony Adams and Ellen Curry seem to enjoy being together.

We will leave the rest to “The Ginks,” providing their cherries allow them time to write.

Whirlwind News 02.16.1923

12 Friday Apr 2019

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Shively, Spottswood, Twelve Pole Creek, Whirlwind

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A correspondent named “Bluebird” from Whirlwind at Harts Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on February 16, 1923:

Quite a number of people are on the sick list in this vicinity at this time.

Grover Adams has been busily engaged in the hunting business this winter.

Sol Adams of Mount Gay has been visiting relatives on Hoover recently.

Wonder if James Robert has ever let Pusher Blair ride his grey anymore?

The singing school on Trace is progressing nicely.

Victoria and Joe Kirk were out horseback riding Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Mullins have been visiting relatives on Hart.

Mr. Samuel Vance of Twelve Pole was a business visitor to this community recently.

Mr. Pete Dalton was calling on Mrs. Mollie Robinson recently.

Harve Smith and John Fillinger have been having some fine sport fox hunting this winter.

Everybody has been wondering what has become of Ichabod Crane.

Van Mullins of this place is at Cherry Tree on the sick list. We hope that he will soon recover and return home.

Bud Richards is going into the mercantile business near the mouth of Smoke House.

Ratio. Don’t be afraid. The bull dog won’t hurt you.

Harts Creek News 04.13.1923

10 Wednesday Apr 2019

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Spottswood, Whirlwind

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A correspondent named “Fine Sweet Kisses” from Harts Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 13, 1923:

Here we come with a few lines and frost bites; also Herbert Thompson is mourning on the Perrite Hill.

Daniel McCloud is getting ahead of the working.

I wonder what has become of James Baisden? I haven’t heard from him in a long time.

Ichabod Green said he was as fat as a bear.

Wilburn Mullins cranked up his old crippled Fork and went to church.

Ad Mullins is coming back to Hart. He knows Will Maggard won’t let Browney alone.

Peter Carter likes to make his tooth picks.

Van Mullins is swinging his broad hoe. He swore it was summer time.

Harvey Smith is training his fox hounds.

Antha Adams is visiting relatives on Hart this week.

Roy Browning likes to win gold off the punch board.

Wonder if the Cherry Tree girls have quit asking for kisses from the Harts Creek boys?

Mrs. Frank Adams is very ill and has been for some time.

Wayne Adams is moving back to the old town.

Enzelo News 09.01.1922

22 Friday Feb 2019

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Enslow

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Albert Mullins, Almeda Baisden, Appalachia, Ben Browning, Bruce Conley, genealogy, H.L. Mullins, Harts, Harts Creek, history, James Baisden, Logan Banner, Logan County, Mount Era United Baptist Church, Pearly Ornton, Pumpkin Center, Rosie Mullins, Roxie Mullins, Van Mullins, Welthy Mullins, West Virginia

A correspondent named “For-Get-Me-Not” from Enzelo on Harts Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on September 1, 1922:

Wonder what is wrong with Ruth?

Mr. James Baisden and Miss Pearly Ornton were out walking Sunday.

Welthy and Rosie Mullins were seen horse back riding Monday afternoon.

Misses Almeda Baisden, Roxie and Welthy Mullins went to Hearts to church Sunday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Mullins gave an apple peeling Thursday night. All reported a good time.

What’s “Black eyes” so downhearted about?

Bruce Conley and his little brother were the guests at Roxie’s home Saturday.

The Mount Erie Sunday School will go to Pumpkin Center for the first Sunday in September on a picnic.

Roxie Mullins was Mr. and Mrs. Ben Browning’s guest recently.

Van Mullins, who has been on the sick list for some time, is recovering fast.

Albert Mullins was seen passing through here whistling.

Welthy Mullins has a new Beau. He’s rather cute, don’t you think so?

If the goat doesn’t eat this, I’ll come again.

Brandon Ray Kirk

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Don Chafin’s Deputies (1912-1913)

Whirlwind News 05.11.1923

Harts Creek News 05.11.1923

Whirlwind News 02.16.1923

Harts Creek News 04.13.1923

Enzelo News 09.01.1922