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John B. Wilkinson of Logan, WV (1928)

05 Monday Dec 2022

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Logan, Wayne

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From West Virginians, published by the West Virginia Biographical Association in 1928, comes this profile of Judge John B. Wilkinson of Logan, WV:

The Honorable John B. Wilkinson, who died August 12, 1919, at Logan, where he had long been a foremost citizen, held rank among the best known and most successful lawyers and jurists in West Virginia. In business likewise Judge Wilkinson enjoyed a distinguished success. One of the leaders in the early development of the coal industry in the Guyan Valley, his position at the time of his death was among the great figures in business and industry. He was treasurer of the Guyan Coal Company, the Mona Coal Company, the Robertson Consolidated Land Company and the Alderson-Wilkinson Land Company. He was president of the Big Huff Coal Company and a director of the Robertson Grocery Company. He was originally a director of the Guyan Valley Bank, but later disposed of his holdings in that institution. Throughout the state at large, however, his fame was earned chiefly by his work as a jurist. During twelve years on the bench of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, he was noted for his fairness, accuracy and knowledge of the law. The press of the whole state reported his passing at great length and with sincere regret that so valuable a personality had been lost to the community. Judge Wilkinson was born in Logan County, W.Va., February 13, 1860, the son of David Wilkinson, who had come from Carroll County, Va. He lived on a farm and attended school in that part of Logan County which afterward became Mingo County, coming to the then village of Logan Court House to attend a teachers’ institute and take an examination for a teacher’s certificate. He taught two or three local normal schools here and at Wayne. His legal career began in 1882, when he was admitted to the bar. He continued in the legal profession until his death in 1919. In 1884 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Logan County, which office he filled continuously till 1896. After an interval of four years he again assumed that office, in 1900, and served till January 1, 1905. Having been elected Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, he resigned as prosecutor and took his place on the circuit bench on the first of January, 1905, and remained as judge until failing health induced him to resign twelve years later. Several times Judge Wilkinson was urged to become his party’s candidate for Governor of the State, although he preferred not to accept that honor. In the summer of 1916 he was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court of West Virginia. After leaving the office of circuit judge, the condition of his health inclined him to give up the practice of law and close his office, but many friends had learned to depend on him for legal counsel, and at their urging he continued in active practice until his death. Judge Wilkinson was married, September 21, 1882, to Mary Belle Straton of Logan, who survives him with their four children, John B., Jr., who resides at Ashburn, Va.; Ernest Eugene, of Cincinnati; Mrs. Mona Russo, of San Diego, Calif.; and Mrs. Margaret Midyette, of Hollywood, Calif. Judge Wilkinson was for a long time a member of the First Baptist Church of Logan, and a member of its board of deacons. He was a member of the Masonic Orders—the Knights Templar and the Mystic Shrine. Hundreds of people in West Virginia and neighboring states, although not personally acquainted with Judge Wilkinson, knew of his work as a jurist and his renown as a civic leader in general, so that at the time of his death, his passing elicited the sincere feeling that the state had lost one of its best and most constructive citizens.

Scott Hill Reflects on Life as a Slave, Part 1 (1940)

03 Saturday Dec 2022

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in African American History, Barboursville, Chapmanville, Civil War, Kitchen, Tazewell County

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The following article, written by Frank Ball, is taken from a Huntington-area newspaper clipping, the first part of which is missing.

…Americans are those who remember servitude as slaves. Barboursville has one citizen, Scott Hill, who remembers rendering such service. And little work he did as a slave, for he was but six years of age when the Civil War ended.

“Uncle Scott,” as he is familiarly known, was born the property of Lorenzo Hill, prominent orchardist and farmer of the Guyandotte valley.  Lorenzo Hill, owner of several slaves, lived on a large tract of land across the river from the little mining town of Kitchen in Logan county. Here Barboursville’s “Uncle Scott,” son of Hiram and Mary Hill, was born Feb. 5, 1859. (Slaves usually took the surname of their owners.)

Mr. Hill remembers well the excitement created by the Civil War, and the frantic movements attendant thereto. His owner was a blender of the best whiskies in the valley and his home was widely visited by soldiers and citizens alike who sipped the choice brandies and exchanged the news of the day.

Hysteria in border states ran high during the war, and it was thought best by some slaveholders to move their slaves farther south for safe keeping. It was rumored that Union soldiers were taking the slaves by force and freeing them. So Lorenzo Hill, whom Uncle Scott affectionately remembers as “Ole Boss,” started with his slaves on a long journey into Virginia.

Uncle Scott’s memory of this trip and stay in Virginia is rather painful. To begin with, it meant the sacrifice of “Old Baldy,” a steer of which the slave children were exceedingly fond, to furnish meat for the journey. En route, Uncle Scott’s uncle and three of his uncle’s children were sold. Tearfully, his mother parted from her brother and her nephews and niece as the trip to Virginia was resumed.

Ole Boss left his remaining slaves with a planter in Tazewell county, and returned to Logan. A year in Virginia found Scott’s father and mother greatly overworked, and they and their children greatly underfed.

This treatment was in direct contrast to that given to them by their owner, and the mother had the nerve to “strike.” She hired herself to a neighbor slaveholder that her children might be fed. And despite the frenzied objections of the planter with whom she was left, she won out in this extraordinary action.

In the fall of 1864, wartime hysteria had subsided somewhat and Lorenzo Hill returned to Virginia for his slaves. They were overjoyed at seeing him. They were sure they would be well fed and treated kindly. In return they would work hard for Ole Boss.

Note: Mr. Scott’s true name was William Henry “Scott” Hill. His mother Mary was the daughter of her master, Lorenzo Dow Hill, and a slave named Julia.

Aracoma (Part 3)

03 Saturday Dec 2022

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in American Revolutionary War, Guyandotte River, Logan, Man, Montgomery County, Native American History, Women's History

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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 3 of her composition.

Aracoma has been described as an Indian maiden of exceptional grace and beauty. Perhaps the Virginians she impressed deeply in her dying hours may have believed she had great beauty in youth. Boling Baker is said to have had a fine physique and courageous bearing, which would have given his Indian captors reason for adopting him into the tribe. He is given credit for artful courtship of his love, and it seems likely he must have been skillful to win her away from other suitors the sachem’s daughter must have had.

The long history of their wedding, an elaborate ceremony her father accompanied them to the Guyandotte to perform, is less credible, but not impossible. More stress has been given to Aracoma’s royal estate than Indian customs warranted, but the English settlers had their own traditions of royal pomp and ceremony as patterns to draw from.

The carefree life credited to the Indians in the Guyandotte valley before 1776 reflects the wishful thinking of people whose own lives were filled with toil. Certainly the Indians must have lived stremuous lives, though they may have had an interlude of unusual peace and happiness before family life was saddened by the scourge which overtook them in 1776.

According to the story-tellers, Aracoma and Boling Baker had six children. Their names were Waulalisippi, or Laughing Waters, Snow Lily, Raindrop, Running Deer, Little Black Bear and Blue Feather.

It is said that Baker became despondent and bitter after the death of his children and during the hardships undergone by the colony after disease had reduced its strength. Doubtless the ones who added this detail had seen similar results in other men’s lives. They deduce that it was his desire to recoup the fortunes of the tribe that led him to attempt a bold exploit which resulted in disaster for his settlement.

Legendary history tells us that in the spring of 1780, a stranger appeared at a white settlement on Bluestone River, a man with a woe-begone countenance who recited sorrowful accounts of hardships he had undergone as a captive among the Indians in Ohio. He stayed for several days, familiarizing himself with everything about the settlement, then departed for the east (he said) in the hope of being reunited with his aged parents. The man was Boling Baker, who merely circled back to Flat Top Mountain, where he had left a band of his braves. On a dark rainy night in April, they stole quietly into the settlement and left with every horse there without disturbing a single sleeper.

The outraged settlers realized their recent visitor must have led the raid. Without horses to follow, they could only send for help from the mounted guard at Montgomery, seat of government for Montgomery County, Virginia, in which this entire area was then located. Colonel William Ingles, sheriff of the county, dispatched Colonel Madison and a deputy sheriff, John Breckenridge, with [p. 10] the party which massacred Aracoma’s village a few days later. Her paleface husband was one of the party absent on a hunt that day.

Little is known of Boling Baker after the death of Aracoma. It is said that for many a year afterward, men could read a couplet carved on beech trees in the area: ‘Boling Baker—his hand and knife, He can’t find a horse to save his life.’ Whether the words were carved by Baker or were a gibe directed at him by another, none can say.

The story is told that years later, an aged stranger came wandering up the Guyandotte River, asking questions of those he met. After standing a long time weeping on the mountainside opposite the island where Aracoma had lived, he went on past Horsepen Creek and eventually found lodging for a night in a home near Man. That night he told briefly some of the experiences of his life, which later were recognized to match the known story of Boling Baker. Next morning he was found dead in bed.

Source: West Virginia Women, Richwood, WV: Jim Comstock (1974), p. 10-11.

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

Hatfield Pioneers by Coleman A. Hatfield (1952)

14 Monday Nov 2022

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

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Here is an excerpt of Hatfield Pioneers composed by Coleman A. Hatfield, grandson of Devil Anse Hatfield. It was published in 1952.

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)

Valentine Hatfield, Jr. Survey (1858)

11 Tuesday May 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Sandy Valley, Matewan

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

Daniel McCoy Property in Magnolia District (1866-1872)

11 Tuesday May 2021

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

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Anna McCoy, Appalachia, Asa Harmon McCoy, Big Sandy River, Cordelia McCoy, Daniel McCoy, genealogy, history, John Ferrell, John Green, John Lawson, Kentucky, Logan County, Magnolia District, Magnolia Township, Pike County, Randolph McCoy, Robert Jackson, Sand Lick Creek, Virginia, West Virginia, William McCoy

The following land information is derived from Land Book 1866-1872 at the Logan County Clerk’s Office in Logan, WV:

Daniel McCoy (of Logan County)1

[On December 27, 1841, Andrew Varney deeded 200 acres to Daniel McCoy for $100. Part of John Green survey bought of John Lawson by said Varney and Randolph McCoy2; references the Stafford farm; lists A. Ferrell and John Ferrell as justices of the peace. Deed Book B, page 367-368.]

[On September 17, 1845, Randolph2 and Anna McCoy of Pike County, KY, deeded 200 acres to Daniel McCoy for $300. Deed Book B, page 538-539.]

No property listed in 1865.

1866: Magnolia Township

200 acres Sandy River $6 per acre $50 building $1200 total

1867: Magnolia Township

200 acres Sandy River $6.83 per acre $50 building $1200 total

1868: Magnolia Township

200 acres Two Tracts Sand Lick Creek $6.30 per acre $50 building $1260 total

1869-1871: Magnolia Township

200 acres Sandy River $6.30 per acre $50 building $1260 total

1872: Magnolia Township

Daniel McCoy deeded 200 acres on Sandy River worth $6.30 per acre with $50 building total $1260 to Robert Jackson and others of Logan County

No property listed thereafter.

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1Father to Randolph and Harmon McCoy of Hatfield-McCoy Feud fame.

2Son of William and Cordelia (Campbell) McCoy.

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., 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.

Aly Hatfield Survey (1849)

01 Monday Mar 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Wharncliffe

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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.

Thomas Conley Survey (1840)

05 Friday Feb 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek

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Thomas Conley, 59 acres, Smokehouse Fork of Harts Creek, Surveyors Record Book B, 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.

James Toney Survey (1849)

03 Sunday Jan 2021

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Guyandotte River, Lincoln County Feud

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Charles I. Stone, county clerk, Daniel Nester, Guyandotte River, Harts Creek, James Lawson, James Toney, Joel Elkins, Lincoln County, Logan County, Virginia, West Virginia

James Toney survey (1849), 95 acres, lower side of Big 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. Note: I descend from James Toney through three of his children: Mary Jane Toney, Ann Toney, and Martha Rose Toney.

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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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.
Wow.

John Gore Survey (1850)

25 Friday Dec 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek

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John Gore Survey (1850), 65 acres, Marsh Fork of Harts Creek, Logan County, VA. Surveyor Record Book B, page 255, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. This land is located in present-day West Virginia.

Spencer A. Mullins Survey (1848)

07 Monday Dec 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Guyandotte River, Sand Creek

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Spencer A. Mullins Survey, 84 acres on Mile Branch, November 1848. Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. This property is located in present-day Lincoln County, WV.

Paris Vance Survey (1849)

03 Thursday Dec 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Twelve Pole Creek

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Appalachia, Cane Patch Fork, genealogy, Guy Dingess, history, James Lawson, Logan County, Paris Vance, Richard Vance, Trace Fork, Twelve Pole Creek, Virginia, West Virginia, William A. Dempsey

Survey for fourteen acres on Trace Fork of Kiahs Creek and Cane Patch Fork of Twelve Pole Creek in Logan County, VA. Today, this property is located in West Virginia.

Aly Hatfield Survey (1849)

03 Thursday Dec 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Sandy Valley

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Survey of 75 acres, Right Hand Fork of Ben Creek of Sandy, Logan County, VA. This property is located in present-day Mingo County, WV.

Road Linking Charleston to Logan County (1861)

05 Thursday Nov 2020

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Boone County, Civil War, Logan

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Source: National Archives.
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