My line is now closed because it was the other guy who served although it appeared that they were the same person and they lived in the same place. However, they weren't both living at the same place at the same time during the war and that was the difference. Gloria wrote: > > Re: Application to the DAR > Why would it be necessary to prove exact place of residence for a > soldier during the war years? > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This infraction > will earn you immediate removal from the list. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >

Re: Application to the DAR Why would it be necessary to prove exact place of residence for a soldier during the war years?

Need help in proving that John RUSSELL was a resident of Guilford Co NC during the Rev. War. I filed a Supplemental Application with the DAR, 26 Aug 2002. On the 8 Jul 2003 I received a letter from Ms. C. Linko, NSDAR Genealogist stating and I quote " Although listed in the Patriot Index we cannot accept any more applications or supplemental for this man until his residence during the revolution can be proved". I have copies of numerous documents from the NC Archives and copies of land transactions etc. but NO proof of him living there during the years of 1775-1783. Furnishing Sundries (so I was told) does not prove he was living there. Any help, clues or leads would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jo Johnston

You need to make a documented timeline showing where he was living during what years. Then you will have an idea of where to look. I will be glad to give you suggestions. Write direct. Eleanor [email protected] Jo wrote: > > Need help in proving that John RUSSELL was a resident of Guilford Co NC during > the Rev. War. I filed a Supplemental Application with the DAR, 26 Aug 2002. > On the 8 Jul 2003 I received a letter from Ms. C. Linko, NSDAR Genealogist > stating and I quote " Although listed in the Patriot Index we cannot accept any > more applications or supplemental for this man until his residence during the > revolution can be proved". I have copies of numerous documents from the NC > Archives and copies of land transactions etc. but NO proof of him living there > during the years of 1775-1783. Furnishing Sundries (so I was told) does not > prove he was living there. Any help, clues or leads would be greatly > appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jo Johnston > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Yvonne, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at > <[email protected]>. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >

I may be mistaken but I think my grandmother's family, David Still ran the grist mill many years ago. It was the one where Wallen's creek flows into the Powell River. Do you have any more inf. on that area or that family? Thanks, [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 6:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VALEE] Re: Lee County Lumber Mills c1890 This 'Wallen'Creek was it name for John Walling/Wallen/Wallin's family from Scott Co.Va? On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 17:16:14 -0800 (PST) Crystal P <[email protected]> writes: > Barbara, > > This lumber mill was on Wallen Creek. Some of the "water mill" is > still there. But remember exaclty were it was on the Creek. I will > ask my dad if he remembers where it was. Wallen Creek is divided by > the highway 59 and one way is down the creek and the other is up the > creek. > > Crystal > > > Please visit my favorite web site: > http://www.hollowayvillage.com > Please visit my genealogy website for my Surnames: > http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/l/Crystal-M-Pollock-VA/ind ex.html > Please visit my chronic pain group: > http://groups.msn.com/AnOpenWindowPaneForChronicPainSufferers/_whatsnew.m snw > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Yvonne, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <[email protected]>. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== To post messages to the Lee County, VA discussion list, send them to [email protected] ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429

This 'Wallen'Creek was it name for John Walling/Wallen/Wallin's family from Scott Co.Va? On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 17:16:14 -0800 (PST) Crystal P <[email protected]> writes: > Barbara, > > This lumber mill was on Wallen Creek. Some of the "water mill" is > still there. But remember exaclty were it was on the Creek. I will > ask my dad if he remembers where it was. Wallen Creek is divided by > the highway 59 and one way is down the creek and the other is up the > creek. > > Crystal > > > Please visit my favorite web site: > http://www.hollowayvillage.com > Please visit my genealogy website for my Surnames: > http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/l/Crystal-M-Pollock-VA/ind ex.html > Please visit my chronic pain group: > http://groups.msn.com/AnOpenWindowPaneForChronicPainSufferers/_whatsnew.m snw > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Yvonne, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <[email protected]>. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > >

Biographies and Recollections Personal Stories and Memories of Days Gone By Here are some biographies of current or former coal camp residents. If you would like to have a biography entered, please contact _Wayne Duncan_ (mailto:[email protected]) Choose A County or An Individual! _Wise County_ (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~duncanrw/coalcampsbioindex.html) _Lee County_ (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~duncanrw/coalcampleeindex.html) _Russell County_ (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~duncanrw/coalcampindex2.html) _Ruth Kilgore Hamilton_ (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~duncanrw/ruth_kilgore.html) _Phyllis Jean Woods Driscoll_ (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~duncanrw/daughterofdorchester.html) Added 12/13/2000 _AM Skeens_ (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~duncanrw/cyseeskeenspage.htm) Written by: Cysee Skeens You are the _3330th_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/) visitor to the Biography Page since the site was redesigned and the counter reset on December 1, 2000. This page designed and created by Wayne Duncan on behalf of all those persons submitting information to the site. ©2000 - 2005, All rights reserved

Paul 's number is 276-565-9901 ----- Original Message ----- From: "SBuzby" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 6:45 AM Subject: Re: [VALEE] Coal Scrip > Wayne, perhaps you could call an elderly gentleman, Paul Bobrosky, who lives > in Keokee (Lee Co) VA. Sorry, I do not have his phone #, but he is quite > helpful to others. I think he has a collection of coal-mining artifacts. > By the way, I can't help you with your mining questions, but "Leona" was a > common mining name in the 40's & 50's. > SueBee > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wayne Duncan" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 2:00 AM > Subject: [VALEE] Coal Scrip > > > > > > I would like to know about the Bondurant Coal and Coke Co in > > Boundurantville, VA (Lee County), Leona Mines, King Cole Mining Corp > > (Pennington Gap), and Briar Ridge Coal Corporation (St. Charles). > > As a POST-SCRIPT (P.S.) > Does > > anybody have knowledge of any mining accidents that may have happened > > during > > that time period? > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This infraction will earn you immediate removal from the list. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >

My Ward family owned a sawmill about 1900 in the area above present Stickleyville. I am looking for something that may have been near a mine. Brenda Reed

Barbara, This lumber mill was on Wallen Creek. Some of the "water mill" is still there. But remember exaclty were it was on the Creek. I will ask my dad if he remembers where it was. Wallen Creek is divided by the highway 59 and one way is down the creek and the other is up the creek. Crystal Please visit my favorite web site: http://www.hollowayvillage.com Please visit my genealogy website for my Surnames: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/l/Crystal-M-Pollock-VA/index.html Please visit my chronic pain group: http://groups.msn.com/AnOpenWindowPaneForChronicPainSufferers/_whatsnew.msnw --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!

Wayne, Humphrey's Enterprises is family owned mining company. Mike Thomas is the President. The family lives in Gate City Scott Co VA. All my ex family and ex worked for them. Mike is very good to his men. They have a company lake in Norton. They do strip mining. Mike is a very nice person and I bet he would talk with you. Crystal --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!

My great-grandfather, Tommie Lawson, had a sawmill "up the creek" from Stickleyville. I don't know when he started it--plus a logging business, but my father worked there in the 1920's. He showed me the area where the soil is still dead from being covered with sawmill dust for years. I imagine great-grandfather Thomas Lawson operated the sawmill and logging business for many years before my father helped. Great-grandfather died in 1931. His brother and his grandson both married a "Ward". SueBee ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 2:46 PM Subject: [VALEE] Lee County Lumber Mills c1890 > Does anyone know of any lumber mills operating in Lee County in about 1890 > & > where in the county they were located? It is my understanding that my > ancestor, Nicati Martha Brown Ward (wife of Lexington Daniel "Lech" Ward) > died c1890 > while working as a cook at a lumber mill possibly in Lee County. In his > later > life Lech lived in Dryden but grew up in the Rocky Station area on > Lovelady > Ridge near the Mountain View Baptist Church above present Stickleyville. > My > family has no information as to where she was buried or what happened to > her. > It is a great mystery. Any help in resolving it would be most > appreciated. > Thanks, > Brenda Reed > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other > enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those > settings through their servers and will only return them to you. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

There is a website called Hills and Hollers,My Moutain Home..That has a world of Info. Also there is a tape and CD you can get called History of St.Charles and Coal Fields.

Does anyone have ROBERT BATY BALL who married REBECCA OWENS and moved to KS Milly Piros*Garfield Heights That the Birds of Worry and Care, Fly above your head, This you cannot change, But that they build Nests in your hair, This you can prevent. **Chinese Proverb**

Does anyone know of any lumber mills operating in Lee County in about 1890 & where in the county they were located? It is my understanding that my ancestor, Nicati Martha Brown Ward (wife of Lexington Daniel "Lech" Ward) died c1890 while working as a cook at a lumber mill possibly in Lee County. In his later life Lech lived in Dryden but grew up in the Rocky Station area on Lovelady Ridge near the Mountain View Baptist Church above present Stickleyville. My family has no information as to where she was buried or what happened to her. It is a great mystery. Any help in resolving it would be most appreciated. Thanks, Brenda Reed

here is a little information on Blackwood Fuel http://www.osmre.gov/alj/alj79167.htm in 1993 it was owned by a Humphrey's Enterprises the link below you may need to copy and paste but it has a little information in it http://www.vec.state.va.us/vecportal/unins/precedent/pdf/Labor-Section125/125- 320-C.pdf If you could locate the old records of the mentioned (in the pdf above) Virginia Coal Operators Association that might be of interest. This was probably not exactly what you were wanting but it might help you locate more information Carol

You can contact Virginia Mining Association (VMA) by calling 276-679-4211 or e-mail [email protected] Info was taken from Powell Valley News article, 3/30/05. SueBee

Both you and Ms. Vesta Hubbard have recommended the books by Mr. Young. I will go to the bookstore this weekend and see if the books can be ordered. Thanks for the information. People like you make the mailing lists a great source of information! Wayne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 1:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VALEE] Coal Scrip Wayne, I can recommend an excellent book on coal mining life in Lee County, in the 1930's and 1940's. It was a novel (fiction) but based on personal experience. In fact, if a person was from Lee County during that time period, they may well recognize some personalities. Knocking the Black Out by Allan Ishmael Young. It can be ordered online from Barnes & Noble. If you're interested and can't find it, just let me know. I'm sure Allan has some more copies. ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== To post messages to the Lee County, VA discussion list, send them to [email protected] ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Crystal: I would love to have ANY information you and your father are willing to share. I have been to St. Charles a few times in the last couple of years and have always hoped to visit one of the mining facilities, but it has never happened. I'd love to hear the stories about your mining ancestors! Sincerely, Wayne Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Crystal P [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 1:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VALEE] RE:Coal Scrip Wayne, My dad still works in St Charles. He no longer works as a strip miner but works in the coal prep plant. Both my grandfathers were miners. My greatgrandfather was miner too. I have some info...let me know. Crystal --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those settings through their servers and will only return them to you. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Wayne, I can recommend an excellent book on coal mining life in Lee County, in the 1930's and 1940's. It was a novel (fiction) but based on personal experience. In fact, if a person was from Lee County during that time period, they may well recognize some personalities. Knocking the Black Out by Allan Ishmael Young. It can be ordered online from Barnes & Noble. If you're interested and can't find it, just let me know. I'm sure Allan has some more copies.