In reference of the Cecil Witten Lawson name. I have very little on his ancestors. His daughter told me that Witten was from the famous Doctor Witten of Tazewell County. No family connection to that name is known. It seemed that Witten was a well used given name for a period of time. For that same reason, several kids I grew up with was given the name of Porter, named after Doctor Herbert H. Porter, a long time doctor for the Pocahontas Fuel Company in Boissevain and later in private practice in Pocahontas. He assisted in the birth and treated the sickness and hurts of most of us kids in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Not only did he slap my butt for the first time but saved it on two other occasions while growing up. Doctor Porter had taken care of many coal miners' injuries and sickness as well as having seen their last breath. When there was an accident in the Boissevain Coal Mine a steam whistle would be blown repeatedly to alert the doctor of the accident. The school on the hill would let some kids go down to the fence adjoining the doctors office to wait the news as to whose father or fathers had been hurt or killed. This was always an emotional time of waiting for all of us. Unlike schools of today, coal mining communities like Boissevain were small and we knew every kid in the entire school, families as well as most of their secrets. When one suffered, we all suffered. That's the way it was. Robert Crabtree