This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jEC.2ACI/887.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Buck- Randy (John) Lipford, my uncle, was just here visiting for my daughter's birthday. He said that you may reply. How are we related as cousins? Unfortunately, my father moved us to Rochester when I was an infant and we only visited WV during the summers. I never really got a chance to get to know my extended family. How well did you know my father? Believe it or not, he has been gone almost 6 years. Take care-Pam

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jEC.2ACI/887.2.1 Message Board Post: Hello! I am a cousin of your Dads. Your grandfather is my uncle we all lived in Boone Co. for several years. I was sorry to hear about your Dad. (Bobby) My name is Buck and you may e-mail me back, if you wish. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jEC.2ACI/135.144.158.360.372.377.1 Message Board Post: Connie, most of my family is buried on the hill on Camp Creek Road. My Father was Guy O Dolin Jr. My Great Grandfather was Ollie Hiram Dolin. I have pictures of the cemetary. The last time I was there was last March 2001. I hope this gets posted correctly.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jEC.2ACI/946 Message Board Post: Would like to know who William married about 1892. Was this a second marriage? Thanks for any help. Clara

Hello Everyone, These folks were on the 1920 Peytona, Boone County, West Virginia census. Anyone know anything about them? JEROME H. CLARK was born Abt. 1882 in West Virginia. He married OLLIE. She was born Abt. 1884 in West Virginia. Children of JEROME CLARK and OLLIE are: i. EMERY CLARK, b. Abt. 1902, West Virginia. ii. MYRTLE CLARK, b. Abt. 1911, West Virginia. iii. ADA CLARK, b. Abt. 1913, West Virginia. iv. HATTIE CLARK, b. Abt. 1915, West Virginia. v. RUTH CLARK, b. Abt. 1916, West Virginia. vi. ALLIE A. CLARK, b. Abt. 1920, West Virginia. Thanks, Pat Surnames - Primarily North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia/West Virginia....Clark, Davis, Good/Goode, Haldeman, Kidd, Landers, Martin, Midkiff, Nicholas, Nichols, Oglesby, Parsons, Pauley, Pemberton, Riffe, Ranck/Ronk, Self/Selfe, Showalter, Turley & Wallace/Wallis.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dickinson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jEC.2ACI/945 Message Board Post: Looking for lost branch of family tree. Charles Dickinson may have married and divorced and had a son, John L. Dickinson in 1941. Unsure of exact date of birth (either 22 May 1941 or 22 Sep 1941). Any help would be appreciated.

The old & faded newspaper clipping is from the Jackson Herald. The headline reads, "Wandalea Coleman Marries Shelby Peters In Ceremony." It tells us about a wedding that occurred at the home of the bride's parents in Jackson County, WV. It tells us that the bride "was attended by her cousin, Miss Arbutus Coleman," & that another of the bride's cousins, Stanton Boggess, served as the groom's best man. The bride is pictured above the headline. While informative to the family historian, the newspaper clipping doesn't tell us everything. It doesn't tell us about the soldier & the X-ray tech. The soldier was home on leave from a base where he was stationed in French Morocco, a country more famous for a city called Casablanca & a club named "Rick's Cafe." The soldier was not too far removed from his participation in the Korean War. He walked down the hall of Charleston's Kanawha Valley Hospital toward his mother's room. She had been taken there from her home in Naoma, Raleigh County, WV. The soldier's cap was under his arm. The X-ray tech watched the soldier as he walked up the stairs. Spit shined shoes! Medals & ribbons! Dark eyes! Dark hair! She liked the look of a man in uniform. She sighed & went about her work. The X-ray tech was not too far removed from Jackson County's Ripley High School, where she had graduated in 1954. She was also a graduate of the Charleston School of Commerce. Her radiology training came via a program offered by the Kanawha Valley Hospital, the hospital where she was now employed. The X-ray tech approached the room of a familiar patient. She would say hello to Sadie & possibly husband Burton, who usually traveled to the hospital by bus from Raleigh County to visit his wife. The X-ray tech opened her mouth to say something, tripped over a pair of outstretched legs & into the lap of the soldier. "Hello Wendy, " said the soldier's mother, grinning. "How are you doing?" The soldier picked up the papers the X-ray tech had dropped & introduced himself. The soldier would ask the X-ray tech out that day. Their first date was a lunch of hamburgers & Cokes. They returned, the soldier to his mother's room & the X-ray tech to work. After work, the X-ray tech showered & got ready for the second date -- dinner and a movie called "Son of Sinbad." The soldier & the X-ray tech learned a lot about each other in the next couple of weeks. His stock was Raleigh, Boone, Fayette & Wyoming Counties. Her vintage was Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam & Mason. He was coal mining. She was dairy farming. He attended Clear Fork High at Ameagle in Raleigh County for a brief time, before dropping out of school to join the service & help support his parents & younger brother. She was a high school graduate. He had seen the world. She had seen the state. The soldier & the X-ray tech got married on 28 March 1956 as was documented in the Jackson County newspaper. The marriage would last 11 years, cut short by the soldier's untimely death in July of 1967. In those 11 years together, he came to know the farms of Jackson & Kanawha. She came to understand the mines of Boone & Raleigh. He graduated high school. She saw the world. One child, a boy named Michael, was born on 15 May 1957. It has been said that genealogy without documentation is mythology. With that, I'll most definitely agree. But we should never neglect oral legend. For it is oral legend that adds the spice to our bland courthouse research. Family is so much more than the black & white of old documents. The stories told by elder family members add much color to our family portrait. Their eyes sparkle & sometimes there are tears, when they tell us the stories. As was the case when my mother told me about a hospital that no longer exists & a chance meeting that occurred there almost 50 years ago, between a soldier & an X-ray tech. Thanks for listening & as my Grandma Coleman, the mother of the X-ray tech, used to say, "Ya'll Come!" Sincerely, Mike Peters npeters102@aol.com "Mike's Meandering" postings are archived at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvrcbiog/Mike.html

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jEC.2ACI/661.2 Message Board Post: Ronnie Cooper has compiled the Cooper family history. He is a member of the Boone county Genealogical Society. There is a Blackburn Cooper buried in a cemetery in White Oak Hollow just below Orgas, WV. Don't know if it is the one you are looking for or not. My brother-in-law is Harry Cooper who was born and raised in Coopertown, WV.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jEC.2ACI/944 Message Board Post: Susan Chandler Stevens and Millard Stevens of Boone County were my grandparents. If you have any info on this family lineage, I would love to hear from you. Thank you very much.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jEC.2ACI/146.245.1 Message Board Post: Susan Chandler and Millard Stevens were my grandparents. I would love more information on this family. Please, please email me!

They say that hindsight is always 20/20. I know that's true. Some 8 months after his death, I wish now that I would have taped the telephone conversations I had with my Uncle Lloyd Peters. In one of those wonderful conversations, Uncle Lloyd informed me that he was told, as a child, that our family was related to Daniel Boone. Research tells us that it is through my Stover line that this connection is found. My paternal grandmother was Sadie Alice Stover. Her direct ancestors, Jacob Stover and Sallie McGhee, settled in the Clear Creek area of Coal River, which is in present day Raleigh County. Further back in our Stover line, another Jacob married Sarah Boone, who was Daniel Boone's aunt. While my link to Daniel Boone is paternal. A resemblance to the frontiersman is found in a member of my mother's family. Bobby Joe Casto married my mother's only sibling, Delores Coleman, in 1964. He had attended Stonewall Jackson High School in Charleston. He had served in the Army in Germany and had received an honorable discharge. I remember visiting his parents when they lived, coincidentally, in Kentuck, Jackson County, WV. To get there, you exit east off of Interstate 77. In the game of horse shoes, some call Uncle Bob a ringer. My mother's first cousin, Marvin Coleman, once told me that no one wanted to pitch shoes with him after the initial time, because he always won. I can vouch for that. When you thought you had him beat, he'd top your ringers, knock down your leaners, whatever was needed to win. I never saw him lose. He doesn't play much anymore. Ran out of opponents, I guess. Bobby Joe Casto is a walking road atlas of WV. When you need to know directions to anywhere in the state, you just ask Uncle Bob. And he has probably hunted most of the state for squirrel, rabbit, deer. But his passion is raccoon. I used to accompany Uncle Bob on many of his nightly hunts for coon. One day in particular comes to mind. I was about 11 or 12. We drove for a piece and hunted an area called Goose Creek. Don't remember now what county it's in. I do remember that we walked and walked and walked. We rested and walked some more. Then we walked again. We didn't tree anything that night & I was so happy when we got back to the truck, exhausted. I slept part of the way home. We got there around 6 am. I remember being rousted out of bed by Grandma sometime before noon. I was still sleepy, later in the day, when I said, "Uncle Bobby, I only have one pair of legs and I am not gonna wear 'em out on Goose Creek." I hunted with him after that, but never again on Goose Creek. I remember hunting with Bob and a few other gentlemen a short time after getting a 410 shotgun for Christmas. Late in the hunt, the dogs treed a squirrel. Bob talked to the other guys and they all agreed. It was to be the kid's squirrel. They told me to stand on one side of the tree. One of Boone Bo ggess' boys, "Tab," walked around the tree making noise and the squirrel appeared on the side where I had the shotgun aimed. I don't know who was prouder, Uncle Bob or his nephew, when I walked into the barnyard with a big gray squirrel, the only kill of the day. Somebody stole that shotgun a couple of years later. Uncle Bob never hunts fox! If his dogs do, it is back to the dog box located in the truck or atop the 4 wheeler. They ride the bench for the remainder of the hunt. The fox is the enemy of the coonhunter! The dog is scolded and later retrained. Never mistreated! Never beaten! (Two things that Uncle Bob will not tolerate are men that mistreat dogs or men that drink when hunting.) If the dog continues to run fox, the dog may become trade day material. Few of his dogs ever ran fox. But, of those few that did, most of them only did it the one time. Uncle Bob was one of the founders and charter members of the Jackson County Coon Hunters Association. He also raises coon dogs. He used to hunt Black 'n Tans in his younger days. But now the only dogs for him are Walkers, the ones that look like oversized beagles. Male or female. It doesn't matter, just as long as they run and tree coon. He must know what he's doing. Many trophies and plaques adorn the walls of his Jackson County home. There are paintings and pictures of Grand Nite Champions. Uncle Bobby doesn't have a coon skip cap. That would be wasteful! The coon hides are used to train the Walker pups. He isn't a frontier legend. There was never a TV show about him. But he feels like a caged animal when he is in the city for any length of time. He loves and respects the outdoors. He is most at home when training dogs, when hunting and tracking wild game and when laughing about a nephew, who walked all night 30 years ago, up and down a holler called Goose Creek. Thanks for listening and as my Grandma Coleman used to say, "Ya'll Come!" Sincerely, Mike Peters npeters102@aol.com "Mike's Meandering" postings are archived at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvrcbiog/Mike.html

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jEC.2ACI/781.788.792.1.1 Message Board Post: Betty, I don't have an Asa anywhere in my McCommack/McCormick/ Commack line. Sorry I can't be of more help. Lisa

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jEC.2ACI/799.799 Message Board Post: The particular photo I was thinking about was taken at Ameagle (Raleigh County). I will look further for one taken at Red Dragon, but it would be earlier than the time frame you are looking for.

Cousins & Friends: Many of you have read my recollections of youth, my tributes to family members, my stroll back down the non-paved roads of yesterday. The response to my ramblings have been warm, friendly, uplifting & extremely supportive. Thank you! In the past week, I have nervously undertaken a new project with the assistance of Nyla Creed DePauk & Gracie Stover, each a cousin, friend & mentor of mine. We have cataloged 29 past postings & have placed them on a URL entitled "Mike's Meandering." Subsequent postings will be added but only those that fit the criteria of a genealogical "column." I am hoping my postings will trigger your memories & you will give us your take & tell us your story. Genealogy at its best is the mutual exchange of information & oral legend. The subject line of these postings will be three part. First they will say "Mike's Meandering," then the title of the piece & then the date of the posting. At the bottom of each posting will be the address of the URL where said postings will be archived. Comments, suggestions & story ideas are always welcome. The first story will be posted soon. It is entitled "The Coonhunter." I hope you'll enjoy it. As always, I appreciate your support & look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Mike Peters npeters102@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jEC.2ACI/799.798 Message Board Post: Mike - I may have a photograph taken of the miners at the site taken sometime around 1947-1950. My father was a mine superintendent who lived and worked at Red Dragon Hollar, and unfortunately he is the only person in the photo I can positively identify. If you're interested in seeing it, please post your email. Its a great photo, in any event.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kinder, Harless, Lucas, Fry, Mason, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jEC.2ACI/606.622.624.631.711.715.707.717.726.1 Message Board Post: No I am sorry I did not take the time to catalog every headstone while I was there. It was all I could do to keep my kids employed long enough to get all the Kinder information. I am starting to focus more on the Kinder family now and I hate to tell you that I have just returned from Boone county just this evening. (I live in South Carolina) But when I go back I will make an effort to go back over there and check that stone for you, in the meantime may be some one else will be up there to check it also. Cheers, Jim Mc

Hello - I have gone through censuses and everything I can find on the web in my search for my ggg grandfather Robert Stewart (circa 1780s to 1860s). According to the 1840 Mercer census they lived four miles south of the courthouse in Princeton. Mr Spradlin was unable to locate any of them on the Mercer lists of deaths that covers that time period. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I might look next. I am a member of Ancestry.com and have gone that route to no avail. Are there any books I might buy? I have the census books. I cannot understand how Robert and wife Mary Unknown could have lived for thirty years and maybe longer on that land south of Princeton and left no record other than the census. By that I mean no marriage records, no death records, no birth records. Robert's son Elias and his mysterious wife Rebecca Belcher lost a daughter Martha to scarlet fever about 1854. That is on a death list. However, Rebecca is apparently related to none of the B! elchers in that area. After Elias and Rebecca moved to Boone Co. in the 1860s, I can follow them with no problem. I have wondered if Robert and Mary went to Boone with them and died on the journey. In any event, I am desperately seeeking suggestions for further research. People who have traced Capt. Ralph Stewart's family assure me that Robert was not his son. I have not ruled out the fact they may have been Melungeon, Native American, or Free People of Color although our family was always listed as white. Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you. Richard Stewart

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jarrell, Webb, Adkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jEC.2ACI/720.819.1 Message Board Post: The information above is incorrect. The actual information is Laura Belle Jarrell m. Marshall "Dag" Jarrell.

Looking for the parents of William Riley Lawrence (b. 1854) in Boone County. ----- Original Message ----- From: <WVBOONE-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <WVBOONE-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:04 PM Subject: WVBOONE-D Digest V01 #166

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