My surnames from Calhoun and surrounding counties are BRANNAN/BRANNON McCUNE O'BRIEN BARNHOUSE PAINE/PAYNE I'll be glad to share any information that I have. :) Patricia

--part1_e1c75261.24f430ab_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am researching: Morrison, Smiths, Haddox, Snider, Collins, Proudfoots, Prices, Haydens Jfar171@aol.com --part1_e1c75261.24f430ab_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <WVCALHOU-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-za04.mx.aol.com (rly-za04.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.100]) by air-za04.mail.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:41:40 -0400 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-za04.mx.aol.com (v60.25) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:41:29 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA15239; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:40:41 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:40:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990824164014.88474.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [129.71.222.254] From: "Sandra Pitts" <skpitts@hotmail.com> Old-To: WVCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com Subject: roll call Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:40:13 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Resent-Message-ID: <8vhVE.A.-tD.Jssw3@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: WVCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: WVCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <WVCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/161 X-Loop: WVCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: WVCALHOU-L-request@rootsweb.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Someone in Gilmer County thought it would be a good idea to let everyone know "who is checking who", so they suggested a roll call. I thought it was a fantastic idea and suggest it for Calhoun. We'll see how everyone responds and if they like it. I am researching Kerby, Stump, Wright, Stahlman (Stallman), White, Stout, Rutherford, Fisher, Holbert, Pitts, Hardman, and I know someone else but I can't think right now! Sandy Pitts _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ==== WVCALHOU Mailing List ==== The address for the WVCALHOU Mailing List ARCHIVES is: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl --part1_e1c75261.24f430ab_boundary--

Someone in Gilmer County thought it would be a good idea to let everyone know "who is checking who", so they suggested a roll call. I thought it was a fantastic idea and suggest it for Calhoun. We'll see how everyone responds and if they like it. I am researching Kerby, Stump, Wright, Stahlman (Stallman), White, Stout, Rutherford, Fisher, Holbert, Pitts, Hardman, and I know someone else but I can't think right now! Sandy Pitts _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Mike and Charlotte: I've tried to find out the date of the Freed fire, but have been unable to do so. Some time back someone wrote the library in Grantsville wanting to know the date. Several people were contacted and by best estimation it is believed that it was about 1904. Unfortunately, there is a gap in the newspaper microfilms for the same period so we have apparently "lost" that record. I collect old Calhoun photos and am trying to get them ready for the internet. I would be very interested in including any old photos you might have. I have a sample site of 100 photos on my homepage at: http://home.wirefire.com/norma I also am working with Bob Weaver on his Hur Herald webpage and have a section called Photo of the Day. Each day a new photo is uploaded and ones from prior days are placed in an Archives section. If you would be interested in looking at that site the URL is: http://www.hurherald.com If you visit these sites, an entry in the guestbooks would be much appreciated along with your comments. You might also include your question about when the fire occurred in the guestbook in the off chance that someone out there in cyberspace might have the info and get in touch with you. If you would be interested in contacting me regarding inclusion of your photos in my collection, please e-mail me and we can work out details. Thanks, Norma Knotts Shaffer Mike & Charlotte Morrison wrote: > Among some old photographs that my father-in-law handed down to me, I found a picture > of Henry and Martha Morrison in front of the Freed Post Office/General Store. My father- > in-law enjoys telling that he was "born in the city of Freed, a city that was completely > destroyed when the Post Office/General Store burned to the ground." Does anyone > know the dates, or approximately when that building burned? > > I know that Martha Morrison died Oct. 8, 1925, so the demise of the "city" would have > been after that date. > > Does anyone know when the Post Office burned and what, if anything, is on that property > now? > > Charlotte Morrison > > ==== WVCALHOU Mailing List ==== > The address for the WVCALHOU Mailing List ARCHIVES is: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

Among some old photographs that my father-in-law handed down to me, I found a picture of Henry and Martha Morrison in front of the Freed Post Office/General Store. My father- in-law enjoys telling that he was "born in the city of Freed, a city that was completely destroyed when the Post Office/General Store burned to the ground." Does anyone know the dates, or approximately when that building burned? I know that Martha Morrison died Oct. 8, 1925, so the demise of the "city" would have been after that date. Does anyone know when the Post Office burned and what, if anything, is on that property now? Charlotte Morrison

______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 5 message/rfc822 > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:32:28 -0400 > From: whbb <whbb@bright.net> > To: WVCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Siers > > Dose any one in Calhoun Co. Wv know the connection > between the Siers and > Baileys I am from the Siers clan and need to know > thanks ray > My mother's mother was Ina Siers. My mother's father's mother was Martha Jane Bailey. I could give you a bit of detail on that line of Baileys if that's what you had in mind. Rhonda Keith === ~Take time to stop and eat the roses... Rhonda Keith Only You Publications: ~Specializing in Oral History and Family Reunions ~Also web pages, editing, writing, DTP http://www.geocities.com/eureka/enterprises/1134/oyp.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Dose any one in Calhoun Co. Wv know the connection between the Siers and Baileys I am from the Siers clan and need to know thanks ray

Hi Folks: Linda has just uploaded in the History section an 1893 letter which may be of genealogical significance, particularily to those who may be interested in Civil War Daniel Duskey. The letter gives the name of Daniel's wife, Patsy's, father as well as her mother's given name. Also provided are the names of Patsy's siblings and their spouses. Also provides other genealogical info as well as where some members of the family located after leaving Calhoun. The story of how the letter came to light and scanned images of the two page letter are now posted. Another new posting in the History section is "Insane" Ancestors in the Census Records. While many may feel that this information, when given in the census records, should be supressed, I personally believe that genealogies should be honest, frank, and candid. The word "insane" is nothing to be ashamed of and could have used descriptively of conditions all the way from Attention Deficit Disorder to Alzheimer's Disease to any of the many mental conditions we recognize and are able to treat today. Linda Fluharty has done this excellent article titled "Insane Ancestor in the Census Records?" that everyone should read. It is well worth taking the time. Norma Knotts Shaffer

I am looking for information about Givens family/ particularly about Joseph Givens married to Rosa Whitlatch. Also I am looking for someone to take pictures of Givens headstones in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. thank you

--- WVCALHOU-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > The other Three Forks is in Sherman district and > accessed off U.S. 33/119 by > going up a "holler" behind Harley Siers house on > Bear Fork and after you go up > until you are on the ridge that area is also known > as Three Forks. Just wondering if Harley Siers is any connection to my late grandmother, Ina Siers Douglas. Her father was Columbus Siers. Rhonda Keith === ~Take time to stop and eat the roses... Rhonda Keith Only You Publications: ~Specializing in Oral History and Family Reunions ~Also web pages, editing, writing, DTP http://www.geocities.com/eureka/enterprises/1134/oyp.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Genette & Bill: Did some checking this a.m. and find your Warren and Nancy J. enumerated in 1880 census as living in Center District. I knew of a place called Three Forks in Sherman district, but never heard of any Johnsons living there. I went by the Courthouse and inquired and the gal in the County Clerks office tells me that there is a place in Center District also referred to as Three Forks. The directions would be: Take Rt. 16 North out of Grantsville to Five Forks (that's where you start down off Pleasant Hill Ridge). At Five Forks turn left on Lavada (also called Broomstick) Rd. Travel about 1/2 mile and the road will fork. That is referred to as Three Forks. Probably was never a Post Office but is merely a descriptive location. Another person tells me that the oil & gas men in the county also refer to that place as Washboard. We have lots of those descriptive locations and sometimes they are hard to track down (have to find the old-timers). The other Three Forks is in Sherman district and accessed off U.S. 33/119 by going up a "holler" behind Harley Siers house on Bear Fork and after you go up until you are on the ridge that area is also known as Three Forks. I'm inclined to think that the one you are looking for is the one on Lavada Rd. since this couple is in Center District and that Three Forks would also be in Center District. Hope this helps - it's awfully difficult to give explicit directions to some of these places. Norma Knotts Shaffer Genette & Bill wrote: > Can anyone tell me the location of Three Forks, WV? That is the area that > my great grandparents lived in the 1880's. They were Warren and Nancy J. > (Holbert) JOHNSON. > Thank you, > > gator@ionia-mi.net > > ==== WVCALHOU Mailing List ==== > The address for the WVCALHOU Mailing List ARCHIVES is: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

Can anyone tell me the location of Three Forks, WV? That is the area that my great grandparents lived in the 1880's. They were Warren and Nancy J. (Holbert) JOHNSON. Thank you, gator@ionia-mi.net

I am researching the McCune family that has its roots in Calhoun County. My McCune ancestor is Eliza McCune (died before 1850) who married Charles Rose (born about 1798 in Monroe or Bath Co.,VA) in 1825 in Nicholas County. Their daughter, Eliza Ann Rose, married Henry Dawson in 1861, and they were my great grandparents. I suspect that Eliza McCune is related to Peter McCune (born in Ireland in 1748, died 1832 in Calhoun County) but have been unable to make a connection. Can anyone help? Linda

i am searching for Amos F. Smith's decendents. he married Dorinda Francis Kerby, They were married in 1865

I just wanted to take a minute and share this information that came to me from another mailing list today. ==================== For those of you who are utilizing the Social Security Death Index in your research, the following list may be helpful to you. It shows which state a person resided in when their Social Security Number was issued to them. This list refers to the first 3 numbers of their Social Security Number. 001-003 New Hampshire 004-007 Maine 008-009 Vermont 010-034 Mass. 135-158 New Jersey 035-039 Rhode Island 040-049 Conn. 050-134 New York 135-158 New Jersey 159- 211 Penn. 212-220 Maryland 221-222 Delaware 223-231 Virginia 232-236 West Virginia 237-246 North Carolina 247-251 South Carolina 252-260 Georgia 261-267 Florida 268-302 Ohio 303-317 Indiana 318-361 Illinois 362-386 Michigan 387-399 Wisconsin 400-407 Kentucky 408-415 Tennessee 416-424 Alabama 425-428 Mississippi 429-432 Arkansas 433-439 Louisiana 440-448 Oklahoma 449-467 Texas 468-477 Minnesota 478-485 Iowa 486-500 Missouri 501-502 North Dakota 503-504 South Dakota 505-508 Nebraska 509-515 Kansas 516-517 Montana 518-519 Idaho 520 Wyoming 521-524 Colorado 525 / 585 New Mexico 526-527 Arizona 528-529 Utah 530 Nevada 531-539 Washington 540-544 Oregon 545-573 California 574 Alaska 575-576 Hawaii 577-579 District of Columbia 580 Virgin Islands 581-585 P.R., Guam, Am. Samoa, Philippine Islands 700-729 Railroad Thanks Floa Swisher

Sorry for any inconvenience for repeating myself. But. I should have made the first message like this... ============ . . . .FYI. . . . . I transcribed some Marion County (W)VA Deaths this week from FHC microfilm and put them on my homepage. I also added some more Wood Co (W)VA deaths, another PA marriage page and some Gilmer Co. (W)VA marriages. Homepage is: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/7741/index.html Hope they help someone somewhere! Thanks Floa Swisher

. . . .FYI. . . . . I transcribed some Marion County Deaths this week from FHC microfilm and put them on my homepage. I also added some more Wood Co deaths, another PA marriage page and some Gilmer Co. marriages. Homepage is: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/7741/index.html Hope they help someone somewhere! Thanks Floa Swisher

Hi everyone, Linda has posted a picture on the the bulletin board for me, I would love some help identifying the people in the picture. Thanks Tammy

Researching Surnames - JOHNSON, HOLBERT, BURROWS, SILMAN (SELMAN) Any help I can get would be appreciated. Thanks, gator@ionia-mi.net

Linda: You might want to check with the nice folks at Hackers Creek Pioneer Decendents. I am sure they would be glad to help in any way they can. I found several of my JOHNSON ancestors passed through Lewis Co. on there way to Calhoun Co. P.S. Hackers Creek has a site on the web. Sorry I don't know the address but if you use your brower I sure you won't have any problem finding it. Your Friend from Past Haven Johnson > -----Original Message----- > From: LCFlu@aol.com [mailto:LCFlu@aol.com] > Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 8:20 AM > To: WVCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Batton/Batten > > > Hello: > > Does anyone have any information about the Batton/Batten family in Lewis > County? I am specifically looking for information about > Lieutenant William > C. Batton/Batten who served in the Civil War, 15 WV Inf. His wife was > Lieuvernia ___. > > Thanks very much. > > Linda Cunningham Fluharty >