Greetings one and all. I wrote to the only person that I know that has any dealing with the HCHS and she sent me a response today in an email. I have emailed her back and asked her if I could quote her. It is a nice letter, as well as suppling me with information on who to talk to at the HCHS. It sounds as if there wasn't much interest in the whole HCHS is very little, and they almost closed their doors. Where they do show up at county events. I will send the letter tomorrow, after getting the OK. Wayne of Capon Bridge At 10:15 PM 11/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: > I learned long ago to not to knock someone or a job they were doing > until you "walked in their shoes." Thousands of our ancestors came > though Hampshire County and went on west or southwest including some of > mine. Some of our ancestors descendants stayed in Hampshire > County. Hampshire County is rich in history and has many cemeteries. It > is a sparsely settled county of less than 20,000 and whom about 20% are > living at the poverty level. > Most of us would like the cemeteries there maintained to a minimal > level. Wayne's research has shown many are located on private > land. Descendants won't volunteer send money for fences, monument > repairs or clearing the land once a year of ancestors they knew only by > name. Several years ago I found my wife's ancestors cemetery in rural > Garrett Co., MD, once a church graveyard and now in the middle of a > cornfield, grown up in brush and weeds. I contacted the relatives back > there and offered to donate a large sum if they would could take on a > project of getting it cleaned up and a fence put around it. They were > actually insulted that I asked. > Wayne has been trying to visit, take pictures and inventory these > cemeteries for several months. He has had very few to volunteer to > inventory any of them. Taking an inventory and photographing a cemetery > takes a lot of time. I went out to inventory a cemetery, once, with > another party. Within minutes they complained of the gnats. Within a > few more minutes they were gone. > We have to congratulate Wayne for taking 5 or 6 days a week and > driving all over the county to inventory our ancestors. You see, Wayne > doesn't know of any of his ancestors buried there. He found a project > that helps another group and is appreciated. > Would you be willing to take one day while on vacation and > inventory a cemetery in Hampshire County or any adjoining county > there? ...or to clean one up? ...or donate to the Hampshire County > Historical Society for the purpose of cleaning up a specific cemetery? > If so, write to Wayne online or the Hampshire County Historical > Society, Post Office Box 549, Augusta, WV 26704. Enclose a stamped self > address envelope with you letter. > >Bill Pyles >Titusville, FL Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm

Greetings one and all. Just a short note say that I placed this family gravesite on the web. I haven't been to it yet, but will in the next couple of days to take my own photo. http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/bailes.htm Only marker, on private property. Wayne of Capon Bridge >Greetings one and all. > >I wrote to the only person that I know that has any dealing with the HCHS >and she sent me a response today in an email. >I have emailed her back and asked her if I could quote her. >It is a nice letter, as well as suppling me with information on who to >talk to at the HCHS. >It sounds as if there wasn't much interest in the whole HCHS is very >little, and they almost closed their doors. >Where they do show up at county events. >I will send the letter tomorrow, after getting the OK. > >Wayne of Capon Bridge > >At 10:15 PM 11/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: >> I learned long ago to not to knock someone or a job they were doing >> until you "walked in their shoes." Thousands of our ancestors came >> though Hampshire County and went on west or southwest including some of >> mine. Some of our ancestors descendants stayed in Hampshire >> County. Hampshire County is rich in history and has many >> cemeteries. It is a sparsely settled county of less than 20,000 and >> whom about 20% are living at the poverty level. >> Most of us would like the cemeteries there maintained to a minimal >> level. Wayne's research has shown many are located on private >> land. Descendants won't volunteer send money for fences, monument >> repairs or clearing the land once a year of ancestors they knew only by >> name. Several years ago I found my wife's ancestors cemetery in rural >> Garrett Co., MD, once a church graveyard and now in the middle of a >> cornfield, grown up in brush and weeds. I contacted the relatives back >> there and offered to donate a large sum if they would could take on a >> project of getting it cleaned up and a fence put around it. They were >> actually insulted that I asked. >> Wayne has been trying to visit, take pictures and inventory these >> cemeteries for several months. He has had very few to volunteer to >> inventory any of them. Taking an inventory and photographing a cemetery >> takes a lot of time. I went out to inventory a cemetery, once, with >> another party. Within minutes they complained of the gnats. Within a >> few more minutes they were gone. >> We have to congratulate Wayne for taking 5 or 6 days a week and >> driving all over the county to inventory our ancestors. You see, Wayne >> doesn't know of any of his ancestors buried there. He found a project >> that helps another group and is appreciated. >> Would you be willing to take one day while on vacation and >> inventory a cemetery in Hampshire County or any adjoining county >> there? ...or to clean one up? ...or donate to the Hampshire County >> Historical Society for the purpose of cleaning up a specific cemetery? >> If so, write to Wayne online or the Hampshire County Historical >> Society, Post Office Box 549, Augusta, WV 26704. Enclose a stamped self >> address envelope with you letter. >> >>Bill Pyles >>Titusville, FL > >Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm >My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm Hampshire Co. website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm My Homepage website: http://members.citynet.net/rwayne/index.htm