I was wondering if you could tell me what GUTHRIE's were at FRENCH's Station? Or GUTHRIE's you are researching? John Peters In a message dated 1/20/2004 7:31:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, danlharris@cox.net writes: > > From: "macbd1" <macbd1@arthur.k12.il.us> > Date: 2004/01/17 Sat PM 12:25:27 EST > To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] South Branch - French's Station - FRENCH, GUTHRIE, LEDERER > > I just re-subscribed to wvhampsh-l after a long absence. It's good to see > you are still diligently researching your WHITE line, Tootsie. I wonder > about Dan Harris who also played a key part in a discussion about the > subject names 2-3 years ago. Mary Szy was also very helpful in reporting > about her visit to the site at that time. > > For those who may not know, the subject names of a 'town' or community are > still shown on today's US Geological Survey maps for some reason although > the original site has been abandoned for many years and there are virtually > no surviving buildings. This was apparently a thriving little community as > late as the early 1900's and a train station on the B&O after that line was > built during the mid-late 1800's. It was apparently a place of mercantile > endeavors as early as 1750 by a FRENCH family and may have been a trading > post along the Potomac prior to that. It is located almost a mile east of > the mouth of the South Branch (of the Potomac) River on the WV side. This > link is a map of the area: > http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.5201&lon=-78.5767&datum=nad83 > > I was surprised to receive an e-mail a couple days ago from a computer-using > friend of a guy from Cumberland, MD who hunts on a farm located at the old > 'South Branch' site. This hunter somehow learned of our prior wvhampsh-l > discussion, knows the area very well and says he has photos of the old > cemetery there. He will arrange to send these by mail to an interested > person or as e-mail attachments (by his friend) and has even offerred to > obtain permission for escorting an interested party onto this land. The > cemetery is apparently small. Names that can be seen on the tombstone photos > reportedly include FRENCH, GUTHRIE and LEDERER. The first two names are > known from our prior research. > > My McDONALD's left the South Branch area during the 1760's so the cemetery > photos have no personal interest to me. If anyone is interested in receiving > photos or visiting the site let me know and I'll send contact-info. Please > contact me personally at macbd1@arthur.k12.il.us so as not to bother others > at the list. FYI, the hunter says the land is posted and watched closely as > there have been problems with cattle-rustlers recently. > > Regards to all, > Neil McDonald > >

John, I'm not researching any GUTHRIE's, I just encountered this family name when I was researching the South Branch-French's Station area. Go to the Rootsweb search engine at: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Enter wvhampsh-l and click 'Submit Query' which will take you to the archives of our list. Then enter Guthrie, click on the year 2000 and click 'Search.' From the list of results, click on the second one with the subject: "South Branch and FRENCH's Station (McDonald-French-Guthrie-Shannon-Taylor-Kuykendall-Parker-Blue and others)" to learn all about the GUTHRIE families of South Branch. Try other years as well to see what turns up, I've been surprised by very interesting info from such searches of mailing list archives. Good luck, Neil McDonald ----- Original Message ----- From: <JAKEOWEN@aol.com> To: <WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH-L] South Branch - French's Station - FRENCH, GUTHRIE, LEDERER > I was wondering if you could tell me what GUTHRIE's were at FRENCH's Station? > Or GUTHRIE's you are researching? > > John Peters >