Following the newspapers articles being posted by Patti McDonald that relate to Hardy Co. residents and also the B&O RR, I was reminded of the following story. It was told to me by someone who visited their Mt. Storm family in Oct 1998 and talked with an elderly resident there. Can anyone on the list remember the incident talked about, or inquire of an older family member from the Mt. Storm/Gormania area in the 1910-1920 time frame, as I'm curious about this "Nellie" (no marriage record yet found after two years search). Grover was my grandfather and Nellie was apparently his first (and previously undisclosed) wife. Since Aronhalt and Hanlin descendants also resided in Mineral Co., I'll post there as well. Here's the story: Grover ARONHALT (son of Samuel and Mary Susan HANLIN ARONHALT) was the rural mail carrier that did a mail run from Gormania where the mail was dropped from the Baltimore & OH RR to the Mt. Storm Post Office. His mail route was from Gormania to the Mt. Storm P.O. about 8 miles away, then another 5 miles to another small P.O. in Bismarck (this P.O. no longer exists], and then the return to Gormania. He, of course, put mail in all the boxes along that route. One of the people on the route, a Lillian HANLIN, was believed to be using the mail to extort money from other persons. The Post Office got word of this and began an investigation. Naturally, Grover, being the mail carrier (and a Hanlin), was one of the people questioned. He got concerned that somehow he was going to get involved in the scandal and get thrown in jail, so he packed up his family, quit his job and headed west. The source of this story said Grover had no involvement and, in the end, he and his family could have "weathered the storm" and continued as the mail carrier but he chose to do otherwise before the investigation was completed. NOTE: In the 1910 Hardy Co. Census, Grover was single and living with his maternal grandparents, Samuel and Jane HANLIN. In the census of 1920, Grover and Nellie are found in Peoria Co., IL Census as husband and wife. Who is this Nellie? What and where might documentation regarding the above incident be found? Some of today's residents of Mt. Storm/Gormania include descendants of Samuel's brothers and sisters, David Aronhalt, Mary Margaret ARONHALT who md. David MORELAND, Job ARONHALT, Virginia ARONHALT md. Summers COSNER, and Kezia ARONHALT md. James COSNER. Thanks for any assistance you might be able to lend in solving this old family mystery, Carolyn