Lois, the road by the old Aracoma High School is Coal Branch, that is where I was born. Johnny ----- Original Message ----- From: "LOIS THOMPSON" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church oLogan CoRE Dodie and Jim > JUDI > > AS FAR AS I KNOW THE ROAD TO DEMPSEY BRANCH HAS BEEN IN THE SAME LOCATION > SINCE 1952------I AM NOW 68---------AT THE ENTRANCE WAS THE OLD ARACOMA > HIGH > SCHOOL ----THEN WAS ONE OF THE LOGAN CO JR HIGH SCHOOLS----NOW IT IS THE > AREA OF THE LOGAN COUNTY SCHOOL BUS GARAGE-----MAKE SENSE??? LOIS > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 5:41 PM > Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church oLogan CoRE Dodie and Jim > > >> Dodie and Jim. >> My Clark grandparents moved "up" Dempsey Branch in the middle 1930's. > There >> was not a road to drive up it and only a few houses. >> Unfortunately no one is left for me to ask about a church(I am thinking >> though if any of my cousins who would have went to visit ) >> Dad was a young man still living at home as were some of his brothers. >> They tore out a path and made way a dirt road to drive up as far as my >> grandparents home. Others who lived on past took it from there and made > the >> road go further. >> My parents married June of 1941 and my grandfather Van Buren Clark died > June >> of 1942. My folks had lived in the home place and my oldest sister was > born >> there just two weeks before he died. One of my Aunts came to live with >> my >> grandmother (and her children) and my parents moved to the Spry >> apartments >> which I last saw named Townmart were still there in the 1980's. (that > name >> I question, I am typing w/o looking this up) >> We took my parents home in 1980 and (a three car trip of my family) > stopped >> at the entrance of the drive up into Dempsey. This was before the >> change. >> The kids ran up and down the road that "grandpa" built. >> At that time it was still the way up into Dempsey, but of course all of > the >> work might have changed that. >> I have a picture of the house on my computer but on that trip I took > slides >> that I have never transferred but my brother has photos on his computers >> I >> believe. I am now curious as to where the entrance of that road began. >> well, sorry for going on, just my sister was born there and my >> grandfather >> died in the same house. >> Judi >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jim" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 4:27 PM >> Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter > DaySaintsinLogan >> County The Mormans >> >> >> Dodie, >> >> I am not qualified to answer your question. As I mentioned in my email >> What I stated was to the best of my knowledge. >> >> I called some friends in Logan who will be able to answer your questions > and >> left a message for them. As I cannot answer them with certainty. >> >> I know that they met at the home of Ora Collins for a while. I know that >> they met at the home of William Anderson "Hent" Vance and Easter Sunday >> Thompson. >> >> If I can get more information I will be happy to share the information. >> >> I have been up Dempsey Branch several times - not sure that I could drive >> there today as the new freeway ran across it. It was a very windy > mountain >> Road. The house were right on the edge of the road. I know for sure > that >> the Vance cemetery there was moved to Pecks Mill. >> >> That is the extent of this old man's knowledge. >> >> Thanks for asking. >> >> Jim Burgess >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On >> Behalf Of D Browning >> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 8:06 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day >> SaintsinLogan County The Mormans >> >> Jim, >> Do you have any documentation "The Logan Branch [Mormons] held meeting >> At Dempsey Branch from the 1880's until the 1960's when they moved to > Pecks >> Mill"? What is the location of the Dempsey Branch to which you referred? >> Did they meet in someone's home? If so, do you know whose home? >> >> My sister (now age 80) lived at Dempsey Branch (Logan County) in the > late >> 1940s and early 1950s and she states that the only churches at Dempsey >> Branch, was a Church Of God (that she attended) and "The Church Of Our > Lord >> Jesus Christ" (better known as Jesus Only). It was a Pentecostal church. > My >> mother was a member of that church until she died in 1961. I attended > with >> her until I was 12 years old. Could it be possible that "The Church Of > Our >> Lord Jesus Christ" at Dempsey Branch has been confused as a Mormon >> Church? >> I can state categorically that it was Pentecostal. My sister said she > never >> heard of any Mormons at Dempsey Branch when she lived there in late 1940s >> and early 1950s. (Neither did I). I lived at Dempsey Branch for one >> school >> semester when I was in 9th grade (1952). Dempsey Branch was a pretty >> small >> hollow and most everyone that lived up there was related to me. >> >> You mentioned that Luke Curry was a Mormon. My Aunt Almeda (my >> grandmother's sister) was married to a Luke Curry and they were Baptist. >> (They did not live at Dempsey Branch) I attended both their funerals. I >> was in 7th grade when Aunt Almeda died. Uncle Luke died a few years >> after >> Aunt Almeda died. I knew them well and loved them dearly. >> Dodie (Smith) Browning >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Luggage? GPS? Comic books? >> Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Johnny, I may know you??? Did you have a sister, Barbara Evans? Sorry that I misspelled Coal Branch in my last post. Dodie John Evans <[email protected]> wrote: Lois, the road by the old Aracoma High School is Coal Branch, that is where I was born. Johnny ----- Original Message ----- From: "LOIS THOMPSON" To: Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church oLogan CoRE Dodie and Jim > JUDI > > AS FAR AS I KNOW THE ROAD TO DEMPSEY BRANCH HAS BEEN IN THE SAME LOCATION > SINCE 1952------I AM NOW 68---------AT THE ENTRANCE WAS THE OLD ARACOMA > HIGH > SCHOOL ----THEN WAS ONE OF THE LOGAN CO JR HIGH SCHOOLS----NOW IT IS THE > AREA OF THE LOGAN COUNTY SCHOOL BUS GARAGE-----MAKE SENSE??? LOIS > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 5:41 PM > Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church oLogan CoRE Dodie and Jim > > >> Dodie and Jim. >> My Clark grandparents moved "up" Dempsey Branch in the middle 1930's. > There >> was not a road to drive up it and only a few houses. >> Unfortunately no one is left for me to ask about a church(I am thinking >> though if any of my cousins who would have went to visit ) >> Dad was a young man still living at home as were some of his brothers. >> They tore out a path and made way a dirt road to drive up as far as my >> grandparents home. Others who lived on past took it from there and made > the >> road go further. >> My parents married June of 1941 and my grandfather Van Buren Clark died > June >> of 1942. My folks had lived in the home place and my oldest sister was > born >> there just two weeks before he died. One of my Aunts came to live with >> my >> grandmother (and her children) and my parents moved to the Spry >> apartments >> which I last saw named Townmart were still there in the 1980's. (that > name >> I question, I am typing w/o looking this up) >> We took my parents home in 1980 and (a three car trip of my family) > stopped >> at the entrance of the drive up into Dempsey. This was before the >> change. >> The kids ran up and down the road that "grandpa" built. >> At that time it was still the way up into Dempsey, but of course all of > the >> work might have changed that. >> I have a picture of the house on my computer but on that trip I took > slides >> that I have never transferred but my brother has photos on his computers >> I >> believe. I am now curious as to where the entrance of that road began. >> well, sorry for going on, just my sister was born there and my >> grandfather >> died in the same house. >> Judi >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jim" >> To: >> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 4:27 PM >> Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter > DaySaintsinLogan >> County The Mormans >> >> >> Dodie, >> >> I am not qualified to answer your question. As I mentioned in my email >> What I stated was to the best of my knowledge. >> >> I called some friends in Logan who will be able to answer your questions > and >> left a message for them. As I cannot answer them with certainty. >> >> I know that they met at the home of Ora Collins for a while. I know that >> they met at the home of William Anderson "Hent" Vance and Easter Sunday >> Thompson. >> >> If I can get more information I will be happy to share the information. >> >> I have been up Dempsey Branch several times - not sure that I could drive >> there today as the new freeway ran across it. It was a very windy > mountain >> Road. The house were right on the edge of the road. I know for sure > that >> the Vance cemetery there was moved to Pecks Mill. >> >> That is the extent of this old man's knowledge. >> >> Thanks for asking. >> >> Jim Burgess >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On >> Behalf Of D Browning >> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 8:06 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day >> SaintsinLogan County The Mormans >> >> Jim, >> Do you have any documentation "The Logan Branch [Mormons] held meeting >> At Dempsey Branch from the 1880's until the 1960's when they moved to > Pecks >> Mill"? What is the location of the Dempsey Branch to which you referred? >> Did they meet in someone's home? If so, do you know whose home? >> >> My sister (now age 80) lived at Dempsey Branch (Logan County) in the > late >> 1940s and early 1950s and she states that the only churches at Dempsey >> Branch, was a Church Of God (that she attended) and "The Church Of Our > Lord >> Jesus Christ" (better known as Jesus Only). It was a Pentecostal church. > My >> mother was a member of that church until she died in 1961. I attended > with >> her until I was 12 years old. Could it be possible that "The Church Of > Our >> Lord Jesus Christ" at Dempsey Branch has been confused as a Mormon >> Church? >> I can state categorically that it was Pentecostal. My sister said she > never >> heard of any Mormons at Dempsey Branch when she lived there in late 1940s >> and early 1950s. (Neither did I). I lived at Dempsey Branch for one >> school >> semester when I was in 9th grade (1952). Dempsey Branch was a pretty >> small >> hollow and most everyone that lived up there was related to me. >> >> You mentioned that Luke Curry was a Mormon. My Aunt Almeda (my >> grandmother's sister) was married to a Luke Curry and they were Baptist. >> (They did not live at Dempsey Branch) I attended both their funerals. I >> was in 7th grade when Aunt Almeda died. Uncle Luke died a few years >> after >> Aunt Almeda died. I knew them well and loved them dearly. >> Dodie (Smith) Browning >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Luggage? GPS? Comic books? >> Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! 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JOHNNY-----YOU ARE 100%CORRECT--------FORGIVEN?? LOIS ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Evans" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church oLogan CoRE Dodie and Jim > Lois, the road by the old Aracoma High School is Coal Branch, that is where > I was born. > > Johnny > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "LOIS THOMPSON" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:33 AM > Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church oLogan CoRE Dodie and Jim > > > > JUDI > > > > AS FAR AS I KNOW THE ROAD TO DEMPSEY BRANCH HAS BEEN IN THE SAME LOCATION > > SINCE 1952------I AM NOW 68---------AT THE ENTRANCE WAS THE OLD ARACOMA > > HIGH > > SCHOOL ----THEN WAS ONE OF THE LOGAN CO JR HIGH SCHOOLS----NOW IT IS THE > > AREA OF THE LOGAN COUNTY SCHOOL BUS GARAGE-----MAKE SENSE??? LOIS > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 5:41 PM > > Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church oLogan CoRE Dodie and Jim > > > > > >> Dodie and Jim. > >> My Clark grandparents moved "up" Dempsey Branch in the middle 1930's. > > There > >> was not a road to drive up it and only a few houses. > >> Unfortunately no one is left for me to ask about a church(I am thinking > >> though if any of my cousins who would have went to visit ) > >> Dad was a young man still living at home as were some of his brothers. > >> They tore out a path and made way a dirt road to drive up as far as my > >> grandparents home. Others who lived on past took it from there and made > > the > >> road go further. > >> My parents married June of 1941 and my grandfather Van Buren Clark died > > June > >> of 1942. My folks had lived in the home place and my oldest sister was > > born > >> there just two weeks before he died. One of my Aunts came to live with > >> my > >> grandmother (and her children) and my parents moved to the Spry > >> apartments > >> which I last saw named Townmart were still there in the 1980's. (that > > name > >> I question, I am typing w/o looking this up) > >> We took my parents home in 1980 and (a three car trip of my family) > > stopped > >> at the entrance of the drive up into Dempsey. This was before the > >> change. > >> The kids ran up and down the road that "grandpa" built. > >> At that time it was still the way up into Dempsey, but of course all of > > the > >> work might have changed that. > >> I have a picture of the house on my computer but on that trip I took > > slides > >> that I have never transferred but my brother has photos on his computers > >> I > >> believe. I am now curious as to where the entrance of that road began. > >> well, sorry for going on, just my sister was born there and my > >> grandfather > >> died in the same house. > >> Judi > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Jim" <[email protected]> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 4:27 PM > >> Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter > > DaySaintsinLogan > >> County The Mormans > >> > >> > >> Dodie, > >> > >> I am not qualified to answer your question. As I mentioned in my email > >> What I stated was to the best of my knowledge. > >> > >> I called some friends in Logan who will be able to answer your questions > > and > >> left a message for them. As I cannot answer them with certainty. > >> > >> I know that they met at the home of Ora Collins for a while. I know that > >> they met at the home of William Anderson "Hent" Vance and Easter Sunday > >> Thompson. > >> > >> If I can get more information I will be happy to share the information. > >> > >> I have been up Dempsey Branch several times - not sure that I could drive > >> there today as the new freeway ran across it. It was a very windy > > mountain > >> Road. The house were right on the edge of the road. I know for sure > > that > >> the Vance cemetery there was moved to Pecks Mill. > >> > >> That is the extent of this old man's knowledge. > >> > >> Thanks for asking. > >> > >> Jim Burgess > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > On > >> Behalf Of D Browning > >> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 8:06 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day > >> SaintsinLogan County The Mormans > >> > >> Jim, > >> Do you have any documentation "The Logan Branch [Mormons] held meeting > >> At Dempsey Branch from the 1880's until the 1960's when they moved to > > Pecks > >> Mill"? What is the location of the Dempsey Branch to which you referred? > >> Did they meet in someone's home? If so, do you know whose home? > >> > >> My sister (now age 80) lived at Dempsey Branch (Logan County) in the > > late > >> 1940s and early 1950s and she states that the only churches at Dempsey > >> Branch, was a Church Of God (that she attended) and "The Church Of Our > > Lord > >> Jesus Christ" (better known as Jesus Only). It was a Pentecostal church. > > My > >> mother was a member of that church until she died in 1961. I attended > > with > >> her until I was 12 years old. Could it be possible that "The Church Of > > Our > >> Lord Jesus Christ" at Dempsey Branch has been confused as a Mormon > >> Church? > >> I can state categorically that it was Pentecostal. My sister said she > > never > >> heard of any Mormons at Dempsey Branch when she lived there in late 1940s > >> and early 1950s. (Neither did I). I lived at Dempsey Branch for one > >> school > >> semester when I was in 9th grade (1952). Dempsey Branch was a pretty > >> small > >> hollow and most everyone that lived up there was related to me. > >> > >> You mentioned that Luke Curry was a Mormon. My Aunt Almeda (my > >> grandmother's sister) was married to a Luke Curry and they were Baptist. > >> (They did not live at Dempsey Branch) I attended both their funerals. I > >> was in 7th grade when Aunt Almeda died. Uncle Luke died a few years > >> after > >> Aunt Almeda died. I knew them well and loved them dearly. > >> Dodie (Smith) Browning > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------- > >> Luggage? GPS? Comic books? > >> Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search. > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes > >> in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes > >> in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >