Hi, In the Land Patents, Pendleton County (Sims Index), one connected family member, William Michael listed 40 acres in Crab Apple Bottom, Pendleton Co. in 1798. Some Waggoners held land in Crab Apple Bottom, too. Dick Daly At 12:53 AM 1/6/00 -0500, you wrote: >I'm not aware of a town called Crab Bottom, but the town of Crab Orchard is >just south of Beckley in Raleigh Co. > >Curt in VA > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "HAMRICK,DANIEL" <dhamrick@neo.rr.com> >To: <WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 11:52 PM >Subject: FW: [VAHIGHLA] Re: Crabbottom (Highland County) Query > > >> >> >> >I live in Ohio now but I am a native of West Virginia, and I seem to >> >remember that state had a town of Crab Bottom. I will forward this to >the >> >Pendleton list, as someone there may know. >> > >> dhamrick@neo.rr.com >> Dan Hamrick >> 402 23rd Street NW >> Canton OH 44709 >> Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 >> >> >> >From: "William A. Harrison" <mrbil1@juno.com> >> >To: VAHIGHLA-L@rootsweb.com >> >Subject: [VAHIGHLA] Re: Crabbottom (Highland County) Query >> >Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2000, 9:27 PM >> >> >Greetings, >> > >> >I'm a bit far away to really know too much about Highland Co geography, >> >but I recently bought a copy of the original 1847 Highland CO map, and >> >while it does not show a town of Crabbottom, it does show an area of >> >Crabbottom. >> > >> >It is located in the NW portion of the county and lies between the Little >> >Mountain and the Back Creek Mountain. There is a waterway running from >> >south to north through this valley, and it is called the South Branch. I >> >would suppose that there might be more to the name but that's all that >> >shows on this map. >> > >> >Hopefully someone can be more specific with their response to you. >> > >> >There could have been a town in the area by that name in 1869. ???? >> > >> >My Sims forefathers lived near Doe Hill, about 12 miles east of the >> >Crabbottom (Valley?) from 1801 to 1886. >> > >> >mrbill William A. "Bill" Harrison <MRBIL1@JUNO.COM> Sponsor of the >> >STONER and SCHNORF Family discussion lists on Rootsweb. >> > >> > >> >==== VAHIGHLA Mailing List ==== >> > Highland County, Virginia >> >Searchable archives for Rootsweb mail lists can be found at >> >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> > >> > > >