This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MURPHY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/789 Message Board Post: As I find out more, I'll pass it along...It seems that this family moved from Midland Md in 1908 to Gorman WV and was associated with the Gorman Coal Co...Mailing address was in Austin, WV.I can not find a trace of Gorman..could it have been Gormania? >From there, they went to Newburg for a year or two before going to Morgantown. It was during the time in Newburg that Thomas and younger brother Bernard went to high school. Did Newburg have a high school around 1918-19? Or did they go to Rowlesburg or Tunnelton? How does one access school records which might give me an address? Does anyone have any info about the Gorman Coal Co? I trully appreciate any help at all. Frances Murphy Harrick