Carolyn: Don't know specifically who your Parks and Garner Families are! - Around 1797, Charles Byrne built a log cabin on the south side of High Street. J. W. Parks lived in the Byrne house in the 1830s, and later Walter Amos owned the property. The building was torn down in February 1992 and the logs from the old section were hauled to Virginia. - In the fall of 1873, brick pavement was laid in front of the Parks and Co. store. That's it! This book doesn't have any genealogical info in it - only short anecdotal stuff like the two lines above. Still ... Joe H. ========================================== Carolyn wrote: >Joe, >Does the book have anything on my Parks & Garner families? >Thanks for looking. >Carolyn > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVPRESTO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Joe, "A" J.W. Parks was my 3gr-granduncle who for a number of years, up to his death, was cashier of the Bank of Kingwood. He m. Mary R. Heermans. However, I have him b. 1834 which could only place him as in the cabin living with his parents, Henry Lone Parks & Elizabeth Garner. Henry was a "cabinetmaker", which may mean undertaker in those days. ; ) I have never seen anything about a "Parks store". Will be interesting to find out, tho. Elizabeth Garner Parks was dgtr. of William Garner & Frances Roberts. William d. on farm 3 mi. n.e. of Kingwood on Cheat River Hill. All the tidbits add to the story of our ancestors lives and, of course, create more questions. lol We all thank you for helping!! Warm regards, Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe & Erin Hartman" <wegotrocks@verizon.net> To: <wvpresto@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:19 PM Subject: Re: [WVPRESTO] Kingwood book? > Carolyn: > > Don't know specifically who your Parks and Garner Families are! > > - Around 1797, Charles Byrne built a log cabin on the south side of > High Street. J. W. Parks lived in the Byrne house in the 1830s, and > later Walter Amos owned the property. The building was torn down in > February 1992 and the logs from the old section were hauled to Virginia. > - In the fall of 1873, brick pavement was laid in front of the Parks > and Co. store. > > That's it! This book doesn't have any genealogical info in it - only > short anecdotal stuff like the two lines above. Still ... > > > Joe H. > > ========================================== > > Carolyn wrote: > >>Joe, >>Does the book have anything on my Parks & Garner families? >>Thanks for looking. >>Carolyn >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>WVPRESTO-request@rootsweb.com 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 > WVPRESTO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.7/1895 - Release Date: 1/15/2009 7:46 AM