Sorry all the Obits that I sent this morning came from http://theintermountain.com/obituaries.htm found in Elkins,Randolph County, WV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra E. T. Duncan" <purplevw1@attbi.com> To: <US-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 9:58 AM Subject: [US-OBITS] HAWKINS,RALPH B. 1933-2002 INTERMOUNTAIN NEWS ELKINS,WV > Ralph B. Hawkins > > Ralph B. Hawkins, 68, died Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2002 in Colorado Springs, Colo. > > He was born Nov. 10, 1933, in Webster Springs, the son of the late Herbert C. and Gladys Farlety Hawkins Lloyd. > > He is survived by three sons, Ralph B. Hawkins Jr., Concordia, Kan., Joseph Hawkins, with whom he made his home, and Donald Hawkins, both of Colorado Springs, Colo.; two daughters, Lyndia Beer and Patty Hawkins, both of Colorado Springs, Colo.; three sisters, Dot Welch, Elkins, Vivian Orlando, Weirton, and Sheryl Birdsinger, Texas; one half_sister, Martha Lloyd, Fairview; and several grandchildren, nieces and nephews. > > He was also preceded in death by two brothers, Chester C. Hawkins and Larry P. Hawkins; one half_brother, Robert N. Lloyd; and one sister, Oleta J. Graham. > > At the request of the deceased, he was cremated, and was buried in Colorado Springs, Colo. > > FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS: No information available at this time. > > > > ==== US-OBITS Mailing List ==== > Don't forget to invite your friends to join us. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Can I get the link please SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN in Sacramento,CA admin for DUNCAN-L@rootsweb.com TYLER-L@rootsweb.com VANSCOY-L@rootsweb.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Page full of links for genealogists: http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm Very useful site full of Genealogy Links ----- Original Message ----- From: <DFlammger@aol.com> To: <WVRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [WVRANDOL-L] Israel Cemetery > We visited the Israel Cemetery in July 2000 while attending a Purkey Family > reunion. I just sent a link to Photoworks, where my photos are stored in a > digital album. Please let me know if it doesn't work -- and I'll send the > link to your personal e-mail address instead of the listserv. > > The headstone pictures are primarily of Purkeys and Wilmoths. > > Dawne > > > ==== WVRANDOL Mailing List ==== > Check out the Randolph County USGW site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvrandol/ > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

As far as I know the cem I sent you is near Kerens Randolph Co WV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Virginia Beck" <Rustymke@aol.com> To: <WVRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [WVRANDOL-L] Israel Cemetery > Sandra & all: I believe some of my Wilmoth kin are buried in this cemetery. > I have had some difficulty in determining the full name and location since > my information came from more than one source, and, though similar, the > names differed enough to be puzzling to one not familiar with the area. > I have these cemetery names, all from Randolph Co.: > Israel Cemetery, Kerens > Isner Cemetery, Kerens > Wilmoth-Isner Cemetery, Kerens > Israel Church Cemetery, Kerens > Kerens Cemetery > > Then I have one for: > Israel Church Cemetery, Kerens, Augusta Co. (Martha E. Wilmoth > Hart) > > I also have these puzzling entries for husband & wife: > William Letcher Wilmoth: > Wilmoth Cemetery, Frank Mt. Israel Cemetery. > Martha Ann (Taylor) Wilmoth: > Wilmoth Cemetery, Allegheny Mt. Road. (no > county given) > > Are any or all of these the same as the Israel Cemetery you are talking > about? > Thanks, Virginia > > > > > ==== WVRANDOL Mailing List ==== > Check out the Mid-Atlantic Roots Network at: > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/ > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hello Olin and all I see I have made the grievous error of announcing this project too soon, I had a massive stroke in 1998 that left my entire left side paralyzed (so, I type with just my right hand now) Just received the pamphlet on 24 Jan 2002( a nice birthday present) Am nearly through typing it (all 17 pages full) will be announcing it as soon as it is finished and I hope to have help from someone that will put it on Rootsweb for me! Know this, none of the data belongs to me but to the church (which is mentioned below.) As my 2nd great-grandfather Emmitt Buckey Vanscoy and his son Bruce built this church and Emmitt the pews, I have a great interest in this church . Just received several photos of this church and grounds, Now I am hoping someone can tell me if there is a list of the burials there and to compound my desires, I would like to see photos of each and every tombstone in that cemetery for my files and a tombstone project. Am on page 14 of 17 pages, these last pages are full of names of church members( with no reference to relationships.) As soon as it is finished I will be announcing it on this mailing list. Anyway, "I" am not getting out a pamphlet, I am just retyping out one that was done in 1972 with a bit of the history of the church and some of the class members are listed as well as marriages that took place in that church. SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN in Sacramento,CA admin for DUNCAN-L@rootsweb.com TYLER-L@rootsweb.com VANSCOY-L@rootsweb.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Page full of links for genealogists: http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm Very useful site full of Genealogy Links ----- Original Message ----- From: <ORCompton@aol.com> To: <WVRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:28 PM Subject: [WVRANDOL-L] Re: WVRANDOL-D Digest V02 #23 > Hooray! Sandra is getting out an Israel Cemetery pamphlet! > > Twice in the last year I have walked the Israel Cemetery with the idea of > working with the Israel UMC church and cataloging the cemetery. You have > saved this 76 year old the chore of extended roaming up and down that > hillside looking for Murphy and other descendants. > > God is Good. When I was ready to catalog the Leading Creek Primitive Baptist > cemetery up the road from Israel, Daisy Ferguson Martin stepped into the > breech with a complete listing. At Knottsville UMC cemetery, Shirley Wolf > came foreword to bear that burden. All I had to do was send it to > RootsWeb.com. Hooray for all the ladies! > > Olin > > > ==== WVRANDOL Mailing List ==== > Check out the West Virginia Roots Network at: > http://miadatlantic.rootsweb.com/WV/ > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

We visited the Israel Cemetery in July 2000 while attending a Purkey Family reunion. I just sent a link to Photoworks, where my photos are stored in a digital album. Please let me know if it doesn't work -- and I'll send the link to your personal e-mail address instead of the listserv. The headstone pictures are primarily of Purkeys and Wilmoths. Dawne

Hooray! Sandra is getting out an Israel Cemetery pamphlet! Twice in the last year I have walked the Israel Cemetery with the idea of working with the Israel UMC church and cataloging the cemetery. You have saved this 76 year old the chore of extended roaming up and down that hillside looking for Murphy and other descendants. God is Good. When I was ready to catalog the Leading Creek Primitive Baptist cemetery up the road from Israel, Daisy Ferguson Martin stepped into the breech with a complete listing. At Knottsville UMC cemetery, Shirley Wolf came foreword to bear that burden. All I had to do was send it to RootsWeb.com. Hooray for all the ladies! Olin

Sandra & all: I believe some of my Wilmoth kin are buried in this cemetery. I have had some difficulty in determining the full name and location since my information came from more than one source, and, though similar, the names differed enough to be puzzling to one not familiar with the area. I have these cemetery names, all from Randolph Co.: Israel Cemetery, Kerens Isner Cemetery, Kerens Wilmoth-Isner Cemetery, Kerens Israel Church Cemetery, Kerens Kerens Cemetery Then I have one for: Israel Church Cemetery, Kerens, Augusta Co. (Martha E. Wilmoth Hart) I also have these puzzling entries for husband & wife: William Letcher Wilmoth: Wilmoth Cemetery, Frank Mt. Israel Cemetery. Martha Ann (Taylor) Wilmoth: Wilmoth Cemetery, Allegheny Mt. Road. (no county given) Are any or all of these the same as the Israel Cemetery you are talking about? Thanks, Virginia

Hello Becky Yes, I do believe it is the same cemetery, I just received some wonderful pictures of the church and cemetery, let me know if you can receive attachments and I will send you the pictures, I am also trying to finish typing up a 17 page pamphlet giving a history of the church and cemetery and there are Gilmore names in the pamphlet also. The church was built by my 2nd great-grand father Emmet Buckey Vanscoy and his son Bruce, the pews were all built by Emmett also. SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN in Sacramento,CA admin for DUNCAN-L@rootsweb.com TYLER-L@rootsweb.com VANSCOY-L@rootsweb.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Page full of links for genealogists: http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm Very useful site full of Genealogy Links ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rebecca Lucas" <rlucas@neo.lrun.com> To: <WVRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:04 PM Subject: [WVRANDOL-L] Israel Cemetery > I was just recently told that my Gilmore ancestors are buried at Israel Cemetery near Kerens, WVA, is this the same cemetery that you are talking about? Where exactly is it located? I hope to make a trip down there in the next few months and would like to find this cemetery. Thanks. > Becky Lucas > > > ==== WVRANDOL Mailing List ==== > Give someone some help and they may help you. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I was just recently told that my Gilmore ancestors are buried at Israel Cemetery near Kerens, WVA, is this the same cemetery that you are talking about? Where exactly is it located? I hope to make a trip down there in the next few months and would like to find this cemetery. Thanks. Becky Lucas

Does anybody know if there is a list of the graves at the Israel United Methodist Church in Montrose, Randolph county, WV? SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN in Sacramento,CA admin for DUNCAN-L@rootsweb.com TYLER-L@rootsweb.com VANSCOY-L@rootsweb.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Page full of links for genealogists: http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm Very useful site full of Genealogy Links

Hi Would anyone happen to have the 1870 census for Kentucky or Ohio. I am trying to find a Benjamin Butler. He is in WV in the 1860 and 1880 census but not the 1870 census. I thought maybe he went to another state for awhile. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Peggy

I am looking for information on a Michael Huffman who was born between 1770 and 1780, probably closer to 1789. His wife's name was Susannah. He was involved with Richard Ware in several land surveys and dealings in Randolph Co in the Mingo and Valley Head areas. Has anyone worked on Michael's line? It appears there is some close connection between he and Ware but I can not find what it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jean

The Haddix I have researched were the family of Radolph Haddix who wed Cora Jane Carr . Cora was born 24 Aug 1871 died 9 Feb 1945 buried Cooper Cem. Randolph Haddix born 1861 died 1915 buried Cooper Cem. the parents of Cora Jane Carr were Solomon " Saul" Carr born Jan 1834 wed 23 Jan 1854 Pickens , Randolph co. buried Hazelwood or Teter cem. Bethal , Wv. Solomon wed Susanna Simmons born June 1833 died 1908 buried Hezelwood, Bethal Cem. church affli. Mennonite Solomons parents were: Eli Carr and Martha Patty White Susannas parents were: Jacob R. Simmons and Mary Moats wed c. 1825 Robin in Lakeland , Fl

I noticed you are researching the name Haddix/Haddox. I am also related to Haddix, through the Gordon line. My aunt Florence Gordon (my father's eldest sister), married Samuel Haddix in Randolph County, VA on 27 May 1919. They were both 19 years old. I am trying to find her Grandparents on her father's side. Her father's name was William H. Gordon, b: July 1881, and her mother was Sarah Currence, b: July 1881. William and Sarah were married in December 1898, also in Randolph county. Can anyone help me with parents of William H. or Sarah M. Currence? Supposedly, he came from Pocahontas county, at least according to the marriage book for Randolph county. Any help with the names of their parents (my Great Grandparents) would be much appreciated. Thank you. Janet E. Doe JanetDoe@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

Hello Blue, Yes that is the Joe Brown I am looking for information on. I was told by one of my cousins that Joe shot Scott White the sheriff in the face and that the possee thought he was going to die and so went after him and brought him back thinking he would be hung for killing the sheriff. Instead they found out he wouldn't and that he might come afte the ones in the possee as he was a bad man. Also he was supposed to be really good with gun. Did you hear any of that ? Thank you so much for replying. Where is Joe Brown buried ? Robin in Lakeland.

Hi, Carolyn and Koren-Fae, I got a question regarding Mary Harman, married to William W Mallow. Could there be TWO William W Mallow's and two Mary Harman's? I have conflicting parents: Thomas Harman (1820-1886) and Susan P Wimer (1840-1916)...or Asa Harman (b. about 1835) and Barbara Ann Cooper (1838/39 - 1914). I know William is a very common name, and many names marry together...and it could be we're talking about TWO generations. Thanks! PS--Carolyn--I don't have a current address for you. It used to be: CBLyles@aol.com Researching: Appley, Asbury, Barnum, Bauder/Bader, Bowling, Briggs, Burton, Carr, Clark, Dyer, Ecker, Finch, Flannery, Fox, Grim, Hardendorf, Harman, Hawk, Hayes, Henkle/Hinkle, Keith, Marcy, Pier, Sawyer, Summerfield, Schenk, Shepard, Slocum, Strong, Teter, Tinkham, Thompson/Thomson, Walker, Whitlam, Wilks, Wolford, Wood, Woolever. http://www.treelines.com http://www.lineage.net Regards, Diane ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Useful sites: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ (Hints for starting) http://communities.msn.com/AGenealogyExperience (A Genealogy Experience)

I never claimed to be an authority. I was just saying what I had been told. But my Great Grandmother did see it that I know. No harm, no foul.

That was the main one, there is also just a mention in this one listed below: Those were the only two that came up in the search. http://www.wvculture.org/history/counties/randolph.html Randolph County history sources The West Virginia Archives and History web site offers detailed information on the state's history, outlines the documents available in the State Archives, and provides assistance in conducting genealogical research. Randolph County County Facts Date of Formation: 1787 Named: For Edmund Jennings Randolph, Governor of VA, 1786-1788 County Seat: Elkins Sources Books "Joe Brown Lynched Hanged in Front of Whitmer Saloon in 1899," Inter-Mountain, 5-14- 1988. Gloria Jean (Powers) Husk 114 Arizona Street Carrabelle, Fl. 32322 http://www.gloryway.com Love Always:Glory's Way : http://www.lovealwaysglorysway.com

Joe Brown - by David Armstrong http://swcp.com/~dhickman/journals/V5I2/brown.html Gloria Jean (Powers) Husk 114 Arizona Street Carrabelle, Fl. 32322 http://www.gloryway.com Love Always:Glory's Way : http://www.lovealwaysglorysway.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "PAT SALETORE" <psaletore@prodigy.net> To: <WVRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [WVRANDOL-L] Joe Brown--for Robin K. or open question I have copies of at least some of the articles. He was born in Tazwell and all that running to and fro was before they put him in jail the first time. He got out and came to Whitmer. From what I have read, however, he was far from being an upstanding citizen. But he has his supporters (and had them then too) He is accused of shooting up the town with a gun in each hand... but what it looks like was that he was probably ok as long as he was sober. I think he was a mean drunk. I've heard portraits of him as a good man...he married a local girl and she seemed to think he was all right. Her family thought a lot of him. I guess he was an organizer with the labor types in the lumber business. Some have said that his colorful exploits were largely invented by the lumber management. I have to wonder. I tend to think that he would on occasion take more than a few, pick fights, and endanger the townfolk. I don't think they would have lynched him if they didn't consider him a danger. Inquiring minds want to know, though. What was the deal? was he hung from a pole like the papers said or from a rope between buildings as I have heard suggested in my family? looking at the photos (which all of the western Jordans have, by the way) there is no pole visible. and you can see almost to the highest point of the rope...there isn't a big angle. I am inclined to believe it was a rope or a cable between poles or buildings. The papers are hardly reliable and obviously biased. They paint Joe as a dangerous criminal and the the people that hung him as dangerous criminals and the people who just wouldn't talk about it...well they're just as bad. Everyone loses. But I am not sure that I believe them verbatim. What we're looking for is oral accounts. It isn't like no one KNEW. They ALL knew. But none of my folks were talking. Pat Pat Saletore psaletore@prodigy.net psaletore@abilityfirst.org Santa Clarita, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: Neil <sprtpr@neo.rr.com> To: <WVRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 6:47 PM Subject: Re: [WVRANDOL-L] Joe Brown--for Robin K. or open question > At the moment I can't find the newspaper articles i have on the subject but > I will relay them when I find them. I do recall that Joe Brown was > "shooting his pistols in the air", and shot the unarmed Sheriff, when he > attempted to arrest him. He was arrested later at a lumber camp, but > escaped. As I recall he was apprehended in Michigan and extradited back to > Whitmer. That's when he was lynched. There was even a picture of his body > swinging from the light pole in the paper at the time. My Great > Grandfather--Andrew Hedrick was the JOP. > > > > > > > At 06:24 PM 02/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: > >Neil...what else do you know about the incident? Did your grandfather tell > >you the story? Who was the JOP? > >Do tell! there are lots of us interested > >Pat Saletore > >psaletore@prodigy.net > >psaletore@abilityfirst.org > >Santa Clarita, CA > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Neil <sprtpr@neo.rr.com> > >To: <WVRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 6:13 PM > >Subject: Re: [WVRANDOL-L] Joe Brown--for Robin K. or open question > > > > > > > This account is not accurate.. He was arrested after shooting the > >sheriff. > > > He was the town bully. He escaped and returned a year later. That's when > > > he was lynched. Yes he was hanged from a town light pole There is a lot > > > more to the story.......do the research.......... > > > > > > The Whitmer's Justice of the Peace's Great Grandson....... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > At 11:42 PM 02/02/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > > >Joe Brown was a drifter. I think people were giving him a hard time. He > >was > > > >in the saloon and a fight broke out and he shot his gun and it grazed the > > > >Sherrifs ear. It didnt hurt the sheriff at all. > > > > > > > >They sent a posse out looking for him, found him, and hung him in the > >middle > > > >of town. It was a very violent hanging and one that did not have to > >happen. > > > > > > > > > > > >My Great Grandmother told me she was on the way to the store to get a > >loaf of > > > >bread and she saw what was happening and she got so scared she swallowed > >the > > > >dime and ran home! > > > > > > > >He is buried in the graveyard where my relatives are buried. > > > > > > > > > > > >==== WVRANDOL Mailing List ==== > > > >Post that query on the list. > > > >You never know, someone may be able to help you. > > > > > > > > > > > >============================== > > > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > > > >go to: > > > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== WVRANDOL Mailing List ==== > > > Give someone some help and they may help you. > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > >go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > >==== WVRANDOL Mailing List ==== > >Check out the West Virginia Roots Network at: > >http://miadatlantic.rootsweb.com/WV/ > > > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > >go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== WVRANDOL Mailing List ==== > Give someone some help and they may help you. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ==== WVRANDOL Mailing List ==== Check out the Randolph County USGW site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvrandol/ ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

http://webferret.search.com/click?wf,Joe+Brown+lynched,,swcp.com%2F%7Edhickm an%2Fjournals%2FV5I2%2Fbrown.html,,fastsearch ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- NOTES ON W. JOE BROWN by David Armstrong William Joseph "Joe" Brown was born in Tazewell County, Virginia on 29 June 1868, a son of William Patton Brown and Lucinda (Whitt) Brown of that county. After coming to Randolph County he married Susan (Snyder) Summerfield at Barman, and was lynched at Whitmer in March of 1909. Being by birth a member of a Brown family and by adoption a descendant of the Summerfields, I once took considerable interest in this man and this incident, to see what if any connection Joe Brown might have had to my family. While I found that I am not related to Joe Brown, I did uncover a different Joe Brown than the one portrayed in the papers at the time. An apparent alcoholic with a violent temper, Joe Brown was also a true friend, kind to children, and had many advocates on the Dry Fork among those he called friends. Perhaps much of what was written about him at the time was an outgrowth of his labor agitations, and may have amounted to a "smear" campaign on the part of the big out of state timber operators to discredit an individual who was giving them trouble by demanding that they hire local folks rather than Europeans. Below will be found a sort of "catalogue" of various items of interest that pertain to the Joe Brown incident. The shorter ones I have abstracted here. The ones listed below without particulars are ones that were longer and more detailed, and interested persons can procure copies for themselves of the items that they are interested in. I myself have published articles on Joe Brown in the ELKINS INTER MOUNTAIN (14 May 1988), and I published a picture in the WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY the in the fall of following year, along with an article entitled "Information Please on Joe Brown Lynched at Whitmer". The photo was provided and identified as a photo of Joe Brown by Anna Nelson, of Whitmer, WV, who knew Brown as a child. The picture was on a post card mailed to Anna Nelson's sister, Dorah Day, at Laneville, in November of 1909 by Charlie Sites, a mill worker and restaurant owner at Laneville. Sites wrote on the back of the card: "Miss Day as asking you for correspondence, hope to hear a joly reply this is not a very good picture but I have a better wan for you best C Sites" I have often wondered what Mr. Sites' motive was for such a message on a photo of Joe Brown, but Mrs. Nelson was adamant that the man in the photo WAS Brown and that her father knew him. She reported that as a child she sat on Brown's knee when he would visit her father's house, and that Brown brought her candy. The photograph bears a strong resemblance to the deceased Brown, pictured in various publications since his death. It has been suggested that since Brown made national news perhaps pictures were being distributed by Sites or others as novelty items. In addition to the items below there are also a number of interesting letters relating to the lynching of Joe Brown in the papers of Governor Glascock at Colson Hall archives in Morgantown. Interested parties are referred to those letters in addition to the following. The list of articles below should not be taken as a complete list of available stories on Joe Brown, but reading the ones listed should give interested persons a good start in researching this most interesting chapter in West Virginia law enforcement history. PARSONS ADVOCATE 18 Aug 1904 "Took 18 Men" From the Horton Star - Monday afternoon Joe Brown proceeded to shoot up the town by walking down railroad avenue with gun in each hand firing shot after shot in the air. Sergeant Sponaugle having no gun and being unable to get one went to the mayor and got warrant and he and mayor formed posse. Brown located at Alph White's camp above Horton at daybreak Tuesday and an attempt was made to to enter the house and capture Brown. He started to run but when commanded to halt he whirled around facing posse with a revolver in each hand and opened fire, but was met with a fusilade of shots, 18 in all, and surrendered. Locked up in town. After leaving town on way to Elza's place where he stopped a short time before proceeding to Whites he met Cap Munson and became engaged in an altercation. Munson received several blows to the head and neck. RANDOLPH ENTERPRISE 1 Mar 1905 "Flew the coup" POCAHONTAS TIMES 2 Mar 1905 "State News" A prisoner named Brown from Kentucky, in Randolph County Jail for assault, broke jail by cutting the bars PARSONS ADVOCATE 2 Mar 1905 copies the Randolph Enterprise article entitled "Flew the Coup" RANDOLPH ENTERPRISE 25 Mar 1909 "Lynched Man's Career Sketched" and "Paid Penalty for Crime" PHILIPPI REPUBLICAN 25 Mar 1909 "Taken From Jail and Strung Up" CLARKSBURG WEEKLY TELEGRAM 25 Mar 1909 "Mob Hangs man to Pole" PHILIPPI REPUBLICAN 25 Mar 1909 "Taken From Jail and Strung Up" Brown was hanged from a telephone pole at 1:15 AM the morning of March 19th. Brown broke jail 4 year ago, and eluded officers since. He appeared at Whitmer Thursday drunk. The party was about fifty lynchers. Young Nordeck of Whitmer was one of the guards over Brown, says lynchers were alol disguised and wore masks. He believes there were about 25. Six pistols were pointed at him when Brown was taken. A posse of about 15 hunted Brown for two hours CHARLESTON GAZETTE 23 Mar 1909 "Kump Wires He's Doing His Best To Punish" Brown buried Saturday afternoon in Potters field at Horton, after a tilt of 24 hours between officials of Horton cemetery and authorities. Cemetery officials stoutly refused Browns body and triumphed. Internment attracted a small crowd of curious but no mourners. Body hauled to Potters field in road wagon. CLARKSBURG WEEKLY TELEGRAM 25 Mar 1909 "Mob Hangs Man To Pole" 1:30AM; Body was cut down 7:00AM; Justice Hedrick empannel coroner's jury RANDOLPH ENTERPRISE 29 Apr 1909 "Brown Was Wanted At Port Huron" a letter received by chief of police W M Harper would indicate that Joe Brown was wnated at Port Huron, Michigan. The letter from John S. Whitliff recites the fact that the writer saw Associated Press accounts of the Brown lynching inquires whether the initials "JB" were tatooed on his arm. the writer further states that Brown left Michigan several years ago to go south. Dr. Crittenden of Whitmer, who attended Brown after he was shot, says that Brown was covered with tatoo marks. On one arm was tatooed "WJB" together with the picture of a woman under which was the word "mother". RANDOLPH ENTERPRISE 13 Dec 1911 Hendricks, WV, Charles Edward Hedrick suicide due to remorse from participation in Lynching of Joe Brown at Horton several years ago. The matter constantly preyed on his mind and drove him to use drugs. He was found along the railroad track with a bullett in his head. Was once constable of Dry fork District and later chief of police at Whitmer. Unmarried, he lived with a sister at Hendricks. WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY 24 Nov 1956 "Dry Fork Incident of 40 Years Ago" RANDOLPH ENTERPRISE 5 Nov 1958 "Lynching of Joe Brown at Whitmer" by Homer Floyd Fansler WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY 7 Oct 1961 "The Day They Hung Joe Brown" - has photo of Brown hanging WEST VIRGINIA HILLBILLY 26 Jul 1969 "Story Back of the Hanging of Joe Brown" byy E. C. Wyatt Pedigree of W. Joe Brown based on Research by David Armstrong The Allegheny Regional Family History Society Post Office Box 1804 Elkins, West Virginia, 26241 arhfs@yahoo.com Comments regarding this page to: Deborah Johnson. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Gloria Jean (Powers) Husk 114 Arizona Street Carrabelle, Fl. 32322 http://www.gloryway.com Love Always:Glory's Way : http://www.lovealwaysglorysway.com