TAYLOR MCAVOY CEMETERY summer 2000 Located on Pleasant Ridge Road, 1 and 7/10th miles past Upper Glade post office. Cemetery sits on left, is visible from main road, fenced and well maintained. ROW 1 starting left corner going left to right Military marker Lionuel H. Blankenship 1540th Engineers 29th Battalion Company D WWII 1942-1945 Army of the United States Sept 25th 1905 June 23rd 1982 Patricia Ann Blankenship Aug 17 1911 Oct 1 1977 Double Stone BLANKENSHIP James J. July 6 1866 April 1 1945 Sarah C. May 14 1872 March 31 1954 Taylor Carl McAvoy Nov 7 1911 Dec 26 1989 J.E. "Buzz" McAvoy Nov 12 1877 Oct 6 1943 Military marker Alva R. McAvoy West Virginia S SGT CO I 331 Infantry WWII BSM-PH Feb 23 1922 Feb 1 1971 Thelma M. McAvoy Aug 5 1922 Jan 18 1977 Military marker Thomas O. Lingenfelter S SGT US AIR FORCE Korea Jan 7 1930 Jan 30 1983 Hazel Lingenfelter 6-10-1927 Blank ROW 2 Samuel McAvoy March 30 1819 Oct 6 1895 aged 76 yrs 6 mos 6 days Mary M. Short dau of S. & R.A. McAvoy Nov 4 1875 Feb 18 1903 (tombstone broken and repaired) Girlda A. dau of L. & M. Short May 30 1902 Mar 27 1907 G.P. son of T.C. and G. McAvoy July 10 1914 July 12 1914 Double Stone MCAVOY Taylor C. 1884 1976 Gustava 1890 1980 Double Stone McCLURE Acie A. Apr 24 1928 July 19 1972 Hilma M Oct 30 1930 blank ROW 3 Samuel McAvoy died Aug 21 1890 aged 46 yrs 3 mos 11 days Rhoda A. McAvoy wife of Samuel McAvoy Nov 7 1854 Feb 7 1935 Infant Daughter of S. & R.A. McAvoy born & died May 9 1889 Verdun Elzie Bee Aug 12 1916 Aug 8 1917 Isephine Cogar Starcher Nov 9 1886 Aug 23 1982 Double Stone MALCOMB Virginia A. Sept 6 1939 Sept 30 1999 George E. June 9 1935 blank ROW 4 (The following stones are all homemade markers, all information on the markers is recorded here) Cutter baby Faye Walkup Sadie _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

I have located a military marker that has lain in a back yard for more than fifty years. It has never been set and nobody knows the person listed or the location of his remains. The marker is about four feet high, an old style military marker, white. It reads Edward Exline Co. M 2 W.VA. INF SP. AM. War The Spanish American War refered to occured in the mid 1890's. No other information is contained on the stone. The stone is located in Halo, in a private yard about five miles outside Cowen, on the Erbacon Road. The property is located near the rail-road and it is possible that the stone was unloaded here by mistake, or none of the family remained to claim the stone when it was delivered. It is also possible that the person named at one time owned the property and his remains are buried somewhere on the farm. Any help would be appreciated. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

Just a help - when you submit anything that you are typing yourself, please include the persons surname in CAPS - I think this helps make the person stand out in a bunch of text - if it's a woman and she's married, please don't use CAPS - for maiden name only. THANKS - bj

Please visit the Funeral Service link on the webster page - let me know if you have information to add. Also, feedback on the format - did I forget something? BJ

That was an interesting note on the family to sick to bury their son. Thanks for sharing that tidbit of history, Patsy

There are still a few stories floating around about the flu epidemic of 1918. Hardy Crosby's father was coming home from work one day and saw a coffin just sitting in the Adkisson Cemetery. A young boy had died and his family was able to carry him to the cemetery but were too sick to bury him. Hardy and his father buried him where his coffin sat. >From: Patsy H Weikart <qmgen@juno.com> >To: WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WVWEBSTE] Periods of Disease >Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:12:59 -0700 > >PERIODS of DISEASE > >Taken from the Genealogical Society of Stanislaus County,CA - newsletter >titled: > " Stanislaus Researcher" - Volume 22 - Number 7 - July 2000 > >Order of listing: >Year(s) / Region, Area, City or State / Disease > >1657 - Boston - Measles >1687 - Boston - Measles >1690 - New York- Yellow Fever >1713 - Boston - Measles >1729 - Boston- Measles >1732-33 Worldwide- Influenza >1738 - South Carolina - Smallpox >1739-40 - Boston - Measles >1747- CT, NY, PA, SC - Smallpox >1759 - North America - Measles >1761 - North America - Influenza >1772 - North America - Measles >1775 - North America- Unknown >1775-76 - Worldwide- Influenza >1783 - Dover, DE - Bilious Disorder >1788 - Phila. + New York - Measles >1793- VT (putrid fever) + Influenza >1793- VA Influenza (500 in 4 weeks) >1793 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever >1793 - Harrisburg, PA - Unknown >1793 - Middletown, PA - Yellow Fever >1794 - Philadelphia- Yellow Fever >1796 - 97 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever >1798 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever >1803 - New York- Yellow Fever >1820- 1823- - Nationwide- "Fever" >1831-1832- - Nationwide- Asiatic Cholera >1832- New York & other big cities - Cholera >1833 - Columbus, Ohio - Cholera >1833-34 - Kentucky - Cholera >1834- New York City, New York - Cholera >1837 - Philadelphia - Typhus >1841- Nationwide - (bad in South) - Yellow Fever >1847 - New Orleans - Yellow Fever >1847-48 - Worldwide- Influenza >1848-49 - North America - Cholera >1849 - New York - Cholera >1850- Nationwide- Yellow Fever >1851- Coles Co., Great Plains, MO. - Cholera >1852 - Nationwide - Yellow Fever >1855 - Nationwide - Yellow Fever >1857-59 - Worldwide - Influenza >1860-61 - Pennsylvania- Smallpox >1865-73 - Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, >Memphis, Washington, DC. >A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, >Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever and Influenza. >1873-75 - North America + Europe - Influenza >1878- New Orleans - Yellow Fever >1885 - Plymouth, PA - Typhoid >1886 - Jacksonville, FL - Yellow Fever >1918 - Worldwide (high point year) more people were hospitalized in World >War I from this >epidemic than wounds. U S Army training camps became death camps, with >80% death rate in some camps. - Influenza or Spanish Flu. >(post by patsy) > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

PERIODS of DISEASE Taken from the Genealogical Society of Stanislaus County,CA - newsletter titled: " Stanislaus Researcher" - Volume 22 - Number 7 - July 2000 Order of listing: Year(s) / Region, Area, City or State / Disease 1657 - Boston - Measles 1687 - Boston - Measles 1690 - New York- Yellow Fever 1713 - Boston - Measles 1729 - Boston- Measles 1732-33 Worldwide- Influenza 1738 - South Carolina - Smallpox 1739-40 - Boston - Measles 1747- CT, NY, PA, SC - Smallpox 1759 - North America - Measles 1761 - North America - Influenza 1772 - North America - Measles 1775 - North America- Unknown 1775-76 - Worldwide- Influenza 1783 - Dover, DE - Bilious Disorder 1788 - Phila. + New York - Measles 1793- VT (putrid fever) + Influenza 1793- VA Influenza (500 in 4 weeks) 1793 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever 1793 - Harrisburg, PA - Unknown 1793 - Middletown, PA - Yellow Fever 1794 - Philadelphia- Yellow Fever 1796 - 97 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever 1798 - Philadelphia - Yellow Fever 1803 - New York- Yellow Fever 1820- 1823- - Nationwide- "Fever" 1831-1832- - Nationwide- Asiatic Cholera 1832- New York & other big cities - Cholera 1833 - Columbus, Ohio - Cholera 1833-34 - Kentucky - Cholera 1834- New York City, New York - Cholera 1837 - Philadelphia - Typhus 1841- Nationwide - (bad in South) - Yellow Fever 1847 - New Orleans - Yellow Fever 1847-48 - Worldwide- Influenza 1848-49 - North America - Cholera 1849 - New York - Cholera 1850- Nationwide- Yellow Fever 1851- Coles Co., Great Plains, MO. - Cholera 1852 - Nationwide - Yellow Fever 1855 - Nationwide - Yellow Fever 1857-59 - Worldwide - Influenza 1860-61 - Pennsylvania- Smallpox 1865-73 - Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington, DC. A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever and Influenza. 1873-75 - North America + Europe - Influenza 1878- New Orleans - Yellow Fever 1885 - Plymouth, PA - Typhoid 1886 - Jacksonville, FL - Yellow Fever 1918 - Worldwide (high point year) more people were hospitalized in World War I from this epidemic than wounds. U S Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps. - Influenza or Spanish Flu. (post by patsy)

I have started adding new info tonight and will work hard through the week. If you are visiting and find any broken links please let me know. BJ The Hilliers www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3151

Mona F. Cutlip a daughter of Thomas M.and Martha Ellen Cutlip was born Jan. 7 1908 in Webster Co.WV. and died Oct. 30 1937. She is buried in the cemetery at Centralia, Braxton Co.WV. The only information I have on her husband is his name,Rob Bleigh. Rob could be short for Robert. I have found a Robert Bleigh on the Social Security Death Index that was born Oct. 21, 1907 and died Feb. 1977 and was living at Craigsville, Nicholas Co. I am not sure if this is Mona Cutlip's husband or not. Any information on Mona Cutlip's husband regardless how little it is would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Tom Cutlip Wsamar@bigriver.net

Michael, Thank you for all of the research you have done!! As for the confusion in Row 12 about S.E. Case Jack...That is Sara Ellen Case Jack. William Case was her first husband and Henry Jack was her second. Ezra Case listed above her is her son, along with William McGary. Sara is my gr-gr grandmother. Thanks again for all of the hard work Laura ___________________________________________________________ Get a sneak preview of the new MSN: http://preview.msn.com/

ADKISON CEMETERY read summer 2000 Located about three miles outside Cowen on the Erbacon Road, very near the two gas stations that sit within sight of each other. Dirt road on left going up a very steep hill can be carefully negotiated by car in dry weather if you are adventurous. Cemetery is mowed but many stones have either fallen or leaning badly, at least two stones have crumbled into illegibility. Caretaker is Sherry Holcomb 48 Erbacon Road, Cowen WV. ROW 1 left side starting at bottom Darell Tyrone Deel 1947 1985 Military Marker James Eugene Deel PVT US ARMY US NAVY Viet Nam Nov 8 1945 Feb 2 1994 Danny C. Deel Nov 18 1949 March 24 2000 Double Stone WEESE Clyde A. Feb 17 1908 Aug 7 1988 Yvonne A. June 15 1913 Feb 13 1998 (photo on marker) Military Marker Clyde A. Weese PVT US Army WWII Feb 17 1908 Aug 7 1988 Double Stone DEEL Mavadelle I. Sept 2 1928 (no death date) Arley A. June 29 1921 Aug 10 1993 Military Marker Argel A. Deel PFC US ARMY WWII 1919 1986 Double Stone HENLINE Mack June 9 1922 March 1 1994 Zanna S. March 19 1922 Aug 6 1998 Military Marker Hoy Mack Henline PFC US ARMY WWII June 9 1922 March 1 1994 ROW 2 Double Stone DEEL Elizabeth G. 1907 1972 Edward W. 1904 1956 Infant William C Deel Infant Ramona Deel Infant Abigail Deel Infant Elizabeth Deel (Row Dog legs to left and splits into two rows this is the left row, see row 4 for the right leg) Baby Brother Deel infant son of Willis and Viola Deel (grave is unmarked) James Harvey Deel (grave is unmarked) Susan Dawson Deel James Watson Deel (grave is unmarked) (I have been unable to discover the death date of James Harvey Deel and wanted to have that date to put on the marker, James Watson Deel was killed in WWI and a military marker was ordered last fall but it has to be returned because of a mistake reading WWII instead of WWI) Hensley Deel 1881 1950 Double Stone DEEL Viola P. 1889 1956 Willis M. 1878 1949 Lonnie Deel teenage son of Bill Jones and Eva Deel (grave is unmarked) Eva L. Brady 1886 1953 Matt Brady 1875 1951 Ralph E. (Bud) Tyler born Arcola WV Apr 1 1918 died Elkins WV June 17 1956 Ollie F. Wife of A. R. Tyler March 15 1895 Dec 31 1920 Double Stone M.F. McElwain Sept 7 1857 (no death date) G.S. McElwain Jan 12 1854 May 12 1922 Three graves marked by fieldstone H.H. Johnson Sept 14 1868 Jan 27 1939 ROW 3 (Row starts in middle of cemetery near graves of Willis and Viola Deel) Thomas Mathess born Jan 14 1888 Died June 18 1912 Fredrick C. Mathes Dec 28 1909 Nov 8 1918 Tressa Woodring wife of James H Woodring Sr. At least three graves marked by fieldstone with room for several more graves ROW 4 (this row splits off from row 1 and is the right leg) Unmarked Grave Grave marked by fieldstone Grave marked by giant flower Unmarked grave Three graves marked by fieldstone Double stone Delilah A. Hardway 1877 1916 Carry A. Hardway 1876 1929 James R. Mathes 1924 1987 Lenora Genevieve Evans Sept 17 1928 Aug 2 1990 ROW 5 Allen N Adkison 1902 1964 (Metal marker is bent) Two unmarked graves Two graves marked by giant flowers (room for about five more graves, no evidence of existing graves) Cora Bell Crosby 1884 1960 Badly damaged stone (broken piece still contains photo) Jacob Stover Crosby 1870 1953 Base stone with top of stone missing Stone which has fallen over and is leaning against base Walter B. Crosby March 8 1905 Jan 20 1943 Badly damaged stone Forrest Crosby Double Stone Alma 1903 1904 Charles 1909 1910 children of I.S. ?? C.B. Crosby Our baby Dorthy Elizabeth Crosby 1929 1929 Ina E. Roberts Oct 2 1893 May 16 1927 (marker leaning) Gerald Crosby Jun 13 1927 Nov 21 1947 (marker leaning) Hardy O. Crosby Jun 5 1900 Jan 10 1995 Grave marked by a rock Ezra Dorr Hardway July 23 1906 Apr 6 1950 Harry David Martin 1937 1954 Unreadable (thought to be Reuben Mathes husband of Ida Bell Mathes listed below) Ida Bell Mathes 1901 1952 Martha M. 1920 1955 Row 6 Unmarked Grave E.J. Adkison Born Apr 18 1829 Died Feb 25 1905 Two unmarked graves (space for about ten more graves, no evidence of existing graves) Three graves marked by fieldstone Unmarked grave Gilbert Mathes 1893 1915 (Marker leaning) Two unmarked graves (space for several more graves, no evidence of existing graves) Grave marked by fieldstone (room for about ten more graves, no evidence of existing graves) ROW 7 Military Marker Wilber J. Stalnaker S Sgt US ARMY WWII Korea 1908 1988 Gerald A. Stalnaker June 28 1906 June 10 1984 Double Stone STALNAKER Mary O. Stalnaker Apr 12 1883 Mar 33 1968 Asa F. Nov 26 1875 Mar 28 1939 Annie daughter of A.F. and M.O. Stalnaker Born Jan 22 1901 Died March 1 1901 Grace E. dau of W.M. and M.N. Ruckman born July 4 1893 died July 7 1903 Grave marked by fieldstone Double Stone GADD Geannetta M. 1864 1898 Miles B. 1860 1940 James Gadd 1808 1888 Geo S. son of M.B. and Virginia B. Gadd June 1884 Apr 1889 Virginia B. wife of Miles B. Gadd Born Oct 9 1859 died May 9 1887 Lee D. Gadd 1880 1965 (Metal marker bent) M.V. wife of W.H. Paugh June 7 1863 June 23 1905 aged 42 yrs 16days (This is the last marked grave in this row, ends halfway up hill with no obvious graves any higher) ROW 8 Double Stone RUCKMAN W.M. 1855 19(blank) Mary M. 1859 1928 Wright erected by J.L. Collins to the memory of his mother Nancy A. Wright May 30 1871 May 18 1930 Unmarked Grave Henry E. Wright 1902 1948 Grave marked by fieldstone (no obvious graves until near top of hill) Double Stone BEAM Ada M. May 7 1902 Sept 6 1944 Burl C. Feb 17 1900 June 28 1948 Double Stone Adam G. Green Jan 19 1870 Dec 27 1943 Naomi Green 1870 19(Blank) Double Stone GREEN Ida Pearl 1902 19(blank) Christopher C. 1895 1951 ROW 9 Eight graves marked by fieldstone (Open area no obvious graves) Herbert Bragg 1971 2000 Gathel Y. Bragg Feb 3 1933 Dec 31 1986 Vada G. Dillon 1908 1983 Three (maybe four) unmarked graves Ronald D. Cogar 1934 1998 ROW 10 Two graves marked by fieldstone Wm. F. Reynolds Mar 13 1848 Oct 9 1891 Aged 46 yrs 6 mths 26 days Two unmarked graves (open area) ROW 11 Three graves marked with fieldstone Unmarked grave Grave marked with fieldstone Double Stone DAVIS Newton F. 1862 1933 Christine 1872 1939 Grave marked by giant flower Double Stone ADKISON Mother Macel 1898 1934 Daughter Olive Marie 1918 1918 Two unmarked graves Andrew Coakley 1894 1966 Nellie Coakley wife of Andrew Coakley (grave unmarked) Unmarked grave Isaac E. Coakley 1888 1965 Susan Coakley wife of Isaac E. (Ed) Coakley (grave unmarked) Nola Myrtle Burns 1884 1960 Bonnie J. Taylor 1938 1962 Nola June Cogar 1915 1975 ROW 12 Estel & Esker inf sons of C.B. and R.M. Case born adn died Nov 29 1901 Ezra C. Case Oct 14 1878 Apr 24 1935 Clora M. Case Dec 17 1891 Aug 28 1982 (This stone confused me) top of stone reads 'MOTHER' then S.E. Case Jack 1847 1930, (obviously the surname is Case and Jack appears to be a nickname) Three unmarked graves (Open area to top of hill, no obvious graves) ROW 13 William McGary Case Dec 21 1872 Sep 21 1944 (stone has fallen over) G.M. son of WM and LI Case Born Oct 9 1911 Died Oct 19 1911 (grave enclosed within small antique wrought iron fence) Alda wife of L.A. Smith Dec 12 1900 Feb 15 1928 Two unmarked graves Clarence Mathes 1901 1948 Two unmarked (open area no obvious graves) Billy J. Messer 1953 1953 Ercell Jack Burns Feb 29 1908 June 19 1979 Kenneth Lee Burns 1949 1988 According to county death records and personal interviews the following persons may also be buried in the Adkison Cemetery Frank Bailey died 2-15-1911 son of William Bailey Nova Henline 11-30-1911 son of Wm. Henline M.E. Moffatt Oct 28 1910 Jan 4 1928 child of L.V. Mofatt Jas H. Smith died Oct 30 1911 aged 62 yrs 5 mts 9 days Nannie Adkison 11-17-1886 1-10-1929 Oliver Coakley 5-7-1858 3-19-1939 Christie Davis 4-18-1872 1-22-1939 Betty Lee Deel born and died 6-26-1946 Virginia Ellen Hall May 29 1920 Oct 29 1955 Virginia Johns 3-25-1862 4-22-1936 David Hall Johns 11-10-1857 3-26-1937 Virgie Johnson Morrison 1-10-1899 2-24-1921 Abe Mathes 1-1-1878 6-17-1922 Charles Junior Mathes born and died Nov 30 1932 child of Junior Mathes and Esta Miller David Otis Martin 9-30 1905 7-3-1972 Buster Arlan Mathes 5-11-1940 5-14-1941 son of Albert Mathes and Bell Smith Arnold Jefferson Mathes 10-31-1927 5-11-1973 Delores Moffitt 7-1-1936 8-1-1936 daughter of Grafton and Lela Hamrick Moffitt Elizabeth Belle Moffat 8-26-1872 1-12-1946 Solomon McElwain 1-12-1854 5-12-1922 Hilma Nichols 2-8-1929 3-3-1929 daughter of Martha Nichols Rebecca Philips died 12-16-1925 aged 80 yrs Irene May Stout 9-9-1917 11-16-1918 daughter of Lena Stout Rosie Belle Demoss Sparks May 29-1882 Apr 29-1924 Henry Ervin Wright 8-10-1910 1-17-1948 Christina Keener Stoute Deel (wife of Frank Deel) 1882-1923 Buster Deel (Frank Deel and Mae Bates son) Fred Brady died 9-10-1916 (Hattie Deel Brady and Sherman Brady's son) G.H. Beam died Apr 291914 aged 66yrs 8 mths 7 days Infant Burns born and died 2-28-1920 child of Wm. J. and Nola Coakley Burns Orland Beam 9-5-1922 10-15-1922 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

The words to this song were printed on the Pendleton list. They are as appropriate, if not more so, to the intermingled, intermarried families in Webster and Randolph Counties. -- dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone: 330-454-2376 ---------- > From: Nedra Dickman Brill <brillnd@pacifier.com> > Reply-To: WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:30:28 -0700 > To: WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WVPENDLE] Fwd: I'M MY OWN GRANDPA > Resent-From: WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:05:33 -0700 > > Remember this song from the 50's or 60's? > >> I'M MY OWN GRANDPA - ( Lonzo & Oscar ) >> >> Many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three, >> >> I was married to a widow as pretty as can be. >> >> This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red. >> >> My father fell in love with her and soon the two were wed. >> >> >> This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life, >> >> For my daughter was my mother, for she was my father's wife. >> >> To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy, >> >> I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy. >> >> >> My little baby thus became a brother-in-law to Dad. >> >> And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad. >> >> For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother >> >> To the widow's grown-up daughter, who of course was my step-mother. >> >> >> Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run. >> >> And he became my grandchild for he was my daughter's son. >> >> My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue. >> >> Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too! >> >> Oh, if my wife's my grandmother then I am her grandchild, >> >> And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild. >> >> For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw... >> >> As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa. >> >> Chorus >> >> I'm my own grandpa >> >> I'm my own grandpa >> >> It sounds funny I know, but it really is so >> >> I'm my own grandpa. > > > Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist brillnd@pacifier.com > > Participating Societies Chairman, > NGS Conference, 16-19 May 2001, Portland, Oregon. > For information on the conference, go to: > http://www.gfo.org/ngs2001/index.htm > > Historian, Henckel Family National Association > Coordinator Pendleton County, WV, wvpendle-l@rootsweb.com > > CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, > used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. > http://www.bcgcertification.org/ > > > > > > ==== WVPENDLE Mailing List ==== > Plan now to attend the 2001 National Genealogical Society Conference, > 16-19 May 2001, Portland, Oregon. > For information go to: http://www.gfo.org/ngs2001/index.htm >

Can anyone help me find out what happened to my Grandfather? He died in a car accident in the 1940's. He was married to my grandmother Blenna Marie (Hammons) Hamrick on Dec.25 1929. My mother was beulah ann Hamrick (McDonald) She was very young when her father was supposed to have been killed in the car accident. My mothers parents and her and her other brothers and sisters grew up in cowan WV. They lived in webster co. for a long time. My grampa had to have died in the 1940's because my mother was born in 1938.My mother died in 1984. I never believed that her father died in a car accident. I always felt that he died many years later. My mothers brother Ralph Hamrick lives in Elkins WV. He says he doesn't know anything on the families history. He (Ralph) was taken in by my grampa Pat's mother and father and they raised him. They disliked my grandmother,and never told her of my grandfathers death until 2 months later. He is supposed to be buried in the cooper cemetery. Can an! yone help? Thanks Barbara McDonald

Queen Shoal Creek is some 5-10 miles above Clendennin, WV which is on the Elk River. QS empties into the Elk. -- "Unless a man is honest we have no right to keep him in public life, it matters not how brilliant his capacity." Theodore Roosevelt Bud <West Virginia>

I am researching my ggggrandparents, ISOM PRITT m SUSAN/SUSANNA ________. Their daughter, Susan/Susanna Pritt m Jesse Hodges Stalnaker, Randolph County abt 1849. If anyone has any information on parents/ancestors of Isom or know what Susan/Susanna's last name was, I sure would appreciate hearing from you. I also have gggg grandparents John Pritt m Margaret Miller and his brother, James Pritt m M. Nancy Carpenter all from Webster Co.WV/Bath Co. VA. I don't know if all the Pritt's were related or if Isom is a middle name. They all married about the same time. HELP......Ethel

Dan wrote. . . > I am sorry to disagree with friends. But the headwaters of the Elk are in > Pocahontas County near Slaty Fork. It travels through a portion of Randolph > and runs into Webster County at Whittaker Falls, almost the precise point of > the county line. I made that point, as well, except didn't "reply to all" and sent it to an individual. G-aunt Mary Rose Leary informed me once that the Elk began in Pocahontas Co. and how that river runs below and above the surface. My mother grew up fearful of "underground rivers," as her g-aunt Stella Rose Bonner lived near the "blue hole" of the Elk in the Mingo district of Randolph County. Aunt "Stellie" worried terribly about kids playing around that area (Anna Hogan Dodrill remembers well one of Aunt Stella's tizzies while children played there.) And the Old Field near the beginnings of the Elk is where Stella's mother's family, the Hannahs, came from. Autumn

Unlike George Washington, I can tell a lie, which to me means I am more talented in this area than he was. But my problem is that I cannot tell a lie that people will believe for long. They just don't last that long. So that my credibility problem won't continue on this issue, I want to take back my statement that I started the Elk River. In the place of that one, I want to quote from page 17 (the first page of Chapter One) of W.E.R. Byrne's Tale of the Elk. "The Elk is formed by the junction of the Big Spring Fork and the Old field Fork in Pocahontas County, 166 miles about its mouth at Charleston, at an elevation above sea level of 2,670 feet or 2,070 feet above the capital city. . . .The valleys of both Big Spring Fork and Old Field extend about nine miles above the Forks and though gashed deep in the strata and walled high by the great mountains forming the watershed between the Elk and Greenbrier on the East, The Tygarts Valley to the north and the Gauley and the Williams to the west and south, nevertheless their beds are devoid of water running above the ground but for short stretches here and there, except during the freshet (sic.) seasons, the channel and outlet being subterranean." Question: If you can't see water running, is it a stream? -- dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone: 330-454-2376

I am sorry to disagree with friends. But the headwaters of the Elk are in Pocahontas County near Slaty Fork. It travels through a portion of Randolph and runs into Webster County at Whittaker Falls, almost the precise point of the county line. If it weren't in Randolph, there could be no falls. Back Fork joins the Elk at Webster Springs, and is almost equal in size at that point. The Pocahontas boast is that it is the county of headwaters: The Elk, the Greenbrier, The Williams, The Gauley, The Cheat. I have fished the Elk from near the headwaters to a point below Whittaker Falls, near where my great-grandfather Peter Hamrick lived. Leatherwood Creek is a tributary of the Elk, and does join the river at Bergoo. But the river has already traveled many miles when it gets to Bergoo. The turn-of-the-century towns of Samp and Blue Springs, not now in existence, were substantially upstream from Bergoo. The reason I know all of this is that I started the Elk River some years ago. I appreciate knowing where Queen Shoals is; I didn't know that. And I had nothing to do with the invention of that place. -- dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone: 330-454-2376 From: "Frank Ellington" <fmelngtn@netins.net> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:40:42 -0500 To: WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WVWEBSTE] Robert LEWIS & Matilda Florence Forinash Resent-From: WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:43:18 -0700 Elk River begins at Bergoo/Leatherwood through Barton (Curtin) , Parcoal, Cherry Falls and connects with the Back Fork Elk at Webster Springs. ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert L. Lynch <RLynch2222@compuserve.com> To: <WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:38 AM Subject: [WVWEBSTE] Robert LEWIS & Matilda Florence Forinash > That would be at Queens Shoals on the Elk river in Clay County, actually at > the intersection of Clay, Kanawha and Roane counties. The Elk River runs > from Webster Springs to Charleston. > > Robert Lynch

I have a William Wilson, m. Phoebe Frame, she born 1833 so MAYBE this will help find more. She d/o James Frame & Nancy Keener. James d. 1840 in Nicholas Co., VA (WV). Recommend you try Braxton and Clay counties also. Bill

Elk River begins at Bergoo/Leatherwood through Barton (Curtin) , Parcoal, Cherry Falls and connects with the Back Fork Elk at Webster Springs. ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert L. Lynch <RLynch2222@compuserve.com> To: <WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:38 AM Subject: [WVWEBSTE] Robert LEWIS & Matilda Florence Forinash > That would be at Queens Shoals on the Elk river in Clay County, actually at > the intersection of Clay, Kanawha and Roane counties. The Elk River runs > from Webster Springs to Charleston. > > Robert Lynch