Hi everybody, While looking through some old papers of my dad's, I came across the program for the Glade Dist. 8th Grade Commencement, May 23, 1939. Listed are the schools from Camden, Cowen, Dyer, Arcola and several others with only 1 or 2 students. If anyone is interested let me know, and I'll pass a copy on to you. App. 80 students are listed. Jim Burns

Hello, List! Webster County Chat is Friday 10pm ET http://homepages.go.com/~wvbreeze/chat.html. Hope to "see" you there! Terri Brake-McCourt Hico, West Virginia

Thanks to everyone on the mailing list who responded to my inquiry about the public library in Webster Springs, WV. What an efficient group you are! Really appreciated the help. Deanna Williams Merritt Island, Florida screenprch@metrolink.net

I just learned about a neat website that I wanted to share with everyone. It's a place where you can record your raw data for others to use -- but you do need to list your source so don't put anything down you can't prove! I found it because I've been doing some research into my maternal grandfather's line in Iowa and someone directed me to it. I've just spent a little time recording my Phares data on the Braxton, Webster and Nicholas County boards. Take a look and see what you think. http://www.genexchange.com/wv/braxton/index.cfm Gail Phares Walkley

I am not sure if the Webster Republican is associated with the Webster Echo now or not, but when I contacted a person last year in regards to newspaper records, they said that they only hold them yearly. It might be worth trying again, but that is what I was told. Jill Dan Hamrick wrote: > You might be able to research newspaper records at the Webster Echo weekly > newspaper. > You would just need to ask. My guess is that they will be confined to the > Echo itself. > > dhamrick@neo.rr.com > Dan Hamrick > 402 23rd Street NW > Canton OH 44709 > Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 > > ---------- > >From: "Deanna S. Williams" <screenprch@metrolink.net> > >To: WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [WVWEBSTE] Webster-Addison Public Library > >Date: Wed, Apr 12, 2000, 10:00 PM > > > > >Has anyone on the mailing list visited the Webster-Addison Public Library > >in Webster Springs, WV? If so, what type of genealogical materials do they > >have? I was told that they don't have microfilmed newspapers, but am > >wondering if they maintain a file of newspaper obituaries and news articles. > > > >I would appreciate hearing about anyone's experience at this library. I > >plan to travel to Webster Co. later this month, and would like to know in > >advance what to expect. > > > >Thank you. > >

Deanna, I was there last summer and I can tell you that they didn't have a whole lot. I ended up going to the library in Summersville, WV. The Webster library didn't have any microfilm, newspaper records, and very little genealogical info from books. They had a few heritage books and a big book on the McCutcheon family. That is only because one cannot leave the library without them. It is a pretty small library, and my cousin always just went to Summersville. That is where I saw a copy of the Augustus County Heritage Book right when it came out. They had one copy, and they kept it in the back room. You might want to try there. Good Luck, Jill "Deanna S. Williams" wrote: > Has anyone on the mailing list visited the Webster-Addison Public Library in Webster Springs, WV? If so, what type of genealogical materials do they have? I was told that they don't have microfilmed newspapers, but am wondering if they maintain a file of newspaper obituaries and news articles. > > I would appreciate hearing about anyone's experience at this library. I plan to travel to Webster Co. later this month, and would like to know in advance what to expect. > > Thank you.

You might try the State Archives in Charleston. They have alot of the old newspapers on microfilm. I'm pretty sure they have the Webster Echo. Cathy >---------- >>From: "Deanna S. Williams" <screenprch@metrolink.net> >>To: WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: [WVWEBSTE] Webster-Addison Public Library >>Date: Wed, Apr 12, 2000, 10:00 PM >> > >>Has anyone on the mailing list visited the Webster-Addison Public Library >>in Webster Springs, WV? If so, what type of genealogical materials do they >>have? I was told that they don't have microfilmed newspapers, but am >>wondering if they maintain a file of newspaper obituaries and news articles. >> >>I would appreciate hearing about anyone's experience at this library. I >>plan to travel to Webster Co. later this month, and would like to know in >>advance what to expect. >> >>Thank you. >> > > >

You might be able to research newspaper records at the Webster Echo weekly newspaper. You would just need to ask. My guess is that they will be confined to the Echo itself. dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 ---------- >From: "Deanna S. Williams" <screenprch@metrolink.net> >To: WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WVWEBSTE] Webster-Addison Public Library >Date: Wed, Apr 12, 2000, 10:00 PM > >Has anyone on the mailing list visited the Webster-Addison Public Library >in Webster Springs, WV? If so, what type of genealogical materials do they >have? I was told that they don't have microfilmed newspapers, but am >wondering if they maintain a file of newspaper obituaries and news articles. > >I would appreciate hearing about anyone's experience at this library. I >plan to travel to Webster Co. later this month, and would like to know in >advance what to expect. > >Thank you. >

I have been to the library in Webster Springs. Its genealogical materials are very limited. I hate to sound critical but there was next to nothing there. I felt as though they were missing the entire genealogical boom. Better bets are the Cultural Arts Division in Charleston or Carlson Hall at West Virginia University in Morgantown. There are, of course, records in the Webster County Courthouse in Webster Springs. But there's a problem there, too, because the courthouse burned in 1888. dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 ---------- >From: "Deanna S. Williams" <screenprch@metrolink.net> >To: WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WVWEBSTE] Webster-Addison Public Library >Date: Wed, Apr 12, 2000, 10:00 PM > >Has anyone on the mailing list visited the Webster-Addison Public Library >in Webster Springs, WV? If so, what type of genealogical materials do they >have? I was told that they don't have microfilmed newspapers, but am >wondering if they maintain a file of newspaper obituaries and news articles. > >I would appreciate hearing about anyone's experience at this library. I >plan to travel to Webster Co. later this month, and would like to know in >advance what to expect. > >Thank you. >

Has anyone on the mailing list visited the Webster-Addison Public Library in Webster Springs, WV? If so, what type of genealogical materials do they have? I was told that they don't have microfilmed newspapers, but am wondering if they maintain a file of newspaper obituaries and news articles. I would appreciate hearing about anyone's experience at this library. I plan to travel to Webster Co. later this month, and would like to know in advance what to expect. Thank you.

Do you have a will of an ancestor or other persons from Webster? Please send me the basic details and I will post on the page. bj

If you know the address of folks who maintain cemeteries in Webster? Thanks - bj

Does anyone know where there's list of soldiers for VA/WV listed on-line? Thanks - bj ----- Original Message ----- From: Patsy H Weikart <qmgen@juno.com> To: <WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 4:19 PM Subject: [WVWEBSTE] West Virginia Counties -Revolutionary and 1930 Names > > West Virginia Counties - Revolutionary And 1930 Names > > The counties of that part of the State of Virginia later to become West > Virginia have been divided and subdivided so many times since the > Revolutionary War that the following list of the name of county > (Revolutionary) and the names of counties taken from it listed: > > Revolutionary Name: MONONGALIA COUNTY > > Name in 1930: HARRISON - RANDOLPH - WOOD - LEWIS -PRESTON > > BRAXTON - BARBOUR - RITCHIE - TAYLOR - MARION - GILMER > > DODDRIDGE - WIRT - UPSHUR - PLEASANTS - TUCKER - CALHOUN > > CLAY - MONONGALIA > > > Revolutionary Name: BOTETOURT COUNTY > > Name in 1930 - LOGAN - FAYETTE - MERCER - RALEIGH - > > WYOMING - MCDOWELL > > Revolutionary Name: BERKELEY COUNTY > > Name in 1930 - JEFFERSON - MORGAN - BERKELEY > > Revolutionary Name: HAMPSHIRE COUNTY > > Name in 1930 - HARDY - HAMPSHIRE > > Revolutionary Name: GREENBRIER COUNTY > > Name in 1930 - KANAWHA - MONROE - MASON - CABELL - NICHOLAS > > JACKSON - WAYNE - BOONE - PUTNAM - ROANE - WEBSTER - GREENBRIER > (post by patsy - research materials) > >

Aggie, I wish I had some information to share. The only thing that I know about Darrel Russell Paugh is he was 19 years old in 1934 when he married Thelma Frances Lake (my great aunt) in Buckhannon, WV. They were married for approximately 4 or 5 years. They had a daughter named Beulah, (my cousin). Beulah saw her dad once or twice after the divorce and that is the last she ever heard of her dad. She remembers that her grandmother Paugh's first name was Mary. If you have anything that might help please let me know. Thank you for your time. Dawna East Canton, Ohio Surnames: Lake, Butcher, Smith, Lunsford, Cutlip, Brown, Stalnaker, Linger

Webster Genealogy Chat will be held Friday 10pm ET at the Talk City site. Links are at http://homepages.go.com/~wvbreeze/chat.html. Come join us! Terri Brake-McCourt (researching MILLER, GREGORY, HAMON, ISENHART, COOL, CLIFTON, GREEN, and on...and on... : )

Just a reminder to all you Scots and Scots-Irish descendants out there. Tomorrow is National Tartan Day, declared so in America in memory of the contributions of the Scottish to our country. So drape one of your peoples' plaids on a shoulder and honor an ancestor who sacrificed and made it possible for you to proudly say that you are an American! Autumn

Hello All!!! I was wondering if anyone would happen to know who would be the oldest living (Or several for that matter) resident of Webster Springs, WV? Does anyone know where I could find this out? Thanks, Faith To e-mail me directly: blount@digital.net Surnames I am searching: ARTHUR, STILTNER, CARTER, WOODS, CARPENTER, CLEVENGER, FRIEND, BAXTER, DAVISSON, BLOUNT, SPINLER, GLASSBURN and some others off my tree branches.

Thought someone might be interested in this. All counties are in West Virginia unless otherwise noted. Charleston Gazette 19 March 1950 pg. 17 Walker, Mrs. Verna L.--71, died yesterday at the home of a son, Virgil Walker of 242 Drew St., St. Albans. She is also survived by one other son, Arthur Walker of Chesapeake; one daughter, Mrs. Andy Dodrill of South Charleston; two stepsons, Ivan R. Walker of Jerryville and Alden Walker of Kanawha City; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Mary Marks of Beltsville, MD, and Mrs. Lou Hanna Lowe of Warren, OH; three brothers, Joe Krantz of RAceland, Ky., Charles Krantz of Switzer, and Clinton Krantz of Harold; two sisters, Mrs. Theodore Griffith and Mrs. George Frame, both of Widen, 31 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body is at the Fred Cooke mortuary in Nitro. Cathy

Elsie V. Hamrick, of Webster Springs died at the Nicholas County Health Care Center on 17 March 2000. Ms. Hamrick was born in Webster County on 15 December 1910, one of 12 children born to Thomas and Francena Hamrick. Elsie began her working career for Mack Carpenter at an early age in his local restaurant. In 1936 she began operating as owner, Elsie Hamrick's Taxi and continued this service for 50 years. Also, in 1962 she opened the "original Custard Stand" which was located on Baker Street in Webster Springs and renown for its hot dogs until its closing in 1988. During her life time, she made numerous friends and acquaintances throughout the community. Elsie extended a warm and extremely generous hand to many individuals, including family, with more than a cab ride when needed. Elsie is survived by three sisters; Ruby Holcomb of Cugahoga Falls, Ohio - Russie Jackson, Akron, Ohio - Mary Bennett of Webster Springs. One brother, Dana Hamrick of Webster Springs. Many nephews and nieces and grandnephews and grandnieces. In addition to her parents, Elsie was proceeded in death by three sisters and four brothers. Services were held Tuesday, March 21, at 2:00 pm at the Dodd & Reed Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Cofer Cochran officiating. Burial was at WV Memorial Gardens at Calvin, West Virginia. (Webster Echo - Webster Springs, WV - 22 March 2000 - Vol. 118 - No.12) post by patsy

I am looking for the marriage of Mary Moats to ? McCauley. Mary was the d/o Valentine Moats and Diannah Coger Phares. She was born abt 1880, I believe. She had a sister, Emma Susan Moats b. abt 1885 who married Martin Daniel Riffle in 1903. Does anyone have any information on this McCauley family? Gail Phares Walkley