[email protected] wrote: > > Subject: > > WVWEBSTE-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 26 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Bridget (Biddy) Jane Stiltner [[email protected]] > #2 Funeral home in Cowen or Dyer [Dennis Brubaker > <[email protected]] > #3 [Fwd: Lost Manuscript - Reward] [wtb00505 > <[email protected]>] > #4 Update Page [Bob and BJ Hillier > <[email protected]] > #5 Funeral home in Cowen or Dyer ["Roger B. Stanley" > <[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from WVWEBSTE-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Bridget (Biddy) Jane Stiltner > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 20:50:17 EDT > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I am looking for any information available on Bridget (Biddy) Jane > Stiltner b. > 1854 in VA to Frederick K. & Polly Stiltner. She married Basil > Gollihue about > 1876 and had at least one child, my Ggrandfather John Allen Gollihue > b. 14 > February 1877 in Kentucky. Bridget moved to Webster Co., WV sometime > about > 1879 to live with her brothers Franklin P & Jacob Stiltner near Jumbo, > WV. She > died in 1933. If you have any information, please let me know. > > TIA, > > Bev Keele > [email protected] > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Funeral home in Cowen or Dyer > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 23:51:31 -0400 (EDT) > From: Dennis Brubaker <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Hi, > I just read, on another list, that funeral homes can be a great source > of > information. I know there is a funeral home in Cowen but I can't > remember > the name. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could send me the > name > and address. Does anyone know how long it has been in business? Also > does > anyone know of a funeral home in Dyer? > Thanks, > Cathy > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [Fwd: Lost Manuscript - Reward] > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:56:05 -0400 > From: wtb00505 <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------32FCC0B346962A6EE51C6135 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > -- > "HE WHO LAUGHS LAST DIDN'T GET THE JOKE" > > Bud <West Virginia> > --------------32FCC0B346962A6EE51C6135 > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > Return-Path: <[email protected]> > Received: from WVNVM (NJE origin [email protected]) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU > (LMail > V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 0445; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 06:08:14 > -0400 > Received: from vlinsvr.vsla.edu (192.131.239.7) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU > (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Fri, 11 Sep 98 06:08:13 EDT > Received: from vlinsvr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by vlinsvr.vsla.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA25950; > Fri, 11 Sep 1998 06:09:32 -0400 (EDT) > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 06:09:32 -0400 (EDT) > Message-Id: <[email protected]> > Errors-To: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > Originator: [email protected] > Sender: [email protected] > Precedence: bulk > From: "Judy O'Flaherty" <[email protected]> > To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]> > Subject: Lost Manuscript - Reward > X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios > Kotsikonas > X-Comment: Virginia History Discussion Group > > Looking for manuscript of Daniel C. O'Flaherty when he was Secretary > of the > American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, > appointed > Nov 16, 1919. It was given to Bishop Vincent Waters of the Catholic > Diocese > at Richmond or the Little Sisters of the Poor of Jackson Ward, > Richmond, Va, > circa 1940's, by his daughter, Jane O'Flaherty Troop. There was a flag > of > the de facto Republic of Ireland and three 78rpm recordings of Eamonn > de > Valera, future Irish president. The flag was used in a parade when de > Valera > was in Richmond, 27th August, 1919. > I represent all my extended family of cousins. There will be a $500 > reward > for the original manuscript or a complete copy. Patrick O'Flaherty, > [email protected] > > --------------32FCC0B346962A6EE51C6135-- > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Update Page > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 21:41:56 +0300 > From: Bob and BJ Hillier <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Hey ho - I've updated the RESOURCES page and added a few > other minor things. > > Will everyone please check under resources and see if any of > your family is on the 1860-70-80 census - if so please let > me know the names and I will work on them and upload the > information when I can. > > If you sent me a message to post something - please check > and see if it's there - I lost some stuff when my computer > died after the earthquake ARG!!! > > THANKS - bj > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Funeral home in Cowen or Dyer > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:10:18 -0400 > From: "Roger B. Stanley" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] > >Hi, > I just read, on another list, that funeral homes can be a great source > of > information. I know there is a funeral home in Cowen but I can't > remember > the name. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could send me the > nameand address. Does anyone know how long it has been in business? > Also > does > anyone know of a funeral home in Dyer? > Thanks, > Cathy > < > > I have a copy of the Webster County, West Virginia Telephone > Directory. > Funeral homes listed in this directory include: > > Adams Funeral Home, Rt. 20 Cowen. Telephone Number 226-3000 > Dodd & Reed Funeral Home Inc. , 155 McGraw Av, Webster Springs. > Telephone # > 847-2454 > Morris Funeral Home, Railroad Av. Cowen. Telephone # 226-5000. > > I was living in Cowen when the Adams Funeral Home was established. If > I > remember correctly, it went into business in 1970. Joe Adams (who is > now > deceased) took over the Funeral Home business of another undertaker > who > went out of business. I think this previous Funeral Home was named > Combs > Funeral Home or some similar name. It was established in the > mid-1960's but > was only in business a few years. I don't know if the Adams Funeral > Home > has the records of the previous Funeral Home or not. > > Dodd & Reed Funeral Home was formerly named Dodd & Hurt Funeral Home. > It > has been in business for years. For many years, it was the only > funeral > home in Webster County. I don't know when it was established, but do > know > that it was in business in 1947 when it handled the funeral of one of > my > uncles. > > I don't know anything about the Morris Funeral Home. Didn't even know > it > existed until I saw it listed in the phone directory. > > I have never heard of a funeral home at Dyer. Dyer isn't all that far > from > Cowen. > > Roger There was another funeral home in Webster Springs during the early 1950 called Collins Funeral Home. It didn't last long. -- "HE WHO LAUGHS LAST DIDN'T GET THE JOKE" Bud <West Virginia>