Shirley/Matthew, I need some help here. I am finally back working on my book, "Matheny and Me" which presents our southern West Virginia home as seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up in Matheny in the thirties and forties. At present, I am trying to reconstruct the community in my mind as it existed around 1940 (+ or -). I am confident that I remember most of the people in "upper Matheny," but I am not so sure about the residents of the area across the river from the church downstream from the Frank Stewart place to about where Stollie Parsons eventually lived. I know things had changed tremendously between 1940 and the early seventies, but I figure Shirley is more capable of recognizing the older residents of that area than I am. For instance, Gillis moved there shortly after 1940; I don't remember if his house was there earlier or, if so, who lived there. Thanks, STAN The following will illustrate what I am trying to do: "On the right opposite the old turnoff onto the Coon Branch road, was a small unpainted house. I don’t know who owned it or lived there in 1935 but Jack Marshall and Humphrey Beverly lived there at different times in the late forties. Farther down Route 10 from the Coon Branch turnoff about 1/4 mile or less, on the left side, the Methodist Church and Matheny Grade School sat close to the road and side-by-side on the land donated for those purposes by Uncle Bobby Stewart. They were both frame and weatherboard construction. The lot where the church was located was enclosed by a low steel fence; there was no fence around the school. Uncle Grat Stewart lived across the river directly behind the church and scchool. Bill Dean lived slightly below and up the hill. Conley Dean was a first grade classmate. There was at least one house farther up the hill from Uncle Grat’s place, but I don’t recall the names of the occupants. There was a footbridge slightly below the school that served the people who lived across the river in that area. Uncle Ott Stewart lived alone on a flat above the road on the right."

Stan, Shirley is feeling a little under the weather today but I will ask her about this when she is coherent. Also, I will print your email and take it "home" with us to Matheny, we are going there on Friday and staying until Christmas. I will ask the folks down there that I see about your questions. I'm sure Jack Linkous or Winford Workman will know most all of the people that were there. I will be seeing both of them over the holidays. We will get back to you about this. We've been wondering if you'd finished "Matheny and Me". We've told a few people about it and and they were interested in reading it. Matthew STANLEY BROWNING <[email protected]> wrote: Shirley/Matthew, I need some help here. I am finally back working on my book, "Matheny and Me" which presents our southern West Virginia home as seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up in Matheny in the thirties and forties. At present, I am trying to reconstruct the community in my mind as it existed around 1940 (+ or -). I am confident that I remember most of the people in "upper Matheny," but I am not so sure about the residents of the area across the river from the church downstream from the Frank Stewart place to about where Stollie Parsons eventually lived. I know things had changed tremendously between 1940 and the early seventies, but I figure Shirley is more capable of recognizing the older residents of that area than I am. For instance, Gillis moved there shortly after 1940; I don't remember if his house was there earlier or, if so, who lived there. Thanks, STAN The following will illustrate what I am trying to do: "On the right opposite the old turnoff onto the Coon Branch road, was a small unpainted house. I don’t know who owned it or lived there in 1935 but Jack Marshall and Humphrey Beverly lived there at different times in the late forties. Farther down Route 10 from the Coon Branch turnoff about 1/4 mile or less, on the left side, the Methodist Church and Matheny Grade School sat close to the road and side-by-side on the land donated for those purposes by Uncle Bobby Stewart. They were both frame and weatherboard construction. The lot where the church was located was enclosed by a low steel fence; there was no fence around the school. Uncle Grat Stewart lived across the river directly behind the church and scchool. Bill Dean lived slightly below and up the hill. Conley Dean was a first grade classmate. There was at least one house farther up the hill from Uncle Grat’s place, but I don’t recall the names of the occupants. There was a footbridge slightly below the school that served the people who lived across the river in that area. Uncle Ott Stewart lived alone on a flat above the road on the right." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.