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| 1 | | There are a lot of superstitions and strange sightings around the TNT Area. One of them is about "The Mothman" |
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| 2 | | Another Link from Nancy regarding the TNT Area in Mason County. TNT
Area of Mason County This article in from the Charleston Gazette. |
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| 3 | | Click on this link for story. Lawrence Hunt General Store - Post Office |
Lawrence Otho Hunt
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| 4 | | Ret. Gen. Earl E. Anderson (1919- ) was named a member of the American Bar Association Board of Governors in 2001. He was formerly the assistant commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps. At the time of his appointment to four-star rank, he was the youngest active-duty Marine and first aviator promoted to that rank. Following his retirement from the military, Anderson served several years with the State Department and United Nations. He was born in Morgantown and graduated from Morgantown High School and WVU. |
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| 5 | | Charlie Arnett. After performing on the CBS radio shows Renfro Valley Folks and Shady Valley Folks and on WWVA in Wheeling, Daisy Mae and Old Brother Charlie moved to Tampa and performed daily on WDAE during the late 1940s, amassing quite an audience. They moved to Charlotte for a short while in the early 1950s, and then returned to Tampa and continued with daily radio shows on WHBO and a weekly show on WSUN-TV. They also performed on records. Charles Erwin Arnett was born in 1913 in Chester, W. Va. When he was three years old, the family moved to Fairmont. He wrote in one of his booklets that he stayed in Fairmont until he was 17, talking of the hills and valleys, the coal mines and factories in that area. Charlie played a variety of instruments including the piano and ogran and was also a lawyer. |
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| 6 | | Charlie Bailey has been the head football coach at the University of Texas-El Paso since 1993. Before that, he was an assistant for numerous college teams. He is a native of Poca who graduated from Poca High School. |
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| 7 | | Woodrow Wilson Barr (1918-1942), a Marine killed in action during World War II, was posthumously awarded the Silver Star medal for his “conspicuous gallantry and intrepedity in action” during the action at Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. The U. S. S. Barr, a Navy Buckley-class destroyer escort, was named for him. He was born in Keyser. |
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| 8 | | Lina Basquette (1907-1994) was a silent film star who appeared in Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl (1929) and Frank Capra's The Younger Generation (1929). She was married to Sam Warner when he developed the first talking movie. Later in life she became a noted professional dog breeder. She moved to Wheeling in 1975 and lived there until her death at age 87 on Sept. 30, 1994. |
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| 9 | | William Milfred Batten (1909-1999) was President of the J. C. Penny Corporation from 1958 to 1964 and Chairman of the Board of the New York Stock Exchange from 1976 to 1984. He was born at Reedy in Roane county, although an obituary at the Ohio State College of Business website says, "He started as a stock room employee in 1926 in his hometown of Parkersburg, W. Va., and worked his way up to chairman of the board and CEO, retiring in 1974. He is widely credited as the architect for that company. Among his achievements there were significantly expanding the merchandising line, introducing the J. C. Penney credit card and launching the company's catalog business." |
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| 10 | | Eli "Rimfire" Hamrick (1868-1945) was an frontiersman whose family helped settle central West Virginia. Records indicate that he and his brother posed for the statue of The Mountaineer on the capitol grounds in Charleston. John W. Davis, the 1924 Democratic presidential candidate, said the 6'3" Hamrick had a face as sad as Lincoln's. He campaigned unsuccessfully for the state senate in 1932 with the slogan, "You put him at the capitol in bronze, now put him there in person." He was born in Webster county and lived there and in Randolph county. |
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| 11 | | Nancy Hart (1846?-1913) was a noted Confederate scout, guide, and spy. Hart ran away from home at the age of 14 to join a band of rebel raiders known as the Moccasin Rangers. In 1862 she was captured by Union forces but escaped from jail in Summersville. After the war Nancy Hart Douglas and her husband Josh lived at Spring Creek in Greenbrier County. She also had lived in Roane, Calhoun, and Nicholas counties, but was born in Raleigh, N. C. She grew up on Greenbrier Road near Richwood. She is buried at Manning Knob near the Nicholas-Greenbrier county border. |
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| 12 | | Capt. Andrew Hatfield participated in the famous Battle of Point Pleasant, the first real battle of the American Revolution, in 1774. He had earlier settled on Big Stoney Creek, in what is now West Virginia, where he constructed a fort as protection against Indians. |
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| 13 | | Kathleen M. Hawk was appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons on December 4, 1992. She is a native of West Virginia and attended Wheeling Jesuit College and WVU. |
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| 14 | | Harold Franklin "Hawkshaw" Hawkins (1921-1963) was a country-western singer. He was married to Jean Shepard, another recording artist. Hawkins was killed in the March 5, 1963, plane crash which also killed Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas. He was born in Huntington. |
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| 15 | | Major Gen. John L. Hines (1868-1968) succeeded Gen. Pershing as Chief of Staff of the Army from 1924 to 1926. Hines graduated from West Point in 1891. He received the Silver Star in the Spanish-American War, having fought in the Philippines in 1901. He served as adjutant to Gen. John Pershing in the pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916. He was promoted more rapidly than any other soldier who served in World War I, going to France as a major and returning as a major general. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and Distinguished Service Medal in World War I. Hines ended his military career in 1932 as commanding general of the Department of the Philippines in Manila. Hines is one of four military leaders who were honored by appearing on a Distinguished Soldiers series of U. S. postage stamps issued on May 3, 2000. He was born in White Sulphur Springs. In an Associated Press article on April 24, 2000, Hines' grandson, Maj. Gen. John R. D. Cleland of Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., said, "He was the son of Irish immigrants and grew up in a small town in West Virginia where he had virtually no opportunity for an education. By virtue of his willingness to work, he was able to go to West Point. |
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| 16 | | Susan Dew Hoff of West Milford in Harrison County passed the examination given by the State Board of Examiners for licensing as a physician on April 19, 1889. She was the first woman to be licensed by examination. Hoff could not attend medical school, but studied with her physician father and on her own. She practiced medicine for nearly 40 years, making house calls on horseback. A nonprofit clinic named for her was scheduled to open in West Milford in the summer of 2000. |
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| 17 | | Robert Lee "Sam" Huff (1934- ), one of the best-known athletes to attend WVU, helped lead the team to a combined four-year mark of 31-7 and a berth in the 1954 Sugar Bowl. Huff played eight years with the New York Giants and his last four seasons with the Washington Redskins. In 1982, Huff became the only WVU player besides Joe Stydahar to be inducted into both the college and pro football Halls of Fame. He was born in Number 9, a small coal mining town near Farmington. He attended Farmington High School. In a 2003 Sports Illustrated article, Huff wrote:
I was raised in a West Virginia coal mining camp called Number Nine, near Farmington. My dad worked in the mines, and so did the dads of every kid I went to school with. In those camps you rented your house from the mining company and bought your food and clothes at company stores. You know that Tennessee Ernie Ford song: "You load 16 tons, what do you get/Another day older and deeper in debt"? That was my dad's life. We had to go to a community pump to get water. We didn't have any heat. Can you imagine? Miners would go on strike for weeks and weeks and still find a way to live. I think I did well in football because I was raised to be like them. If you were a boy, you played football. At my high school we played on a field cut into a valley and people sat on the hillside to watch. My hero, besides my dad, was Frank Gatski, who also came from Number Nine. He went to Marshall, played offensive line for the Cleveland Browns and is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I never imagined I would play in the NFL, but I knew I didn't want to work in the mines. My father had gone to work there when he was 13, and my older brother, Don, did the same when he was 16. I imagined I could become a coach or a teacher. |
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| 18 | | Louise McNeill (1911-1993), West Virginia's poet laureate from 1979 until her death, wrote beautifully about West Virginia in such volumes of verse as "Elderberry Flood" and "Gauley Mountain." She grew up on a 200-acre farm in Buckeye in Pocahontas County, and began writing poetry at 16. She graduated from Concord College and did post-graduate work at Miami University of Ohio and WVU. Her first collection was published in 1931, and Archibald MacLeish introduced her writings to the world to great critical acclaim. She won the Atlantic Monthly poetry prize and was awarded a scholarship to the Breadloaf Writers' Workshop in Vermont. Her marriage to Roger Pease lasted 50 years. |
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| 19 | | Marian McQuade (1917-2008) campaigned in West Virginia and later nationwide to set aside a day for grandparents. In 1973 West Virginia became the first state with a special day to honor grandparents when Gov. Arch Moore proclaimed May 27, 1973, Grandparents Day. In September 1978 the White House called her to inform her that President Carter had signed a bill designating the Sunday after Labor Day as National Grandparents Day beginning in 1979. In 1989 the U. S. Postal Service issued a tenth anniversary commemorative envelope bearing the likeness of Marian McQuade in honor of National Grandparents Day. She was born Marion Herndon in Caperton and later lived in Oak Hill. |
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| 20 | | Jesse Hughes (c. 1750 – c. 1829) was a frontiersman, hunter, and scout who was an early settler in the western region of Virginia that became West Virginia and Kentucky. Hughes was noted for his hatred of Native Americans, and is said to have killed many in battle, and murdered several others. "He was as savage as a wolf, and he liked to kill an Indian better than to eat his dinner", said the wife of one of his descendants in 1902.
Hughes married Grace Tanner in 1771. They lived in a cabin on Hacker's Creek, near a stream that is now known as "Jesse's Run", located in present day Lewis County, West Virginia.
Hughes is believed to have been one of the first American colonists to explore the Hughes River in West Virginia. It may have been named for him,[3] or for others of the same surname residing in the area during roughly the same time period |
Jesse David Hughes
Grace Tanner
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| 21 | | The modern Mother's Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis in Grafton, West Virginia, as a day to honor mothers and motherhood; especially within the context of families, and family relationships. It is now celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, some of which have a much older tradition than the modern holiday (e.g. dating to the 16th century in the UK). Father's Day is a corresponding holiday honoring fathers.
The holiday eventually became so commercialized that many, including its founder, Anna Jarvis, considered it a "Hallmark Holiday", i.e. one with an overwhelming commercial purpose. Anna eventually ended up opposing the holiday she had helped to create. |
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| 22 |  | Otha Early (Bill) and son James Leroy (Jim Bob) Miller
Early Otho and son James Leroy Miller with a working pair of mules. Early was better known as Bill and James Leroy was always called Jim Bob. |
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Otha Earl Miller
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| 23 |  | Cherry Grove Cemetery Status: Located. Gate opening into Cherry Grove Cemetery |
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| 24 |  | History of $2 Bill First of all have you ever seen a $2 dollar bill? Back of $2 Dollar Bill
The reason the $2 Dollar bill is of interest to members of Art's List is the picture on the back. Former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson is featured on the obverse of the note. The painting The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull is featured on the reverse. The design on the obverse (excluding the elements of a Federal Reserve Note) is the oldest of all current U.S. currency having been adopted in 1929; the reverse is the second oldest design having been adopted in 1976. If you look close at the names in this painting you will see some very familiar names; Hewes (Hughes), Livingston, Hall. We know that Hews connects to our Hughes on WV Route 87. I am still researching the Livingstons and Halls. A key to the names is included in this document. Click here for History Lesson
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Joseph Hewes
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| 25 |  | Roseberry-Hart Cemetery Status: Located. View of Roseberry-Hart Cemetery |
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| 26 |  | Antioch Status: Located. View of Antioch Church Cemetery |
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| 27 |  | Antioch Church Status: Located. View from cemetery looking towards church. |
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| 28 |  | Antioch View Status: Located. View of Cemetry looking toward the church. |
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| 29 |  | Bobbi Ann |
Barbara Ann Miller
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| 30 |  | Bobbi Ann Two years old. Feeding the chickens at the Flatwoods Farm |
Barbara Ann Miller
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| 31 |  | Cherry Grove Cemetery View Status: Located. |
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| 32 | | Smilin Dale Roseberry By Clicking on this Link a copy of the pamphlet mentioned below will download. If you have dial-up it may be slow to load. It is a PDF File. Cecil Dale Roseberry (Smilin Dale) and his brother Lovell Lee "Bob" Roseberry were popular "hillbilly music" artist. They appeared on several radio programs and made many public appearances. They were on their way to becoming big stars. This dream was cut short when Cecil Dale was killed in a car wreck in Grundy, Virginia on 19 September 1941. Entertainers as a way to keep in touch with their listeners, keep their fans updated on what the artist was doing, where their next public appearace was going to be often wrote newsletters. They also wrote little books about themselves and songs and music they had written. These books were mailed out to the listeners. The cost of the books was a nominal amount. (usually just enough to cover postage) The request for these newsletters and books was a way to let keep the station manager informed of the artist popularity. After "Smilin Dale was killed in the car wreck people wanted to know what happened and how his family was getting along. In response to those request Bob wrote a small pamphlet about the life of his brother "Smilin Dale Roseberry". The book contained a short bio of Dale's life and some of the songs and poetry that he and Cecil Dale wrote. This booklet was mailed to listeners of their radio programs. |
Cecil Dale Roseberry
Lovell Lee Roseberry
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| 33 |  | Aberham Herdman and Tacie Campcydell Livingston Baker Herdman |
Aberham Herdman
Tacie Campcydell Livingston
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| 34 |  | Abiajah Herdman Home Place Abiajah Turner and Lou Roseberry Herdman lived here all of their married lives according to family sources. This old homestead has been gone for many years but not forgotten. |
Abijah Turner Herdman
Maria Louise Roseberry
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| 35 |  | Albert Roush and wife Velsie Miller Roush |
Family: Miller/Matheny (F160)
Velsie Miller
Albert Roush
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| 36 |  | Albert Sawyer Family Albert Sawyer Family Can you match these faces with the faces in the older Sawyer Family Photo?
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Family: Sawyer/Brown (F3009)
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| 37 |  | Alta Leota Matheny Miller |
Alta Leota Matheny
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| 38 |  | Anderson - Anderson Cemetery Status: Located. Anderson, William A., b 1802 d 13 Apr 1875; son of Andrew and Chloe White-Anderson
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William A Anderson
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| 39 |  | Anderson - Anderson Cemetery Status: Located. Anderson, Chloe (White), b 6 Mar 1773 d 6 Sep 1857; wife of Andrew Anderson
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Chloe White
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| 40 |  | Anderson - Anderson Cemetery Status: Located. Anderson, Charity (Shinn), b 1804 d after 1870; wife of W. A.Anderson
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Charity Shinn
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| 41 |  | Anderson - Anderson Cemetery Status: Located. Anderson, Samuel, b 4 Oct 1835 d 21 May 1883; son of W. A. Anderson
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Samuel J. Anderson
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| 42 |  | Anderson - Anderson Cemetery Status: Located. Anderson, Peter F., b 7 Jul d 23 Nov 1869; son of Samuel Anderson
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Charles E. McClure
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| 43 |  | Anderson - Anderson Cemetery Status: Located. Anderson, Jane Victoria (Edmunds), b 6 Dec 1840 d 30 Apr 1903 |
Sophia Jean Victoria Edmunds
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| 44 | | Anderson Andrew -- Died 21 Aug 1921 - Buried at Jackson County Infirmary Cemetery in the 1920 census there is a William Anderson living at the poor house at Cottageville, WV shows he was married age 72 would made it about right for this one..
Also an Andrew Anderson age 68 widow. |
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| 45 |  | Anna Elizabeth Sayre Barnett |
Anna Elizabeth Sayre
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| 46 |  | Antioch Cemetery - Ruth Parsons Bonecutter Status: Located. Ruth Parsons Bonecutter |
Ruth Parsons
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| 47 |  | Antioch Church Antioch Church |
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| 48 |  | Apple Butter Festival Evans, West Virginia, USA It is about time some of you youngins took over. |
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| 49 |  | Apple Butter Festival, Evans, WV, USA The job is always easier when shared. |
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| 50 |  | Apple Butter Festival, Evans, WV, USA Where do you think you are going? Get back here! |
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