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1		Another Link from Nancy regarding the TNT Area in Mason County. TNT Area of Mason County This article in from the Charleston Gazette.
2		Click on this link for story. Lawrence Hunt General Store - Post Office	Lawrence Otho Hunt
3		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.
4		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.
5		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.
6		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.
7		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.
8		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."
9		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.
10		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.
11		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.
12		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.
13		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.
14		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.
15		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.
16		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.
17		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.
18		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.
19		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
20		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.
21		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	Joseph Hewes
22		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 Roseberry Lovell Lee Roseberry
23		Arlington National Cemetery
24		Armistice (Veteran's) Day
25		Baden Presbyterian Church Baden Presbyterian Church was organized November 12, 1895, and built on land given by L. H. & Maggie Baird. The carpenters were Ed Kinzel, Jim Johnston, and Mr. Matheny. The bell was given by Mrs. Lewis Schwarz. The first pastor was Rev. Rogers. The first trustees were Lewis Schwarz, A. H. Rieineer, J. E. Bauer, Phillip Yauger, and B. F. Wilcoxen
26		Beech Grove School Beech Grove School School was located on the middle fork of Cow Run. If memory serves me right this school was near the Miller Home Place and the Hoschar Home Place
27		Beech Grove School
28		Bethel Church and Cemetery Bethel Cemetery, Leon, Mason County, West Virginia. Some people confuse this with Baden Presbyterian Church which is located on Route 87. Bethel Church is located on Leon-Baden Road. I have provided a a link to the cemetery. Bethel Cemetery
29		Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (1923- ) Chuck Yeager Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (1923- ) became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental Bell X-1. He also became the first person to fly more than twice the speed of sound, flying the Bell X-1A on December 12, 1953. Yeager was born at Myra in Lincoln County and later moved to West Hamlin. He graduated from Hamlin High School in 1941. In a 1991 interview, Yeager said: I was born in Myra, West Virginia, which was actually just a post office on Mud River, very near Hamlin, West Virginia. My first recollection was when we moved to Hamlin when I was about four or five years old. And that's where I spent my life until I was eighteen years old. It was a rural town, population of about six hundred. It's in the middle of the hills. Primarily agriculture, timber, coal mines, and some natural gas; my father was a natural gas driller. I attended grade school and I did very well in the first grade, skipped second grade and went to the third grade. And by the time I got to the fifth grade, I spent two years there. It got kind of tough. And then, grade school was just nine months out of the year that I enjoyed either running the hills or fishing, and things like that. In high school, things got a little more serious as far as my education was concerned. And also there were sports -- football and basketball -- I played both. And I also played trombone in the high school band and chased gals, so I was a pretty busy kid. The subjects that I liked very much in school were mathematics, algebra and typing. I could type 60 words a minute easily. Anything that took hand-eye coordination I had a good time at it. History and English literature, my teachers had trouble passing me.
30		Clarence (Curly) Herdman A sample of Curly's Music can be found under the recording tab on the site Curly (Clarence) Herdman was born in the hills of West Virginia, near Ripley, West Virginia, on 12 November 1918. Curly comes from a long line of fiddlers: his great grand dad, his grand dad, Abige Turner Herdman, his father, Wallie Wyval Herdman and an uncle by the name of Earl Herdman. His mother (Mirla Miller Herdman) played a couple of fiddle tunes pretty well. She is the one who taught Curly his first fiddle tune which was called “Kick he Dutchman Sky High”. He was playing at square dances at the age of nine. When he was eleven he began to wonder around the world, and shortly afterward he left the hills to work on a farm in Fostoria, Ohio. He then went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad. While playing fiddle with his cousin Ira Sayre, he met and played for the great violinist, Rubbinoff, who was in Columbus, Ohio. Rubbinoff commended Curly on his method of bowing and his style of fiddling. He then went to W. H. O., Des Moines, Iowa. He later went to W.S.M., Grand Ole Opry, in the year 1935. along with the Bar X Cowboys. He was the featured fiddler at W.S.L.X,. Radio in Nashville, Tennessee. He later went to Renfro Valley Barn Dance in Kentucky. There he worked with John Lair, Red Foley, Bob Steel and Slim Millar. He then played fiddle for the famous Georgia Crackers on the station W.H.K.C. in Columbus, Ohio. In those days, his favorite fiddler was his grand-dad, Abige Turner Herdman. He also enjoyed the playing of Arthur Smith, Russ Gray, Winnie Waters, Otto Williams, Sid Heartreader and Clark Kessinger. Curly Herdman won several old time fiddling contests as of August 1967, Curly had won eighteen contests,inclding the Ohio State Championship. Curly’s brother, Troy Herdman played the guitar on several of his albums. Troy is a well known guitar player and singer.	Clarence Roy Herdman Living
31		Creston Church In the year 1891 a church building business meeting was called by William Cossin, Madison Staats, and J. I. Wedge. The meeting was well attended and folks agreed to donate lumber for the church. J. I. Wedge and Paul Jones, Sr donated the land to build the church on. A building contract for the church was given to Charlie Bush at a cost of four hundred dollars ($400.00), complete with windows doors and bell. Gus Warner and Thomas Lyons, carpenters, erected the church in 1892. The church was dedicated May 29 1892. Rev John Martin delivered the dedication sermon. Charley Bush named the church Creston. Rev James Carter was the first pastor. William Cossin, J. I. Wedge, David Stover, C A. Miller and Madison Staats were the first trustees.
32		Declaration of Independence To read the Declaration of Independence Click here. Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence
33		Dr. B. F. Summers
34		HOSCHAR NAME
35		Longview Church On July 19, 1913, land was donated by Issac and Delda Hughes Barr for the Longview Church with a cemetery nearby. The carpenters were Benjamin S. Sayre, John J. King, William Staats, and John Fox. They were assisted by the members of the community. Longview Church was dedicated on Sept 13, 1914. The dedication service was delivered by Rev Jennings King, The trustees were Benjamin Sayre Jr, George W. Sayre, Elijah M Casto, John King, William Staats, John Fox, William Flowers, Benjamin S. Sayre, and Issac Barr. One of the things the church did to raise funds was make quilts. One of the quilts is presented here. This quilt was made in 1934 by the Longview Church Ladies Aid Society. If you click on the picture you will see an icon to increase the size of the picture. Long View Ladies Aid Society Quilt History Quilt Picture	Elijah Matt Casto
36		Midwifery Elzina Barr Miller was a Midwife. She delivered many of the babies aroung WV Route 87 prior to 1937. She was delivering one of her grandchildren when she died. Doctor Royal Kessel was called in to pronouce Elzina dead and deliver the child.	Elzina Catherine Barr
37		Miller Family
38		Murder of Benjamin Anderson Account of the Murder of Benjamin Anderson There have been many questions and few answers over the murder of Benjamin Anderson by John M. Miller. The only account I can give was stories told by the fireside. I have posted as a separate file what was in the newspaper at the time (which was posted on RootsWeb.com in Oct 2006. I am going to give you my account of what happened on that fateful day. There was a flash flood on Cow Run. I can speak from experience about the flash floods on Cow Run. That stream could be as smooth and tranquil as a summer day; but a hard fast ran would send the creek out of banks taking with it every thing in it's path. That is what happened so I was told about the rail fence. A flash flood had come down Cow Run and washed the rail fence from John Miller's property to Ben Anderson's property. John and his wife Elzina Barr Miller drove their team and wagon down Cow Run to reclaim their rail fence. Ben Anderson lived on the other side of Cow Run where the rail fence had landed after the flood. Each man was armed. Both claimed the fence. An disagreement took place about the ownership of the fence. According to the stories I was told John Miller shot Ben Anderson in self-defense. In the end charges against John Miller were dropped in Jackson County Circuit Court.	Family: Miller/Barr (F23) Benjamin Anderson John Maranda Miller, II
39		Pledge of Allegiance
40		The History of APRONS !! This was sent to me by Maxine. Do you remember your grandmother's apron? I remember my grandma's apron, Zona Donohew's apron, Aunt Dora Roseberry's apron and a dozen more just like this. They were used just as it is described in this little poem.
41		The Mothman There are a lot of superstitions and strange sightings around the TNT Area. One of them is about "The Mothman"
42		Turning the Church Around Loggerhead Church