By Joanna Newman “The Family is the Seed From Which All Growth Begins” Beth Mende Conny My Maternal Grandparents Dow & Malinda May Thompson Logan County, West Virginia My Logan County Roots All of my Genealogy Articles and Posts Important Legal Stuff… NOTE: Most information found on these pages are to be used as STARTING […]
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High on the mountain . . . winds a blowing free . . . standing all alone . . .wondering where the days of my life have gone. Augusto “Patsy” Tobia & Alice Virginia Burns Tobis Patsy was born in Rome, Italy, and came to America at age 17 with his brother to find employment.
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I will try to list the following names in chronological order as much as possible, to help in keeping the family history order. If an ancestor has a family member prior to, or after, himself/herself, then I will include a link to those people. Col. James Patton 1692 – 1755 – Col. James Patton, son
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By Joanna Newman “It is in the family that we learn to share- meals, space, laughter, tears” Beth Mende Conny Thompson Family Sketches Zoya Fansler’s Interview with her Grandmother, Lillian “Judy” Thompson Hall b. July 7, 1914 An observation before we begin… One of the wonderful things about family stories, is that by reading several
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“We CAN go home again, in heart, body, and mind” Beth Mende Conny My name is Joanna Newman. I was born is Ashland, Kentucky, in 1944, to a Dad who was from Berkeley County, South Carolina, who was serving in WWII, and a mother who was from the mountains of Logan County, West Virgina. It
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Route 10 McConnell, West Virginia Not for commercial use. From Logan Courthouse, take Route 10 south, several miles to McConnell. Across from the old former post office [ask someone if you can’t find this] on the east side of RT 10, there is a road that goes up the mountain. This is a steep hill.
© Copyrighted Lorenzo Dow Thompson was born September 10, 1885, in Logan County, West Virginia. He was the second of ten children of James “Jimmy” Thompson & Mary Elizabeth Allen. Dow, as he was known, was a serious minded, and responsible young man. This was demonstrated when his father Jimmy Thompson was killed when Dow
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© Copyrighted The letter below was from Wavolene Blass, written approximately 1981-3, to her cousin, Lillian “Judy” Thompson Hall, describing her mother, Nettie Thompson Curtis’, memories of her childhood. NOTE: The house that burned in this story was on or near the area where McConnell, West Virginia, now stands. My comments are in brackets [
The images below list some of the Monaville WV Grade School students taught by Mrs. Dot Richmond in the 1920s. If you have any Monaville Grade School photos you’d like to contribute to this page, please email them to the admin at loganwv.us@gmail.com. You may also enjoy the Monaville Photo Gallery.
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The one cemetery at Peach Creek is called the McDonald Cemetery but there’s also a McDonald Cemetery at Crooked Creek. Also at Crooked Creek is the Hainor Cemetery and the Whitman Cemetery. The Hainor Cemetery is located on the left side of Crooked Creek Road just past Casswell Pines Road. The other McDonald Cemetery is located
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