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Genealogy of Robert McCormack

Pocahontas, my most treasured ancestor (Matoaka) 1595-1614 Daughter of Chief Powhatan Wife of John W Rolf Mother of Thomas Bolling   Robert McCormack’s Pedigree Chart More links about my family: A Soldier’s Letters Carter County, KY Fire Tragedy & Ballad Love Letters to a Coal Miner’s Daughter Monitor, WV My Genealogy Photo Gallery

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You can help preserve a bit of our Cherry Tree memories by sharing your vintage photos with us. To share a photo, please email it to the admin at loganwv.us@gmail.com. Please note that you must own the photo you are submitting or ensure that no one has a copyright claim on it. If a photo

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Holden, WV

Always Home, West Virginia

By Judi Clark (2003) In the year of 1952, while working in the coalmines of Logan County, West Virginia, Bill Clark made what he later referred to as a monumental decision that would change the paths he and his young family would take. Concerned for the future of his sons if he remained in Holden

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Coal Branch

This is a collection of photos of the community of Coal Branch located in Logan County, West Virginia. You can help preserve a bit of the history of Coal Branch by sharing your vintage photos of with this gallery.  To share a photo here, send it to the admin at loganwv.us@gmail.com. Please note that you

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Rum Creek, WV

Rum Creek Area Photos This is a collection of photos of the Rum Creek area (Argyle, Cham, Dabney, Dehue, Hutchinson, Orville, MacBeth, Slagle, Rum Creek, and Yolyn) of Logan County. By Wanda Bryant Shell.  This is the old home place where I was raised. This home is set behind the train tracks. And I had

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Clarence Stacy – Cherry Tree Resident Makes Good

Clarence Stacy – Cherry Tree resident makes good as Singer, Actor, Song Writer, Producer, Author and Playwright. Clarence Stacy and his mother, Alice, lived the second house above the Cherry Tree school beside the home of Milford Long. He has happy memories of his childhood in Cherry Tree and chumming around with Joe Piros, Jr

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Lost In Chief Logan State Park

By Pam Brennan When I was a senior at Logan High School (1980), my friend Jessica and I decided to go hiking at our local park after school one day. The trails are clearly marked so we didn’t see a problem. We met after school and started up the “Backbone Trail”, which just happens to be the longest and

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