By Paul Dyer and Robert McCormack. It is nearly impossible for me to write my memories of the Great Flood of 1963. After all, that event was nearly 57 years ago and age has taken its toll to both body and mind. However, March 11, 1963 was an important event in our lives and I […]
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Excerpts from “Memories of a WV Mountain Kid” By Keith Gibson Looking Back A few days ago I came to the realization that I have lived in seven decades, two centuries, and two millenniums. Wow !!…..Is that blessed, or what ?? The article I was reading when I discovered this startling news also said: “People
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By Keith Gibson In 1972, at the age of 22, I completed a twelve-week mining course at Sharples and graduated with a 95 % average. As much as I tried though, I couldn’t get anyone to hire me because of no underground experience. The Pittston mining office was almost directly across the river from our
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By Keith Gibson Buchanantown was a small community that existed across the Guyandotte river from Lyburn, WV. Actually, it was about half way between Lyburn and Neibert across from the old route 10 which is now known as “Hanging Rock Road.” I’m not really sure when the community was first called “Buchanantown”, (probably between 1885
By Keith Gibson Elijah Gibson Sr. – (son of William D. Gibson) Born 1800 Russell County, Virginia. Died between 1880-1890 in Wayne County, WV. He married Nancy Mcgee October 15, 1824 in Pike county, Ky. She was born between 1800-1805 in Virginia, and died between 1830-1840. David Dameron Gibson – (son of Elijah Gibson Sr.)
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By Keith Gibson Alexander Buchanan was my great-great-great-grandfather on my mother’s side of the family. His son Thomas was appointed and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on August 29, 1863, and served in the civil war in the 4th Regiment, Company K, of the Volunteer Calvary of West Virginia. The calvary was organized at Parkersburg and Wheeling,
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Tales of Ethel, WV by Richard D. Fortner Ethel, WV, was a coal camp in Logan County located on Dingess Run Creek, upstream from the village of Stollings where I grew up. I have often tried to dig out information from her past without much success. Note carefully the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company on the
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*This article is from the 1952 Centennial Program Booklet published by the city of Logan. By L. E. “Chief” Thompson Since the advent of the telephone 76 years ago this service has played an important part in the development and growth of every community, and so it has been with Logan. The first telephones in
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By Dwight Williamson The Ohio, Guyandotte, Tug, and Big Sandy rivers, as well as Indian trails, were no doubt the first avenues of travel into the lands of what was centuries ago simply known as the unsettled mountains of western Virginia. Mostly Scotch-Irish settlers hailing as protestant immigrants from Northern Ireland, who had been looked
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