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1948 Traffic at U. S. 119 at Monitor Junction
Monitor Junction looking toward Fisher Bottom and Cherry Tree Bottom ca. 1948. The Esposito Bldg. is shown on the right. The man on the left is Woodrow Thompson. He lived at Whites Addition. Used with permission & courtesy of www.wvhistoryonview.org.

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  1. Willie Davis

    I enjoyed the pictures. I lived in Cherry tree went to the 3rd and 4th grade. It was in the 50’s Jay frye was my step dad. His parents lived at monaville, We moved to rossmore.

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    1. Robert McCormack

      Glad that you found the Cherry Tree page. Where did you live in Cherry Tree? Who were some of your neighbors? We moved there in 1942 when I was two years old. Left in 1958 to go to college.

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  2. Jon Black

    Wow! I am one of the grandson’s of Clifton Black, it’s a good feeling seeing my uncles; Paul, Dan and Lowell. I remember the trips to visit when I was young.

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    1. Robert McCormack

      You come from a remarkable family, Jon! They lived just up the alley from my family before their house was taken for the new road. Mr. & Mrs. Black were so much into education of their children to give them a better advantage in life. It’s good to hear from one of their grandchildren. I’ve often wondered about those kids of my childhood. Is Marilyn still with us? Another childhood friend from Cherry Tree tried to track her down in the DC area once but was not successful. She was a couple of years younger than I. My brother, Ronald, played football in the empty field next to the school with some of your uncles.

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  3. Webb Cornwell

    I also enjoyed the pictures , we lived in Cherry Tree until the road dept. bought my Grandmothers houses her name was Mary Cornwell. A little after that we moved to Titusville Fla. Thank you for posting the pictures .

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      1. Robert McCormack

        The Cornwells lived right next to the creek near the swinging bridge straight down the alley from Nagy’s grocery. The swinging bridge served the Deskin family as well as the Gore family across the creek. I remember Mrs. Cornwell with her white hair. Her son was Curtis, I believe. I can’t recall the names of the boys but believer one was Curtis and perhaps one was Ben.

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          1. Robert McCormack

            You are so welcome. I’m very pleased that you found the site. I probably saw you when you were quit young but had forgotten the names. I remember playing on the creek bank a lot. Loved to load sand into my wagon and take it home and dump in our yard to play trucks and cars. It was a good place to grow up. The new road coming through destroyed the character of the wonderful little neighborhood.

          2. GA Spike Jones

            Webb! This is your own third cousin Spike, of spike66ancestry on Ancestry.com. I came to find out Naomi (and presumably you) grew up about the distance a strong guy could whack a golf ball, but not in Cherry Tree. It was in Titusville. From your house there would go east on Buffalo road, right on Childre, Right on Malinda, left on Carrie Hill Rd. It was about 400 yards away as the crow flies. The crazy part is that you are from Cherry Tree, where my father was born and spent his childhood. That both families should go in parallel paths like that is remarkable. Still more remarkable is that Robert McCormack and I are also third cousins, but not on the same branch as you and I are third cousins.

            DNA kits are a marvelous invention, ja? Greetings to your sister Naomi, who is my cousin and genealogy collaborator. I hope all are well in your home.

            spike

  4. Robert McCormack

    Monitor Junction stands out clearly in mind. In 1946, my Mother, Virginia McCormack and I would walk from upper Cherry Tree to Monitor Junction to catch a school bus to J. B. Ellis School on Mud Fork where I was in her first grade class. Vito Esposito would invite us to wait for the school bus in his store on cold o rainy days. By fourth grade I had gained the freedom to ride the regular bus such as the one pictured from downtown after attending a movie back home to Cherry Tree. At the bus terminal I would listen for my bus to be called. A long list of main Island Creek communities ending with “Crystal Block, Hatfield Stop” was my clue. As the bus crossed the two bridges at Fisher Bottom I began to intently watch for the right time to pull the chord. I would do that just after passing Nagy’s Grocery so that the bus would stop between the Church and the ESSO station (almost in front of my house).

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  5. charles & connie nagy

    Robert,
    Charles and I are so please to see what you have and others have done for Logan. Charles sends his regards to you. I have enjoyed getting to know Logan and its fine people. I to am from a small town in Star City W.Va.

    Charles & Connie Nagy

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    1. Webbcornwell

      Charles & Connie Nagy, l don’t remember a Charles i do however David and he had a brother maybe that’s you ????
      We had some good times together is all i remember. Also your mother and father .

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  6. Yolanda

    My father-in-law was the late Clifton Black, former math teacher at Aracoma (and later, I believe Logan HighSchool.) he is pictures in the first page of pictures, twelfth row, second from left. He and his family are listed in the map and list of residents section. This list is from the early forties and shows five children, but they eventually had twelve. Several became doctors and others have found impressive careers. Some have died, but others are still living. If anyone is interested, I will be happy to tell you what I know about this family.

    Marilyn (who later went by Jean) was a doctor in the D.C. Area. She was married to a doctor from Louisiana, where they lived and had three children, one of whom died young. The oldest sister, Clara (who went by Betty) taught school, first in Logan, then in Maryland. She married twice and had one child who is now a minister. Phyllis married a Marshall football player, they had three children, two boys, both of whom are now dead and a girl who is living in the D.C. Area, also. Phyllis died recently. Dan and Alvin lived their lives in Logan with their dad and are both dead now. Fred (Weasel) is married with two grown boys. He lives in Cincinnati. Felix (Paul or “Sarge”) lived in Charleston, never married. He died about three years ago. Mike and Clinton both went into politics. Lowell taught college briefly and then worked in Government Service at Wright Patterson in Dayton. He is now retired. We were married in the 70s and 80s and have two grown sons. The youngest girl, Angie is alive and has a daughter, but I know no details.
    I have a few pictures, some old, of the Black children, and a few of Lowell. I have no idea where they are, but I know I have them. When I locate them, I will post them. If you think the information I have provided would interest anybody, feel free to post it!

    Frank,s death was due to an accident on the basketball court. He fell and hit his head. This was in the early fifties, when his younger brother, Lowell (whom I married) was only a baby and so he and I had no real recollection. The family was always very affected by that loss. Alvin and Dan both lived with their parents in that big block house until the mother, Hattie, died of complications due to diabetes. Then they stayed with their dad who lived well into his nineties. He was killed right on the road in front of their house when another car t-boned the car he was in. Alvin lacked care ( just my observation) and died shortly thereafter and was soon followed by Dan. I do not know the actual cause of their deaths, but I think they relied on the parents and were kind of at a loss without them

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    1. robert

      Here is an e-mail that Joe Piros sent to Yolanda. Joe gave me permission to share.

      Hello, my name is Joe Piros, Jr. & I knew some of the boy’s in Mr. Black’s family & was wondering how Alvin fared after I left Cherry Tree in 1961 as I know he was developmentally disabled also Dan who like myself was away in college after 1957 so our paths never crossed after that year.

      I also knew Frank who passed away while in college, which was a very big shock, because he was always involved in sports & looked very healthy.

      I mostly knew Mr. & Mrs. Black in passing as a kid as we rode bikes by their house or seeing Mr. Black going to Aracoma High while waiting @ the school bus stop.

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    2. Douglas Dempsey

      I’m fairly new to this Logan County site so I spend a lot of time just browsing and I was most pleasantly surprised to run onto this commentary of the Black family. Marilyn Black provided me with one of the most inspiring actions I have ever seen.

      On the first day of school at Logan High in 1957 as a sophomore I was in the class of advanced learning students in Class 10-AL. It was a brand new high school and that year’s sophomore students were the first class to go on and graduate from the new school in 1960.

      More significant is the fact that 1957 was the year that Logan County schools were integrated. Of course, there was some anxiety about how everyone would react to that. There were about 35 students in Class 10-AL and Marilyn was the only person of color. I already knew about 25 of the students but I didn’t know about 10 or so, one of which was Marilyn. I sat in the back of the room with a cluster of my friends. Marilyn sat close to the front.

      As is the custom on first day of school, the teacher invited each student to stand and speak their name. Eventually, when it came Marilyn’s turn she stood and proudly said “My name is Marilyn like the movie star and Black like the color of my face”

      EVERYONE sprang from their seats, applauding and cheering her.

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      1. Robert McCormack

        Doug, thank you for sharing that delightful story about Marilyn. I have no idea of where she is now. I heard that she became a medical doctor which would not surprise me.

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      2. Bob. Piros

        Douglas, wonderful story about Marilyn.
        Glad your class applauded her.
        Wish that Katie Mae & Robert Johnson,
        two black kids at the age of 11 had to be
        treated so bad in Sept.1956. Both of them
        lived in lower Cherry Tree. Like me we were
        going to Mt.Gay Grade School, getting off the
        school bus we were met with a bunch of angry
        white parents yelling the N word & carrying signs,
        that they didn’t want these two beautiful kids going
        to school with their children.
        As we went into the school, some of the white kids
        carried some of the signs into our 5th grade class
        taught by Ms.Betty Varney. She told them to throw
        the signs out of the window & to set down & shut
        their mouths. I don’t know if the incident was ever
        reported in the Logan Banner.

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    3. Robert McCormack

      Yolanda: Do you have contact information for Marilyn? Some on Facebook have asked about her. Beulah Sansom used to play with Marilyn and has tried to find her in years past.

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  8. Vivian Carpenter

    Hello, my great grandfather was Preacher J. Green McNeely. A photo above shows his house next door to the Logan Bakery. Can you tell me the address of this house and if it is still standing? Thank you.

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    1. robert

      Vivian: I emailed Eddie Atkins who still lives in Cherry Tree. He said: “The McNeely house is long gone and the location is now the parking lot for the company,_”Delta Electric ” Rev McNeely married my parents. I remember the house quite well.
      Robert McCormack

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  9. Donna "Blevins" George

    I really enjoyed looking at these pics! My father and his siblings was raised in Cherry Tree, not only did Dad grow up there he worked at National Cable Repair for nearly 30 years for T.K. Killen . His name was Doug Blevins, his parents was John and Thelma.

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