Peach Creek, WV

My grandpa, John Ferrell used to work at the roundhouse there in Peach Creek. He also painted the dairy across the street from his house I’m told. Is it the Mathis Motel? His wife Ella was a Jeffries and moved to Chattanooga to live with my Uncle Con Ferrell and his wife. My dad also worked for a short while at the roundhouse.

My email address is: Peachcreeklady1@yahoo.com I am from Peach Creek, grand daughter of Henry and Laura Adkins (owners of Guyan Inn and the old American Restaurant) .my Father was Frank Morris and mother Linda Lee Morris..brothers: Frank, Mack, Andy, Delbert and David..sisters Laura Sue and Nancy V Morris..and My name is Mary Morris Colmer

My name is John Pouch and I lived in Huntington from 1945 to 1959. My grandmother, Betty Kirk, married to a railroad conductor John Kirk lived in Peach Creek. She lived on a bend in the road where there was a bridge where the trains would pass over. I remember as a child spending summers with Grandma and being warned not to play in the front yard as the cars coming around the bend might hit me. Grandma had a beauty parlor in the front room of the grey brick house she lived in and in the back of the house, there was a creek, perhaps Peach Creek, I don’t know. I don’t recall much of Peach Creek except there was a building not far from Grandma’s house where they would show black and white movies on a Saturday night, usually on a giant white sheet. I saw Clark Gable there in “It Happened One Night” in the early fifties. A wonderful memory! Grandma died in a nursing home in Point Pleasant, WV in the early 70’s. I miss you Grandma, and I still see you shuffling your feet through that little grey brick house in Peach Creek!!

My name is Larry Chafin, my parents name Rowe and Martha, two brothers older named Terry and younger was Ralph. We grew up in Peach Creek from the early 1940’s until the early 1950’s. My dad was a coal miner and we lived in a company house midway up the holler behind Denver Harvey. He dad two sons named Virgil and Donald Ray, daughter name Brenda. I was recently up there in May 2015 after being away nearly sixty years. I did not recognize anything at head of holler where the tiple used to be. We were fortunate enuff to meet a young couple who took us up the hill to the top. I would like to know if anyone has pics, circa the 1940’s, 1950’s of the coal company homes, people, etc.
My email address is ladyliberty053@gmail.com and I encourage you to help me.
Thanks and may God bless you all.

Larry Chafin

My daughter is just starting to get into genealogy and for complicated reasons don’t know much about my family. It seems to me we used to go to Peach Creek when I was little. My Granny’s name was Opal and the last man she was married to had a last name of Poling. I seem to remember she had a sister named Dixie Fry(e) but that was in 1965 or so. Opal had daughters named Sadie, Mona and Chris. Not much to go on but can anyone help?

I would like to find some relatives of Robert Lee Smith who was married to my grandmother Matilda Scaggs Smith. My mother was Virginia Mae Smith who married my father Carl Dana Handley. He worked on the railroad and lived at Peach Creek, Wv. for a while.

I am from the lineage of the Farley Families of Logan Co. and Mingo Co. Peach Creek was named from the peach orchards that my g.g. or g.g.g. uncle Henry Farley owned there.