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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REV. ARCHIE CONWAY Photo by: Dolores Riggs – 1958 LYBURN MINE FIRE On Sunday morning at seven o’clock on August 14, 1932, four men entered the Croaton Coal Company Mine at Lyburn. The mine was empty, and they were cleaning up slate so Monday’s shift could start on time. At approximately ten o’clock that morning
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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THE HINCHMAN HOUSE, HINCHMAN AND COLE STREET, LOGAN WV U.B. “Beck” Buskirk, a lumber entrepreneur, began construction on a home in the city of Logan on Cole Street in the winter of 1893. It was a masterpiece of late nineteenth century architecture, and became a well known landmark in Logan. Buskirk’s wife was from Cincinnati,
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“. . . and departing leave behind us, footprints in the sands of time.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from “Psalm of Life” As my husband and I departed for our home in the chilly north from Panama City Beach, Florida, in March of 1998 a sign on the beach called out to me. The sign
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By Dolores Riggs Davis (1936-2014) Author, Thomas Wolfe said, “You can’t go home again,” . . . and for many of us that’s true. Like Dehue, most of the once bustling mining towns in Logan County have fallen by the wayside. However, once a year on the second Saturday of August we gather at the
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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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When I learned that Dr. Israel Maurice Kruger had passed away on March 30, 2000, it sent me rushing back in time. Anytime I think of the old Logan General Hospital he comes to mind. After all, he was our family doctor, and he delivered my first child. He delivered over five-thousand babies during his years in Logan County.
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You load sixteen tons . . . what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the company store – by: Merle Travis “There was an old saying around the coal mines in the Depression days. Somebody’d say,
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