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1982-83

Index to Volume 1, Issues 1-5

Volume 1, Issues 1&2 (October 1982, 30 pages) 2 Program for First Gathering

Pages 3-29 include Descendancy Records 3 Bobby and Ruby Casto 3 Alyce (Bonnett) Cox 4 Ann Newman 5 Doris P. Poinsett 5 Mrs. Carl Evans 5 Audrey Johnson 6 Margie (Lowther) Keiffer 6 Mrs. Wade Knight 7 Richards Jeames Perrine 7 Rubert A. Lawson 8 Iris Lambert Hall 8 Susie D. Nicholson 9 Leah Shoemaker 9 William A. Marsh 10 Robert B. Smith 10 Lena Byers 11 Hartzel G. Strader 11 Betty Robison 12 Joy Gregoire Gilchrist 13 Ruth “Noodie” Runner 14 Rella Hitt Smith 14 Sue Darnall 14 Howard T. Bonnet 14 Mrs. C. W. Thorniley 15 Hazel Dillon Squires 15 Kenneth and Haroldine Stalnaker 16 Worthy E. Straley 16 Cris Wagoner 17 Franklin Walters 18 Betty (Wimer) Graybill 18 Leonard Davis 18 Floda Hughes Layman 19 Elizabeth Cottingham Kirkland 19 Vania Hughes Williams 20 Raymond Wolfe, Jr. 21 Charles Warner White 21 May (Straley) White 21 Howard Smith 22 Harris K. Jensen 22 Elizabeth Turner 22 Eleanor Womer 23 Dorsey Joseph Bartlett 23 Linda E Russell 24 Noble Bennett 24 Eileen Conley Peters 24 Betty Jo Bonnett Atkins 24 Harley Swiger 25 Lolita Guthrie 25 Clarissa Tatterson 25 Winnifred Brown Scott 26 Virginia Bonnett Vermillion 26 Janet Roby Cosgrove 26 Carrie Mae Clark Porter 26 Clara Jett Lawson 27 Jean H. Bonnett 27 Russell Bush 27 Mary Southall 28 Francis L. Farinash 28 Eugenia Jones 28 Mrs. Wade Elefrit 28 Inez V. McCurdy 29 Joe Hacker 29 Audrey Merle (Dean) Johnson 29 Mrs. George Bailey 29 Lucy Rulman Weaver 29 Thelma Osborne

Volume 1, Issue 2 (October 1982, 9 pages) 1 First Gathering (October 16, 1982) at the Broad Run Baptist Church 4 Additional names and addresses of those who attended the First Gathering 5 Bible Records (William P. and Lucretia (Straley) Hacker 7 First Families: William and Ann (Turner) Hacker (Researched by Franklin Walters, written by Joy Gilchrist) 8 Waggoner article in Weston Democrat on September 29, 1982. It was in the “Yesteryears” column by Bill Adler 8 Obituary: Dr. Edward Conrad Smith (1891-1982) 9 West Virginia University genealogy research collection

Volume 1, Issue 3 (January 1983, 46 pages) 11 Dear Fellow Pioneers: Letter from Joy L. Gilchrist 12 Announcements 13 Happy Birthday to Joseph Franklin Straley (turned 104 on November 28, 1982) 14 First Families: David and Lydia (Ball) Smith, by Joy L. Gilchrist 23 Poem: The Home Family, submitted by Robert B. Smith 25 For the Record, by H.T. Bonnett 26 Extracts from Lewis County Land Book #476, by Chris Wagoner 27 Lewis County Court Records 28 Lewis County Deaths (1853-54) 33 Hacker Whackers Set Things Right With Their Ancestors, by Joy L. Gilchrist (published in T he West Virginia Hillbilly, J anuary 1, 1983) 36 Buckhannon Run Cemetery (also known as Rogers Cemetery), read by Hartzel G. Strader November 26, 1982 40 Hinzman Hill Cemetery, read by Hartzel G. Strader, November 27, 1982 41 Funny Story (About Juanita Moats Matthews and Helen Frankman and their cemetery adventures) 42 Jackson’s Mill Cemetery 43 Morrison Cemetery (also known as Old Hacker), read by Robert B. Smith and his son, Larry, September 12, 1977) 46 Genealogy cartoon, submitted by Raymond Wolfe, Jr. 48 New Members of H.C.P.D (33 of them: 14 from 10 different WV counties) Other states included were: CA, GA, OH, MT, PA, TX 50 The Linger Family Connection with Hackers Creek Community, by Hartzel G. Strader 52 Queries - 7 questions including the following surnames: Bailey, Ball, Bonnett, Flesher, Hacker, Hardman, Hickman, Jaynes, Lewis, Lowther, Roby, Schmitt, Straley, Waggoner, Wolf

Volume 1, Issue 4 (April 1983, 106 pages) 53 Dear Fellow Pioneers: Letter from Joy L. Gilchrist 54 Office Equipment 55 Membership and Treasurer’s Report: As of March 30, 1983 we have 120 paid members New Members of H.C.P.D (24 of them: 10 from 6 different WV counties) Other states included were: AZ, CA, IA, IL, IN, KS, OH, PA, VA and one from D.C. 57 Announcements 58 Plans and tentative schedule for the Second Annual Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendents Gathering on October 1-2 at Jackson’s Mill 60 First Families: Sleeth 72 Lola Sleeth’s History (the history of the Alexander Sleeth family of Indiana), written by Anna (Sleeth) Stover 84 Jesse Run Church Cemetery, read by Hartzel G. Strader December 23, 1982 89 Jonas Smith Graveyard, recorded by Janet (Roby) Cosgrove October 1982 90 Butcher Grave Yard, recorded by Janet (Roby) Cosgrove October 1982 90 I.O.O.F. Cemetery, recorded by Janet (Roby) Cosgrove November 9, 1982 91 Hardesty Cemetery, submitted by Janet (Robey) Cosgrove 92 The Wolfe Family, by Charles Ray Harper with help from Betty Shank 93 Lewis County Deaths (1855) 97 Harrison County, W.Va. Land Survey Book 3 1786-1794, page 28 (Land surveyed for William Lowther, September 22, 1786), submitted by Hartzel Strader 99 1898 Wolfe Letter (Abraham Wolfe) 101 Queries - 13 questions including the following surnames: Allman, Berk, Cline/Klein, Cutright, Davidson, Edmunds, Flesher, Freeman, Groce, Hacker, Hamilton, Hornbeck, Houston, Jensen, Lanham, Lantz, Lowther, McCann, Moneypenney, Richards, Sills, Smith, Straley, Swisher, Tenney, Wetherhultz, Young 104 Income Statement (October 17, 1982 - March 31, 1983) 105 Letter from Joy, by Joy L. Gilchrist 106 Some Interesting Communications 111 John Turner Sleeth’s Diary 112 New Members of H.C.P.D (19 of them: 13 from 6 different WV counties) Other states included were: AZ, FL, NM, OH, TX 113 First Families: John Collins of Frederick County, Virginia - Later of Hacker’s Creek, by Clarissa Tatterson, 1982 124 Warning: Genealogy Pox (published in Volume 18, Number 4 of K entucky Ancestors, submitted by Marian Challender) 124 Humorous Obit 125 Lewis County Deaths (1856-57) 129 Definitions of Terms Relating to Marriages, submitted by Hartzel Strader 132 A Civil War Record (Edgar Davidson) 133 History of Churchville, by Teresa Rowan 135 Cutright Letter (from Elmore Cutright to L.R. Cutright, submitted by Raymond Wolfe, Jr.) 136 Selected Harrison County Surveys 138 Anecdotes of Jesse Hughes, from T he American Pioneer 140 Mount Gilead Cemetery (also known as Georgetown Methodist Church Cemetery). Read by Hartzel Strader, with additional information submitted by Joy Gilchrist) 147 Laurel Lick Cemetery, read by Hartzel G. Strader December 24, 1982 150 Peterson Cemetery, read by Roberta R. Hefner and family March 1983 150 Bailey Cemetery, read by Roberta R. Hefner and Worthy E. Straley March 1983 151 Queries - 4 questions including the following surnames: Coburn, Conners, Edmunds, Flesher, Goff, Howell, Staats/Stauts/Steorts/Storts, Stalnaker, Starkey, Straley,

Volume 1, Issue 5 (July 1983, 32 pages) 105 Letter from Joy, by Joy L. Gilchrist 106 Some Interesting Communications 111 John Turner Sleeth’s Diary 112 New Members of H.C.P.D (19 of them: 13 from 6 different WV counties) Other states included were: AZ, FL, NM, OH, TX 113 First Families: John Collins of Frederick County, Virginia - Later of Hacker’s Creek, by Clarissa Tatterson, 1982 124 Warning: Genealogy Pox (published in Volume 18, Number 4 of K entucky Ancestors, submitted by Marian Challender) 124 Humorous Obit 125 Lewis County Deaths (1856-57) 129 Definitions of Terms Relating to Marriages, submitted by Hartzel Strader 132 A Civil War Record (Edgar Davidson) 133 History of Churchville, by Teresa Rowan 135 Cutright Letter (from Elmore Cutright to L.R. Cutright, submitted by Raymond Wolfe, Jr.) 136 Selected Harrison County Surveys 138 Anecdotes of Jesse Hughes, from T he American Pioneer 140 Mount Gilead Cemetery (also known as Georgetown Methodist Church Cemetery). Read by Hartzel Strader, with additional information submitted by Joy Gilchrist) 147 Laurel Lick Cemetery, read by Hartzel G. Strader December 24, 1982 150 Peterson Cemetery, read by Roberta R. Hefner and family March 1983 150 Bailey Cemetery, read by Roberta R. Hefner and Worthy E. Straley March 1983 151 Queries - 4 questions including the surnames: Coburn, Conners, Edmunds, Flesher, Goff, Howell, Staats/Stauts/Steorts/Storts, Stalnaker, Starkey, Straley

1983-84

Index to Volume 2, Issues 1-4

Volume 2, Issue 1 (October 1983,48 pages) 1 Letter from Joy, by Joy Gilchrist 2 New Members of H.C.P.D (31 of them: 12 from 7 different WV counties) Other states included were: CA, CO, IL, IN, KS, MI MO, NM, OH, VA, WA 3 Changes of Address 4 Hughes Heritage 4 Back Issues 4 1984 Dues 5 Second Annual Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Gathering (October 1-2 at Jackson’s Mill) 7 Betty and Joy (Biographical Sketches) 8 Harrison County Bicentennial 9 Bicentennial Plus Twenty Five 9 Membership 10 Death Records (requesting a volunteer to check courthouse records) 10 Correction 11 Lewis County Deaths (1858) 12 Radcliff Family Survey, submitted by Hartzel Strader 13 Abraham Wolfe, (1811-1904) photo 14 James A. Robey Diary (submitted by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lawson) 27 Bush Cemetery (copied by Hartzel G. Strader from Latter Day Saints Church Genealogical Library film No. 250, 209. Inscriptions read July 18, 1937) 28 Old Mitchell Cemetery (read by Robert Smith April 12, 1983) 28 William L. Smith Cemetery (read by Robert Smith February 23, 1983) 30 Snyder Cemetery (Three Sisters Cemetery) (read by Roberta R. Hefner May 13, 1983) 35 Queries - 3 questions including the following surnames: Hall, Sleeth, Straley, Tharp,Woofter 36 Monongalia County, W.Va. Land Claims Adjustments (1773-1785) 40 Poem: Monkey Business, author unknown (submitted by Esther Freeman) 41 Anecdotes of Jesse Hughs, Pioneer Customs, Etc., by Felix Renick (from T he American Pioneer) 43 Searching in West Virginia by Hartzel Strader 44 Harrison County, W.Va. Land Deeds - Edmund West Sr. 46 The End, Prepare Now, Genealogically For the End, by John W. Heisey (from the T ri State Trader, May 30, 1981)

Volume 2, Issue 2 (January 1984, 52 pages) 49 Letter from Joy, by Joy L. Gilchrist 50 1984 Gathering will be September 28-30 at Jackson’s Mill 50 New Members of H.C.P.D (22 of them: 4 from 2 different WV counties) Other states included were: CA FL, IL, IN, KS, MD, OH, TX, VA, WA 50 Morrison Cemetery (plans for care) 51 The Waggoners of Hacker’s Creek, by Chris Wagoner 57 Lewis County Deaths (1860-62) 61 Whence Came Jean Jacques Bonnet?, by Howard Bonnett 63 The Jean Jacques Bonnet Family Re-Early Years in America 64 Where Is Hacker’s Creek? 65 Charts of County Formations of Virginia 71 Friendship Cemetery (read April 13, 1937 - copied by Hartzel G.Strater from Latter Day Saints Church Genealogical Library film 20, 209) 75 Poem: Methuselah, author unknown. Submitted by Hartzel G. Srader who found it in T he Family Tree, newsletter of the Montgomery County, OH Genealogical Society in the October 1981 issue. 76 Bush-Mills Cemetery 77 The Original Bethal Church and Cemetery (read by Robert and Larry Smith April 10, 1983) 79 The George Straley Sr. Family, by Joy Gilchrist 83 Michina Roots 83 Salute to Lewis County by Garnet Kimball Davis (submitted by Betty (Wimer) Graybill) 84 Obituary: Joe Straley (1878-1984) 85 Obituary: Al Mason (1881-1984) 85 Some Court Terms and Their Definitions (submitted by Hartzel G. Strader) 85 Correction and Addition 85 Ministers and Justices of the Peace 86 The Thomas Wolf Family Bible (submitted by C. Clifton Chancey) 89 At Home in the Heart of Appalachia, by John O’Brien (first published in the September 1983 C ountry Journal. Permission for reprint granted by the author) 92 A John Brown Man (submitted by Edward Keith; copied from the W alnut Valley Times of December 1, 1905 in El Dorado, Butler County Kansas) 92 Skidmore Bible (transcribed by Joy Gilchrist from a Bible in possession of Mrs. Christine Dillon of Lafayette, OH) 93 Queries - 8 questions including the following surnames: Anglin, Bonnet, Carney, Chestnut, Corathers, Ewing, Gifford, Hacker, Hudkins/Hudskins/Hoskins, Hughes, Isner, Jacobs, Keller, Marsh, Mitchell, Parsons, Smith, Stewart, Wilfong 93 A Wilson-Hardman Family (copied by James Evan Wilson) 94 Last Minute Word from President Bob Smith

Volume 2, Issue 3&4 (April and July 1984, 110 pages) 95 A Letter from Joy, by Joy Gilchrist 96 New Members of H.C.P.D (13 of them: 8 from 5 different WV counties) Other states included were: CA NC, NJ, TX, and one from Ontario, Canada) 97 Give Credit Where Credit is Due 97 Morrison Cemetery 97 Morrison Cemetery Book 98 Third Annual Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Gathering (Tentative Schedule for September 28-30 at Jackson’s Mill) 100 West Virginia Pioneers 101 Daniel Lowther and Harmony Cemetery 101 Obituary: Benjamin F. Tatterson (1914-1984) 102 Obituary: Benson A. Bennett (1914-1984) 102 Obituary: Claudia Hacker (1882-1984) 103 Buckhannon Delta 105 Chronicles of Border Warfare and B order Settlers of Northwestern Virginia 110 Advance Subscribers to Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia 114 Proposed By-Laws of Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants 118 Obituary: Isaac Smith (1876-1984) 119 Yankee in Your Family? (From W eston Democrat, W ednesday, April 18, 1984) 120 Samuel Bonnett Marriage Bond 121 Who Is Eliza?, by Howard T. Bonnett 122 Judge McWhorter, George Straley and Bill Adler, by Joy Gilchrist 123 A Scotch-Irish Fling! (In Coshocton, OH on September 8, 1984) 124 Mitman Cemetery (copied by Robert B. Smith from J.W. Smith) 126 Harmony Church Cemetery (Three Readings and an article from Y esteryears in 1984. (Readings by Adler, Hartzel G. Strader, and Betty Graybill and her mother Mrs. Pete Wimer) 140 Rockford Methodist Church Cemetery (Read by Eobert and Larry Smith on March 27, 1983) 152 Church HIstories (Written by Mrs. John C. Hersman, and clipped from W eston Democrat sometime in the 1960s by Betty Graybill. Churches include: Broad Run Baptist (1804), Harmony Methodist (1813), Berlin Methodist (1830), West First Methodist (1830), Jane Lew Mt. Hebron Methodist (1831), Freemans Creek Baptist (1831), Stone Coal Methodist (1834), Jesse’s Run Mt. Pleasant Methodist (1834), Buckhannon Run Union Chapel Methodist (1834), Georgetown Mt. Gilead Methodist (1834), Waldeck Methodist (1834), Laurel Lick Methodist (1834), Murphy’s Creek Baptist (1844), St. Patrick’s Parish (1845), Mt. Zion Baptist (1846), St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal (1848), Valley Chapel Evangelical United Brethren (1850), McCanns Run Methodist (1850), Duffy Methodist (1850) Miles Chapel Evangelical United Brethren (1854), Jane Lew First Methodist (1854), Horner Methodist (1856), Hedding Chapel Methodist (1856), Vandalia Methodist (1858), Freemansburg Evangelical United Brethren (1859) 153 Fairview Church (by N.G. Boram, submitted by Maurice Allman) 153 McLaughlin’s Law 154 A Listing of Marriages Celebrated in the Year 1826-277 by John Mitchell 155 Lewis County Deaths (1862-68) 163 The Waggoners of Hacker’s Creek, Part 2, by Chris Wagoner 173 John Waggoner’s Revolutionary War Pension Application 177 Fort Laurens, by Joy Gilchrit 185 Descendants of the French Creek Pioneers will meet August 18-19 187 A Death in Weston in 1834 (Nicholas Madera) 187 Two Obituaries from T he Monongalia Chronicle of November 1825 (Jedidiah W. Goff and William P. F. Sommerville) 188 A Letter from Bob Swisher (re: The Morrison Cemetery project) 189 Research in Rhyme, by Mrs. Charles Dean. Sent to Joy Gilchrist by Marian Challender 190 Queries - 12 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Barnhouse, Bell, Bennett, Boggs, Bonnet, Butcher, Carney, Curtis, Davis, Deem, Demoss, Duncan, Farnsworth, Fore, Gainer, Godfrey, Hinzman, Houghton, Howell, Jackson, Jeffries, Johnson, Kuhl, Leaseburg, Marple/Marpole, McClain, McCoy, Morton, Mount, Newton, Nutter, Pfost/Post, Radcliff/Ratcliff, , Riddle, Riggs, Rinehart, Rutherford, Spurgeon, Starcher, Thornton, Warner, Weaver, White, Williams, Wright 192 The Hughes Family

1984-85

Volume 3, Issue 1 (October 1984, 60 pages) * Membership information * Explanation about the cover * Officers 1 Letter from Joy, by Joy Gregoire Gilchrist 2 New Members of H.C.P.D (47 of them: 19 from 8 different WV counties) Other states included were: AL, AZ, CA, CT, FL, IA, IL, IN, KS, LA, MD, MT, OH, TX, WA 4 Surname/Index Membership 4 Index Available for Hackers Creek Journal, Volume 1 and Volume 2 5 Cemetery Books Available from Upshur County Historical Society 5 Additions to the HCPD Library 6 Third Annual Hacker’s Creek Pioneer descendants Gathering (September 28-30, 1984 at Jackson’s Mill) 13 HCPD Income Statement (October 1, 1983 - October 1, 1984) 14 By-Laws of Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants 18 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Proposed Budget (October 1, 1984 - October 1, 1985) 18 Poem: S.A.S.E., Author Unknown 19 Registration List 1984 HCPD Gathering 20 From the Mailbox 25 Mitman Cemetery Near Fairborn, Green County, Ohio (Submitted by Hartzel G. Strader) 26 “Found” Tombstones at Harmony and Morrison 27 McVaney Cemetery (Copied by Hartzel G. Strader August 28, 1983) 32 Harrison County Marriage Record 33 The Hughes Family - Part 2 37 Is It Possible? By Jim Strong 38 Migrations, Massacres & Such: The Peter Hardman Family), by Joy Gilchrist 50 The Brown Family (from Y esteryears, by Bill Adler, referring to The Mongue Fort of Broad Run. Printed in the Weston I ndependent in the November 18, 1913 issue). 52 Queries - 11 questions including the following surnames: Bonnett, Bush, Frashuer, Helmick, Hitt, Hyde, Lantz, Lister, Marple, Mitchell, Post, Powell, Richards, Rollins, Smith, Starkey, Stout, Straley, Waggoner, Weaver, Westfall, Wimer/Wymer

Volume 3, Issue 2 (January 1985, 66 pages) * Membership information * Explanation about the cover * Officers 53 Letter from Joy, by Joy Gregoire Gilchrist 54 The Mailbag 56 Genealogist’s Prayer (written by Rev. Dennis M. Boudreaux, submitted by a member of HCPD) 57 Some Early Lewis County Marriages, submitted by Robert B. Smith 58 New and Not-So-New Hacker Discoveries 62 The Hughes Family - Conclusion 69 At Last - News Concerning Our Family History Book, by George T. Powell, Jr. 71 Broad Run Cemetery (Read in October 1938) 83 Woofter Cemetery (read by Miss Edythe Rohrbough, in 1945 - submitted by Doris Poinsett) 84 Bailey Cemetery (Read by Charles and Joy Gilchrist, September 2, 1984) 85 Minor C. Bailey Obituary 87 Migrations, Massacres & Such, Part 2 93 New Members 5 of them: none from WV Other states included were: KS, MO, OH, VA 94 Obituary: David Sleeth Carpenter (T he Monongalia Chronicle, August 25, 1827) 96 The Swisher-Law Farm 99 Extracts of Land Certificates Issued in 1781 by the Commissioner to Settlers of Lands in Monongalia County - Later included in Harrison County, Created in 1734. Compiled by Robert B. Smith 102 Bushes Fort and John Bush, submitted by Raymond Wolfe, Jr. 104 Some Maddox-Davis Descendants, submitted by Chris Wagoner 104 Dyer’s Index To Land Grants in West Virginia 105 Queries - 9 questions including the following surnames: Bennett, Blackwell, Bush, Butcher, Carder, Cookman, Fultz, Hacker, Hardman, Howell, Hughes, Janney, Marple, Nichols, Post, Reeder, Schooley, Sims, Smith, Weaver, Weber, Whetzel, Wilson, 107 Cousin Finder (N. Dale Talkington, 1976 - submitted by Mearl & Lolita Guthrie) 109 Day-Finder (N. Dale Talkington, 1976 - submitted by Mearl & Lolita Guthrie)

Volume 3, Issue 3 (April 1985, 60 pages) * Membership information * Explanation about the cover * Officers 111 Letter from the Editor, by Joy L. Gilchrist 112 Fourth Annual Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Gathering (Arrangements being made for September 27-29, 1985 at Jackson’s Mill) 113 Stonewall Jackson Heritage Days, Labor Day Weekend 114 Reunions (Crislip/Chrislip/Christlieb and Squires) 114 (Answer to Query) about Pocahontas 115 Membership List as of March 1, 1985 121 Five Generation Charts (book being planned, charts being requested) 121 ?????Letters from Hoy M. Johnson and Taylor I. Bolton???? 124 Five Million Dollars Worth of Air Field (from Cairo Evening Citizen - Osborn, OH), submitted by Mary Alice Hardman Egan 125 Migrations, Massacres and Such - Continuation (Information submitted by members) 134 New Genealogies in Public Domain (T he Swishers of Lewis County, West Virginia: A Genealogy andHistory, by Albert Willis Swisher and G enealogical and Historical Information on the Swishers of Lewis County, West Virginia by Carl Brent Swisher.) 134 Other Churches Attended at Third Gathering (Buckhannon Run United Methodist; St. Patrick’s Catholic in Weston; Mormon’s in Buckhannon; Grant Valley First Baptist of Lost Creek, Seven Day Baptist; and Johnstown United Methodist Church) 135 The “Lewis Gentry”: Newlon and Wamsley, The Case of Jacob Schoolcraft, by Dennis B. Rodgers 151 Vandalia Cemetery Inscriptions (Copied by Hartzel G. Strader on August 28, 1981; rechecked April 21, 1984) 160 Unknown Name Cemetery 161 John Hacker’s Tombstone to be Returned to W.VA. (continued on page 134) 163 Queries -32 questions including the following surnames: Ball, Barnett, Beath, Bennett, Bowers, Brake, Brissey, Brown, Burnside, Bush, Carpenter, Carter, Clendenning, Cline, Curtis, Davis, Dodson, Dotson, Edmunds, Fisher, Flesher, Forsythe, Gifford, Hacker, Hall, Hamilton/Hambleton, Harper, Hinzman, Hitt, Holbert, Hughes, Jackson, Johnson, Kee, Kelley, King, Kinney, Lemmons, Malloy, McCann, McHenry, Murry, Nutter, Peterson, Poe, Radcliff/Radcliffe, Reger, Rightmire, Robinson, Sayre, Sease, Shobe, Sims, Sleeth, Smith, Straley, Stump, Swiger, Tanner, Taylor, Tucker, Ward, Warner, Wetzel, Wolf/Wolfe, Wright

Volume 3, Issue 4 (July 1985, 56 pages) 171 Letter from the Editor, by Joy L. Gilchrist 172 Fourth Annual Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Gathering (planning for September 27-29) 173 Questions Answered about the Fourth Gathering 174 Chrislip/Crislip/Christlieb Family Association 174 Queries Sought 174 Articles Solicited 175 Early Hackers Creek Families in Preston County???? 175 The George Rogers Clark Adventure in the Illinois 175 Trivia (origin of the name Jones) 176 McDannald Family (submitted by Lena Byers) 178 Migrations, Massacres and Such (continued from Volume 3, Issue 3, p.133) 182 Broad Run Cemetery (some notes) 182 Original Membership Roll of Enon Baptist Church (Harrison County), copied by Robert B. Smith. 186 Enon Baptist Church Members as of November 1857 187 Enon Baptist Church Members 1858 188 Long Point Cemetery (Hartzel Strader collected inscriptions November 28, 1981) 195 Post Chapel Cemetery (Hartzel Strader collected inscriptions August 20, 1981) 200 Corathers Cemetery (Hartzel Strader copied on November 25, 1982) 202 The Scotch-Irish Element in Western Virginia (story) 215 Obituary Mrs. Blanch Hacker Bartlett, 1890-1985 (C larksburg Exponent, May 7, 1985) 216 Map of Scotland 218 Chief Bull, King of the Delawares, Many Descendants Living in the Monongahela Valley (reprinted from “Awhile Ago Times, Volume 3, Issue 12) 220 Queries - 10 questions including the following surnames: Anderson, Archer, Barnett, Bennett, Bragg, Brown, Carpenter, Casto, Cox, Curtis, Cutright, Denton, Dotson, Frazier, Hayes, Herbert, Lee, Marple, McCann, McNemar, Miller, Moore, Persinger, Plymale, Riffle, Roberts, Sayre, Smith, Thorn, White, Wigner, Wilson, Wright

1985-86

Index to Volume 4

Volume 4, Issue 1 (October 1985, 56 pages) * Membership information * Explanation about the cover * Officers 3 End of wrap-up from Gathering / Mark your calendars for September 26-28, 1986 3 Announcement of a genealogy seminary planned for February at Jackson’s Mill 3 Special Thanks 4 Portion of a Speech by John Randolph, Curator of Fort New Salem, Harrison County. From the notes of Dennis B. Rodgers - September 28, 1985. 6 Minutes of Annual Business Meeting on September 28, 1985, submitted by Ann Walker, Secretary/Treasurer 10 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Proposed Budget for October 1, 1985 - October 1, 1986, submitted by James Strong. 11 Letter to Members of Hackers Creek Pioneer Descendants, from James J. Strong 13 Abraham Westfall (from R evolutionary Soldiers Buried in Indiana, by Waters Pens) 16 Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, submitted by Doris P. Poinsett 18 Some Harrison County, Virginia, Tithables 1784-1824 (compiled by Hartzel G. Strader) 23 Obituary: Mrs. Blanche Hacker Bartlett (1890-1985) Taken from Clarksburg, Exponent, Tuesday, May 7, 1985. 24 Coffee Break: Letter Writing and Common Courtesy, by Rita Shane. (Used by special permission of the author. Published in May 1985 “Car-Del Scribe”. Suggested by Chris Wagoner. 26 Wolf Cemetery (Read by Raymond Wolfe, Jr. November 27, 1982) 27 Mt. Olive Methodist Church Cemetery 29 Louisa Jane Methodist Chapel Cemetery 31 Cattle Brands in Harrison County, registered in the August Court 1787 Court Order Book. Found by Dennis Rodgers September 27, 1985. 32 The Brake Family in West Virginia, by Linnie Louisa Brake Cunningham, January 1946 36 Sims Family History, by James L. Sims 40 From the Bible of Andrew Stalnaker and Eunice Brown Stalnaker 42 Monongalia 1783 - Taxable Property 1783. Found by Dennis Rodgers. 50 Query Answers 51 Queries - 19 questions including the following surnames: Allman, Bonnett, Bruffey, Bush, Cummins, Curry, Cutright, Dawson, Ellensworth/Killingsworth, Fisher, Francis, Hacker, Hitt, Houghton, Howell, Hughes, Jones, Kelley, Kinsey, Kirkindall/Kukendal, Lowther, Luddick, Ludwell, Marple, Matthews, Parsons, Pugh, Raines, Reniker, Richards, Schoolcraft, Scott, Sines, Smith, Tapscott, Van Camp, Washburn, Weaver, Westfall, Willoughby, Wilson

Volume 4, Issue 2 (Jan-Mar 1986, 52 pages) * Membership information * Explanation about the cover * Officers 55 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 57 Fourth Annual Hacker’s Creek Gathering (September 5-7, 1986) - Tentative Planning 57 Seminar for Beginning Genealogists To Be Held May 17 at Jackson’s Mill 58 Minutes of H.C.P.D. Meeting, January 18, 1986 61 Correction to Volume 4, Issue 1, p.4 61 Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery Readings (submitted by Mrs. Dn Sanford) 65 Howell Cemetery 66 Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery in Jackson Center, Ohio (copied 1976) 73 Stonecoal Lake Graves. Map 74 McCue Town Cemetery, or Linger #1 (Read by Hartzel G. Strader and Janet Cosgrove) 78 Linger Cemetery #2 (Recorded by Kenneth and Haroldine Stalnaker, May 1983) 78 Flaherty Family Cemetery #4 (Recorded by Kenneth and Haroldine Stalnaker, July 1983) 79 Hopewell Church Cemetery or Shoulder Cemetery #3 (Recorded by Janet Cosgrove, June 1983) 80 Smith Family Cemetery #7 (Recorded by Kenneth and Haroldine Stalnaker, September 1983) 80 Hardman Family Cemetery #8 (Recorded by Janet Cosgrove, June 1983) 81 Summers Family Cemetery #6 (Read by Kenneth and Haroldine Stalnaker, September 1983) 81 Whetsel Cemetery #9 (Information from Nina Hardman, June 1983) 81 Unidentified Old Cemetery #10 (Information from Janet Cosgrove, September 1983) 81 Eliza Is A Singer, by Howard T. Bonnett 82 Cozad Family, by Clerissa H. Tatterson, 1985 92 Carney Family, by Marieda M. Edens 97 Where Did They Go? -- Adam Flesher (From History of Indiana, by Blackford & Jay Co. 1887, p.627) 97 More On the Seventh Day Baptists 98 Robert Sleeth Family, Emigrated 1830 99 Queries - 16 questions including the following surnames: Burnside, Bush, Cozad, Crites, Cummins, Curry, Cutright, Davis, Dawson, Dixon, Fisher, Gaston, Hacker, Hinzman, Killinsgworth, Lambert, Law, Linger, Minter, Morris, Ocheltree, Posey, Reger, Rinehart,Rose, Scott, Sills, Simmons, Skinner, Sleeth, Smith, Swisher, Westfall, Williams, Young

Volume 4, Issue 3 (April 1986, 58 pages) * Membership information * Explanation about the cover * Officers 101 Letter from the Editor 101 Betwixt (trivia) 103 Setting the Record Straight (re: cemetery inventories, Volume 4, Issue 2 104 Yohogania County, Virginia: A Short-Lived County, by Raymond M. Bell (District of West Augusta and Records of West Augusta) 108 Monongalia 1783 - Taxable Property (Typed transcript by Lolita Guthrie and Ardis Lamb in December, 1985 and further edited by Dennis Rodgers) 113 Monongalia 1782 Tax List, excerpts from The Monongalia Story (Earl L. Core, 1976) 120 Fort Buckhannon and Fort West (from T he West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, contributed by Chris Wagoner) 121 Forts, Built 1775-1794, drawn by Raymond Wolfe, Jr. 122 McCue Town Cemetery, copied by Hartzel G. Strader October 18, 1982 123 Taylor Chapel Cemetery, copied by Hartzel G. Strader November 27, 1981 124 Oliver Letters: Pioneer Remembers Indians (from T he Weston Democrat, May 9, 1973) 126 Seniors and Juniors, I, II, III, IV, etc., by John J. Schaefer 128 The Brake Family in West Virginia (continued from Volume 4, Issue 1, p.35) 133 Record of the Boram Family - January 1, 1931, by N.G. Boram. Submitted by Doris Poinsett 138 The Carney Family 154 Where Did They Go? - Sand Hill or Keith Cemetery, Shelby County, Indiana

1986-87

Index to Volume 5

Vol. 5, Issue 1 (Fall 1986, 68 pages) * Membership * Officers 1 Letter from the Editor, by Joy L. Gilchrist 2 Fifth Annual Gathering Held September 5-7, 1986 6 Sixth Annual HCPD Meeting Date Set for September 11-13, 1987 at Jackson’s Mill 6 Biographical Sketch of Henry McWhorter (from the History of the Henry McWhorter Family of New Jersey and West Virginia) 10 Financial Report of Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants as of September 1, 1986 11 Historic Jackson’s Mill 15 Bush’s Fort - Buckhannon’s First Settlement, by French Morgan (submitted by Raymond Wolfe) 19 Bush Branches, Lineage of Bette Butcher Topp 24 Buckhannon Run Methodist Church, Original Membership Roll, by Robert Smith 25 Lewis County, W.Va., Register of Births -- 1853-1897 39 Register of the Harmony Methodist Protestant Church 49 Tombstone Pictures for Sale 50 Straley Book being published by May Straley White. 51 Frederick County Virginia and Berkeley County, West Virginia, some Examples of County and Family Preserved Resources for Researching 62 Queries - 9 questions including the following surnames: Bennett, Camp, Cave, Cunningham, Davis, Flaherty, Fleisher, Garrison, Gilbert, Jackson, Liggett, Peters, Prunty, Rhodes, Richards, Rollins, Sirk, Sleeth, Smith, Trumbo, Wagner, Warner, Wright

Vol. 5, Issue 2 (Winter 1987, 60 pages) * Membership * Officers 63 Letter from the Editor, by Joy L. Gilchrist 63 Seminar Slated 64 New Members of H.C.P.D. 39 of them: 22 from 7 different WV counties. Other states included were: AL, AZ, FL, IA, IN, KS, KY, OH, OK, MT, SC, TN, TX, VA 65 Surnames Wanted 66 Family Group Sheets (5-Generation Charts) 67 Historic Marker for Hacker’s Creek (from Barbour Democrat, December 17, 1986) 68 Scenes from 1986 Gathering 69 Obituary (Orvil T. Barnett Sr.) 69 Squires Family of West(ern) Virginia, A New Book 70 Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia 71 A Bailey Answer 71 The Mail Bag: One Phone Call, by Marjorie Heater Herring 72 The Batten/Allman Family - A Query Answer 74 Cousins, by Russell Smucker (submitted by Dorothy King, with permission) 75 Excerpts from The LIfe and Times of Lewis Wetzel, submitted by C.G. Allman 82 Swisher, Mrs. Adelaide, by Wilbur C. Morrison, 1929 (submitted by Ruth Seeley Strother. First published in the S unday Exponent-Telegram on July 28, 1929).

Vol. 5, Issue 3 (Spring 1987, 56 pages) * Membership * Officers 117 Letter from the Editor 117 New Members (13 new members) 118 Sixth Annual Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Gathering (Tentative Schedule) 119 Mailbag 120 Raydine Teicheira, Our Secretary-Treasurer, by Joy Gilchrist 120 From Betwixt 121 List of Tithables in the District of John McCally (1787-88-89), compiled by James L. Sims 122 Lone Tombstone Survives, by Ann Newman & Joy Gilchrist 124 Do You Know Where Great Uncle George’s Second Wife is Buried? By Raydine Teicheira 125 Acknowledgment from the New York Public Library and Helps on Newsletter-writing 126 A Whole Loaf of Bread - The Isaac Swisher Family, compiled by Ruth Strother 127 John Conrad Sykes (from The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families, by Howard L. Leckey) 128 Bailey Data 130 Book Announcement: 1910 Barbour County W.Va. Census 131 John Mitchell, The Life and Times of a Hacker’s Creek Pioneer (Part I), by William Foster Hayes III 142 Three Hull Brothers (Highlights of the book by Eugene F. Hull) 143 Old Smith Cemetery, located on Smith’s Run, Lewis County, W.Va. 146 The John Hacker Family, by Joy Gilchrist and others 152 Photo: Jackson’s Mill in 1914 (from The West Virginia Hillbilly - February 19, 1987) 153 First White Settlers on the Monongahela, Its Branches, and in the Northwest, submitted by Ruth Strother (source unknown - may have been abstracted from Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia) 158 Schoolcraft Connections & Questions, by Dennis Rodgers 164 Queries - 8 questions including the following surnames: Bailey, Barnett, Bennett, Bonnett, Brown, Bunner, Burr, Casto, Clark, Coon, Cox, Dean, Fisher, Garner, Hacker, Hinzman, Helmick, Hearing, Hosaflook, Hughes, Kemper, Liggett, Linger, McCue, Scholtz, Simons, Smith, Snyder, Suddarth/Suddartha, Summers, Tanner, Tate, Taylor, Walker, Woodford, 166 Where Did They Go? Heads of Households inBath Township and Town of Fairfield in 1820 Census (Ohio) (From the newsletter of Greene County, Ohio, March 1987, p.18) Contains many Hacker’s Creek Surnames!

Vol. 5, Issue 4 (Summer 1987, 58 pages) * Membership * Officers 167 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 168 Sixth Annual Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Gathering 168 Cemetery Fund 169 The Radcliffs of Hacker’s Creek, by Dennis B. Rodgers 183 Rinehart, Query Response, submitted by Ann Newman 184 Monongalia County, Virginia, 1782 Tax List 189 Sale Bill of the Personal Property of George Bush. Deceased June 13, 1834 192 The Cozad Family (continuation from Hacker’s Creek Journal Volume 4, Issue 2) 194 John Mitchell (continued), by William Foster Hayes III 204 Lewis County, Virginia, 1840 Federal Census, submitted by Ruth Flesher Robb 215 Queries - 12 questions including the following surnames: Alexander, Allen, Blake, Brown, Conley, Cox, Davis, Dean, Drummond, Emmerson, Ferguson, Fesler/Fessler, Flesher, Green, Hacker, Hardman, Hart, Heckert, Huff, Hughes, Hurst, King, Lewis, Loftiss, Lynch, McElwain, Means, Messenger, Moody, Norman, Nutter, Ocheltree, Osborne, Sandy, Shickle, Sholtz, Simmons, Sleeth, Snyder, Starcher, Tinney, Townsend, Walker, West, Williams, Winans, 217 Let’s Shake Our Family Trees at the 6th Annual Gathering

1987-88

Index to Volume 6

Vol. 6, Issue 1 (Fall 1987, 66 pages) * Membership * Officers 1 Letter From the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 3 Were You There? (Sixth Annual Gathering) 7 Business Meeting Annual Report (September 12, 1987) 8 Where Did They Go? FLESHER, BENNETT, LIGGET 9 Executive Session Reports for 1986-87, by Raydine Teicheira 10 Gathering Photos 11 In Memory of Gladys O. (VanGilder) Wolfe (1895-1987) 12 Fort or Forts: Bush’s and Buckhannon’s and Jackson Fort 13 The Schoolcrafts: An American Saga, by Dennis B. Rodgers 25 O, Hacker’s Creek, by Joyce Chambers and Joy Gilchrist 27 Yankee Girl Comes Home: An Autobiography, by Joyce McCay Chambers 31 The Demise of William Hacker, 1891 32 Research in West Virginia, 1947 Resources 33 John Mitchell - Hacker’s Creek Pioneer, Continued, by William Foster Hayes III 43 The Radcliffs of Hacker’s Creek, Part II, by Dennis B. Rodgers 51 Poem: The Proper Attitude 52 “Generations” - A Game of Family History (continued on p.26) 53 Stonewall Jackson Lake -- A Gift to the Nation 55 Suggested Map Resource for 1821 Lewis County Area 56 Map: Distances to Major Cities from Hacker’s Creek 57 Queries - 17 questions including the following surnames: Ashby, Blough, Boyce, Boyd, Brown, Burnett, Burr, Bush, Cockrell, Corra, Cummins, Davis, Dean, Denton, Divers, Edman, Ellison, Farrows, Fitz, Francis, Garner, Garrett, Gordon, Greenleaf, Hacker, Hardman, Huff, Israel, Johnson, Jones, Kennedy, Lockhart, Marks, Maxon, Miller, Mowery, Poe, Randolph, Ratcliff, Robey, Scholtz, Sculer/Shuler, Spicer, Stout, Swan, Talbot, Tate/Teat, Taylor, Townsend, Turner, Van Horn, Walker, Wallace, William, Wilson, Wolf 60 Map: Pioneers’ Valley

Vol. 6, Issue 2 (Winter 1988, 66 pages) 61 Letter From the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 62 New Members 46 of them: 22 from 10 different WV counties. Other states included were: AL, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, OH, MD, MO, NY, PA, TX, VA, WA 63 Lost Then Found - Waggoner-Swisher 1728 Bible, by Boyd L. “Rocky” Swisher 69 John Mitchell - Hacker’s Creek Pioneer (Conclusion), by William Foster Hayes, III 79 Musings From the Secretary’s Desk, by Radine Teicheira 80 The Radcliffs of Hacker’s Creek (Conclusion), by Dennis B. Rodgers 93 A Guide to the Counties of Virginia, L ewis County, West Virginia, by Ruth Strother 95 Curtis-Taylor Cemetery 95 Ranges Run Cemetery 96 Fisher Cemetery 97 Whose Error???; Obituaries As A Source 98 What Were Your Great-Grandparents Doing in 1936? W eston Independent clippings for Jane Lew and Stone Coal 99 Former Resident Dies Thursday (John Calhoun Waggoner) 100 Musings From the Secretary - re: Old Photographs and HCPD Pioneer Village 101 Joseph Chauvront, by Joy Gregoire Gilchrist 105 Recollections and Reflections of an Old Itinerant, 1849, by Rev. Henry Smith 115 The O ther Peter Waggoner in Lewis County, by Kathleen D. Fenton 119 Queries - 19 questions including the following surnames: Allman, Armstrong, Barnett, Batten, Bell, Bennett, Boggess, Bonnett, Burr, Carpenter, Cutright, Deem, Dennison, Farence/Farance, Farnsworth, Faust/Fast, Gasser, Green, Haddison, Hardman, Helwick/Helmick, Hinzman/Hinesman, Hiram, Howell, Jeffries, Jones, Joseph, Keyser, Leith, Marpole, McAvoy, Means, Miller, Mitchell, Morton, Mount, Nutter, O’Neal, Owsborn/Osborn, Oswalt, Radu, Scharfer, Shaw, Shiefer/Scheiffer/Schaefer/Shaffer, Sleeth/Sleethe, Snider, Standley/Stanley, Swisher/Switzer, Tate, Taylor, Thompson, Truby, Waggoner, Weaver, West, Wilson, Wood/Woods 122 A Christmas Tradition and a Little Brown Church, by Jeff Seager, Sentinel-Tribune Staff Writer (born in West Virginia) and Lolita Guthrie (concluded on page 68)

Vol. 6, Issue 3 (Spring 1988, 70 pages) * Membership * Officers 123 Letter From the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 124 From the Secretary’s Desk, by Raydine Teicheira 124 Registration Information for Gathering, August 19-21 126 Bowling Green Exchange Club’s “Book of Golden Deeds” Award (Lolita Guthrie) 127 John Mitchell - The Life and Times of a Hacker’s Creek Pioneer, by William Foster Hayes III: A Footnote by Howard T. Bonnett 128 Membership List, April 24, 1988 135 Where Is The West Family Bible?: And Other Questions, by Dennis B. Rodgers 145 Murder of Chief Captain Bull’s Family At Bulltown - Did It Happen Or Was It Just Seculation?, by Robert B. Smith 156 Biographical Sketch of Henry Flesher, by Walter Farwell (Based Upon Research Completed As of November 1973 (Revised July 1984) 186 Queries - 16 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Arbogast, Arnold,Berry, Bivan, Black, Brown, Carder, Carney, Clark, Colerider, Collins, Cottrill, Cunningham, Dillon, Flesher, Hacker, Hardman, Hartshorn, Hawkins, Henderson, Hurst, Husk, Hyre, Kelley, Kesling/Keisling, Lother, Love, Lynch, Marple, McNamer, Murphy, Myers, Nair, Norman, Oswalt, Owens, Queen, Reager, Rinehart, Rohrbough, Runkle, Smith, Stalnaker, Starks, Stephens, Tanner, Tillman, Turner, Waggoner, Warren, Washburn, Westfall, Wetzel/Whetsel, Wigner, Wolf/Wolfe

Vol. 6, Issue 4 (Summer 1988, 54 pages) * Membership * Officers 189 Letter From the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 190 From the Secretary’s Desk, by Radine Teicheira 191 1910 Doddridge County Census 191 Another Stone at Doyle’s Chapel Cemetery 191 Alum Bridge 194 Yesteryears, Volume 1 194 Ancestor Book, Volume III 195 Excerpts from W eston Democrat of Friday March 30, 1934 196 The John Hacker Family, by Joy Gilcrist et al 203 A Pioneer Account Book, by Raydine Teicheira 205 Loftus Pullin, by Susie D. Nicholson, 1986 208 Benjamin Eakle (Eagle), by Susie D. Nicholson, 1986 209 Tornhill, by Susie D. Nicholson, 1986 211 Where Did They Go? Have You Looked in Indiana? 212 A Guide to the Counties of Virginia, submitted by Ruth S. Strother 215 James Black, Lewis County Legislative Petition 220 Bible Records: Jacob Reger’s Bible 222 Bible Records: William Paugh’s Bible 223 Bible Records: Shoulders’ Bible 225 Carder Cemetery 235 Queries - 9 questions including the following surnames: Avail, Black, Carder, Carter, Collins, Davis, Flanagan, Holden, Hughes, Kesling, Loftiss, Marsh, Morris, Smith, Sullivan, Tanner, Williams. NOTE: Query #8 appears on page 200 and Query #9 appears on page 210.

1988-89

Index to Volume 7

Vol. 7, Issue 1&2 (Fall & Winter, 106 pages) * Membership * Officers 1 Letter From the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 2 From the Desk of the President, by Maurice Allman 4 Lost at the Gathering (August 19, 1988 at Jackson’s Mill) 5 From the Secretary’s Desk, by Raydine Teicheira 6 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Meeting (August 19, 1988 at Jackson’s Mill) 8 H.C.P.D. Financial Report 9 H.C.P.D. Library Relocated (to Louis Bennett Public Library) 10 Hinzman Family History, by Hartzel Strader 16 Henry Hardman, by James Sims 17 Smith, by Ruth Seeley Strother & Lewis C. Swisher 21 H.C.P.D. Member Receives State Honor (Lewis C. Swisher) 21 Map Book for Sale, by Robert B. Smith 23 Charles Smith’s Civil War Diary, submitted by Sandra Cowell 26 Booth Bond Diary (Highlights of 1853), by Edward Lee Allman 32 Information for Hardman Family Researchers, submitted by Marjorie Heater Herring 33 Names Listed in Booth Bond Diary 35 Madison Allman, by Edward Lee Allman 36 William Allman Will (May 27, 1827) 40 Attic Treasures, by Radine Teicheira 41 Papaw (Marion Basil Mitchell), by Vikki Beth Mitchell 43 Reasons for Admission to State Hospital (October 22, 1864 - December 12, 1889) 44 Rev. Simon Babcock, by Charles H. Green 50 What Is A Senior Citizen, submitted by Ed Allman (from the Christ Church Tidings of Christ Presbyterian Church) 51 Buckhannon Run School Enrollment 52 Randolph County, Va. Land Records 54 Letters from James Frank Wright 1918, by Robert B. Smith 65 Mrs. Taylor Gets Wish At Meadowview Manor, by Bob Smith 66 Ranges Run Cemetery and the Marsh Family, by Wm. A. Marsh. Compiled by Joy Gilchrist from information receive from William A. Marsh 69 Miller Cemetery, by Hartzel Strader 74 Swecker Cemetery, by Hartzel Strader 75 Mural at I-79 Truck Stop Restaurant, by Robert B. Smith 76 Photos of Activities by Bob Smith 77 Lewis County Marriage Bonds, by Robert B. Smith 85 Queries - 22 questions including the following surnames: Allen, Arnold, Bennett, Butcher, Chrislip, Conrad, Corder, Crouse, Curtis, Fink, Fleming, Flesher, George, Hacker, Hughes, Jackson, Jenkins, Johnson, Love, Marsh, McKown, Miller, Mitchell, O’Conner, o’Neal, Ours, Parsons, Reed, Rinehart, Roberts, Skinner, Smith, Spencer, Taylor, Willet/Willott, Williams, Wolfe, Wright 93 HCPD Members - January 1989

Vol. 7, Issue 3 (Fall & Winter, 62 pages) * Membership * Officers 100 Letter From the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 101 From the President’s Desk, by Maurice Allman 102 Annual Gathering 106 From the Secretary’s Desk, by Raydine Teicheira 106 Proposed Amendments to By-Laws 107 New Members 108 Augusta Petition (Monongalia), dated May 25, 1779 110 Augusta Petition (Tyger’s Valley), dated November 7, 1780 112 Philippi Covered Bridge 117 Life and Times of John T. Schiefer: Part I, by Bill Hayes 127 Oxen on Ice 129 Zeeksville, by Vikki Mitchell 130 Booth Bond Diary (Highlights of 1854, 1855, and 1856) 137 Names in Booth Bond Diary 140 Middle Run Cemetery - Read April 1989 by Earl and Matha Byrd 144 Osburn Family Bible 153 Queries - 11 questions including the following surnames: Blake, Bush, Clark, Cottrell, Ellison, Field, Hall, Powers, Robinsin/Roberson/Robison, Smith, Walker

Vol. 7, Issue 4 (Summer, 70 pages) * Membership * Officers 155 Letter From the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 157 Notes From the H.C.P.D. President, by Maurice Allman 159 From the Secretary’s Desk, by Radine Teicheira 160 Annual Business Meeting (August 11, 1989) 162 Proposed Budget for October 1, 1989 - September 30, 1990 163 Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church, by Raydine Teicheira 164 Memories of the 1989 H.C.P.D. Gathering 171 Life and Times of John T. Schiefer: Part II, by Bill Hayes 184 Eight Schoolcraft Children Killed by Indians Revealed, by Ed Schoolcraft 201 The History of Walkersville Community, by Clark Sprigg 206 Ten Mile District, Harrison County, WV (book for sale) 206 Your Executive Committee at Work 207 Peter Allman Family Bible 208 William Allman & Kittorah Dean Allman Family Bible 209 Lance-Straley-Life Family Connections, by oy Gregoire Gilchrist 214 Christian Straley’s Clock 215 Christina Straley’s Gingerbread 215 Christian Straley’s Handmade Box 216 Queries - 6 questions including the following surnames: Conrad, Dennison, Kelley, Nutter, Priest, Queen, Smith, Smyrak, Starr,

1989-90

Index to Volume 8

Volume 8, Issue 1 (December 1989, 78 pages) * Membership * Officers 1 Letter from the Editor, Joy Gilchrist 2 Letter from the President, Maurice Allman 3 President’s Letter Concerning Medical Incinerator 6 Letter from the Secretary, Raydine Teicheira 7 Winners of Closed Bid Auction of Rare Books 8 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schiefer (Part 3), by William F. Hayes III 15 Nicholas Linger/Margaret McNemar Family History, by Mabel Scott 16 The Hughes-Jackson Connection, submitted by Earl D. Balsey 23 Margaret Hardman Wetzel: A Grand-daughter of John Hacker, submitted by Mary Crawford Clawsey 26 Poem by Anna Grace DeHaven 27 Jacob Woolf’s Deed and Settlement, submitted by Raymond Wolf 33 Property Search Put on Hold 33 A Visit to the Weston State Hospital 34 Bibles Reveal Records of Pioneer Families, submitted by Raymond Wolf 66 Members Visit Historic Site 66 New Cover for Journal (Drawing by Bob Smith; Cover designed by Larry Smith) Death of One of Our Valuable Members - Obituary of Lucille S. Poss (1908-1989) 66 Holiday Decorations at the Library 67 Queries - 14 questions including the following surnames: Boice, Hurst, King, Kittle, Means, Priest, Rodgers, Rollins, Sutton

Volume 8, Issue 2, (78 pages) 1 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 2 From the President’s Desk, by Maurice L. Allman 5 From the Secretaries Desk, by Raydine Teicheira 6 Vikki Mitchell’s Brain Teaser (Hacker’s Creek Word Search) 7 Donated Library Materials 9 Announcements 10 Rare Book Closed Bid Auction 11 Is There One in Every Family? 12 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schiefer (Part 4), by William Foster Hayes III 24 What Plagued Our Ancestors (Names of Diseases and Causes of Death 1853-55) 26 Three Hull Brothers, by Eugene F. Hull 27 Information About John Truby, Including His Estate Papers, by Doris P. Poinsett 31 Mitchell Memories, y Vikkii MItchell 34 Grandmothers Kitchen Kinks, by Robert B. Smith 35 Grandmother's Helpful Recipes, by Robert B. Smith 36 Law Chapel Methodist Cemetery, read by Algie Bailey September 13, 1987 39 Mr. Morris Cemetery - Freemans Creek, WV, read by Algie & Orvil R. Bailey May 15, 1985 47 Beech Grove Cemetery-Freemans Creek, WV, read by Algie Bailey August 1982 49 Old Duval Cemetery at Arnold, WV, copied by K.C. Priest August 26,1989 50 Horner United Methodist Church Cemetery, read by Hartzel G. Strader August 27, 1989 54 Whitesell Cemetery at Roanoke, WV, read by Hartzel G. Strader August 29, 1989 55 Straight Run Cemetery - Hurst, WV, read by Earl & Matha D. Byrd November 12, 1989 58 Queries - 16 questions including the following surnames: Alexander, Bailey, Brake, Childers, Crites, Cutright, Davisson, Fox, Gabbert, Hadden, Henry, Hersman, Jackson, Jones, King, Norris, Peterson, Shaull, Sleeth, Smith, Snyder, Stout, Walker, Westfall, Wolf/Wolfe 62 Active Members in H.C.P.D.

Volume 8, Issue 3 (May 1990, 72 pages) * Membership * Officers 1 From the President’s Desk, by Maurice L. Allman 2 Volunteer Profiles: Maurice Allman, Daniel E. Dreistadt, Karen Dorsey, Sherry Eddy 3 From the Secretaries esk 4 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schiefer (Part 5), by William Foster Hayes III 10 Hacker’s Creek - Which One?, by Marshall B. Shore 11 The Cutright Story - A Genealogists Dilemma 13 Identification of Sites Named in Booth Bond Diary, by Ed Allman 14 Valentin Pfost/Post Book Available, by Doris Poinsett 15 Family Bible of William Hacker, by Charles F. Rehkoff 20 Recipe for Preserving Newspaper Clippings, by Robert Smith 20 Corrections on Booth Bond Story, by Zella Bond 21 The Speech of Colonel Jefferson West, by G.N. Smith 23 The Memorial United Methodist Church, by Herbert Peterson 31 Louisa Jane Methodist Cemetery, by Irene M. Smith 33 Using Our Library 34 Willis Priest Bible, submitted by K.C. Priest 39 Grandmother’s Kitchen Kinks, by Robert B. Smith 40 John Justus Hinkle, submitted by Raymond Wolf 43 Grandmother’s Helpful Recipes, by Robert B. Smith 44 Miscellaneous Material, submitted by Vikki Mitchel 50 The Talbots of Hacker’s Creek, by Marshall B. Shore 51 Discounts for Genealogists at Salt Lake City Travel Lodge 52 James M. Allman Family Bible Records 57 Rev. B.M. Mitchell Family, submitted by Robert B. Smith 58 Family Populates Two Clark Counties, by Esther Freeman 58 Queries - 6 questions including the following surnames: Duncan, Evans, Godfrey, Linger, Means, Morton, Pringle, Reed, Reeder, West, Wilson, Wolf 60 Renewals and New Members

Volume 8, Issue 4 (August 1990, 62 pages) * Membership * Officers 1 Letter from the Editor, by Joy L. Gilchrist 2 1990 HCPD Gathering - Report by Joy Gilchrist 4 A Special Tribute to Benjamin W. Mitchell (1918-1990) 5 The Voice of Freedom, by Anna Grace DeHaven 5 A Resolve, by Hal Lorimer Curtis 6 President’s Notes, by Maurice Allman 7 A Fond Adieu, by Radine Teicheira 8 HCPD Annual Business Meeting (August 11, 1990) 9 HCPD Materials for Sale 10 HCPD Seminars Held at Gathering 11 HCPD General Sessions Held at Gathering 11 Joy Gilchrist to Speak to W.V. Palatines to America 12 Financial Report - Year-End September 30, 1990 14 Proposed Budget - October 1, 1990 to September 30, 1991 15 Tracing Military Records of Soldiers in American Wars 18 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schieffer (Part 6), by William F. Hayes III 33 Deed of Thomas Huse/Hues [Hures] to Jonathan Simpson With the Assignments of Rights, by Doris Poinsett 38 Family Bible of William Odell Priest, submitted by K.C. Priest 41 Family Names, submitted by Edward Lee Allman 42 The Federal Census - Then And Now - 1790/1990, report by Marjorie Heater Herring 50 Wanted -- 5 Generation Charts and Surname Cards 51 The Gibson and Related Families, by Penny and O.O. Linder 52 The Linder Family, by Penny and O.D. Linder 53 President Marice Allman Sets Schedule for Local History Classes in Lewis County 54 Student Response to Local History Workshop by HCPD Team 55 Queries - 18 questions including the following surnames: Alexander, Bragg, Bronaugh, Bush, Colerider, Curtis, Dawson, Edman, Evans, Goldsmith, Griggs, Hacker, Hannaman, Heckert, Hurst, Jett, King, Langford, Lorentz, Love, Lucas, McMellon, McWhorter, Miers/Myers, Morgan, Morris, Powers, Pringle, Queen, Reed/Reeder, Regan/Ragan/Reagan, Reger, Reynold, Richards,Rohrbough, Sleeth, Smith, Stevens/Stephens, Swan, Tierney, Waggoner, Wamsley, Westfall, Wilson, Wines, Wolf, Wolfe, Wyant,

1990-91

Index to Volume 9

Volume 9, Issue 1 (January 1991, 68 pages) * Membership * Officers 1 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 2 Presidents Notes, by Maurice Allman 3 Minnie McWhorter’s Tapes, by Bud Allman 4 Raydine’s Letter,by Raydine Teichiera 5 Brierpoint Cemetery, copied by Hartzel G. Strader August 28, 1990 8 Don’t Let the Spelling Throw You, by Ruth S. Strother 7 Sims Index, by Bud Allman 8 Jacksonville Cemetery, by read by Hartzel G. Strader September 2, 1990 10 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schiefer (Part 7), by William Foster Hayes III 21 New Cemetery Located, by Bill Henderson 22 The First Twenty Years of Johan Michael Busch’s Family, by Philip E. Bush 34 Some Curtis Revelations, by Patricia L. Durtis Wiggins 37 Sleeth in Iowa, by Lolita Guthrie 38 The Skinner Family, by William A. Marsh 46 Soldiers and Public Service in Dunmore’s War, by Dennis B. Rodgers and Ed Schoolcraft 51 William Hacker in 1739, by Peggy Shomo Joyner 52 Favorite Dishes from Famous Homes 1909, by Bob Smith 53 John McIntyre, the Indian Arrowhead King, by Joy Gilchrist 55 My Lowther Family, by C.T. Lowther 56 Queries - 12 questions including the following surnames:

Volume 9, Issue 2 (Winter 1991, 76 pages) * Membership * Officers 61 Annual Gathering Agenda (August 9-11 at Jane Lew Fire Hall, Jane Lew, WV) 62 Pre-Registration Form 63 Proposed Amendments to the By-Laws 64 Publications and Materials for Sale 65 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 66 From the President's Desk, by Maurice Allman 67 From the Secretary’s Desk, by Acting Secretary Nancy Ann Jackson 68 Letter from the Cemetery Records Chairman, by Matha Byrd 70 Photos Needed for Pictorial History of Lewis County 70 Old German Naming System, submitted by Cris Wagoner 71 Poem: Genealogitis, by Ruby Price. Seen on bulletin board at the Chicago Archives 72 For Sale 73 Yesteryears, by Bill Adler (Weston Democrat September 29, 1982). Includes story of Waggoner Family Massacre as discovered in the obituary of Elizabeth Waggoner Hardman 74 Yesteryears, by Bill Adler (Weston Democrat October 6, 1982). Household, Farm, and Garden Advice as Offered to Lewis Countians in 1882) 75 New Books in Library & Books for Library 76 Jonathan Coburn II and His Family, by Mona J. Mattingly 85 Woman Places Records in Binders (Marilyn Pumphrey work with Lewis County Marriage Bonds 1817-1865) 86 The Kesling Family, by Hartzel G. Strader 96 Shelby County, Indiana, Library (2nd Annual History Media Fair), by Lolita Guthrie 97 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schiefer (Part 8), by William Foster Hayes III 106 Hedrick-Cutright Chart, by Janet Cosgrove 110 The Family of John Jackson, Jr., by Nancy Jackson and Jacob Jay Jackson, Jr. 118 Hon. George B. Sleeth, from the A tlas of Rush County, Indiana 1879) S ketch submitted by Lolita Guthrie 119 Queries - 10 questions including the following surnames: Baugh/Bough, Bean, Beverly, Burns, Bush, Butcher, Coburn, Copeland, Cubbin, Cummins, Dawson, De Vinney, Emerson, Gregory, Hardman, Hess, King, Lorentz, Lowther, Mitchell, Murphy, Peck, Peters, Radcliff, Reed, Robinson, West, White, Williams, Wimer 121 Sleuthing for Sleeths, by Lolita Guthrie 122 Membership List (Total Members) 386 of them: 112 from 18 different WV counties. Other 36 states included were: AK, AL, AZ, CO, CT, D.C, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, LA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI

Volume 9, Issue 3 (Spring 1991, 66 pages) * Membership * Officers 130 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 131 From the Desk of the President, by Maurice L. Allman 134 From Acting Secretary Nancy Jackson 134 The V.P. Speaks Up (Robet B. Smiths to Observe 50th Anniversary), by Robert B. Smith 135 Endowment Fund by Charles Gilchrist, Library Finance Chairman 138 From Other Newsletters 138 New Indexing System for Computers Purchased by H.C.P.D. (Sky Index) 139 Henry - Hendrick (Cutrack-Cartright) Cutright, by Janis Cutright 141 Lorenzo Who, by Linda Brake Meyers 142 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schiefer (Part 9), by William Foster Hayes III 148 A New Book on the Civil War in West Virginia (W ar Diaries, by Dave Phillips) 149 In Search of Great-Grandma Vic, by Linda Brake Meyers 153 Birthdate on Tombstone 154 Fairview School, by Maurice L. Allman 156 Elizabeth, by Linda Brake Meyers 160 Some Virginians in Ohio, by olita Guthrie 160 Livestock Brands of Early Settlers, by Dennis Rodgers 161 Monongalia vs Monongahela 162 Bits and Pieces 167 John Waggoner Land Treasury Warrant, submitted by Joy Gilchrist 167 The King Family 168 Joseph Bennett of Pendleton County (Will Book 3, page 84, Pendleton County, WV) 171 Obituary: In Memory of Jack L. Smith (1929-1991) 172 Obituary: Mary E. Stalnaker (1871-1935), submitted by Vicki Mitchell 172 Obituary: Ada C. Swisher (1876-1935), submitted by Vicki Mitchell 172 The Family Trunk, submitted by James and Vicki Mitchell 181 Obituary: James Russell Bush (1902-1989), submitted by Raymond Wolfe, Jr. 181 Obituary: Pearl Virginia Reger (1912-1989), submitted by Raymond Wolfe, Jr. 182 Queries - 13 questions including the following surnames: Abel/Abels, Adams, Allman/Almon, Baker, Bland, Brake, Coerrns/Currans/Kearns, Craig, Cunningham, Cutright, Davis, Echard, Jackson, Jeffries, Jordon, Kelley, Kiley, King, Lipscomb, Moneypenny, Morrison, Pennington, Peterson, Pierson, Plant, Rinehart, Rymer, Shively, Stalnaker, Taylor, Warren, Washburn, Weatherholt, West, Winemiller, Woofter

Volume 9, Issue 4 (Summer 1991, 66 pages) * Membership * Officers 187 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 188 From the President’s Desk, by Maurice Allman 189 Additions to the Membership 30 of them: 13 from 9 different WV counties. Other 13 states included were: FL, GA, IA, MD, MI, MO, NC, OH, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA 190 Letter from Our Secretary, by Nancy Jackson 191 H.C.P.D. Members Attend August Meeting (Barbour Democrat, August 28, 1991) 192 Tenth Annual Gathering (August 10-12, 1991 at the Jane Lew Fire Department) 194 Minutes of Annual Meeting of H.C.P.D., by Nancy Jackson 196 Good News, by Cousin Bob 196 Thanks to Wal-Mart, by Robert B. Smith 197 Our New LIbrary (337 Center Avenue - old “Colored or Frontier School) 197 Corrections 199 Library Hours, Irma J. Curtis, Librarian 200 New Books Available (published by HCPD) 201 HCPD to Celebrate Tenth Anniversary 201 Were You at the First Gathering 202 New Harrison Book to be Published 203 Jack and Jill, by Dennis Rodgers 204 Obituary: In Memory of Eleanor Hacker (1910-1991) 205 The Nebraska Branch of Hackers, by Eleanor & Ruth Hacker 214 Relationship Chart from a Common Ancestor 215 Indian Captives and Colonel Bouquet/Boquet, by Joy Gregoire Gilchrist 221 Honesty Isn’t Always the Policy, by Ruth Strother 222 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schiefer (Part 10), by William Foster Hayes III 233 One Hundred Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Smith Run Methodist Church, by Robert B. Smith and Bill Waggoner 238 Queries - 5 questions including the following surnames: Bonnett, Carder, Chrislip, Clevenger, Douglass, Foster, Frasure, Friend, Groves, Hacker, Horner, Kelley, Lowther, Mann, Merrick, Monroe, Neff, Nicholson, Post, Rollins, Smallwood, Straley, Summers, Washburn, Westfall, Wilson, Yearkey

1991-92

Index to Volume 10

Volume 10, Issue 1 (January 1992, 64 pages) * Membership * Officers 1 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 2 Notes from the President, by Maurice Allman 3 By-Laws of Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants 10 HCPD Gathering Attendees: An answer to questions about George Eagle and Rev. John Davis 10 Rev. John Davis, by Susie D. Nicholson 11 Our Mountain Heritage - Rules for Farming (Anonymous - found in the attic of an old West Virginia home) 11 Border Settlers Now Available 12 Fairview School, by Maurice L. Allman 13 Pots, Pans Rattle - Pearl Harbor Attack, by George W. Waggoner (from W eston Democrat, Dec. 11, 1991) 14 So You’re a Family Researcher (Anonymous) 15 Abstracts from Lewis County Minute Book - 1918 (copied from WPA edition on Microfilm, Colson Hall, WVU) 21 The Jackson Influence, by Linda Brake Myers 30 Hardesty Corrected by Strange Hall, submitted by Robert B. Smith (Bennett should have been Bonnett) 32 The German Origins Of Henry Flesher, by David Armstrong 36 Militia from Hacker’s Creek Area in Dunsmore War - 1774: Captain William Lowther’s Company, by Earl D. Bosley 37 Hinkle’s Fort in Pendleton County, West Virginia, by Elsie Byrd Boggs 41 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schiefer (Part 11), by William Foster Hayes III 49 Queries - 13 questions including the following surnames: Allen, Baird, Bargerhuff, Berry, Brannon, Brown, Bush, Butcher, Cain, Callahan, Carpenter, Coburn, Cotrill, Cox, Craig, Cunningham, Curtis, Davisson, Flesher, Friend, Gabert, Hacker, Hagle, Haverty, Hughes, Jordan, Lewellen, Linger, Morgan, Norman, Nutt, Roby, Rowh, Smith, Snyder, Sprouse, Stalnaker, Stump, Suder, Sutton, Tharp, Walker, West, Wilson, Wolfe

Volume 10, Issue 2 (March 1992, 82 pages) * Membership * Officers 1 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 3 Notes from the President, by Maurice Allman 4 New Library Named (Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library and Museum) 4 Lewis County Convention and Visitors Bureau Helps Out 5 Work Proceeds at Central W.VA. Genealogical and Historical Library and Museum 5 Endowment Fund Growing 6 Library Donations 6 Lowther Tour of England 7 Actor Bill Hayes Involved in Area History 8 Charles W. Heckert Hard at Work 8 Charter Member of HCD Dies, Obituary: James W. DeBrular, Jr. (1917-1992) 9 HCPD Recognized by Publication Nationwide (A ntique Week, January 27, 1992) 9 Indexer Wanted 10 Idleman-Rohrbaugh in Highland County, OH 10 Library Staff Volunteers Needed 11 HCPD’s Doris Poinsett Wins Award for Post Book 12 Obituary: Dr. Howard W. Smith (1894-1992) 13 Civil War Day of Mrs. Virginia Jackson Marshall, by Nancy Jackson 15 Poem: The Last Leaf, by Lois Hurst Beattie in memory of Howard Smith; submitted by Robert B. Smith 16 John Hacker, the Pioneer and His Family 28 John Hacker's Will 33 George Rogers Clark Memorial 34 Fort Sackwell 35 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schiefer (Part 12), by William Foster Hayes III 45 Indian Attack Takes Settlers By Surprise, by Louise Zimmer 47 Early Ministers of Upshur County (excerpted from Cutright’s H istory of Upshur County) 48 Broad Run Baptist Church, submitted by Pauline Beeghley 52 The Heckert Pioneers of Troy and Cox’s Mills, by Kyle Emerson and C.W. Heckert 57 Joseph Roscoe Straley Family 58 The Currence Fort at Mill Creek, Proof That It Never Existed, by David Armstrong 64 Have You Submitted Surname Cards? 65 Queries - 11 questions including the following surnames: Bonnett, Brake, Clark, Daugherty, Davisson, Dawson, Decker, Friesmeir, Groves, Hacker, Heckert, Jackson, Kelley, Mahon, Parks, Pindall, Reeder, Scott, Smith, Sproul, Straley, Sullivan, Waggoner, Walker, Warner

Volume 10, Issue 3 (June 1992, 72 pages) * Membership * Officers 76 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 77 Notes from the President, by Maurice Allman 78 Charter Members 79 New Members & Renewals 46 of them (26 from 7 different counties in WV) Other states included: CA, CO, FL, KS, KY, MD, NM, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA 81 Tenth Anniversary Gathering 82 Endowment Fund (Donations Received by June 6, 1992: Life, Patrons, Sponsors) 83 Help Needed with Hacker Tombstones 84 Cousins of the Blue and Gray 85 Yesteryears, by Bill Adler (Some “Missing” Pictures and “Lost” Places in Lewis County) 86 Errata (The Heckert Pioneers -- Volume 10, Issue 2, p.52-56) 87 Library Report, by Irma Curtis 87 New on the Bookshelf 90 Remembering My Grandparents and Weston, WV, by James H. Shafer, Jr. 92 Peter Hardman Letter (February 5, 1842) 96 Attention Straley Descendants, by Raydine Teicheira 97 Notes from Aristotle Rollins (re: Westfall Family research) 98 Thomas Skidmore, First Settler on Site of Elkins, by David Armstrong 102 An Irish Family: The Dolans of Sand Fork, by Karen Arrington 103 Allegheny Region Family History Society Formed 105 Butcher Breakthrough, by Jeff Carr & David Armstrong 115 Border Settlers Out of Print (Again) 117 The Life and Times of John Theodore Schiefer (Part 13), by William Foster Hayes III 128 WWII - Two Soldiers on Opposing Sides in North Africa, by Herman Blumhardt & C.W. Heckert 132 Queries - 26 questions including the following surnames: Adams, Bailey, Bastable, Bennett, Bonnett, Brake, Butcher, Carter, Chamberlain, Coffman, Collins, Connor, Cozad, Cozbi, Custer/Kuster, Dennison, Ellsworth, Flesher, Ford, Fornash, Gum, Horner, Howard, Hufman, James, King, Linger, Matheny, Matthews, Maze, McCally, McCutcheon, McGlothlin, McWhorter, Powers, Ragan, Richards, Rollins, Ross, Runyan, Slaughter, Squires, Strader, Sturges, Sutton, Waggoner, Walker, Ward, Watson, Westfall, Wilkinson, Williamson, Wimer/Wymer, Yeazell, Yerkey

Volume 10, Issue 4 (September 1992, 84 pages) * Membership * Officers 142 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 143 Notes from the President, by Maurice Allman 144 Annual Gathering 1992, by Raydine Teicheira 146 Annual Business Meeting, by Eva Newlon 148 New Members, Renewals, Address Changes 151 Library Report, by Irma Curtis 152 Library acquisitions 153 HCPD Activities in the Coming Months 154 Endowment Fund Report 155 Donors to the HCPD Library Maintenance Fund 155 Two New Cemetery Books Available 156 Cox-Sutton-Collins Connections, by Algie Bailey 157 Heraldry 157 Dues are Due 158 Cemeteries in Muskingum County, OH, compiled by Dottie Tunis (Includes: Williams, Finley Chapel, Bushy Knob/Tanner, 160 The Weston Colored School - by Joy Gregoire Gilchrist 168 The Life of Captain Elias Hughes - by Robert Tharp 172 Martin Wetzel Sr. & Family and some Bonnett Connections, by William Ratliff 175 The Life and armies of John Theodore Schaefer (Part 15: Conclusion), by William Foster Hayes III 191 Sommerville or Somerville - by Jean Rapking 192 New Book Available: T hey Started It All: A Guide to Historic Sites of Hacker’s Creek, by Joy Gregoire Gilchrist 193 The Baird-Law Families, by Joy Gregoire Gilchrist 209 Report on the Hacker Tombstone Fund 209 Applause for the Straley Clan 210 Muster Out Roll of Co. B, Sixth Virginia Cavalry 217 Queries - 10 questions including the following surnames: Baird/Beard, Batson, Bogard/Bogardus, Brake, Brown, Cooper, Denham, Ellsworth, Flesher, Hayes, Hinzman, Johns, Johnston, Leggett, Martin, McCann, McCray, McCauly, Mitchell, Moneypenny, Nichols, Nicholson, Nutt, Runyon, Richards, Shaul, Sullivan, Swisher, Tharp, Ward, West, Wetzel, Wilhelm, Willoughby, Woofter,

1992-93

Index to Volume 11

Volume 11, Issue 1 (December 1992, 66 pages) * Membership * Officers 1 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 3 Notes from the President, by Maurice L. Allman 4 Pedigree Correction to First Reich Germany, by David Armstrong 5 Did You Know, submitted by Jan Cosgrove 5 Witnesses to Old Documents are Important 6 Captain O'Farrell of Rock Cave, by Ellie McClain Maroon 7 Morton Newsletter 7 They Started it All, A Rousing Success 8 He-Mene Ka-wan — the Old Wolf Lucullus Virgil McWhorter by Judith McWhorter Goodwin 17 The Townsend-Bennett Family, compiled by Joy Gilchrist 21 John Hacker, the Pioneer, and His Family (continued from Volume 10,Issue 2), byJoy Gilchrist 28 Virginia Land Grants in Pennsylvania, contributed by Raymon M. Bell 34 Bible Records, by Edward J. Schoolcraft 35 Janney Bible Records 37 Louden, Samples, and Marley Bible Records 38 Gundecker Bible 38 Lantz Family Records 39 Shoulders Bible Records 40 Jacob Brake Bible 44 Isaac Brake Bible 45 Peter Johnston Family Bible 47 Williams Family Bible Records 48 William Paugh Bible 51 Norvell Family Bible 53 Jacob Reger Bible 55 Philip Reger Bible - 1793 - Brushy Fork, VA 56 Queries - 20 questions including the following surnames: Alexander, Allen, Andres, Arnold, Bennett, Bland, Boggs, Bolton, Bostic, Burnside, Bush, Butcher, Carder, Christian, Cole, Collett, Cosner, Cottrel, Cunningham, Currence, Davisson, Drummond, Exline, Fesler, Fisher, Flesher, Frasure, Frimire, Garrett, Goodwin, Hadden, Hardman, Hart, Henkel, Hughes, Jackson, Jones, Keller, Kerns, Kittle, Layman, Long, Lough, Lowther, Mace, Magnet/Maguet/Magnin, Marks, McDaniel, McWilliams, Moffett, Morrow/Murrow/Monroe, Myers, Neff, Norris, Ocheltree, Owens, Parsons, Peggs, Peterson, Ragan/Regan, Reese, Robinson, Rollins, Shaw, Shifflett, Simon/Simmons, Smith, Snider, Sprigg, Straley, Sturm, Swick, Tate, Townsend, Tucker, Tyson, Wallace, Waugh 62 To All Concerned, by Albert O. Felchlia [note: these books are available in the HCPD Library with the call numbers FA 0245A and FA 0245B]

Volume 11, Issue 2 (March 1993, 82 pages) * Membership * Officers 63 Notes from the President, by Maurice L. Allman 64 Letter from the Editor , by Joy Gilchrist 65 200th Anniversary McWhorter Cabin Celebration 65 Last Minute Bulletin 66 Amendments to HCPD By-Laws 69 HCPD Members As Of 3/15/93 78 Michael Stumph I Reunion (June 12, 1993 in Hardy County, WV) 79 Computers 79 Visiting the Library 80 From Our Librarian,by Irma Curtis 80 Donations to Our Library First Methodist Church 83 Museum Donations 83 Drawing for History Book 84 Eleventh Annual Gathering HCPD (Tentative Schedule for August 12-15, 1993) 88 Empire Bank Lists Distributions from M. B. Sprigg Trust (from Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram) 89 Heraldry Information (Charles W. Heckert, member of The American College of Heraldry) 90 Donations for Cemetery Care Needed 90 New Books Available 91 Penmanship and Genealogy 93 Handwriting Contest 95 Some Early Deaths in Indian Country (from the papers of Colonel Henry Bouquet in England) 96 Anna Grace DeHaven Death, submitted by Kenth L. Marple 97 Register of Confederate Dead at Camp Chase, as recorded by Mrs. Phillip Peton and copied by Charles Gilchrist in the Ohio State Historical Society Library 98 Wapello, Iowa, News Item About A. Hurst, submitted by Connie Street 98 Local Notices From the Virginia Gazette Richmond 1785 99 Stonewall Jackson’s Last Order 101 A Patriarchal Gathering Reunion of Family of George Smith Esq. (W eston Democrat, Saturday 21 Jul 1877), submitted by DaCosta Smith 102 Benear of Virginia 103 Some Notes on the South Branch, submitted by Lena Byers 106 Hacker’s Creek in the Harrison County Court Minutes 1784-1810, compiled by Hartzel G. Strader - 1983 110 Research Help Available 111 Disenfranchisement, by Richard E. McCauley 112 How to Make Emigrants 112 Errata (Volume 11, Issue 1, p.20 - Rebecca Bennett) 113 Military Prison Records - Camp Chase, Columbus Ohio (copied by Joy Gilchrist from microfilm at the Ohio State Historical Society Library) 113 Obituary: Evelyn Smith Lynch (1908-1993), Charter Member, Dies 114 Religious Tolerance - Christian Charity-Brotherly Love (W eston Democrat Monday, May 17, 1869), submitted by Earl Byrd 115 The Brake Indian Massacre and the First Mrs. Brake, by David Armstrong 121 New Family Histories Available 122 Where Was Jacob Brake in 1756? Who Were His Wives, Where He Died, submitted by Linda Meyers, March 1993 129 Errata - Volume 1, Issue 1 Jacob Brake’s Bible 129 John Minion McWhorter’s Home 130 Queries - 18 questions including the following surnames: Ash, Bennett, Bickle, Brake, Carpenter, Clark, Cottrill, Cullers, Curtis, Davis, Davisson, Fox, Franklin, Gabbert, Hardman, Heckert, Hughes, Jeffries, Jordan, Kinsey, Looman, Lyons, Maxwell, McLaughlin, Means, Mines, Mitchell, Nichols, Reger, Romine, Rowh, Shaver, Shirkey, Shrieve, Short, Sims, Sleeth/Sleath, Smith, Sprouse, Starcher, Steinbeck/Steinbach, Turner, Waggoner, Walker, Wetzel, Wilson 135 Publications and Materials for Sale

Volume 11, Issue 3 (June 1993, 56 pages) * Membership * Officers 140 Notes from the President, by Maurice L. Allman 141 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 142 New Members - Address Changes 144 Cemetery Maintenance 144 Lambert History Published (H Istory of the Lambert Family from Jugenheim in Rheinhessen, b y Christene Lambert Bertram) 145 John Ratliff Reunion (3rd Annual Reunion of the Descendants of John Ratliff (1789-1868) 145 The Higher You Climb (from R eader’s Digest, July 1993) 146 West Virginia People in Ohio, by Joy Gilchrist 149 Picture in Ashtabula Ohio 150 James F. Sudor - Nancy Brown 151 A Central West Virginia Saga, by Joy Gilchrist (Jackson’s Mill) 155 Lest We Forget: A Tribute to Julia Ethel Swisher, by Nancy Jackson 158 Revolution and War of 1812 Soldiers in Lewis County 163 Helvetia, A German Community, by Joy Gilchrist 165 Skyfiler- Sky Catalogue - Sky Index 165 Lewis County Cemetery Book 5 now available 166 Harrison County (W)V, Court Minutes (continued from Volume 11, Issue 2) 171 First Baptist Church of Buckhannon, WV (compiled by Janet Roby Cosgrove) for the 200th Anniversary 1776-1986 178 First Baptist Church of Buckhannon to Recognize 200th Anniversary,Sept. 7-14 (newspaper article) 181 Obituary: Death of Wm. G. Saylor (1828-1892) 182 Queries - 12 questions including the following surnames: Arnold, Bumgardner, Chenowith, Cline, Corder, Cunningham, Douglas, Furbey, Gaston, Graham, Hall, Hamrick, Hardman, Hayes, Hopper/Hooper, Jackson, James, Jeans/Janes/Jones, Jarvis, Jeffries, Kissick, Malone, McCann, McCay, McHenry, McNeely, Norman, Peters, Pierce, Post, Queen, Raines, Renfrew/Renfro, Smith, Standley, Starcher, Townsend, West, Wilt, Wyatt 185 Publications for sale 187 HCPD Publications for Sale

Volume 11, Issue 4 (October 1993, 84 pages) 190 Letter From the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 191 Notes From the President, by Maurice Allman 192 Announcements 193 During HCPD Pioneer Descendants Gathering 197 Coming Attractions 198 Minutes of HCPD Annual Meeting (August 14, 1993), by Eva Newlon 200 Memorial to Robert B. Smith (1922-1993), by Joy Gilchrist 202 Peter Hardman Family, by Joy Gilchrist 215 The Hell Fired Band, by Darrell Knight 215 In Appreciation to Genealogists All, by Anita Fielder 216 Library Acquisitions, by Irma Curtis 223 History of Kanawha County Reprinted 223 Is Thank You Worth 29 Cents? 224 Fifteenth Infantry (WV) History to Be Written 224 A Pictorial HIstory of Old Lewis County 224 Have You Looked? 225 Lewis County in the Civil War 229 McWhorter Clan Celebrates Cabin Bicentennial, by Neil Nicholas 233 Fort Pleasant, Hardy County, by Donovan H. Bond 235 Memories of Alum Bridge, by John Plunkett 236 Conley’s Barber Shop, by Jean Conley Turner 237 Help Available in Germany 238 A Bush Family Find, by David Armstrong 241 The Bonnets - Early Settlers on Hacker’s Creek, by Edward N. Casey 248 Robert McCray - James McCally, by Richard McCaulley 248 1994 National Palatine Conference 249 A Brief Account of the Life of Lucy Velma Brake Stinard, by Lucy Brake Stinard 259 The Auld Gun, by Judith McWhorter Goodwin 262 Queries - 12 questions including the following surnames: Adams, Bartlett, Beasley, Black, Brock, Burk, Carroll, Chorpening, Cole, Davis, Dean, Gaines/Gain/Gains, Godfrey, Hardman, Haven/Haver/Heavner, Jones, Marks, Martin, McKinney, McNmar, McPhearson, McWhorter, Nutter, Roby/Robey, Rohrbaugh, Romine, Shreve, Steel, Talbott, Walker 266 Publications and Materials for Sale * Membership * Officers

1993-94

Index to Volume 12

Volume 12, Issue 1 (February 1994, 80 pages) 1 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 2 Notes from the HCPD President, by Maurice L. Allman 3 New Library Acquisitions, by Irma Curtis 5 Letters to the Editor 8 Mrs. Virginia A. Washburn, Now Past 83, Vividly Holds Memories of Pioneer Events, by Wilbur C. Morris (As published in the Clarksburg E xponent-Telegram, Sunday, October 13, 1929), submitted by Katharine (Washburn)Whiting of Charleston. 16 I’ve Got Six, by Maurice L. Allman 17 Hardman Article Reprinted from Last Issue 17 Cemetery Mowing 18 The German Origins of the Fleischer Family, by David Armstrong 21 Our Sympathies (to the families of Donald Simmons, DaCosta Smith, and Jay Newman) 22 Memories, by John A. Henderson 32 Library Hours 33 Where Did They Go?? Davis County, Iowa 35 West Virginia Genealogy Conference Scheduled (September 23-24, Culture Center in Charleston) 36 A Part of the R.F. McWhorter Collection 41 Abstract of the Smith-Swisher Deed, by Robert B. Smith 41 From the Mouths of Babes 42 Ruhama Westfall Beahler, by Matha Byrd 43 Fitting Tribute to Country Doctor (Doctor Roach), by George N.Linger and Jason Smith 48 Meet Two Charter Members [May and Charles White] 49 The Peter Hardman Family, by Joy Gilchrist & Others 68 Queries - 18 questions including the following surnames: Allen, Ashley, Board, Bonnet, Bowen, Brock, Campbell, Carroll, Cheuvront, Cobb, Cigar, Clifton, Corley, Cunningham, Cutlip, Davis, Dennison, Dodson, Dunlap, Ebay, Ellison, Fisher, Forinash, Hargness, Hockenyos, Hughes, Hutchinson, Hyde Jarvis, Jividen, Long, Lowe, McClung, McElwain, McKee, Parsons, Rhodes, Sleeth, Meyers/Myres/Moires/Myers, Moore, Morrison, Murry, Nutter, Printz/Prince, Rosebrock, Russell, Sergeant, Skidmore, Simons, Smith, Snyder, Standley, Starcher, Steel, Stump, Tilden, Watson, Wilson, Wolf, Yoakem, Zickefoose

Volume 12, Issues 2 & 3 (May 1994, 120 pages) 75 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 76 Notes from the President, by Maurice L. Allman 78 Dialogue with the Director, by Christina Rumbach 79 Twelfth Annual Gathering [August 11-14, 1994 - Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park] 82 Bus Trip to Charleston [September 16 & 17, 1994] 83 New Library Acquisitions, by Irma Curtis 87 Librarian, by Irma Curtis 87 Reunion [Curtis, Dennison] 87 Correction to Hardman Article in Last Issue 88 Is She One of Ours, submitted by Eleanor Womer 89 “Uncle Ed” and “Aunt Bird” Smith, Born and Reared Near Lost Creek, Recall Days When State was Formed, Submitted by Katherine Washburn Whiting [Originally published in the Clarksburg E xponent-Telegram] 96 1910 Doddridge County, WV, Census Available 97 John Alkire (ca. 1750-1823), by Robert L. Alkire and W. Louis Phillips 104 Genealogy and Brief History of the descendants of Job and Hanna (Winmans) Cozad of Branchville, Sussex County, New Jersey [Genealogy and Brief History of the Cossart Family 1662-1772] 112 History of Lambert Family 112 1943-1943 Obits, Births, & Marriages Available 113 Talbot - Pickens, [Alexander Pickens married Rachel Talbot], donated by Robert Davis 115 The Way Things Were and the Last of the Boarding Houses, by Leonard R. McClain 116 A Tidbit About the Regers, submitted by Ada Lea Fitz 116 Van Voorhees Association Seeks Family Members 117 The Lewis County Infirmary, by Leonard R. McClain 120 Harrison Grove Singing School 121 Important Randolph County Diary Published [The Diary of George McLean] 121 Alford American Family Association to Meet [October 7-9 in Richmond, VA] 122 Family History Group Seeks Members, Volunteers [Allegheny Regional Family History Society] 123 The Life and Travels of Harriet Cline West [First published in Kahoka, MO, in 1910; Republished in 1994] 124 John J. Hinzman, by Boyd L. “Rocky” Swisher and Joy Gilchrist 127 HCPD Member olita Guthrie Named to Ohio State Cemetery Board 128 What to Do When the Courthouse has Burned and You Are All Out of Marshmallows, by Kristi Gross, submitted by Patricia Villanave] 131 Three Unique Sources for Research, by Joy Gilchrist 133 The Peter Hardman Family, by Joy Gilchrist and others 154 Dennison Letters, by K.C. Priest [Edmund Dennison] 155 1833 Jackson Letter Written from St. Louis 160 Hacker’s Creek in the Harrison County Court Minutes 1784-1810, by Hartel Strader [continued from Volume 11, Issue 2] 164 Membership List - 1994 179 1992 Award Winning Genealogy Available 180 1905 Upshur County Map Available 181 Queries - 20 questions including the following surnames: Anderson, Arnold, Barker, Barnett, Bennett, Brake, Bragg, Brannon, Brown, Burkhammer, Burton, Carlin, Cheuvront, Clawson, Clevenger, Clifton, Conley, Corpening, Cotrill, Davidson, Dennison, Drummond, Edmiston, Fisher, Fleming, Gain/Gains/Gaines, Gillilan/GillilandGriffith, Hacker, Hammond, Hardman, Harris, Heavner, Hickman, Jeffries, Jenkins, Johns, Keith, Kennedy, Lockhart, Lowther, Mackie, Marks, Maxwell, McCally, McCray, McQuain, Mitchell, Modisseti, Moore, Morehead, Morris, Morrison, Murhead, Nutt, Nutter, Patton, Priest, Pullin, Radcliff, Ragan, Read, Reed, Romine, Rough, Sims, Sinnett, Skidmore, Smith, Sprout, Starcher, Stump, Swisher, Thorn, Townsend, Turner, Vannoy, Wade, Williams, Woofter, Wright, Yeager 187 Publications and Materials for Sale

Volume 12, Issue 4 (October 1994, 70 pages) * Membership * Officers 191 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist 192 Letter from the President, by Charles Gilchrist 193 Annual Gathering - 1994 Style, by Raydine Teicheira 195 Minutes - HCPD Annual Gathering, by Eva Newlon [August 13, 1994] 197 Telegram from Retiring President Maurice Allman 199 Lakes, Dams, Clowns and Family, by Dena Jane Crider 199 Wanted! 199 Farnsworth Medal Available 200 Meet Your New Officers [Charles Gilchrist, Hartzel Strader, Eva Newlon, Patricia Viellenave, Irma Curtis, Joy Gilchrist] 202 Bibliography for Sale 203 Faxes and Bulletin Boards 204 For Sale - Index to Maxwell’s History of Barbour County, by Marlene Jones 205 Library Acquisitions, by Irma Curtis 208 Some Teachers in Collins Settlement District, Lewis County, 1904-05 209 HCPD Well Represented at Mining YOur HIstory Conference 209 Ancestor Charts Wanted 210 Marsh Receives Pioneer Award at Charleston, WV, Conference 210 Did You Know? 211 Barbour Cemeteries Published by ARFHS 211 1802 & 1803 Randolph County Tax Lists Published by Armstrong 211 Some Teachers in Freeman’s Creek District in 1904-05 212 Problems with German Ancestors? Help is Available 212 Zicka-who, by Dena Jane Crider 214 Recollections, by Lillie Lovell Brannon [donated by Glea Waugh] 219 Hacker’s Creek in the Harrison County, WV, Court Minutes 1784-1810, compiled by Hartzel G. Strader in 1983 [continued from HCJ Volume 11, Issue 3, page 170] 222 Announcement to the Public 223 For Sale - Lewis County Death Records [Volume 1: 1853-1886; Volume 2: 1887-1905] 223 Mary Conrad Cabin Dedicated [September 2] 224 Interpretations of Fort Seybert, by Ruth Ritter [October 1968] 232 Hayden House 233 Frank James Blind Widow Still Silent: Aged Annie James Firm in Vow Never to Tell Outlaw’s Story, by Harold Streeter [Kearney, MO] 233 23rd Psalm for Genealogists 234 Another “Generation Six,” by Ireta Queen Randolph 236 Lewis County, WV, Cemeteries [List of Cemeteries covered in Volumes 1-7] 238 Brake Village, Michael Brake, and the 1820 Census, by David Armstrong 241 Credit Given to Sayre and Faust, by Marjorie Heater Herring 242 A Tombstone for William Allman?? 244 Just Like a Story: Obituary of Virginia Reeder, by Linda Myers [This story found in the Greta Proudfoot Collection in the Rare Book Room of West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon was written by Virginia Reeder. She received an A+ for her efforts.] 245 Obituary: Mrs. Matilda Dickingson - Dead [Born a slave ca 1822. Died 1907] 247 Queries - 18 questions including the following surnames: Allman, Bailey, Bartlett, Beasley, Bellamy, Bellomy, Bogard, Bragg, Brake, Brown, Burton, Bush, Butcher, Cain, Calder, Camden, Carpenter, Cleland, Clelland, Cummings, Curry, Davis, Depriest, Dyer, Elsby, Flesher, Garrison, Griffith, Hall, Harper, Hayman, Haymond, Hineman, Hinzman, Hire/Hyre, Jarbo, Kelso Kennedy, Lawhorn, Lemmons/Lemon, Lockhard, Mahar, McAvoy, Miles, Miller, Moore, Mumford, Nisley, Norris, Nutter, Ocheltree, Parsons, Phillips, Powers, Radcliff, Scott, Sears/Siers/Scieres, Shackelford, Shoulders, Simon, Singer, Sleeth, Smith, Sphilman, Sprigg, Stern, Stump, Swisher, Taylor, Thompson, Thorn, Towns, Walker, Webster, Wilfong, Williams, Wolf 251 Photos from the Gathering 251 Publication Ordering Information

1994-95

Index to Volume 13

Volume 13, Issue 1, 66 pages * Membership * Officers 1 jots from Joy, by Joy Gilchrist 3 A Chat with Charlie, by Charlie Gilchrist 4 Dialog with the Director, by Christina Rumbach 5 $$$$$ Talk with Patricia, by Patricia Viellenave 8 Virginia Archives Should be Stopped, by David Armstrong 8 Use Your Computer to Reach HCPD [FAX and email] 9 We Asked for It!!! [Voting on name for newsletter] 9 From the Banks of the Dan: A Cox Family Genealogy 9 Doodle Bug Doodle Bug Now for Sale by HCPD 10 Library Donations 11 Lewis County Births Compiled by Strader and Strader 12 Dennison Family Gathering [August 27, 1994 at Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park] 14 Thank You from Bill Marsh 15 Biographical Sketch of Adam Flesher, by Walter Farwell 26 Hays - Jackson Letter 27 Upshur County, WV, Obits & News Items for Sale 27 Matha’s Done It Again! 28 Bridge Run News [From B uckhannon Delta, J uly 17, 1913, concerning Lorentz Church] 29 First Superior Court Held Here in Weston [As published in the W eston Independent, March 23, 1949] 31 John Hardman (1777-1864) was Gunsmith 32 Failure to Maintain Roads Once a Crime [As published in the W eston Independent, April 6, 1949] 34 Who Was Travis Walker?, by Patty Hickman 35 The Betty Tree, the Garretts and the erkins, by Patsy Dawson 37 Attention Lowther Researchers 38 Beneath the Southern Cross, by Chev. Charles “Carl” W. Heckert, K.H. 43 Family Record, submitted by Archie Bennett [Butcher] 44 Many Central West Virginians Trace Roots to Germanna [Brumback, Cuntz, Fishback, Haeger, Hitt, Hoffman, Holtzclaw, Kemper, Martin, Rector, Silman, Weaver] 44 Wolf Geneaology Finished 44 Its Sobisca Not Sobisco 44 New SocietyFormed in Roane County, WV 45 Hacker’s Creek in the Harrison County, W.Va. Court Minutes 1784-1810, compiled by Hartzel G. Strader - a continuation from Volume 12, Issue 4 48 Interpretations of Fort Seybert, by Ruth Ritter - a continuation from Volume 12, Issue 4 50 Queries - 15 questions including the following surnames: Ayers, Bonnet, Burrows, Clevenger, Coon, Costilow/Costallou, Cottrill, Dotson, Duval, Farrell, Fleming, Forinash, Gain, Hardman, Harriss, Hinzman, Holbert, Hughes, Jackson, Johnston, Kesling, Kincheloe, McGrew, Mullooly, Monroe, Mumford, Neeley, Nutter, Peterson, Plant, Prine, Radcliff, Rafferty, Randolph, Reger, Robinson, Rollins, Sears, Shrieve, Smith, Stallman, Starcher, Strother, Stuart, Tharp, Wamsley, Warner, Washburn, Wolfe 55 Publications and Materials for Sale

Volume 13, Issue 2, 94 pages 59 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 60 A Chat with Charlie, by Charlie Gilchrist 61 Obituary: Member John F. Grimes Dies 61 Dialogue With The Director, by Christina Rumbach 62 I Can Get It for You Wholesale!, by Rayddine Teicheira 63 How We Did It! 65 Come One! Come All! To the HCPD Gathering [13th Gathering: August 10-13 at Jackson’s Mill] 69 1995 Gathering Schedule 70 Forest Lawn Records Published [Volume 9] 70 Preston County Historical Society 70 Mining Your History Conference Slated for October 71 Waggoner-Bonnett History to be Released in July 72 Let Us Cross Over the River...Jackson’s Mill, by Joy Gilchrist, Linda Meyers, and Nancy Jackson 83 Jackson’s Mill Heritage Foundation 85 HCPD & the Benedum Foundation, Mini-Grants for Lewis County 87 A Special Flag [honoring Bob Smith and Ben Mitchell] 88 The American Revolution and the Two Henry Fleshers, by David Armstrong 98 Ashford Ervin Swisher and His Family, by Boyd L. “Rocky” Swisher 102 West VIrginia: A Film History 102 Our Sympathies to the Family of Bill Swisher 103 Interpretations of Fort Seybert (continued from Volume 13, Issue 1), by Ruth RItter 106 Personal Recollection of Sgt. Joseph B. Robinson...of Company B of the Seventeenth Virginia Cavalry Southern Confederacy, submitted by James F. Allman 109 Harrison County, W.Va. Court Minutes (continued from Volume 13, Issue 1), abstracted by Hartzel Strader 113 The Curtis-Waugh-Marsh Mystery, by Bill Marsh 118 Warrior of ‘64 Recalls War: David Morgan Recalls Days of Youth on Battlefield and Surrender of His Leader at Appomattox, by Wilbur C.Morrison 121 A Stalnaker Genealogy 122 Queries - 18 questions including the following surnames: Adkins, Anderson, Arnold, Ashcraft, Barker, Barnett, Bartlett, Beall, Bland,Boggs, Bragg, Butcher, Caplinger, Carpenter, Carson, Collins, Davis, Dawkins, Duffield, Edmiston, Fiddler, Fisher, Fleming, Gifford, Gillilan, Greathouse, Hall, Harrison, Herron, Hoover, Het/Hughes/Hurt, Hughes, Hyde, Jackson, Jacobs, Johnston, Jones, Kayser, Knight, Labaw, Layman/Liamon, Lewis, Linch, Loudin, Lowther, McCartney, McCauley, McCausland, McCray, McDade, McIntire, McInturf, McKinzie, McQuain, Mace, Minor, Moneypenny, Moore, Murphy, Nailor, Napier, Neale, Orton, Pennington, Poe, Priest, Ravenscroft/Ravenscraft, Reed, Richmond, Robinson, Romine, Sams, Shrieve, Short, Smith, Spire, Stockert, Stout, Tanner, Tevault, Tucker, Wells, White, Williams, Woofter 128 1993-1994 Membership List * Publications and Materials for Sale * Life Members

Volume 13, Issue 3, 58 pages * Membership * Officers 144 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist (Executive Director) 145 Chat With Charlie, by Charles Gilchrist 146 Rap With Raydine, by Raydine Teicheira 147 Some Bush Family Connections, by David Armstrong 153 Sympathy to Edward Allman on the loss of his wife, Jeanne 153 Prices Sky Rocket 154 Custer: This Town is Now Forgotten [by Dr. Robert D. Crooks, member of the West Virginia Archives and HIstory Commission] 158 Mr. Satow is Baby Veteran of Civil War Living in Wood County, by Cordelia Molendick 160 Where is This Mill, by Linda Meyers 161 Civil War VeteranWm. E. Satow Succumbs in Hospital, by Rex Woodford 163 Mrs. Saray M. Curry Holds Record of Oldest Citizen, by Wilbur Morrison 166 William Hurst of West Virginia, Compiled by Connie Street and Lora Ruth Hurst [book available] 167 Patchwork Quilt, by Dorothea Sutton Morris 168 Converting Your Family Genealogy to Manuscript/Book Form, by Dorothea Sutton Morris 169 A King’s Wrath Drove the Radcliffs from England to America 170 Henchel Genealogy [book for sale] 170 The Island of Falling Walnuts - The Graves, by Aristotle Rollins 171 The Surrender With the Seneca Chief Ely Parker, by Nina L. Forman 173 Oregon Trail Project 174 Publications of the Idaho Genealogical Society 174 Reunion News: Jackson Reunion; Barnett Reunion 175 Ritchie County Cemeteries [book available from Ritchie County Historical Society] 175 Thirteenth Annual HCPD Gathering [August 10-13] 176 Interpretations of Fort Seybert (continued from Volume 13, Issue 2), by Ruth Ritter 179 Personal Recollection of Sergeant Joseph B. Robinson: Concerning the Organization and Activities of Company B 17th Virginia Cavalry Southern Confederacy, submitted by James F. Allman 182 The Prince Family [W eston Independent, A pril 26, 1950 - submitted by Matha Byrd] 193 Library Acquisitions 196 Root Diggers: Queries - 9 questions including the following surnames: Anderson, Bailey, Barnett, Bell, Boram, Bowers, Burkhammer, Burton, Bush, Carter, Connolly, Cooper, Currence, Detamore, Deweese, Doddrill, Duffield, Edmonds, Ellis, Farnsworth, Fisher, Fleming, Flesher, Glaze, Hess, Hinzman, Kennedy, Kincheloe, Knight, Laughlin, Lindman/Lindemann, Linger, Lovell, Marple, Martin, Maxson, McKinley, McQuain, Middleton, Mollohan, Neff, Parson/Parsons, Patton, Peggs, Riffle, Rohrbough, Rollins, Romine, Stackhouse/Stockhouse, Starcher, Straley, Tibbs, Weston, White, Wilson, Woofter 189 Publications and Materials for Sale 192 HCPDWindows to the Future: Life Members

Volume 13, Issue 4, 58 pages * Membership * Officers 193 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 195 Chat with Charlie, by Charles Gilchrist 196 Rap with Raydine, by Raydine Teicheira 198 Secretary’s Report, by Eva Newlon 199 Poem: Full Circle, by Diane J. Clikeman-Miller in loving memory of Grandma Mabel Alice Crowler Stauffer, 1985 200 Weston State Hospital 202 Interpretations of Fort Seybert (continued from Volume 13, Issue 3), by Ruth Ritter 205 In Memoriam: Bill Marsh, Don H. Bond, Baxtine Nichols 206 Coburn, submitted by Fred Randolph 207 William Reger Family, by Charles H. Reger, Part 1 [W eston Independent April 14,1948] 210 The Wiseman Massacre: Part 1, submitted by Matha D. Byrd 212 Letter from Prison - Peregrine Hays, submitted by Linda B. Meyer 213 Obituary: Donovan Hiner Bond (1921-1995) 213 Burkhammer Family, by Debbie Malec 214 Old Bible Reveals Diary - Asa Squires Family [written by Col. Asa Squires and published inT he Braxton Democrat July 17, 1909] 215 Indianapolis General Conference of the Northern Church, submitted by Michael Elliott [The 1856 General Conference and Slavery] 216 Schoolmates Remembered, submitted by Patsy Garrett Dawson 217 Rev. Mark Hersman (1822-1908), submitted by Linda B. Meyers 220 The Escape from France - The Bonnett Family, submitted by Howard Bonnett 222 The Bonnett Enigm, submitted by Howard Bonnett 230 Poem: Cemeteries, by Richard H. Kemp 232 Obituary: William A. Marsh (1921-1995) Remembered, submitted by Joy Gilchrist 233 William A. Marsh Presented Pioneer Award [G ateway News, Volume 7, 1995] 234 Lewis County Cemeteries - Index of volumes 1-7 published by HCPD 236 Roots - Branches - Leaves: Queries - 9 questions including the following surnames: Anderson, Barnett, Boggs, Borrer, Bowman/Baumann, Burge, Bush, Clendenin, Coburn, Cozad, Cummons, Davis, Denton, Drummond, Duckworth, Duffield, Farnsworth, Gainer, Gandee, Garrison, Goddard, Haddan, Harvey, Howard, Hughes, Hunter, Jackson, James, Jobe, Johnston, Jones, Judy/Tchudi, Lowery, Lowther,Maxwell, McCartney, McNulty, McPherson, Means, Neff, Pierson, Powers, Queen, Reed, Riddle, Riffle, Romine, Southhall, Springston, Tanner, Thomas, Vannoy, Waggoner, Westfall, Woofter, 239 Publications and Materials for Sale 240 Paul Hugo Ritter & Related Families [book for sale] * Life Members

1995-96

Index to Volume 14

Volume 14, Issue 1, 56 pages 1 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 2 Surfin’ the Web, by Joy Gilchrist 4 Chat with Charles, by Charles Gilchrist 5 Rap with Raydine, by Raydine Teicheira 6 Hunter and Hunted [from T he Sioux City Journal December 10, 1978] 8 February 5, 1887, W eston Democrat 9 Wiseman’s Final Plea to Congress: A Brief History of the Massacre of the Wiseman Children, by Henson Wiseman 12 1704-5 Quit Rent - Accomack Co., VA 12 Census Abbreviations 13 Assessor Making New Land Books [W eston Independent January 17, 1951] 13 The HIstory of William McKinley and Sarah (Foster) Stacks, compiled by Joan (Schoeppner) Cummings 14 Mortality Schedule, Gilmer County, (W)VA 1850 14 Microfilming Papers 15 National Genealogical Society Conference in the States 17 Pioneer Graves Marked Recently [Benjamin H. and Sarah Blagg] 19 Descendants of Jacob & Mary Elizabeth Straley Hold Family Reunion 20 The William Reger Story Continues, Part 2 [continued from Volume 13, Issue 4; from Weston Independent April 21, 1948] 24 Vital Statistics on Microfilm (1853-1860) 25 Children’s Program Volunteers Needed, They Are Our Future 26 Can You Help! 26 Seven Grandmothers [from W eston Independent February 14, 1951] 27 Profile: Mary Lee Smith [from W eston Democrat D ecember 21, 1994] 27 Alert: California Proposes Closing Records 28 Land Values in Early Days High Compared with Other Commodities, by Wilbur C. Morrison [Thornhill Family] 34 Palatines to America [Will honor members at the conference June 6-8 in Peoria, IL] 35 Library Acquisitions 44 Folk Cure 45 Roots Branches and Leaves Queries - 14 questions including the following surnames: Anderson, Arnold, Baldwin, Bennet/Bennett, Bise, Bogg, Brown, Bush,Clark, Clemmons, Clendenin, Cline, Collier, Conley, Connolly, Conrad, Corbin, Cunningham, Degarmo, Doak, Downey, Duffield, Dyer, Farnsworth, Fleming, Fowler, Gainer, Gifford, Graham/Grimes, Hacker, Hagle, Hall, Hardman, Holstein, Hoover, Hughes, Hundley, Jackson, Jacobs, Jones, Keister, Larconia, Lazier, Leuzader, Lemasters, Lewis, Lyons, Mace, Martin, Maxson/Mason, Nicholson, Nimrod, Owens, Parsons, Peirce/Pearce, Perkins, Pierson, Pike, Pruitt, Radcliff, Rafferty, Reger, Robinson, Scott, Shoopman, Shields, Simmons, Skinner, Smith, Stallman, Stalnaker, Starnes, Stoneking, Tharp, Townsend, Truby, Walton, Weatherholt, Westfall, Wiant, Williams, Woofter, 49 Publications and Materials for Sale 51 Fiduciary Notice * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 14, Issue 2, 62 pages 53 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 55 Chat With Charlie, by Charles Gilchrist 56 Rap With Raydine, by Raydine Teicheira 57 Computer User Survey, by O.P. Corley [results of survey] 58 Reunion: Descendants of Thomas H. Miles 58 Reunion: Sleeth Family Reunion 59 New Tombstone for Peter & Charlotte Hardman, by Harold Dwayne Hardman & Kim Maxwell 59 News from the W eston Democrat [Rev. Samuel Clawson revival in 1883; Elopement of Charley Hyre and Fronie Shaffer in 1883] 60 Benoni T. Powers Family, by Michael O. Gould 61 Harrison County Court Minutes Volume 1 1784-1792 (continued from Volume 13, Issue 2) Abstracted by Hartzel G. Strader 64 Letter from Larry Francis 64 Upshur County Obits/Census 65 Price Peterson Cemetery Restoration: Hats off to the Eagle Scouts, supervised by Jeff Light of Boy Scout Troop 72 67 Some Early Notes on the Scott Family of Randolph County, WV, by David Armstrong 72 Guy Tetrick Papers 72 Potpourri of HIstory - A First Edition - Publication of HCPD 73 Old Ledger from S.W. Cobun’s [from C larksburg Telegram October 27, 1929] 77 Jarvis, submitted by Virginia Gillesie [re: John Jarvis (1757-1823)] 78 History of McDowell County, WV, by Marwin Brubaker, is published 78 Corrections to Bonnet article: Volume 13, Issue 4 79 The William Reger Story - Part 3 (continues from Volume 14, Issue 1; from W eston Independent April 28, 1948]) 80 Read About It in the W eston Democrat, by Linda Meyers 81 Dr. Edward Brake Jackson 81 Some Descendants of Uriah Sr. and Susannah Gandy/Gandee, by Anna Herbertson [book has been published] 82 Samuel Alkire [from W eston Democrat February 27, 1914] 83 Whose Cane Was It?[from W eston Democrat March 23, 1890] 84 Historic Gilmer County, submitted by Mrs. H. Armentrout 85 Court News - Weston, Lewis Co., WV March 10, 1888 87 Is She a Flesher or a Hughes?, by Patt Hart Keats 88 Roots - Branches & Leaves Queries - 22 questions including the following surnames: Barnet/Barnett, Beam, Bennett, Blake, Boggess, Boyd, Brake, Brown, Butcher, Campbell, Carter, Chester, Coffman, Cottrell, Kaufman, Conley, Davisson, Dislip/Dielip, Donohue, Drummond, Duffield, Dyer, Hacker, Hardy, Hartley, Heavner, Hinkle, Hite, Holland, Hoover, Horner, hughes, Jackson, Jett, Jones, Keister, Keller, Kenedy/Canady, Lambert, Lanham, Leeper, Lewis, Little, Lohan, Lovell, Lowther, Lyons, McCarty, McIlvain, McKee, McNamer/McNemar, McQuain, Marple, Marsh, Matthew, Messenger, Mick, Middleton, Moore, Moran, Ocheltree, Peck, Persinger/Tisinger, Pew, Pierson, Powers, Price, Queen, Radabaugh, Ramage, Ratliff/Radcliff, Reamer, Reger, Richards, Riffle, Romine, Samples, Sands, Scott, Shaffer, Shaver, Shields, Shomo, Simons, Sims, Sleeth, Snider, Starnes, Sutton, Thorpe, Ward, Warner, Waugh, White, Wilson, Woofter, 94 Publications and Materials for Sale 106 HCPD Membership * Officers * Life Members

Volume 14, Issue 3, 64 pages * Membership * Officers 105 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 106 Obituary: Death of an Estimable Lady - Ardelia A. McWhorter [from W eston Democrat January 13, 1894] 107 Rap with Raydine, by Raydine Teicheira 108 You Are Appreciated [letter from Craig Wiseman] 108 How is theHCPD Web Site Doing? [note of appreciation from Topper Sherwood] 108 1840 Lewis County Census [now on sale] 108 Guardian Bond 109 Family Stories & Bible Records of Central WWV: Extracts from C larksburg Exponent April-September, 1932, by Lola Guthrie 109 City-County Finder Program 109 Sandusky County Kin Hunters - Ohio 110 Mary Peterson Was a Bennett, by Joy Gilchrist 117 Stonewall Takes His Licks - Again, by John M. Jackson 117 Doddridge County West Virginia Cemetery Records [3 volumes completed and for sale] 118 Things I Remember About Straight Run & The People I Knew When I Was Growing Up (1904-1910), by Daisy Mae (Jones) McClain 1896-1989. Edited by Otis L. Reed 124 Old Letters Purchased At Auction - Sleeth - submitted by Annarose Sleeth Bowers 127 Jackson Cemetery - Terre Haute, Indiana, submitted by Linda B. Meyers 132 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston - Oliver Papers (Part 1) [W eston Democrat January 30, 1892] 135 Casad-Hall Cemetery - Green County, Ohio [reading by Dorothy Limbach, 1967, and submitted by Earl Balsley] 135 The Valley Campaign Civil War Shop 136 Death of a Famous Horse - His Name was Stonewall Jackson [from W eston Democrat December 19, 1891] 136 Obituary: William Linger (died December 7, 1893 at 92 years of age) [from W eston Democrat December 16, 1983] 136 Obituary: Mrs. Joseph Boilen of Jesse’s Run (died January 24, 1894) [from W eston Democrat F ebruary 3, 1894 137 1886 Who’s Who in Weston Trade [from W eston Democrat August 15, 1947] 139 The Florence Prison Stockade 140 National Deceased File 140 1920 Jackson County, WV Census 140 Harrison County, W.VA. Court Minutes 1784-1792 (continued from Volume 14, Issue 2) compiled by Hartzel G. Strader 144 Helmick Family History, submitted by Anna M. Moore 147 Early Nicholas County (West) Virginia Marriage Bonds, by James S. & Evelyn E. Blake 147 Corrections & Additions to the Paul Rollins Family, submitted by Aristotle (John) Rollins 148 Baptized on the 4th of July, by K.C. Priest [book available] 148 Special Collections - James E. Morrow Library 148 Upshur County WV Books 149 Roots-Branches and Leaves - Queries - 28 questions including the following surnames: Allen, Anderson, Arbogast, Armstrong, Arnold, Bailey, Bankhead, Barnouse, Bartlett, Baumgarden, Beall, Belknap, Bennet/Bennett, Bland, Boggs, Boorer/Booher, Brannon, Brown, Burner, Butcher, Carroll, Carter, Claypole, Connolly, Courtney, Dailey, Davis, Dennis, Deyo, Edmiston, Evans, Fisher, Fleming, Forinash, Friend, Gaston, Gillilan, Groves, Hardman, Hart, Hartzell, Haskins, Haverty, Haymon, Hays, Heavner, Helmick, Holland, Huffman, Husk, Hyre, Jarbo, Judy/Tschudi, Kester, Knight, Lambert, Lanham, Laughary, Lendas, Lewis,Losh, Loudoun, Lough, Majors, Mallard, Marks, Martin, Matthews, McCann, McPherson, McWhorter, Moore, Moreland, Morgan, Morris, Mullendore, Nutter, Parks, Parsons, Patton, Post, Pringle, Radabaugh, Raikes, Rogers, Rutherford, Sams, Schaffener, Sharp, Simons, Simpson, Sine, Singleton, Siron, Sleeth, Spencer, Stallman, Stanley/Standley, Steggmann, Stout, Suddarth, Sumner, Swisher, Teter, Thompson, Thornsberry, Thornhill, Ward, Watts, Waugh, Westbrook, Williams, Winemiller, Wilson, Wimer, Windsor/Winter, Woody 155 Obituaries, Births, and Marriages Now Available 156 Publications and Materials for Sale * Life Members

Volume 14, Issue 4, 62 pages * Membership * Officers 159 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 163 Cemeteries: From Beginning to End [workshop in Charleston on November 16, 1996] 164 Chat With Charlie, by Charles Gilchrist 165 Rap with Raydine, by Raydine Teicheira 166 Who Is She: Grandmother Amanda Bailey - photo taken Oct. 1916 166 Locals [from W eston Democrat February 5, 1887 -- Bennett, Bonnet, McWhorter, Morrison] 167 Harrison County, W.VA. Court Minutes 1784-1792 (continued from Volume 14, Issue 3) compiled by Hartzel G. Strader 170 Revolutionary War Land Grants 172 A Tribute to florice Karl Hinzman in His 100th Year, by Marjorie Heater Herring 175 Obituary: Memoriam - Rodney Collins [from S unday Gazette-Mail April 7, 1966] 175 Obituary: Valentine Byrd (1825-1887) [from W eston Democrat April 2, 1887] 176 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat February 6, 1892] 179 Obituary: George P. Oliver [from W eston Democrat January 13, 1900] 180 West Virginia Mortality Schedule - Barbour County, WV 1850 181 West Virginia Mortality Schedule - Lewis County, WV 1850 182 News: Roanoke, WV [misc. Stories from W eston Democrat September 1887] 183 Walter G. Gener’s Grocery List - 1936 [compared with similar ones from 1979 and 1996] 184 John Brown - Pioneer of Broad Run: Including Miscellaneous Notes on Related Families (Carpenter, Shepherd, Flesher, McCann, Tanner, and Davis), by David Armstrong 190 Kanawha County Cemetery Books [available for purchase] 190 The Strosnider Family in America 1751-1981 [book available for purchase] 191 Historical Facts - Petition County of Nicholas, (W)V 193 The William Reger Story, Part 4 (continues from Volume 14, Issue 1) [from W eston Independent May 5, 1948] 195 Library of Virginia Digital Collections 197 Library Acquisitions 202 Roots, Branches and Leaves - 28 questions including the following surnames: Allman, Argabright, Baker, Ballentine, Barcus, Barnhouse, Bender, Bennett, Best, Bibb/Bibbs, Blackburn, Bogard, Brannon, Briggs, Brown, Burkhammer, Burrell, Bush, Calder, Capito, Caplinger, Clarke, Cleland/Clelland, Conrad, Cookman, Coontz, Cozart, Crumrine/Krumrein, Cutright, Day, Doran, Doty, Drake, Eckhart/Eckert, Edwards, Ferguson, Fisher, Flesher, Garrison, Gay, Glaze, Gould, Grim, Hacker, Hacklox, Hall, Hamilton, Hardman, Harrison, Haymond, Helmick, Henderson, Henry, Herman, Hickman, Hinkle, Hite, Hodges, Hood, Hornbeck, Hughes, Hunter, Hurst, Hutchinson, Ireland, Jarvis, Keith, Keller, Kelso, King, Kittle, Legg, Lemons, Lockhard, Lowther, Martin, McCauley, MCullough, McNutt, Mean, Moore, Mouse, Norris, Nutter, Price, Racer, Radabaugh, Ratliff, Reger, Rich, Richardson, Riffle, Rine,Rohrbough, Ruble, Ryan, Sanders, See, Shackelford/Shackelford, Shaver, Shield, Shepherd, Shiflett, Simmons, Shuttleworth, Simmons, Sims, Singleton, Slavia, Smith, Snider, Steinbeck/Stinebeck/Steinbach, Stratton, Stump, Swan, Swope, Talbott, Taylor, Thomas, Truby, Tyrand, Vandevender, Watson, Waugh, Westfall, Wetzel, Williams, Wilson, Wolfe, Woodring, Yokum * Life Members

1996-97

Index to Volume 15

Volume 15, Issue 1, 70 pages * Membership * Officers 1 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 4 Rap with Raydine, by Raydine Teicheira 5 Harrison County, W.VA. Court Minutes 1784-1792 (continued from Volume 14, Issue 4) compiled by Hartzel G. Strader 8 James Coburn I - From PA to WV? , by Mona J. Mattingly 16 The Coburns and Bakers in Pennsylvania, by Otis L. Reed 22 Fisher Family Looms Large in River History, by R.C. Hall [originally appeared in the Huntington Herald Advertiser June 3, 1934. This has been edited by David Armstrong and submitted by Larry Flesher] 33 Letter from Matha Byrd- Cemetery Research Chairperson 34 The New Library of VA Opening 35 Fort Laurens, Ohio - Soldiers Who Were At The Fort 38 Obituary: Herbert U. Peterson 39 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat February 13, 1892] 42 Society of the Descendants of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge 43 Obituary: Floda Romine Smith (1896-1996) 44 Obituary: William H. Smith (1925-1996) 45 National Genealogical Society Conference in the States [May 7-10 in Valley Forge, PA] 45 Palatines to America [June 11-13 in Fort Wayne, IN] 45 Weston Democrat - Old News [from W eston Democrat February 5, 1887] 46 Library Acquisitions as of August 20, 1996 52 West Virginia Historical Society Annual Meeting 53 The Descendants of the Mexican War Veterans [book available for purchase] 53 Roots, Branches and Leaves - 20 questions including the following surnames: Allen, Blake, Brake, Bonnett, Cottrill, Crawford, Cunningham, Flenner, Forinash, Griffin, Grim, Hammond, Hardman, Hart, Jarvis, Jeffries, Jones, Keller, Kennedy, Langford, Lanham, Lazier, Lewis, Lorentz, Lowther, McKinney, Mines, Moore, Morrison, Norman, Poling, Posey, Powers, Prunty, Radabaugh, Randolph, Richards, Rollins, Romine, Samples, Saunders, Scarff, Skinner, Sleeth, Short, Smith, Snider,Snyder, Sprouse, Tarvin, Tyler, Titcheral, Tucker, Wade, Waggoner, Walden, Ward, White 58 Revolutionary and Civil War Pension REcords Needed 58 Weston Democrat - Old News [from W eston Democrat June 11, 1887] 59 Publications and Materials for Sale * Life Members

Volume 15, Issue 2, 66 pages * Membership * Officers 62 Hezekiah Collins of Coal Fork of Leading Creek (1817-1903), by John Hood 69 Weddings performed by F.J. Waldrop 73 Jackson Reunion Notice 74 Historical Sketches, by Robert L. Bland: Alexander Scott Withers 76 Haymond Family Newsletter 77 Upper Glady School House, by Ellie McClain Maroon 82 Unlock Your Heritagein Dalas, TX 83 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat February 20, 1892] 86 The McKinney Run School, submitted by Mary Frances West 86 Rohr Family Reunion 87 Harrison County, W.VA. Court Minutes 1784-1792 (continued from Volume 15, Issue 1) compiled by Hartzel G. Strader 89 Library Acquisitions since October 1, 1996 95 Ancestor Memorial Fund [list of donors and ancestors being honored] 96 New Publications This Issue 97 Publications & Materials for Sale 99 Mullenax/Mullinnex Reunion [July at Alpine Shores Camp Ground] 99 Summer Exhibit of the Upshur County Historical Society:Times of Conflict: Persons of Strength, Upshur County Personalities During the Civil War: 99 Township Maps [book available for purchase] 99 Obituary: Dorothea Sutton Morris (1932-1996) 100 Dennison Family Reunion 100 Obituary: Edward L. Sprigg (1913-1996) 101 Roots, Branches and Leaves - 11 questions including the following surnames: Barr, Butcher, Chevront/Cheuvront, Cole, Corder, Cross, Curl, Dennison, Elliott, Foster, Fultz, Harris, Keller, King, Lowell, McKinney, Messenger, Nutter, Perry, Richards, Shanklin, Stalnaker, Stout, Swisher, Washburn, Whitehair, Williams 104 Life Members * Life Members Volume 15, Issue 3, 62 pages * Membership * Officers 117 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 119 Chat with Charlie, by Charles Gilchrist 120 Forinash Family, by Margaret C. Lew, Beverly Vassar Haas, Jackie Greathouse 127 Brooke County Genealogy Newsletter 128 Obituary: Floe (Swisher) Taylor (d. 1997 at the age of 92) 128 Obituary: Gene C. Curtis (1925-1997) 128 Obituary: Francis E. Taylor (1906-1997) 129 Obituary: Dr. A. Kyle Bush (d.1997), a descendant of Edward Jackson 129 Have a Laugh: “Some Research is Thorough, from C omputer Genealogy Notebook, March 1995 issue. Submitted by Macel Mace. 130 Harrison County, W.VA. Court Minutes, Volume 2 1784-1792 (continued from Volume 15, Issue 2) compiled by Hartzel G. Strader 133 Mollie Gabe, submitted by Billie Jo Runyon [from B raxton Democrat February 2, 1939] 135 Discovery Made My Day, submitted by Debbie Malec 136 GenExpo97: Ohio Valley Genealogy Expo, October 18, 1997 in St. Clairsville, OH 136 Many Have His Name: Col. Nicholas Greenberry 137 Why Appalachia?, written by Mary Jo Brown and published in A ppalachian Roots January 1997 issue 138 Hinzman Picture Mystery Involves Other Hacker’s Creek Families, by Joy Gilchrist 139 Couple Married to Each Other Nearly 72 Years Are Still Sweethearts As They Plan Birthdays - Each Is Nearly 100 (Peter E. Crites and Mary E. (Casto) Crites [from Buckhannon Delta July 31, 1951] 141 Woman Places Lewis Records From 1817-1865 into Binders (Marilyn Pumphrey) 141 Photos Featured on Front Page [from W eston Democrat January 11, 1902. Includes: Frank Whelan, Jas. D. Atkinson, Allan A. Warren, Duncan Ward, George Snyder, George H. Kitson, T.J. Blair, and Louis McBride] 142 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat February 27, 1892] 145 Name Index of Civil War Document Files - Upshur County Historical Society, submitted by Noel Tenney 148 Peterson Cemetery Gets a Face Lift 149 Pop Tax and My Pop, submitted by Mary Sleeth Creamer 150 An Old Heirloom: Early Days in Weston at a Quilting [from W eston Democrat August 3, 1889] 150 Award - HCPD Website honored by West Virginia Surnames Database Research System for 1997 151 The Story of the “Liquor” Tombstone, by Mike Simons [from T he Guide January 30, 1993] 152 Burned Virginia County Courthouses: There’s Still Hope for Researchers 153 Some Civil War Reminiscences, by Jacob Heater 158 Library Acquisitions Since April 16, 1997 161 Publications and Materials for Sale 163 Roots, Branches, and Leaves - 28 questions including the following surnames: Ables, Allman, Anderson, Arnold, Barnes, Barnett, Barr, Bartholomew, Bennett, Black,Bland, Bogardus, Bond, Bradford, Brown, Burkhammer, Bush, Byers, Byrd, Carpenter, Childs, Clark, Coleman, Corron, Cottrill, Crites, Davis, Deal, Dennison, Edmiston, Fisher, Fleming, Gibson, Goff, Hacker, Hardman, Harper, Harris, Haywood, Heavener, Helmick, Herron, Hersman, Hewitt, Hines, Hood, Garrison, Gillaspie/Gillispie/Gillespie, Gillilan/Gillilalnd, Gould, Jamison, Jarvis, Jeffries, Jones, Jurko, Kemmerling/Kimberling, Kemper, King, Leatherman, Lightburn, Lowther, McCauley, McCutchan, McKinney, McLaughlin, McNeman, Messenger, Mick, Miller, Minter, Mullens, Norris, Petry, Pettijon, Pierce, Powers, Pritt, Prunty, Roach, Roberts, Robinson/Robison, Rollins, Ross, Sayre, Shackleford, Shields, Shifflett, Siers, Smith, Spencer, Sprouse, Steele, Straley, Taylor, Tilleson, Tucker, Vnnoy, Waggoner, Watson, Westfall, Williams, Wolf/Wolfe, Woodford, Wright * Life Members

Volume 15, Issue 4, 62 pages 171 jots from joy - Remembering the Future [the theme of the 15th Gathering], by Joy Gilchrist 178 Obituary: Ruth J. Post (1912-1997) 179 We’re Bursting at the Seams - HCPD Seeks New Site, by Mary Sleeth Creamer 180 Reunion Notice: Harlan Family in WV 181 HCPD Budget 1997-98 182 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat March 12,1892] 185 Who Are They - Picture submitted by Scott H. Wyant 185 Formula to determine birthdate - 8870 186 Little Appalachian, by Debbie Malec 186 Frederick County, VA Map Available 187 A Talk With Bancroft [from W eston Democrat March 8, 1890] 188 The Kinky Dinky Railroad, by Lindsey C. Foster 191 Blue Serge Legs, by Virginia Parsons Rahal [from conversations with Kermit Eugene Parsons and Helen Wanema Parsons Brooks] 192 Hold Funeral Services for Aunt Betty Skinner, Who Died Eighteen Years Ago, submitted by Vikki Mitchell 193 Rev. John Mitchell Was First Methodist Minister, submitted by Vikki Mitchell 194 Yand and Johnny Reb, by Eliabeth Lynch [William H. Montgomery and J.E. Bennett] 196 A Brief Statement Before Departing, by J.E. Bennett 196 Obituary: James E. Bennett, Veteran of Civil War Passes at 92 196 Applause! Applause! - from Billie Jo Runyon 197 A Place Worth Seeing in Hacker’s Creek Area of WV, by Elie McClain Maroon 197 Obituary: Francis McCudden Sr. 198 Law Chapel United Methodist Memorial Church, submitted by Maynard D. Law 198 News Notes: Funeral of Mrs.Terrill, mother of Mrs. J.M. Dohan [from W eston Democrat November 23, 1889] 199 Elam Cummins Robinson - My Great Great Grandfather, by Melinda C. Larson 202 Greetings from Away - Letter from Betty Jane Hamner [August 3, 1997] 203 Notes of William Henry Phillips, submitted by Hal Phillips 204 Railroad Historical Resource Reference Center, by Thomas T. Taber III, submitted by Ron Cochran 205 Harrison County, W.VA. Court Minutes, Volume 2 1784-1792 (continued from Volume 15, Issue 3) 208 The Location of Naturalization Records, by Claire Prechtel-Kluskens [reprinted from T he Record, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 21-22 (Nov. 1996)] 211 Obituary: Former Teacher Passes - William Moore (1925-1997) 212 The Old Stone Mystery, by Diane Mandeville 213 General Meeting Minutes of HCPD 1997, by Eva Newlon 215 Publications and Materials for Sale 217 Roots, Branches, and Leaves - 21 questions including the following surnames: Arnold, Barr, Bird, Bland, Branham, Brown, Bush, Butcher, Byrd, Cheuvront, Coleman, Collins, Conrad, Cottrell, Cozad, Crites, Cross, Cutright, Davis, Dean, Delange, Dodrill, Eddy, Edman, Edmiston, Edwards, Ellsworth, Elmer, Ferrell, Fisher, Fleming, Floyd, Gillilan/Gilliland, Grigsby, Hall, Hamrick, Haris, Hayes, Hester, Houghton, Hurst, Jackson, King, McBride, McNulty, Mitchell, Morton, Moses, Mowrey/Mowery, Norman, Pritt, Ramage, Shaver, Sims/Simms, Smith, Snider, Stallman, Spencer, Stout, Stratton, Vincent, Ward, Williams, Wilson, Wyant * Life Members

1997-98

Beginning with this issue, each issue has its own index

Volume 16, Issue 1, 68 pages * In Memory of Charles Howard Gilchrist (1938-1998) * Obituary: Charles Howard Gilchrist (1938-1998) * Eulogy for Chuck Gilchrist, by his daughter, Dena Jane Crider 1 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 2 Recipe for a Happy New Year 3 Swisher Letters, submitted by Brenda Witt 12 Who Is She? [help Mary Squires Wisecarver to identify this photo] 13 Oley Minter Gregory, by Jerry Coffman 13 Braxton County Cemeteries Web Site 14 National Genealogical Society Conference in the States (May 6-9, 1988 in Denver, CO) 15 Harrison County, W.VA. Court Minutes Vol. 2 1792-1797 (continued from Volume 15, Issue 4, compiled by Hartzel G. Strader) 18 Obituary: Abigail Ryan (1842-1874) [from the P ittsburgh Christian Advocate F ebruary 5, 1874] 18 Obituary: Rev. Henry W. Sleethe [from the P ittsburgh Christian Advocate F ebruary 5, 1874] 18 Obituary: Old Land Mark Gone: E.R. Williams [from U pshur Record February 8, 1916, submitted by Lemoyne Wolfe] 19 The William Reger Story, Part 5 (The School-Laurel Lick) [continues from Volume 14, Issue 4. From the W eston Independent May 12, 1948] 20 Publications for Sale 20 Map of Northwestern Turnpike, by Barr Wilson. Published by the Ritchie County Historical Society. [1833 map of Clarksburg to Parkersburg] 21 New Book Published: Ohio County West Virginia Court Orders 21 That’s the Story - Book Published by the Pleasants County Library Board, Inc. 21 New Book Published: The Boggs Family,by Al and Martha Rhods 23 Childhood Memories of Elizabeth McNemar Smith, transcribed by Virginia Hamner Mick 24 New Book Published: The Sponaugle Family 24 Upshur County West Virginia Obituaries and News Items (1902-1911) 25 Brake Letter Found [from Anna Brake to Judge Jackson] 25 Some Family History, written by Helen Hinzman Hacker, transcribed by Betsy Davis 26 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat March 19,1892] 28 Letter from Jenne Sutton Green to HCPD [October 23, 1997] 29 An Epidemic in Lewis County, compiled by Annarose Sleeth Bowers [from issues of the Weston Democrat between January 1899 through December 1902 - concerning the smallpox epidemic] 31 Sketches of Old - William Eli Baker [from H istory of West Virginia Old and New, Vol.1] 33 Anniversary Address - Celebration of Mrs. Samuel Goodwin’s 65th Birthday [written by William H. Hart, submitted by Virginia H. Poarch] 35 Dear Friends of Harmony Cemetery 36 Obituary: In Memoriam - Emma Jane Berry Price (1921-1997) 36 Obituary: Elizabeth spinall Fury 37 William Strother Society [7th Biennial Reunion August 5-9, 1998] 38 HCPD Cookbook 38 Visit Historic Virginia [Prince William County Genealogical Society tour package] 39 Leaps and Bounds - Stretching to the Max, by Irma Curtis 39 DeLorme Street Atlas [book available for purchase] 40 John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publication & Materials for Sale 43 Library Acquisitions 45 Roots, Branches, and Leaves - 18 questions including the following surnames: Ables, Alkire, Bailey, Bennett, Boice, Bryan, Bumgardner, Burnside, Bush, Butcher, Capehart, Carr, Cheuvront, Clutter, Corley, Cowen/Coen/Cohen, Cozad, Davis, Dulin, Fisher, Friese, Given, Gregory, Hacker, Harman, Haverty, Hendricks/Hendrix, Hinkle, Holdredge, Hood, Hughes, Jackson, Jenkins, Law, Ledman, Marple, Mines, Minter, Morrison, Perry, Phillips, Pickens, Plum, Queen, Rodgers, Setler, Smith, Snarr, Snider, Stackhouse, Swann, Teter, Tharp, Titcheral, Trabue, Westfall, Wiant, Windon * Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 16, Issue 2, 54 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board of Directors * Table of Contents 51 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 52 Family of Charles H. Gilchrist 53 Vincent Alexander of Freeman’s Creek District, by Connie Alexander Street 64 New This Issue [books and records available for sale] 65 Paul Teter Mitchel’s Siphering Book: January 29, 1854, submitted by Vikki Mitchell 76 Kudos to HCPD Volunteer Perry Brake 77 Weston Democrat [April 14, 1888. Surnames include: Waggoner, Bennett, Swisher, Lawson] 77 Weston Democrat [April 21, 1888. Surnames include:St. Clair, Chidester, Simmons, Barnett] 77 Wimer Cousins Reunion [June 20, 1998 at Straight Fork United Methodist Church] 78 Sketches of Old - Dr. Luther Samson Brock, MD [from H istory of West Virginia Old and New, Vol.1] 78 Anniversary Celebration - John & Elizabeth Cummins Jackson[250th Anniversary of their Immigration] 80 Library Acquisitions 83 Roots, Branches, and Leaves - 19 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Arbogast, Baker, Basel, Beaty, Brake, Bush, Butcher, Campbell, Canfield, Capito, Case, Chilocote, Clark/Clarke, Clelland, Conner, Conrad, Corrick, Cummings, Cutright, Davis, Drummond, Eastburn, Eckhart/Eckert, Evans, Fetty, Fisher, Flenner, Franck, Grove, Hall, Haymond, Hughes, Jackson, Jones, Kenshla, Luzader/Luzadder, Malady, Marshall, Marteney, McCoy, McDaniel, McHenry, McNemar, Means, Miller, Monroe, Perry,Riblett, Riffle, Robinson, Sandy, Shreve, Sleeth, Smith, Stalnaker, Steinbeck, Strader, Stratton, Stump, Truby, Ware, Welton, Westfall/Westpal/Whestfell, Williams, Wilson, Wiseman, Withers, Woebler, Woolf 87 Descendants of Joseph Bailey (1761-1850) [new book in library] * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publication & Materials for Sale * Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 16, Issue 3, 86 pages * Table of Contents 89 jots from joy, by Joy Gilchrist 90 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat March 5,1892] 92 Obituary: Earl D. Balsley (d. 1998) 93 Who Have Enrolled - in Medical School, by Mary Cleeth Creamer in honor of her father, Clark Kendall Sleeth 97 A Distant Situation - New Theories on the English Origins of John Jackson - Elizabeth Cummins Family, by John M. Jackson 103 Obituary: Memoriam - Lt. Col. Martha Flesher (d.1998 at the age of 85] 103 Alford Family Reunion [October 9-11, 1998 in Paducah, KY] 104 Harrison County, W.VA. Court Minutes Vol. 2 1792-1797 (continued from Volume 16, Issue 1, compiled by Hartzel G. Strader) 107 The Confusion of Abraham and Ashford Rinehart’s Parentage, by Richard A. Wahler 107 Stalnaker History Book - by Yokum [available for purchase] 108 What’s Killing My Family? [Epidemics are not unprecedented! -from Sept-Oct, 1997, Newsletter - Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County] 109 Obituary: Memoriam - Fred J. Linger [1917-1998] 110 A Pioneer School - Randolph Academy, by Virginia Hall of Walkersville 115 Descendants of Jonathan Stout II and David Stout II [book available for purchase] 115 Upshur County West Virginia Obituaries and News Items 1902-1911 [available for purchase] 115 West Virginia Civil War Almanac - Volume One,by Tim McKinney [available for purchase] 116 The Great Depression, by Shorty Berthy 118 Summer Memories in West Virginia - HCPD-L Internet Bulletin Board [Mary Creamer; Lisa] 119 Poem: Flour Sack Underwear, by Anonymous, submitted by Jack Berty 120 The William Reger Story, Part 6 (The Village Store; The Old Grist Mill, The Tannery, Diversion) [continues from Volume 16, Issue 1. 123 Dear Friends from Rosella Seets 123 Barr Wilson - new address 124 Sketches of Old - Carl Reger [from H istory of West Virginia Old and New, Vol.1] 126 Appalachian Roots Research 126 Summer Memories in West Virginia - HCPD-L Internet Bulletin Board [KMyers1997] 127 Library Acquisitions as of February 1998 131 Roots Branches and Leaves - 26 questions including the following surnames: Allman, Arnold, Auger, Bailey, Baker, Barb, Barnett, Bell, Belt, Benson, Blake, Bock, Bolton, Brannon, Burrell, Bush, Capito, Carter, Case, Clark/Clarke, Colgate, Collins, Conley, Connolly, Conrad, Coplin, Crislip, Crouse, Cunningham, Cupp, Cutright, Delany, Dequasie, Deulley/Dooley, Douglas, Dudley, Eagle, Eckhart/Eckert, England, Evans, Fisher, Fowkes, Fox, Glaze, Gooden, Goodwin, Grigsby, Grove, Hagle, Hamilton, Hamlett, Hancock, Hannigan, Havener/Heavener, Hawkins, Helmick, Henkins, Henline, Hoover, Jarvis, Johnson, Kelly, Kinney, Knight, Lackens, Langford, Lawson, Legg, Leggett, Lindsey, Loudin, Lappinton/Luption, Lorentz/Lawrence, Mace, Malone, Maulsby, McClain, McCune, McNemar, Means, Morgan, Moore, Morris, Mowry, Newton, O’Brien, Ogden, Parr, Plyman, Poe, Poling, Posey, Radcliff, Reed, Riffle, Ryan, Sanders, Sands, Saunders, Sawyers, Schoolcraft, Sharp, Skidmore, Skinner, Smith, Spaur, Steinbeck, Stratton, Stump, Sturm, Stutler, Tanner, Taylor, Tenney, Thomas, Thompson, Thorn, Tucker, Turner, Underwood, Ware, Warner, White, Wiblin, Williams, Wilson, Withers * Index * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 16, Issue 4, 64 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board of Directors * Table of Contents 141 jots from joy, by Joy Gregoire Gilchrist Stalnaker 142 Guest Appearance, by Bill Moore 143 The Civil War Battle of Bulltown, courtesy Army Corps of Engineers 144 Notes from the Attic [from the papers of Dana M. Forinash, submitted by Rosella G. Sheets. Information about Valley Chapel Methodist Protestant Church and the Miller Cemetery] 146 Obituary: Elizabeth Waggoner Hardman (1779-1854) 148 1999 HCPD Gathering will be held August 12-15 149 Methodist Churches [from Rev. A. I. Barnes H istory of the Methodist Protestant Church. Includes information on: John Mitchell, Harmony Church, Mt. Pleasant Church - Jesse’s Run, Laurel LIck Church, Buckhannon Run Church, and Fairview Church] 153 Obituaries: In Memoriam - Algae Luetta Bailey (1921-1998) and June Burke Morris (1920-1998) 154 Summer Memories in West Virginia - HCPD-L Internet Bulletin Board [Sandi Mick Chambers, Charlotte Fleming, Lisa Vissoc, Karen Myers, Perry “Buzz” Brake, Vivian Hytovik, Laura Nelle Mallett] 156 Ohio River Islands Have Own History, by Dr. Robert D. Crooks 160 Mystery Stones, submitted by Karen Matthey Fowler and her father, Walther Matthey 161 Roots Branches and Leaves - 23 questions including the following surnames: Adams, Alkire, Baker, Bargerhoff, Bartlett, Bender, Bonnett, Carroll, Cassell, Cogar, Collins, Conley, Cozad, Crosby, Cross, Cutright, Davis, Dodd, Evick, Fitzpatrick, Fry, Furbee, Garrard, Gifford, Griffin, Hacker, Hamblett, Havener/Heavner, Heinzman, Hughes, Humphrey, Keener, Keeney, Keith, Keller, Liggett, Martin, McCann, McCauley, McKissic, Merritt, Moore, Morris, Mowrey/Mowery, Owens, Pennington, Perrine/Prine/Perrin, Phillips, Pringle, Radcliff, Reed, Reese, Riffle, Riley, Sanders, Shoulders, Sleeth, Smith, Snodgrass, Snyder, Squires, Sutton, Timmons, Waugh, Wright, 164 Recollections of a Lifetime, by Daniel S. Dewees [available for purchase - includes the following surnames: Barnes, Boggs, Connally, Cottrell, Dewees, Hardman, Riddle, Schoolcraft, Stalnaker, Starcher, Stump] 165 Riffle, by Cindy Ethier-Kostka [of interest to researchers of the Riffle surname and also to those researching German and European emigrants in the 18th century and the hardships they endured] 170 Sketches of Old - Reverend Omar U. Marple [from H istory of West Virginia Old and New, Vol.1] 171 Sketches of Old - Audry L. Marple, D.D.S. [from H istory of West Virginia Old and New, Vol.1] 172 A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, a BookReview, by Crystal V. Wagoner 175 Genealogy Genius 176 Library Acquisitions as of July 1998 180 Respected Old Citizens: Early Pioneers of Lewis County Who Have Attained the Age of Three Score Years and Ten [from T he Weston Democrat J uly 1900] 182 Who Have Enrolled - in Medical School, by Mary Cleeth Creamer in honor of her father, Clark Kendall Sleeth 186 Phillipi Trio Complete Library Curtain Project [from T he Weston Democrat August 1998 -- Bertha Wood Allman, Maurice Allman, Grayson H. Smith] 186 A Message from the Editor, by Raydine Teicheira 187 Index for Volume 16, Issue 4 * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

1998-99

Volume 17, Issue 1, 72 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information * Table of Contents 1 Jots from Joy 2 Death of Nelson Borden [from T he Weston Democrat, January 22, 1887] 2 Death of Dr. White J. Bailey [from T he Weston Democrat, May 14, 1887] 3 Sketches of Old - Thomas Hodges. [from H istory of West Virginia Old and New, Vol.1] 6 Tribute to Troy McClain (1908-1998), by Joy Gilchrist Stalnaker 7 Notes from the Attic: A True Story of My Life, by W. McWhorter Morris, Part 1 [submitted by Pam Bennett] 8 Poem: The Elusive Ancestor, Author Unknown [submitted by S. Edith Hill] 9 The Character and Life of the First Settlers [Extracted from W.H. Cutright’s H istory of Upshur County, West Virginia] 13 Robbery [from T he Weston Democrat, June 4, 1881] 14 Roots Branches and Leaves - 18 questions including the following surnames: Alexander, Bailey, Ball, Bambridge, Bennett, Brake, Brown, Byers, Campbell, Carpenter, Conley, Conrad, Curtis, Davis, Davisson, DePew, Dunnington, Fisher, Fitzpatrick, Fogg, Furr, Gillaspy/Gillespie/Gillispie, Glaze, Griffith, Hanigan, Hopkins, Hudkins, Hutcheson, Jackson, Johnson, Keener, Luzzader, Mathias, Maxwell, Maze, McWhorter, Means, Melloy, Merritt, Middleton, Miller, Milton, Newton, Nutter, Posey, Price, Reeder, Reger, Robinson, Scott, Shelton, Shields, Sims, Skinner, Smith, Snyder, Stratton, Stump, Swartz, Tierney, Waggoner, Walton, Westfall, White, Wiant, Williams, Wilson 19 West Virginians Laid to Rest At Andersonville Prison [Extracted from Comstock’s W est Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia and updated with information from P risoners who died at Andersonville Prison] 25 Where was Lucullus McWhorter Born, submitted by Debbie Eastep 26 Dennison/Dennisson Reunion Held, submitted by Marlene McKutcheon Kaltenach 27 Genealogy Genius 29 Library Acquisitions [as of December 15, 1998] 30 Early History of the Car(r)uthers, Carothers, Corathers Family of West Virginia, submitted by John Carothers 34 Who Have Enrolled in Medical School, courtesy of Mary Sleeth Creamer in memory of her father, Clark Kenneth Sleeth 43 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat April 9,1892] 47 Legends and Traditions: The Importance of Verifying Your Information, by Linda Brake Meyers 49 Sword Abandoned After the Fall of Richmond Restored to Owner 51 The Big Indian and the Little Indian [from T he Weston Democrat, April 22, 1921] 53 The Buckhannon Run Church, submitted by Howard Reeder 54 Index to Volume 17, Issue 1 * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 17, Issue 2, 72 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information * Table of Contents 59 Jots from Joy 60 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat April 16,1892] 63 Proposed HCPD By-Laws Revisions 64 At 97 Thomas L. Stockert, Sr. Still Active in Business Interests 65 Spring is Here, by Virginia Hall of Walkersville [March 6, 1935] 66 In Reflection, by R.H. Halston, Sr. [Upshur County in the Revolutionary War] 68 Roots Branches and Leaves - 24 questions including the following surnames:

75 The Lost Strange, b y Unknown Author 76 Sketches of Old - Thomas Cummings. [from H istory of West Virginia Old and New, Vol.1] 78 Let’s Hear it for HCPD! 79 In Memoriam: Anne Steward Casto Brandli (1928-1999) 79 In Memoriam: Mary Lee Smith (1922-1998) 80 In Memoriam: George Charles Post (1904-1999) 81 In Memoriam: Mildred T. Swisher (1912-1999) 81 Dear Ancestor, by Unknown Author 82 Can You Remember?, b y Nancy Taylor 83 Family Stories & Bible Records of Central West Virginia 84 Where Was Lucullus McWhorter Born? (The Answer?) 85 The Mary and Marty Story, by Mary Creamer 86 For My Great Aunt, by Kelly Kaufman 87 The Ireland School, submitted by Betty Heavner 91 Adding Military Records to Your Genealogy, by Cindy Ethier-Kostka 94 Genealogy Genius 95 Coffin-Like Tombstones Stand in Family Cemetery, by Betty Hornbeck 97 Who Have Enrolled in Medical School * Index to Volume 17, Issue 2 * HCPD By-Laws Proposed

Volume 17, Issue 3, 60 pages 105 jots from...joy?, by Mary Creamer 106 Sketches of Old, JohnW. Romine (from H istory of West Virginia Old and New, Vol.1) 107 The Recording of a Cemetery, by Wendy Sutton 108 Family Reunions and Other Ways of Passing Our Family Histories, by Linda Steorts Kaufman 109 HCPD Fund Raisers 110 Genealogy Genius 112 Roots, Branches, and Leaves (25 Queries including the following surnames): Allen, Allman, Armstrong, Ashley, Bennett, Bonnett, Brake, Briggs, Bush, Butcher, Carpenter, Channel, Cheuvront, Clark, Collins/Cullins, Conley, Connolly, Cool, Cottrill/Cotril, Crislip, Criss, Crites, Custer, Dasher, Davis, Dawson, Dodd, Dyre, Ellsworth, Facemire, Fink, Freestone, Golden, Gooden, Green, Haeffner/Heavner/Hevener/Hevener/Heffner, Hardman, Harris, Herron, Hoover, Jordan, Kerns, King, Lokey, Lynch, Mace, Mann, May/Mays, McCartney, McCullough, McKinley, McLaughlin, McWilliams, Milroy, Mitchell, Moore, Norman, Parsons, Patrick, Powers, Pritchett, Racliff/Radcliff/Ratliff, Rainey, Reeder, Richards, Riffle, Runyan, Ryan, Sanger, Schwab, Seibert, Skinner, Smith, Snider, Sullivan, Swope, Talbott, Taylor, Thorn, Ware, Waugh, Wilson, Windon, Wyatt 119 Getting to Clarksburg in 1788, courtesy of the First United Methodist Church of Clarksburg (excerpts from the journal of Bishop Francis Asbury) 120 Nearly Six Hundred Years (from W eston Democrat, September 6, 1875) 121 HCPD-L News and Views, by Betty Wimer Graybill 124 Library Acquisitions, as of June 30, 1999 128 Letter from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History director, Fred Armstrong 129 Upshur Brothers of the Blue and Gray, a book report by Rosie Sheets 133 Get to Know the HCPD Staff, by Maurice Allman (Charles White, Joy Stalnaker, Eva Newlon, May White, Cary Williams, Rose Nissel) 136 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat April 23, 1892] 139 A Brilliant Wedding at Burnsville [from W eston Democrat November 5, 1887] 140 Let’s Hear it for HCPD Again! (from Melinda Larson) 140 In Memoriam Tressie Hacker, 1905-1999 [Charter Member of HCPD] 141 Notes from the Attic, A True Story of My Life, Early Education and Chapter 2: Saved By a Premonition, by W. McWhorter Morris (Continued from Volume 17, Issue 1, page 7) 146 Cemetery Tools Now Available at HCPD Library in Horner 147 Who Have Enrolled in Medical School [List donated to HCPD by Mary Sleeth Creamer in honor of her father, Clark Kendall Sleeth] * Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 17, Issue 4, 72 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information * Table of Contents 155 Jots from Joy 158 The Haunting Story of Arthur Shoulders, by Brenda Collins Dillon 159 Two West Virginia Cemetery Readings, by Betty Robison [Cemetery at Baldwin, Gilmer County and Cemetery off Ward Run near Roanoke] 161 A Sneak Peek at New Books in the HCPD Library, by Ruth Highland 162 Research Notes on the Bennetts from Pendleton County [available for purchase] 163 Library Acquisitions 167 Roots, Branches, and Queries (20 queries including the following surnames): Almon,Bailey, Ballard, Barnhouse, Black, Blake, Boso, Brake, Brannon, Brown, Burns, Casto, Chapman, Dawson, Dean, Dils, Fidler/Fiddler, Fitzpatrick, Fleming, Galford, Groves, Hathaway, Heater, Heavener, Helmick, Hewitt, Jack, Jackson, Johnson, Kennedy, Kesling, King, Lewellen, Lowe, Magruder, McHenry/McHendry/Machindry, McVaney, Miller, Moneypenney, Moore, Osborn, Posey, Post, Powers, Rapp, Ravenscroft, Raymond, Riffle, Robinson, Seaborn, Sears, Simons, Sleeth, Smith, Spurgeon, Stafford, Steel, Stump, Sturm, Truax, Valentine, Van Horn, Ware, Weaver, West, Wiant, Williams 174 A Declaration of Cooperation for the Next Millennium 175 Two Famous Generals: Salute to One, A Prayer from the Other ● Benjamin H. Hill’s eulogy of Robert E. Lee [from the W eston Democrat, June 4, 1892] ● General George S. Patton’s March to Bastogne, Christmas 1944 177 Notes from the Attic: A True Story of My Life, by W. McWhorter Morris, Chapter 3: Remarkable Delivery and Chapter 4: A Startling Experience, [submitted by Pam Bennett 182 The Mystery of Alexander St. Waugh, submitted by Eleanor Snyder Hearndon 183 Feedback from Margaret Lew 184 Occupations of Old, by Dan Burrows 187 Death of an Old Lady (Elizabeth Bonnett Smith], submitted by Rosie Sheets [T he Weston Democrat 1893] 188 Settling the Frontier with a little help from George Washington [an advertisement placed by George Washington in the first issue of T he Maryland Journal, now called T he Baltimore American, August 20, 1773], submitted by Annarose Sleeth Bowers 190 Memories “Pete & His Forks”, by Joy Stalnaker 191 HCPD & Legion Post 4 Expand Lewis County KIA List 192 HCPD & Post 4 Seek War & Peacetime Veterans Buried in Lewis County 193 Wilbur C. Morrison, submitted by Ethel Hammond Nielsen, Irvine, CA 196 Genealogy Genius 197 Known Descendants of Leonard Hire/Hyre, by Kenneth W. Colby 199 Washday - 1912,submitted by Marjorie Price 200 The Ancestors of Elijah Arnold (1771-1849) of Lewis County, West Virginia, compiled by Dan Hyde, Lewisburg, PA * Index * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

1999-2000

Volume 18, Issue 1, 68 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information * Table of Contents and Contact Information 1 jots from joy, by Joy Stalnaker 2 Dr. Edward Brake Jackson (1793-1826), by Linda Brake Meyers, June 1999 7 John Curtis Underwood (1809-1873), by John M. Jackson, submitted by Linda Meyers 8 Alexander Cameron Hunt (1825-1894), by Linda Brake Meyers 10 Food for Thought as You Search for Your Roots, submitted by Dave Kuhl 11 Fun Facts About West Virginia, from the West Virginia Division of Tourism 12 The Life and History of Harmon Lunsford, by Wilbur C. Morrison 15 Polk Creek Watershed Project, 1959-1969, submitted by Maurice and Bertha Allman 18 Notes from the Attic: A True Story of My Life, by W. McWhorter Morris, Chapter 5: Perplexities and Reverses and Chapter 6: Sickness and Despair,[submitted by Pam Bennett 23 Sisters Reunited After Forty-two Years, by Betty Ann Ward Nicholson 24 The Hughes Family From Virginia to Oregon, by Patty Barthell Myers (book has been published - a copy is available in the HCPD Library FA-0706) 25 The Battle-Fields of West Virginia,(from the W eston Democrat, June 4, 1892) 26 Roots, Branches, and Queries (21 queries including the following surnames): Aylor, Black, Blake, Blizard, Bogard, Brown, Cogar, Conrad, Cookman, Cotteral/Cotterill, Crismore/Crissmore, Curry, Duffle, Duvall, England, Everson, Fitzpatrick, Fowler, Gooden, Hacker, Helmick, Jarvis, Kellor, Knight, Lough, Mace, McAvoy, McCalley/McCauley, McClain, Marks, Mathews, Merritt, Milton, Mollohan, Nickols, Ocheltree, Posey, Powers, Regester, Riffle, Ritter, Robertson/Robinson/Roberson, Shelton, Shields, Simons, Singleton, Smallridge, Smith, Spaur, Steorts/Storts/Steortz/Sturtz/Stotts/Staats/Stortze, Stout, Swiger, Teter, Tracy/Tracey, Wade, Walker, Walsh, Warton, Williams, Wilson, Wood, Zickefoose 33 HCPD Librarian Irma Curtis, submitted by Joy Stalnaker 34 What’s Up at HCPD, Miscellaneous Notes from Joy 35 My Dear Brother, by Linda Steorts Kaufman 37 Prince William County, VA, to Celebrate “Families Remembered”, by Suzanne B. Curran 39 Elijah Arnold and Prudence Jackson of Lewis County, West Virginia and their Children, Compiled by by Dan Hyde 47 Mark Your Calendars for HCPD Gathering August 10-13, 2000 48 Who Have Enrolled in the Medical School [List Donated by Mary Sleeth Creamer in memory of her father Clark Kendall Sleeth] * Index * What Are “Tomahawk Rights?” * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 18, Issue 2, 72 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information * Table of Contents and Contact Information 51 jots from joy 52 The Coles of Virginia, by Kenneth Colby 54 Harrison County Court Minutes (September 1797 - May 1798) 55 Early Virginia Divorces (1840-1851), compiled by Nancy Jackson 58 Get to Know the HCPD Staff, by Maurice Allman [Raydine Westfall Teicheira, Nettie Gregory] 60 2000 HCPD Gathering, by Eva Newlon 61 Anderson Family Cemetery (James and Sarah Siron Anderson Family), submitted by Linda Meyers, February 2000 63 Notes from the Attic: A True Story of My Life, by W. McWhorter Morris, Chapter 7: New Work and Vision, [submitted by Pam Bennett 67 The Mystery of William J. Burkhammer, by Mary Ellen Mathers 71 Roots, Branches, and Queries ( 35 queries including the following surnames): Alkire, Anderson, Arbogast, Bailey, Barbe, Barbee, Bennett, Bible, Bise, Blake, Bland, Bonnett, Boles/Bowels/Bowls, Boyer, Brake, Bryan, Burkhammer, Butcher, Callihan, Carder, Christian, Coberly, Coleman, Cool, Cunningham, Desreiux, Dillon, Dodd, Duffield, Dyhamer, Eagle, Eakle, Elder, Fitzpatrick, Frame, Glaze, Golden, Gregory, Hacker, Hamrick, Hardman, Hartley, Headley, Henry, Jackson, Knotts, Lance, Lazier, Lee, Lewis, Lorentz, Lowther, Lynch, Mack/Mach, Maddox, Malcolm/Malcom, Matcomb, McAvoy, McCann, McDermott, McPherson, McVaney, McWhorter, Means, Merritt, Miller, Moore, Morrison, Mount, Myers, Peters, Powell, Rhodes, Richards, Riffle, Riley, Shaffer, Shoulders, Smarr, Smith, Snyder, Starr, Stone, Stover, Stutler, Tate, Tenney, Tevebaugh, Thompson, Toms, Turner, Walker, Ware, Washburn, Welch, Williams, Wolf 81 HCPD Services Directory, by Joy Stalnaker 83 Miscellaneous Mid-1970s Deaths from Notes of Lela Moneypenny, submitted by her neice, Betty Robison 84 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat May 7,1892] 88 Men and Manors in the South Branch Valley, by Sara Stevens Patton 94 Virginia General Assembly Titbits, Compiled by Nancy Jackson 95 The Spirit of West Virginia, poems by eight HCPD family members [Christina McClure, Don Schaub, Blaire Wilson, Deb Blaire, Sarah Lawrentz, Clark Creamer (2), Gloria owers Husk] 97 Watson Cemetery Cleanup a Success, by Mike Gould 98 Reading of the Old Watson Cemetery, Roanoke, bWest Virginia, by June McCoy 99 Who Have Enrolled in the Medical School [List Donated by Mary Sleeth Creamer in memory of her father Clark Kendall Sleeth] * Index * The Philippi Covered Bridge * 5-Generation Charts (instructions for submitting) * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 18, Issue 3, 70 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information * Table of Contents and Contact Information 101 jots from joy, by Joy Stalnaker 102 Early Schools in Upshur County, West Virginia, by W.S. Mick,Superintendent [extracted from H istory of Education in West Virginia, submitted by Valerie Crook 106 Diseases of Old, submitted by Sherri Brake-Recco 109 Genealogy Abbreviations, [from A ncestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, by Frederick Lewis Weis], submitted by Ruth Highland 110 My Recollections and Experiences of the Civil War, by Dr. Thomas Camden [available in the HCPD Library, call number ML-0232] 111 An Autobiography, by Arlof D. Gum 113 The Butcher Family of West Virginia, [from the H istory of West Virginia and Its People, by Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell, 1913] 118 Leading Creek Class Organized in 1893, submitted by Betty Robison [Class members and pastors listed. Unspecified church on Leading Creek, but names indicate a Methodist connection] 118 Popish Foviet Servant??, by Joy Stalnaker and Eric Curtis 119 Tecumseh’s Birthplace Still Hasn’t Been Settled [from T he Beacon Journal, May 30, 2000] 120 Williams’ Fourth Reunion, a poem by Cornelius Hurley Williams 122 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat May 14,1892] 125 Family Tree, a poem submitted by Lynn Demas 126 Roots, Branches, and Queries (22 queries including the following surnames): Arnold, Ashby, Ashcraft, Bartholow, Belt, Bennett, Binegar, Camp, Clark, Clinton, Coffman, Cosner, Cross, Cunningham, Davis, Delauder, Dennison, Dorsey, Flynchbough, Gardner, Greenwalt, Groves, Heavner, Hitzman, Holcomb, Hyre, Kirkpatrick, Kittle, Knotts, Lanham, Lawless, Lawson, Lowther, Marquis, McCarty, McHue, McClain, McGee, Moore, Morgan, Mowery, Mullinax, Myars/Myers, Nay, Petros, Phillips, Radabaugh, Rawlings, Reese, Reynolds, Rider, Ries, Riffle, Rinehart, Rohrbaugh, Rollins, Shackelford, Sharpless/Sharps, Shaver, Shrout, Slaughter, Smith, Stephenson, Stump, Tanner, Timmons, Townsend, Triplet, VanKirk, Wellen, Williams, Winemiller 132 HCPD Comes Through Again! , by Kimberlee Rothwell and Joan Williams 132 The “Redman” Depradations, submitted by Cara Plumb Miller 134 William G. Bennett (1775-1857) [from the H istory of West Virginia and Its People, by Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell, 1913] 138 Preserving Our Military History, by Joy Stalnaker 139 Old News from Philippi, by Diana Taylor 140 Learn Latin in One Easy Lesson, by Sara Patton 141 West’s Fort, [from V irginia Militia in the Revolutionary War, by J.T. McAllister, 1913], submitted by Joy Gilchrist Stalnaker 142 The Meeting at the Philippi Covered Bridge, submitted by Ada Lea Litz 143 There Are Some Things Money can’t Buy [based on an interview with Joy Stalnaker, and published in the C larksburg Exponent-Telegram, June 2000] 144 The Wallace Cemetery, by Robert Blankenship 145 Census Taker, author unknown [submitted by Dan Hyde and L. Needham] 146 The Unusual Will of Daniel Conrad [from B raxton Democrat, December 5, 1904], submitted by Cindy Kostka 147 Who Have Enrolled in the Medical School [List Donated by Mary Sleeth Creamer in memory of her father Clark Kendall Sleeth] * Index * You Know You’re Taking Genealogy Too seriously If…, submitted by Ann Carroll * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 18, Issue 4, 72 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information * Table of Contents and Contact Information 151 jots from joy, by Joy Stalnaker 152 Lewis County - Her People and Places, reviews submitted by satisfied members 153 Civil War Prisoners at Camp Chase, OH, by James Murphy [The Ohio Historical Society] 159 HCPD and Computers - “Like Having a Magic Carpet,” by Joan Hamman Williams 160 Sketches of Old - Charles E. Hodges [from the H istory of West Virginia and Its People, by Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell, 1913, page 240] 162 Family Competition 2000, by Mary Creamer 163 A Rainy Day on Glady Fork: A Sims, HInzman, Reeder Story, by Joy Stalnaker 168 Budget Report (October 1, 1999 - July 30, 2000) 170 The Ten+ Commandments for Names, submitted by Terry Howard 171 Jane Bennett’s Diary, submitted by unknown HCPD Member 176 Library Acquisitions [as of September 30, 2000] 184 J. Mary Webster Jackson, submitted by Jan Roach 187 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston [from W eston Democrat April 9,1892] 190 President McKinley Memorial Service, (Buckhannon, September 19, 1901, includes many West Virginia Wesleyan leaders) submitted by Don Shaub 190 Officers and Board Members 2000-2002 191 Roots, Branches, and Queries (17 queries including the following surnames): Armstrong, Bailey, Baker, Bartlett, Bennett, Brake, Butler, Childers, Christian, Davidson, Doyle, Duffey/Duffy, Evans, Gaines, Gobeli, Green, Hall, Harris, Hickman, Jarvis, Johnson, Karlen, Lake, Lance, Langford, Lovett, Lowther, Lynch, McCue, McKinley, McVaney, Mercer, Phillips, Reger, Reynolds, Rogers, Scarff, Simons, Sinclair/St. Clair, Stone, Straley, Tucker, Tunney, Warner, Wyant 196 In Memoriam, Gwen Finlayson Reger Obituary 197 Some Lewis County Revolutionary War Claims, [abstracted from Lewis County Record Book 1832-1837 by David Armstrong] 202 In Memoriam, Rita Mae Law (1931-2000) Obituary 203 Yes, Virginia...there is a Santa Claus 204 Unusual Grave, submitted by Penny Thomas 204 John and Margaret Hacker Award Winners [Maurice Allman, May Straley White] * Index * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

2000-01

Vol. 19, Issue 1, 72 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information * Table of Contents and Contact Information 1 Jots From Joy 2 His Great Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Judith McWorter Goodwin 7 Will of Daniel Conrad, submitted by Cindy Either-Kostka 8 15th WV Infantry Officer’s Civil War Medal Presented to HCPD Member, by Linda Cunningham Fluharty 8 Civil War Information Needed for Internet Projects, by Linda Cunningham Fluharty 10 Family Reunions (Dennison/Stump), submitted by Marlene Kaltenbacch and Lela Bonner 11 My WV Visit Very Rewarding, by Dick Ross 12 Elizabeth “Eliza” Jackson, by Linda Brake Meyers 14 I Wonder If I’m Really Me?, submitted by Lyn Dimis, author unknown 15 Depositions Describing George Jackson’s Participation in George Rogers Clark Expedition, transcribed and submitted by Nancy A. Jackson 18 A User’s Guide to HCPD-L, by Don Schaub 21 Mary Creamer’s Mother Passes Away, by Mary Creamer 21 Marguerite Lawson Kellar Obituary 22 Early Recollections of the Town of Weston, from the April 1892 W eston Democrat 25 More on Jane Bennett’s Diary 26 Roots, Branches and Leaves, Queries Submitted by HCPD Members - 22 questions including the following surnames:Applegate, Barbe/Barb, Brannon, Cool, Devanney, Duke. Fitzpatrick, Hickman,Hinkle, Houghton, Hughes, McCarty, McDaniel, Merrit, Pritt, Robinson, Schwartz, Smith, Snider, Swartz, Weaver, and allied families. 32 Passings ● Sam Riffle (1921-2000) ● Scott Wyant 33 School Rosters and Visitors Lists, submitted by Rosie Sheets ● Sandy Point (1879) ● Locust Grove (1880) 36 Sketches of Old, by Cecil Omar Post, M.D. 37 West Virginia Military Research Resources 44 Shirley’s Steinbeck Family Writings, by Shirley Toohey 51 Obituary of Charter Member Lawrence D. Jenkins 52 HCPD Library Gets a Facelift * Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Vol. 19, Issue 2, 68 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information * Table of Contents and Contact Information 53 Jots From Joy 54 Early Settlers of Crooked Run, by Nancy Rohr 56 Maurice Allman Receives History Day Award, submitted by Joy Stalnaker 57 Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, He-Mene-Ka-Wan, by Judith McWhorter Goodwin 58 John Smith Hood, The Early Years, by John J. Hood 69 Our Forefathers, by Ethyl Flickinger Ansbach, submitted by her granddaughter Linda Meyers 70 Eunice Conrad of Gilmer County, submitted by Don Cyr 72 Rosamund Ball Passes Away, submitted by Linda Kaufmann 73 Shirley’s Steinbeck Family Writings [Part 2], by Shirley Toohey 82 MargueriteLawson Kellar Dies, submitted by Joy Stalnaker 82 A Substitute for the 1890 Census, submitted by Gloria Husk 83 Sketches of Old, Harry E. Flesher (from H istory of West Virginia Old and New, Vol.1I) 84 Long Time HCPD Member Gordon J. Straley Dies at 82, submitted by Carol Straley Trimmer 85 HCPD Contributor Earl Byrd Crosses the Bar, by Joy Stalnaker 86 Roots, Branches and Leaves, queries submitted by HCPD members - 9 questions including the following surnames: Bise (Bice/Boice/Buys/Boyce) ,Cooper, Richmond, Schoolcraft, Stout 89 Harrison County Genealogical Society Plans October D.C. Trip 90 Savannah’s Story, compiled by Donna Moon 101 Library Acquisitions 102 Who Have Enrolled in the Medical School ( West Virginia University Medical School from 1902-1962), submitted by Mary Sleeth Creamer * Index * John Sleeth’s Trading Post: Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Vol. 19, Issue 3, 68 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information 105 Table of Contents and Contact Information 106 Jots from Joy, by Sharon Viellenave & Rosie Sheets 107 Genealogy Genius: Hints, Tips, and Brilliant Flashes of Genius 110 My Grandmother’s Era, the Story of Frankie Louise “Dollie” Steinbeck, Part 1, by Shirley Toohey 116 Who Have Enrolled in the Medical School, final edition, by Mary Sleeth Creamer 123 Authentic West Virginia Recipes, by Sharon Viellenave 125 The Bennet-Townsend Connection, by Abby Skidmore 128 Personal Reminiscences of the Civil War, Chapter, by Captain David Poe, Buckhannon, Upshur County, W.Va. Chapter 1 129 Sketches of Old: Edwin Maxwell, by James Mortan Callahan; submitted by Linda Meyers, 1923 131 Press Release, June 6, 2001, Maurice Allman: West Virginia History Hero 132 Thomas West of Clay County, WV, His Origins, by Kent West 139 Extra Extra, Just Passing Through Hacker’s Creek, submitted by Paul Pettit 140 Remembering Those Who Have Gone Before Us ● Lena Virginia Bennett (1913-2001) ● Leonard Franklin Ocheltree (1915-2001) ● Junior Ray Forinash (1928-2001) ● Edra Winemiller (1909-2001) ● Anna Lee “Dolly” Hacker (1921-2001) ● Ural Guy Strader (1904-2001) ● Elaine l. Moneypenny Stalnaker (1938-2001) ● Austin R. Helmick (1919-2001) ● Roger Wayne Strader (1968-2000) 141 Library Acquisitions 145 Reminiscences of Early Life in Calhoun County, Part 1, submitted by Melba Starcher 147 Most Wanted, Queries - 12 questions including the following surnames:Brouwer, Herbert, Hinkle, McDaniel, Matheny, Riffle, Rohr, Steort/Storts/Stotts/Steortz,/Stortze/Staats), Walker, and allied families. 152 Index * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Vol. 19, Issue 4, 70 pages 157 Table of Contents and Contact Information 158 Jots From Joy 159 Making Apple Butter is a Group Effort at Hacker’s Creek, photos by Maurice Allman 160 Genealogy Genius” Searching Your Family Tree on the Internet, by Sharon Villenave 163 Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Sources. Submitted by members of HCPD, edited by Rosie Sheets 166 Love of Home Place, taken from Mountain Heritage, p.209 by Betty P. Crickard 167 In Memory of Those Who Lost Their Lives on September 11, 2001 168 Two Thousand One, Nine Eleven (poem, author unknown) 171 Home Remedies, submitted by Linda Archie 172 Grandma and the Family Tree (poem, author unknown) 173 Personal Reminiscences of the Civil War, Chapter 2, by Captain David Poe 175 Spaur Battle Flag, submitted by Jerry Spaur 180 West Virginia Recipes, submitted by Linda B Meyers and katie Williams 181 Adults’ Corner: Interesting Facts of West Virginia 180 Reminiscences of Early Life in Calhoun County, Part 2, submitted by Melba Starcher 185 Sketches of Old, (George A. Herold and John Wolf of Northwestern Virginia) from History of West Virginia Old and New, p .24,by James Morton Callahan 195 Descendants of Jacob Jay Jackson, submitted by Nancy A. Jackson, Ph.D. 207 Obituaries ● Elizabeth Eileen Degruyter Turner (1914-2001) ● Mark Ross (15 year old cousin of Theresa Walker Comer) ● Jane Elizabeth Palmer (1913-2001) ● James Sherrill Blake ● Orian A. Post (1921-2001) ● James W. “Jim” Brake (1910-2001) 208 Hackers Creek Most Wanted - questions including the following surnames: Carr, Nielsen, Powers, Radcliff, Richards, Riffle, Sisk, Stout, Walton, White, and allied families. 212 Index * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale

2001-02

Vol. 20, Issue 1, 76 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information 1 Table of Contents and Contact Information 2 Jots From Joy 4 The Fictional Genealogist 6 Sketches of Old: Edwin Maxwell, by James Morton Callahan in History of West Virginia Old and New. Submitted by Linda Meyers 8 Descendants of Levi Maxwell, submitted by Patricia Viellenave 12 Personal Reminiscences of the Civil War, Chapter 3; by Captain David Poe, Buckhannon, Upshur County, W.Va. 15 Acquisitions 16 Hacker’s Creek Most Wanted - 11 questions including the following surnames: Carpenter, Crites, Haymond, Hughes, McCarty, Newton, Queen, Riffle, Smith, Snider, and allied families. Note: There are no pages 17-20 in this issue due to a computer error. No data is missing. Index appears to be correct. Sorry for any inconvenience (Staff)

24 John Wolf Story, Part 2, 31 West Virginians Who Have Died In the Akron, Ohio Area, by Judi Spencer and Condensed by Rosie Sheets. 36 Authentic West Virginia Recipes 37 Lillie O’Brien Arnold Dead (1865-1909) 38 Looking to the Past, by Sharon Viellenave 39 Memories, by Addie Hickman, 2001 40 Harman Blennerhassett 1764-1831, Part 1 (From The West Virginia Review, April 1935 45 Death notices. Orbie Swisher, Orval Long, Harriet Thayer Sexton 46 Recently Acquired Bookshelf Shelf Review, submitted by Barbara Palmer 48 Nettie Gregory Said 49 More Abstracts From Newspapers: 5 September 1890 edition of The Busy Bee 50 Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files Volume 1: A-E, Abstracted by Virgil D. White 57 Index * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Vol. 20, Issue 2, 79 pages 1 Table of Contents, Publication, and Contact Information 2 Jots from Joy 3 Hartzel Guy Strader (1930-2002) 5 Thanks for the Memories: O ne Joy and Some Fun for HCPD - but Not for Ed, by Maurice Allman 6 Thanks for the Memories: S chool Days or Was It Fool Days?, by Raymond Ware 7 Hats Off to HCPD Gathering 2002: Information about August 8-11, 2002 event 11 Where In the World Was Powers Fort?, by Barbara Palmer 20 Tom Keenan, New Board Member 21 From the Mailbox - Jane Bennett’s Diary 23 Guidelines for Genealogical Self-Improvement and Growth from National Genealogical Society 24 Hints for Researching at HCPD Library, by Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker 25 Bits & Pieces 26 John Hacker of the Virginia Militia, by Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker 32 Monongalia County Petition - 12 Nov 1782, submitted by David Armstrong 34 Library Acquisitions 38 Timeline of Early Events Shaping Lewis County, WV 1763-1840, compiled by Joy Stalnaker 41 The Draft in Marion County (Transcribed from the W heeling Intelligencer, March 24, 1865) 43 The Draft in Barbour County (Transcribed from the W heeling Intelligencer, March 25, 1865) 46 Rexrode to America, by William A. Rexroad 47 New Webster Cemetery Book Available 48 Serendipity, by Wiliam J. McKinney 52 History of the Hall Family: Prepared and read at the Hall reunion at Valley Chapel, WV August 1932 56 Hartel Strader Remembered by Rena Forinash 57 My Brick Wall by Gloria Jean (Powers) Husk 59 Queries - 8 questions including the following surnames: Crislip/Chrislip, Davis, Duffield, Hoover, Jackson, Mitchell, Riffle, Sims, Skinner, Wilcox, and allied families. 64 Index

Vol. 20, Issues 3 & 4, 92 pages * Hacker’sCreek Pioneer Descendants Board and Membership Information * Publication and Contact Information 4 Jots from Joy 5 Prose from the Prez, by Mary Sleeth Creamer 6 Esther Freeman (1919-2002) 8 Hacker’s Creek Happenings 13 Cemeteries 101: An Overview of Tools and Techniques for Basic Cemetery Rehabilitation, by Joanna Wilson 16 Library Acquisitions 18 Genealogical Dictionary - Compiled by Doris Roney Bowers and submitted to us by Dennis Rodgers 24 Harrison County, (West) Virginia, Court Record Abstracts 25 Guidelines for Genealogical Self-Improvement and Growth: Recommended by the National Genealogical Society 26 Obituaries from The Methodist Protestant, April 17, 1929 ● Francis M. Lynch (1842-1929) ● Jacob H. Richmond (1843-1929) 27 Church at Annual Gathering 2002 (Broad Run Baptist Church) 28 The Sherrifs of Lewis County -- 1817-2000 29 Lewis County Clerks of the Circuit Court (1817-2002) 30 Notes on West Virginia 4-Hers and Jackson’s Mill, by Maurice L. Allman 33 The Royal We, by Steve Olson 37 Westward to Oregon: The Story of Catherine Bonnett Butts of Lewis County, by Carla Ridenour 42 West Virginians Who Have Died in the Akron, Ohio Area 47 Random Sampling from Lewis County Court Record Book 1832-1837, compiled by John Peters 52 HCPD Gift Policy, by Joy Stalnaker, Executive Director 53 The Color Purple and Red Hats, by Raymond Ware 54 David J. Jackson, by Nancy A. Jackson 60 Computing Birth Date from Tombstone Data 61 Patriotism in Lewis County, submitted by Dick DePriest 62 From Revolutionary War Pension Records, Volume 1, Part 2: Filed in West Virginia Archives and History Library 64 Queries - 13 questions including the following surnames: Clarkson, Harris, Howe, Kelley, Kuykendall, Lewis, McQuiston, Myers, Nay, Osborne, Pasons, Pritt, Richards, Schoolcraft, West, Woomer/Womer 68 Photo of Raydine Westfall Teicheira being presented with the Margaret Hacker Award by Joy Stalnaker. 69 Index * John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

2002-03

Vol. 21, Issue 1, 60 pages * Publication and Contact Information and Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 Jots from Joy, by Joy Stalnaker, HCPD Executive Director 5 News & Notes (Computer Available, History Day 2003, Don Norman Files) 6 Prose from the President, by Mary Creamer 7 Notes on the Irish Origin of the Moneypenny & Kenny Families of West Virginia, by David Armstrong 11 Sam Bennett: Gilmer County Pioneer, by Billy Bennett, 1941 14 More Jackson’s Mill Memories, by Maurice L. Allman 16 Descendants of William Lowther Jackson, by Nancy A. Jackson & Linda B. Meyers 29 Rev. (Isaac A.) Barnes will Celebrate 84th Birthday 30 Retirement of Veteran Railroad Conductor Recalls Interesting Facts of Earlier Railroad Days, by Gilbert J. Hersman. As published in T he Clarksburg Telegram, June 17, 1924 33 From Revolutionary War Pension Records as Filed in West Virginia Archives and History Library. From Volume 1, Part 2. [[Henry McWhorter, John Middleton] 35 From Revolutionary War Pension Records as Filed in West Virginia Archives and History Library. From Volume 4, Part 2. [Col. William Lowther] 37 HCPD Happenings 38 Genealogy Queries - 15 questions including the following surnames: Barrett, Bennett, Bowser, Bragg, Bryant, Clarkson, Cunningham, Dye, Eskew, Ferrell, Fitzpatrick, Jones, Lyons, McNemar, Stackhouse, Stiles, Womer, and allied families. 42 Lists of Books for Sale at HCPD 51 Index * Membership in HCPD

Vol. 21, Issue 2, 62 pages * Publication and Contact Information and Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 1 Jots from Joy, by Joy Stalnaker, HCPD Executive Director 2 News & Notes 4 Personal Experience Tracing Family Roots, by Donald W. Schaub 5 Writing the Story of Your Life, by Donald W. Schaub 12 Getting Organized to Write Your Family History, by Donald W. Schaub, 2002 13 An Understanding of Hell on Earth During WWII, by Ruth Bush Highland 17 West Virginians Who Have Died In the Akron, OH, Area 18 New Information: Obtaining a Military Grave Marker, by Ruth Bush Highland 20 John McCally of Harrison County, Virginia, by Thomas A. Wolf 26 James Brown: Revolutionary War Patriot, by David Armstrong 35 Letters Written by Edmund Dennison & Other Family Members 40 Genealogy Queries - 12 questions including the following surnames: Barrett, Britton, Burkhammer, Cox, Cutright, Fisher, Hart, Haymond, Hedrick, McCauley, McEwuen, Peterson, Sandy, Smith, Weatherholt, Westfall, and allied families 43 John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Index * Membership in HCPD

Vol. 21, Issue 3, 54 pages * Publication and Contact Information and Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 2 Jots from Joy, by Joy Stalnaker, HCPD Executive Director 4 Prose from the President, by Mary Creamer 5 Col. Edward Jackson, Revolutionary Soldier: An Address on the Occasion of Dedication of Revolutionary War Tombstone May 31, 2003, by his descendant, Dr. Nancy A. Jackson 7 Scraps From Long Ago: Excerpts from Scrapbook of Reva Winemiller Bennett 8 Unclaimed West Virginia Civil War Union Medals 11 Personal Property Tax Lists on Microfilm at State Library, written by Christine M. Kreiser, reprinted from W est Virginia Archives and History News, July 1993 14 More on Bataan, submitted by Ruth Highland 15 The Akron,Ohio Area (West Virginians who have died there) 21 Ralph B. Hinzman (1911-2003) 22 Jesse Hughes’ Dauntless Daughter, by Major Lee R Gandee.Reprint from 9 January 1958, T imes Record, S pencer, WV. Submitted by Rosemary Peterson 24 John & Phebe Armoncast Rexrode, by William D. Rexroad, their ggg grandson 30 George Hardman I: Ancestors and Descendants, by Edna Sharon Hardman West 32 Governor Atkinson’s Wife to Face Possible Indictment, by Barbara P. Palmer, as published in the C larksburg Telegram, October 02 1897 34 Letter to Mark Hersman, April the 6th, 1855 35 Genealogy Queries - 12 questions including the following surnames: Bailey, Cain, Cheuvront, Hayes, McQueen, Queen, Reynolds,Smith, Vance, Wilson, Wine/Wyne, and allied families. 39 John Sleeth’s Trading Post - Publications and Materials for Sale * Index * Hackers Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Vol. 21, Issue 4; Vol.22, Issue 1, 98 pages * Publication and Contact Information and Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 2 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 3 Prose from the President, by Mary Creamer 4 Jots from Joy, by Joy Stalnaker 5 From the Mailbox 8 Library Acquisitions 10 Departed Loved Ones ● Harold Price ● Carl Burns Lough ● Billy Joe Nakvinda ● Rexall Ford ● Virginia Aylor Wood ● Grace Fornash ● Odis Harris Bailey ● Letha Butcher ● Hiram Lynch, III (1904-2003) ● Verlin Lewis “Mike” Moore ● Carl Curtis ● Fred William Fest (1924-2004) ● Marion McCay ● Harold Arnett Smith (1916-2004) ● Katherine Washburn Whiting (1912-2004) ● Lloyd Calvin Haggerty (1924-2004) ● Steve Yakupcak (1920-2004)

13 Cary L. Williams Named History Hero 14 Avondale & Jockey Camp, Doddridge County, WV, by Pat Pulasky 33 William Lowther Jackson Had Only One Wife (Update on story from HCJ, Vol. 21, Issue 1), by Linda B. Myers 33 William A. Watson: The First Mayor of Roanoke, WV, by Mike Gould 34 The Past and Future Side by Side, by Christy Dunovant 36 Photos from the 2003 Gathering 37 “Ottoway”, by James E. McEwuen 39 The Monongah Mine Explosion (from T he Washington Penna, Reporter; Friday Evening, December 5, 1907) 44 Photograph of Grass Run School, Lewis County. Includes Goff Bush, Nick Winemiller, Lane Bush, Maggie Bush, Kate Bush, Vasco Bonnett, and Ellis Smith (Teacher). 45 Just Noticing: A Tribute to Arlice Rose, by Elizabeth Vance 46 White Cemetery Located 47 Valley Forge Winter Encampment: December 19, 1777-June 19, 1778, by Ethel E. Nielsen. 50 Clarksburg in the Civil War Days: Address by Judge Haymond Maxwell, May 18, 1950 54 Standards for Sharing Information with Others - Recommended by the National Genealogical Society 55 My Grandmother, Caroline Hipchen Saas (1877-1966), by Thomas P. Keenan 60 Clarksburg - Weston Streetcar (The Monongahela-West Penn Traction System), by Jim Stout 62 West Virginia State Policemen Killed in the Line of Duty, by Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker 63 Relaxing and Flattening Paper by Humidification, by Marion Reed 65 Dennison/Dennisson Reunion Held, by Marlene McCutcheon Kaltenbach 65 Two Markers Uprighted at Hinzman Hill Cemetery 66 Tetrick Dies at Age 73, Ill Two Years Clarksburg Businessman Served Public for Many Years (from C larksburg, WV Telegram. J uly 16, 1956 67 Food for Thought: What Becomes of Your Family History?, by Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker 69 The Book of Common Prayer, by Virginia Rahal 71 West Virginia Military Research Resources (available at the West Virginia Department of Archives and History, The Culture Center, Charleston, WV) 77 Joseph C. Hood & Lucy White, contributed by Linda Brake Meyers 78 The Tenneys, by George Painter 81 Genealogy Queries - 12 questions including the following surnames: Armstrong, Auvil, Bosch, Dean, Elliott, Lein, Mathews/Matthews, Morrison, Poling, Schwab/Swab/Swope, Sullivan, and allied families. 84 Index

2003-04

Vol. 22, Issue 2, 56 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 2 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 3 From the Mailbox ● Bette Butcher Topp (Genealogists and Societies) ● Charles Warner Whits (1924-2004) 7 World War II Poster 8 World War Two Timeline 11 Military History of Stewart Gravatt Hall as Told to Dr. Daniel C. Hyde. Compiled May 1992 with Additions March 1996 28 Rationing in WW2, by Joy Stalnaker 33 The George Everett Rowan and Emma May Tenney Family of Upshur County, West Virginia, by George Painter 45 Genealogy Queries: 5 questions including the following surnames: Corathers, Donaldson, Gaston, Hood, Riffle, Vanmeter, and allied families 49 Index

Vol. 22, Issue 3, 62 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Annual Meeting, Saturday, August 4, 2004 7 From the Mailbox ● Nancy Malcomb (Dad Was a Mail Carrier) ● Leslie Ratliff (Ratliff Dead End) ● Linda B. Meyers (Prisoner of Nazis) 11 Back to Basics: Techniques for Beginning and Organizing Your Family History, by Betty L. Warren. 10 The Case of Documenting Yourself, by Jeff Scism, Submitted by Betty Butcher Toppe 21 Bishop Francis Asbury (from famousamericans.com) 23 Getting to Clarksburg in 1788 (Excerpts from Bishop Francis Asbury’s Journal) 26 Souvenir (Title of a Christmas Greeting dated 1906, Submitted by Rosie Sheets) 27 The House You Build, author unknown 28 Finding James Etsel Long, by Marion Reed Reed 32 The Korean War and the Life of a “Navy Gal”, by Ruth Bush-Highland and Reydine Davisson Westfall-Teicheira 29 May & Charles White Challenge 42 Genealogy Queries: ● 17 questions including the following surnames: Alexander, Burnside(s), Cunningham, Fleming/Flemming, Flynchbough, Gaston, Haggle, Hood, Horner, Magill, Riffle, Smith, Vanmeter, Walker, White, Winemiller, and allied families 48 Index

Vol. 22, Issue 4, 54 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Richard D. Pyle (1939-2004) 5 Prose from the Prez, by Mary Creamer 6 Early Marriage Laws in Virginia/West Virginia, by Susan Scouras 10 Charles Herbert Dennison (1929-2004) 11 Thornton Fleming Ferrell and mary Emily Knight, by Linn Baiker 15 Teacher’s Daily Register of the Sandy Point School for the Month of January 1905 17 From the Mailbox 17 Uncle Artie’s (Artie Davis) Ghost Story, submitted by Leonard Davis 20 Uncle Amos (Amos Davis) Tells About Pleasant Hill Church, by Leonard Davis 22 “Wild Sweet Notes” Book Features West Virginia Poets, by Norman ulian for the Dominion-Post, Morgantown, WV - August 6, 2000 24 “The Washington Merry-Go-Round”, by Drew Pearson (Printed in the Morgantown Post in 1954 - exact date unknown 27 Central West Virginia Veterans Project 30 A Refresher Course in Asking the Right Question and More (Previously published in West Virginia Archives and History News, Volume 6, No. 1, January 2005, a publication of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History 31 Patricia B. Crouch (1939-2005) 32 Jane Lew Music Recital 1915, Submitted by Linn Baiker 33 A Dying Art (from the Dominion-Post - date unknown - sometime in the past 4 or 5 years) 35 Tommy Gave His All. Tommy Byrd (1981-2004) was killed in Al Anbar Province, near Fallujah, Iraq. 36 Library Acquisitions 42 Genealogy Queries: 9 questions including the following surnames: Fisher/Fischer, Hacker, Hard(t)man, Parsons, Queen, Raines, Staats, Swisher/Switzer, Vanhorn, Wall, and allied families 46 Index

2004-05

Vol. 23, Issue 1, 58 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Prose from the Prex, by Mary Creamer 6 Guidelines for Writing for the Hacker’s Creek Journal 7 Interim Report on George Collins (b. 1760-65, d. 1840-50) Part One. educated to the Memory of Mrs. Clerissa Tatterson of Pittsburgh, PA, by John J. Hood 15 Black History in Lewis County, by Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker 18 Understanding Their Times: Our Ancestors’ Everyday Lives, by Don Moore 20 Fruit Raids, Copperheads and Moonshine: Memories of Growing Up in Braxton County, Part One, by David D. “Lane” Malcomb. Submitted by his daughter, Nancy Malcomb 30 Ode to a Pioneer, by Paul Pettit (For Patty, Christmas 2004) 32 Reunions ● Descendants of Peter F. Cork Reunion - July 30, Doddridge County Park ● Stalnaker - July 10, 2005, Camp Pioneer ● Rohrbough Reunion - June 26, Dodge Park in Beverly Ohio ● Loyd/Lloyd - June 5, 2005 at Holly Gray Park near Flatwoods in Braxton County ● Sims Family Reunion - August 7, 2005, Picnic shelter beside Mitchell Cemetery at Stonewall Jackson Lake 35 Descendants of Solomon B. Townsend, by Don Norman 42 W.Va. Waters Owned By All, by Martha Bryson Hodel (printed in T he Dominion-Post, Morgantown, WV, January 21, 2001) 46 Genealogy Queries - 7 questions including the following surnames: Bennett, Cavins, Stalnaker, Stout, Tenney, Wier, Wines, and allied families. 48 Index

Vol. 23, Issue 2, 58 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Prose from the Prez, by Mary Creamer 5 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants West Virginia History Hero Nomination for 2005: Randall and Betty Ann Nicholson 6 HCPD’s Archival Collections, by Joy L. Stalnaker 8 James J. Strong (1922-2005) 8 The Plundered Bible: A Civil War Story as told by Mollie Steinbeck to her grandson, Frederick Robert Hawk, Weston,WV May 27, 1938 9 Hammond-Davis Ancestors Who Were Ministers or Church Leaders in Harrison County, West Virginia, by E. Ethel (Hammond) Nielsen ● Rev. John Gerrard (1720-1787) ● James Scarff Griffin (1799-1867) ● Rev. Joseph A. Hammond (1851-1911) ● John Wade Loofbourrow (1746-1824) ● Rev. John Corbly (1732-1803) ● Sgt. William Davis (abt 1746-abt 1800) 13 Interim Report on George Collins (b. 1760-65, d. 1840-50) Part Two” Descendants of John Malcolm, by John J. Hood 23 Fruit Raids, Copperheads and Moonshine Memories of Growing Up in Braxton County, Part Two, by David D. “Lane” Malcomb, submitted by his daughter, Nancy Malcomb 43 Genealogy Queries: ● 7 questions including the following surnames: Bennet, Cole, Garner, Grim, Wines, and allied families 46 Index

Vol. 23, Issue 3, 60 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 2 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 3 Prose from the Prez, by Mary Creamer ● Joy Stalnaker Presents John Hacker Award (2005) to Joyce Chambers ● Joy Stalnaker Presents Margaret Hacker Award (2005) to Mary Creamer 5 From the Mailbox 7 High Way History: Marking Our Past, submitted by Paul Pettit with assistance from Joe Geiger of the West Virginia State Archives 10 Cemetery Access in West Virginia (West Virginia Code) 12 Library Acquisitions 14 Fruit Raids, Copperheads and Moonshine: Memories of Growing Up in Braxton County, Part Three, by David D. “Lane” Malcomb, submitted by his daughter, Nancy Malcomb 21 Life Member Doris Jean Post Poinsett Dies (1928-2005) 23 Accounts of Trips Made in 1823, 1833, 1835 from Trumbull County, Boardman Twp (Later Mahoning Co.) to Virginia, Preston County, “New Germany” (later West Va. Preston Co., Aurora), by David Simon. Translated from German by Mrs. Ralph Simon, Youngstown Ohio) 1972. Introduction & Part 1. 29 The Mystery of Jacob S. Bennett, by Ralph P. Bennett 35 Christine Hall Jackson White (1910-2005) 36 Clarence W. Poling, submitted by Linda Brake Meyers 38 Genealogy Queries: ● 26 questions including the following surnames: Bell, Bennett, Boggs, Bonnett, Boram, Cross, Davi, Dotson, Gray, Harris, Hoover, Hosaflook, Lorentz, Malcomb, Mathis/Mathews, McCay, Romine, Schoolcraft, Smallwood, Steorts/Storts,Tenney, Walker, Walton, Wilson, Wright 49 Index

Volume 23, Issue 4, 56 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 From the Mailbox (Letter from John F. Dorman, editor of The Virginia Genealogist) 5 Granite Marker for Henry Flesher 6 Big Jake: Jacob D. Marple, His Parents, His Wives and the Mother of His Children, by Linda Brake Myers 22 Revolutionary Soldiers in the Hammond-Davis Ancestor File plus 2 of the early Governors of Massachusetts in the 1600’s, by Ethel Nielson 33 A Reminder - Central West Virginia Veterans Book 34 The Spanish American War, by Bette Butcher Topp (Includes the Roster of the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry) 38 Wanted: Queries & Articles 39 Accounts of Trips Made in 1823, 1833, 1835 from Trumbull County, Boardman Twp (Later Mahoning Co.) to Virginia, Preston County, “New Germany” (later West Va. Preston Co., Aurora), by David Simon. Translated from German by Mrs. Ralph Simon, Youngstown Ohio) 1972. Introduction & Part 2. (Continued from Volume 23, Issue 3, page 23) 43 Genealogy Queries (5 queries including the following surnames): Argabright, Barker, Bartlett, Bennett, Brown, Burrell, Butcher, Carpenter, Cather, Conrad, Fifer, Fisher, Greathouse, Hackett, Hardman, Henry, Mann, McDonald, Phillips, Powers, Ratliff, Robertson, Robinson, Smith, Stalnaker, Steorts/Storts, Stratton * Index

2005-06

Volume 24, Issue 1, 58 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board * Publication and Contact Information 1 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 2 Old & New Stories (letters from Charlotte Fleming and John Arnold) 3 Early History, Reminiscences of Early Settlers in and Around Weston [Taken from Saturday, Maya 24, 1884 Issue of the W eston Democrat] (Includes surnames: Flesher, Butcher, Tierney, McGary, Hughes, Cox, Staats, Casey, Waggoner, Jackson, Hacker, Bonnet, Bozarth, Pringle, Cutright, Bush, Maxwell, Freeman, Camden) 6 Early Buckhannon: The Elizabeth Wilson Stump Family, A Preliminary Report (by David Armstrong based on research as of May 2004) Includes surnames: Santmyer, Stump, Wilson, Rice, Chamberlain, Wilson, Mullady, Woolson, Jackson, Fink, Dorman, Green, Waggoner, Weatherholt, Couchman, Reed, Handley, Owens, Kirkland, Welty, Caddell, Zorn, Dasher, Horse, Russell, Wood, Thorn, Ratliff, Trace, Heath, Petty, Harness, House) 12 HCPDers Have Big Hearts 13 Lewis County Connections and a World War II Love Story, by Diane Hill Zimmerman (continued from Volume 24, Issue 4) 19 Picture from Awhile Ago 20 Linger Family (Original, unedited typed as written by Ella Linger Clark) 24 Men in Gray: Confederate Soldiers of Central WV, by Ralph Bennett 33 New Sign for Historic Allman Cemetery, by Maurice Allman 35 Your Queries & Stories are Needed 36 Diversity in Colonial West Virginia: The Leading Creek Massacre as a Model of the American Melting Pot, by David Armstrong 39 From the Online Genealogist,submitted by Ruth Highland 40 Genealogy Queries (10 Queries, including the following surnames:) Asbury, Barkley, Bartlett, Capito, Carroll, Cochran, Conrad, Davis, Dennison, Fisher, Givins, Glaze, Groves, Herderberg, Hudkins, Ingram, Kelley, Lauch/Lauck, McFee, Mealy, Means, Merchant, Peck, Penninger, Powell, Prunty, Ramsay/Ramsey, Riffle, Shrout, Stewart, Stratton, Summers, Thomas, Walton, Wellen, Wilson, Wright *Index

Volume 24, Issue 2, 52 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 1 Prose from the Prez, by Mary Creamer 2 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 3 From the Mailbox (Letter from Kim Moreno) 4 Save Space by Converting Precious Memories (Courtesy of ARA Content and the Lion Magazine, February 2006) 6 James Romine of Harrison County: Deed Reveals James Romine’s Descendants, by Linda B. Meyers 15 Library Acquisitions, new as of November 7, 2005 18 Reynolds/Rohr Reunion 18 Annual Sleeth Reunion 18 Bott-Hinzman Reunion 19 Lewis County Connections and a World War II Love Story, by Diane Hill Zimmerman (continued from Volume 24, Issue 1, page 13) 22 History Hero (Mary Sleeth Creamer) 22 Sims Reunion 23 133rd Regiment, Virginia Militia, by Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker 27 Ramsey Reunion 27 Charity Coon Hinzman, by Mo Braum and Joy Stalnaker with considerable input from other Coon-Hinzman researchers 37 Jackson Reunion 38 Genealogy Queries (7 Queries, including the following surnames:) Barkalow, Britton, Bush/Busch, Casto, Cavins, Clark, Cosner, Countryman, Givens, Glaze, Henry, Hinzman, Hoff, Johnson, Means, Powell, Reynolds, Schoolcraft, Smith, Snarr, Snodgrass, Stewart, Stout, Swann, Swisher, Wagner *Index

Volume 24, Issue 3, 56 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board * Membership in HCPD 1 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 2 From the Mailbox (West Virginia. Almost Heaven?, written by Nancy Malcomb from a lengthy discussion on the HCPD-L) 6 Question of Identity: Carr Bailey’s Father Unmasked, by Joan W. Peters, C.G. 17 Lewis County Connections and a World War II Love Story, by Diane Hill Zimmerman (continued from Volume 24, Issue 2, page 19) 25 1785 Harrison County, Virginia Tithables 30 Thomas Bartlett c1703-1783 of Richmond County, VA 31 Joseph Hammond (from A Reminiscent History of Northern West Virginia, 1895, submitted by E. Ethel Hammond Nielsen) 37 Genealogy Queries (5 Queries, including the following surnames:) Brown, Dotson/Dodson, Keller, Hurst, Neff, Powers, Snider, Wells, Wiant/Wyant 39 Chronology of Stalnaker Family To Be Updated *Index

Volume 24, Issue 4, 62 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 1 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 2 From the Mailbox (Letter from Joan in Colorado) 3 A Search Angel Story, Fox Chase, by Eva Newlon 5 Library Acquisitions new as of July 1, 2006 7 Minutes, 25th Annual Gathering, submitted by Eva Newlon, Secretary 9 Swisher Family History To be Published 10 Doddridge County Cemeteries 11 What Happens to Your Genealogy After You Are Gone?, by Bette Butcher Topp 13 West Virginia Humor 14 Genealogical Codicil to Your Will 15 How We Got Started Digging in the Past (responses from HCPD-L) 19 Lewis County Connections and a World War II Love Story, by Diane Hill Zimmerman (continued from Volume 24, Issue 3, page 17) 30 Thomas Bartlett c1703-1783 of Richmond County, VA (Continued from Volume 24, Issue 3, page 30) 35 HCPD & Federation of Genealogical Societies name Lolita Thayer Guthrie As Award Winner 37 Delayed Obituary, Betty Lou Marsh 38 Randall Nicholson, John Hacker Award Winner 29 Genealogy Queries ( 8 Queries, including the following surnames:) Bennett, Brisley, Butcher, Canfield, Davis, Fast, Fitzpatrick, Forinash, Henry, Glaze, Kunst, Lester, Means, Miller, Myres, Scott, Stalnaker, Storts/Steorts, VanGilder, Wery, Westfall, * Index * Membership in HCPD

2006-07

Volume 25, Issue 1, 60 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board * Publication and Contact Information 1 From the Desk of the Director,by Betty Ann Nicholson 2 Search Angel Stories (from Charlotte Fleming and John Arnold) 3 Early Recollections of the Early Settlers In and Around Weston, by Noah Flesher [from Weston Democrat May 24, 1884] (Surnames include: Bonnett, Bozarth, Brake, Bush, Butcher, Camden, Cox, Cutright, Flesher, Freeman, Hacker, Hughes, Jackson, Maxwell, Pringle, Staats, Tierney, Waggoner) 6 Early Buckhannon: The Elizabeth Wilson Stump Family - A Preliminary Report, by David Armstrong (Based on continuing research as of May 2004) 12 HCPDers Have Big Hearts 13 Lewis County Connections and a World War II Love Story, by Diane Hill Zimmerman (continued from Volume 24, Issue 4, page 19) 19 Picture from Awhile Ago 20 Linger Family, by Ella Linger Clark (Original, unedited typed as written) 24 Men in Gray: Confederate Soldiers of Central West Virginia, by Ralph Bennett 33 New Sign for HIstoric Allman Cemetery, by Maurice Allman 35 Your Queries & Stories are Needed 36 Diversity in Colonial West Virginia: The Leading Creek Massacre as a Model of the American Melting Pot, by David Armstrong 39 From the Online Genealogist, submitted by Ruth Highland 40 Genealogy Queries: 26 questions including the following surnames: Asbury, Barkley, Bartlett, Brohard, Capito, Carroll, Cochran, Conrad, Davis, Dennison, Fisher, Givins, Glaze, Groves, Herderberg, Hudkins, Ingram, Kelley, Lauch/Lauck, McFee, Mealy, Means, Merchan, Peck, Penninger, Powell, Prunty, Ramsey, Riffle, Shrout, Stewart, Stratton, Summers, Thomas, Walton, Watson, Wellen, Wright 42 Index 50 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek PIoneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 25, Issue 2, 56 pages * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board * Publication and Contact Information 1 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholon 2 Library Acquisitions (Through January 31, 2007) 8 Lewis County Connections and a World War II Love Story: The Conclusion, by Diane Hill Zimmerman (continued from Volume 25, Issue 1, page 13) 18 A Memorial: Elizabeth Ann Reel (1933-2007) 19 Home Remedies 21 DNA-A Tool for Genealogists, by Jim Bartlett 26 Memorial: Rosie Sheets (1935-2007) 27 Who Was Benoni Teter Powers’ Father?, by Ann Bleigh Powers 31 Ramsey Family (as told by Mona Bond, granddaughter of James A. Ramsey, and submitted by Carolyn Hinzman Ramsey) 34 Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker Honored by Lions Club International 35 May Straley White Named a West Virginia History Hero 36 In Memory Darrell Gene Warner (1933-2006), HCPD Life Member 37 Genealogy Queries: 11 questions including the following surnames: Argabrite, Bacorn/Beckhorn, Barnett, Blake, Bragg, Brooks, Butcher, Cokenour, Conrad, Crissmore/Chrismore, Cunningham, Davis, Fisher, Fowler, Graham, Hammond, Harvey, Howe, Hurley/Herley, Kuykendall, Lambert, Lewis, Martin, Osborne, Parsons, Poe, Richmond, Ross, Rowe, Rust, Sandy, Snider/Snyder, Stratton, Wines, Yokum 40 Index * Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 25, Issue 3, 56 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 From the Mailbox: Small World (Paul Pettit) 4 Historic Landmark (The Trans-Allegheny Asylum) to Be Sold At Auction 5 A 25th Anniversary Review of Clerissa Tatterson’s J ohn Collins of Frederick County, Virginia, by John J. Hood, February 2007 22 Numerous County Farm Maps Available 23 Pioneer Families and Florence Virginia Dye, by Ethel E. Nielsen 31 The Family Matriarch: Sarah Ann Byrnes Donohew/Donohue, by Jane Donohue Boucher 35 The English Roots of Maryland Thomas Sprigg, by David Armstrong (based on information current as of June 2007) 43 Queries: 9 questions including the following surnames: Bell, Canter, Cummins, Dean, Devaney, Devine, Donohue, Drummond, Farnsworth, Fesler, Fisher, Fultz, Hinkle, Jackson, Lamb, McWhorter, Nutter, Osborne, Pritchard, Smith, Stalnaker, Varner, Walker 46 Index 51 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 25, Issue 4, 52 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 From the Mailbox (From Judy Bee) 5 A Search Angel Story from David Cartwright 6 When You Are 50+ 7 Library Acquisitions processed b September 1, 2007 8 The Late Elizabeth Reel Honored with John Hacker Award 9 Mini Looks at Life, by Sherman Wade Malcomb 17 Book Review, by Betty Butcher Topp (B ound Away Virginia and the Western Movement”, by David Hackett Ficher and James C. Kelly, published 2000 by the University of Virginia Press.) 18 Baked Steak: A West Virginia Sunday Dinner 19 A 25th Anniversary Review of Clerissa Tatterson’s J ohn Collins of Frederick County, Virginia: Part II, by John J. Hood, February 2007 (Continued from Volume 25, Issue 3, page 3) 24 From Rumbach to West Virginia, The Winemiller Story, by Joy Gilchrist Stalnaker 31 What’s Happening in Weston? New owners for the National Landmark Weston State Hospital) 34 Joseph Louis Cheuvront Bible, by Joy L.Stalnaker 37 Genealogy Queries: 14 questions including the following surnames: Anthony, Auger, Barnett, Bennett, Bragg, Brooks, Burrell, Carpenter, Cassel, Coberly, Conger, Coon, Courtney, Cozad, Dean, Deen, Drummond, Fesler, Fisher, Fitzpatrick, George, Givins, Hacker, Henry, Hinzman, Keene, Killingsworth, Kittle, Leonard, McCartney, Means, Peterson, Roy, Seaward, Shelton, Sleeth, Spillman, Stewart, Stratton, Sutton, Thomas, Wallace, Watkins, Wery, Weir, Wolf/Wolfe 39 Membership in HCPD 41 Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendents Life Members

2007-08

Volume 26, Issue 1, 56 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 From the Mailbox (from Dave Zumbach) 7 A Search Angel Story: Roads Traveled, by Joy Stalnaker 9 A 25th Anniversary Review of Clerissa Tatterson’s J ohn Collins of Frederick County, Virginia: Part III , by John J. Hood, February 2007 (Continued from Volume 25, Issue 4, page 19) 14 From Rumbach to West Virginia, The Winemiller Story, by Joy Gilchrist Stalnaker (continued from Volume 25, Issue 4) 19 I Remember (Written by Ona Samples White as transcribed and preserved by her grandson, Thomas Weldon White) 22 Descendants of Patrick McCan (1767) 27 In Memory of Lucille Law (1925-2007) 28 Peter C. Musser, 19th Century Lewis County Country Doctor, by Dwight L. Musser 32 The Civil War Come to (or Near) a Small Lewis County Community, by Dwight L. Musser 35 Library Acquisitions 39 Genealogy Queries: questions including the following surnames: Alexander, Allen, Alsbury, Alsop, Anderson, Arnold, Auger, Baldwin, Bennett, Botsford, Britton, Burkhammer, Burkhardt, Camp, Canfield, Carr, Carroll, Case, Cassel, Coberly, Cole/Coles, Corder, Curry, Davis, Dotson, Eads, Edman, Ellsworth, Emig, Fast, Fisher, Foote, Forinash, Furman, Gesselman, Grimm, Griswold, Haagi, Hacker, Hardesty, Harris, Hicks, Hoke, Holt, Hunn, Hupp, Hurst, Jacobs, Kidoo, McCartney, Miller, Modisett, Moore, Myers, Newton, Northrup, O’Nail, Peterson, Phelps, Powers, Quarles/Qualls, Ratliff, Ready, Renz, Schwab, Scott, Sheppard, Sherer, Shipman, Sims, Smith, Spencer, Spillman, Steele, Stratton, Sullivan, Swope, Tenney, Tharp, Turner, Vangilder, Walton, Ward, Watkins, Westover, Wiant/Wyant, Wilson, Wolfhardt, Wright, Zimmerman 45 Index 49 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 26, Issue 2, 52 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 The Important Use of Queries, by Bette Butcher Topp 6 Addition to : I Remember (as written by Ona Samples White, February 1981 and published in Volume 26, Issue 1) 7 John Bee Davis (1867-1950), From England to Virginia, by E. Ethel Nielsen 11 Me & My Daddy...In Search Of Our Roots, by Nancy J. Malcomb, Summer of 2002 17 Which John Gibson?, by Lora Sellers 22 Nehemiah Squires of Preston County: His Ancestors & Siblings, by Joy L. Gilchrist-Stalnaker (continued in Issue 3, page 26) 40 Queries: 11 questions including the following surnames: Bailey, Bartlett, Berkeley, Boggs, Brown, Cain, Carr, Funk, Hitt, Johnson, May, Sandy, Shay, Smith, Sprouse, Stout, Summerville, Webb, 42 Membership in HCPD 43 Who Are These People? 45 Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 26, Issue 3, 52 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 From the Mailbox (from Sue Dobson) 6 Annual Meeting Minutes [August 8, 2008] 8 Budget for Fiscal Year 2008-2009 [approved August 9m 2008] 9 Travel Tips for Visiting Lewis & Upshur Counties, by Christina Smith Melnarik 12 The Golden Rule and The Gathering, by Barbara Edkin 13 Head of 5 Living Generations Marks Her Eighty-Fifth Birthday (Cecelia Bush Bonnett) 16 Living With Loss: Andrew Jackson Smith (5 April 1842 to 10 September 1927) by Lynn Baiker 19 Library Acquisitions 21 A Linger Genealogy, by Ella Linger Clark 25 McDonald’s Impact n Genealogy Library, by Joy L Gilchrist-Stalnaker 26 Nehemiah Squires of Preston County: His Ancestors & Siblings: Part 2, by Joy L. Gilchrist-Stalnaker (continued in Issue 4, page 30) 35 Lewis County Deaths - Volume VI Available 36 Queries: 8 questions including the following surnames: Argabrite, Bell, Bake, Bleigh, Butcher, Carpenter, Conrad, Ewing, Fisher, Gibson, Gray, Hurley, Hyre, Kniseley, Lauck, Lowe, Mann, McCartney, Miller, Mollohahn, Mullins, Riffle, Simpson, Steorts, Stratton, Swope, Tonkin, Williams, Wines, 38 Can You Identify This Picture? 39 Membership in HCPD 41 Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 26, Issue 4, 52 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 A Search Angel Story, by Joy Stalnaker 7 Library Acquisitions 11 Memories, by Alberta Sue Drummond Keene 13 Tangled Webbs, by Randy Sue McKeever 14 An Ivy-Covered Cottage, by Winetta Bowman Kennedy 18 The History of Aprons 19 Over 50, submitted by Dick Ross 20 It Was the Way It Was!, by Linda Steorts Kaufman 22 Migrating DePue Family, contributed by Randy Sue McKeever 24 Captain Hall in the Civil War 25 History of Descendants of Abraham Bennett Who Settled at Dola, West Virginia 1796, by L.E. Bennett (1932) and submitted by Nan Adams 30 Nehemiah Squires of Preston County: His Ancestors & Siblings: Part 3, by Joy L. Gilchrist-Stalnaker 32 Queries: 11 questions including the following surnames: Allman, Applegate, Bennett, Bice/Buys/Bise/Boice/Boyce, Blair, Bosch, Brouwer, Cornelis, Crook, Cutright, Davis, De Duyster, De Graff, Depue, Drinckvelt, Drummond, Edwaerts, Gar/Gear/Geer, Gibbons, Golden, Groves, Hacker, Heite, Hendricks, Hitt, Howard, Hustead, Kelley, Knicely, Lambert, Mace, Marks, Maxson, Moore, Oosterom, Roby/Robey, Scott, Sleeth, Starling, Steinbeck, Serringer, Van Blaricum, Wery, Wilson, Withers, Wolf 39 Index 45 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

2008-09

Volume 27, Issue 1, 52 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Library Acquisitions 6 Some Pages from the Story of Lewis County in the World War: As told by Lawrence Proudfoot to Roy Bird Cook (continued in Volume 27, Issue 2) 12 History of Descendants of Abraham Bennett Who Settled at Dola, West Virginia 1796, by L.E. Bennett (1932) and transcribed by Dick Wilt and submitted by Nan Adams [continued from Volume 26, Issue 4] 23 A Search Angel Story, by Betty Ann Nicholson [Cordelia Wetzel, wife of Isaac Shea] 26 Historic Cemetery Needs Fence 27 In Memoriam Bonnie B. Ware (1925-2009) 28 Paupers: Unfortunate Poor People. How Paupers are Sold and Starved in West Virginia. [Published in March 30, 1881 New York Times] 29 Pros & Cons of Using Web Sites Such as Ancestry, by Bette Butcher Topp 31 Peterson Cemetery Under HCPD Protection 34 Family Scribe, author unknown [from T ree Shakers, the monthly publication of the Los Banos (California) Genealogical Society, Inc. Volume 18, #2 February] 36 Queries: 9 questions including the following surnames: Alderson, Bailey, Bartlett, Berry, Black, Boggess, Brake, Carpenter, Cross, Davidson, Debarr, Dodson, Dragoo, Franklin, Givens, Glaze, Haines, Hamm, Heater, Hollen, Johnson, King, Knicely, Lawson, Lough, McNemar, Miller, Mitchel/Mitchell, Mollihan, Newlon, Powell, Pringle, Prunty, Reedy, Roby/Robey, Smith, Stewart, Thorn, Wayt, Wilson, Wines, Wood, Yates, 39 Index 46 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 27, Issue 2, 50 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 1 From the Desk of the Prez, by Mary Creamer 2 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Some Pages from the Story of Lewis County in the World War: As told by Lawrence Proudfoot to Roy Bird Cook (continued from Volume 27, Issue 1) 8 David J. Jackson, son of John & Rebecca, compiled by Nancy Jackson [note: John was the son of John and Elizabeth Cummins Jackson] 15 Help Fence Hacker-Morrison 16 The Hardman Legacy [much of the information on this family line came from Mary Alice Egan and Eleanor Womer. Biography in Cedar Co., IA, History] 18 Margaret May “Lucy” Donohue (1908-1928), by Jane Donohue Bouchder 20 A West Virginia Hero, by Joy L. Stanaker [Lewis Bennett, Jr.] 32 Your Library and Its Opportunities, by Mary E.S. Root, Library Organizer 34 Library Acquisitions 35 Queries: 5 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Argabrite, Badgett, Britton, Bull, Bush/Busch, Butcher, Carey, Clifton, Conrad, Crites, Fesler, Fisher, Frame, Frederick, Grey/Gray, Henline, Hoover, Hunt, Jackson, James, Kennedy, Lambert, Martin, Messenger, Miller, Nelson, Pendleton, Radcliff, Rose, Schoolcraft, Sloan, Smallwood, Smith, Stratton, Watkins, Wine, Yeager 38 Index 43 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 27, Issue 3, 52 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 Prose from the Prez, by Mary Creamer 4 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 5 2009-2010 Budget as Approved at Annual Meeting August 8, 2009 6 Annual Meeting Minutes, August 8, 2009, submitted by Eva Newlon, Secretary 9 Monkey Stories 13 Ohio Death Records Online 14 Some Pages from the Story of Lewis County in the World War: As told by Lawrence Proudfoot to Roy Bird Cook (continued from Volume 27, Issue 2) 22 McWhorters Celebrate 82nd Reunion 24 Confederate War Horse Dies [W eston Democrat, December 19, 1891] 25 Street Car Memory, by Martha Virginia Hart Poarch 26 Mortimer & Martha (Smith) Stalnaker,by Joy L. Gilchrist-Stalnaker 28 More on Mortimer 29 Swisher Family Gathering August 6-15, 2010 in Jane Lew, WV [contact Paul Pettit] 30 The Swisher and Switzer Family Gathering 2010 32 Buckhannon Run Methodist Church 33 The mtDNA of Female Pioneers of Central WV [contact Jim Bartlett] 34 Library Acquisitions 36 Restful Roanoke [from W eston Democrat May 13, 1905] 37 Queries: 8 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Argabrite, Asbury, Badgett, Bailey, Bartlett, Black, Blake, Boggess, Boram, Burrell, Bush, Butcher, Carroll, Davis, Dragoo, Fisher, Fleming, Frame, Franklin, Glaze, Haines, Hart, Henderson, Henline, Henry, Hess, Hinzman, Hoffman, Jarvis, Kittle, Knicely, Lawson, Lough, Lowe, Means, Messenger, Miller, Mitchell, Mollihan, Myers, Osborn, Owens, Prunty, Radcliff, Reedy, Robinson, Roby/Robey, Rose, Schoolcraft, Stalnaker, Strother, Swisher, Swope, Thompson, Thorn, Tucker, Williams, Wilson, Wine/Wines, Wood, Yates 42 Index 46 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 27, Issue 4, 56 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Descendants of Humphrey Arnold (1732), by Don Norman 7 Some Pages from the Story of Lewis County in the World War: As told by Lawrence Proudfoot to Roy Bird Cook (continued from Volume 27, Issue 3) 10 Obituary: Benjamin F. Poinsett (1931-2009) [from T he Intermountain, November 19, 2009] 11 Swisher Family Gathering August 6-15, 2010 in Jane Lew, WV [contact Paul Pettit] 12 How My English Ancestor Became a German, by Bette Butcher Topp 16 Lewis County Had Outstanding Lawyers as Members of Early Bar, by Jack Sandy Anderson 27 Where Did They Go? (D.D. Booher, John W. Hoff, Adam Hardman) [From H istory of Morrow County, Ohio, 1890] 30 Nathan Clark (1839) [Based on information found in the files of the late Josephine Perkey Stalnaker and research of the late Hartzel Strader] 35 Stalnaker Family Record Unique [published in Weston newspaper March 1952 and annotated in 2010 by Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker] 41 Queries: 9 questions including the following surnames: Argabrite, Bailey, Barenbridge,, Bartlett, Bell, Black, Brake, Brohard, Carpenter, Case, Chidester, Clelland, Conrad, Davis, Dearman, Dragoo, Fisher, Fitzpatrick, Givens, Green, Gregory, Harris, Hinzman, Johnson, Jones, King, Lawson, Leech, McCan, Mann, Messenger, Miller, Murphy, Nabors/Neighbors, Parsons, Paugh, Radcliff, Reed, Riffle, Shaw, Smith, Stewart, Stratton, Thorn, Wetzel, Williams, Wilson, Wine, Yates 46 Index 51 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

2009-10

Volume 28, Issue 1, 52 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Weston Merchants in Specified Years Sponsored the Weston High School P alimpset in Specific Years, abstracted by Audrey Brenneman 8 New Library Acquisitions 10 The ”WOW” in Family Research,by Lyle Corder 12 Understanding the Importance of the Arnold-Edwards Property, by Otis L. Reed and Joy L. Stalnaker (includes surnames: Allen, Arnold, Bassel, Bonnett, Brannon, Camden, Edwards, Flesher, Jackson, Lorentz, Maxwell, Oliver, Squires, Stalnaker, Stringer, Withers) 18 Are You 30 or Over?, submitted by Rocky Swisher 20 Y-DNA Tests of West Cousins, by E. Kent West on February 1, 2010 23 Nona M. Norman Obituary (1933-2010) Wife of Don Norman for 56 years. 26 Swisher Family Gathering [August 6-15, 2010] 27 Early Marriage Laws in Virginia/WV, by Susan Scouras 31 Grafton & Vicinity Telephone Directory Summer 1930 - Weston Second Only 40 Horner School: Then and Now, by Kara Loyd 42 Married Twice in One Day [T ipton Advisor 11 March 1854] 43 Queries: 3 questions including the following surnames: Argabrite, Auger, Byrd, Capito, Case, Collett, Conrad, Cravens, Fisher, Hamilton, Hart, Herdeberg, Hilie, Legg, McGee, Merchant, Petro, Steinbeck, Stratton, Swab, Swope, Taylor, Wedon 45 Index 47 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 28, Issue 2, 50 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 New FTDNA Family Finder DNA Test, by Jim Bartlett 5 Town and Country News Notes [Excerpt from W eston Independent October 8, 1907] 9 The Mail Bag, letter from Linda Meyers 10 Fourth of July, by Colonel Dr. Jim Hayes, USAF ret 11 Quips from Dean Smith 12 Westfall Family, by Charles Ray Harper and Ann Westfall 13 Some Pages from T he Story of Lewis County i n the World War (as told by Lawrence Proudfoot to RoyBird Cook): Chapter 7, by - So This is France (continued from Volume 27, Issue 4) 21 You Are Getting Old When 22 An It’s a Small World Story, by inda Steorts Kaufman 23 Obituary: Former HCPD Charter Member Dies [Betty Jane Cunningham Hamner (1919-2010) 25 Obituary: William Miles Runner (1933-2010) 27 Samuel & Malinda Cole Goodwin: A Tribute, by Rev. William H. Hart 31 Oh, Those Hearty Pioneers, related by Richard Wells Reed 33 Shelby County, Indiana Records 34 Egg Money Came From More Than Eggs, by Jane Gilchrist 37 Queries: 8 questions including the following surnames: Allen, Bailey, Bainbridge, Bacorn, Barkley, Bartlett, Blake, Booth, Calhoun, Carroll, Cather, Clelland, Cole, Coplin, Corbin, Corpening, Cross, Cavis, Dragoo, Fittro, Flaherty, Gilbert, Goodwin, Green, Greenbrier, Griffin, Gunn, Hacker, Hammon/Hammond, Harbert, Hayhurst, Heater, Hefner, Helmick, Hildreth, Kerns, Lavinder, Linn, Lowther, Masterson, Maxson, Ocheltree, Pepper, Powell, Powers, Richards, Robinson, Rogers, Sanders, Sanford, Shinn, Simpson, Smith, Steorts/Storts, Swiger, Taylor, Tracy, Tyson, Waggoner, West, Williams, Wilson 41 Index 45 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 28, Issue 3, 58 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Norman & Wilfong Named Recipients [Don Norman presented with John Hacker Award and Ann Wilfong presented with the Margaret Hacker Award] 5 The Search, by Linda Hockel 7 Serendipity, by Linda Hockel 8 Dead Men DO Tell Tales 9 Negative Image 10 Passing of Life Member Glea Waugh (1932-2010) 11 Squire Johnson of Webster County, by Neil Johnson 14 Some Pages from T he Story of Lewis County i n the World War (as told by Lawrence Proudfoot to RoyBird Cook): Chapter 8 - A Tour to the Front and Chapter 9 - Homeward Bound (continued from Volume 28, Issue 3)

32 Obituary: Raydine Westfall Teicheira (1920-2010) 35 Three Different DNA Tests, by Jim Bartlett 39 New Book [review of B lue Steel, Timber & Steam - A Scrapbook of Tales from Boom-Era Allegheny, by David Armstrong] 40 Internet Sources for Family Research 47 Queries: 6 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Argabrite, Barkley, Benson, Burrell, Bush, Butcher, Carpenter, Carroll, Conrad, Davis, Fisher, Fittro, Fleming, Glaze, Henry, Hopkins, Johnson, Legg, Lowther, Mann, McCann, Means, Miller, Newlon, Stephens, Stratton, Swopes, Welch, Wines, Wolf 50 Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 28, Issue 4, 52 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 West Virginia DNA Project, by Jim Bartlett and Paul Pettit 6 John Yost, Private 1st Pennsylvania Regiment, by Kenneth Carrol Yost 46 Index 47 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

2010-11

Volume 29, Issue 1, 52 pages * Membership in HCPD * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Grafton & Vicinity Phone Directory Summer 1930 (Weston Section Only), submitted by Audrey Brenneman 12 Radcliff/Wine Reunion [will be June 25, 2011 at the Lewis County Park in Weston] 13 Home Central Committee Journal 1923-1932, Transcribed by D. Jane Gilchrist 25 Weston Asylum Correspondence [Inmate Letter from J. J.Charlton to Jesse Jones in 1883] 28 Ward Research 32 Married Twice in One Day [T ipton Advisor 11 March 1854] (This also appeared in Volume 28, Issue 1 on page 42) 34 Books Added to Library 41 Hacker Awards (John Hacker Award to Don Norman; Margaret Sleeth Hacker Award to Ann Wilfong) 42 Queries: 4 questions including the following surnames: Campbell, Chapman, Cutlip, Henline, Hughes, Jordan, Keener, Lee, Mason, Radcliff, Riffle, Rowen, Sayre, Schoolcraft, Williams, Wine 43 Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 29, Issue 2, 56 pages * Membership in HCPD * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director,by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Weston Asylum Correspondence, [Reprint from HC 29, Issue 1. Part of the letter was left out before. This letter and the transcription was provided by HCPD member Bradley Oldaker] 7 Why Are All the Records Being Locked Up???, by Bette Butcher Topp 8 Reader Comment, by Bette Butcher Topp 9 Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, by Robert F. McWhorter 14 Rhoda Victoria (Queen) Reed, submitted by Leonard R. Hyre, great grandson 20 Confederate Enlistees for the Civil War [Enlistment 3 Sept 1862: Company F, VA 30th Sharpshooters Battalion. Compiled by Bette Butcher Topp] 23 Unpublished Descent from Rev. John Mitchel from Rev. JohnMitchel Sr. Through His Fourth Son John Mitchel, Jr. [By Larry Arthur Mitchel, ThD; Society of Mayflower Descendants, Sons of the American Revolution -- GGG Grandson of Rev. John Mitchel, Sr.] 40 George W. Sample of Monongalia County, by Jim Sample 45 William and Nancy Lawson, by Ron Lawson 45 Queries: 13 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Allman, Badgett, Bean, Bush, Butcher, Chapman, Cooper, Cottrol, Davis, Ferguson, Fisher, Keener, Kent, Lawson, McPherson, O’Connelly, Patterson, Pence, Pyle, Queen, Smith, Swisher, Tenney, Wetzel, Whalen, Wolf 48 Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 29, Issue 3, 56 pages * Membership in HCPD * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Betty Ann Nicholson 4 Finding Aunt Cleo, by Ju-Wanna (Jo) Snyder Fortney, Charleston, WV [Cleo Grace Wiant] 10 True or False, by Boyd L. “Rocky” Swisher [Peter Swisher and Mary Wagner/Waggoner] 13 Jack Russell or John Blackwood, by Twyla McCue Hinzman 16 Descendants of Joseph and Sophia Jackson Davis, by Linda B. Myers 33 The Ellis and Burkhammer Connection, by Randall Ellis 35 HCPD Bids Adieu to Three Life Members ● Judge William L. “Les” Fury (1917-2010) ● Francis M. Butcher (1913-2010) ● Ella Virginia “Ginger” Wills (1936-2011) 39 Are You Prepared?, by Bette Butcher Topp 41 Intercepted Letter Re a church by Henry Hardman in 1837 42 Some Funnies to Entertain You, courtesy of Dean Smith 43 American Civil War, by Jim Sims 45 Queries: 7 questions including the following surnames: Cooper, Davis, Fox, Gallanue, Henderson, Hinkle, Johnson, Lewis, Martin, Nichols, Nicholson, Pence, Shaw, Smith, Tatterson, Tenney 48 Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 29, Issue 4, 24 pages [Note: even numbered pages are missing from the copy that has been scanned. We will investigate to see if we can scan a more complete copy]

* Publication and Contact Information 1 From the Desk of the Director, by Linda Parsons 4 Jots from Joy 5 Stories and Queries Wanted 6 True or False (Corrected Article from Iss. 3) 8 Research Tip 9 Book Review: A Swisher Family, by Joy DeFazio 10 Joseph McNemar Sr., Relative 14 Excerpts, West Virginia Market Bulletin 18 Success on Ancestry 21 Relationships 22 The Will of Samuel Wilson of Lewis County, VA 26 William Hacker, Pillar of Strength 31 Obituary: Denzil Stillwell (1937-2011) 32 Lillian Ayers Dodd 33 Tribute to C.M. (Charlie) Johnson, by L. Neil Johnson 36 Queries: 7 questions 37 Russell - Blackwood Correction (from Volume 29, Issue 3, p.13) 38 Index 44 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

2011-12

Volume 30, Issue 1, 52 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 5 From the Desk of the Director, by Linda Parsons 6 Jots from Joy, by Joy DeFazio 9 Interview ??? For Yourself and Others, Compiled by Juliana Smith and Submitted by Darrell Groves 11 Obituary for Robert Brown Riffle(1920-2011) 12 Grandma Rudy’s Story, by Linda Parsons 14 Some Ice Family History [from a Morgantown News Clipping in HCPD Collection] 15 DNA Testing for Genealogists, by Jim Bartlett 18 Boxes of “Stuff”, by Jane Gilchrist 22 Our Family Reunion, submitted by Dick Depriest 23 Member Eunice White Passes 24 George Straley (1770-1846), His 18 Children, by Joy Gilchrist Stalnaker DeFazio 36 Tips on Using Vital Records @ WVCulture.org, by Clifford Larrry Francis 38 Genealogy Tip! [Google Book Search] 39 David Benton Straley, Company D. 15th West Virginia Infantry 41 Look for Someone on the Internet? 42 Queries: 6 questions including the following surnames: Allen, Baber, Cottrill, Damron, Dorsey, Fisher, Flaherty, Gilbert, Hacker, Murphy, Newlon, Peterson, Printz, Quick, Shreve 44 Index 49 Membership in HCPD 52 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 30, Issue 2, 22 pages 1 From the Desk of the Director, by Linda Parsons 2 Library Facelift 3 Memorial Planned 4 A Lost Prodigal Son: Descendants of Eskridge Hall, Compiled by Nancy A. Jackson 21 Swisher Gathering [August 3-5, 2012 at Jackson’s Mill] 22 Biography of Elnathan Wilkinson, Submitted by Nancy Jackson 27 Call from Marilyn Woofter Workman for information about the Woofter Cemetery 29 Ann Wilfong Named History Hero 30 Ramsey Family, submitted by Carolyn Ramsay [As told by Mona Bond, Daughter of James A. Ramsey] 33 Queries: 8 questions including the following surnames: Asa, Bartlett, Brooks, Burnside, Clelland,Cochran, Cookman, Davis, Dawson, Haymond, Hodson, Hustead, Jackson, Kelly, Lafont, Lambert, Law, Loofbourrow, Lorentz, Lynch, Maxson, Moore, Pigott, Sommerville 35 Index

Volume 30, Issue 3, 48 pages * Membership in HCPD * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 1 From the Desk of the Director, by Linda Parsons 2 HCPD Celebrates 30th Anniversary 3 Letter to the Editor, from Joann Erickson, North Pole, Alaska 4 A Pump, an Outhouse and a Washtub, by Jane Boucher 6 Daniel Conrad Will [copied from the Braxton Democrat D ecember 15, 1904, submitted by Gloria Husk] 7 Burns, Porter and Summers, by Rita Holmes and Darrell Groves 8 The Ingles Family: Pioneers of Wood County 9 A Brake Letter [from Rachel McKinney, Mooresville TX. May 5, 1887 -- submitted by her son G.W. Brake] 9 Allegheny Backtracks [advertisement for research help from David Armstrong] 10 Francis Ancestry, by Larry Francis 12 Obituary: Raymond M. Ware (1924-2012) 13 The Family of Johannes Michael Bush (born in Germany ca.1697), as compiled by Al Bush 17 Blood Covered HIlls, author unknown [reprint from T he West Virginia Hillbilly, November 21, 1981] 20 The O’Briens [John Adam O’Brien information from the Don Norman Files] 25 The Ramsay Family [Continued from Volume 30, Issue 2] 32 Albin D. Crislip and Mary Victoria Anderson: My Great Grandparents, by Linda B. Meyers 36 Queries: 10 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Brown, Daniels, Dickens, Dotson, Gibson, Goff, Grant, Higgenbotham, Hill, Hinzman, Hobbs, Hurst, Keller, Love, Ludwig, McKowan, Myers, Peters, Pruden, Ratliff, Reeder, Rinehart, Sims, Snyder, Springston, Vanier, Waggoner, Walters, Warner, Welters, Wetzel, White, Wiant, Williams, Wilson, Wine, Wittway 38 Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendant’s Life Members

Volume 30, Issue 4, 24 pages * Membership in HCPD * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 1 From the Desk of the Director, by Linda Parsons 2 Using atDNA for Genealogy, by Jim Bartlett 7 Watson Heirs to Mary Watson Negroes: Lewis County Deed Book S:194-195,by N.A. Jackson 8 Cecelia B. McNulty to Clark W. McNulty: Lewis County Deed Book E:318-319, Transcribed by Nancy Jackson 10 Old Occupations Explained, submitted by Jo Fortney 14 Pros and Cons on Internet Research, by Cecily Kelly 15 Alvin D. Crislip and Mary Victoria Anderson: My Great Grandparents, by Linda B. Meyers [continued from Volume 30, Issue 3, p.32] 27 Colonel Edward Jackson Bible [transcribed by Linda B. Meyers from copies of the original pages of the Bible descended through James Madison Jackson Family. Family birth records] 29 Some Western Virginia Forty-Niners, submitted by John C. Jackson 38 Queries: 4 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Allen, Atkinson, Ballentine, Bartlett, Burrell, Bush, Butcher, Carroll, Coakley, Dorsey, Fisher, Fleming, Glaze, Hable, Henline, Henry, Means, Newlon, Radcliff, Riffle, Steinbeck, Welsh, Williams 40 Index * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

2012-13

Volume 31, Issue 1, 48 pages * Membership in HCPD * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 2 History Heroes (Doris Dean, Julia Bragg) 3 Cummins E. Jackson, submitted by Linda B. Meyers and nancy Jackson 13 Memorials ● Robert Carl Newlon (1923-2012) ● Dorsey Joseph Bartlett (1926-2013) ● Billie Lorene (Smith) McKinney (1926-2012) ● Lena Rose Nissel (1935-2013) ● Ethel Nielsen (1918-2013) ● Lovie Jones Hosey Crites (1905-2013) ● Veronica Jane “Dee” (Davis) Gentry (1941-2013) ● Thomas Wirt Wolfe (1940-2012) 19 James Jonathan McCauley, by Ann Bleigh 22 Militia Fines: An Often Overlooked Resource, by Dan St. Peter 26 Militia in Lewis County 1816, 1817, 1818 [abstracted by Joy DeFazio from record at the Library of Virginia in Richmond] 29 Nelson Lewis and His Lewis County Homestead, by Helen Smith Leeper 32 Queries: 3 questions including the following surnames: Ashcroft, Ballentine, Bartlett, Britain, Brown, Cain, Cox, Fleming, Fouke, Goodwin, McCan/McCann, Steinbeck 33 Index * Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 31, Issue 2, 62 pages * Membership in HCPD * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 5 Working Together for Deceased Veterans 8 Memorials ● Marion Rae Reed (1928-2013) ● Adeline LeVeta Hickman (1923-2013) ● Mearl R. Guthrie (1922-2013) 11 Lewis County Militia, 1820: 125th Regiment [continued from Volume 31, Issue 1] 14 Migration Across America: Biography of Elnathan Wilkinson from the History of Henry County, IN, submitted by Linda Brake Meyers 20 Jahu Winemiller Farm: Memories and Reflection, by George D. Long 30 Tax Records: Records Before and Beyond the Census, by permission of the author, Dennis Rodgers 28 The Beginning of Weston [part of a series of articles published in the W eston Independent in the fall of 1950 and submitted by Matha Byrd] 40 Queries: 4 questions including the following surnames: Arbogast, Bailey, Bartlett, Blake, Elder, Fleming, Hathaway, Jeffreys, McDonald, McKinney, Norman, Riley, Summers, Tucker 51 Index 62 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 31, Issue 3, 44 pages * Membership in HCPD * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 1 From the Desk of the Director, by Patty Lesondak 2 My Grandmother Was A Maverick, by Wiliam Foster Hayes 6 Lucullus Virgil “Bigfoot” McWhorter, by Robert F. McWhorter 12 James S. Stout, HCPD Member, Has New Book [Maxine Corbett, editor of the N icholas Chronicle reviews C herry Tree Bottoms, a novel set in early Richwood, WV] 14 DNA Query, by Jim Bartlett 15 This is My First Time, by Sondra Gordon Nasseri 17 Memorials ● Margaret Juanita (Dennison) Hill (1921-2013) ● Albert “Bud” Burnside (died in 2013 at the age of 84) 19 Land Records, by Dennis B. Rodgers 25 David and Rebecca (Lisky) Wilson 27 Reverend Adolphus Bailey, by Beverly Bailey Robinson 30 Harrisville Pioneer Cemetery, by Beverly Railey Robinson 32 Queries: 4 questions including the following surnames: Barker, Barnett, Carpenter, Cottle, Cutlip, Ellison, Fetty, Goff, Hanline/Henline/Henlin/Hainlan, Hitt, Hoselton, Hudkins, Kemper, Nelson, Robinson, Steel, Steinbeck, Stout, Whitehead, Williams 35 Index 37 Membership in HCPD * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 31, Issue 4, 44 pages * Membership in HCPD * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 2 From the Desk of the President, by Mary Creamer 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Patty Lesondak 4 A Promise Kept, by Howard C. “Bud” Smith, Jr. 9 Memorials ● Nyla M. Ulanski ● R. Jene Gregoire (1943-2013) ● Clive West (1913-2014) ● Sarah Greathouse (1884-1971) [submitted by a member] 13 The Life and History of Herman Lunsford [from S unday Exponent Telegram January 24, 1932. Written by Wilbur C. Morrison. Submitted by Phillip Brake] 23 Another Lunsford Family, Compiled by Joy DeFazio from research of the late Charles Muhleman III] 28 Queries: 28 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Allen, Armstrong, Bailey, Bacorn, Baldridge, Barnett, Boggs, Bonnet, Brandenburg, Bryan, Bush, Carder, Claypoole, Cooper, Countryman, Cutlip, Davisson, Dennison, Deweese, Donohue, Eyerson, Fleming, Flesher, Fowler, Freeland, Grogg, Hacker, Harris, Hellen, Hineman, Hostetter, Howe, Hughes, Jarvis, Jones, Keith, Langford/Lankford, Laughlin, Lockard, Longacre, Lough, Lovett, Lyons, May, McCabe, McCann, McDaniel, McPherson, Murphy, Newlon, Parsons, Polk, Powell, Powers, Prunty, Radcliff, Riffle, Robertson, Robinson, Rush, Schoolcraft, Score, Snider/Snyder, Spaur, Stencil, Stout, Strother, Sturges, Taylor, Turner, Walker, Warner, Welch, West, Whitehair, Wilson, Woodford, Woods, Yates 35 Index 41 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

2013-14

Volume 32, Issue 1, 44 pages * Publication and Contact Information * Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 1 From the Desk of the Director, by Patty Lesondak 2 HCPD 34th Gathering [August 7-10, 2014 -- Theme: Rocking Horse to Rocking Chair] 3 The 34th Gathering Schedule 8 Who is She? [Photo question from Winetta Kennedy] Editor’s Note: This is my grandmother, Catherine (Bush) Lowther!! 9 Jared F. Beverage of McWhorter Recalls Long Wilderness Trek in Stirring Period of Civil War 16 My Grandmother Bailey, by Kathleen Robertson Bryan 17 Lewis County Chancery, Spring 1840 [Samuel Brown vs Polly Brown and others] 18 Reverend Adolphus A. Bailey, by Beverly Railey Robinson [October 28, 2013] 21 My Mother, by Sherman Wade Malcomb 23 Correction -- Lunsford Story 23 In Memoriam ● Hazel May White (1930-2014) ● Maurice Law Allman (1922-2014) ● Robert J. Conley (1929-2013) ● Hannah Nicole Cook (2002-2014) ● E. Jill Brown (1945-2014) ● Bernard Vincent Viellenave (1926-2014) ● Beecher J. Rhoades (1926-2014) 29 Davisson Correction 29 Memorial Day in Lewis County 31 Weston High Class of 1942 50th Reunion in 1992 31 Peterson Cemetery 32 How to Get to Heaven (Told by a female Sunday School teacher) 33 Gathering Registration 34 Index 40 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 32, Issue 2, 44 pages 1 Publication and Contact Information 2 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 2 From the Desk of the President, by Randall E. Nicholson 3 From the Desk of the Director, by Patty Lesondak 4 A Review of the 2014 Gathering, by Patty Lesondak 5 John and Margaret Sleeth Hacker, by William Hacker 6 Migrating West, by William Hacker 9 Memorial Bricks 10 Memorial Inscriptions 11 To the Editor 12 Memories, by Harold James Price 16 The Story of Copley #1, by Nelson F. Lough (January 24, 1968) 29 The Red Cloak, by Joe and Theresa Brown (Thomasville, GA) 34 Queries: 9 questions including the following surnames: Bartlett, Bush, Butcher, Campbell, Clevenger, Cole, Conley, Douglas, Edwards, Fisher, Fleming, Gaston, Glascock, Glaze, Hinzman, Horner, Hudkins, Johnson, Marin, Marshall, McCan, Meeks, Morrison, Neff, Nicholas, Rexrode, Ross, Sinclair, Sinsil, Stewart, Stuart, Swisher, Turner 38 Index 40 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

2014-15

Volume 33, Issue 1, 46 pages 3 Publication and Contact Information 4 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 5 From the President, by Randall E. Nicholson 6 From the Desk of the Director, by Patty Lesondak 7 2015 Gathering Information [August 6-9, 2015] 8 Researching Your Family History [workshops at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Buckhannon] 9 Obituaries ● Olive Smith Bell (1921-2014) ● Criss F. Steinbeck (1922-2014) ● Haroldine Mae (Greene) Stalnaker (1928-2014) ● Kenneth Lane Stalnaker (1924-2014) ● Ramona Merle Ramsburg (1928-2014) ● Richard Wells Reed (1924-2014) 12 Quilt Project 12 Recipes Needed Now 12 Successful Fund Raising 13 Bonnett Family 14 Henry Young 14 Timeline for Charles (Mc)Queen, Jr. and Several Family Members, by Larry Francis 18 Powers Kept Iron Nerve [from C larksburg Exponent-Telegram] , by Wilbur M. Swiger 21 Job’s Temple, Photo and information submitted by David Kuhl 23 Why Triangulate, by Jim Bartlett 25 Elias & Jemima Carder Bailey, by Beverly Railey Robinson and Jean Bailey Allen 31 Why Stonewall was Grateful to Samuel Hays, by Virginia Hall of Walkersville 35 Queries: 7 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Allen, Armistead, Bacon, Bailey, Barkley, Bartlett, Black, Brake, Brandenburg, Britton, Burrell, Bush, Butcher, Carroll, Channel, Cleavenger, Collins, Conrad, Copelin, Dorsey, Elliott, Fink, Fisher, Fleming, Ford, Glaze, Goff, Gould, Gregorie/Gregory, Hall, Harger, Hathaway, Helmick, Henry, Jeffries, Jones, Lake, Maddox, Magennes, Mason, McDaniel, McDonald, McPherson, Means, Newlon, Norman, Parsons, Powell, Prunty, Queen, Reynolds, Selvey, Sencil, Six, Smith, Southworth, Stannard, Stratton, Strother, Talbert/Talbot, Timberlake, Warder, Welch, West, White, Woodyard, Yates 38 Proposed By-Law Changes 39 Index 46 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

Volume 33, Issue 2, 66 pages 2 Publication and Contact Information 3 Membership Form 4 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Board 5 Message From the President, by Randall E. Nicholson 6 Letter From the Director, by Patty Lesondak 8 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 10 In Memoriam ● Sara Pyle (1942-2015) ● John T. Law (1923-2015) ● Lawrence Crandall Cottrill (1942-2015) ● Zed Enoch Dennison, Jr. (1932-2015) 13 Gleanings regarding Jackson Mill, by Nancy A. Jackson 16 Maybe It’s Time to Put Another Jackson Statue Up, by Stephen N.Reed [July 16, 2015] 18 Queries: questions including the following surnames: Allen, Bailey, Brandenburg, Bush, Butcher, Cleavenger, Felsher, Fisher, Fleming, Glaze, Lance/Lantz, McDaniel, McPherson, Means, Neff, Newlon, Nicholas, Powell, Strother, Whitehair, Yates 19 The Sullivans in North Central West Virginia, Compiled and Written by Joy Gregoire 56 Index 65 Letter from the Editor, by Joy Gilchrist Stanaker DeFazio 65 How to Submit a Story 66 Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants Life Members

2015-16

Vol. 34, Issue 1, 49 pages (Link included in Members Only Section) 5 Officers 6 From the Desk of the Director, by Patty Lesondak 7 In Memory of ● Dr. Lewis Neil Johnson ● Edward Lee “Bud” Allman (1924-2015) ● Carroll Bennett Westfall ● Lora Ruth Hurst (1926-2016) ● Martha Ann Linger Embrey (1930-2015) 11 Jesse Hughes’ Dauntless Daughter, by Major Lee R. Gandee 13 Legends of Jackson’s Mill, by Mrs. Robert H. Pritchard 16 Joseph Bennett’s Signature on Jonathan Hacker - Hannah Bennett Marriage Bond 18 As Published Many Years Ago - Stone Coal Anthems 19 Who Was Greta Proudfoot? 19 An American Small Town Doctor: Dr. W.P. King of Weston 27 Passing of Loyal Reger (Obituary) 28 Happy Cemetery Searching, by Betsy Law Hale 29 The Annual Garden, submitted by Leonard Davis 36 October’s Bright Blue Weather, by Helen Hunt Jackson 37 A Surprising Discovery, by Ann Bleigh Powers ● Includes a pedigree chart for Shirley Ann Bleigh Powers 41 Queries - 10 questions including the following surnames: Allen, Bartlett, Bennett, Butcher, Clarkson, Fleming, Glaze, Newlon, and allied families.

Vol. 34, Issue 2, 48 pages (Link included in Members Only Section) 4 Officers 5 Letter from President, by Randall E.Nicholson 6 From Your Director, Patty Lesondak 7 Jersey Blues Descendant Tells Their Story,by Major Charles Pittsburgh Roe 9 The Pettyjohn/Hacker Family 1850-2016, by Linda and Keith Mathews of Selah, WA 12 John Turner Hacker & Two Generations of His Descendants, compiled by Joy Gilchrist DeFazio 16 Lower Cedar Creek, by Doris M. Radabaugh 21 Levi Douglas of Harrison County, (West) Virginia, by James R. Sample 26 Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, by Robert F. McWhorter 30 Gleanings Regarding Jackson Mills, Home of Col. Edward Jackson and the Jackson Salt Works Near Clarksburg, (W)VA, by Nancy A. Jackson 34 In Memoriam ● Crystal V. Wagoner (1919-2015) ● Joy Cottrill (1942-2016) ● Barbara Swisher McCarty (1932-2016) 36 Westfield Has Brief Glory, (Appeared in the Weston Democrat in Oct. 1940 and also on May 2, 1862, This is the third time the story appears in print. 38 Queries - 10 questions including the following surnames: Alkire, Bussey (Bursey), Camden, Cole, Davidson, Flesher, Lester, Taylor, Westfall, and allied families.

2016-17

Vol. 35, Issue 1, 50 pages (Link included in Members Only Section) 3 Officers 4 Letter from Director, by Patty Lesondak 4 Calendar of Events 5 Letter from President, Doris Dean 6 Letter from Editor, by Joy Gilchrist Stalnaker Defazio 7 In Memoriam ● Mary Sleeth Creamer (1943-2017) ● Boyd Lantz “Rocky” Swisher (1926-2017) ● Helen Grethel Kyer Fest (1925-2017) ● Elzie Newton Jasper 10 New President & Vice President (Doris Dean & Junior Coulter III) 10 Mary Glass, History Hero 10 HCPD Touted by National Endowment for the Humanities 13 Family and State History at Your Fingertips in Lewis County (Weston Democrat) 15 Groves Merchants of Lewis County, by Darrell Groves 16 Henry Winemiller Proposed Monument in Upshur County, WV 17 Willis E. Westfall Family, by Don Schaub 18 House of Great-Grandpa and Great Grandma, by Leonard Davis 22 History of Western Lewis County, by Joy Gilchrist Stalnaker DeFazio 23 Life’s Challenges, by Barbara Kayser 30 Letter From a Surprised Patron, by Mary Francis 33 Chancery Records, An Underused Resource, by Bill Henderson 36 1950 Lewis County Flood, by Robert F. McWhorter 38 History of Rockford Community, by Betsy Law 45 Queries - 6 questions including the following surnames: Burrows, Copper, Dvisson, Holbert, Horner, Marks, Ratcliff, Townsend, and allied families.

Vol. 35, Issue 2, 57 pages (Link included in Members Only Section) 5 From Desk of Director, by Patty Lesondak 6 Letter from Editor, by Joy DeFazio 7 In Memoriam ● Hunter McCauley Bennett (1926-2016) ● Ace Duncan Edkin (1937-2017) ● Helen Lucille Garrett (1927-2017) ● Crystal V. Waggoner (1919-2015) ● Thomas Weldon White (1942-2017) 10 Hacker’s Creek, McWhorter’s Mill & Jane Lew, West Virginia, by Robert F. McWhorter 13 A Visit to the Law Home, by Leonard Davis 14 John W. Long and Lafayette Long: Their Civil War Service in Company G, 31st Virginia Infantry, by George D. Long 17 Excerpts from Russell Lowther’s Memoirs: Kennedy Station, submitted by Dewayne and Ginnie Lowther 18 A Brief Bio of Paulser Butcher 19 Butcher Dedication 21 “Stonewall” Jackson and the Lewis County, (West) Virginia Butchers, by Edward B. Butcher 23 Brief biography of Edward Butcher 24 A Father & Son from West Virginia and the Civil War that Divided Them, by David W. Powell 30 Have You Tried This? (Don Norman Files), by Patricia Bailey Meyer 31 A Mayflower Odyssey: Proving Descent from Pilgrim George Soule, by Martha Endres 36 The First “Metro Valley”, by David M. Scott 40 Autobiography of Franklin Leonard Farnsworth 47 Queries - 8 questions including the following surnames: Black, Bush, Greenleaves, Morton, Pitts, Thompson, West, and allied families.

2017-18

Vol. 36, Issue 1, 46 pages (Link included in Members Only Section) 3 Board of Directors 4 Message from President, Doris Dean 5 Message from Director, Patty Lesondak 6 Evidence of the True Paternity of Solomon Burk Townsend, by Phillip Wayne Townsend 11 Research Findings of the West Virginia Propst, Props, Propps Families, by Clifford Larry Francis 13 A Brief Account of the John Loudin Family (p.15 and 16), by Ralph Loudin 15 In Memoriam ● George Rufus McCoy, Jr. (1928-2017) 16 Just the Facts Ma’am, Please, by Linn Baiker 18 The Whitehair House on Greenbrier, by Leonard Davis 21 Waggoner Story, by Lois Curry 22 The Bussy, Brushy, Bursey Family, by Maurice Bursey 23 Civil War Story, by J.W. Rymer 24 The Widow Peterson, by Howard “Bud” Smith 25 A Website Success Story, by Bill Henderson 26 Martha “Patsy” Jackson and Her Children: The Family’s Mysteries and Traditions By Linda B. Meyers 31 The Jesse Curtis Family - Early Generations, by Julane Curtis Crabreee and Eric “Jack” Curtis 34 Missing Persons Websites, by Delia Cothrun Bourne 35 Do You Remember, submitted by Bob McWhorter - Author Unknown 36 Queries - 11 questions, including the following surnames: Allen, Black, Cain, Ferrell, Fleming, Flesher, Fling, Jones,Perrine, Stanevich (Stanewicz), Wetzel and allied families.

Vol. 36, Issue 2, 66 pages (Link included in Members Only Section) 4 Board of Directors 5 In Memory ● Robert F. McWhorter (1929-2018) ● Robert Brooks Gainer, II (1943-2018) 7 The McWhorter Cabin: 1793-2018, by Robert F. “Bob” McWhorter 10 Overview on Using the HCPD Website, b Patty Lesondak 12 Grandpa’s Hands, Submitted by Mary Bennett; Artwork by Donna Graves 13 The Civil War Comes to (or Near) a Small Lewis County Community, by Dwight L. Musser 15 Former POW Medals Presented - Benny Mitchell 15 Pvt. John Roe, Third New Jersey Regiment, Revolutionary War, by William Cavins 18 History of the Jackson Brigade Corporation, The First 27 Years,by Daniel C. Hyde 28 Case of Erroneous Identity: Mrs. John Schoolcraft, by Dennis B. Rodgers 58 Queries - 15 questions, including the following surnames: Crawford, Dennison, Erwin, Rees, Rinehart, Smith, Vincent, and allied families.

2018-19

Vol. 37, Issue 1, 45 pages (Link included in Members Only Section) 4 Board of Directors 5 In Memory ● Eileen Ruth Walker (Kissick) Murray (1929-2018) ● Dena “Jane” Gilchrist (1965-2019) ● Maggie Uannie Robinson Williams (1929-2019) ● Dr. Harold E. Wilson (1927-2019) ● Leota “Marlene” Tenney (1947-2019) ● Doris Mae Radabaugh (1942-2019) 11 Peter C. Musser, 19th Century Lewis County Doctor, by Dwight Musser 14 How to Live 102 Years, by Michael Gartner 18 Shop in Braxton County, by Jennifer Broadstreet Hess 18 Meet Our Neighbor, Mr. Groundhog, by Jennifer Broadstreet Hess 20 Research Trip to Richmond April 23-25, 2003, by Joyce Chambers 25 Nicholas Carpenter, by Sandra Carpenter Samoyeday, 5th Great Granddaughter 26 Using DNA to Break Down Brick Walls 28 Morris - Williams - Lynch, by “Bill” Lynch 34 Featuring: HCPD Charter Member Irma Curtis 39 Queries - 7 questions, including the following surnames: Bartlett, Black, Crawford,Ferrell, McIntosh, Wetzel, and allied families.

Vol. 37, Issue 2, 45 pages (Link included in Members Only Section) 3 Executive Director Letter, by Patty Lesondak 4 HCPD Contact Information 5 HCPD Board of Directors List 6 Meet our New Librarian (Paula McGrew) 7 New Members Who Joined Us (27 of them) 8 A Visit to the Old Home , by John Morrow (as seen in the Weston Democrat August 24, 1928) 10 Streetcar Accident (as seen in the Weston Democrat on October 31, 1924) 12 Life Member Charles Roe Receives The Chapel of Four Chaplains Award 15 Genealogy Road Trip to Rural WV, by Bob Lienesch (new member) 18 John Dolly and William Peterson Families of Pendleton County, by Ann Bleigh Powers 22 HCPD Newspaper Article 24 The Origin of Paulser Butcher, submitted by member Edward B. Butcher 28 The Schoolcraft Gathering 30 Underwater Surgery, by Dr. Harold Almond (also seen in his book T he Stories of a West Virginia Doctor, a nd in the January 31, 1991 issue of T he West Virginia Hillbilly. ) 32 Fall Yard Sale Fundraiser, by Patty Lesondak 33 HCPD Projects and Upcoming Events 34 Christmas Raffle List 37 Obituary - Hurley Curtis (1952-2019) 38 Obituary - Dr. Louis C. “Lou” Palmer (1939-2019) 40 Queries - 1 question about an obituary for Eleanor Wilson Armstrong 42 Life Member List

2019-20

Vol. 38, Issue 1, 72 pages (Link included in Members Only Section) 3 HCPD Board 4 Executive Director’s Letter, by Patty Lesondak 5 A Tribute to Joy 9 The Gathering 10 Obituaries ● June Ellanore McCoy (1931-2020) ● James “Jim” M. Chambers, Jr. (1933-2019) ● Larry Dale Tucker (1949-2019) ● Ronald Ramsay (____-2019) ● Antoinette M. Townsend (1928-2019) ● James Alexander (Jim) McDonald (1931-2019) ● Raymond W. Wolfe, Jr. (1932-2019) 16 Confirming the Bonnet to Goddard Lineage, by Cathleen M. Goddard Shultz 26 John McCutcan’s Singing School, by Sharon Smith 30 Miss Rose Alice Mace, by Mary Spaniol Glass 35 Stout’s Mill 47 Warner Hall Plantation, A Brief History 49 Captain Mortimer C. Johnson - Confederate Soldier, by Ralph Bennett 54 Research Notes of Ralph Bennett 58 Brief History of Jackson’s Store, by William C. White 62 Stonewall Jackson (from W heeling Intelligencer, November 15, 1887) 64 The Teachingest Family, by Robert E. Reed 69 Is It Any Wonder, Then, by Alta Merle Williams 70 Queries - 2 questions, including the Farnsworth surname, and Laurel Lick Church and School. 71 Life Member List