West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 140 Today's Topics: #1 Abbie Carr Hedrick [DBri185263@aol.com] #2 Bio: Roy Benton Naylor of Wheeling ["Chris & Kerry" Subject: Abbie Carr Hedrick Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Straight up the crooked sixteen miles in Tucker County (perhaps in the world) in the small community of Red Creek lives an 86 year old woman who has never traveled more than eighty miles from hom and declares emphatically, "That's fur enough!" Left motherless before she was old enough to sit alone, little Abbie Carr was shuttled from one relative to another until she was old enough to state her own feelings. Seh returned home with her father and remained there until shortly after her marriage. The only living child of the late Thomas and Elizabeth Pennington Carr, one small sister "cried herself to death" after her mother died. The other two, Mrs. Ellie Showalter and Mark Carr, lived to adulthood. Abbie Carr was born April 12, 1886, just three houses from her present home. she married Thad Hedrick, also of Red Creek, when she was just fifteen years old. They had met at Sunday school. For a short time they lived at Gladwin while he was employed by a railroad, but soon returned to Red Creek where he joined his father working in the blacksmith shop. Blacksmithing was an important business at the turn of the century as most families needed the service for the shoeing of horses and repairing of wagons and buggies. "My husband did a little of everything in his lifetime. Farming paid big prices them days, fifteen cents a hour!" she chuckled. Her home, once a combination post office and store with an apartment upstairs, holds several mementos of their early married life. A chiming clock sits on a shelf in the living room; it is more than fifty years old. Her children go it for her as a gift by taking orders from a Lee catalog. Also in the living room is a hand-carved organ, operated by foot pedals. This, too, was purchased by one of the children. It is in good working order and stands about six feet high. Other antiques include a large framed portrait of her father, several old canning jars with glass lids and a wine bottle with 1835 molded into the glass. Mr. and Mrs. Hedrick were the parents of seven children, six of whom are living. There are more than one hundred direct descendants. Mrs. Alvin (Dessie) Sponaugle of Hendricks had ten children, has twenty-six grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren; Lee Hedriack is also a resident of Hendricks; Mrs. John (Hazel) Cousin of Davis is also the mother of ten children, and has about fifteen grandchildren; Alvin Hedrick, deceased, was a resident of Short Gap, Maryland, and had one son; Mrs. Albert (Elizabeth) Johnson of Cassity, like her two older sisters, has ten children, and is the grandmother of eleven; Mrs. Rebecca Allender, with whom Mrs. Hedrick makes her home in Red Creek, is the mother of one son, Howard; Mrs. Paul (Freda) McCrum of Louisville, Ohio, has two children and one granddaughter. Another relative who lives nearby is Mrs. Maudie Hedrick, 89 years old, who was honored as a Senior Citizen August 6, 1970. Their husbands were brothers. Mrs. Hedrick leaves her home only about once a year, but is able to be up and around and was overseeing the making of blackberry preserves during her interview. She always has a garden, and apparently, is determined to have a crop of beans this year. Although they were frozen four times this spring, she has her fifth planting under a watchful eye and is anxiously awaiting the first "mess of beans." She has also planted tomatoes, onions, and lettuce. Her fine white hair is braided each morning and the "plaites" wound round her head. "It has only been cut once, the other women talked to me into it and afterwards I went out into the berry patch and cried and cried. I never did it again! I can't stand the stuff falling down into my face." Mr. and Mrs. Hedrick never owned a car and she is "glad of it" She is content now to just stay at home.----August 24, 1972, by Mariwyn McClain Smith >From the book: ... and live forever A Compilation of Senior Citizens Articles from the Parsons Advocate by Mariwyn McClain Smith Pages 339-341 ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 09:35:04 -0500 From: "Chris & Kerry" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <003501bf3f2d$ebee3b80$77431104@ChrisKerry> Subject: Bio: Roy Benton Naylor of Wheeling WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg.68 Roy BENTON NAYLOR. Perhaps no other name has been more steadily identified with the commercial history and development of the City of Wheeling since the middle of the past century than that of Naylor. One of the largest wholesale houses in the Ohio Valley is the John S. Naylor Company. Roy Benton Naylor is a son of the founder and for many years active head of this business, and while he chose a distinct field of enterprise he has for a number of years been recognized as one of West Virginia's ablest and most public spirited citizens, having gained a great deal of prominence during his long connection with the Wheeling and West Virginia Boards of Trade. Mr. Naylor was born at Wheeling, July 22, 1871. His family has been in this section of the Ohio Valley considerably more than a century. His great-grandfather was John Naylor, who was born near Baltimore, Maryland, of Quaker stock and English ancestry. He settled in Ohio at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and his occupation was that of a farmer. The grandfather of Roy Naylor was Joseph R. Naylor, who was born in Ohio in 1817 and in 1848 moved to Wellsburg, West Virginia. He became a merchant, and under appointment from President Cleveland was serving as postmaster of Wellsburg when he died in 1887. He was a democrat, and a member of the Christian Church and the Masonic fraternity. Joseph R. Naylor married Hester Kimberland, who was born in Ohio in 1817 and died at Wellsburg in 1887, having been born and having died in the same years as her husband. The late John S. Naylor was born at Pennsville in Morgan County, Ohio, in 1843, and was about five years of age when his parents moved to Wellsburg, where he grew up and acquired the greater part of his education. He attended the old West Liberty Academy, and in 1869, as a young man, moved to Wheeling. In later years his mercantile activities developed into the John S. Naylor Company, one of the largest wholesale dry goods houses in the state. He was for many years its active executive head, and gave his time to the business until his death in 1916. His citizenship in every sense was thoroughly constructive. He served on the city council and school board, was one of West Virginia's commissioners to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and was also interested in democratic politics, serving several years as chairman of the County Committee of Ohio County. He was a member of the Christian Church and the Masonic fraternity. John S. Naylor married Anna Wendelken, who was born at Marietta, Ohio, in 1853, and is still living at Wheeling. Roy Benton is the oldest of four children. His brothers have all had an active part in the business founded by their father. Allen Gerd died at Wheeling in 1918. The other sons are Joseph R. and Wilson, Joseph being the present executive head of the John S. Naylor Company. Roy Benton Naylor attended the public schools, Linsly Institute, and Marietta College in Ohio. He left college in his sophomore year and was first attracted into the newspaper profession and was connected with the Wheeling News for some years. Mr. Naylor founded the Wheeling Telegraph, selling that paper in 1904. In 1905 he was elected secretary of the Board of Trade of Wheeling. He held that office ten years, and during the greater part of that time the power of the Board of Trade and its affiliated organizations was largely exercised through the executive abilities of Mr. Naylor. Shortly after he was elected secretary of the Wheeling board he organized the West Virginia Board of Trade, and was its secretary for ten years. After carrying these official burdens so long he resigned in the fall of 1915 to take up the insurance business with the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, and is now district agent for the Wheeling District, with offices in the National Bank of West Virginia Building. In 1917 he was president of the West Virginia Life Underwriters Association and is still a director of the association. Mr. Naylor departs somewhat from the family tradition in the matter of politics, being a republican, though he has not sought prominence in partisan politics, but rather in public matters permitting opportunities for constructive work, particularly in affairs of community benefit. He was a member of the city council in 1901-02, was park and playground commissioner in 1912, and since 1921 has been on the City Recreation Commission. Mr. Naylor lives at Woodsdale, where he completed his beautiful modern home in 1919. He was mayor of Woodsdale three years, until that community was consolidated with Wheeling in 1919. He is a member of the Christian Church, the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce, Wheeling Country Club, Fort Henry Club, Twilight Club and Rotary Club. He is a director of the Community Savings and Loan Company, director of the Wheeling Savings & Loan Association, a director of the Associated Charities and a trustee of Marietta College, for which he received the honorary degree of A. M. in 1912. During the war he was a "Four-Minute" speaker, and was chairman of the Publicity Committee for all the Liberty Loan, Red Cross and other drives. January 15, 1902, at Bridgeport, Ohio, Mr. Naylor married Miss Nancy Dent, daughter of James C. and Millie (Clayton) Dent, now residents of Los Angeles. Her father is a retired merchant. Mrs. Naylor is a graduate of Mount de Chantal Academy of Wheeling. They have one son, John S., Jr., born March 28, 1906. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 09:46:52 -0500 From: "Chris & Kerry" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <003e01bf3f2f$91eceee0$77431104@ChrisKerry> Subject: Bio: William Lawrence Brice of Wheeling WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg.67 & 68 WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRICE is the present general manager of the Wheeling Register. He became manager under his uncle, the late James B. Taney. He therefore continues the distinctive relationship maintained by the Taney family to this old institution of journalism. The Wheeling Register was established during the Civil war times, in 1863, and has been published continuously for over half a century. Lewis Baker was one of the, founders, and continued the management as principal owner until 1884. At that time the Register was acquired by Taney Brothers, and the Register has been owned and published by the West Virginia Printing Company since that year. The Register was managed first by James B. Taney, from 1884 until 1893, when Mr. Taney was appointed consul-general to Ireland under President Cleveland in his second term of office. His brother, Charles Henry Taney, succeeded him as general manager of the Register, and continued in same capacity until his sudden death on February 20, 1912. James B. Taney again became manager upon the death of his brother Charles, and at the same time the subject of this sketch was made assistant general manager and continued until the death of James B. Taney in May, 1915 William Lawrence Brice was born at Wheeling, August 15, 1874. He is a great-grandson of a prominent pioneer character in this section of West Virginia, John Brice, a native of Pennsylvania, who was the founder and first pastor of the historic "Stone Church," a Presbyterian society organized at the "Forks of Wheeling" as early as 1787. The material of the old Stone Church is still part of the structure known as the Stone Church at Elm Grove. John Brice died at West Alexander, Pennsylvania. His son, John Brice, Jr., was born in Pennsylvania in 1796, and subsequently removed from Ohio County, West Virginia, to Belmont County, Ohio, where he was a farmer. He died in Belmont County in 1881. His wife was Nancy Byers, a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, who died in Belmont County, Ohio. Sylvester L. Brice, father of William L. Brice, was born in Belmont County, February 19, 1840, and finished his education in the Normal College at Lebanon, Ohio. In 1861 he joined Company F of the Fifty-second Ohio Infantry, and was all through the Civil war, participating in the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge and in the campaign of Sherman to the sea. Following the war he located at Wheeling, studied pharmacy, and from 1867 to 1893 conducted a successful drug business in the city. After that he lived retired until his death on December 26, 1910. S. L. Brice was for several terms a member of the City Council in both branches, was city collector of taxes, was an influential republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife was Ella Taney, a sister of Charles H. and James B. Taney. She was born at Newark, New Jersey, but has lived in Wheleing since infancy. William L. Brice is the oldest of three children. His brother, Malcolm Taney Brice, is news editor of the Wheeling Register. The only sister, Eleanor, is the wife of a prominent Wheeling attorney, Henry M. Russell. William Lawrence Brice was educated in the public schools, in Linsly Institute, and in 1893, at the age of nineteen, entered the newspaper business as a reporter on the Register, under his uncles. He has given his full time and service to the fortune and prosperity of the Register for nearly thirty years. Mr. Brice, who is unmarried, is a democrat in polities, a member of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Wheeling Lodge No. 28, B. P. 0. B., Wheeling Country Club, Fort Henry Club, and on many occasions has found and exercised the opportunities to be a useful citizen of the community. He is a director of the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Citizens People's Trust Company, and during the World war was a member of various committees and employed the full force of the Register's influence in behalf of the Government. Mr. Brice resides at 930 North Main Street. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:07:49 EST From: DBri185263@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.2f2e0ddb.257bd9c5@aol.com> Subject: Sullivan Garfield Pennington Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A World War I veteran, an adventurer, and a member of one of Tucker County's first families, Sullivan Garfield P ennington of Hendricks, 82 years old, has lived a full and active life. Born in Bretz to Jesse and Mary Jane Elza Pennington, who lived most of their lives in Bretz and on Shavers Fork, was one of six children. A typhoid epidemic in the late 1800's claimed the lives of the two daughters, Ella and Miama Jane and two of the four sons, Vincent and Henry. The only other surviving brother is James Corbett Pennington, who makes his home in Philbert, near Fairbank, Pennsylvania. Pennington is married to the former Ethel Seese. There are two stepsons, Lawrence Bates of Hendricks and James Davis of Saint George; two stepdaughters are deceased. There are nine grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren. Other relatives include two nieces and a nephew, Carrie Wilson of Fork Mountain, Flossie McDaniel of Bretz and Bill Pennington of Parsons. During the late 1800's Mr Pennington remembers members of the Simmons, Long, and Blackman families who lived in the Bretz and Blackman Flats areas. His anceestors are among those listed in the 1860 census. His parents lived first at Bretz, and later moved to a farm at Pettit on the Shavers Fork River. While living on the farm at Pettit, he can remember a flood in 1907 when an acre of potatoes was wash away. Four Feet of water covered the town of Parsons, according to Mr. Pennington, and a boat had to be taken into the courthouse. He is a veteran of World War I, having served in France during the years of 1917 to 1919. Mr. Pennington told of the experiences he had as a young man. Being adventuresome, he once traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio. When he decided to come home he started out walking and "bumming" freight trains. After fourteen days in which he had very little to eat, he arrived at a logging camp on Cheat Mountain. the late Roy Griffith of Hambleton was cook at the camp and when he saw Pennington's condition and learned how long it had been since he had eaten, he said that it would never do to let him eat at the table, because he would literally eat himself to death. He put Pennington in a room and carried him a small amount of food at a time until he was able to come to the dining room to eat. Another time Mr. Pennington traveled to Salt Lake City, where he played profesional baseball with the Mammoth Bush League, and again walked and caught freight trains back home ot Parsons. The teams were called the Independents, for which he played, the Mollygrubs and the Businessmen. He has worked in a tannery and in the mines. He had many close calls while working in the woods and logging camps of Grant Dickson. Once a treetop fell on him and broke a crosscut say, which he was carrying on his back into three pieces, without injuring him. He can remember a wreck on the Otter Creek Boom and Lumber Company line near the mouth of Little Yellow Creek when six carloads of logs and the engine left the track and again no one was injured. When asked about the conditions of the world today, Mr. Pennington commented that he thought most of the problems stemmed from the fast pace of living. He feels that all too often the mother goes out to work and leaves her children to roam the streets, or pushes them out on the streets to play at an early age. When he was young, parents were more strict, but, he added, usually if was for the good. He can remember once when he begged to go out on Halloween night, but his fater wouldn't allow him to go. That night half a mile of a neighbor's fence was cut down and he was blamed. Had he gone that night he would not have been able to prove his innoncence. He says hat he doesn't know what is in store due to the high cost of living, but feels hat something must change soon. He recalls when flour was thirty-three cents a bag, salt side or salt bacon, three cents per pound, coffee, eight to ten cents a pound, and beans couldn't be given away! Boarding house rates ran about three dollars a week. Mr. Pennington spends much of his time, his wife jokingly informed the reporter, sleeping, relaxing at his home, watching television and raising one of the nicest gardens in Hendricks.---May 13. 1971 by Cleta Long. >From the book: ...and live forever A Compilation of Senior Citizen Articles from the Parsons Advocate by Mariwyn McClain Smith pages 165-167 ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:00:20 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.b624d22a.257c80c4@aol.com> Subject: BIO: STOVER, Hon. Kreider H.-Mineral Co., WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II pg 94 Hon. Kreider H. Stover. As a young man from college Kreider H. Stover took up railroading. He left that after a few years and was in the wholesale lumber business, becoming one of the very influential men in this industry in West Virginia. But the call of the railroad service was strong and clear, and for the past twelve years his energies have been definitely committed to railroad work. He is now Baltimore & Ohio agent at Keyser. Mr. Stover was born at Coburn, Pennsylvania, July 12, 1873. His people were an old family of Pennsylvania, and for a number of years lived in Bucks County. His grandfather, Jacob Stover, was a native of that state, and only son and was killed in early life in an explosion while on public road building. George W. Stover, father of Kreider H., spent his life on his farm at Coburn, where he died in 1887, at the age of sixty-one. His wife was Malin da A. Kreider, who was born in 1828 and died in 1912. Her father, Philip Kreider, was a hotel man at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and died in early life. The children of George W. Stover and wife were: Perry H., of Elkins, West Virginia; Elmira, wife of Thomas B. Motz, of Millheim, Pennsylvania; Calvin J., who died at Coburn, survived by his widow, Olivia J., and two sons, George S. and Guy Z. Stover, and the daughter, Myra, wife of Robert Breon of State College, Pennsylvania; Oscar, who died in infancy; and Kreider H. Kreider H. Stover lived on his father's farm the first fourteen years of his life. He then spent two years in Palatinate College, and in 1890, at the age of seventeen, became an office employe of A. Pardee & Company at Pardee, Pennsylvania, and in 1893 was promoted to superintendent. Soon afterward he resigned to complete his education in Franklin-Marshall College at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and left that institution in his junior year, in 1896. At that date he began railroading with the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and served until 1900, in different capacities. Mr. Stover came to West Virginia in 1900 and became manager of the Hosterman Lumber Company at Hosterman in Pocahontas County. He was there until 1904, when he moved to Elkins and engaged in the wholesale lumber business under the name Stover Lumber Company. While there he founded and for four years published the West Virginia Lumberman and National wholesaler. From 1904 to 1908 he was also president of the West Virginia Sawmill association. Mr. Stover resumed railroading as joint agent at Roaring Creek Junction for the Western Maryland Railway Company. He was in the service of that railroad for ten years, performing the duties of operator, agent and yardmaster at Ridgely, Hendricks, Henry, Elkins and West Virginia Central Junction. He resigned from the Western Maryland in 1920, and in September of that year accepted the agency of the Baltimore & Ohio at Keyser, as successor to Agent Terrell, who is now warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville. For a number of years Mr. Stover has been one of the moulders of political thought and legislation in West Virginia. He cast his first vote for Major McKinley in 1896, and was a delegate to the Republican County Convention in Pocahontas County in 1902. For a number of years he has been regarded as a conservative labor man, and for six years he was general chairman of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. The public service that particularly distinguishes him came in the House of delegates, to which he was elected in 1918 as a representative of Mineral County, succeeding Newton Moore. His service was under Speaker Luther Wolf. In the regular session of 1919 he was made chairman of the labor committee, and was a member of the railroad, printing and contingent expenses committee. Some of the important legislation of that session bears the impress of his work and influence as chairman of the labor committee. Two bills came out of that committee, both of which he introduced. One was Bill No. 50, increasing the powers of labor. Another bill that became a law was the West Virginia Child Labor Law. He also actively supported the ratification of the eighteenth and nineteenth amendments, providing for federal prohibition and woman suffrage. He was opposed to the creation of a state constabulary, his ground of opposition being that his constituents in Mineral County did not need such a police force. Mr. Stover made an unusual record of useful service during his one tern in the Legislature. In 1920 he was candidate for the republican nomination for congressman of the Second West Virginia District. In 1922 he is again a candidate for Congress. In 1898 he joined the lodge of Masons at Center Hall, Pennsylvania, is affiliated with the Royal Arch Chapter of Ronceverte, the Knights Templar Commandery of Lewisburg and the Shrine at Charleston. He is affiliated with Olive Branch Lodge No. 25, Knights of Pythias, at Keyser. He was reared in the Reformed Church of America. At Coburn, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1898, Mr. Stover married Bertha J. Young, daughter of William and Mary (Kurtz) Young. Her oldest sister is Mrs. T. G. Hosterman, of Akron, Ohio. The mother of Mrs. Stover is now Mrs. Mary Weiser and lives with her daughter at Keyser. Mr and Mrs. Stover have no children of their own, but have an adopted son, Allen Graham Stover. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:14:22 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.20e926b2.257c840e@aol.com> Subject: BIO: MORRIS, Russell Love-Monongalia Co., WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II pg 98 Russell Love Morris, professor of railway and highway engineering of the School of Engineering at the University of West Virginia, Morgantown, is descended from four old families of what is now the State of West Virginia, namely The Morrises, the Russells, the Loves and the Sheltons. His paternal grandfather, Capt. Joseph Morris, raised a company of volunteer infantry for the Confederate army during the war between the states, and served as captain thereof until he met his death during the retreat of General Lee after the great battle of Gettysburg. He married a Miss Russell, who belonged to the old and honored Russell family of the Huntington community. Capt. John O. Morris, son of Capt. Joseph Morris, and father of Russell L. Morris, was born at his father's home in Teay's Valley near the present Town of Culloden, in Cabell County, West Virginia. He served as first sergeant in his father's company during the war between the states, and after the elder man's death succeeded to the command. He later was commissioned captain, and served gallantly with General Lee until the final surrender of that great general at Appomattox. After the war he served alternately as deputy sheriff and sheriff of Putnam County for many years, and late in life located at Huntington, where he died. His wife, Eliza Love, who is still living at Huntington, was born in Teay's Valley, a daughter of William A. Love, who was a large land owner of that valley, where he was an early settler, and prior to the war between the states was a slaveholder. Russell Love Morris was born in Teay's Valley, near the present Post Office of Teay's, in Putnam County, West Virginia, November 4, 1868, a son of Capt. John O. Morris. After attending the free schools of his district and spending one term in the graded school at Alderson he entered the University of West Virginia in 1885, and in 1895 was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering, two years later receiving his Master's degree. Between the time of entering and graduation he spent four years away from the university, engaged at various kinds of employment. He became an instructor in the engineering department in 1895, and from that year on has been a member of the faculty of the university in one capacity or another, continuously, having the distinction of having taught continuously in the institution for a longer period than any other instructor now or ever identified with the University of West Virginia. During the long period of twenty-six years he has been actively engaged, also, in business affairs, principally along the lines of civil engineering and in opening up city property for the market, on his own account chiefly. He has gained something more than a local reputa(tion) as an expert in laying out allotments, and in this class of work his services have been in demand in all parts of West Virginia as well as sections of Kentucky and Maryland. Professor Morris owns some city property at Morgantown, and is interested in agriculture and other business enterprises. Fraternally he is identified with Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M., and with the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. On December 21, 1900, Professor Morris married Miss Olive Hite, daughter of Isaac and Catherine (Hennen) Hite, of two old and honored Morgantown families, and to this union there has come one son, John Hite, born in 1911.