WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 14 Today's Topics: #1 OBIT: Donald C. Burton, Hamlin, WV ["Jean R. Monk" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: OBIT: Donald C. Burton, Hamlin, WV Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit DONALD C. BURTON Born: November 15, 1935; Died: October 23, 1981; Age: 45 years, 11 months and 8 days. Funeral Services: Monday, October 26, 1981, at two o'clock pm, at the Koontz Funeral Home, Hamlin, WV, with Rev. J. W. Burch officiating. Interment in Lincoln Memorial Park. He was the son of the late Clate barton; a 1955 Graduate of Hamlin High School; a Past Commander of American Legion post 111, Hamlin; a Veteran of the US Army (Sgt., Special Forces); former employee of the Koontz Funeral Home and the US Postal Service; member of Hamlin Baptist Church; and was owner/operator of his trucking firm. Surviving: his wife, Antonia (Ulla) Kartmann Burton; a daughter, Karin McComas; his mother, Nellie Barrett Burton; a brother, Ralph (Butch) Burton; and a sister, Sue Ann Mullins. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:45:10 -0500 From: "Jean R. Monk" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: OBIT: David Lee Bias, West Hamlin, WV Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit DAVID LEE BIAS, 23, of Route 1, Buffalo Creek, West Hamlin, W.Va., was born Sept. 26, 1969, died nov. 8, 1992. He was a beloved son of Troy Edward and Janet Leigh Justice Bias of the same address. He was a member of the Buffalo Baptist Church, and a graduate of Hamlin High School, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and a member of the U.S. Army Reserve. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1992, at 11 a.m. at the Koontz Funeral Home, Hamlin, with the Rev. Charles Markin officiating. Burial will be in Bias Cemetery, Route 1, West Hamlin, W.VA. Surviving, in addition to his parents, are his wife, Joycelyn Bias from Manila in the Philippines; one daughter, April Daleicia Bias of Manila in the Philippines; one brother and sister-in-law, Gene Allen and Amy Bias of Oscoda, Mich.; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Justice of Delbarton, W.Va.; great-grandmothers, Irma M. Butcher of West Hamlin and Pearl Justice of Delbarton, W.Va.; two nephews, Jason and Andrew Bias; uncles and aunts, Gene Bias, Mr. and Mrs. Junior Justice, Mr. and Mrs. Timmy Justice, Oscar Hernandez, Bridget Gray, Lora Butcher and Anna Lou Butcher; and a special cousin, Jesse Dale Butcher. He was preceded in death by a special uncle, Dale Butcher, and a special cousin, Phillip Butcher. He is survived by many beloved cousins and great-aunts, great-uncles and friends. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:45:10 -0500 From: "Jean R. Monk" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: OBIT: Arvil E. Browning, Hamlin WV Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit ARVIL E. BROWNING Born: July 1, 1894; Died: May 12, 1981; Age: 86 years, 10 months and 11 days. Funeral services will be on Thursday, May 14, 1981, at two o'clock pm, at the Koontz Funeral Home, Hamlin, W.V., with Rev. Emil Parker officiating. Interment in Fairview Memory Garden, Hamlin. He was the son of the late William and Polly Rice Browning, the widower of Verba Marie Tincher Browning, and a retired restaurant operator. Surviving are: 2 daughters: Mrs. Juanita Hall and Mrs. Helen Christensen; 7 grandchildren: Richard Hall, Pam Dice, Curt and Margy Christensen, Christine Lightman, Sue Tabernero and Carolyn Bills; and 7 great grandchildren: Caren Bills, Kent, Kimberly and Kerri Hall, Susi Tabernero and Johnathan and Laurah Marie Dice. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:45:10 -0500 From: "Jean R. Monk" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: OBIT: Thomas Browning, Hamlin, WV Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit THOMAS BROWNING Born: January 16, 1908; Died: March 16, 1984; Age: 76 years, and 2 months. Funeral services will be at the Koontz Funeral Home, Hamlin, W.Va. Monday, March 19, 1984 - 11:00 o'clock a.m. with Reverend James Alley officiating. Interment will be in Franklin Cemetery near Branchland, W.Va. He was a son of the late Pad and Nettie Wysong Browning, and a retired Farmer. SURVIVING: Two daughters: Jeanetta A. McDonald and Dorothy Jean Huff; Four brothers: Clifton, Paris "Brad", Elisha and Wilson Browning; Three sisters: Lillian Lucas, Nellie Waldren, and Ollie Dailey; 11 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:45:10 -0500 From: "Jean R. Monk" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: OBIT: Walter Burk Bias Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit WALTER BURK BIAS Walter Burk Bias, 95, of Wayne, W.Va., died Friday, Oct 9, 1992, at his residence. Funeral sesrvices will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday at Morris Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Casey Stinespring. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery at Wayne. He was born Aug. 23, 1897, in Lincoln County, W.Va., a son of the late William Wesley and Serena Smooth Bias. He was a retired employee of the U.S. Postal Service. He was also a former minister of the United Methodist Church throughout Wayne County and served as treasurer for the Wayne United Methodist Church for many years. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mae Sansom Bias. Survivors include a daughter, Ruth Gay Thayer of Wayne; three granchildren, Cynthia Lee Sharretts of Monkton, Md., Jedffery Scott Thayer, both of Houston, Texas; three great-grandchildren, Amanda Sharetts, Adam Sharetts and Jacob Evan Thayer; and several nieces and nephews. Friends may call from 2 p.m. until service time Sunday at Morris Funeral Home, Wayne, W.Va. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:45:10 -0500 From: "Jean R. Monk" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: OBIT: Sadie O. Monk, Crab Orchard, WV Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit SADIE O. MONK Mrs. Sadie Opal Monk, 69, of Green Valley Addition, Crab Orchard, formerly of Sohpia, died Tuesday at a Beckley Hospital following a long illness. Born Sept 30, 1917, at Egeria, she was the daughter of the late Samuel T. and Victoria McKinney Shrewsbury. Mrs. Monk was a homemaker and a member of the Sophia First Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by a son, James Garland Monk. Survivors include her husband, Garland Monk; two sons, Jack L. Monk of Clarksville, Tenn., and Fred A. Monk of Manassas, Va.; three daughters, Peggy Sue Burkhart of Big Rock, Tenn., Patty Wooten of Crab Orchard and Barbara Jean Reid of Franklinton, N.C.; two brothers, Jasper Shrewsbury of Stephenson and Walton Shrewsbury of Iaeger and Nola Akers of Matoaka; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Services will be Friday at 11 a.m. at the Sophia First Baptist Church with the Rev. Jim Munday officiating. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens at Prosperity. Friends may call today from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Williams-Blue Ridge Funeral Home in Sophia and at the church one hour prior to services. Grandsons and son-in-laws will serve as pallbearers. ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:45:09 -0500 From: "Jean R. Monk" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: OBIT: A. J. BARRETT, Hamlin, WV Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit MRS A. BARRETT IS DEAD AT 94 ----- DEMISE COMES AT HOME OF HER DAUGHTER IN HUNTINGTON; BURIAL TUESDAY -------- Mrs. A. J. Barrett, 94, (better known by her many friends in Hamlin as "Aunt Meck") died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. F. Morris, 2760 Third Avenue, Huntington at 5 P.M. Monday. Mrs. Barrett, a sister of Brigadier General John S. Witcher of the Union Army, who after the war of the 60's became paymaster general of the regular army, was born in Virginia March 23 in 1846, daughter of Jeremiah and Polly Witcher. Mrs. Barrett was preceded to the grave by her husband, Jefferson Barrett many years ago. In early life she moved to Lincoln county and was a resident of Hamlin until a year ago. Then, because of enfeebled health, she went to Huntington to live with her daughter. "Aunt Meck" despite her advanced years, resided alone in Hamlin up until about a year ago, up until which time she did her own house work. She was known by every citizen of Hamlin and practically all the people of Lincoln county. Besides her daughter she leaves one son, Charles E. Barrett of Madison, six granchildren and six great-granchildren. Funeral services were held at the Morris home at 3 P.M. Tuesday, the Rev. W. A. Debar of the Hamlin Methodist Church officiating in the presence of a large crowd of relatives and friends. Many from Hamlin attended the services. Burial was in the Fairview cemetery, just east of Hamlin, with Johnson-Koontz Funeral Directors in charge. ______________________________X-Message: #8 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:45:09 -0500 From: "Jean R. Monk" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: OBIT: Nora Barrett, St. Albans, WV Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit MRS. NORA BARRETT Mrs. Nora Barrett, 95, of 213 Second St. N., St. Albans, died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Esther McKinney in St. Albans after a long illness. She was formerly of Lincoln County and she attended Good Hope Baptist Church in Lincoln County. She was a five-year resident of St. Albans. Also surviving: Sons, Joseph Barrett of Hurricance and Edward Billups of Hamlin; step daughters, Mrs. Ermal Belcher of St. Albans and Mrs. Hattie Campbell of Hurricane; stepson, Cebert Barrett of Culloden; sister, Mrs. Maude Zeller of Sarasota, Fla.; 15 grandchldren; several great- and great-great-grandchildren. Service will be 2:30 p.m Monday at Casdorph-Curry Funeral Home, St. Albans, with the Rev. Alvin Larck and the Rev. Don Strickland officiating. Entombment will be in Cunningham Memorial park Mausoleum. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. ______________________________X-Message: #9 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:45:09 -0500 From: "Jean R. Monk" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: OBIT: Laura Barrett, Hamlin, WV Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit MRS LAURA BARRETT, 89, of Hamlin, died Saturday, Feb. 9, 1985, at home after a short illness. Surviving: sons, Lester Scites of West Hamlin, Haven Barrett and Hercile Barrett, both of Hamlin: daughters, Juanita lucas of Huntington, and Freda Weaver of Bucyrus, Ohio; 12 grandchildren; 20 great-granchildren. Services held Tuesday at Koontz Funeral Home, Hamlin, with the Rev. Forest Cummings officiating. Burial in Cites Cemetery, West Hamlin. ______________________________X-Message: #10 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:51:39 -0600 From: Tina Hursh To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20000110035139.0067b0fc@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: bio: John Nathan Simpson - monongalia co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg. 75 & 76 John Nathan Simpson, M.D. To some individuals are given diversified talents which they have the ability to utilize for the benefits not only of themselves but humanity at large. With a broader field in which to labor such men are able to direct their efforts alon several lines of usefullness, while their own sympathies are broadened and their characters strengthened. Among the men whose undoubted gifts have made their names familiar to the present generation of West Virginians, one who is accomplishing a great and good work along proffessional lines is John Nathan Simpson, A.B., M.D., dean and professor of medicine of the University of West Virginia at Morgantown. Doctor Simpson was born at Mason, Mason County, West Virginia, March 19, 1869, a son of the late George Perry and Phoebe (Kennedy) Simpson. The American ancestor of this branch of the Simpson family was Andrew Simpson, who was of Scotch-Irish stock and who came to the American Colonies from near Belfast in about 1728, locating first in Boston, Massachusetts, and later removing to Nottingham, New Hampshire. His son, Josiah Simpson, served as a soldier during the American Revolution, and in 1778 came West, settling in Meigs County, Ohio. Judge Nathan Simpson, son of Josiah Simpson, the Revolutionary war soldier, was born in Meigs County, Ohio, graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, and for many years was a leading jurist at Pomeroy, Ohio. At the close of the Civil war he removed to Mason, Mason County, West Virginia, where he practiced law and was prominent in the public affairs of the state. George P. Simpson, son of Judge Simpson, was born at Rutland in Meigs County, Ohio, February 12, 1839, and attended the University of Ohio at Athens, that state, subsequently reading law under his father and practicing at Pomeroy. He accompanied his father to West Virginia in 1865 and was located at Mason eight yuears, and later at Point Pleasant, the county seat of Mason County, where he practiced law until his death in 1892. Both father and son were members of the republican party while living in Ohio, but in coming to West Virginia found that they could not subscribe to the conditions of reconstruction then in progress and left the old organization, espousing the cause of the democratic party. They were strongly opposed to the Frick Amendment, which provided for the disfranchisement of all sympathizers of the Southern cause. George P. Simpson, an eloquent speaker, who loved campaigning, never failed to take the stump during periods of electioneering, not for political preferment, but because of his fondness for going before the people in support of a favored issue or in opposition to one which he deemed a menace. Phoebe Kennedy, the wife of George P. Simpson and mother of Dr. John N. Simpson, was born at Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, March 30, 1844, and died at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1896. She was a daughter of James and Margaret (VanSchriltz) Kennedy. The American ancestor of the Kennedy family came to this country from Scotland in early days, and the family was later founded in Pennsylvania, when it moved to Ohio and settled in Meigs County. The VanSchriltz family probably came from Alsace-Lorraine, where its members were of the nobility. The American ancestor of this branch of the family came here in about 1790 and were among the first settlers at Gallipolis, Ohio. Dr. John Nathan Simpson was graduated from Peabody Norman College, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1891; from the University of Tennessee, Nashville, class of 1893, A.B.; and from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, class of 1902, M.D.; and in 1904 studied in the universities of Paris, Viena and Berlin. In 1902 he organized the School of Medicine of the University of West Virginia, of which he was dean and professor of physiology until 1920, since then he has been dean and professor of medicine. It was through his labors that the new medical building, with its splendid modern equipment, was secured for the institution. Doctor Simpson was director of the Hygiene Laboratory of Health of the State of West Virginia Department of Health from 1913 to 1917; was surgeon of the Cadet Corps of the University of West Virginia from 1902 to 1917; and August 5, 1917, was commissioned captain in the Medical Reserve Corps, N.A. During the World's war he was examiner for Northwest Virginia for the United States surgeon general's office for the recruiting of medical officers for the United Statees. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Fellow of the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Phi Beta Pi, Theta Nu Epislon and Phi Signa Nu fraternities, is a Presbyterian in his religious belief, and in politics is a democrat. On December 20, 1906, Doctor Simpson was united in marriage with Miss Grace Emily Donley, of Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, and to this union there have come a son and a daughter; John Nathan, Jr., born March 25, 1910; and Patricia Donley, born December 21, 1914. ______________________________X-Message: #11 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:51:41 -0600 From: Tina Hursh To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20000110035141.0068c068@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: Bio: Roscoe P. Posten - Monongalia Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg. 76 Roscoe Parriott Posten, one of the successful younger members of the Morgantown bar, and prosecuting attorney for Monongalia County, has been engaged in practice since 1915, with the exception of the time that he spent in the army during the World war, and his general popularity and the confidence in which he is held were evidenced in 1920, when he was elected to his present office by the largest majority ever accorded a candidate in this county. Mr. Posten was born May 22, 1889, at Newburg, Preston County, West Virginia, a son of Dr. Smith J. and Emma Georgia (Parriott) Posten. His paternal grandparents, Nicholas and Rosana (Graham) Posten, were descended from two old Virginia families, while his maternal grandparents, William E. and Sarah Elizabeth (Crawford) Parriott, were also of Old Dominion stock. Dr. Smith J. Posten attended West Virginia University in 1882, and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, Maryland, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1888. From that year he practiced at Newburg, Preston County, West Virginia, until 1894, when he removed to Morgantown and spent the rest of his life in practice at this place. In 1888 he married Emma Georgia Parriott, who was born in Marshall County, West Virginia, July 14, 1863, and who still survives him as a resident of Morgantown. Roscoe P. Posten attended the public schools of Newburg until he was thirteen years of age, and was graduated from the Morgantown High School with the class of 1908. He then entered the University of West Virginia, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912, and as a member of the graduating class of 1915 was given the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In July of the same year he was admitted to the bar of West Virginia and entered practice at Morgantown. During the next several years he made rapid progress in his profession, but his career was interrupted by the World war, and May 28, 1918, he volunteered and went with the drafted men to Camp Lee, Virginia, where he was shortly afterwards assigned to the Central Officers' Training School. The following October 15th he was commissioned second Lieutenant and ordered to Camp Upton, New York, where, until his honorable discharge January 31, 1919, he was engaged in drilling detachments for overseas service. Upon leaving the army he returned to Morgantown and again engaged in practice, and at the November, 1920, election was chosen as prosecuting attorney for Monongalia County on the republican ticket. As noted, his majority was the largest ever given a candidate in Monongalia County, and he has thus far vindicated the confidence and faith of the voters by giving them excelent service in his official position. Mr. Posten is a member of Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, A.F. and A.M.; Morgantown Commandery No. 18, K.T.; West Virginia Consistory No. 1, r. and S.M.; Osiris Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S.; the Morgantown Masonic Lodge No. 411, B.P.O.E., and the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity.