WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 84 Today's Topics: #1 Bio- George Lewis Davis- Logan Co. [Joan Wyatt ] #2 Bio- Jesse Harwood Taylor- Logan C [Joan Wyatt ] #3 CEMETERY: Salt Sulphur Springs, Mo [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38DF45B5.CA8A78FD@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- George Lewis Davis- Logan Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago & New York, Volume 111 Page 371 George Lewis Davis- Logan Co. There is probably no phase of the coal mining industry that has not become a part of the practical experience of George Lewis Davis, who though a young man has been working in and around coal mines since boyhood. Mr. Davis is one of the coal mining officials of Logan Co., being superintendent of mines at Micco and the Omar branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio. Mr. Davis was born at Redwood in Franklin County, Virginia, January 2, 1887. His ancestors were substantial Virginia planters. His grandfather Davis was a Confederate soldier at the time of the Civil war. His grandfather Pardue was one of the most influential men in his section of Virginia in his day, active as a man of affairs and also a leader in politics. The parents of George L. Davis were John P. and Elizabeth (Pardue) Davis, natives of Virginia. His father was a farmer and stone mason and builder, and he put up many buildings all over Franklin County. During the war between the states he was with a Virginia regiment, but was captured and was held a prisoner at Point Lookout, Maryland, for eight months. After the war he resumed farming and his business as a building contractor. George Lewis Davis attended common school at Redwood, and his education from books as well as from practical experience has never ceased. He attended night school, and for a period of ten years kept up his studies with the International Correspondence School of Scranton, from which he received diplomas in geology, chemistry, coal mining and in a general business course. He started work in a coal mine at the age of eighteen, his first employment being on track work. Rapidly accumulated knowledge and efficiency has promoted him from this humble stage to his present responsibilities as a superintendent. For six years he was with the Pocahontas Coal Company at Pocahontas, Virginia. He was then with the Pittsburgh Coal Company, two years at Marano, Pennsylvania, and then eight years as mine foreman at Holden, West Virginia. Since then he has been superintendent at Micco for Mines Nos. 1,2 and 3 of the Main Island Creek Coal Company. At Dingus, West Virginia, Mr. Davis married Miss Genoa Moore, daughter of Eldy and Nora (Roberts) Moore, natives of Kentucky. They have four children: Okie and Oney, twins, Lulu and Haskil. The family are members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Davis is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 07:13:59 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38DF5084.DC99590F@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- Jesse Harwood Taylor- Logan Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume 111 Page 372 Jesse Harwood Taylor-Logan Co. Jesse Harwood Taylor first became interested in the coal industry in Eastern Ohio, but for several years past has been located in Logan County, as mine superintendent at Chauncey, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, near Omar Post Office. He was born November 10, 1877, at Hendysburg in Belmont Co., Ohio, son of A.S. and Catherine (Ralston) Taylor. His mother was thirteen years of age when her parents came from Ireland to the United States. A.S. Taylor was of a Pennsylvania family, with an ancestry comingled of English, Irish, Scotch and Welsh stocks. A.S. Taylor was very prominent in public affairs in Belmont County, serving as recorder and as a merchant at the time of his death. He was all through the Civil war, though never wounded or captured, as a soldier in Company M of the Ninth Ohio Regiment. Jesse Harwood Taylor acquired a common school education in Belmont Co., finished a course at the St. Clairsville High School in 1899, and for seven years was deputy county recorder under his father. He was also deputy sheriff of the county for four years. For a time he was in the plant of the United States Steel Company at Bridgeport, Ohio, and for six years was connected with the Maher-Pursglove Coal Company in Belmont Co. This company sent him to Chauncey, West Virginia, and when their interests in this section were sold to the Middle Fork Mining Company, owned by Dalton and Kelly, Mr. Taylor remained with the new management as superintendent of mines in the Chauncey District. In 1899, at Uniontown, Ohio, Mr. Taylor married Sarah M. Buffington, daughter of Robert and Bell C. (Cain) Buffington, her father a native of Ohio, while her mother was born in West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have two children, Elizabeth and Harwood. The latter is attending school at Barboursville, Virginia. Elizabeth is the wife of Henry Agee, who is a mine foreman at Micco in Logan County. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Agee, grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, are H.T. Agee, Elizabeth Hollingsworth Agee and Robert Buffington Agee. Mr. Taylor is a Presbyterian, and is a thirty-second Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of the Elks. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:56:59 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000327175659.00924cb0@trellis.net> Subject: CEMETERY: Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" WPA Records - Monroe County, West Virginia Cemetery Register of Burials Name: not stated Owned by: not stated Place: Salt Sulphur Springs ERSKINE, William 8/26/1812 age: 60 BENSON, Ervin 10/18/1818 age: 58 McNEER, Kenneth 7/25/1822 TERRY, Jane L. 8/11/1827 WARWICK, William 8/12/1852 age: 87 BENSON, Mary Miller 1/2/1852 age: 88 CARUTHERS, Isaac 2/3/1854 age: 80 informant: Wm. ERSKINE (Friend) ROBERTSON, Mary J. Caruthers 9/22/1862 age: 45 BENSON, Elizabeth 1/2/1863 age: 97 ******************************************************************* ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:56:17 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000327175617.00921100@trellis.net> Subject: CEMETERY: Piniel Cem., Monroe County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ******************************* WPA Records - Monroe County, West Virginia Cemetery Register of Burials Piniel Cemetery Owned by Baltimore Southern Methodist Location: Wolf Creek LEGG, Elizabeth 3/1831 age: 76 Death reported by: Frances SWOPE (Daughter) SWOPE, Ruth V. 1/27/1835 age: 24 ELLIS, Nancy V. 2/13/1840 age: 29 McNEER, Cynthia 4/10/1845 Death reported by: Anderson McNEER (Husband) SWOPE, Frances 11/20/1848 age: 67 WILLIS, Sarah G. 9/25/1858 (?) age: 20 Death reported by: A. D. WILLIS (Husband) FORREN, Mary V. 11/14/1880 age: 31 Death reported by: Sam. T. FORREN (Husband) ELLIS, Stuart B. 7/22/1883 age: 22 ********************************************* ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:58:20 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000327175820.00924670@trellis.net> Subject: Church & Parrish Membership, 1854-1899, Monroe Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" WPA Records - Monroe County West Virginia Church & Parrish Membership, 1854-1899 CHURCH MEMBERSHIPS MOUNT PLEASANT, SINKS GROVE, MONROE COUNTY 1885 - DATE JOINED FORREN, Ann MASSIE, William McCOY, William McCOY, Ellen MASSIE, Rosa UNION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MEMBERS 6/1841 - DATE JOINED EGNOR, ARCHIBALD MRS. EGNOR ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:58:39 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000327175839.00933830@trellis.net> Subject: MARRIAGES: Monroe Co. WV Marriages 1870-1982 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" WPA Records - Monroe County West Virginia Marriages 1870-1982 LOWRY, Thomas - 21 SIZOR, Mary - 23 1/11/1870, Monroe Co. Rev. M. A. Taylor LOWDERMILK, Joseph - 34 BALLARD, Mary - 27 6/12/1872, Monroe Co. Rev. Jehu Hank LOWRY, James - 24 HALE, Ellen - 19 11/20/1872, Monroe Co. Rev. Jehu Hank HANK, Leonidas - 24 LOUDERMILK, Lizzie - 22 11/25/1872, Monroe Co. Rev. Jehu Hank MASSIE, Reuben - 22 LONG, Ellen - 24 12/9/1873, Monroe Co. Rev. J. H. Simpson LOWRY, James J. - 23 JONES, Granville - 22 5/25/1875, Monroe Co. Rev. Alfred McLelland FOREN, John - 30 MASSEY, Margaret - 19 2/24/1876, Monroe Co. Rev. Wm. Lynch KING, Christopher - 24 ERSKINE, Mary - 31 1/28/1878, Monroe Co. Rev. H. C. Tinsley HANK, David Wm. - 31 LOUDERMILK, Cynthia - 25 2/13/1878, Monroe Co. Rev. Jas. Crickenbarger FOREN, Samuel T. - 26 ALLEN, Jennie - 27 2/14/1878, Monroe Co. Rev. Joseph Crickenbarger JOHNSON, James W. - 71 LOUDERMILK, Mary H. - 66 8/14/1877, Monroe Co. Rev. Jas. W. Shoaf FORREN, John - 22 CROSIER, Mary Ann - 21 3/7/1878, Monroe Co. Rev. Jno. B. Harrah FORREN, James C. - 27 CARTER, Elizabeth - 20 12/22/1881, Monroe Co. Rev. G. W. Clark FORREN, Samuel - 29 BROWN, Martha - 17 2/23/1882, Monroe Co. Rev. W. L. Lynch NEEL, Ephriam - 52 LOWRY, Anna E. - 42 9/21/1882, Monroe Co. Rev. J. W. Holt FORREN, Thomas H. - 24 CROWDER, Mary H. - 16 12/18/1884, Monroe Co. Rec. D. C. Hedrick MASSIE, William E. - 23 BOWYER, Mary Ellen - 31 4/13/1887, Monroe Co. Rev. P. B. Babe MASSEY, Nixon A. - 25 FOREN, Emma J. - 18 10/16/1887, Monroe Co. Rev. T. H. Fitzgerald BOSTICK, William E. - 24 LOWRY, Granville - 39 12/28/1887, Monroe Co. Rev. J. E. Wilson FORREN, Harvey C. - 22 RIPLEY, Marietta - 22 1/16/1889, Monroe Co. Rev. G. B. Johnson DUNSMORE, Michael - 50 FOREN, Ann - 40 8/14/1890, Monroe Co. Rev. L. P. Bradley KING, Christopher - 40 KIRBY, Elizabeth - 40 6/11/1891, Monroe Co. Rev. J. Baggs KIRBY, James C. - 56 MASSIE, Eliza S. - 29 6/19/1891, Monroe Co. Rev. E. D. Jeffries EGNOR, George A. - 33 HOGSHEAD, Sallie - 17 10/6/1891, Monroe Co. Rev. A. T. Ballentine FORREN, Isaac G. - 23 RIPLEY, Ada - 18 10/8/1891, Monroe Co. Rev. J. B. Johnson LOWRY, Charles W. - 21 HUMPHREYS, Sallie - 21 11/3/1891, Monroe Co. Rev. John Moncure * * * * * * * * *