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Elizabeth Ann Stalnaker
This is my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Ann Stalnaker, at 19, holding her second-born, Romeo Hersman. Her first-born, Harvey, died the day before Romeo was born. He was not quite two. She went on to have another son, Bruce, and then five daughters, my grandmother Maud the eldest. Married at 17, she was just 32 when she [...]
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Otto deGruyter
My great-grandfather, Otto deGruyter, was the last of my ancestors to make it to West Virginia, sometime just before 1880. In the 1880s he went from farm to farm in southern Roane County with a pack and a chest of tools, repairing clocks and watches. He boarded for a while in Sissonsville, and then lived [...]
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Aaron Smith
It looked to be a lovely day, sunny and with the highest temperatures in weeks – 50°! And rain predicted for the rest of the week. So first, we raked the remainder of the leaves and cut the yews at the base of the patio wall way back. They are prostrate yews and threatening to [...]
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