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2022: DAVIS GRUBB'S WV FILM "NIGHT OF THE HUNTER" REMAINS TOP 100 MOTION PICTURES OF ALL TIMES. Novelist Davis Grubb. By Bob Weaver 2017. WV novelist Davis Grubb said his 1969 novel that was made into the film "Fools' Parade" staring Jimmy Stewart, was partly based on the life of murderer William Holly Griffith, a resident of Creston, Wirt County.The six images, sometimes referred to as models, of the Church are Institution, Communion, Sacrament, Herald, Servant and Community. As an Institution, the Church is made up of bui...Weirton, West Virginia is a city that is home to a vibrant community of strong and empowered women. From entrepreneurs to community leaders, the women of Weirton have made signific...Harold R. Lockhart 80, of Palestine, West Virginia, passed away Monday, February 27, 2012 at Camden Clark Memorial Campus. He was the son of the late Ivan and Ica (Lott) Lockhart. He was a 1949 graduate of Wirt County High School, served in the US Army during the Korean War and retired from Johns Manville after several years of service. He ...TEAM BON JOVI/WEST VIRGINIA - Gov. Wise Proclaims June "WV Mountain Bike Month" (05/29/2004) L to R: Steve Ware, Doug Wayne, Governor Wise, Cai Clothier, Greg Moore, Bryan Fawley, Michael Haid. West Virginia Governor Bob Wise has declared June as West Virginia's Mountain Bike Month at a ceremony in Charleston. After reading the …

1905- Creston was once a booming town, shown here is a section. facing the Little Kanawha River, with stores, mills, livery. stables, hotels, physician's office, all the old structures. gone with the more recent arson of the Creston General Store; Creston's up-river neighbors Richardson and Arnoldsburg, likely had a greater population than ...

The Hur Herald. Last Update 2007/9/29 5:24. Category Neighboring Counties. Description. The Hur Herald offers news and obituaries from the Calhoun County and surrounding area. It bills itself as "A questionable Publication from West Virginia" but there is no question that it provides a delightful taste of "Sunny Cal" to its readers.

Knotts had to batter the door down to reach Richardson who was hiding in a room with a lady friend whom he'd been courting in the Pasco Settlement of Roane County. OBITUARY-W.H. "Hut" Short passed away last Saturday from tuberculosis of the throat. He was a much loved local businsess man and was born October 18, 1850, in Botentout, VA.Dorl Copen of Elizabeth WV. (09/17/2020) Dorl Copen of Elizabeth WV, passed away September 16, 2020. He was born to the late Arthur D. and Evelyn Hall Copen in Barberton, Ohio. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brothers Ronald Shane Copen and Delmas Copen and his sister Brenda Copen. Dorl attended Wirt County High School.2018: A RETURN TO BURNING SPRINGS - "Where It All Began". (03/21/2024) By Bob Weaver. Burning Springs in Wirt County is barely a blip in the nation's history books, ignoring that it was the place "Where It All Began," well-documented in David McKain's illustrious book about the Rathbone Well and the Little Kanawha River discovery of oil and gas. Just such a route, eight rugged miles long, connects the tiny towns of Chloe and Elmira in the hills of central West Virginia. There 60-year-old J.B. Vaughan, astride his pinto horse, Pat, delivers mail six days a week to about 200 hill folk. Contractors Operate "Star" Routes. Burt, as he likes to be called, is not a regular postal employee. FINAL REQUEST: NEEDED FOR FUNDS FOR SERVER TO KEEP HUR HERALD ARCHIVES AVAILABLE ON-LINE (01/14/2022) ... checks, PayPal or other means, should be directed to Bob Weaver, 7697 Pine Creek Road, Mount Zion WV 26175 (or) through PayPal to: [email protected]. If you desire to have your name published, for your donation, please advise. Thanks ...

Edward C. Westfall, Jr., 83, of Spencer, passed away June 9, 2021 at Camden Clark Hospital in Parkersburg following a short illness. He was born in Lockney WV to Edward C. and Wilma L. Dotson Westfall on October 30, 1937. He was a graduate of Spencer High School with the class of 1956 and later graduated from WVU with a degree in secondary ...

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Perry Conley and Nancy Hart, the "Lady Guerrilla," helped organize an irregular group of renegades in Calhoun County. While some Calhoun citizens left the Moccasin Rangers disgusted with its thieving ways, General Heth continued to describe the group as band of robbers and plunderers. During the war Francis Butler was killed on Big Otter by his ...Grantsville Police Chief Craig Gherke said the body has been taken to the WV Medical Examiners office. Sources told the Hur Herald that the body was partially decomposed. Chief Gherke said, "It is too early to tell if the remains could be missing Grantsville resident Jerry "JD" Hess." Hess went missing in Grantsville in November, 2018.IT HAPPENED IN WEST VIRGINIA - A Book About Sunny Cal, The Whipping At Sand Ridge: 04-14-2024: MOMENTS IN TIME: "Monied Interests" Consider Investing in 1901 ... HUR CHURCH HAD 138 YEAR HISTORY - "They Came For Miles Around" 04-09-2024: ... Hur Herald's Coverage Of 1982 Beheading ...HUR NEWS - New Mayor A Visionary, Stimulus Cash Will Build Hur's Liposuction And Soap Factory ... but we can use it right here in Hur," he told the Herald. "It's domain by the mighty, coupled with unfettered deregulation." ... "Why in West Virginia we let coal companies build dust-generating processing mills a few feet from grade schools," he ...Cawthon's fanciful writing about their escapades sometimes resembled real life in his column for the Hur Herald, "Cawthon's Catharsis," for 20 years. Cawthon sprung from the wilds of Barbecue Run in Gilmer County, and was a long-time columnist for The West Virginia Hillbilly, and a former friend and associate of its late founder Jim Comstock.CALHOUN BOYS STUCK IN MUD - "Somebody Do Something About Them Roads" (09/15/2023) Young Calhoun boys stuck in mud in 1920-30s with their favorite

1974 & 2017 David Kutz. Kutz came to Calhoun in the 1970s to photograph their endeavors, and while here took photographs in the Grantsville area, which he has released for publication on the Hur Herald. We would like to hear from our readers regarding the photographs and the people in them, none were captioned by Kutz at the time.GRANTSVILLE, W.Va. — An abandoned high school in Cahoun County is getting a new life. Crystal Mersh, a 1982 graduate of Calhoun County High School, …Roscoe Addison Darnall came to Gilmer Station in 1906 from French Creek, Upshur County, where he was born, March 17,1884, son of Robert A. Darnall and Malinda Rexroad Darnall. He was Station Agent and Telegraph Operator for the Coal and Coke railroad which was the only point in Gilmer County touched by a railroad, later becoming the B&O Railroad.We can thank the undertaking of three primary individuals for the research of the Elk & Little Kanawha Railroad. Bob Weaver--historian and webmaster for the Hur Herald web page dedicated to north central West Virginia--- and the the late Harlan Stump and Ron Miller, respectively, for archival images and historical research. These efforts began …2024: CALHOUN'S 'LAST MAN STANDING' WORLD WAR II - Cleston Nicholas, 97, Dies. (03/17/2024) CLESTON NICHOLAS TURNS 97 SEPTEMBER 2023. "The Last Man Standing" Seaman Cleston Hale Nicholas. By Bob Weaver. Over seventy-eight years ago "The war to end all wars," ended. It was not the end of wars, a number since fought with fanciful reasoning.Voters in three Calhoun districts, Sherman, Sheridan and Center supported the idea when a levy was placed on the ballot, raising $24,000 toward the project. Riverboat operators and ox-team owners, some owned by county political families were not so enthusiastic, nor was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The LK railroad had proposed and selected ...Dorl Copen of Elizabeth WV. (09/17/2020) Dorl Copen of Elizabeth WV, passed away September 16, 2020. He was born to the late Arthur D. and Evelyn Hall Copen in Barberton, Ohio. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brothers Ronald Shane Copen and Delmas Copen and his sister Brenda Copen. Dorl attended Wirt County High …

1904: SIX BURN TO DEATH IN CALHOUN FIRE - Just Off Yellow Creek (10/11/2023) SIX BURNED TO DEATH. WHOLE FAMILY WIPED OUT BY BURNING OF HOUSE. Calhoun County WV (AP) -- H. S. FLING, his wife and four children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home at 4 o'clock in the morning near *Lowther, in Calhoun County, W. Va., and two other persons sleeping in the house were so severely ...

HUR HERALD STORY ONE YEAR AGO: NO REASON TO PANIC: CASE OF CORONAVIRUS FOUND IN ROANE PATIENT - Not Dangerous Strain: 01-29-2021: TWO GILMER RESIDENTS CHARGED SEVEN COUNTS ANIMAL CRUELTY - Starving "Skin And Bones" Dogs Taken Into Custody: 01-29-2021: THURSDAY COVID-19 WV REPORT - 787 NEW CASES, 30 DEATHS - Calhoun Has Five New Cases: 01-29-2021HUR HERALD HAS THOUSANDS OF HISTORICAL PHOTOS ARCHIVED (12/13/2023) By Bob Weaver. On a slow day you might take time to view the historical collection of photos by historian Norma Knotts Shaffer, under PHOTO OF THE DAY. There are other collections by Morris Bower, and a thousand others on the Hur Herald.Historic Exchange WV was a bustling railroad town 125 years ago, now faded to the sound of whispering ghosts. In 2022 that which remains is a reminder that all that humans build will return to mother nature - "So empty is the glory that the world builds" By Bob Weaver 2022.It is full of local county items, both current and historical, obits and even ghost stories. There is an amazing amount of genealogical and historical information in this bit of a 'newspaper'. E-Mail: [email protected]. Mailing Address: 7697 Pine Creek Road, Mt. Zion, WV, 26151. Phone: 304-354-6183 - Fax: 304-354-6183.By Bob Weaver. Republished from August 2003. Long before wanderlust was given names, Calhouner Charley Booher was traveling to Key West in a 1928 Model A Ford, exploring the back roads of America on motor bikes or flying over the rugged mountains in single-engine airplanes. Charley, who turned 90 this week, has long been a free spirit to see ... THE HUR HERALD: "A Poor Persons Paper". (09/06/2023) In the Early days of the Herald's introduction to the Internet. (1999) few Calhouners had computers, so copies of stories got. pasted in a Grantsville store front window starting in 1996, even on the hottest. day of summer, folks stood around to read and discuss the news, while hard copies ... THE AMAZING JUSTIN WIZARD'S RAINBOW JOURNEY ENDS 2011 - Walker Rd. Man Succumbs To Cancer (12/28/2023) WIZARD HAD A BIGGER THAN LIFE PERSONA. Justin Wizard and companion Tina RappaportRoscoe Addison Darnall came to Gilmer Station in 1906 from French Creek, Upshur County, where he was born, March 17,1884, son of Robert A. Darnall and Malinda Rexroad Darnall. He was Station Agent and Telegraph Operator for the Coal and Coke railroad which was the only point in Gilmer County touched by a railroad, later becoming the B&O Railroad.04-21-2024. HUMAN HEADS, HANDS AND MUMMIES - Philippi Mummies A $1 "Tourist Trap", Free Viewing On The Herald. 04-21-2024. 2003: ONE-ROOM SCHOOL REUNIONS - Old-Timers Like To Reminisce, Snake Root And Russett To Union And Trace. 04-21-2024. PEREGRINE'S GHOST - His Presence Lingers Over Calhoun Since 1840. 04-21-2024.Just such a route, eight rugged miles long, connects the tiny towns of Chloe and Elmira in the hills of central West Virginia. There 60-year-old J.B. Vaughan, astride his pinto horse, Pat, delivers mail six days a week to about 200 hill folk. Contractors Operate "Star" Routes. Burt, as he likes to be called, is not a regular postal employee.

Morgan's family has been involved in county and community service, and are descendants of West Virginia's first settler Morgan Morgan. ... (See earlier story Hur Herald) He will assume the position on August 1st. Commissioner Rick Sampson (left) Kenadee Taylor and new WVU Extension Agent Lew Holloway (right)

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KNEE HIGH MUD AT CEDAR GROVE ONE ROOM SCHOOL. (03/02/2024) David Cunningham standing in muddy road in front of the Cedar Grove one-room school below Cremo, a short distance below the juncture. of Rowels Run and the West Fork of the Little Kanawha River circa 1960s. (Ronzil Lynch Photo) CEDAR GROVE SCHOOL - L to R/1st Row: Kenny Mowery, Steve ...the Nitz homestead and Ferris Barr, mail carrier and. photographer,many of his photos are published on Hur Herald. A typical house built in the early part of the 1900s. An abandoned sawmill on the left fork. The late Deward and Byrnadeen Offutt farm house, Offutt was a lifelong farmer and community servant. At the very head of the left fork is ...Irene Jarvis Gunn, 99, of Chloe, died in Conroe, Texas on December 31,2020, just weeks before her 100th birthday. Jarvis, a descendant of the legendary "Mammy Jane" Jarvis was the subject of several Hur Herald articles. She was born January 20, 1921, a daughter of the late Spencer Doc and Effie McClain Jarvis. Irene is survived by her daughter ...The Hur Herald will post lost and/or found pets for 2 weeks. Please send only one photo. We do not post pets for sale. If your are reunited with your pet, please email so we can remove the post - [email protected] ... The Bernard McDonough Foundation, and the West Virginia Department of Agriculture. ~~~~~ REDUCED COST CAT AND DOG …There was a newspaper clipping about the killer in the family scrapbook with the sordid story of "West Virginia's Crime of the Century." On August 27, 1931, lurid headlines shocked the town of Clarksburg and quickly took the nation by storm as a grisly story unfolded. ... After hearing such sordid tales, I would walk briskly up the darkened Hur ...About 175-200 soldiers from a West Virginia Army National Guard unit headquartered in Summersville have been notified that they will be called to active duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom starting in July. The mobilization order affects members of the 821st Engineer Company, which maintains a detachment in Spencer in addition to its ...2014: MT. ZION UM CHURCH CELEBRATES 120 YEARS - "This Is A Glorious Day" (04/14/2024) Rev. David Weaver, current pastor of Mt. Zion UN Church, welcomed parishioners and visitors to the celebrationHUR CHURCH HAD 138 YEAR HISTORY - "They Came For Miles Around". (04/09/2024) By Bob Weaver. The Mt. Olive United Methodist church at Hur has a history going back to 1879, with the nearby cemetery having burials before the Civil War, with the early graves marked with field stones. The church was first held in a log cabin at the backside of the ...BRAXTON COUNTY VILLAGE OF GIP ONCE HAD THREE STORES. (10/27/2023) Gip WV store and post office. Second Gip store across road from post office/store. By Bob Weaver. Two stores in the Braxton village of Gip were owned by competing brothers Gordon and Earl Hall, with another early store owned by the Sharp family. The Village of Gip was supposed to ...The prestigious West Virginia Mountain Bike Series has events from June through September. A year ago, Gov. Wise proclaimed June 2003 as Mountain Bike Month and in March, the West Virginia Legislature passed a resolution calling on the Governor to "take suitable public notice each year" to recognize June as Mountain Bike Month in West Virginia.The prestigious West Virginia Mountain Bike Series has events from June through September. A year ago, Gov. Wise proclaimed June 2003 as Mountain Bike Month and in March, the West Virginia Legislature passed a resolution calling on the Governor to "take suitable public notice each year" to recognize June as Mountain Bike Month in West Virginia.

Sgt. Randy Parsons, at home in Calhoun on leave a few days ago, told the Hur Herald "People should be proud of their hard work and duty." Parsons, an Army career man from Calhoun, said he ran into the Spencer bunch, including several from Calhoun. "They were doing a bang-up job," he said. "These West Virginia men and woman are beyond the call." WV's 53rd-54th Molasses Festival will be held Thurs., Fri., and Sat., Oct. 21-23, 2021, at Arnoldsburg. Molasses Making at the home of Charles R. and Nannie Conley. Lamb on Walker Road early 1900s (Photo courtesy of Genie Bailey) Alva Bell keepin' the stirrin' going on Rowels. Run near Hur in 1930s (Bob Weaver Photo) Glenville, WV - Headlines flashed across local newspapers including The Glenville Democrat and the college's own newspaper, The Glenville Mercury, which boasted that it was the 'official publication of Glenville State Teachers College.' Amelia Earhart was one of the most famous women of her time. She visited what is today Glenville State ...CALHOUN CIRCUIT COURT PROCESSES CASES. (08/05/2020) Judge Anita Harold Ashley held Circuit Court in Calhoun County on July 30, 2020, according to Prosecutor Shannon Johnson. Deandre Brownridge appeared for Arraignment. His case was set for a pre-trial hearing on October 8, 2020 and for Trial on December 15, 2020.Instagram:https://instagram. 1981 camaro wiring diagramalbuquerque liquidation storecity light gas and water kennett momartin's point otc 2023 Hur Herald - Local News Calhoun County West Virginia aldi henderson ncfacebook mifflin county alerts In 1898, with the exhaustion of the Pennsylvania gas fields, Cabot moved his operation to West Virginia, where he acquired oil and gas leases, which he drilled successfully. By 1900 the new carbon factory - Cabot Station, in Grantsville employed twelve men paid from $1.25 to $2 a day. The plant was producing 800 pounds of carbon black a day ...FRIDAY WV COVID-19 UPDATE: CALHOUN HAS SEVEN NEW CASES - 1,147 New WV Cases, 17,000 Active WV Cases, 10 New Deaths 12-05-2020 TRUCK PLUNGES INTO … extended forecast appleton wi Department of Veterans Affairs Death Index 1850-2010 over 14 million U.S. veterans and VA beneficiaries who died between the years 1850 and 2010. Find a Grave Index 1600s-Current browse over 240 million cemetery records. browse over 25 Calhoun County and Grantsville, West Virginia obituary indexes, including newspaper obituaries, death indexes ...ROBERTY PETROVSKY NEW GRANTSVILLE MAYOR - Unopposed Recorder/Council Members Elected. (06/10/2021) Grantsville has a new mayor, Robert Petrovsky, who will serve a two year term. Thirty six voters cast their ballots in the town election Tuesday. Former candidate Derek Villers withdrew his candidacy earlier, but his name appeared on the ballot.