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Big Harts Creek Post Offices

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Big Harts Creek, located in Harts Creek District of Lincoln County, West Virginia, and Chapmanville District of Logan County, West Virginia, has hosted seven post offices: Hearts Creek/Hart’s Creek/Hart/Harts (1870-present), Warren (1884-1894), Spottswood (1901-1908), Halcyon (1906-1923), Whirlwind (1910-1950s), Enzelo (1916-1922), and Shively (1926-?). Today, one post office exists at the mouth…

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In Search of Ed Haley 323

#JohnHartford and #BrandonKirk visit Dorothy Brumfield, who tells them her memories of blind #fiddler #EdHaley. #Appalachia #WestVirginia #HartsCreek #amwriting #history #music

About a half hour later, we drove up the Smoke House Fork of Harts Creek to see Dorothy Brumfield. Dorothy lived in a white one-story home situated on a hillside overlooking the Hugh Dingess Elementary School, just down the stream from the old Henderson Dingess homeplace. Dorothy had been born in 1929 at Louisa, Kentucky, but came to Harts when she was seventeen and soon married John Brumfield, a…

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Albert Dingess of #HartsCreek in #LoganCounty #WV #Appalachia #history #photos

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#EdHaley guardianship (1898) #LoganCounty #WV #Appalachia #history #fiddler #BrandonKirk

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Harts Creek Area Preachers (1882-1884)

Harts Creek Area Preachers (1882-1884) #HartsCreek #LoganCounty #WestVirginia #genealogy

The following list of Logan County marriages for the period of 1882 to 1884 reveals the names of preachers operating in the Harts Creek area. This is a “working list” and will be updated. The source for this material is “Marriages-Births-Deaths, 1872-1892,” pages 41-48, which is located at the Logan County Clerk’s Office in Logan, WV. Many thanks to the county clerks and their employees who have…

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Big Harts Creek Post Offices

Big #HartsCreek Post Offices #LincolnCounty #LoganCounty #WestVirginia #history #genealogy

      Big Harts Creek, located in Harts Creek District of Lincoln County, West Virginia, and Chapmanville District of Logan County, West Virginia, has hosted seven post offices: Hearts Creek/Hart’s Creek/Hart/Harts (1870-present), Warren (1884-1894), Spottswood (1901-1908), Halcyon (1906-1923), Whirlwind (1910-1950s), Enzelo (1916-1922), and Shively (1926-?). Today, one post office exists at the…

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Interview with John Dingess 2 (1996)

Interview with John Dingess 2 (1996) #LincolnCountyFeud #BloodinWestVirginia #bookbuzz #amwriting #history #BrandonKirk

Al rounded up a gang of men to accompany him on his ride to fetch the prisoners in Williamson. Albert and Charlie Dingess were ringleaders of the posse, which included “Short Harve” Dingess, Hugh Dingess, John Dingess, Burl Farley, French Bryant, John Brumfield and Charley Brumfield. Perhaps the most notorious member of the gang was French Bryant – “a bad man” who “did a lot of dirty work for the…

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In Search of Ed Haley 323

#JohnHartford and #BrandonKirk visit Dorothy Brumfield, who tells them her memories of blind #fiddler #EdHaley. #Appalachia #WestVirginia #HartsCreek #amwriting #history #music

About a half hour later, we drove up the Smoke House Fork of Harts Creek to see Dorothy Brumfield. Dorothy lived in a white one-story home situated on a hillside overlooking the Hugh Dingess Elementary School, just down the stream from the old Henderson Dingess homeplace. Dorothy had been born in 1929 at Louisa, Kentucky, but came to Harts when she was seventeen and soon married John Brumfield, a…

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