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Whirlwind News 03.30.1923

Community news for #Whirlwind on #HartsCreek in #LoganCounty #WV (1923) #Appalachia #history #genealogy

A correspondent named “Blind Tom” from Whirlwind on Big Harts Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on March 30, 1923:

John H. Mullins of Mingo county was a visiting friends here.

Ray Browning sold some fine hogs last week to Joe Kirk and Stonewall Workman.

The stork visited the Workman home and left a fine baby boy.

Several of the young…

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In Search of Ed Haley 314

#BrandonKirk speaks with Donna Samson about #fiddler #EdBelcher. #EdHaley #LoganCounty #WestVirginia #history #music

Not long after talking with Vergia, Brandon located Donna Samson, a daughter of Ed Belcher, in Logan, West Virginia. Belcher, we were told, was a multi-instrumentalist who played music with Ed Haley at George Mullins’ home on the Buck Fork of Harts Creek.

John Edward Belcher was born in 1886 or 1889, the son of James and Mary (Thomas) Belcher. The Belchers lived in Scott District, Putnam County,…

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