Volume 11 , Issue 41

Duchess' Domain

My friend Daisy has been sleeping over for the last few weeks. That is us snoozing' together on the sofa like a pair of "couch potatoes." Daisy is the small schnauzer and I have my nose snuggled in towards Daisy's cozy body.


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Collection of Letters From Alva POW Prisoners

Aaron says, "Linda, My name is Aaron Horton [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Fisher Hotel of Alva, OK

Lance says, "Ms [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Perry, OK Weather & Gas

Roy says, "This past week I saw another three and two-tenths inches of water added to my rain gauges and there was lightning and thunder along with it. One of those thunder claps was extremely loud and had been preceded just a second or two by the sound of a nearby cloud to ground lightning strike!

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50 In 52 Journey - Interview With Rosalea Hostetler

Rosalea Hostetler, Founder / President - The Balmer Fund was interviewed recently for a "50 In 52 Journey" interview of Rosalea Hostetler. A native of Harper Kansas, she's battled one thing or another most of her life.

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1870 West Virginia Census

According to the following 1870 census, our Great Grandpa John Robert Warwick was listed as "Robert W. Warwick. This source was taken from Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Meade, Pocahontas, West Virginia; Roll M593_1697; Page: 31; Image: 323; Post office: Greenbank.




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1880 West Virginia Census

We have been doing some census searching of the late 1800s to see where some of our Warwick ancestors had been found. Particularly, our great grandpa John Robert Warwick.

This census year began June 1, 1879 and ended May 31, 1880. It is page No. 9, Supervisor's Dist. No. 2, Enumeration Dist. no. 119, Sched. 1, inhabitants in Huntersville District, Pocahontas county, WV, enumerated on 4 June 1880. Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Huntersville, Pocahontas, WV; Roll T9_1411; Family History Film: 1255411; Page: 193.1000; Enumeration District: 117.

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US General Land Office Records, 1796-1907

Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008. Original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007.

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Google Maps - Vanderpool WV & Surrounding Areas

The following is a Google map showing communities around Vanderpool(VA), WV & VA: Vanderpool(VA), Mountain Grove(WV), Staunton(VA), Monterey(VA), Dunmore(WV), Mill Gap(VA), Harpers Ferry(WV), Rockbridge(VA), Pocahontas County(WV), Hunterville(WV), Frost(WV), Clover Lick(WV).

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Insight Into Grandma & John C. McClure

While John McClure was writing Constance two letters in April, 1906, Bill McGill was posing on April 2, 1906, with a few southwest Texas League baseball buddies from the Austin Senators.

That is why this week's insight shows Bill McGill's and baseball buddies, instead of Constance Warwick's photo.

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1884 Lynching in Monterey, VA

This story takes us back to the old days when laws were carried out with mobs of drunken men carried out justice with lynchings from an infamous hanging tree. It was not only in the West, but Monterey, Virginia had one of those lynching mobs back in January 3, 1884.

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1884 News Notes From njsuttonfamily.org

Mark says, "At the njsuttonfamily.org there are a lot of crime stories in these papers. So E.D. Atchison didn't have a descendant named Roy that had an ice cream shop in Kingman, Kansas did he?"

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