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By Bob Weaver 2022. It seems like a stretch, but rural undertakers spent more time tending to the sick and injured than burying people, rural funeral homes providing ambulance service during much of 20th Century. They already had vehicles to transport reclining human beings, and charged a few bucks for the service.HUR 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.John was born in Morgantown, WV on September 18, 1867 and died October 16, 1929. Suzanna was born July 1869 and died in 1944, according to great granddaughter, Anita Hartshorn Vannoy. The house, whose front faces the river, was once a stopping place for riverboat captains and workers who were forging their way upstream to Glenville.The George Washington Hardman, Jr. manor house on Barnes Run was built after the Civil War, the family being among Calhoun's shakers and movers in the late 19th century through the mid 1950s, delving in politics, business and agriculture, their farming activities on a wide scale. The Hardmans, at one time or other, hired just about every able ...HUR 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.

Outbreaks continue in WV with EMS responders, public schools, government agencies, jails, and nursing homes. Three employees with the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority have tested positive for the coronavirus. As of 10 a.m., Oct. 30, health officials say have reported 23,990 COVID-19 cases throughout the pandemic. Of those, 4,987 ...

HUR HERALD'S TOP 12 NEWS STORIES OF 2008: 12-31-2008: CALHOUN FALLS TO GILMER: 12-31-2008: CHLOE NEWS: ... HERALD ISSUES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST TO CONFIRM CRIME SPREE - State Police Decline Generic Information ... WEST VIRGINIA: WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE - Customers Facing 30% Increase: 05-16-2008:The Silence of the Lambs is an American psychological thriller film based on Thomas Harris's bestseller novel of the same name. The film was directed by Jonathan Demme, written by Ted Tally, starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine, and Scott Glenn. It was first released on January 30, 1991, and won 5 Oscars including Best Picture.

HUR HERALD'S FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: 12-07-2009: YOUTH ADVANTAGE SENDS CHRISTMAS CARDS TO IRAQ: 12-07-2009: UPDATE:CONTRACTOR'S RESTRAINING ORDER BEFORE COURT - Caswell Claims Bid Interference, Calhoun's $5.2 Mil Water Project ... WEST VIRGINIA MOTHER WINS $150,000 'GREEN NOBEL' - Maria Gunnoe Recognized For Mountaintop Removal Fight: 04-20 ...By Bob Weaver 2022. Calhoun native Timothy W. Hall, 83, has died in Lakeland, Florida. Born at Sand Ridge, he was the son of Calhoun teachers Kenneth and Martha Hall, he graduated from Calhoun County High School in 1957. Tim was the first music aficionado I met, collected jazz records in the 1950s, jazz being certainly beyond my pale.Roy Kemper taught the upper grades and Ota Mae Marshall taught the lower ones, according to Donald W. Hosey of Lucasville, Ohio. It was the two-room Cabot Station School below Grantsville along Route 5. Hosey says most of the names in the picture are accurate, but there could be a few mistakes: CABOT STATION SCHOOL 1932-33, Roy Kemper, Teacher ...By Bob Weaver. Wilsie is a Braxton County ghost town on County Route 9 between Stumptown and Frametown, close to Rosedale. It once had a group of buildings and houses, including the D. O. Moyers Store and a post office. The post office closed in 2005. Wilsie was a thriving rural village and meeting place, now joining hundreds of WV towns and ...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 ...

Calhoun County West Virginia News - Hur Herald Neat little website with a nice archive of old photos and news from 1880 forward, and current news as well. Direct link to the photo archives: Hur Herald Grantsville suffered a major fire in 1966: Hur Herald Some of the old news stories are a bit comedic, others quite sad, some can be both. Hur Herald

By Bob Weaver. It's a story unheard by most Calhoun residents, how close a section of the county was to becoming part of Roane County. In the many battles over the formation of new WV counties in the 1800s, parts of Calhoun County could have become part of a proposed California County, now Roane County. In 1840, Raleigh Butcher, on a trek ...

MORGAN BIBLE BOX COULD BE CALHOUN'S OLDEST ARTIFACT. (07/06/2023) Jim Morgan, who lives on a high mountaintop off Barnes Run, displays a family heirloom, a wooden box that once contained an ancient bible, handed down from his great-grandfather, saying it once contained a bible belonging to WV's first settler Morgan Morgan, a note about the box ...Hur Herald - Local News Calhoun County West VirginiaLONA WHITE REMEMBERED - Mother, Grandmother, Friend, Farmhand, Gardener, Cow-Milker, Mid-Wife, Country Doctor. (10/09/2023) WE HAVE ADDED PICTURES TO THE TRIBUTE. By Stephen Gainer 2004. On Thursday, November 6, 2003, one of the most amazing women that I have ever known passed away. She was, depending on who you talked to, either 102 or 103.LOOKING BACK 2001 - A Few Highlights From The Hur Herald. (12/27/2023) 2001 was a fascinating year with lots of ups and downs, special events, sorrows and joys. Here are just a few headlines from a few of the stories that appeared during The Hur Herald year. JANUARY. 1/13 Calhoun Schools gets major $2.7 "Lights On" grant for after school programs.Rev. Lawson C. Whipkey, 82, of Spencer WV, went to be with the Lord on June 28, 2021. He passed at home surrounded by his loving family following an extended illness. Rev Whipkey was born on March 13 1939, in Calhoun County, West Virginia, the son of the late Delmas (Rooster) Whipkey, and Greta Kelly Whipkey. He was a pastor with The United ...Von Yoak, schoolmate from Calhoun High School in the early 1940s, spoke about Stump to his wife JoAnn, his son Mike and daughter Ann, all of Daytona, Florida. He met and married JoAnn Campbell in Grantsville. Ivy Von Yoak, who has sung at over 3,000 funerals, rendered "How Great Thou Art," and the ladies of the First Baptist Church prepared a ...a treasure trove of words and images - will herald archives remain on-line? (02/16/2023) hur herald ceased daily news publishing after 25 years in 2021. herald archives remains on-line for a while. archives donated to glenville state college. we express our appreciation to thousands of readers over 25 years "a treasure trove of words and images."

By Bob Weaver. Calhoun's Sycamores hold a history of a Civil War battle, an oil and gas boom and a once prosperous village. There is main Sycamore Creek, with access from Rt. 16 at the County Park (Road Run), extending up the narrow valley back to Rt. 16 at the top of Millstone Hill, and the left fork of Sycamore with access at Russett ...Magistrate Court cases are listed by Defendant Name. Case year (0000) F-Felony - M-Misdemeanor. Issuing Agency. Offense. Magistrate [RP] Richard G. Postalwait, [LD] Lora N. Davis, [TR] Teresa Robinson Disposition of Case. Magistrate Court Case Disposition Reports do not include, jail sentences, fines and/or court costs that may be imposed.PLEASE DONATE NOW: Hur Herald Archives, Thousands Of Stories And Photos: 09-29-2019: RED DEVIL INN & RESTAURANT NOW OPEN IN GRANTSVILLE: 09-29-2019: ... WEST VIRGINIA STUCK AT 47TH IN 'BEST STATE' RANKINGS - US News 80 Metrics Paints Dismal Picture: 05-15-2019: ROANE MAN CHARGED WITH BREAKING AND ENTERING:ROBERTS AND RIGGS LOGGING IN WV MOUNTAINS. (02/22/2024) James Roberts and Lester Riggs. Hur-Joker men joined hundreds of Calhoun men in the early 1900s to take off to the logging boom in the mountains of West Virginia, mostly in Nicholas and Webster County. Courtesy of Denver Roberts.By Bob Weaver. The annual Calhoun County High School Homecoming Parade was among the county's most popular events during much of the 20th century. The parades continued in the town until shortly after 1998, when the school was moved to the new campus at Mount Zion. Citizens would turn out by the droves to watch the parade and students built ...CLAY COUNTY TARZAN "WILD MAN BROWN" WAS FOLK HERO. (02/13/2024) A Clay County legend died at 97 in 2005. Call him eccentric, free spirited or a folk hero. Orval Elijah Brown (1908-2005) was an individual who gained notoriety as the "Clay County Wild Man" during the Great Depression, using his untamed physique that included a flowing beard and ...

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 last of the organized snake handlers in West Virginia are the descendants of the Rev. Elza O. Preast of Scrabble Creek, near Gauley Bridge. Preast, who was bitten nine times in 35 years, died in 2002. ... The Hur Herald contributed to a landmark TV series in 2002 BBC program "Around the World in 80 Faiths," including serpent handling.

Get more information for Hur Herald in Mt Zion, WV. See reviews, map, get the address, and find directions. Search MapQuest. Hotels. Food. Shopping. Coffee. Grocery. Gas. Hur Herald. Opens at 9:00 AM (304) 354-7011. Website. More. Directions Advertisement. 540 Alan B Mollohan DrGRANTSVILLE, W.Va. — An abandoned high school in Cahoun County is getting a new life. Crystal Mersh, a 1982 graduate of Calhoun County High School, …A VISIT TO A SECRET CHAMBER - Cremo Store, Post Office And Lodge Hall. (02/18/2024) Daniel D. Duskey, grandson of legendary Daniel Duskey of Calhoun's Civil War Moccasin Rangers, was a Rowels Run, Cremo Village mainstay. Duskey's remaining wooden leg, the work-brittle man trudging a thousand miles on foot and horseback, from his Rowels Run home.ROBERTS AND RIGGS LOGGING IN WV MOUNTAINS. (02/22/2024) James Roberts and Lester Riggs. Hur-Joker men joined hundreds of Calhoun men in the early 1900s to take off to the logging boom in the mountains of West Virginia, mostly in Nicholas and Webster County. Courtesy of Denver Roberts.Spencer WV Mayor Terry Williams says, "The Spencer Police Department has been fortunate to have many dedicated officers during my tenure as Mayor. Being a police officer is certainly not an easy position at times, and requires a special type of public servant. ... Corporal Starcher tells the Hur Herald that Spencer officers work 4, 10 hour ...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 ...Hot weather and sunny skies graced the 10th annual Appalachian Classic Bike Race at Calhoun County Park this weekend, with the highlight being yesterday's WVMBA 7th Point Series Race for 2006. The mountain bike racers pedaled across the fields, up and down the rustic trails, through mud holes and down steep hillsides. Experts raced 21.6 miles ...CALHOUN'S DEEP WELL DREAMS - Resting In The Stars. (04/05/2024) By Bob Weaver 2008. Fifty years have passed since one of West Virginia's first experimental wells was drilled at Mount Zion, Calhoun County. Local residents remember the secrecy when Exxon and Consolidated Gas erected the giant rig between Route 16 and Pine Creek.

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 ...

Historians say the first school building was built in Calhoun in the general area about 1824. The river trail, still visible today, was traveled by early explorers and settlers before the region was open to commercial riverboat ventures in the late 1800s. Mary Ann Barrows, long-time editor of the Calhoun Chronicle, wrote in 1975, that "No doubt ...

ENJOY VAST HUR HERALD ARCHIVES - History, Humor, News, Old Photos (09/07/2023) We invite you to visit thousands of stories and photos on the Hur Herald Archives. Some of the history and features stories are under PEOPLE, HUMOR AND HISTORY and COLUMNS, with Norma Knotts Shaffer's vast collection of historical photos under PHOTO OF THE DAY.West Virginia's economic news—the good and the bad. October 20, 2023. The tyranny of political self-interest. October 19, 2023. Substance abuse fuels foster care surge. Think tank searches for ...May 29, 2016 ·. Bob Weaver runs the Hur Herald, a website catering to Calhoun County and the 7,000 or so people that live there. Twenty years ago, the Hur Herald started as a joke among he and his friends who live in the unincorporated community named Hur. It’s just too expensive to keep the site running any longer, and after running the ...Get out the door with less stress by making one of these easy breakfast recipes. They require no cooking, blending, microwaving, or cooking skills whatsoever. Breakfast may be hera...BUCKHANNON - Arguably Buckhannon's most colorful and controversial character has passed away, according to one of his closest confidantes. Carson Yeager was well-known to many for his ornery antics and penchant for alcohol as he roamed city streets, utterly homeless, for many years of his life. But when he died peacefully in his sleep Wednesday ...In 2020, here were 9,300 fewer students in West Virginia this school year than last and the decrease could cost the public education system nearly $43 million in state funding. Calhoun, now with a low student population of 862 (2020), a near record loss of 101 students.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. Chloe merchant John Rose takes a break swingin' with his. dog on the porch of the country store emporium along Rt. 16. The owner and operator of one of Calhoun's last "country" stores, John Herman Rose, 76, has passed. He was owner and operator of Chloe Auto and Hardware since 2001. John enjoyed helping people and was the ideal storekeeper. In a study of the safest U.S. states during COVID-19, updated on Wednesday, May 26, West Virginia ranked dead last. A few weeks ago, in national statistics, Calhoun WV had the 3rd highest number of outbreak cases in the nation, while the Hur Herald could not confirm the cause of the outbreak or get a statement verifying it.The sprawling structure rests on Bowers Hill along US 33-119 east of Spencer, the exchange moved to that location in the early 1930s from a site near downtown Spencer. The market was reported to have been established in the late 1800s, at the end of the long-gone B&O railroad which hauled thousands upon thousands of animals to the greater world ...

2003. It is hopeful that Matthew Bonar and Tia Satterfield will return to Calhoun County Park 50 years hence on June 1, 2053 to participate in the opening of the Time Capsule buried yesterday. The 17-year-old seniors, members of the Student Council at CHS, would be 67-years-old. Bonar and Satterfield joined a number of other Calhoun citizens in ...He was inducted into the West Virginia Voters Hall of Fame. After retiring from Goodyear Tire and Rubber in Akron in 1972, he returned to his Calhoun roots, in recent years living at his family homestead he named "Crowhill." His life and times recorded by the Hur Herald. See complete obituary Eucle C. Knotts.HUR HERALD'S TALES OF BEAR FORK: THE MCCUMBERS COMETH - Pioneer Spirit Brought Hard Work And Mountain Music To Calhoun County (Part 1) (05/17/2022) ... The humble music makers in the hills of Calhoun and WV did not seek recognition for their genuine music, they were sought after by others who had an appreciation of their deep rooted sound ...He was about 94 (Nov. 2022). He held forth on the Right Fork of Crummies Creek, having been discovered ill at his cabin last Spring. Parsons of Crummies Creek was on the fringe of the Bear Fork Wilderness, with up to 25 Families once living there, with only a handful of survivors in 2022. His body has been returned to the Calhoun sod.Instagram:https://instagram. joyce brady funeral home ncinternal revenue service address austin texaseasttexaspeddlero'reilly jacksonville fl CHS CLASS OF 1958 - Still Connected After All These Years. Bill Downs, a speaker at the alumni event at Calhoun Middle-High School, remembers the "aura of the school," with schools and churches being the center of the world for young people, connected to the structure, teachers and mentors and to each other. Much has changed with 21st Century ... By Bob Weaver 2022. In today's overloaded media world, it would be easy to overlook West Virginia's illustrious Jim Comstock, publisher of the "West Virginia Hillbilly," a weekly publication from Richwood, which had a run of 30 years or more, and over 30,000 paid subscribers. It would be fair to say, his monumental work is little noted nor long ... strip clubs in salem ortruist hancock md In today’s digital age, where news is readily available at our fingertips, the Herald Sun newspaper has successfully adapted its delivery methods to keep up with changing consumer ... brazeiros churrascaria brazilian steakhouse knoxville tn We have a couple hundred of his photos, most without names, donated by retired mailman Oda Carpenter of Mt. Zion. Farris was the son of Floyd (1857-1919) and Frances (1859-1937) Barr who are buried in the Barr Cemetery on Sycamore. Farris, who was born in 1888, was married to Willa Deems in 1922. He had at least two sisters, Cora and Una, and a ...KKK CROSS BURNING CAUSED CRESTON STIR IN 2003. (12/02/2023) By Bob Weaver 2003. A large burning cross with about fifteen to twenty hooded figures slowed traffic on Route 5 near Creston, Wirt County Saturday night. "I couldn't believe what I saw," said Charlie Brown, who was returning to Calhoun County from Parkersburg with his wife.04-26-2024. STRANGE MUSHROOMS SPOTTED ALONG WEST FORK - "Observed By Keen Backwoods Eye". 04-26-2024. LOST CEMETERY RE-DISCOVERED NEAR EGYPT RIDGE - 30 Repose In Backwoods, Above West Fork Little Kanawha River. 04-26-2024. SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Calhoun's Godlight, Green Hills Closing Tighter. 04-26-2024.