Hi Bob, Enjoyed your website very much. Learned of it from Sharon Bailey Hurlocker. I never lived in Cherry Tree or Fisher Bottom, but I had an aunt, Ethel Ellis Fambrough, who did live in Fisher Bottom in the '40's. I remember visiting there often. She was a nurse at the old Mercy Hospital, I believe. I lived on Mud Fork in camp 15 and sttended J.B Ellis Elementary around '45 to '49. Your stories bring back a lot of similar memories. A great time in life was lived in WV. I still go back as often as possible.

Thanks for the memories, it has been many years but viewing the web site has brought back many memories. I enjoyed very much viewing the pictures of my classmates in the photos 3-4 and 3-5 grades.

Thanks again for memories... Eben

My sister in law has an old quart milk bottle that has holden dairy island creek coal co. holden wv she is wanting to know if its worth anything or how she can find out more about it. If anyone can help we'd sure be great full. thank you for your time and i love this site.

I so enjoyed your Logan history. I was born in 1942 to Skip and Tootsie Irvin, my grandfather was Boyd Simmons. We lived at 16 High St, Logan. It was the house with the high wall. We lived in front of Hershel and Maude Williamson and next to Ole and Mary Bennett and Jean and Claude White, also their sons Claude Lee and Bill.

I need to dig through old pictures of Logan and get copies made. Hello to everyone and any family or friends that remember me or my family please e-mail. Love!!!!

Thank you for sharing such wonderful memories. I also lived in Cherry Tree when Jerry Johnson thought he could fly!! My grandfather, J.T. Walsh built the home we lived in on what was called the "slate dump" Mary Cornwell was my great aunt and I remember we did not live far from her and I think it was close to the Sampson's. We are related to the Edmonson family and they also lived near by. Glen Paul was at our home often and got into trouble for throwing my little red rocker over the creek bank. But, when you are young you remember the terror of losing you "little red rocker" We later moved to Fisher Bottom into my Grandfathers house when he moved to Ohio. The names of the Walsh family from Fisher Bottom are Flora (my mother),Tennis, Jim (Doc) Juanita, Rowena, Chester, Anna, Nina, Audrey, John and Sue. I love reading all the names and information you have shared. Thanks so much.

Sometime after my family moved out of state in 1957 the Deskins Addition property was purchased by the state .

The Deskins family graves were re-located and i am trying to verify where they were re-located .

My 85 yr old mother believes it was to Forest Lawn , Peck's Mill but i have scanned over 900 names from their data and no Deskins are listed so i am wondering if they have been moved elsewhere .

If anyone has any ideas please contact me at clinealant@gmail.com

Also wondering if anyone can identify the Mrs Deskins photo shown on this site ?

Thanks

Looking for all Baisden family relatives, trying to add them all to my family tree. My father was born and raised in West Virginia, and I have located many of my relative via Facebook, look me up..

Ran across your site while traveling the genealogy road . I was born in Logan in Deskins Addition in 1944 . My mother was a Keys and grandmother a Deskins .

Nice Site

Hello everyone, I am trying to find out information on my biological fater. His name was Sylford Adkins. Everyone called him Tuck. I looked up Cherry Tree because I found out he was born there to Everette Adkins and Deephia Dempsey Adkins. This is about all I know of him. If anyone could help me I would be forever in their debt. Thank you for reading this. Lisa

(No, I wasn't cussing in the previous message. The computer put in those symbols for some mysterious reason.)

In looking over your genealogy info, I'm particularly interested in your ancestor Anna McKinney Music who married a Hatfield. We also have McKinney and Hatfield ancestors (and McCoy ones, as well, for that matter - we have ancestors on both sides of the famous feud!)

It's looking more and more like we are distant cousins. My sister knows a lot more about it and might be able to trace the exact relationship.

More info you might be interested in: My father's mother was Nola Baisden, née Perkins. One of her brothers was Louis Perkins (#115 on the map - my cousin still lives there. Uncle Statan Stonoff lived next door, at the first curve in the road, until his death about 3 years ago.) Uncle Jim Stonoff now lives in Indiana, and my father Robert Stonoff in Arizona.

Another of Nola's brothers was Vernard Bailey, likely related to the Baileys listed in the Pilgrim Holiness Church congregation. I remember going to the church while visiting my grandmother in the 1960's.

My sister Katrina Stonoff has done extensive genealogical research, and found that Nola Perkins Stonoff Baisden descended from Scots-Irish families who lived in the area for many generations, dating back to before the American Revolution. It is quite possible that we are distantly related!

Check out my sister's blog on Vernard Bailey at Digging Up Stones (I tried to post the #@*%! address, but this site won't let me.) Nola Perkins, our grandmother, is on the lower right in the photo.

Besides these, a couple more of my relatives are mentioned in your website: my aunt Johnnie Baisden; and the Shepherds are also mentioned - they are probably related to my aunt Velma Shepherd (Nola Baisden's youngest child.)

I'm the oldest child of Robert Stonoff, listed at #117 (in White's Addition) on the map. I visited Logan a couple of years ago for my uncle Statan's funeral (he is also listed.) It was the first time I'd been there in over 30 years. I too was amazed at the changes - but also by the things that were much as I remembered them from the late 1960's.

You cannot imagine how meaningful your site is to me. Thank you.

Hey Bob
Lukies' truly was 5 star........

Hi Bobby, just checkin a test with the web site

You have built a real nice site and plenty of info, Thanks Nick, Great-Grandson of John Lewis whom married Mary McCormack

I love this guestbook. Some I know some i don't I was born at #22holden.Not another place like it!hope to see everyone at the parkin June

Hi Robert:
I visit the Cherry Tree site frequently to see who has signed your guest book and to check for updates.

I came across your web sight when searching for images of coal miners of W VA. Reading "Love Letters" written by Johnny and Elizabeth helped me realize just how fragile-and-short life is. Was sorry to learn of Johnny's early death, but happy to learn that Elizabeth had a productive and happy life. I hope to see them both in Heaven (in the near future, since I'm now 72 years old). Thank you for a wonderful web site. John Ratcliff

i liked your page i grew up in cherry tree i am exicited to look at all the old time pics of what it used to look like

Very nice site.The stories of Cherry Tree remind me very much of the little community of Monaville in which I grew up in,which is just a few miles from Cherry Tree.Times were simpler back then and in most ways,I think better.Wonderful site-keep up the good work.