Garol R. Spindler, Jr. awarded Distinguished Engineers of Mines Award from Mining Engineering Department, West Virginia University on May 15, 2010. Garol R. Spindler, Jr. is chairman and CEO of Imagin Minerals, Inc. as well as Zeox Corporation. Spindler’s career includes a number of senior-level positions within the United States, Canada and Australia. […]
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Henry Jackson (1774-1852), the youngest child of John Jackson and Elizabeth Cummins, had at least 23 children by his two wives — Mary Hyre and Elizabeth Shreves. This post is about one of Henry and Mary’s sons Hyer Jackson from material submitted by Nancy Jackson. Hyer3 Jackson (Henry2, John1) was […]
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Stories from my youth. By Bill Jackson My brothers and I were good marble shooters and we always ended the summer with a lot of marbles. When I was in the sixth grade, I won the marble championship at Alta Vista Elementary school and had dreams of going to Wildwood, NJ for […]
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September 10, 2020 Here is a link to a wonderfully juicy story about the William D. Carlile scandals. William D. Carlile is the brother of our President Jane Hilder’s great-grandfather Allen Douglas Carlile. It really is a perfect script for the “As the World Turns” or other TV Soap Operas. https://martincitytelegraph.com/2020/03/01/an-1880s-soap-opera-scandal-captivated-kansas-city/ […]
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August 26, 2020 Peg and Martin Easton On May 28, 1955, my Aunt Margaret “Peg” (Hall) Cook and Uncle Martin Easton were married. A day or so later they visited our home on Harris Road in LeRoy, NY on their way to their Honeymoon. My Mom Mary Ellen Hall Hyde, Peg’s only sister, […]
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This true story about Mary Elizabeth Arnold happened before she married Joseph Hall in about 1844. Her mom was Prudence Jackson, daughter of Colonel George Jackson. “Mary Elizabeth Arnold was the eldest daughter of Elijah and Prudence [Jackson] Arnold. She was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, 1819. She attended school at Clarksburg [Harrison Co., […]
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This is a story about John George Jackson that Dorothy Davis relates in her book John George Jackson. John George was the son of Colonel George Jackson. John George later replaced his father in the U.S. House of Representatives. I thought Dorothy’s story appropriate today as we approach the 2020 Presidential Election. How they […]
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“A covered wagon getting stuck in the mud” painting by Alexandre Josquin. A 1805 Harrison County, (West) Virginia incident published in The Weston Democrat, Weston, WV, 12 April 1869, page 3. John George Jackson was the son of Col. George Jackson. “Historical Reminiscence.–In the year 1805, the first covered wagon that was […]
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June 3, 2020 Tales of Our Childhood from Jane Hilder. I was born in Bay Shore, New York, in March 1948. My parents were Peter Hilder and Aimee Carlile. My family lived in the village of Brightwaters, which was about halfway out on the south shore of Long Island. We lived in an older […]
Continue reading → May 26, 2020 A story from Don Jackson’s youth. Family Stories Are Not Always True My grandmother (Grannie), Isla Ward Buster, was born in 1900, one of eleven children, on a farm in central Texas. The last thirteen years of her life, she lived with me and my family. Although she told […]
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