Thursday, March 17, 1949
HAM AND BACON SALE
The first annual 4-H Ham and Bacon Show and Sale for Pocahontas County was held at Marlinton last Saturday. Put it down as a success. The champion ham, 16 pounds, 12 ounces, was entered by Jack Tacy, of Cass. It sold for $2.50 a pound for a total of $42…
The champion piece of bacon was shown by Ernest Shaw, of Slaty Fork. It was one of five entries to go to the State Show to be held at Clarksburg… The place of the local sale was the commodious sales room of the Davis Motor Company.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Asbury Sheets, of Greenbank, a son, Robert Allen.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. James A. Turner, of Cloverlick, a son.
FIELD NOTES
About a month ago the question came up as to the length rattlesnakes grew in this mountain country. Rodney Bussard is ready to stand to testify that he and Bedford Alderman killed a big rattler years ago on North Fork of Anthony’s Creek which he believes would have measured six feet and more.
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My friend, Newt Landis killed a monster rattlesnake on the Browning Place on Cranberry. This snake was carefully measured and it was seven feet long. It was skinned, and the broad place in the hide measured thirteen inches. The house dog destroyed the skin and all witnesses are dead.
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Another time, Mr. Landis was checking up on livestock on the Browning place in the spring of the year. There were bears in those days, though not so many as now. So, he carried a gun. He saw something black, and figured it might be a small bear. Looking closer to make sure he did not shoot a black calf, he could hardly believe his eyes – a big ball of big black snakes. Mr. Landis sent a rifle ball right into the middle of the mass. And what a scatterment of snakes there was – scores of them racing away from that place. However, the shot accounted for nine big ones.
Henry Astin was showing one big white sucker all over town the other day. It was twenty inches long and weighed four pounds. He caught it in the Greenbrier River in the Price Hole.
DEATHS
Mrs. Nellie Adaline Butler McGraw, 74, died at her home in Marlinton Thursday, March 10, 1949. On Saturday afternoon, the funeral was held from the Marlinton Methodist Church and her body was laid to rest in the family plot in Mt. View Cemetery. Thus is noted the passing of a truly good woman, wife and mother. She was united in marriage to James J. McGraw…
The flower girls were: Mrs. Sue Moses, Mrs. Mary Pifer, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Weiford, Mrs. Dagney Love-lace, Mrs. Alice Burdette, Mrs. Noble Moore, Mrs. Lillian Beard, Mrs. Ruby Moses and Miss Leone Moore. The pallbearers were: Gail Dilley, Audrey Dilley, James Dilley, Norval Pifer, Charlie Lovelace and Willard Eskridge…
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Mrs. Ada Sharp Herold, aged 68 years, died at her home in Marlinton Saturday night, March 12, 1949. On Monday afternoon the funeral was held from the Presbyterian Church with burial in Mt. View Cemetery. Mrs. Herold was a daughter of the late Lee and Elizabeth McNeill Sharp. She was married to Wise Herold, who preceded her some years in death…
It is given to few people to so thoroughly enjoy a life wholly given in service to others, as was the experience of this most useful and truly good woman.
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Adam W. Simmons, aged 80 years, died Tuesday, March 8, 1949, at his home near Cass. On Thursday afternoon, the funeral service was held from the Wanless church with interment in the church cemetery.
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Gordon Dewey Underwood, aged 26 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Underwood, of Huntersville, departed this life March 10, 1949. … The deceased was a veteran of World War II and saw and participated in much active service. Funeral service was conducted at the Beaver Creek Church with interment in the Beaver Creek cemetery.
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Ken Meeks, aged 71 years, of Durbin, died Tuesday, March 8, 1949. On Friday, his body was laid to rest in the Stony Bottom cemetery, the service being held from the Presbyterian church. He is survived by his son, Edward, and his daughter, Lucille.
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Mrs. Maggie A. Galford McClure, aged 88 years, a daughter of the late Allan and Nancy Cassell Galford, died at her home on Stony Creek March 11, 1949. On Monday her body was laid to rest in the Cochran cemetery beside the grave of her husband, S. D. McClure, the funeral service being held from the West Union Church.
The deceased came from one of the pioneer families of Pocahontas County and lived to see the fifth generation of her family.