ADMINISTRATION TO CREDITORS,
DISTRIBUTEES & LEGATEES
Notice is hereby given that the following estate(s) have been opened for probate in the Pocahontas County Clerk’s Office at P. O. Box 209, 900 Tenth Avenue, Suite C, Marlinton, WV 24954-0209. Any person seeking to impeach or establish a will must make a complaint in accordance with the provisions of West Virginia Code 41-5-11 through 13. Any interested person objecting to the qualifications of the personal representative or the venue or jurisdiction of the court, shall file written notice of an objection with the County Commission within 60 days after the date of the first publication or within 30 days of the service of the notice, whichever is later.
If an objection is not filed timely, the objection is forever barred. Any claims against an estate must be filed within 60 days of the first publication of this notice in accordance with West Virginia Code 44-2 and 44-3A.
Settlement of the estate(s) of the following named decedent(s) will proceed without reference to a fiduciary commissioner unless within 60 days from the first publication of this notice a reference is requested by a party of interest or an unpaid creditor files a claim and good cause is shown to support reference to a fiduciary commissione.
First Publication Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Claim Deadline: Monday, November 10, 2025
ESTATE NUMBER: 14811
ESTATE OF: MANCIL EARL DOOLITTLE
EXECUTRIX: Shirley L. Doolittle
P. O. Box 95
Green Bank, WV 24944-0095
ESTATE NUMBER: 14813
ESTATE OF: EDITH WALTON ARBOGAST
ADMINISTRATRIX: Terri Sharp
P. O. Box 52
Hillsboro, WV 24946-0052
ESTATE NUMBER: 14816
ESTATE OF: FORREST DELAYNE RHEA
ADMINISTRATRIX: Teresa Rhea
3278 Edray Road
Marlinton, WV 24954-6675
Subscribed and sworn to before me on September 5, 2025.
Melissa L. Bennett
Clerk of the Pocahontas County Commission
9/11/2c
NOTICE OF ANCILLARY FILING
WITHOUT ANY ADMINISTRATION
TO CREDITORS, DISTRIBUTEES AND LEGATEES
Notice is hereby given that the following foreign will or affidavit of heirs has been filed in the Pocahontas County Clerk’s Office at 900 Tenth Avenue Suite C; P. O. Box 209, Marlinton, WV 24954-0209.
An interested person(s) objecting to the filing of the foreign will or affidavit or objecting to the absence of appointment or administration being made in this state must file a statement with the Pocahontas County Commission through the County Clerk’s Office at the address listed above within 60 days after the date of first publication or 30 days of service of the notice, whichever is later. If an objection is not timely filed, the objection is forever barred. The Pocahontas County Commission, upon receiving any timely objection thereto, shall schedule a hearing or hearings thereon and order relief, if any, it considers proper including, but not limited to, an order directing that full and complete ancillary administration of the estate of the nonresident decedent be made in this state.
First Publication Date: Thursday, September 4, 2025
ESTATE NAME: BARBARA JEAN WHITE
3865 Big Run Drive
Elkton, VA. 22827-3460
ANCILLIARY ADMINISTRATOR:
David Edward Knott
3865 Big Run Drive
Elkton, VA 22827-3460
Subscribed and sworn to before me on August 27, 2025.
Melissa L. Bennett
Clerk of the Pocahontas County Commission
9/4/2c
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
The undersigned Substitute Trustee, by virtue of the authority vested in him by that certain Deed of Trust, dated December 16, 2003, and duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, in Document No. 22633, in Book No. 236, at Page 399, Zernie D Smith did convey unto Richard A. Pill or David D. Pill, Either of Whom May Act, Trustee(s), certain real property described in said Deed of Trust; and the beneficiary has elected to appoint Seneca Trustees, Inc., as Substitute Trustee; and default having been made under the aforementioned Deed of Trust, and the undersigned Substitute Trustee having been instructed by U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee on behalf of and with respect to Barclays Mortgage Trust 2021-NPL1, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Series 2021-NPL1 to foreclose thereunder, will offer for sale at public auction at the front door of the Pocahontas County Courthouse in Marlinton, West Virginia, on September 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM the following described real estate, together with its improvements, easements and appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in 07 – Little Levels District, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and more particularly described as follows:
All of that certain tract or parcel of land together with the improvements thereon and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in Little Levels District, Pocahontas County, West Virginia and more particularly bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a 1/2 inch iron pipe set in a fence corner, corner to Eldridge and Delores Waugh and on the line of Leo and Alice Cain, thence leaving Waugh and with Cain for the next 3 lines S 8-03-50 E passing a 1 1/4 inch iron pipe in the fence line below the road at 213.22 feet, in all 228.22 feet to a point in the Access Road leading to Cain’s property, thence running somewhat up the center of the road N 61-35-16 E 309.47 feet to a 1 inch iron pipe found beside a corner fence post at a gate, near the south east corner of a new hay shed, thence crossing said Access Road S 28-36 05 E 131.24 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe set in a fence line of Cains, and in a new fence corner, from which a 6 inch double White Oak bears S 67 W 3.25 feet, thence cutting through the 116.25 acre tract of Sam and Lola Arbogast for the next 6 lines and following a fence line S 47-08-37 W 438.51 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe set beside a corner fence post, thence S 38-11-02 W 173.89 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe set beside a corner fence post, on the east side of a drain, from which a 16 inch triple Sugar Maple bears N 78 W 16.90 feet, thence S 64-15-11 W 138.58 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe set in a fence corner, thence S 40-13-06 W 48.17 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe set in a fence corner, thence S 19-21-50 W 135.17 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe set in a fence corner, thence S 74-02-50 W 375.08 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe set in a fence corner, on the line of Alice Arbogast, thence with Alice Arbogast for the next 3 lines N 26-07-51 W 472.03 feet to a 13 inch White Oak in a fence corner in a hollow with Blazes on it, now marked, and being 30 feet south of a stream, thence running down the hollow S 58-58-09 W 217.88 feet to a point in the center of the stream a corner to Arbogast, thence N 23-06 44 W passing a 1/2 inch iron pipe set at 13.42 feet, on the bank of the stream, in all 138. 80 feet to a 1/2 inch pipe set above the Secondary Route 219-20, on the line of Arbogast and a corner to Eldridge and Delores Waugh, thence leaving Alice Arbogast and with Waugh for 1 line N 64-14-10 E 1190.65 feet to the point of beginning and containing 13.81 feet to the point of beginning, and containing 13.81 acres, more or less, as surveyed by William E. Dilley, L.L.S., of Dunmore, West Virginia, in August of 1990.
And being the same real property conveyed unto Zernie Smith by deed dated November 18, 2003 from Shannon Arbogast and Darlene Arbogast, husband and wife, said deed not yet of record.
Reference is hereby made for all prior instruments in the chain of title for all reservations, restrictions, limitations and easements and right of way affecting the property herein conveyed.
For Purposes of West Virginia Code §38-1-4, any notice of Trustee’s sale shall be mailed to the Grantor at the following address (or such address subsequently given to Lender in writing by the Grantor): 1935 Flour Bluff Drive, Corpus Christi, TX 78418
At the time of the execution of the Deed of Trust, this property was reported to have an address of: One Arbogast Rd, Buckeye, WV 24924.
The referenced real estate will be conveyed with no covenants of warranty, and subject to all covenants, restrictions, easements, rights of way and reservations which may be a matter of record in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office or visible upon the ground, all prior liens and encumbrances, including, without limitation, liens for real estate taxes, incinerator, sanitary and sewer charges. The purchasers at the sale shall be responsible for paying the recording costs and also the tax on the privilege of transferring real property (the cost of the tax stamp to be affixed to the deed). The purchasers shall be responsible for payment of all real estate taxes.
The subject property will be sold in “AS IS” condition. The Substitute Trustee shall be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the subject property to vacate said property.
TERMS: $4000.00 in cash and/or certified funds as deposit at the time of sale with the balance due and payable within 30 days of the day of sale.
TAX LIEN: In the event that there are Federal Tax Liens against the property, the United States would have the right to redeem the property within a period of 120 days from the date of such sale or the period allowable for redemption under local law, whichever is longer.
Pursuant to the Deed of Trust, the Trustee may postpone the sale by public announcement at the time and place designated or by posting a notice of the same, and act by agent in the execution of the sale. The parties secured by the Deed of Trust reserve the right to purchase the property at such sale.
SENECA TRUSTEES, INC.
5000 Coombs Farm Drive, Suite 104
Morgantown, WV 26508
(304) 413-0044
(304) 292-2918
Toll free: (888) 534-3132
Reference File No. 92697
9/4/2c
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE is hereby given pursuant to and by virtue of the authority vested in the Substitute Trustee, Pill & Pill, PLLC, by that certain Deed of Trust dated August 15, 2013, executed by the Borrower, Carol Griffis Jr., to William D. Goodwin, the Trustee, of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, in Book 348, at Page 569.
At the time of the execution of the Deed of Trust, this property was reported to have a mailing address of 594 Newman Rd., Buckeye, WV 24924.
Pill & Pill, PLLC was appointed as Substitute Trustee by an APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE dated April 4, 2025, of record in the Clerk’s Office in Book 425, at Page 251. The Borrower defaulted under the Note and Deed of Trust and the Substitute Trustee has been instructed to foreclose under the Deed of Trust. Accordingly, the Substitute Trustee will sell the following described property to the highest bidder at the front door of the Courthouse of Pocahontas County, in Marlinton, West Virginia, on the following date: September 24, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. all of that certain lot, tract or parcel of land, together with the buildings thereon, and the easements, rights-of-way and appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate near Mill Point, in Little Levels District, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at an iron pin, set in the corner of lands between Joseph W. Tawny and Virgil Vandeavander; thence with Tawny line S 25 E 200 feet to an iron pin; thence leaving this line N 74 E 217.80 feet to an iron pin; thence N 25 W 200 feet to an iron pin in the Virgil Vandeavander line; thence with this line S 74 W 217.80 feet to the point of beginning and containing 1.0 acres, more or less.
And being the same real property conveyed unto Carol Griffis, Jr. by deed dated August 6, 2013, from Kenneth C. Weaver and Mary F. Weaver, husband and wife, said deed of record in Deed Book 344, at Page 28.
There is also granted and conveyed by this conveyance, a right- of-way, for access to the parcel herein conveyed by way of the existing “farm road” as shown on a plat of record in the aforesaid Clerk`s Office in Deed Book 153 at Page 354. The Grantees are to provide open access to the Virgil Vandeavander lands by this “farm road” across their 1.0 acre tract.
Reference is hereby made to all prior instruments in the chain of title for all reservations, restrictions, limitations and easements and right of way affecting the property herein conveyed.
TERMS OF SALE:
1) The property will be conveyed in an “AS IS” physical condition by Deed containing no warranty, express or implied, subject to the Internal Revenue Service right of redemption, all property taxes, prior Deeds, liens, reservations, encumbrances, restrictions, rights-of-ways, easements, covenants, conveyances and conditions of record in the Clerk’s office or affecting the subject property.
2) The Purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the transfer taxes imposed by the West Virginia Code § 11-22-1.
3) The Beneficiary and/or the Servicer of the Deed of Trust and Note reserve the right to submit a bid for the property at sale.
4) The Trustee reserves the right to continue sale of the subject property from time to time by written or oral proclamation, which continuance shall be in the sole discretion of the Trustee.
5). The Trustee shall be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the property to vacate said property, and any personal property and/or belongings remaining at the property after the foreclosure sale will be deemed to constitute ABANDONED PROPERTY AND WILL BE DISPOSED OF ACCORDINGLY.
6). The total purchase price is payable to the Trustee within thirty (30) days of the date of sale, with ten (10%) of the total purchase price payable to the Trustee at sale.
Pill & Pill, PLLC, Substitute Trustee
Jonathan L .Wertman, Esq.
Pill & Pill, PLLC
85 Aikens Center
Edwin Miller Boulevard
P.O. Box 440
Martinsburg, WV 25402
(304) 263-4971
foreclosures@pillwvlaw.com
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