Please feel free to contact me regarding contributions, questions, problems, suggestions, remarks, etc. ~ County Coordinator

What's New

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--> November 27, 2005

I have a NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!

I have switched internet providers. Previous Email addresses "bgramp@att.net" and/or "bgramp@worldnet.att.net" are no longer valid!!

--> October 16 2005

Added a few notes to various cemeteries in our Cemetery section.

Also, I think we have resolved my Email problems (some were returned to you as undeliverable because they were being "blocked" by my internet provider). If you have a problem with it, please note alternative Email addresses (below)- one of them should hopefully work.

--> September 30, 2005

A big "thank you" to Barbara (Friel) Albright for providing directions to the Clawson Cemetery.

--> August - September 2005

--> July 30, 2005

Thank much (again!) to Volunteer Craig Schultz for his generous contribution of a photo of Green Hill School taken in 1898. Not only that, but it had their names on the back! You will find it in our "Maps, photos, postcards, etc". section - or click here to go straight there. Thank you again Craig and I am sorry it took so long to get published.

--> July 29, 2005

Thanks much to Volunteer Joseph Swallow for generously contributing photo's of his 3rd great-grandparents Josiah Bridger and Margaret See Mace Bridger. You will find their page in our "Maps, photos, postcards, etc". section - or click here to go straight there. Thank you very much Joseph and again I offer my apologies for the delay in getting them published.

--> January 28, 2005

Thanks much to Volunteer Craig Schultz for providing updates to our Newton Duffield and Elizabeth Curry Duffield family web page. You will find new/corrected descriptions and also a much improved photo of the Duffield Sugar Shack (a must see!). He has also contributed a photo of Green Hill school and identified names - I will publish this as soon as time permits. Great contributions Craig! You will find the Newton Duffield family web page in our "Maps, photos, postcards, etc". section - or click here to go straight there.


--> January 5, 2005

Volunteer Susan Hefner Kershner has generously contributed some wonderful postcard images. You will find them in the "Maps, photos, postcards, etc". section - or click here to go straight to the Postcard section. There are more postcard and photo's that will be added as time permits. Thank you very much Susan!

Also changed the home page by adding an image of Marlinton on the Greenbrier River.

Happy New Year to all. Here's wishing you health, wealth, happiness — and more new genealogy information than you can handle!


--> November 12, 2004

Volunteer Paul Greathouse generously contributed photographs and comments of the Andrew Price Memorial. You will find them in the "Maps, photos, postcards, etc". section - or click here to go straight there. Thanks much Paul!

Volunteer Mike Hill represents a group of Richard Hill and Nancy McNeel researchers that are asking for your help to add to their family tree. For over 20 years they have been compiling information and make good use of their family reunions to work on it. Check out their new "Hill, Richard and Nancy McNeel" page in Homepages in the "Records, Homepages, Searches" section - or click here to go straight there. Thanks for the information and Good Luck Mike!

Thank everyone for your help, support, and patience!!!


--> November 21, 2003

Volunteer Doug Jackson and his wife J.J. have been busy documenting more cemetery surveys. You will find the Beverage Cemetery and the Buckeye Presbyterian Church Cemetery online in our "Cemeteries" section and in our Archives. And still to come are the Baxter and the Oak Grove Cemeteries!! Really can't thank you two enough.


--> August 9, 2003

We received another contribution from Volunteer Sally Starks Torchik. In the county Archives you will find a copy of the Marriage License of Samuel Starks and Annie Simmons Starks. Sally says that after previously contributing her father's birth certificate, she has heard from a couple of people that are also researching the same family of Starks. Here's hoping that Sally hears from many more fellow researchers that are as generous as she is. Thank you again Sally!

You can get to the Pocahontas County WVGenWeb Archives from the "Records, Homepages, Searches" section - or click here to go straight there.

--> June 1, 2003

I received a great Memorial Day surprise from Tim Sutton - a survey of the McLaughlin-Sutton Cemetery in Cass. Not only did he and his wife take the survey, but Tim also drives from his home in Waynesboro, Virginia several times yearly to do maintenance and lawncare on the cemetery. We need more people like Tim and his wife! Thank you very very much for the survey and for caring. You will find their survey in our "Cemeteries" section and in our Archives.

In February 2003, Helen Flach sent me an update regarding her photo of an Unknown Cemetery. With some help from our readers, we have identified it as the Gay family cemetery in Edray. The people are still not known, but the picture was probably taken around 1908. See more about this here and see if you can help to identify the people. Thanks much for the update Helen and thanks to everyone that helped. Sorry I took so long to publish the update.

--> January 21, 2003

We are starting the year off with a wonderful contribution from French Campbell. It is a picture postcard of the Brown's Creek School, Huntersville District, April 24, 1911. This group photo even has the names of the individuals written on the back. French came into possession of this many years ago and as far as he knows he does not have relatives from Pocahontas County. Thank you very very much French. You will find it in the "Maps, photos, postcards, etc." section.

--> December 22, 2002

Added a picture of the old mill at Mill Point taken and contributed by Volunteer Betsy Parsons Maisel. Thank you for your help Betsy.

As a holiday present, I transcribed a short chapter out of the book Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County WV by William T. Price - Chapter VI "Union and Confederate Soldiers". You will find this in the Archives under History - see the section "Records, Homepages, Searches" for the Archives link and also in our "Military and Defense" section here.

--> December 16, 2002

Updated the Cemeteries section with information found in the book History Of Pocahontas County, West Virginia 1981, by the Pocahontas County Historical Society, Inc. In an article about the county Historical Museum it describes both a Confederate and PRICE family cemeteries on the museum's grounds. Could use more info on this if you have it.

--> November 10 & 11 2002

Updated the Archives website with the entire Mountain View Cemetery, Section 3 survey text file. Thanks again to all of the Volunteers involved. Contributors: Pam Hoover Johnson & Doug Jackson. Transcribed by: Doris Geiger, Joy Buzzard, and yours truly, Barbara Gramp.

Updated the Archives website with corrections made to the Mt. Pleasant and George Gibson Farm Cemetery surveys. Both of these surveys had errors that I have attempted to correct.

Updated the "Cemeteries" section and the Archives with the Stony Bottom Cemetery survey. Contributed/Transcribed by yours truly, Barbara Gramp.

--> November 3, 2002

Updated the "'Cemeteries" section (again!!) with the Burr Cemetery survey and related headstone pictures. These wonderful additions were contributed by Volunteer Sara Mollohan Huffman. Another unexpected surprise - thank you very much Sara!

In the future I will create a new section for our cemetery pictures on this non-Archives county website. But for now they are available only on the county Archives site. The new section will promote comments/input about the individuals and hopefully reveal new information. But of course, your comments/input/help are always welcome!

--> October 27, 2002

Updated the "Cemeteries" section with the Sharp-Raintown Cemetery survey contributed by Volunteer Linda Burroughs. This was a very pleasant surprise - thanks very much Linda!

--> October 20, 2002

Updated the "Maps, photos, postcards, etc." section to include a photo of Lucy Baxter Riggan holding her daughter Corrine Riggan, taken at Edray about 1903. This great picture was contributed for use by Lucy's grandson Tom Watkins. Thanks again for your help Tom!

--> October 15, 2002

Updated the "Cemeteries" section with the Armstrong Cemetery survey contributed by our active Volunteer, Doug Jackson. Thanks again for all of your help Doug!

Today it looks like the USGenWeb Archives search function is working! When it was not working, a misleading "Internal Server Error" was received when you tried to perform a search. This made the error seem like you were doing something wrong. You weren't - it was just broken and they had to rebuild it.

--> October 14, 2002

Updated the "postcards" page that can be found in the "Maps, photos, postcards, etc." section. Thank you to new volunteer Tom Watkins for contributing the Marlinton Hospital and Edray District High School postcards!

--> October 3, 2002

Updated the "postcards" page that can be found in the "Maps, photos, postcards, etc." section.

--> October 1, 2002

Modified the "Cemeteries" section in an effort to improve the page load time. It now looks like the "Surname List" section with an Index and a Table. If you have any comments about the new format, I would appreciate your input.

--> September, 2002

Updated the Mountain View Cemetery survey with transcribed records by Doris Geiger. See the "Cemeteries" section or the county Archives. Thank you again Doris - you have been very generous with your time and efforts.

Unfortunately, the Search engine on the county Archives website has not been working at all. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon.

Corrected known url addresses that were no longer working. Will appreciate your help reporting any broken links.

Updated the site with a few new links. These can be identified with the yellow animated "new" markers.

Also, thanks to the fellow researchers that have notified me of invalid email addresses on the Surnames and/or Lookup sections. I appreciate your help.

--> May 12, 2002

Added cemetery survey for McCarty Cemetery to the "Cemeteries" section and to the county Archives. This was contributed by Sharon and Paul Greathouse. They have also surveyed other cemeteries for Nicholas County. Thank you very much Sharon and Paul!

Updated the Mountain View Cemetery with transcribed records from images by Doris Geiger. She is working on Section 5 of the cemetery. See the "Cemeteries" section or the county Archives. Thank you so much for your continued support Doris!

--> May 8, 2002

Added new search engine (www.picosearch.com). The old one (RootsWeb GenSeeker) has not been re-indexed for a long time due to it's instability. I got tired of waiting for it to be fixed. Let me know what you think of the new one - especially if you don't like it.


--> May 7, 2002

Added new logo to headers of all pages.


--> May 2, 2002

Added pictures of a 1901 flood in Marlinton. You will find them in the "Maps, photos,postcards,etc." section. Craig Shultz has contributed different views of the great photo, and many faces in the crowd are visible. Additional pictures he has contributed will be published soon. Thanks much again Craig!

Heard from Pete Ahern, the new owner of the land where Hosterman Cemetery is located. He has provided additional directions and other info about the cemetery. See the "Cemeteries" section. Thanks to Pete for his help.


-->April 12, 2002

Added the Brownsburg / Bogg Cemetery survey to the county Archives. This was contributed by Doug Jackson and John Boggs. Thank you both!

Added two more Mountain View Cemetery transcribed text files for sections 6 & 7 to the county Archives. Thank you to Doris Geiger for her help!

Updated Look-up Volunteers section with some old editions of The Pocahontas Times (1970's era). A big thank you to Donna Curry Smith for these great contributions!

Updated the Cemeteries section so that the cemetery list can be printed.

-->March 24, 2002

Udated the Cemetery section to slightly improve page load time and added additional cemetery info. Updated Look-up Volunteers and Shopping sections for Pritt Galford's book "The Galford Ancestry". Thanks to Doris Geiger for letting me know about it.


-->March 17, 2002

Added another Mountain View Cemetery transcribed text file for section 3 to the county Archives. More thank-you's to volunteer Joy Buzzard for her help!

-->March 13, 2002
Added transcribed Geiger Cemetery to the county Archives and cemetery section. Many thanks to volunteer Doris Geiger for contributing and transcribing this info. Thanks again Doris!


-->March 9, 2002
Added new transcript of Mountain View Cemetery, Section 2 of 7 to the county Archives and cemetery section Many thanks to volunteer Joy Buzzard for transcribing!

FYI: the Mountain View Cemetery survey was originally contributed to the Archives by Pam Hoover Johnson and Doug Jackson over more than a year ago. We have been posting (jpg)images of the typed survey for our users to view, and for volunteers to transcribe into text. We need it in text format so that the data will show up when the search function is used. We could still use volunteers to help transcribe. Let me know if you are willing to help (it's really easy - it just takes time).

Added the Alderson Cemetery survey to the county Archives and cemetery section. This was surveyed and transcribed by volunteer Joy Buzzard. Thanks again Joy!

Added notice about a Green Bank School Reunion and Library ground-breaking. This info was provided by Gibbs Kinderman, Director Special Projects, Allegheny Mountain Radio -and- Pam Johnson, McClintic Library Genealogist. Thank you both for the opportunity to support Green Bank and the Pocahontas Co. Library system.

Added miscellaneous new links and removed some obsolete ones (could use your help to report any links that are no longer working). Cleaned up various code to improve efficiency and page load time. Still need to re-vamp the Cemetery page - it sure takes a while to load.

Still have the task outstanding of cataloging the old editions of The Pocahontas Times that were contributed by Donna Curry Smith. They will be added to the Look-up section. Stay tuned.

Still have the task outstanding of transcribing into text the Mountain View Cemetery survey that was contributed to the Archives by Pam Hoover Johnson and Doug Jackson.

Also, let me take this chance to thank our Look-Up Volunteers for selflessly sharing their time and information. And thank you to all of our contributor/volunteers. Thank you all very much for helping to support the sharing of FREE genealogy information.