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Community news for #Spottswood, #WestVirginia in 1903. #Appalachia #history #genealogy

“DeLay,” a correspondent from Spottswood in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, dated October 12, 1903, which the Logan Banner printed on Friday, October 16, 1903:

As no one wrote to The Banner from this place last week, I will write a few items this week. Some of the correspondents from this place seem to write more to throw mud in their neighbors’ faces than to give the…

Community news for #Spottswood, #WestVirginia in 1903. #Appalachia #history #genealogy #life

An unnamed local correspondent from Spottswood in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on Friday, October 2, 1903:

Some one insulted John Carter last Friday night by stealing his kraut tub.

Rev. I.M. Nelson preached a fine sermon Sunday at the Buck Fork schoolhouse in memory of Weddington Mullins. There was a large congregation.

Mrs. Sol Adams…

#JohnHartford speaks with a vigilante's daughter. #Appalachia #crime #history #amwriting

Later that evening, I expressed an interest in visiting Alice Workman, Billy’s aunt by marriage, who lived nearby in Harts Bottom. More importantly, she was the daughter of French Bryant, who, according to some sources, had murdered Milt Haley and Green…

#JohnHartford visits the daughter of the 1889 mob. #Appalachia #crime #history #amwriting

Later that evening, I expressed interest in visiting Alice Workman in Harts Bottom. Alice was Billy’s neighbor and aunt by marriage…and a daughter to French Bryant. French – the man who allegedly murdered Milt Haley and Green McCoy – was the father to…