James L. Hicks was a wealthy land holder on one side of Brush Creek Mountain who sold all his holdings to buy enough land to leave an inheritance of 50 acres to each of his 17 children on the other side of the mountain in a small community that came…
The building is the Inland Gas Pumping Station at Midas. This compressor station had been in place since the late 1920s, first in Mud Lick and later in its present location at Midas. It generated its own electricity and had a five house "camp" where…
Sarah Jane Reffett (in her coffin) surrounded by her children and family. Edna Castle Davis is second standing from the left, supported by her cousin and former teacher Alma Lowe. The picture was taken at the John G. Reffett Cemetery in Pitts Fork.
Picture 1: Back row, left to right: Lincoln Sexton, Edgel Jones, Erman "Decon" Jones, Walker D. Craft. Front, left to right: Rondal Hayes, Murph Allen, Al Patton, Gordon Hayes, Pudge Centers. F. P. Hayes standing in doorway. Photo taken by Charles…
Pictures 1 and 2: Floyd Davis.
Davis enlisted in 1940 and had completed basic training before the war began. When Pearl Harbor was bombed he was shipped to Iceland to defend the North Atlantic Shipping Lanes so vital to keeping Great Britain in the…
Picture 1: Floyd Davis, plowing with the mule Jim in about 1971. This picture was taken in the garden beside his house, just below the old Pyramid Post Office
Picture 2: Floyd Davis with a truck he used to haul logs from Turner Branch at Eastern…