Interview with Rondal Hayes
Recording 1: Hayes discusses his family history and shares stories from his childhood. He talks about beginning to teach children at church and describes what religion and prayer mean to him. He discusses what he hopes to instill in the young people he teaches.
Recording 2: Hayes talks about the history of the Hueysville Church of Christ. He discusses the donation of land for the church and its construction, which began in 1909. He talks about the church's ideology, and women in the early days of the church. He describes the first records of the church, the use of the upstairs, his hopes for the future of the church and its current purpose. Hayes discusses the presence of the Ku Klux Klan and early preachers of the church. He describes working at his store (F.P. Hayes General Store) alongside his father.
Recording 3: Hayes talks about his family's experience during the Great Depression. He discusses his father's store and personality. He talks about taking positions in the church and his dislike for preaching at funerals. He describes Alice Lloyd College's involvement in his community, his school building burning down, and the teachers he had as a boy.
Recording 4: Hayes talks about his childhood, including games he played and how Christmas was celebrated. He talks about practical jokes played in Hueysville, shares tales from his father's store (F.P. Hayes General Store), and describes members of the community. He talks about the development of his father's store and the construction of the railroad beside the church.
Recording 5: Hayes talks about Garrett Theater and what he did for fun as a boy. He shares several stories about fox hunting.
Recording 6: Hayes talks more about fox hunting. He discusses his grandmother, fear, coal camp houses, and old practices in coal mining.
June 6, 1979
Submitted by Richard and Susan Salisbury.
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Joseph Davis (1860-1950)
District Court Clerk for the Garrett Area
Davis was born on Right Beaver and died there, but led an interesting life, having twice walked out to Missouri with his uncles, the Riddles. He walked back both times, becoming dissatisfied. The second time finding that his parents had moved back to Virginia in his absence, leaving him to have to sleep out in the open. He felt safer sleeping in the trees, so that is where he set up residence. Alamander Coburn received word that a young stranger was sleeping in a tree on his farm, so he sent his son-in-law, a Combs, to see who it was. Joseph was invited to supper, and he ended up marrying Alamander's daughter, Sarah Coburn.
Joseph was the cause of the name "Pumpkin Center" at Estill when the superintendent of Elkhorn Coal saw a field of pumpkins Joseph had planted and said it was "the pumpkin center of the whole damn world".
ca. 1948
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis
Alamander (Alka) Davis
Picture 1: Alamander (Alka) Davis driving his yokes of oxen; pulling a steam boiler into the wilds of either Licking or Quick Sand. Davis was a contractor and drove oxen, horses, and mules.
Picture 2: Sitting with his favorite dog, Eisenhower. His son Raymond had given him a matched pair of coon hounds after the war, one named Eisenhower and the other named Patton. Davis was Maintenance Superintendent of Princess Elkhorn Coal's Camp at David at this time.
Picture 1: 1920s or 1930s
Picture 2: 1948
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis
Pitts Fork School
Picture 1: Alma Reffett-Lowe is the standing adult all the way to the left and Edna Mae Castle Davis is squatting in the front row before her.
Picture 2: Behind the woman and children is Pitts Fork School. This is the last building to be used, the first having been a log structure. It was two room with out side toilets and a dug and drilled well. The school was closed in 1965 when it was consolidated into Clark Elementary.
Pictured is O'Kala Reffett Ousley and her daughters Lois and Bonnie.
ca. early 1940s
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)
Picture 1: This picture of the members of the Martin Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was taken in 1947 by Alma Ruth Salisbury Edwards.
Picture 2: Pictured in front of the church are members Alafair Flanery, Ellen Flanery Salisbury, Paulie Dingus, Blanche Dingus, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, and Nancy Dingus
Picture 3: Taken in 1940s, when the church was located in the Cumminsville area of Martin.
Picture 4: Taken sometime in the 1940s in front of the Cumminsville building, with Bill Flanery and his mule, Old Bob.
Picture 5: From the 1957 Church Dedication program for the new building
Picture 6: Taken in 1957, when the church was located across from what is now St Joseph Hospital in Martin.
Picture 7: The Relief Society working on a quilt in April 1972. Pictured from right to left are Alafair Flanery, Polly Dingus, Effie Maggard, Grace Flannery, Goldie Spurlock.
Submitted by Richard Salisbury
Birthday Party at Martin School 1941
1941
Submitted by Richard Salisbury
Bucks Branch Tipple
circa 1940s or 1950s
Submitted by Richard Salisbury
Drift Baseball
Picture 1: Team picture taken circa late1940s-early 1950s
Picture 2: Drift Ball Park 1936
Submitted by Richard Salisbury
Edna Castle Davis at Caney College Cottage
Edna Castle Davis at Caney College Cottage in Lexington, Kentucky, in the early 1940s. Alice Lloyd maintained (and still maintains) a residence for promising students of the college in Lexington in which they may live while attending the University of Kentucky. Rose Circle was demolished by UK and Caney Cottage was moved to a much nicer location on Rose Lane.
1940s
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis
Funeral of Sarah Jane Reffett
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.
1941
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis