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Private developer denies access to former state maintained cemetery
The soles of my shoes have been on many a cemetery in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, in search of kin… Just this morning I decided to try to visit the cemetery where a distant family member of mine is buried… and was told I could not do so. This was a personal first… […]
On my supposed isolationist “hillbilly” roots: the Nicholson family in Madison County, Va., part 3
November 13, 2011 by Robert Moore
Sorry for the delay… busy week. O.K., where was I? Oh, yes… First, I need to say, this has been a very fluid set of posts, and all are subject to modification at this point (the beauty of blogs… they aren’t really “set-hard in ink”). I started off writing this with an idea of where […]
On my supposed isolationist “hillbilly” roots: the Nicholson family in Madison County, Va., part 2
November 6, 2011 by Robert Moore
Though Pollock’s first contact with Madison County took place in October, 1886, and it was the beginning of a long series of events that would impact the mountain people there, it seems unlikely that he actually visited Nicholson Hollow (also known as “Free State Hollow”) at the time. He does, however, mention it briefly, in […]
On my supposed isolationist “hillbilly” roots: the Nicholson family in Madison County, Va., part 1
November 5, 2011 by Robert Moore
Last weekend, I brought out one of the family bibles in my collection, so that my two youngest could see some of the “artifacts” that have been maintained, safely inside, for more than a century. In particular, I wanted to show them these items… … a death poem, a “cypher”/multiplication table, and a lock of […]
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