Wordless Wednesday

The Beane Sister's

1962

Tombstone Tuesday

Andy L. Morris and Lucy E. Morris

Hylton Cemetery

Glace, Monroe, West Virginia

Maintenance Monday

Doing away with the negative connotations of "Madness Monday", I am now choosing to not blog a regular post on Monday's, instead using that day to gather up all the loose ends and provide maintenance to either my own research, or that of my clients.

I hope you will join with me in providing a "Maintenance Monday" for your own home or business office!

We will of course, return to our regularly scheduled postings tomorrow!

Sentimental Sunday

Waiteville School

[Waiteville Community Building]

Waiteville, Monroe, WV

This old school house held four classrooms.  It covered the kindergarten through junior high school grades. For many children in the community this was all of the education they ever received.

For those who decided to travel to Gap Mills to go to High School, they often walked over Peter's Mountain on Sunday, and boarded with other families. Walking back home on Friday evening after the last class, or on Saturday morning. [We're talking on rough trek!]

After the school closed in the 1960's, the Board of Education kept the rights to the property. And later sold it to the community. Today the building has been kept up in pristine condition, and is a wonderful community building. Complete with a small gym, the building is used for community and family events. And this is where my family holds theirs biennual reunion.

At our next reunion, in August 2011, we will be using the building for the entire weekend. We will be bringing our sleeping bags, cots, tents, and campers. And we will be spending an entire weekend together! [Can you tell I can hardly wait??? And I've got to wait a whole year yet!]

This old building stands a silent reminder of those who chose to learn, and who didn't have it quite as easy as we did, or our children, or grandchildren.

Here is where my Dad and several of his siblings attended school. It sits in the heart of the tiny Waiteville community. A place that will forever mean "home" to me.

Siesta Saturday

You got it!

Siesta Saturday is my new non-blogging day! On Siesta Saturday's, I will be sleeping in late. Maybe staying in my pj's all day long!



But definitely resting from the hectic, often too busy, life-style that I have given myself. It's time to slow down and take a siesta!!!

Follow Friday

Today I'd like to introduce you to Old Stones Undeciphered.

Have you ever been somewhere and felt right home? Met a person and felt instant kinship?

That's how I felt when I visited Old Stones Undeciphered. The author of this site, Lisa Wallen Logsdon has this to say regarding herself: "I am a part of each and every one of my ancestors back to the beginning of time. I have a unique DNA. Only God can truly know me."

Lisa Wallen Logsdon

I was instantly intrigued and felt right at home reading Lisa's posts. A kindred spirit! Her love for her family is such a genuine feeling in her posts. And her love of her ancestry and ancestors is equally felt. So often we read the technical posts by other researchers, and the "heart" just isn't it. But Lisa's is truly felt in her every word.

Each time I visit, I am touched in some new way. Sometimes gently. Sometimes overwhelmingly. Always with a reverent love of family.

If you're longing for a feeling of genuine ancestral power, just visit Old Stones Undeciphered..

Treasure Chest Thursday

Henry and Walter Dreher

abt. 1947-1948

Henry Condar Dreher, Jr. [1903-1977] and Walter Louis Dreher [1900-1970] were two of the ten children children born to Henry Condar Dreher, Sr. and Josephine [Josie] Sophie Benzel Dreher.

Henry was my maternal grandfather.