Newspaper Archive - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

19 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977

July 15, 1977

15 Jul 1977

Store Story [Bakerton] Skeeter & Dot

Store story. Bakerton couple lace love, sales in old-time store.Martin and Dottie Welsh have a little bit of everything in store. By JUDY JENNER.Bakerton, W. Va. — Martin Dineen Welsh was nicknamed “Skeeter” because “I was […]

November 27, 1965

27 Nov 1965

Bolivar Names Bakerton Man New Policeman

Bolivar Names New PolicemanBy MARTIN D. WELSH JR.Herald Correspondent BOLIVAR, W. Va. — Mayor Robert Dunn has appointed a Bakerton man as policeman with the Bolivar Police Department. Gerald Eugene Jamison, a laboratory technician with the […]

March 24, 1953

24 Mar 1953

Obit: Margaret Dopson

Mrs. M. E. DopsonMrs. Margaret Esther Dopson, aged 81 years, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Eliza Hoffman, on Union street, Bolivar, W. Va., Saturday, March 14, after a long illness. She was born […]

August 5, 1950

5 Aug 1950

Obit: James Myers

James Franklin Myers, Dargan, died at the Guilford Convalescent Home, Boonsboro, Friday morning of complications, after a long illness, aged 76 years. He was a member of Church of God of Samples Manor. He was employed […]

April 5, 1940

5 Apr 1940

Obit: Thomas Lewis

Thomas Lewis, well known farmer, died suddenly at his home, Dargan Thursday morning at 1:00 o’clock a.m. of a heart attack, aged 79 years. He was actively engaged in farming. Surviving are: Wife, children, Wilbur H., […]

September 5, 1934

5 Sep 1934

Gross: State Roads Quarry Foreman Drops Dead At Work

Chas. D. Gross Is Victim Of Heart Attack.State Roads Quarry Foreman Drops Dead At Work Tuesday. Stricken with an acute heart attack, Charles D. Gross, 60, foreman of a State Roads Commission corps, dropped dead at […]

January 22, 1931

22 Jan 1931

Obit: Thomas L. McGowan

Thomas L. McGowan, aged 57, died at his home at Dargan at 1 o’clock this morning of complications after an illness of ten weeks. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ella McGowan, sosn, Thomas, Martinsburg; […]

April 26, 1922

26 Apr 1922

Samples Manor News

An almost complete home-coming took place on Easter at the home of Mr. J. T. Lewis, Dargan. With the exception of one son, all of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis’ children were at home. Those present were: […]

February 8, 1906

8 Feb 1906

Indian Knife Found At Ore Bank

INDIAN KNIFE FOUND.John Houser, who is employed at the West Virginia Ore Bank, near Harper’s Ferry, found last week a large, stone Indian knife, about 15 inches long, and some small Indian relics among the stones […]

January 15, 1902

15 Jan 1902

Burgan, Canal Supervisor, Escapes Death

W. J. Burgan, assistant supervisor of the lower division of the C. & O. Canal, at Dam No. 4, narrowly escaped being crushed to death by a sack of cement, weighing 200 pounds, falling. He was […]

May 23, 1901

23 May 1901

Death Notice: Infant Bowers

The young child of Thomas and Della Bowers, living at the Virginia Ore Bank, seven miles south of Sharpsburg, died Wednesday of brain fever, aged 4 years. Funeral Thursday 2 p. m.; services in the Winebrennerian […]

June 29, 1900

29 Jun 1900

10k Tons of Ore

Tons of Ore. At the West Virginia Ore Bank, A. G. Lewis foreman, over ten thousand tons of ore are stacked for shipment.

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