Newspapers.com - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 869 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 24,000+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond. Newspapers provide a unique view of the past and can help us understand and connect with the people, events and attitudes of an earlier time. Newspapers.com operates on a subscription database model.

Show All

711 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977

December 27, 1913

27 Dec 1913

Berkeley Co. Assessor Sells Fine Horse To Jefferson Co. Company

County Assessor Sells Fine Horse J. W. Dodd Disposes of His Gray Stallion, Jouter, to Jefferson County Company. Friday County Assessor John W. Dodd sold his fine imported percheron gray stallion, Jouter, to a number of […]

October 9, 1913

9 Oct 1913

Painter, Engle Quarry Empl., Struck by Train

John W. Painter, an employee of the Engle quarries, near Harpers Ferry, was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train near Bakerton, W. Va. and seriously injured.

October 9, 1913

9 Oct 1913

Painter, Seriously Injured By Train

John W. Painter, an employee of the Engle quarries, near Harpers Ferry, was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train near Bakerton, W. Va., and seriously injured.

September 10, 1913

10 Sep 1913

Hendricks to become Manager of Virginia Ore Bank

Charlestown, W. Va.– James K. Hendricks, who has been surveyor of this county since 1897 has tendered his resignation to the County Court. Mr. Hendricks will assume the management of the Virginia Ore Works, at Ferrum, […]

April 18, 1913

18 Apr 1913

Death: Raleigh Moler

Raleigh Moler. Mr. Raleigh Moler, of Washington, who was born at Bakerton, Jefferson county, died Saturday of heart failure. The body was brought to Harpers Ferry Sunday on train No. 55, and the funeral party was […]

February 17, 1913

17 Feb 1913

Smallpox Spreads from Bakerton

Smallpox has broken out in the neighborhood of Benonville, Warren county, 15 miles north of Luray. It is supposed the smallpox originated from the return of several men to that community from Bakerton, W. Va., where […]

February 3, 1913

3 Feb 1913

Bentonville Smallpox Traced to Bakerton

Smallpox has broken out in the neighborhood of Bentonville, Warren county, Va., fifteen miles north of Luray. Several men returned to that community from Bakerton, W. Va., where smallpox has been epidemic.

January 24, 1913

24 Jan 1913

Smallpox outbreak at Bakerton.

It is said that there are ten cases of smallpox among the colored population at Bakerton, Jefferson county.

January 18, 1913

18 Jan 1913

Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.

Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Jan. 17.– Reports reach here of smallpox in the county, in the suburbs of Charlestown and at Bakerton, confined to the colored people. Raleigh Hauser [Houser], general manager […]

December 27, 1912

27 Dec 1912

Swomley, Trundle Marriage Announcement

Frederick.– Miss Fannie May Swomley and Mason N. Trundle, of Bakerton, W. Va., were married Tuesday by Rev. E. H. Lamar, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They will live at Bakerton.

November 17, 1912

17 Nov 1912

Houser, Knott married in Duffields

Miss Anna Pearl Houser, daughter of Raleigh Houser, and Ollie Knott, both of Bakerton, W. Va., were married Tuesday at the Presbyterian manse in Duffields.

November 15, 1912

15 Nov 1912

Marriage License: Alice Hopper, Frank Coole

LICENSED TO MARRY. […] Frank C. Coole, 25, of Norfolk, Va., and Alice F. Hopper, 19, of Bakerton, W. Va. The Rev. J. S. Montgomery.

What can we help you find?

A Surname Trace a family across records

A Place See who lived and worked there

A Person Search names across the archive

Something Else Browse topics and themes

Also worth exploring:

View all datasets

Industrial Laborers

Jefferson County Industrial Laborers in the early 20th Century.

Philip Coons Accounts

Accounts & Bonds Due To Prominent Harpers Ferry Merchant Philip Coons, Nov. 1855.

Irish-born Residents (1850)

A Listing of All Irish-born Residents of Jefferson County, Virginia in the year 1850.

Evidence