Chronicling America - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

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678 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977

October 17, 1907

17 Oct 1907

Flanagan, Grand Juror

Circuit Court. The regular October term of the Jefferson Circuit Court, Judge E. Boyd Faulkner on the bench, began in Charles Town of Tuesday. The following grand jurors were in their places: […] John G. Flanagan, […]

October 17, 1907

17 Oct 1907

New Store at Bakerton

New store at Bakerton. The undersigned desires to inform the public that he has opened a store in his new building at Bakerton, between the church and the school-house, on the public road, where he will […]

September 3, 1907

3 Sep 1907

St Peters; New Organ & Cemetery Entrance

St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Harpers Ferry, has a new pipe organ, and a handsome new entrance is bein erected to the Catholic Cemetery at that place.

July 30, 1907

30 Jul 1907

Death of Charles Davies

[This newspaper page is torn and many words of the article is missing.] Death of Charles Davies.Mr. Davies, a well-known lawyer, died Tuesday at his home, 1915 Sixth street northwest, Washington City, after a short illness, […]

July 25, 1907

25 Jul 1907

Harpers Ferry School District Levy and Trustees

School Affairs. The board of education of Harper’s Ferry district has fixed the levy at ten cents on the hundred dollars for the building fund and eighteen cents for the teachers’ fund. The salaries of teachers […]

July 25, 1907

25 Jul 1907

Martha Flanagan Receives Visitors

Mrs. Arthur Lampe and her sister, Miss Annie Copp, of Johnstown, Pa.; and Mr. Charles Copp and Miss Mary Sundit, of Frederick, Md., and Mrs. William Bowman and son visited Miss Martha Flanagan near Bakerton the […]

July 4, 1907

4 Jul 1907

Spickler and Flanagan visit Miller

Mrs. Fanny E. Spicker, who has been with her daughter, Mrs. J. G. Flanagan, the past winter near Bakerton is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Altha D. Miller, in Washington, D. C.

May 30, 1907

30 May 1907

Wm. Welsh; Mare For Sale

For Sale– A nice young roan mare, will drive single or double. Conway stock. Terms reasonable. William Welsh, Bakerton, W. Va.

March 28, 1907

28 Mar 1907

Routzahn Spends 10 Days with Flanagan

Mrs. Laura Routzahn has returned to her home in Dayton, Ohio, after spending a month with her parents and ten days with Mrs. Walter J. Flanagan at Bakerton.

February 21, 1907

21 Feb 1907

Welsh and daughter call Register Office

Mr. Thos. B. Welsh and his daughter Essie, of Bakerton, made a pleasant call at the Register office a few days ago.

December 20, 1906

20 Dec 1906

Bakerton’s Largest Porker

James Flanagan, of Bakerton, killed a hog last week that weighed 587 ½ pounds. This is, so far as we have heard, the biggest porker yet killed in this neighborhood.

December 4, 1906

4 Dec 1906

Obit: George Beall Lynch

Mr. George Beall Lynch, a native of Jefferson county, but who had been a resident of Baltimore for a number of years, died at the University Hospital in that city on Tuesday. The earlier years of […]

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