Charles Town - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

187 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977 Database Info

June 5, 1918

5 Jun 1918

WWI Draft: Martin Dineen Welsh

Name Martin D. Welsh Home Address Bakerton WVa Age in Years 25 Date of Birth April 22 1892 Where Born Bakerton WVa U.S. Citizen/Alien Native Born Present Occupation Clerk Employer PA Millard Place of Employment/Business Bakerton […]

May 21, 1918

21 May 1918

New Concern Takes Over Plant

OLD STONE CO. SELLS OUT.New Concern Takes Over Plant At Bakerton, W. Va.Charles Town, W. Va., May 20.– The Harpers Ferry Stone and Lime Company, who have been operating a plant at Millville, near this town, […]

March 28, 1918

28 Mar 1918

16 Men Ready for Emergency Entrainment

Notes of Our Soldiers. Captain H. C. Getzendanner, chairman of the county exemption board, is in receipt of a notice from the War Department to have the fourteen men in emergency call Number 73 ready or […]

December 20, 1917

20 Dec 1917

Welsh thanks Insurance Company

Bakerton, W. Va., December 12, 1917 Washington, Alexander & Cooke, Charles Town, W. Va. Gentleman–My furniture was burned in the fire that destroyed the P. S. Millard store at Bakerton on December 1, 1917, and same […]

November 20, 1917

20 Nov 1917

Real Estate Transfers; Washington Building Lime Adds Two Parcels

The Washington Building Lime Company has added two small parcels of real estate to its holdings at Bakerton by purchase. One parcel containing one acre was bought of Hattie Moler and others; the other containing about […]

November 10, 1917

10 Nov 1917

Winters Opens Colored School At Bakerton

HARPERS FERRY NEWSHarpers Ferry, W. Va., Nov. 8 — The community exhibit which took place at the colored school house Thursday and Friday of last week was quite a success. Everything available was displayed, such as […]

September 8, 1917

8 Sep 1917

Miss Emerson Returns Home after Jefferson Trip

FALLING WATERS, Sept. 5– Miss Ethel Emerson, who has been visiting in Charles Town and Bakerton, also in Harpers Ferry and Shepherdstown, for the past ten days, has returned to her home. While in Charles Town […]

March 4, 1917

4 Mar 1917

Cornerstone of M. E. Church South Laid at Bakerton

Charles Town, W. Va.– The cornerstone of the new M. E. Church South at Bakerton was laid yesterday. The ceremonies began at 11 o’clock and were under the auspices of the Shenandoah Junction Lodge of Masons. […]

March 3, 1917

3 Mar 1917

Cornerstone of Episcopal Church at Bakerton to be laid.

Cornerstone of Church Laid Next Sunday The cornerstone of the new Methodist Episcopal church, south at Bakerton will be laid Saturday. The Rev. Carlton D. Harris, of Baltimore, will preach. The Grand Masonic Lodge of West […]

December 9, 1915

9 Dec 1915

County Court Exonerations

County Court Proceedings. […] the following exonerations were allowed: Estate of J. G. Flanagan, $745; […] Standard Stome and Lime Company, $485; […]

July 29, 1915

29 Jul 1915

Bakerton & Charles Town Bootleggers Convicted in Federal Court

Two bootleggers, Monroe Peyton, colored, of Bakerton, and Moses Welsh, white, of Charles Town, were convicted in the Federal Court at Elkins and sentenced to 60 days in the Martinsburg jail and to pay a fine […]

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, […]

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