December 4, 2020

Higgins Purchases Houses Below Weverton

Railroad Items.Mr. Patrick Higgins, of Harper’s Ferry, has purchased for the B. & O. Railroad the twelve large stone houses below Weverton, the property of the Potomac Manufacturing Company. This property embraces the dwellings mentioned and […]
May 30, 2020

Marriage: Andrew Higgins, Sarah Slavin

MARRIAGE LICENSEWest Virginia, County of Jefferson, to wit; To any Person Licensed to Celebrate Marriages :You are hereby authorized to join together in the Holy State of Matrimony, according to the rites and ceremonies of your […]
May 30, 2020

Marriage: Patrick Higgins, Mary Slaven

Line No. 18; Patrick Higgins and Marry Ann Slaven, April 13th, 1858
August 15, 2019

The unveiling of Elizabeth Slavin

By the 1860 census, a young Irish girl had taken residence with Thomas and Annie Walsh in Bolivar, [West] Virginia. Who is she and why did she live with Tommy and Annie?
June 20, 2018

Company D Reunion at the Crossroads

Reunion of Company D. Pleasant Gathering of Confederate Veterans at Moler’s–Snug Sum for Memorial Hall. The reunion of the surviving members of Company D, Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army, at Moler’s Cross Roads, this county, […]