tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240307.post3560616885834988284..comments2024-02-17T01:38:12.168-05:00Comments on Orlando, West Virginia: One of Alexander Skinner's GranddaughtersDonna Gloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00100860240184309943noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240307.post-87234092283375550822013-07-16T18:23:41.303-04:002013-07-16T18:23:41.303-04:00Please note that Mike THOMAS and Priscilla Estella...Please note that Mike THOMAS and Priscilla Estella HENLINE GODFREY's marriage date was September 14, 1905. According to their marriage certificate, they were married this date in Burnsville, Braxton Co., WV by G.W. McClung, Minister of the Gospel. Above it states July 1905. This latter date is not the marriage date. July 18, 1905 is when the marriage license was issued by E.W. Hefner, Clerk County Court.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Cindy E. Ethier-Kostka<br />JCCEKOST@aol.com<br />Researcher of RIFFLE, SKINNER, BLAKE, POSEY and many more in WV.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240307.post-36637344858572820792011-11-18T21:51:34.522-05:002011-11-18T21:51:34.522-05:00Jessie Ganaway Jarvis was married to Nora Lee Rich...Jessie Ganaway Jarvis was married to Nora Lee Richards of Salem Virginia i have them listed as being married in 1904 in Mercers Co but I also have them married Oct 31, 1931 in Belington. I also have him marrying a Ludie Davidson in 1915 in McDowell I know that he had 4 children with Nora they were:<br />John, Paul, Jesse, and Mary Elizabeth. <br />He had two more sons: Harry and George with I believe her name was Nancy but I don't have solid record of this. He then married my Great Grandmother Sophia and had my Grandfather Franklin Jarvis and his sisters Ruby, Rose, & Martha. I don't know how Nora Died but I believe she was deceased by 1919. And Jessie and Nora lived in Coaldale Mercer Co. Wv before 1907.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240307.post-61728680777091826742010-10-26T16:15:38.832-04:002010-10-26T16:15:38.832-04:00Thanks to everyone who helped/s build this family ...Thanks to everyone who helped/s build this family history. I grew up around parts of it, but I don’t have many pictures from this long ago era. It was great seeing the picture of the old house in Copen that Estie Henline/Godfrey/Thomas lived in. I remember visiting there as a child when Estie was still alive in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. I can remember the smell of that old home, the odd bedroom layout, the huge porch with no railings and the train tracks. I don’t recall the details of any particular reason for the visit, but I am sure it was close to her passing on because I think it wasn’t long after that that I remember her funeral happening, so it may have been because she was aged. What I do remember clearly though about her was how frail she was lying in bed….with her dust cap on! She wasn’t able to get out of bed, IIRC, and I remember lots of her relatives around carrying food and drink to her while she lay in bed.<br /><br />I also remember being told during that visit about the coin operated pool table venture Estie’s husband started, those tables that were supposedly still stored on the property at that time. But I was a child, so don’t hold me to the location of the old abandoned pool tables. I didn’t know Estie’s first husband -Lete Godfrey- had died when Sophie Godfrey/Jarvis was young and that she had married again to Mike Thomas. So likewise I didn’t know the pool table venture wasn’t a Godfrey doing as I had assumed. <br /><br />The relationships between the various names I've heard all my life now have been somewhat cleared up as to who belongs to whom, so thanks for that! <br /><br />I’ve been learning a lot about this family just this year. It’s a shame I have to resort to the internet to learn about the history of the family I grew up with, as the relatives of this family closest to me who would know stories and memories and have pictures to share with me won’t talk to me about them. <br /><br />A shout out to Ruby Jarvis/Brooks for your entry. You write well. <br /><br />~Joan<br /><br />jnbrng@gmail.com to anyone who may have information about Sophie Godfrey Jarvis' husband -Jesse Jarvis'- wife before her. I read her name was Nora? I'd love to know her maiden name and how she died.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240307.post-7724796500241460692010-05-30T21:01:43.562-04:002010-05-30T21:01:43.562-04:00Love old family stories even if I am not related. ...Love old family stories even if I am not related. I am researcing the Godfrey family for one of my 2nd cousins. Can someone be so kind as to tell me who the parents of David Newton Godfrey were? chiefd67@hotmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240307.post-80620567888635225312010-05-10T22:14:35.673-04:002010-05-10T22:14:35.673-04:00Lori, I think it's fascinating! Mom always sai...Lori, I think it's fascinating! Mom always said that he was a detective. There is the story where he supposedly jumped out of the upstairs window as there was a threat on his life. (as told by Jesse to my father to us.) Jesse passed a year before i was born.<br />It's amazing to me that when my grandfather was my age, we was working for Baldwin-Felts in the early 20's. That's 85 years difference in our age.<br /><br />David: One question. I was always under the impression that Jesse was working for the mines at the time he met Sophia, and that he had a car at the time. Two things, working for Felts would make you enough to own a car, but what was he doing in Orlando? That's a long way from Mingo.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00781568428241806798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240307.post-545797791846587122010-05-07T12:03:21.249-04:002010-05-07T12:03:21.249-04:00Oh dearI never knew my Grandfather worked for Bald...Oh dearI never knew my Grandfather worked for Baldwin- Felts! They were the 'bad guys' in the movie "Matewan." Thanks for all the work and research you've done on our family.Lorinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240307.post-43085691336361513322010-05-07T12:01:44.333-04:002010-05-07T12:01:44.333-04:00It was Rose and Lawana. Rose is the big baby, Lawa...It was Rose and Lawana. Rose is the big baby, Lawana the small bald one. Thank you.Lorinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240307.post-74320622816578944562010-05-07T11:49:46.816-04:002010-05-07T11:49:46.816-04:00Lori, thanks for the correction. We've made th...Lori, thanks for the correction. We've made the change from Ruby to Lawana in the caption.Donna Gloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00100860240184309943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22240307.post-16557214119453947482010-05-07T11:21:12.088-04:002010-05-07T11:21:12.088-04:00Thank you so much for this story on members of my ...Thank you so much for this story on members of my family! I didn't know it was on the site and only now found it. There is so much information on my Great Grandfather that I never knew, and pictures of Estie I had never seen! This is a real treasure and I appreciate it very much. <br />I must mention though that i can say for a fact that the babies held by the woman and labeled as Ruby and Rose in the picture are not my Aunt Ruby and my mother Rose, because they were 2 and a half years apart and Ruby was quite big before Rose was born. You can see a picture of young Ruby and baby Rose in the story by my Aunt Ruby that was recently posted for comparison (with the rocking chair). Ruby was always a blond, and my mother was born with a full head of dark reddish brown hair and was never bald. I have been told the babies were Rose and Lawana "Toodlebugs" Jarvis, daughter of Jesse's son by his first and late wife Nora.Lori Snoreply@blogger.com