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Fern Butts Hite of Hedgesville lived nearly entire 20th century
Ella Bayer Pitzer dies at 40, leaving behind husband and four children
A 1920 party for Inwood's Alda Lewis, 9, daughter of future sheriff Strong Lewis
Allen "Chum" Hess worked for B&O Railroad for 41 years
The Glengary woman with the herbal potions
Charles and Alice James ran a general store in Jones Springs
A Grove son travels far: Ohio, Detroit, and finally Los Angeles
Herrell’s Drug Store in Martinsburg, 1930s
Martinsburg teen drowned while saving cousin's life in Shenandoah River
Wheatland Motel owners Franklin Pownall and Hilda Clark Pownall
Halloween party near Hedgesville celebrates newlyweds
The Everett House's mid-1800s proprietor, George William Swimley
Baxter School and teacher Mary "Eva" Cook (later Mrs. Plotner then Mrs. McCauley)
John Kendig marries 2 Tabler sisters, then his sister marries a Tabler brother
John Vermilyea, Hedgesville tinsmith, grocer and farmer
Quarry worker Willie Wise and his young bride, Hazel Pearrell
The Light family: Schoolteacher sisters, younger brother take different paths
Tomahawk school principal John 'Edgar' Saville
Ganotown happenings in the news in 1907: Slonaker, Mason, Gain and Grove
Martinsburg's two Troy Hensells had nearly identical lifespans
Nannie Gano, a divorced Martinsburg woman who went back to her maiden name
The two Elmer and Effie Kees of Berkeley County
George Jacob Boltz, Hedgesville district farmer, outlived two wives
Tom Speck of Hedgesville rescued a woman in need in 1912
Florence Gregory Shepherd, Berkeley County teacher, lost husband when their son was a baby
The Ronk siblings' unusual lives after losing their father in a railroad accident
Mattie Hines Beard of Martinsburg, mother to 11
Raymond and Opal Slonaker, textile workers in Martinsburg and parents of 3
3 Butts women married 3 Horner men
James and Gloria Parkinson Kees, owners of Kees Garage and Pool Room
Prochorur Light, orchardist, and his wife Mazie McDonald Light of the Gerrardstown district
John Milburn "Johnny" Hess and Susan Grubb Hess
Civil War soldier's grandson found shelter at Berkeley County Almshouse in 1930
Margaret Sophia Hess and her 2 husbands, Joe Mason and John Ridenour
James William McDonald: 'One of the finest specimens of physical manhood in all this section'
Elijah Butler at the Retired Men's Club in Martinsburg, 1973
James and Dot Pitzer McDonald and their fruit empire in Martinsburg
Allen Weller and Susan Catrow grew up on farms in Gerrardstown district
George Monroe Kershner, Civil War captain from Hagerstown
Etta Lee Miller and Lloyd Edward Allen of the Hedgesville district
Young Eunice Coffinbarger lost father, then husband Lee Evans 10 years apart
Anna Mong, who lived to 107, shared vivid memories of Berkeley County's past
Hedgesville doctor's son died young, when his second child was on the way
Michael Seibert Butler, Hedgesville physician for nearly 50 years
Correction: Ivy Faircloth Adams photo
Ivy Mae Faircloth's first 2 babies never had a chance to know their fathers
Delbert Strobridge's store in Martinsburg
The Henshaws, a pioneering Berkeley County family
Harold Holben and Susie Butts Holben and family
James Lyle Dick, sons and son-in-law raccoon hunting, early 1900s
Patriotic photo: Gregory family in Martinsburg
Mamie Sperow's early losses, then 2 marriages to older widowers
Dick family of Martinsburg lost 3 children in 15 months
The Smiths, Berkeley County's largest family
Thunder Hill Farm (Daniel-Grantham House) and the Pitzer family
Walter and Anna Palmer Unger from Gerrardstown
2 explosions in one day killed at least 3 near Martinsburg in 1914
Siblings Vernie and George Moreland find their way in the world after early troubles
The fates of the five Kettering children
A Berkeley County veteran shared his D-Day memories
Puffenburger family photo, around 1940
The LeDane family of Brookside Farm outside Inwood
James Myers, shoemaker, potential Civil War veteran, and the Hamme Plantation
Friends in Arden in the 1970s: Norma Foltz Shade, sisters Anna Creamer Kees and Betty Creamer Hess
Hunter Canby and Rachel Butts of North Mountain, a move to Martinsburg, and multiple tragedies
Bess Avey Zombro Ashton, Hedgesville's nicest lady? (I may be biased)
A Grove/Mish woman marries a Keys of D.C.
Paul Ellsworth Sherrard, first principal of Winchester Avenue School in Martinsburg
Norman Avery Silver and Carrie Shriver were married about 60 years, had 13 children
Hedgesville High School Principal Frederick Miller married new graduate Ruth Keesecker
A Revolutionary War captain and a plantation owner's daughter
Joseph Abraham Myers of Jones Springs and his three wives
Lafayette "Lafe" Files of Morgan County and his ties to Berkeley County
Sen. Gray Silver, influential figure in West Virginia agriculture
The Duval family of Spring Mills
Lawrence Lee Wyndham and Martha Jane Bloom Wyndham
The Hammond-Duval House in Spring Mills
Hedgesville High School Class of 1943
The tragic early deaths in a Beall family
Valentine Dust of Jefferson County
Sleepy Creek/Cherry Run area ties to Berkeley County
Edna Walker, Nancy Mason Wolford, and Evelyn Dunham Parsons in 1940s
Charles Bernard "Carl" Minghini and his two wives
Donaldson reunion, early 1940s
Clifford Burnhart Kisner, Martinsburg confectioner and church founder
The mystery of Eva Riggs of Jones Spring
Sisters Sarah Catherine Parsons and Elsie "Mae" Parsons of Ganotown
Guy Gilbert Stuckey and Lucy Mae Crawford and family
Hiram Hedges house and the adult siblings who shared it
Willard Coffinbarger and his grandfather's Civil War experience
The three marriages of Margaret Irene Palmer
Rev. William Gerhardt of Martinsburg, oldest Lutheran minister in U.S., lived to be 100
WWII shotgun fire, wartime relationships, and a lost baby: A South Carolina man's journey
2nd cousins Lee Roland Hess and Vernie Amelia Light marry, raise family in Gerrardstown district
Neva Fuss, Martinsburg High homemaking teacher
Peter Mathais Mason and Lula Cecelia Parsons, and many family twists and turns
Stillwell Farm off Grade Road and one of the region's earliest Stillwells
Billy Bayer finds love again with Pauline Frances Frye
Wealthy Myers family of Little Georgetown loses 2 sons, but daughter lives to very old age
Edward Knipe and Jennie Eversole and family
Hedgesville postmasters George and Odette Beall
Norma Frances Zombro Gasper served with U.S. Navy Waves
The unwed Unger sisters of the Hedgesville/Falling Waters area
Imogene Faye Plotner and George Howard Rhoe
Harry Cleveland Lewis, old Raleigh Street jail employee
The Shady Rest Restaurant and Motel
Shanghai's Lewis Bayer store, C.W. Grove store and Shang-Ri-La Restaurant
Classmates and 2nd cousins take very different paths