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The 'Belsnickling' Christmas tradition in Berkeley County

The unusual lives of George and Lora Richards of Hedgesville

The varied lives of a group of Jones Springs friends born in the 1870s and 1880s

Jonathan Smith of Gerrardstown district lost wife, young daughter, both parents within about a year

Curtis McKee, beloved Berkeley County public school teacher

Tragic death of 8-year-old Thurman Collins, who consumed a household cleaner in the 1920s

Fight among three North Mountain women makes the papers

Joe and Hattie Shirley Turner of Mill Creek and Shepherdstown

Floyd and Nealie Kitchen Kees lived in Martinsburg's Boomtown Historic District

Car fatally strikes Wilbert Cletus “Pete” Faircloth in 1962

Martinsburg woman Effie Bender Seal outlived several of her children

The fate of the orphaned Bovey siblings

Hedgesville teen elopes with blacksmith, breaks mother's heart

Umberto Roberto "Robert" Fierro, Italian-born Martinsburg apple broker

Boyd Butler when farming was done with horses

Widow ran Norborne Hall boarding school in Martinsburg during Civil War, lost a son to battle

Civil War soldier moved to Gerrardstown region, changed his name to seek a new life

Teen daughter's arrest in 1908 leads to Pittsnogle family woes

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Dry Run Tavern in Martinsburg burned to the ground in 1960

'Pretty' and 'popular' young bride Cora Donaldson of Jones Spring later faces multiple tragedies

Schoolteachers and friends: June Poisal and sisters Virginia and Naomi Landis

The 3 Newkirk siblings of Hedgesville left no descendants

John and Mollie Snyder Avey of Hedgesville had 11 children

Car crash killed young Martinsburg father Ronald Kitchen in 1977

Lora Mabel Lucas, Hedgesville woman who was widowed 3 times

The desperate choice of an orphaned young teen

Virginia Chrisman Davis, Opequon Elementary School teacher

Tessie Snyder and George Myers, who both lost mothers young, married in 1914

Slonaker farm and homestead near Ganotown

Charlie Catrow, well-known cherry orchardist outside Martinsburg

Jacob F. Lucas fathered 26 children with at least 3 wives

Peacemaker family in Martinsburg: A fatal accident, WWII service, a single mom

Flora Canby Myers of North Mountain and her 8 daughters

Jump's Grocery, a Martinsburg institution

Martinsburg High graduates Anna Palmer and Charles Rockwell, VA hospital guard

Zachariah Puffenburger and his wife, Elizabeth Shade Puffenburger

Railroad foreman George Boltz and wife Annie Eversole Boltz of Martinsburg

Pearl “Bessie” Detter and Bennie Edwards, Hedgesville-area orphans, saw many tough times