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| 14951 | He was a 1959 graduate of Wallace High School and completed the Dale Carnegie Course in 1964. He worked for the WV Department of Highways, Craigs Auto Parts, State Motor Parts and Beckwith Machinery, where he retired with 37 years service. | PIGOTT, Clovis Wayne Jr. (I97482)
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| 14952 | He was a 50+ year member of the Roy E. Parrish Post No. 13, American Legion in Clarksburg, the 83rd Infantry Division Association and the Clarksburg Lodge No. 52 Loyal Order of Moose. | DAVIS, Harvey Ellsworth (I60819)
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| 14953 | He was a banker, beginning his career in 1914 with the Citizens National Bank formerly of Pennsboro, and retired in 1973 with the Community Bank of Pennsboro, holding the position of cashier and president of that bank. He had also been a school teacher in Ritchie County. | WILSON, Clifton Lamont (I17468)
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| 14954 | He was a certified petroleum geologist by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He worked for the U.S. Geological Survey as a civil engineer, Consolidated Gas Supply Co. where he was chief geologist, then served as a manager of geology for Alamco. Following his retirement, he was active in geological consulting throughout the Appalachian Basin. | ALKIRE, James Edward (I114883)
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| 14955 | He was a charter and founding member of the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce for which he served numerous terms as president, treasurer and board member. While president of the Chamber, he worked in the planning and development of Salem Depot Park, the construction of the Depot community stage and pavilion, and the restoration of Salem Depot. | HELMICK, Jimmie Carson (I68435)
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| 14956 | He was a charter member of the West Milford Lions Club, a Central Little League Baseball board member the Club Scout Masters, and the business manager for the South Harrison Pop Warner League for seven years. | WEST, William Holmes "Skeeter" II (I65656)
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| 14957 | He was a civil engineer, worked as a carpenter, and retired as a Building Inspector for the State of West Virginia, with 20 years of service. He was especially proud of being an Ordained Minister. | BEE, Ersel George (I48317)
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| 14958 | He was a craftsman at Fort New Salem for fifteen years. | MEANS, Fred O. (I5564)
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| 14959 | He was a farmer, a member of the Doddridge County Farm Bureau and the West Virginia 4-H All Stars. He was an overseas Army veteran of World War II, where he was a member of Co A, 893rd Tank Destroyer Bn. He received two Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart while serving in France. | WILLIS, Alfred Lee (I10390)
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| 14960 | He was a farmer, first owning a farm near Burnt Mills, Somerset County. In 1855, he sold that farm to Frederick H. Lane, and it was later occupied by Archibald B. Vanderbeek. Between 1856 and 1875, he resided on a small farm near Pluckemin which was previously owned by his brother Hugh and later came to possession of William B. Powelson. The southern half of his farm included the tract on which the Bryan Lefferty house, of Revolutionary fame, stood, and which was torn down in about 1879 by then-owner Alvin T. Peck. Daniel later returned to Somerville, residing on Bridge Street until his death. | GASTON, Daniel Castner (I4515)
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| 14961 | He was a farmer, taught school for eight years, served as Sheriff of Doddridge County 1948-52, and served in the West Virginia House of Delegates 1960-62. He was the co-owner and operator of Trio Oil & Gas Co, Inc., for 26 years. He served on the Board of Directors of First National Bank 1949-89. In 1978, he retired from the WV Department of Highways, District 4, as Personnel Director. | DAVIS, Paul Bland (I30890)
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| 14962 | He was a foreman for Kaiser Aluminum, Ravenswood, for 14 years, he retired from Local #132 Operating Engineers as an equipment operator. He also served as Superintendent of WV Department of Highways, Doddridge County, and was a foreman for Precision Coil, Clarksburg. | PHILLIPS, Robert Glenwood (I52286)
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| 14963 | He was a former city of Parkersburg police officer. He had been employed at American Cyanimid for over 17 years as well as helping to build the power plant at Willow Island. He was a master electrician with Local 495 of the I.B.E.W. | WINANS, Warren Calvin "Bud" (I63283)
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| 14964 | He was a former Doddridge County school teacher, and also worked for National Carbon in Clarksburg. He was an executive director for Goodwill Industries in Zanesville, Ohio, in Nashville, Tennessee, and in Charleston, retiring in 1970. | BLAND, William E. (I53388)
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| 14965 | He was a former employee of J. L. McCormick Hardware, West Union, as a clerk, and he then was the owner and operator of Hoskinson's Feed Store from 1951 to 1968. He retired from Doddridge Farm Services as the manager with 14 years service. From an undated newspaper clipping: Staff Sgt Lawrence R. Hoskinson, 29, a tail gunner on a Flying Fortress, has been credited officially with destroying a Focke-Wolfe 190 German fighter during the Fifteenth AAF attack on the Romanian capital of Bucharest on May 7. Sgt Hoskinson, son of Mr. & Mrs. Roy Hoskinson of Flint, has completed all of his missions after serving overseas for the past nine months and is expected home soon. An article in the Nov 13 1969 issue of the West Union Herald reads in its entirety: "Hoskinson Breaks Arm. Lawrence Hoskinson, popular manager of the Doddridge County Farm Service Store here, suffered a broken arm last week while operating a tire changing machine in the store. You can't 'keep a good man down' -- so Lawrence is on the job with his arm in a sling." | HOSKINSON, Lawrence Russell "Friday" (I10555)
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| 14966 | He was a former engineer for Dowell Chemical, and partner in Reed-Stout Construction. He and his wife owned and operated Stout's True Value Hardware. He was most recently employed by Liquid Assets, Glenville. | STOUT, William Huff (I88707)
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| 14967 | He was a former mail carrier in Michigan and worked as a paramedic in West Virginia. He was the first to receive the Phoenix Award as a paramedic in West Virginia. He was named to the hall of fame at the Wood County Airport. He and his wife, Emelee, traveled as ministers and singers known as the Family Four Quartet along with his sister and brother-in-law, Wilma and Bobby Threet. He also sang with the Deming Family Singers. He was retired from Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital. | DEMING, DeVere Seward "Pete" (I90018)
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| 14968 | He was a former member of the Cairo Town Council and a former fire chief for the Cairo Volunteer Fire Department. | HARTNESS, James Michael "Mike" (I20961)
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| 14969 | He was a former state road employee, and was the District equipment superintendent for many years. He was later employed by Blair Motor Company, after which he was with the U.S. Forest Service, Washington, DC. His last employment was with Simpson Motor Company. | ASH, Carson W. (I83117)
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| 14970 | He was a former teacher and store owner. He began his business career in aviation and submarine work for the military sector, working for North American Aviation and Goodyear Aviation. He retired at age 65 from Electric Boat, a division of General Dynamics. | SMITH, Denzel D. (I20216)
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| 14971 | He was a friend of Fort New Salem and Colonial Williamsburg. He was a charter member of the Clarksburg Kennel Club, a member of the Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America, American Dog Owners Association, Buckeye All-Breed Herding Club, the American Herding Breeds Association, West Virginia Public Radio-Television, AARP and the Harrison County Senior Citizens. | DAVIS, Harvey Ellsworth (I60819)
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| 14972 | He was a graduate of Harrisville High School, a charter member of Oxford Grange 520, and a member of Point Pleasant Baptist Church in Doddridge County, where he also served as pastor for 20 years. He entered the ministry on Oct 26 1929 and was ordained on Aug 30 1931. He served as minister at Mt. Carmel, Mt. Lenanon and Mt. Olive in Harrison County, and also served Cairo Baptist Church, Straight Creek Baptist Church, Prosperity Baptist Church, Spruce Creek Baptist Church, French Creek Baptist Church, South Fork Baptist Church, and Smith's Run Baptist Church. | OSBORNE, William Frank (I8347)
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| 14973 | He was a graduate of Otego High School and a Phi Beta Kappa Graduate of Colgate University, Class of 1915. He received his Master's Degree at Columbia University in 1927 and an Honorary Doctorate of Letter's Degree at Colgate University in 1942. On June 1, 1918, he was married to the former Bertha Waldron in Sauquoit. Mr. Burdick was Principal of several schools in New York State, prior to coming to Utica in January of 1926 as a Science Teacher at U.F.A. In 1928, he became Head of the Science Department at U.F.A. and Junior Dean of the school. Mr. Burdick was Principal at U.F.A. from 1938 to 1941 and was Superintendent of Schools from 1941 to 1951 [or 1961], when he retired from the teaching profession. He later was employed at the Brant Brother's Florist Shop, the Commercial Traveler's Insurance Co. and the Personnel Department and the Credit Union at the former Utica Mutual Insurance Co. [Obituary, "Utica Observer," Aug 1988] | BURDICK, Andrew Jared (I71894)
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| 14974 | He was a graduate of the Baltimore Medical School and had practiced medicine in Doddridge and Harrison counties for over 61 years. Name given as "Dora" in History of Doddridge County, as "Dore" in son Ogden's obit, and simply as "D. Leeson" in his own obituary. His birth record and marriage record, however, identified him as "Theodore Leeson." Birth date given as Jun 2 1866 in obituary, but Jun 2 1867 in birth record. | LEESON, Theodore "Dora" (I21497)
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| 14975 | He was a Ham Radio Operator under the call sign KB8UGN and a CB operator using handle "Blue Lightning.". | GREYNOLDS, Timothy Paul (I135816)
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| 14976 | He was a historian and had written several books and had received hundreds of awards for his research and study of the history of the Underground Railroad, his latest award being "Man of the Year" presented to him by the Belpre Historical Society. He donated his time to talk to the local schools about the Underground Railroad for the past 20 years. http://henryburke1010.tripod.com/ http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-ugrr/index.cgi/page/1/md/index/#m_658 | BURKE, Henry Robert (I91700)
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| 14977 | He was a licensed Pharmacist for 50 years and owned and ran his own Pharmacy in Stewartstown, PA. After selling the pharmacy Marcey and Harlan moved to Centerburg. Not one to sit still Harlan worked part-time for the Centerburg Pharmacy, The Medicine Shoppe in Delaware and at the Central Ohio Compounding Pharmacy in Worthington. Harlan was a graduate of The Ohio State University, veteran of the U.S. Army, was active with the Lions Club and Masonic Lodge in Fredericktown, the American Legion in Centerburg and the Horticulture area of the Oldtime Farming Festival in Centerburg, (where he was awarded numerous plaques and ribbons). Harlan enjoyed gardening, his pets, reading and traveling the world. | KIRACOFE, Harlan Wayne (I5924)
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| 14978 | He was a magna cum lauda graduate of Maryland University and received his masters degree in international relations from George Washington University. He attended the U.S. Army War College in the Class of 1966. Upon his retirement from the Army in 1972, Colonel Tyson obtained art degrees from Harrisburg Community College and York Acadamy of Art and became locally recognized as a historical murualist and portrait painter. A mural on the history of Carlisle is a part of Carlisle Plaza Mall and different pieces of his work are at the Carlisle Army War College. | TYSON, Charles Matthew (I37578)
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| 14979 | He was a master mason of Friendship Lodge 56 A.F. & A.M. in West Union for 50 years, a past president of the Salem Kiwanis, and was instrumental in organizing and starting the Marion County Association for Retarded Children, servin as its president in 1973. | LEGGETT, William Randall (I4493)
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| 14980 | He was a member and licensed ham radio operator of AARL, with call letters KC8DQT. | GASTON, Donald Bryan (I1773)
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| 14981 | He was a member of Duff Street United Methodist Church. During his 50 years of active lay ministry, Mr. Baker taught Sunday School and provided leadership in many areas of the church including finance, building, and education. In addition, Mr. Baker served on committees within the WV Conference of the United Methodist Church and represented Duff Street UMC as a lay delegate to the WV UMC Annual Conference for several years. He also held memberships in Clarksburg Lodge No. 155, A.F. & A.M. and Clarksburg VFW Post 573. | BAKER, Q. V. Jr. (I70049)
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| 14982 | He was a member of FOE #190 and Army-Navy Garrison #1984. | KILGORE, Gary Allen "Candy Man" (I129945)
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| 14983 | He was a member of Murraysville United Methodist Church, where he served as a Sunday school teacher, Woodlawn Masonic Lodge and Beaver Valley Beagle Club, past president and member of Coraopolis Beagle Club, IBF member of the International Hall of Fame and Tri-State Beagle Association Hall of Fame. | HUSK, Raymond Lawrence (I2830)
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| 14984 | He was a member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 152 in Morgantown, WV for 65 years. After retiring from construction, he worked for St. Josephs Hospital in Buckhannon as Director of Engineering. He was a member of West Virginia Hospital Engineers. | MARTIN, Carroll Donald "Don" (I137387)
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| 14985 | He was a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps of the Monongahela State Forest, stationed in Elkins and Dolly Sods, and had been a Boy Scout Leader of Troop 18. | DOTSON, Nathan Walter "Huff" (I21978)
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| 14986 | He was a member of the Doddridge County Emergency Squad, as well as Clarksburg Lodge 52 of Loyal Order of Moose, and the Doddridge County Lions Club. | MAXWELL, Forest Everett (I37750)
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| 14987 | He was a member of the Doddridge County Farm Bureau for 30 years, a director of the West Union Bank, and chariman of the Doddridge County Park Board. He was employed as a well tender for Consolidated Gas Transmission Corporation, and was a farmer. | HINTERER, Howard Charles (I5324)
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| 14988 | He was a member of the first Marine Division in the Punch Bowl Battle of the Korean War. He then served for 30 years in the Marine Reserves, retiring as Master Sgt. | SIX, Ralph Kester (I55294)
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| 14989 | He was a member of the Friendship Lodge #56 of West Union, Vice President and Tournament Director for the International Bow Hunters Organization, and the National Wild Turkey Federation. Jim enjoyed hunting, fishing and the outdoors. He was a 4-H Shooting Sport Instructor, Hunter Safety Instructor of the Year for Lewis County, and Private Archery Instructor. | MERRITT, James Robert (I71031)
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| 14990 | He was a member of the I.U.O.E. Local 132 (Operating Engineers) for more than 70 years. He also enjoyed raising cattle and farming. | RICHARDS, Earl (I61155)
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| 14991 | He was a member of the Mount Community Church, Charleston, where he served as an Elder and treasurer. | PRINGLE, James Walter "Jim" (I140337)
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| 14992 | He was a member of the Pearisburg Volunteer Fire Department, with 15 years as Chief. | GOODWIN, James Chapman (I5809)
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| 14993 | He was a member of the Percheron Horse Association. He loved horses, farming, and he showed quarter horses and later in life showed percheron horses and won many awards. | HALL, Haze Harlan "Sonny" (I45238)
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| 14994 | He was a member of the Ritchie County Board of Education. | DODD, William D. (I32975)
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| 14995 | He was a member of the U.S. Air Force Band & the Air Force "Blue Notes" Jazz Band. | WALTERS, Thomas Andrew (I139752)
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| 14996 | He was a member of the United Mine Workers and a former member of the City Council of West Milford. | SNIDER, Creed Willis (I18299)
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| 14997 | He was a natural son of Elihu Metz and Rosetta Margaret "Maggie" Dotson and was adopted by Reginald Rochester Dotson and Margaret Henry at a young age. His marriage record, which identifies him as Henry Dotson, indicates his birth as about 1913 in Calhoun County. The name on his military grave marker is W. Henry Dotson. | DOTSON, William Henry (Metz) (I64245)
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| 14998 | He was a past commander of Sperry Davis Post #9151 VFW in Salem, WV. | UNDERWOOD, James Ross "Jim" (I95054)
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| 14999 | He was a past president of the West Virginia Wool Marketing Association and former Secretary of the Independent Oil & Gas Association (IOGA). In politics, he served in the West Virginia House of Delegates representing Doddridge County from 1957 to 1960. and he also served as chairman of the Doddridge County Republican Committee 1961-1963. In 1963, he moved to Buckahnnon and worked for the West Virginia Farm Bureau as Executive Secretary. He later moved to St. Albans, taking a position as an Assistant Clerk for the West Virginia State Supreme Court, from which he retired. . | STOUT, Loutellus Meigs Jr. (I61258)
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| 15000 | He was a pilot on a P-38 plane of the Photographic Reconnaissance Division, US Army Air Force, and was enroute to Indo-China when his plane was lost. Initially classified as Missing in Action, he was later officially declared dead.. | SHANNON, Charles Ellsworth Jr. (I78825)
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