Oliver and Julia Ellen Harmon Hutton

Here's a picture of my Gr-gr grandparents Hutton and their tombstones in Casto-Hutton Cemetery, Bear Fork, Jackson County, WV.

Edna Florence Hutton

Little Edna Florence was the daughter of Oliver Franklin "Frankie" and Malinda "Linda" Estella Westfall Hutton. Died at 15 months. Buried in the Casto-Hutton Cemetery on Bear Fork in Belgrove, WV. My mother tells me Uncle Frank told her that she died of "bloody flux." Here's a link explaining the disease: http://chestofbooks.com/health/materia-medica-drugs/Homoeopathic-Domestic-Practice/Dysentery-Bloody-Flux.html

New Cemetery Photos Online

My cousin Jody alerted me to the new cemetery photos online at WVGenWeb. Check it out. My great-grandmother's tombstone at Ephesus Cemetery down Grasslick.

Genealogy Trip to Blue Creek

Today I traveled up Blue Creek looking for signs of my roots. There was only one cemetery, Kennedy Cemetery, although there were a dozen churches. It was interesting to drive through the wooded lanes imagining what it must have been like when there was virgin timber and the creeks were the roadbeds. An old railroad track peeked out from under the forest floor occasionally. It's really different up there where there's no room for hay fields, barns, or tractors. Only small garden plots and hillside goats. True hill country. I saw lots of rhododendrens.

A Mrs. Skeen at the Goshen Cemetery in Kentuck, where I went to check on my grandparents graves, told me that she heard of people working the Underground Railroad in Kentuck where the Huttons lived. This adds to my theory that my Huttons are descended from the Quaker Hutton brothers, since Quakers are famous for their work in the Underground Railroad.

Anderson Cemetery

I finally found the cemetery where lie Andrew and Melissa Anderson. It's the Anderson Cemetery at Plum Orchard. I'm still looking for Albert and Maggie Anderson's gravesite.

Meigs County Huttons

I finally found some time to do some genealogy research. I'm down to two jobs for the summer, working only 10 hours a week now, and only 3 days a week. Hopefully, I'll have some time to play with my grandkids now.

Perhaps Elijah Hutton was a cousin to my great-great-great grandfather Joseph Hutton. The inscription at the bottom says:

Thy toils are now ended

Thy suffering is o'er

Thy spirit is at rest

On that far distant shore.

Weaver, Racine, O.

Gr-gr-gr-grandfather Staats

Here lie my gr-gr-gr-grandfather and -grandmother Isaac and Anne Eliza Tolley Staats in the Old Siniaville Cemetery.

Old Siniaville Cemetery

Mom and I found the Old Siniaville Cemetery yesterday, the resting place of Riley and Alice Staats.

Gr-gr-grandfather and -grandmother Staats

Here lie my Great-great-grandfather and -grandmother Riley and Alice Staats in the Old Siniaville Cemetery. The epitaph says: Gone to a brighter home
Where grief cannot come

And here they are in their younger years.

Aerial Maps

Look what I found! These load slowly on dial-up, but they're worth the wait.
They have all the sites from schools to cemeteries.

http://worldmaps.web.infoseek.co.jp/usa_west_virginia_guide.htm

Casto-Hutton Cemetery

This is the Casto-Hutton cemetery, resting place of Oliver and Julia Ann Hutton.

Arlington with Pentagon in the background

Leggett Reunion at Arlington

Grasslick Cemetery

I visited Grasslick cemetery last summer and found Grandad Anderson's sister buried here.