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WHO WILL SING FOR ME?
LITTLE BIRDIE, LITTLE BIRDIE WON'T YOU SING ME A SONG?
I GOT A SHORT TIME TO STAY HERE AND A LONG TIME TO BE GONE.
OUR FAVORITE BLUEGRASS BAND
EAST OHIO GRASS
Doug Blevins, Mayo Spence, and Lloyd Blevins
All the band members are natives of West Virginia. Doug and Lloyd are from Iaeger in McDowell
County and Mayo is from Mingo County. They live in the Cleveland area.
Doug Blevins of East Ohio Grass Band died suddenly on October 29, 1999. His
beautiful voice and banjo music are silenced forever. His family, friends, and fans are in
shock, and his smiling face will be sadly missed.
DOUGLAS BLEVINS - age 41
In Memory of Doug Blevins - a Great Artist
As the leaves of fall are falling
There is one we loved so much
That's fallen like an Oak leaf
And many's the heart he touched.
Doug you'd be so surprised
How many hearts are sad
The same old hearts that listened
And you made them feel so glad.
You had a way of reaching out
With every song you sang
And the way you played your music
We'll never hear again.
Losing you is hard to take
We hurt so much inside
We still cannot believe you're gone
The tears still haven't dried.
Only you knew what it was
Some how that went so wrong
And made you think with in your heart
You just could not go on.
But we your fans will not forget
On this we all agree
You and all your music
Will live on in memory.
Written by: Lee Airwyke 11/11/99
GOODBYE LITTLE BIRDIE
Dolores & Donald Davis
Photo by: Mary Christine Campbell
We spend our Thursday nights at Flavors on the Square Restaurant in Painesville, Ohio.
They do the pickin' and singin' . . . and that's us grinin'. "East Ohio Grass could wake the dead,"
Donald said.
Lloyd Blevins, formerly of the East Ohio Bluegrass Band, has organized a new band
called LLOYD BLEVINS & THE RAMBLING MOUNTAIN BOYS.
MORE BLUEGRASS
LOGAN COUNTY SINGERS
THE GAYLIGHT TRIO
Thelma Woodrum, Freda White, Gloria Farmer
REV. WAYNE DAMRON AND THE TRINITY FOUR QUARTET
Members of the quartet are: Louis Damron (son of Rev. Damron), Effie and Bernard Maynard
(husband and wife), Earl Gilpin (Effie's brother). Rev. Damron was pastor of the Henlawson
Freewill Baptist Church for many years.
THE GUYANDOTTE RIVER AT RUM JUNCTION
Rev. Clifford Bush and Rev. Wayne Damron put them under after a revival meeting
at the Yolyn Christian Baptist Church. Rev. Wayne Damron was Pastor of Henlawson Freewill Baptist
Church for many years. The Trinty Four Quartet were members of that church, and still sing there.
Photo by: Dolores Riggs-1955
YOLYN CHURCH
This was once the Yolyn Christian Baptist Church. The Pastor I remember was Rev.
Harry Pyle. He preached my mother-in-law's funeral in 1972. She was a member of the church.
When the Dehue Community Church was torn down, Rev. John Perovich and his church members moved
to the Yolyn Church.
DEHUE POND
Rev. Archie Conway, and Rev. Emmett Riggs (my dad) baptizing John Ingram at Dehue Pond in 1958.
John later became a minister. They are all deceased.
REV. ROY VANCE & REV. CAUDLE ADKINS, JR.
I took this picture in 1958 at the dedication of the Dehue Park which was built by my
dad, Rev. Emmett Riggs and some of the community boys. It was located behind the parking lot
across from the entrance to the mine. It was a place where the young people held picnics and
barbeques. Rev. Vance was Pastor of the Dehue Community Church, before he became Pastor of
McConnell Tabernacle. Rev. Adkins was from Dehue, and held many revivals in the Logan County
area before moving to Huntington.
REV. ROY VANCE WITH WIFE, FANNIE, AND NEICE, JACKIE HARTZELL
Picture taken in front of McConnell Tabernacle. Courtesy of Hank & Betty Hartzell Richard
DEHUE COMMUNITY CHURCH
Rev. Henry Damron tests the water before a baptism-February 1964
Dorothy and Henry Damron - November 1973
Donna holding baby Kim and Henry Allen
Henry Damron family November 24, 1980
front row: Betty, Henry, Kim
standing: Donna, Lois, Henry Allen, Bev, Henry, Emma, Henrietta
Rev. Henry Damron - Easter Sunday at Rita Freewill Baptist Church
Henry died July 13, 1990
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