My Old West Virginia History Book

.....When I was a teenager in the 1950s, my grandmother Iantha Dunham Stone Pullins Sarver, lived in Buffalo, West Virginia just a few doors down from the famous Hulbert's Store. I had been an avid reader since the third grade and in this small town there was a treasure for me. That treasure was Cunninghams's Second hand store. For a dime, I could buy a great book. Although most of the books were boys books of the "morality" type that were printed in the early 1900s, I found many books that were history classics. Some had not even had their pages cut. I accumulated a great many books that followed me though several moves including my move to Greenbrier County in 1975. Disaster struck. For lack of another storage area, I stored many of the books in my sister in law's basement. They were destroyed by dampness.

However I was able to save a number of books. Included in these is an old West Virginia History Book. On this page, it is displayed along with a few of my favorite illustrations.

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At the top is the signature of Austin Buell Allender. Below that signature is my own. While I was at home, on leave during the middle of the winter before going Georgia for my 2nd eight weeks of training, I signed many of my books. I had a number of the Allender Families' books at one time. Some had been given as Christmas presents and were signed by the giver. I wish I could have save all of those books.

The Grave Creek Mound at Moundsville

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....Hanging Rock, in Hampshire County. Lewis writes, Writing about battles between Indians, Lewis writes, "Other engagements between the savage warriors (note: Lewis was not hampered by political correctness) took place at the mouth of the Opequon, near the mouth of the South Branch of the Potomac, and at Hanging Rocks, now in the County of Hampshire. This later was, perhaps, the most fiercely contested battle which the Indians ever fought among themselves in West Virginia" (Lewis page 20-21)

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....Where The Greenbrier meets the New in what is now Summers County

It is my intention, as time and other irons in the fire permit, to add quotes and perhaps small illustrations from this old history that is just few years older than I am...Ha ha.