Historical Sketches by the Historical Society of
Southwest Virginia



 
 
 SUMMING UP AT SEVENTY
By Edgar S. Fraley
THE LEGEND OF SWIFT'S SILVER MINE
By James A. Dougherty
GENERAL JOSEPH MARTIN
A FORGOTTEN PIONEER 1740-1898
By Gordon Aronhime
 CHIEF BENGE'S LAST RAID
By Luther F. Addington
ST. MARIE ON THE CLINCH
By Emory L. Hamilton
 RUFUS A. AYERS
PROMOTER OF SW VIRGINIA
By Nancy Harman
THE MELUNGEONS
By Bonnie Ball
LAFAYETTE MCMULLEN
COLORFUL SW VIRGINIAN
By E. Frank Hilton
AUBURN LORENZO PRIDEMORE
EMINENT STATE SENATOR 1839-1900
By Rose S. Quillin
CAPTIVITY OF 
MARY DRAPER INGLES
By Luther F. Addington
JAMES BOONE KILLED 
OCTOBER 10, 1773
By Luther F. Addington
MASSACRE OF THE HENRY FAMILY
By Luther F. Addington
THE INDIAN MISSIONARY
By Luther F. Addington
CAPTURE OF JANE WHITTAKER AND POLLY ALLEY
By Luther F. Addington
ATTACK ON THE EVANS FAMILY, 1779
By Luther F. Addington
ATTACK ON THOMAS INGLES' FAMILY
By Luther F. Addington
INDIANS AND THE MOORE FAMILY
By Luther F. Addington
THE HARMAN'S BATTLE
By Luther F. Addington
A FIGHT FOR LIFE
By Luther F. Addington
CHIEF BENGE CARRIES AWAY
MRS. SCOTT
By Luther F. Addington
THE CAPTIVITY OF JENNY WILEY
By Luther F. Addington
MRS. ANDREW DAVIDSON AND CHILDREN CAPTURED
By Luther F. Addington
DAVID MUSICK TRAGEDY
By Luther F. Addington
CHIEF BENGE'S LAST RAID
By Luther F. Addington
INDIAN TRAGEDIES AGAINST THE WALKER FAMILY
By Emory L. Hamilton
LIFE & LETTERS OF 
JOHN T SMITH
By William G Smith
FRONTIER FORTS
By Emory L. Hamilton
Dr. John Preston McConnell
1866 - 1941
By Dr. & Mrs. H. C. Graybeal
SOME PIONEER LEADERS IN LEE COUNTY'S PROGRESS 
By Etta Green
METHODIST MISSION WORK ON GARDEN CREEK
By Myrtle Miller
THE BUCHANAN MISSION SCHOOL AND HELEN TIMMONS HENDERSON
By Bonnie Ball
JOHN B. FLOYD
From Southwest Virginia to the Buchanan Cabinet 1847-1856
By Edward L. Henson, Jr.
COLONEL CAMPBELL SLEMP
By Rose Slemp Quillen
CHRISTOPHER GIST DID NOT GO THROUGH POUND GAP
By L. F. Addington
THE LONG HUNTERS
By Emory L. Hamilton
ELIHU JASPER SUTHERLAND
A SANDY BASIN CHARACTER
By J. Hoge T. Sutherland
THE NAME AND FAMILY OF DOTSON
By Emory L. Hamilton
THE 1916 CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN
IN THE NINTH DISTRICT
By Stanley Willis
Tivis Colley Sutherland: Pioneer Doctor of the Frying Pan
By Bonnie Ball
REMINISCENCES OF
J. J. KELLY, JR.
By J. J. Kelly, Jr.
BRIEF GENEALOGY OF
THE KELLY FAMILY
By Emory L. Hamilton
ROBERT M. ADDINGTON
EDUCATOR, SCOTT COUNTY COURT CLERK
By K. R. Addington
THOMAS B. FUGATE
EX-CONGRESSMAN
By Mrs. Thomas Fugate
GEORGE WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE BICKLEY
THE EARLY YEARS
By James Hagy
OLD MILLS OF FAR
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
By Emory L. Hamilton
THE KILGORE FORTHOUSE
By Luther F. Addington
DICKENSONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
By Mary Jane Knisely
HISTORY OF BUCHANAN COUNTY
By H. Claude Pobst
THE BOLLINGS OF WISE COUNTY
By W. S. Rose
THE HANGINGS AT GLADEVILLE (Now Wise)
By Luther F. Addington
DANIEL BOONE IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
"The Story as Told by 
Lyman Coleman Draper"
Edited by James William Hagy
LEGENDS OF JACOB BLUEBAUGH
By Donald Lewis Osborn
WISE COUNTY'S OTHER INDUSTRY (1887-1940)
CAPTAIN JOHN DUNKIN OF ELK GARDEN
COLONEL JOHN TATE OF RUSSELL COUNTY
THOMAS LOVELADY AND THE ORIGIN OF LOVELADY GAP
THE BOREN FAMILY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
By Kerry Ross Boren
  William Shelburne Cox
The Little Professor
By Bonnie Ball
The Mullins Family in Dickenson County
By Elihu Jasper Sutherland
Rafting Down the Clinch River
By Roy L. Osborne and Logan Osborne
W. D. Smith (1861-1938)
By Jayne W. Carter
W. I. Thomas
Pioneer Sociologist and His Kin
By Leland B. Tate
Indian Tragedies of the Walker Family
By Emory L. Hamilton
THE APPALACHIAN EXPERIENCE
By Cratis Williams
HANGING IN RUSSELL COUNTY
By Roy L. Sturgill
HANGIN'S IN SCOTT COUNTY
By Roy L. Sturgill
ANDREW TAYLOR STILL
FOUNDER OF OSTEOPATHY
By Bonnie Ball
THE VERSATILE DRAYTON S. HALE
By Omer C. Addington
THE CHARLES FAMILY IN BUCHANAN COUNTY
By Ethyl C. Hughes
The Boone Trail
By Emory L. Hamilton
The Murder of Hershel Deaton
By Roy L. Sturgill
Too Late For Flowers 
Never Too Late For Tears
By Roy L. Sturgill
Recollections of Grandfather 
Elijah Rasnick
By Vera Counts Barosin
Samuel Ritchie of 
Scott County, Virginia
By Emory L. Hamilton
Dr. Thomas Walker
By Bonnie Ball
The Old Jonesville Campground
By Anne W. Lanningham
Mountain Scribes
By Bonnie S. Ball
Petition to Form Russell County, Virginia    December, 1785
Five Confederates 
From Pleasant Hill
By Omar C. Addington
 

 
 
 
 
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