Subject: Fwd: Sad Day From: Janice Kelsey Date: June 21, 1998 This is a "Sad Day" in Marion County, WV history. Sunday 6/21/1998 in Fairmont Times, West Virginian. Front Page Fairmont -- Leatherbound books recording transactions between 1842 to 1880 have been important to local genealogist, but now the historical books are gone - buried with the five bins of trash the Marion County Commission hauled away from the Jacob's building last week. I am skipping most of the article that was in the news. Along with books were, boxes and files of papers dating back to Marion County's inception in 1942. There were five floors that had books, boxes and files to be removed. One book was save with had Mary Burrows will. The will was handwritten pages document. The copy of the will in the county clerk's office, but it was not the same. This is the original. This was the only book that got saved. This is a sad time in WV history to think that people would destoy history. This happen several years ago in Harrison co. and the records are now lost forever. And to think they may have destroy the missing link that you may have been looking for. This is a "sad day". Some of the books were Wills others were Justice of the Peace books that the newspaper had wrote. There may have been other records, but the article didn't say what all had been destoyed. The article was a large article for the paper. The historical and genealogical societies were NOT notified that the county had planned to discard the handwritten record books, files and other etcs. Again this is a "sad day" in history. Sue http://dttwv01.org/sue/index.sht ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: [email protected] (Va-Roots) This message was processed by Software Valley Information System ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== Go To: #, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Main |