Rockbilly's Guestbook
From: verahenthorn@verizon.net
Subject: Good old St. Marys
Sent: 04/09/2008Name: Tyler County Woman
Message: Love reading about Pleasants County and roaming the back roads with my friend, even though he got me lost. Really a good site. Keep up the good work!
Name: Mary B. Archer <Maryarcher4@aol.com> Date: 2007-06-23 Comments:
I love what you have said in your on words and ways on this web page of West Virginia. There is something about these hills that gets into your blood and when you leave for a while there is a hankering to get back to the hills of West Virginia.
I was born in Ritchie County and raised in Wood County and even the roots of Ritchie County call me back every so often. There is certainly something about these hills.
Name: Beverly <gray5222@bellsouth.net> Date: 2007-06-21 Comments:
Jim, I was setting hear thinking about you and want you to no your a very fine man and i really enjoy reading about you and your state keep up the good work
Name: Cynthia Hall Lahue <clahue@charter.net> Date: 2007-06-02 Comments:
Thank you. I believe you have the only known pictures of my father's ancestors. My father was Bernard Bonnel Hall, the son of Harry Harrison Hall, I think. However, your message says Harry had one son. My dad had two brothers and a sister, Lester and Thelma. I had a brother Jeffery Hayes Hall who I assume was named after Hayes Highland Hall. My grandaughter carries on the name. Her name is Molly Hayes Lahue. I would like to know more if you have additional information.
Thanks.
Cynde Hall Lahue
Azle Texas
Name: Gregory Scot Bartrug <gbartrug@ezy.net> Date: 2007-04-09 Comments:
Hello, ust came across your site and just wanted to say "Hi".
I live in Salisbury Maryland. We are interested in the Family tree and would like to correspond with other family members if interested. gbartrug@ezy.net posted 4/9/07
Name: Suzanne Wilson Ruckman Nowell <now2020@aol.com> Date: 2007-03-18 Comments:
Hey dad! Just checking in on you.
Name: Vic Burkhammer <vicburk@yahoo.com> Date: 2006-11-30 Comments:
Hi Jim,
I really appreciate your writing, and come back here every once in a while. It's easy to tell how much you love home....just as much as I do.
Thanks!
Vic B.
Name: diane breeden buis <dbdolls@netcommander.com> Date: 2006-11-27 Comments:
dear rockerbilly i was born and raised in charles town wv it 10 min from historcal harpers ferry wv and about 1 hr from washington dc , i really enjoyed your web sight
Name: Robert L. Bailey, Sr. <beetlefromsalem@webtv.net> Date: 2006-08-29 Comments:
I may have been born in Ohio and love it dearly, my second is the birth state of my Father and his ancestors, GODS Country, West Virginia. Checking out your site really pulled at my heartstrings. Thank you for sharing it with all who care about the god things in life. Bob
Name: SAm Garrison <dodysam@aol.com> Date: 2006-03-28 Comments:
I spent many happy summers at my grandfather's place in St. Marys Bsack in the 30's and 40's.
Name: Danielle Butler Hupp <BaByCaKeS43117@aol.com> Date: 2006-03-17 Comments:
This is great site! I really enjoyed reading the anthologies. It reminded me so much of hearing stories of my late Papaw, Don Butler. Thanks for a taste of home!
Name: Diane Blair <dblair@inet99.net> Date: 2006-03-05 Comments:
You never cease to amaze me, my dear friend. <br>Cumquat
Name: Bob Evans <grayminer@comcast.net> Date: 2006-03-05 Comments:
Mr. Ruckman, <br>I,too, was born in WV (well, my actual birth occurred in Winchester, VA - but my parents were residents of Romney, WV at the time and both of them were born in the South Branch Valley - Moorefield). <br> <br>From 1946 to 1951, my parents owned a farm about 2 miles from Hebron. My father taught in the St.Marys school system during this time. I began my formal education at the one room school in Hebron, Miss Lucy Houseman presiding I have a copy of the school picture from 1951 - 15 students in 8 grades. I know the names and would love to find some of them. If you reply with an e-mail address, Ill be glad to forward the picture and names. <br>Maybe you could help me find them or point me to someone who could. <br>I now live near Nashville, TN (in Gallatin, TN). <br> <br>Congrats on a cool web site and Best Wishes <br> <br>Bob Evans <br> <br>
Name: Patrick L. Gainer <bubbag3@verizon.net> Date: 2006-01-08 Comments:
Thanks for the tribute to my grandfather Patrick W. Gainer and for your West Virginia pride. I was born and raised in Hampton, VA, but I'll always be a West Virginian at heart!
Name: Peggy Lawrence <pjlawrence29@msn.com> Date: 2005-12-07 Comments:
So nice to see a fellow "mountaineer" (I'm from Huntington) doing writing like this. I've read most of it and thoroughly ejoyed it all. I'm just moving back to "God's country"after a lifetime away, I lost my husband, so decided to come back "home" to my roots. Thanks for all the hours of entertainment.
Peggy Lawrence
Name: Janet <janello30@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-11-29 Comments:
Great Web Site.............Still reading it.....
Name: Deborah A Roberts <fdeborah434@aol.com> Date: 2005-11-08 Comments:
I am in Tucson Arizona and working on tracking any of my father's family. His name is James Harrison Roberts Jr. He was born in Pleasants County (lived on a farm in St Marys W.V.) in 1924. His father James Harrison Roberts Sr. was born in St Marys at the turn of the 20th century. They relocated to Tucson when my father was about 9 yrs old. The rest of the family, stayed in St Marys. My uncle George Roberts now owns the farm(no longer a working farm)but we have no trace of my grandfathers brothers or their children. It's been a difficult but interesting journey trying to find out information from so long ago. I have made a little progress here and there. So wish me luck and if you know or knew of any of the Roberts or Cain or Kain family please foward my e-mail address. They may be related! Enjoyed your web page. I hope to visit the area soon. thanks, Deborah Roberts
Name: Deborah A Roberts <fdeborah434@aol.com> Date: 2005-11-08 Comments:
I am in Tucson Arizona and working on tracking any of my father's family. His name is James Harrison Roberts Jr. He was born in Pleasants County (lived on a farm in St Marys W.V.) in 1924. His father James Harrison Roberts Sr. was born in St Marys at the turn of the 20th century. They relocated to Tucson when my father was about 9 yrs old. The rest of the family, stayed in St Marys. My uncle George Roberts now owns the farm(no longer a working farm)but we have no trace of my grandfathers brothers or their children. It's been a difficult but interesting journey trying to find out information from so long ago. I have made a little progress here and there. So wish me luck and if you know or knew of any of the Roberts or Fox family please foward my e-mail address. They may be related! Enjoyed your web page. I hope to visit the area soon. thanks, Deborah Roberts
Name: Bessie Gumm <bgumm@wk.net> Date: 2005-10-18 Comments:
I really enjoyed your article on Aunt Myrtle's two-holer. I knew several of the people in the story like Lulu Snyder and Pauline Ingram. They were a lot of help to me in helping with family information. I am currently working on the Hall family. Ernest Hall was my great uncle. I have also been working on the Ruckman famiy as my husband is descended from Thomas Ruckman whose daughter Susan married John Peck in Bath County, Va. Keep up the stories. Bessie Gumm
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Name: Sam Garrison <dodysam@aol.com> Date: 2005-10-07 Comments:
Jim,
I too have many fond memories of St Marys. I spent many a summer at my grandfather's house on Dewey Ave. His name was Marcus Bayles.
Name: Shelby Jean Rivellino <shelby14@cox.net> Date: 2005-10-04 Comments:
I enjoyed your web site very much. My ancestors came from the St. Marys area.
Name: eze ogo <mugu@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-08-15 Comments:
good site guys i dey here
Name: Connie aka Toots <balihi@adelphia.net> Date: 2005-07-31 Comments:
Read ever story and loved it. Great work and a great site.
Name: Gene Leasure <leasure2@verizon.net> Date: 2005-05-28 Comments:
Thanks for the memories!! I grew up in Arvilla and went SMHS, played football, and spent a lot of time in ST. Marys as a teen. I now live in Massachusettes raising my own family, in a town just smaller then St. Marys. I am planning a vacation in July to visit my parents that still live there and i look forward to seeing the town and taking walks down memroy lane.
thanks again,
Gene leasure
Name: Suzanne Ruckman McBride <smcbride@comcast.net> Date: 2005-04-06 Comments:
I stumbled on the term "Geneaholic" while browsing the web in search of Ruckman roots. I would be so grateful to hear what you've found out about your Ruckman ancesters, Jim.
Suzanne
Name: Suzanne Ruckman McBride <smcbride@comcast.net> Date: 2005-04-06 Comments:
I stumbled on the term "Geneoholic" while browsing the web in search of Ruckman roots.
Name: Rich Kiselewsky <BigRich182@aol.com> Date: 2005-04-02 Comments:
Good day,
Had it not been for todays lousy weather I'd not found your site.
I'm a bit confused by the claim " last of the gun fighters".
I was with VMF(AW)-235 and as I recall we were the last F-8 unit in Vietnam ( Mag-11 DaNang ) and that was what we were called.
But -- all that doesn't really matter.
You have a well done site.
Thanks for your service to our country.
SF,
Rich K
Flemington, NY
Name: Tina Riggs Butcher <tinabutcher@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-03-03 Comments:
Loved the sight!! Was just about through it when I found the poem "There Is A Reason" by Virginia Winland. I knew I recognized it...She is my Grandmother. Thank you. It brought back BEAUTIFUL,LOVING,WARM memories.
Name: Zelma M. Setser <zelma@usa.net> Date: 2005-02-26 Comments:
I had several Van Meter relatives lived in Pleasant County and Ohio counties many years ago. Back in the 1700's.
Name: Mary Cooksey Wilks <MCW150@aol.com> Date: 2005-02-19 Comments:
In doing ancestry research I found most of my grandmother's family (Hutchison, Bean,Gilkerson) were born/raised in Cabell county WVA.
I found the Official Application to be an Honorary Hillbilly hysterical.My grandparents on the other side were from the hills of Kentucky. Ironically, I came across this site while trying to find information on Hillbilly traditions and heritage - the town I now live in has had a Hillbilly as the high school mascot for over 50 years and we have all been proud of it. We always felt it represented people who had close family ties and would "fight" to protect their territory. Recently, some newcomers to town have decided the Hillbilly "logo" is demeaning and offensive. Having ancestors that would definitely qualify as authentic hillbillies I was quite offended.
Name: Martha Valentine <trackfantoo@aol.com> Date: 2005-02-06 Comments:
Jim: I am Martha Snyder Darling. You might remember me or my two kids, Cindy and Keith. I am way down here in Mississippi and sure do miss St. Marys and West Virginia. I guess I am a born and bred Mountaineer. By the way, that thing about Good Old Southern Hospitality is a big joke.
Name: Barbara Gertz <Barbery214@aol.com> Date: 2005-02-04 Comments:
I think this is great what you are doing
Name: Pat Parrisiki <AngelShiloh@AOL.com> Date: 2005-02-02 Comments:
Very nice reading
Name: Darlene <m4dfan17@yahoo.com> Date: 2005-01-25 Comments:
Hi,Just passing through on my hunt for great grandparents,
Asbury Hamilton Davis & Magdalene (Margarett ? ) DeWitt born 1863. You have a very nice site, I'll be back !!!!
Name: Lila Cole Grishok <lilaslinks@charter.net> Date: 2005-01-08 Comments:
My ancestors are from Pleasants County; Coles, Reynolds, Barkers, McFarlands, LaRues......Though I have never been to WV, you have made me feel like I've had a visit "home". Hope to see it in person some day! Thanks to you and the other people who have contributed to the site!
Lila
Name: Ann Canfield <canfieldaj@hotmail.com> Date: 2005-01-04 Comments:
Well you clever little bugger. I enjoyed your stories and poems, they reflect a lot of your humor, brains and hetitage in the hills. Thank you for the hospitality.
Name: Jo <snoopyjocool@charter.net> Date: 2004-11-13 Comments:
I have been reading things you have written and have truly enjoyed it. I am from WV too. In Kanawha County.
Name: Kaki Reckard <kakireckard@columbus.rr.com> Date: 2004-10-29 Comments:
Hi!
Love the site!
Kaki
Name: Martha Valentine <trackfantoo@aol.com> Date: 2004-08-19 Comments:
Jim, I can't begin to tell you how very much I have enjoyed your Rockerbilly. I am a native Pleasants Countian, who now lives in Mississippi and doesn't like it. I miss the hills, the trees, the river and, most of all the people.
Martha Snyder Darling Valentine
Name: Verylnn Reed Kernen <morninglight@1st.net> Date: 2004-08-18 Comments:
My grandfather was Clyde William Reed and my grandmother's maiden name was Miller. I would enjoy hearing something from some of the Reeds and the Millers.
Name: Carmelita Milnes <Moonlitly@aol.com> Date: 2004-08-07 Comments:
Dear Rockerbilly,
I enjoyed you web site. I stumbled across I while searching for some info on my mother's family. She was Eva June Bailey born I believe at Sugar Creek in 1921. She was one of 7 children, six girls and one boy. My grandparents were Clyde and Mary Wigner Bailey. When I was a small girl I have vivid memories of visiting my grandparents home and going fishing at the old fishing hole with my Grandpa Bailey. I also remember having to us the old pump to get water and barb wire fences. A few years ago my brother and I decided to visit the old homestead and visit the family cemetary, (Lamp/Bailey). It was sad as well as heartwarming to see familiar sites as the old road and gate to get to their home. Thank you for the pleasure of remembering.
Name: Beverly Cunningham <iambev@earthlink.net> Date: 2004-08-05 Comments:
Rockerbilly -- What interesting stories you tell and fascinating pictures you paint with words...It is a pleasure knowing you.
Name: Patricia Bolling <pbolling@setel.com> Date: 2004-07-13 Comments:
Hi, couldn't sleep at 4:53am and looked up your website..Loved it....It is very intertaining and interesting..and most of all very informative...I feel as if I know you already.
Name: Casey Hawkins <Casey6@columbus.rr.com> Date: 2004-06-26 Comments:
Love your site. I am a displaced West Virginian living in Ohio. I have been here about 50 years and still miss "home". Thank you for sharing all of these things.
Name: Carolyn Reynolds Webb <Webb919@aol.com> Date: 2004-06-20 Comments:
Enjoyed your web page. Why haven't I seen it before now.
Lots of Love, Your Cuz
Name: Marina Dececo <mdececo@cox.net> Date: 2004-05-02 Comments:
My ancestors came out of West Virginia in the late 1700s and after browsing your website I kinda wish they'd stayed there:-)
Name: "brighteyes" - Mary Ellen <brighteyes1143@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-04-28 Comments:
What a guy! I'm speechless! Keep up the good work! ME
Name: dee burton <dee_burton2004@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-04-27 Comments:
very impressive, intense and interesting
i printed off the stories, poems and songs to read later when im not at work
Name: DENZEL (DENNY) WILSON <roadman160@yahoo.com> Date: 2004-04-07 Comments:
Hi, I realy like your site. I live in Weirton, WV, but spent a lot of time with my Gran-parents in the late 50s who lived on French Creek. I also attented the Willy School on French Creek for one year,(a one room school) a super experience. I was interested in the genealogy papers your mother had left, and hope if William L. Wilson (gg granfather) or Jefferson B Wilson (g granfather) or George B Wilson (granfather) (all of St.Marys) appear in them you would consider letting me know. I have done some research on the family tree and would be happy to share it with you if its the same family.
Thank you very much.
Name: David Barkwill <aqdab@hmm21.com> Date: 2004-03-30 Comments:
Hi Uncle Jim,
I went out onto the Pleasants County home page
and saw your link. It'll be fun to explore
Name: charlotte campbell beard <bebaw1@aol.com> Date: 2004-03-09 Comments:
attempted to send comment yesterday, but not sure i hit the right buttons (graduated SMHS too) Have laughed heartly reading your website, love it . Miss those old days too, but not enough to go back lol And the people you have mentioned, had not thought of them in many years. Congratulations on a job , very well done.
Name: Linda <crazyrabbit39@aol.com> Date: 2004-01-27 Comments:
Thank you for a delightful few minutes to remember why I love my state and its folks. Just wish you'd identified the marines. Not that I'd know any of them, but names to go with faces is important to me. What began as a genealogy search became time well spent.
Name: Art Pease <apease1@aol.com> Date: 2003-12-20 Comments:
I have a friend who teaches at PCMS [Steve Barksdale] and just found this site as I was checking out St. Marys. Have you heard the story of how to tell a native - should apply as well to WV as NH. A woman was talking to an old New Hampshire native down at the corner store. "Eben", she said, "I know that I can never be considered a native, as I wasn't born here. But, what about my sons? They were born here and have lived here all their lives [so far, the old native is thinking]" "Harumph", Eben said. "If the cat had kittens in the oven, would you call'em muffins?" Enjoy!
Name: Linda Toothman <christlike22@charter.net> Date: 2003-11-28 Comments:
I enjoy reading about the hometown folk. Thanks
Name: Linda <rocketteone@msn.com> Date: 2003-11-21 Comments:
Enjoyed Rockerbilly's prayer! Keep up the good work.
a former classmate, Linda
Name: Jean Kopasko <bedeviled_2000@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-11-02 Comments:
I thought your stories about Verizon were great and true for any person who has ever dealt with them. I think the Pleasants County Genealogy site is great and easy to use.
Name: Marilyn White <marilynw@edifax.com> Date: 2003-08-25 Comments:
I enjoyed your page......
Name: Dawn <brow> Date: 2003-08-23 Comments:
That was the most beautiful thing I have ever read on being a native West Virginian. I am now living in Europe, but was born and raised in the West Virginia mountains. We didn't have much money as I do now, and I have saw many places and made money. Yet, my mind and heart are always laying in the West Virginia mountains where I know the best of worlds were and will always be for me. Thanks for the definition of a true West Virginian.:-) God Bless
Name: Peg Snyder <pegsnyder03@netzero.com> Date: 2003-06-21 Comments:
Hi Jim...I am happy to see that you like Bob's stories and poems enough to add them to your web site. I don't understand why you seem to have made some changes in text and also why you didn't credit him for the work. I hope this is an oversight and you will take care of this right away. I am sure you remember me. Please let me know. Thanks, Margaret(Peg)Snyder
Name: jan <janlocascio@earthlink.net> Date: 2003-05-14 Comments:
Hey, good to read you. I left WV 23 years ago only to be less than 2 hours away here in central Ohio. Still I don't get back often enough. While I grew up in Vienna, I had many summers in Gauley Bridge and Falls View as my mother and I followed my father's work when school was out. As a now typical Ohioan, we often vacation at the beaches of the Carolinas. My favorite part of the trip is along the WV turnpike where I can again see the beautiful West Virginia hills.
A friend and also former WV native sent me your site. I will be back to read more.
Thanks!
Jan <><
Name: Marcia West <luvtosing@aol.com> Date: 2003-05-13 Comments:
Dear Rockerbilly,
I have really enjoyed reading your Rocker Talk. My family is from St. Marys[no apostrophe]!! My grandparents were Clarence West Sr. and Rosa [Diest] West and they lived at 421 Barkwill St. It's the only brick house on Barkwill and right next to the Baptist Church. My father Clarence West Jr. was born in 1924 and he and his sister Clela [West] Radcliff grew up there. My dad graduated from St. Marys High I think in 1942, then attended Marietta College. He then served in WWII. He married my mother Anne Louise Cox [from Ritchie Cty.]in 1948. I was born in 1953 and we moved to Calif. when I was 3 yrs. old. My only memories of St. Marys are from vacation trips home and my mother's memories. My father passed away in 1996 but I have many relatives that still live in W.Va. and Ohio [Mainly around Lowell.
Well I've gone on long enough. Nice meeting you even if it is over the internet!!!
Yours truly, Marcia West
Name: Jim Paugh <jfpaugh@earthlink.net> Date: 2003-05-08 Comments:
My Dad gave me a hat, a long time ago and I still have it, that says, "There are only two kinds of people, West Virginians and those who wish they were."
My parents were born and raised in WV, as were their parents, etc. So was my sister and I. We both left to join the military and have never been back, except to visit. I really enjoy my trips back to the "hills" and stay as long as I can. On my last trip back I took my 7 year old grandson and began teaching him how to speak "hillbilly." I want him to be bilingual so he can impress his teachers in school (he lives in Kansas). Although his Dad has spent a lot of time in WV with me, I am not too sure he is impressed with my efforts! Oh well, we try. Don't want the language to die out. Anyway, enjoy your website and have sent it to all of my family so they will know more about WV. Keep up the good work.
Name: David Moss <mpdmoss@rtol.net> Date: 2003-05-01 Comments:
You sound like a real hillbilly. Thanks for the good work. As you can see I am writing this real slow because I think that you also read slow. David Moss
Name: JoAnn Wilson <jaw7890@aol.com> Date: 2003-04-17 Comments:
I am a West Virginian, was raised in Follansbee ,& live in Wellsburg. I was born in Pittsburgh,Pa. ,but moved here 2 years later,& have lived here most of my life. I am very proud to be from West Virginia.
Name: Gary and Sara Edgar <edgar@1st.net> Date: 2003-04-07 Comments:
Really enjoyed your web site!
Name: Shelby Fawley <trickyme@bellsouth.net> Date: 2003-04-04 Comments:
Interesting! :-)
Name: Mel & Carolyn Stewart <melvincarolyn@cox.net> Date: 2003-04-01 Comments:
Do you have genealogy info of your family?
If so do you have Eliza Jane Ruckman b abt 1825-1830? Looking for her info and children for the two of them if they had any. Her husband was Alexander Mack Goudy. (No marriage date). "Enjoy your site"
Thanks, The Stewarts
Name: Mel & Carolyn Stewart <melvincarolyn@cox.net> Date: 2003-04-01 Comments:
Do you have genealogy info of your family?
If so do you have Eliza Jane Ruckman b abt 1825-1830? Looking for her info and children for the two of them if they had any. Her husband was Alexander Mack Goudy. (No marriage date).
Thanks, The Stewarts
Name: Heather Tasker <americangurl20092003@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-03-31 Comments:
I think your site is very nice!!
Name: AB <AleBurgess@aol.com> Date: 2003-03-23 Comments:
Great site. I finally got to move back to WV after being gone for several years and its great to be home. There's no place like WV and you won't any better people anywhere.
Name: Buzz Floyd <Floyds@lvcm.com> Date: 2003-03-23 Comments:
Great site. Please join us misplaced/displaced cyberbillies on takemehomewv.com sometime. We'd love to chat.
From a hillbilly desert rat from Clarksburg, living in Lost Wages, Nevada, since 1964.
Name: Dee McCurry <deemccurry@wyan.org> Date: 2003-03-22 Comments:
Love everything you say about our "homeland". Don't know of any other state that pulls at a native son or daughter's heart-strings like West Virginia. My people go back to even before there was a Harrison County [Col. William Lowther was my ggggg-grandfather] and I'm sure there will always be Mitchell's & Lowther's living there.
Name: igbokwenu <mugu@mugu.com> Date: 2003-03-17 Comments:
keep off guys
Name: Patty Nichols McCullough <calfcreek@wirefire.com> Date: 2003-03-03 Comments:
Just logged on to your site last night. Really enjoyed what I've looked at so far. Lifelong resident of Pleasants County, and a true West Virginian. Would enjoy some comments on SMHS.
Keep up the good work.
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Name: Ginnie <nebel@gateway.net> Date: 2003-02-27 Comments:
Having visited Pleasants County looking for my own Ruckman roots, I totally understand your love for West Virginia!
Name: Richard Davis <DickDa637@aol.com> Date: 2003-01-25 Comments:
I come from a family who lived in West Virginia since the mid 1860s. Spent 26 years in the AF, and loved every minute of it. Now retired in Florida, but try to get back to check on the old cemeteries whenever I can. Enjoy your page.
Dick Davis
Name: wm higgins <wm_f_higginsjr@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-01-22 Comments:
enjoyed reading and looking at you page , my family is from st marys and lafayette district , good job
Name: Shelly Scadden <huddie2003@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-01-18 Comments:
I am a young lad. But I really enjoyed your stories. I think learning the history in your home town is so great. My mother, (Mary Jane (Davis) Hunt), was born and raised here in Pleasants County and my father, (Charles Lee Hunt), was born in Sandusky, OH but he has lived in Pleasants County for some years now. He was taken away from his parents for a while when he was a young child. Harvey Cunningham took him in and raised him. There was also another Cunningham family on Rock Run that he spent some time with. Other than living in a part of Ritchie County for a short time he has always stayed right here in Pleasants County.
I am 31 years old and I would never think about moving from this little town of St. Marys. I have 3 young children and I think that this is an ideal place to raise a family. They don't need the "fast lane life", they grow up to fast the way it is. By the way I am married to Dallas Scadden son of Lester Scadden and Beulah Flowers both of St. Marys.
I just wanted to send you a little note to let you know that I really enjoyed your stories. I will pass them on!!
Thanks So Much, Shelly
Name: John and Cousin Roma Hindman <Shakey01268@aol.com> Date: 2002-12-18 Comments:
Mighty proud to make your acquaintance, podner and thankee for the honorable mention. If I may coin a phrase, Semper Fi!
Name: Renie von Gortler <vongortlerrowena@otc.army.mil> Date: 2002-12-18 Comments:
Ran across your web site doing geneology. My family is the Delongs, Martins, Robinson, and Birkhimer.
Name: Margaret West <Margaret0666@aol.com> Date: 2002-12-07 Comments:
I thought this was interesting I was born in St. marys in 1944, have lived here all my life. Kimball was my maiden name. My kids and their kids now live here also. My grandparants were Ray and Maggie Dotson. And Edward and Sally Kimball. There was 12 in my family (brothers and sisters). Lawrance and Mary Kimball were my mother and father. My husband was William (Bill) West who passed away Dec. 29, 1995. May he rest in peace!!!!
Name: Frank Nestor <fdnestor@aol.com> Date: 2002-12-02 Comments:
I am a native West Virginian, born in Taylor County, WV. My families settled in Preston, Tucker, Barbour counties and parents and grandparents migrated to Taylor County to work on the B&O Railroad. Now live in Florida for past 32 years, but go back to WV every year.
Name: Linda <rocketteone@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-11-28 Comments:
Blessings to you and your family on this Thanksgiving Day. You are another reason we have, to be thankful, Rockerbilly!
Name: Irene Read <catlady9_48@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-10-30 Comments:
I have been reading your stories and poems and am having a great time...Never laughed so hard in my life...Thanks for the good belly laughs...
Name: Virginia Chace <Chace14@webrv.net> Date: 2002-10-22 Comments:
Wonderful! I really enjoy reading and re-reading.
Keep up the good work. Also, I appreciate my ancestor's love for that area and wish you would move it closer to Missouri.
Virginia Chace
Name: Nell DeLong Riggs <nriggs226@aol.com> Date: 2002-10-09 Comments:
Jim; Your web page is awsome!!!!!! I enjoy it so much.
Love the West Virginia Hills version, it makes my day!
Keep up the good work buddy, I'll keep tuned in for sure.
Name: Kathleen Manley <KMLPoet@AOL.com> Date: 2002-10-09 Comments:
Hello Jim,
Neat website; thanks for the opportunity to visit. I'll be back and look around longer next time.
A little bird told me it is your birthday, so here's to another year safely led, and to many, many more wonderful years down the road.
Happy Birthday!!!!!
Kathleen Manley
Originally from Springfield, Clark County, Ohio
Have lived outside Seattle, WA now for almost 30 years.
Still miss Ohio!!!!
Name: Gary Lamb <tsqair@aol.com> Date: 2002-10-09 Comments:
I'm a descendent, ggggrandson, of William Ruckman who died in Central Illinois in 1857. 1850 Census says he was born in Pennsylvania ca. 1810 married a gal named Nancy. That's as far as I've gotten. What do you think? Could we be kin? By the way I get a big kick out of your musings. Thanks
Name: Linda Fluharty <LCFlu@aol.com> Date: 2002-10-09 Comments:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RB - and may you have many, many more!
It is such a pleasure to know you - and your brilliance and talent are greatly appreciated. I hope we will have many more years working together on your ROCKERTALK site.
Name: Ellen Lowther Filler <ellvf@ctcweb.net> Date: 2002-10-02 Comments:
Pretty interesting for someone whose ancestors all came from WV.
Name: sandra allsopp <exwva@aol.com> Date: 2002-10-01 Comments:
I do enjoy reading your comments and poems. I just spent a week in your beautiful co. of Pocahontas. Watoga State Park and surrounding areas. On to Canaan Valley and Blackwater Falls. The area is breathtaking in its natural beauty, and pristine in its care. W.V. truly as beautiful as any of the more popular parks. I will certainly return. I was born in Brooke Co. and now live in New Jersey. Parents from Pleasants. Look forward to reading your future pieces. Sandy
Name: SMHS 1979 Rocks! <cats_stuff@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-09-29 Comments:
Nice work Rockerbilly!!
Thank you for sharing :)
God Bless
Cathy
Name: Little Sis <wvgardengirl@insightbb.com> Date: 2002-09-11 Comments:
I'm thrilled to find out you added the "View Guestbook"! I love reading all the compliments you are receiving. You are one cool dude and I'm proud of you. Keep up the good work. Love, L.S. (aka S.F.K)
Name: Susie <SusieA1114@aol.com> Date: 2002-09-04 Comments:
I enjoy browsing your web pages,reading the poems and tales. Thanks for sharing,keep up the great job you are now doing.
Name: Robert D. Anderson <NWBlueHeron@juno.com> Date: 2002-08-26 Comments:
Born Upshur Co lived in Webster and Harrison Co's. Retired military. Was with 173rd AHC Vietnam '66-67. Now live in Washington state and Nanaimo, BC. Do very much like your writings and philosophy. Bob
Name: Diane Blair <dblair@inet99.net> Date: 2002-08-24 Comments:
Rockerbilly......I haven't finished all the entries yet, but I will. Beautiful site. Wonderful design. And using the "Rockerbilly" name there, really pleases me. Ky Woman
Name: EXPATRIATE HILLBILLYETTE <rocketteone@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-08-21 Comments:
WHAT Peggy said about making your fans laugh! Living here "outside the Beltway", it is refreshing to visit my roots through your webpage.
Name: Sister PJ <jpbarkwill@aol.com> Date: 2002-08-20 Comments:
I'm proud to call you my little brother and I love you very much. I love the way you make me laugh. Humor is the best thing for what's bothering me.
Name: Lori Whitwam <ripleygold@msn.com> Date: 2002-08-16 Comments:
What talent! I know, in your humble hillbilly heart you will "aw, shucks" yourself out of that one, but truly, you have a real style and unique worldview! Being the sister of Linda Fluharty (genealogy maven extraordinaire), I am also a native West Virginian, though I've been transplanted to Minnesota. And believe me, it's a different world up here, Yah, You Betcha! Your essays definitely strike a chord, and I bet there are publishers galore who would love to have a crack at your work! They are every bit as witty and relevant as anything Dave Barry, Jean Shepherd, Lewis Grizzard, Garrison Keillor or Patrick McManus ever wrote. Keep it up, I've got the page bookmarked now!
Name: Brenda (Bartrug) Horner <hornebr@Yahoo.com> Date: 2002-08-15 Comments:
This is a very nice site. Both my parents grew up in and attended SMHS. My mother Sally (Tice) Bartrug was the 1957 Bell of St.Marys. My father is Charles R. Bartrug. My parents live just across the river in Newport, Ohio where myself and my sister Rhonda and brother Mark went to school. Rhonda still lives in Newport with her husband Gale Lauer and sons, Nick and Evan. Mark lives on my mothers family farm on sugar creek with his wife Kim and sons Zach, Dustin (WV 2000 103lb state wrestling champ), Cody and Seth. Myself I live on the old Corbin farm that was my great-great-great grandfathers, with my husband Frank (Bub) Horner and sons Anthony and Michael Winland.
Name: Steve Ruckman <wildhare@softhome.net> Date: 2002-08-13 Comments:
Greetings All,
Just wandering 'round the holler and seen pictures of Uncle Bart's place in Calcutty. Well lookee here i says - i got a mess o' kin down that way. Howdy Jake, Chuck & Louise, Betty, Marsha and Fannie Sue. If any of y'all see these folks, tell 'em I said HI. I expect to get back down that way soon enough as I recently got me a fine woman that needs to meet the family.
Now I gotta admit, I grew up Yankee - but i never did care for political boundaries much anyhow. Far as i'm concerned, we're all in this together - so we best just get along. Course that don't mean i don't keep a shotgun handy.
Well, gonna mosey for now. Thanks to all who put the effort into this great site. Now I know you're all here, I'll be sure to visit again.
Kind Regards,
Steve Ruckman
s/o Mary Ranelli and Earl B. Ruckman (s/o Charles N. Ruckman and Sue Cain)
Name: Earlene "Cornell" "Waugh" Addis <ecwaddis@charter.net> Date: 2002-08-11 Comments:
Jim, Peggy sent me this web site and I have shared it with so many and enjoyed it so much. Just sent my son, Jack, Jr., the story about the "hill". That was his favorite bar in the county. Of course, it is about the only bar in the county now. Did you know Myrt that ran that bar for so long? Jack loved her and was so devistated when she died. Keep your site going and entertain us. Earlene
Name: Melissa <me2wise26134@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-08-11 Comments:
Love reading some of your thoughts and ideas, keep up the good work. I was given your link from the Pleasants county site.Hoped you enjoyed the "How far to Hebron" story. I thought it was very interesting, and thought others might enjoy it also.
Name: Cebie Myers Dorsey <CEBIEDORSEY@aol.com> Date: 2002-08-07 Comments:
My cousin from Ohio sent me your website & I LOVED IT!!! I am going to share copies of your writing with my Dad, another native-born West BYGOD Virginian. He's from near Morgantown & shares many of your thoughts & humor. I am also interested that your website is maintained by Linda Cunningham Fluharty. My paternal grandmother was a Fluharty from Wetzel County, WV. Could we have some 'relativity' here??? I will look for more of your musings in the future!!
Name: Brooks Hill <BrooksHill@AOL.com> Date: 2002-08-05 Comments:
GREAT Stuff!
Really enjoy the creative writing on a variety of subjects.
Looking forward to more.
Name: sandra l lafferty <sandra5328@aol.com> Date: 2002-08-04 Comments:
HELLO: I WAS ALSO BORN IN ST. MARYS HOSPITAL AND LIVED IN WVA ON CORBAN BRANCH ROAD TILL I WAS 16 THAN HAD TO MOVE OUT OF STATE BUT WVA IS STILL MY HOME AS FAR AS I CONCERNED.
Name: Carlisle Bowling <Zarvon@aol.com> Date: 2002-08-03 Comments:
What a super site this is. So much information and good writing. Linda Fluharty has done an excellent job compiling and posting this jewel for all to read. Congratulations to the author and to Linda for a job well done.
Name: Carlisle Bowling <Zarvon@aol.com> Date: 2002-08-03 Comments:
What a super site this is. So much information and good writing. Linda Fluharty has done an excellent job compiling and posting this jewel for all to read. Congratulations to the author and to Linda for a job well done.