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Appalachian Thursday–Descendants of the French Creek Pioneers
The first of my ancestors to settle on the family farm in what is now WV. I’m the seventh generation to grow up on our family farm back in West Virginia. There was David Phillips, Horace Phillips,...
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Appalachian Thursday–A Good Dog
Last week I wrote about being descended from David Phillips whose father-in-law fought in the Revolutionary War. The same booklet that reassures me I am, indeed, a Daughter of the American Revolution,...
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Appalachian Thursday–Letters from Home
One of my greatest treasures is a collection of letters from my grandmother. She was from a generation that hadn’t quite given up paper and pen for the telephone and certainly not for e-mail. I doubt...
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Appalachian Thursday–Elijah Phillips
Today I thought I’d share another installment from the 1976 edition of The Pioneer–a booklet put out periodically by the Descendants of the French Creek Pioneers. This one is about Elijah Phillips who...
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Appalachian Thursday–Take Me Home, Country Roads
I’m in West Virginia visiting family today. Thanks to spring break we’re all in the same place at the same time for once. A gift too precious to set aside for blogging. I’ll check in at the weekend!...
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