Wow, Marsha. Those are great stories about people making their own ties to
sell!!! re West Virginia, I have just read a short paper by a Cabell cousin
who grew up in West Virginia about digging in a family/community coal mine
to get coal to burn in the home..... even as a young kid. Then how her
mother struggled after the death of her husband -- moved to Morgantown, got
an accounting degree, put the children through college. We middle-class
yuppies today think it has always been an easy life, and lose sight of the
fact that many of us are barely a generationn removed from real poverty, and
real success.
I'll keep you in the loop.
Randy
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From: "marsha moses" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: Logging History in Virginia
> I think that it is very interesting how important logging was in the
> late 1800's and early 1900's. I am amazed at how many of the men that I
> am looking at were involved with railroad ties, or logging in any form.
> I would be interested in more information about this topic in general on
> this list and on some of my other lists. I think that we lose sight of
> the fact that timber was such a BIG cash crop in that time frame.
>
> A funny coincidence: my Hawkins line moved from Lousia/Orange County
> Virginia to CABELL county in what is now WV and became involved in
> selling Railroad ties to both the C&O and the N&W.
>
> And on another completely unrelated line in eastern Ky, I have a distant
> cousin probably removed once or twice who remembers in her prime (she is
> over 100) hand hewing a railroad tie to take into Louisa, Kentucky to
> sell when she needed something extra in her household....perhaps a child
> who needed new clothes for a special event...or well you get the
> idea.....something that her household found to be a luxury. The rivers
> and railroads and timber were so interconnected. I would like to be
> included, Randy, on any information that gets exchanged on this topic.
> marsha in WV
>
> Randy Cabell wrote:
>
> >Is there a book, or perhaps a dissertation somewhere on logging in
Virginia in the 19th and 20th centuries? I am particularly interested in
statistics -- employment, $$$$, % of workforce, etc. for this northwest part
of the State---Clarke, Frederick, Warren Counties.
> >
> >Randy Cabell
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