Back in 2019, while shopping in an antique store in Portsmouth, Ohio, I came across the above marriage certificate for Leonard Hicks and Alma Wagner. These two young people were united in marriage on September 21, 1922, in Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky.
West Virginia
Former Lucasville Woman Compels Her Husband to Sign a Temperance Pledge
“A young man named Dixon who formerly lived near Lucasville, in this county, but who has been working in the machine shops at Kenova was the central figure in an animated scene at the latter place Thursday. Dixon who worked about the Brushart planing mill last summer left for Kenova Continue Reading
Their Love Has Triumphed in the End
How Arthur Boynton and Miss Lillian Rhodes Overcame Opposition to Wedding “Back of the departure Monday night of Arthur C Boynton and Miss Lillian Rhodes for Huntington, West Virginia, to be married there is an interesting story showing how love will find a way to surmount obstacles.” “Miss Rhodes, the Continue Reading
Tardieu’s 1795 Course of the Ohio River Map
Battle of Barboursville
Site of early Civil War battle fought July 13, 1861. Border Rangers and local citizens met on “Fortification Hill” to repel an advance by five companies of the 2nd Kentucky Infantry. After firing several volleys, Union troops made a bayonet charge up the hill and dispersed the locals. Union casualties Continue Reading