Family photos of our daughter Tonya Wall Madia and her family in Fairmont, West Virginia - page 2

FAMILY HISTORY THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS

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Jeremy Madia, fifteen and already as tall as I am!
May 4, 2009
Jolie has grown some since last year.
May 4, 2009
Jolie welcoming me to WV (the University of West Virginia "Flying WV").  She says, "I hope we can do some studying [of] our ancestors."  Then, for me she made a collage of photos of our ancestors.  I stayed in her room this year and she decorated it just for me.

Maplewood Cemetery, Kingwood, Preston County, West Virginia.  We returned again in May 2009 and found some inscriptions that we had missed last year.  We found these two last year for Samuel Ruble Trowbridge and his wife Susan but I took another picture anyway (05 May 2009).


We over looked some of the engravings last year.  The James C. and Persis McGrew monument is engraved on three sides with names of their children.  I will be adding these to my McGrew pages later.
Rapids on the flooded Cheat River near Kingwood, West Virginia, May 5, 2009

Tonya on the banks of the Cheat River.  This year it rained every day I was in West Virginia.  The river was at flood stage.  When the Trowbridge's first came to Preston County they operated a ferry over the Cheat River somewhere near this place a short distance east of Kingwood. 
May 2009
Rowlesburg looking north.  The cross street behind Tonya goes to the cemetery.
Rowlesburg, Preston County, West Virginia.  Samuel Grady Trowbridge, our 3rd great grandfather lived in Rowlesburg in the 1860's.  Some of his children may be buried in the Rowlesburg Cemetery.  When we arrived at the cemetery, it was pouring down rain so we were unable to search it.

This road runs east out of Rowlesburg toward the cemetery.  05 May 2009
Jolie's art show at her school.  This was a fund raiser for a school addition.  Guest could purchase a child's art work for $2.00 and have it framed for $5.00.  Tonya and Joey bought it and had it framed for Sue and me.
Jolie's classroom.  The kids did a genealogy project earlier in the year and their posters are on the wall behind Joey and Tonya.  Jolie's is not visible in this picture.

Jolie's family tree
Jolie's gym teacher - the one with flesh on her bones (06 May 2009)
This is Taz, the newest member of the Madia family.  Tonya and Jolie got Taz from a shelter.  She adopted the family immediately.  Taz had been chained outside to a dog house and had a litter of pups when she was only eight months old.  Her previous owners then downed all of the pups.  Someone notified the shelter and they took Taz in and probably saved her life. Taz is part lab and part beagle.  09 May 2009

Joey teaches acting to high school students on Saturday mornings.  Jeremy's girl friend is the tall blond in the white blouse.  His old girl friend is the shorter blond in the blue blouse.  09 May 2009


Joey's acting class for Jeremy's high school friends; May 9, 2009, Fairmont, West Virginia
Jeremy and Taz, Saturday morning, May 9, 2009.  That afternoon we met up with Susie Jones, a Whitsett descendant who also lives in Fairmont for a day trip to Perryopolis and Whitsett, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.


Friend and William Wirt Whitsett descendant Susie Jones by the monument and grave of William Wirt, his son Ralph Crawford Whitsett and Ralph's wife Rachel Estep Whitsett, Mount Washington Cemetery, Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, May 9, 2009.  Notice the D.A. R. marker on the right at the base of the monument commemorating the Revolutionary War service of William Wirt Whitsett.
Several of Ralph's family are buried in this section of the cemetery.  The monument has inscriptions on three sides covering part of three generations.  The Mt. Washington Cemetery is not old enough to have been William and Ralph's original burial place.  It is thought they were originally buried on Ralph's farm in Whitsett, Pennsylvania, just north of Perryopolis and moved to Mt. Washington when the coal company bought up much of Ralph's land for company housing.
Susie Jones, me, Jolie and Jeremy at the Mount Washington Cemetery.  The Whitsett monument is just out of the picture on the right.  Another one is just out of the picture on the left.  All of the headstone pictures will be on my cemetery pages (eventually)


I took this picture because we thought the Fuller family mausoleum was interesting.  It is also a good landmark for locating the Whitsett plots which are within 50 feet or so of the mausoleum.  Notice the angel with the lightning rod!

Susie Jones also of Fairmont, W. Va. and Jeremy at Mount Washington Cemetery, Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, May 9, 2009

Our gang at the entrance to the Mount Washington Cemetery


The town circle at the center of Perryopolis, Pennsylvania.  George Washington suggested the layout of the town in 1774.  The town was actually laid out in 1814.
View from the center of Perryopolis looking towards the south where George Washington's mill is located.
Jeremy in front of the Perryopolis post office.

This is an original log cabin located across the street from the post office.  It is now used as a gift shop for the women's social group, the Red Hat Society.

The shop has no electricity or running water (and thus no comfort facilities inside).  This is a two story log cabin typical of the cabins built in the area in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  I don't know the history of this particular house.
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