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From: Janice Kelsey <>
Subject: [SCDARLIN-L] [Fwd: Sad Day]
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 21:55:21 -0700

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If this is true, why aren't the South Carolina citizens doing something
aobut the officials in Marion County?

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This is a "Sad Day" in Marion County, WV history. Sunday 6/21/1998 in
Fairmont Times, West Virginian. Front Page

Fairmont -- Leatherbound books recording transactions between 1842 to
1880 have been important to local genealogist, but now the historical
books are gone - buried with the five bins of trash the Marion County
Commission hauled away from the Jacob's building last week.

I am skipping most of the article that was in the news. Along with
books were, boxes and files of papers dating back to Marion County's
inception in 1942. There were five floors that had books, boxes and
files to be removed.

One book was save with had Mary Burrows will. The will was handwritten
pages document. The copy of the will in the county clerk's office, but
it was not the same. This is the original. This was the only book that
got saved.

This is a sad time in WV history to think that people would destoy
history. This happen several years ago in Harrison co. and the records
are now lost forever. And to think they may have destroy the missing
link that you may have been looking for. This is a "sad day".

Some of the books were Wills others were Justice of the Peace books that
the newspaper had wrote. There may have been other records, but the
article didn't say what all had been destoyed. The article was a large
article for the paper. The historical and genealogical societies were
NOT notified that the county had planned to discard the handwritten
record books, files and other etcs. Again this is a "sad day" in
history.

Sue
http://dttwv01.org/sue/index.sht

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