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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:41:22 EDT

Hi, Everyone:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvmarsha/marsh.htm

Mark your calendars! The 4th Gathering of the Virtual Genealogy Society will
be June 8, 2002. I mailed the deposit to Fred Games today for the Special
Events facility.

James Dague & Karen Hucko have spent quite a long time updating the Mt. View
Cemetery file - - and it is now online.

Nancy Callahan has contributed the Marshall County marriages for the years
1908-1910 and that means we now have ALL of the marriages done from
1835-1918. Nancy combined all of the marriages into one data base and it is
online for you to download if you care to do that. I need to consolidate all
of Donna Allen's files and will get to it eventually.

Thanks very much to Karen, James and Nancy for these MAJOR contributions to
the Marshall County page.

I worked for a few months on a story and recently presented it to Bob Moore
in Idaho. Bob sent the First WV Infantry drawing that appears in the Civil
War section. The drawing of 6 Wheeling area CivilWar soldiers had been in
Bob's family for 85 years and he shared it with us earlier this year. I
found some info about the soldiers and it is on the page with the drawing.
But the last thing I did was to find out about the artist, Emil Bott. I have
the story online ( a link form the drawing page) and, as it turns out, the
artist, Emil Bott was quite famous. One of his painting is for sale right
now for $38,000 in SC. (If I were rich, I would buy it in a heartbeat!) But,
the point is that Bob is very pleased to know all of this. I would say that
his drawing is worth a considerable amount of money but we are both
interested in Emil Bott, who served in the 1st WV Light Artillery for a
period of time during the Civil War and then died in the poor house. His work
is fabulous! In addition to his landscapes, etc., he was an artist who did
the drawings in Caldwell's Atlas and much more! I have it on the page, in
case you are interested. One I am looking for is his Civil War drawing in
LESLIE's of CW soldiers at Benwood looking across to Bellaire.

(I am happy to say that I own the West Virginia Civil War medal of one of the
men in the Emil Bott drawing!)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwags/1wvi-pic.htm


All for now.
Linda

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