A Vampire’s Great Grandfather!

Who is Jackson Rathbone?  Ask any pre-teen girl and she will tell you that he is one of the “hotties” in The Twilight Saga films.  Jackson plays the vampire Jasper Hale.  His full name is Monroe Jackson Rathbone V and he is the fifth generation to be named after his great-great-great-great-grandfather Judge James Monroe Jackson.  […]

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Two of Nancy Jackson’s brothers and her Mom

Left is Nancy Jackson’s brother Robert Lee Jackson, her mother Annie/Anna Grace (Stalnaker) Jackson, her brother William Andrew Jackson in front of house she grew up in starting at age four. Her mother descends from Col. Edward Jackson and her father Jacob Jay Jackson was a great grandson of John Jackson Jr.  World War II […]

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Obit. for Dale C. McClung, died Sept. 3, 2021

Dale Carroll McClung, 71, of Rockport, [Wood County, West Virginia] passed away September 3, 2021. He was born June 18, 1950 in Parkersburg, a son of the late Johnny and Elsie Jackson McClung. Dale retired from Cytec where he worked in maintenance. He was a member of the Rockport Church of Christ. He was a […]

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Marbles! Stories of His Youth by Bill Jackson

   Stories from my youth. By Bill Jackson     My brothers and I were good marble shooters and we always ended the summer with a lot of marbles. When I was in the sixth grade, I  won the marble championship at Alta Vista Elementary school and had dreams of going to Wildwood, NJ for […]

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Obit. for Don Harold Peterson

Don Harold Peterson, 83, of Horner passed away on Saturday, April 24, 2021 at his residence with his loving family by his side. He was born in Horner, WV on August 16, 1937 to the late Ancil Peterson and Nell (Taylor) Peterson. Don was married to his loving wife of 62 years Mida (Bailey) Peterson […]

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