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New River Notes Photo Gallery

A Collection of historic and current photos mostly covering the upper New River area of southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina.

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baptistchapelcem.jpg821 viewsThis is a general view of the cemetery at Baptist Chapel Church. The stone in the foreground is for Alice P. Phipps. Photo by Jeff Weaver, June 1978,
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LYNNMOORE001.jpg821 viewsMr. Moore was principal at Saltville High School from 1954-1966. Photo courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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phippsevalee.jpg821 viewsMrs. Eva Lee Cox Phipps is shown here teaching English at Virginia Carolina in 1965. She and her husband, Joe X Phipps, lived at Mouth of Wilson.
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Dickinsonville - Glade Hollow Primitive Baptist Church821 viewsPhoto 2006, courtesy of Blaine Owens.
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Perkins Family Group821 viewsHere is another picture of a family gathering at Kathleen Perkins home years ago. Anyone know when and who these are? Courtesy of Cathy Bell cjbell47@goldenwest.net
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Perkins Cemetery821 viewsThis Cemetery contains at least two Civil War Soldiers.
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Eastridge - Andrew and Martisha Eastridge821 viewsHe was the son of Pleasant Eastridge(born ~1808) and Phoebe Graybeal Eastridge (born 1810) - married in 1830.

Andrew had several brothers and sisters:

William b.1831, d.1888
John b. 1833, d. ?
Henry b. 1835 d.
David b. 1836,d. ?
Joel b. 1838, d. ?
Eli b. 1840, d.?
Lucy b. 1841 d.?
Mary b. 1843, d. ?
Martha b. 1846, d. ?
Sarah b. 1849, d. ?

This is the way the story goes as told by my grandfather Roby Eastridge: During the Civil War the Rebels got Andrew and were going to make him fight for them. His moth
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pollysch.jpg820 viewsChildren of John D. And Polly Fields Coomes: Rutha, Linnie, Jim and Albert; (Stooped) Mary with Polly (Seated). Courtesy of Patience Northern
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hicks3.jpg820 viewsCourtesy of Thom Houk.
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Daddy_sArmyPortrait2.jpg820 viewsIra Johnson, taken in Berlin in 1945 or '46 while serving in the US Army during WWII. On the back of this original protrait is a love letter written to my mother, Edna Ruth Davidson Johnson back home in Saltville, Virginia. It is addressed "To the sweetest wife in the world...."
Courtesy of Lesa Long ladygwenhwyvar@hotmail.com
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scan0010.jpg820 viewsFrona Roten Weaver wife of Marion F. Weaver. Courtesy of Irene Baldwin ibaldi@erols.com
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joneswe1o.jpg820 viewsW. E. "Grumble" Jones resided at Glade Spring, VA and was a Bridgadier General in the Confederate States Army.
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