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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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Spencer, Thornton623 viewsTHORNTON SPENCER OF THE WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN BAND
SMYTH JAM
CHILHOWIE, VA.
MAY 26, 2007

DON SMITH PHOTO dsmith1043@comcast.net
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HendersonJohnRosa.jpg622 views This is an enhanced picture of John & Rosa Henderson from Jack Hockett. tlas101@aol.com
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HendersonJWarticle.jpg618 viewsCourtesy of Jack Hockett tlas101@aol.com
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spencerorie.jpg617 viewsThis is Orie Spencer, son of Dolph and Baney and husband of Audrey Wave Spencer. Courtesy of Eleanor Jo Cox ejcox@naxs.com
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wardfields.jpg617 viewsThis photo was taken in Galax in 1937.
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Mann, Charles and Julietta Handy617 viewsThis is Charles and Julietta Handy Mann. Julietta was the daughter of John Handy Jr. and Gracie Duval. Charles came to Ashe Co. from Stauton, Va. to Ashe County where he and Juliette were married. Later they moved to Washington County, Va. Courtesy of Mary Blevins. mcblevins@hotmail.com

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wardcrockett2.jpg615 viewsThis 1937 photo was made in Galax.
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royalluraweaver.jpg615 viewsThis Lura Weaver Royal (18 Oct 1909-12 Feb 2002) with husband Eugene "Gene" Royal at Baldwin Reunion at Whitetop in 1989. Courtesy of Irene Baldwin ibaldi@erols.com
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FrancesSadlerJeffery~GreatGrandfatherBillJeffery_smoth.jpg613 viewsCourtesy of Bobbi huskypup@bellsouth.net
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jonessamueld.jpg613 viewsSamuel David Jones, born 1896, son of Charlie Alexander Jones and Lear Jestin Rutherford, and wife Effie. Courtesy of Viola Shenton shentons@thevillages.net
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SusanTilleyCaudle&sons.jpg609 viewsThis is the wife and sons of John Calvin Caudill-John and several of their children died in some type of epidemic around 1882-1883. Our great great grandmother, Larkie Woodle, Medley died September 15, 1892 (choked to death on a sweet potato, mom said) at age (about 81) I (accidently) found a marriage cert. in Surry Co. where Great grandpa John Quincy Medley married Susan Caudill, daughter of John Tilly & Mrs Tilly. on February 28, 1893 (5 months after Larkie died) On the 1900 Surry Co. census John & Susan Medley have been married 7 years. Two of Susan's sons are living with them. Ruffin age 16 & Joseph age 20 and Joseph's wife, Mary. In the early 1900's John Quincy Medley's daughter Mary Ann & her husband, William Cook with their large family, left Surry Co. and after spending about a year or so in Terre Hawke, IND and a few months in ARK wound up in Greeley County, Wolback, Nebraska, where we also find some of Susan Caudill's sons. After all her children were grown and left home, Susan left John Quincy and lived with one of her children where she died in 1919 in Alleghany Co., NC. Her death sert. says Susan Caudle or Caudill and no mention is ever made of her marriage to John Quincy Medley. Had it not been for a Marriage record accidently found- the 1900 Surry Co. census and an old notebook of grandpa's that had the sentence written in the margin " Susan left here and a date" noone would ever have known of our STEP Great Great Grandma. Madge Caudle, Bloom A descendant of Ruffin Winfield CAUDLE-somewhere the name got changed, sent me this photograph of Susan and five of her sons. Somewhere I have the order they are in. I don't have any Information on Alfred(Alf) born abt 1865 so I think he probably died earlier. John Wilburn (1871 NC-1964 NC) Thomas Johnston (1878 NC-1957 La Grande, OR) Joseph Woodston (1879 NC-1943 Auburn WA) Robert Houston (1881 NC-1931 Coquelle, Coos Co., OR) Ruffin Winfield (1883 NC-1953 Auburn, WA. Courtesy of Nanalee Wrenn nwrenn37@yadtel.net
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