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Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House, also known as Minotti-Gilmore House or Harden and Harden Funeral Home, is a historic home and national historic district located at Charleston, West Virginia. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, Classical Revival brick detached residential dwelling built by 1900 on an approximately one-half acre lot in a business area of ...
John Pat Fanning (August 14, 1934 – January 7, 2024) was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate, representing the 6th District from 1996. He earlier served from his appointment in June 1968 through 1980, and from 1984 through 1988 and 1996–2012.
West Virginia: County: Upshur: Elevation. 1,617 ft (493 m) Time zone: UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer : UTC-4 (EDT) GNIS ID: 1555462 [1] Reger is an unincorporated ...
Stonewall Jackson, C.S. Army general born in Clarksburg and died before the region was formed into West Virginia; Albert G. Jenkins, general and politician; Jonah Edward Kelley, U.S. Army soldier; Medal of Honor recipient; Edwin Gray Lee, C.S. Army general born in Shepherdstown before it became part of the newly formed West Virginia
The dirt-floor log cabin that was William Marrion Branham's birthplace as shown in his biography William Branham: A Man Sent From God. William M. Branham was born near Burkesville, Kentucky, on April 6, 1909, [10] [11] [12] [a] [b] the son of Charles and Ella Harvey Branham, the oldest of ten children. [15]
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
Patricia Ann Ramsey (née Paugh; December 29, 1956 – June 24, 2006) was an American beauty pageant winner who was the mother of JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old child beauty pageant queen who was found murdered in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado, on December 26, 1996.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]