Ohio/ West Virginia pics

Waffle house in Dayton after getting off plane

On the way to East Liverpool

On the way to East Liverpool

Braden (Pam’s son meets his uncle Mike)

Brother and Sister

Kathy (Pam’s Sister)

Our Rental Car had only 41 miles on it when we picked it up

Pam and I at Mike’s place

We all went out for dinner

Braden

Beaver Creek State park

Rock Skippin at Beaver Creek

Bus Station at Pittsburgh (Braden was going to Rock Mount NC) Also related to October Sky Movie (greyhound)

Pam the Pic Pocket

I fixed the charger for his tank (and his tv that was hit by lightning and his dryer and computer)

Christi and Ronnie Mike’s daughter and her husband

Mike

Mike’s son

Pam Picking Rasberries

Mike’s grandson and I were looking for bugs.

We went to the fireworks Store (Also related to the synchs with October Sky “Rockets”)

Air strike, many of the names were related to synchs with whirlwinds etc.

Trunk full of fireworks

Mad Scientists loading homemade cannons

First pic in West Virginia (Logan County)

Eugene’s house (Grandmother’s old house)

Wooden bridge to Grandmother’s

Inside the house

Outside near where the well was (related to childhood memories)

Up the hill behind the house

Creek in front of the house

Right across the street from grandmother’s house. These pics are relevant to the Spence family kids as they remember the visits 30 years ago.

Grandfather’s grave (John Lewis Spence)

Tree that mother wanted a pic of near grandfather’s grave

Jeremiah Jefferson Spence and wife Victoria

Gravestone shows Victoria was buried in 1955

Graveyard pic

pic of graveyard from the road (Coon Branch Rd.)

Pam made it up the mountain part way before having me go back to get the rental car.

Parked next to the old Spence homestead

The foundation is now under water (pond)

Entrance to the property

Overgrown (Spence Hollow)

Atv’s often use this area, this is right at the entrance to the homestead

We exited out the other end at Marianna WV.

Sign Turkey Creek

We looked all over for the old Pic Pac Store that I worked in at 15 yrs old ( I stocked the Vlassic Pickle Isle.) Found it was bought out by Means Lumber. Mullens Wv.

The entrance to Means Lumber

Mountain Mist was a favorite part of WV. Pineville WV

Pineville

Hatfield/ McCoy Trailhead and Castle Rock sign. Road to Mullens where the Pic Pac Store was

Rev Cook’s Statue in Pineville (We are related to Cook’s, Browning’s, Stewart’s and Spence’s as well as Adams)

Met a couple of the Locals (Martin)

Sign about Wyoming county (Rocks were geothermal heated and melted the snow in the winter there)

Posey in his 1963 Corvette (later when we met with cousin Jerry B. he recognized the pics of the folks I met in Pineville.

Made on 7/1/2007