Monroe County

Grainger, for the ones who get it done.

There really is no better way to describe Monroe County, West Virginia, than the middle of nowhere.

One of the state's most southerly counties, Monroe, is perhaps the most overwhelmingly rural place in the entire eastern United States.

There is not a single stoplight or fast food outlet anywhere in the whole county, and has one of the lowest population densities of any county in the whole nation.

This would most definitely explain how the reports of a broken window suddenly morphed into a conclusion of no signs of a struggle.

Yet these two theories, as elaborate as they seem, are still little more than conjecture.

So the question remains, what could have happened to Timothy Dalton? It certainly wouldn't have been easy for him to leave Monroe County without his truck, as it truly is in the middle of nowhere with no local taxi companies in the area or bus routes running through it.

The only explanation is that someone picked him up, conscious or unconscious, dead or alive, and took him out of Monroe.

So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I got to tell you, Mike, I like to thank the public service commissioners for what they did when they organized these, uh, testimonies, what they combined Mon and Preston County witnesses for Wednesday.

Hampshire County witnesses on Thursday and then Monroe County witnesses on Friday.

And I'm sure they did that in an attempt to make travel easier.

Um, they still haven't, the commission still hasn't come back and said, we're going to excuse the witnesses.

I mean, I had...

I mean, Monroe County is pretty much 95% family, so I had my brother played on there, and, uh, all of my family played at James Monroe, and it was just a big thing.

So it feels great to be able to have my grandfather being the coach and everything.

Let me take you back to your ninth grade season, and here's a guy, I've had, mm-hmm, seven back surgeries.

You know, those, those kids, they can, they can be a handful, so I gotta shout out my parents for having all six of us in the house all the time because it was, it was tough.

But yeah, 4-H, it's always been a big thing in my family, so I just carried it on, and I think me and my little brother and little sister are the only three in our family doing it right now.

So yeah, it's a pretty big deal in Monroe County.

No doubt about it.

Age 86.

Well, I was born Monroe County, West Virginia, on January 15, 1852, just a few miles from Union, West Virginia.

My mammy was Diana Alexander Campbell, and my pappy was Levi Campbell, and they both come from Monroe County.

That's about the only place I hear them speak about.

there was levi floyd henry noah and nancy just my half-brothers and sisters but i never knowed no difference but what they was my sisters and brothers where we lived, on Master John Alexander's farm.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Read by Melissa Marie Slave Narratives A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves volume twelve ohio narratives by various mrs nancy east mammy east eight o nine seventeenth avenue middle town ohio rules a four-room bungalow in the negro district set aside by the american rolling mill corporation she lives there with her sons workers in the mill and keeps them an immaculate home in the manner which she was taught on a southern plantation her house is furnished with modern electrical appliances and furniture but she herself is an anachronism a personage with no faith in modern methods of living one who belongs in that vague period designated as before de wall i members all bout de slave time i was powerful small but my mother and daddy done told me all bout it mother and daddy both come from virginny mother's mamma did too she was a weaver and made all our clothes and de white folks clothes dat's all she ever did just weave and spin grandmamma and her chillins was sold to de let fambly two brothers from monroe county alabama sold jest like cows honey right off de block jest like cows but dey was good to dey slaves my mother's last name was let after the white folks and my daddy's name was harris mosley after his master after mother and daddy married the mosleys done bought her from the lets so they could be together they was brother-in-laws den i was named after miss nancy dey was miss nancy an miss hattie an two boys in the mosleys land honey they had a big waving her hands in the air plantation a whole section an de biggest home you done ever see we darkies had cabins jist as clean and nice them mosleys they had a grist mill and a gin they like my daddy and he work in the mill for them dey sure was good to us my mother worked on the place for miss nancy