Standard

In my compilation, I have 18 entries for the surname Standard.  Most of these individuals seem to have lived in Summers County. 
George Standard married Ellen ?Donly in Summers on Jan/11/1874.  He was 24y, born in Monroe County, the son of Beverly and Malinda Standard.  She was 17, born in Pocahontas, the daughter of Lewis and Clara ?Donly.
Beverly Standard died on 9/23/1930 at 103y at Summers.  He was widowed, buried at Talcott, b. in 1827 The informant was Lena Jones of Talcott. 
William Standard was the husband of Cora Standard.  They can be found in the 1910 Census, Summers, Talcott, he is 39 y, a fireman, with  Cora (23), and Vietta (1), William (1), Gilbert (12) and Lenora (10). 
William Standard appears on the WV Death Record of Herbert Standard (#14073), who died in  Raleigh in 1941. 
Herbert Standard was the husband of Ollie Mae Standard.  He was the son of William and Cora Standard.  He was b. Jan/29/1909 at Talcott, he was a brakeman in the coal mines, cause of death was homicide (gunshot wound).  Buried at Talcott.  The informant was Gilbert Standard of Terry, W.V.
William N. Standard was the son of Beverly and Isabelle Standard.  On 2/4/1892 he married Mary E. Crockett.  He was 20, b. in Giles.  She was 16, b. in Summers and the daughter of Frank and Kate Crockett. 
For Elen also see Elen Donly Standard Harris/Elen Donly Standard Hains. 

Index 2011

7/20/2011 - Photo - Cleo Caval Haynes Dickason Blakely, 7/21/2011 - Note written by blogger iin 2004, 7/21/2011 - Photo - Wedding of Dr. Robert Howard and Edna Haynes Howard, 7/22/11 - Photo - Gilbert Warner Haynes "Uncle Doc", 7/22/-11 - Photo - What unidentified church looks like now, 7/31/11 - Joseph Lacy, 7/25/11 - Photo - Elvira Hughes/Elvira Huse, 7/30/11 - Photo - L. Haynes, 8/05/11 - Charles Henry Clay Hoover, 8/05/11 - Photo - Unidentifed baby, 8/06/11 - Payne enslaver - Jesse Payne - Monongalia, WV, 8/10/11 - Photo - Soldier, 8/10/11 - Liggons (various spellings), 8/12/11 - John Wesley United Methodist Church - various documents and photos, 170th Anniversary pamphlet - Photo - two women on a hill, 8/22/11 - Connor/Conner, 9/04/11 - Index 6/20/-06 to 10/7/06.  NO ENTRIES FROM 8/22/11 TO 12/4/12.   

Child on farm from Dunsmore box

This photo is not that clear but I love the way that it shows a child in a southeast WV field/yard. 

Unidentified photo from Dunsmore box

Unidentified photo from Dunsmore box. 

Front side of "back of photo" previous entry

Back of photo that will be posted above this entry

This is typical of the backs of the photos from the Dunsmore box.  On this one I was able to scan it and then change the resolution so that I can (somewhat) make out what it says.  It looks like "Mr. Jim Spotts" and then I can't make out anything and then "Haynes" on the bottom.  See the photo of the middle aged gentleman above. 
I have looked through my compilation and I do not have a Jim Spotts, only John Spotts. 

Walter Haynes

This photo is labeled Walter Haynes and because it came from a box at the Dunsmore home I believe it to be Walter Lemuel Haynes who was the son of Socrates Haynes and Barbara Moore Haynes.  He was the half brother of Oris T. Haynes and the brother of (Mary) Jennett Haynes.  He was born on 10/16/1881.  On 10/16/1907 he married Lula Isabel Williams.  They were married in Patton, WV.  He appears on the 1910, 1920, and 1930 censuses (1910 in Greenbrier County and the others in Monroe County).  It appears that his children were Eula, Howard L., William G., and Gordon G. and that he had a granddaughter Francis E.  See BLACK RESIDENTS OF GREENBRIER, MONROE, POCAHONTAS, AND SUMMERS COUNTIES, WV by this writer (it is at the Greenbrier Historical Society and the WV Division of Culture and History) for more information.  In a private letter a writer wrote that "Walter worked in the fields with other tenants ... then helped at the house ... the sweetest old man probably that I ever knew".  The letter indicates that Lula had a sister named Florence (? Williams) of Alderson (possibly married to a Mr. Freeman).  Walter is buried in the Sinks Grove Cemetery in Monroe County.  See GC Deed Book, volume 57, page  341.  On his WWI Draft Registration card it indicates that he lived at Organ Cave, WV. The draft card says he ws born on 10/20/1884.  He was farming.  His employer was C.F. Dickson of Organ Cave.  Medium height and build, brown eyes, black hair.  He died on 12/23/1960.  See Monroe Watchman. 

Ethel Celina Haynes Johnson Barnes

Ethel Celina Haynes Johnson Barnes was the daughter of George Washington Haynes and Elizabeth Jane Payne/Haynes Haynes Lewis.  She was born in 11/1887 (probably in Brushy Ridge, Greenbrier County).  She was the wife of (1) Samuel "Oscar" Johnson and (2) Roy Barnes.  She was the mother of Eva Otelia Johnson Peters and Lillian Rose Johnson Barnes Brooks.  She first appears in the 1900 Census in Greenbrier County at age 12 with her father George W. Haynes.  On June 28, 1906, at age 17, she married Samuel "Oscar" Johnson (who was 21y and born in Greenbrier).  Her husband "Oscar" died four short years later in 1910.  She died in 1954 (on an operating table) when she was age 60.  In a 7/31/2002 interview with her daughter Eva (Aunt Eva), she indicated that despite her mother's fourth grade education she was a very talented woman.  She could play the piano by ear.  She would perform in plays any chance she would get.  She could draw (with a pencil) very well and was especially good at drawing "the woman on the oatmeal box".  She moved to Wheeling and worked at a church.  In an interview with her grandson, Colonel George Peters, Jr. on 8/17/2004 he indicated that "a number of the Haynes siblings drifted into Wheeling" when he was still a child.  He indicated that each sibling had a cooking specialty.   His grandmother, Ethel, liked to bake and (though he was not able to remember the specific item which was her "specialty") she baked one of these items for him every day.  He indicated that all of the Haynes siblings cooked, even the men.  In an interview with Ethels niece, Edna Haynes (named after Ethel's sister Edna) the niece indicated that Ethel was "short".  The family naming pattern persisted and Ethel's younger brother, William "Hubert" named his youngest daughter Ethel (and she would, coincidentally, marry a man named Oscar). 

Janet Haynes Dunsmore and her daughter Ola Dunsmore Wood

Mary "Jannet" Haynes Dunsmore - also see previous post - was the daughter of Socrates Haynes and Barbara/Martha Moore.  She was the granddaughter of Martha Payne Haynes.  She was the wife of Frank Dunsmore and the mother of Ola and Overton Dunsmore.  She was possibly the granddaughter, also, of Burton Payne or Solomon Haynes (or just as easily someone else as her grandmother, Martha, was enslaved and she is descended from her grandmother's oldest child), but she was definitely the step-granddaugher of Peter Jones.  She was born on 7/6/1878.  She first appears on the 1880 Census for Monroe County as a mulatto female, age 3, daughter of Socrates Haynes.  She was married on 5/17/1895 at the Sinks Grove Baptist Church.  The informant was Lewis Nickell and the officiant was Rev. O.T. Harris.  She appears on the 1900 Census in MC, 2nd Creek at age 21 and on the 1910 Census at age 31.  She died on 8/19/1958 at Sinks Grove, MC at the age of 80y1m13d.  At the time of her death she was widowed.  She died of a cerebral hemorrhage.  She is buried at Mt. Zion (also known as the Sinks Grove Cemetery or the Neff Orchard Road Cemetery).  The informant was her son Overton Dunsmore.  I interviewed Mary/May Faye Dunsmore Johnson on 6/25/2002 and she indicated that she thought Janet had a brother named Edward.  This couple, Janet and Frank, raised my father's first cousin, Birdie Constance Haynes after her mother, Cora May Haynes Spotts died.  This photo is from the Dunsmore collection of photos which was presented to me by E. Carter.  Many of the photos in the box said "To Aunt Jennette" on the back.  Sadly, the photos were destined for the trash heap but, fortunately, E. Carter, was in the vicinity and rescued them.  What a pity if they had been thrown away!!

James Chambers

I was staying at the General Lewis Inn once and spotted this article on the wall.  The innkeepers let me take it down and copy it.  I then received permission from the Newspaper to reprint it.  Most of all I liked this statement "And none wears the Lewisburg mantle of aristocracy more than James Chambers". 
Husband of Nellie Chambers.  Born in Lewisburg (Bakersville).  1927 - 1930 an employee of Fidel Construction Company (where he ran a drill and shot dynamite).  A Gardener/Dishwasher/Bellman at the General Lewis Inn where he worked for 44 years (He started working there in 1930).  Member of the Mt. Tabor Baptist Church.  He was 66 in 1975.  Future research would be to check to see if he is the James Chambers, age 12, who appears with Alice Chambers in the 1920 Census, Greenbrier County, White Sulphur Springs District. 

Lillian Rose Johnson Barnes Brooks, Vriginia Braddock Brooks, & Virginia's stepdaughter Celestine Curtis

Lillian Rose Johnson Barnes Brooks was the daughter of Ethel Celina Haynes Johnson Barnes and Samuel "Oscar" Johnson.  She was the Wife of E.N. "Bud" Brooks and the mother of E. Brooks and M. Brooks.  She was raised in Beckley and Hinton, WV.  Born in 1908.  In an interview with her sister, Eva O. Johnson Peters, she indicated that as a child Lillie's hair was almost white (like compiler's & apparently common in the Haynes family) and she had blue eyes and that she resembled her aunt Dr. Mary R. Bernice Haynes Brown.  Aunt Eva was a major source of information to this compiler and gifted me with the above photo as well as other photos. 
Virginia Braddock Hornaday Brooks (this compiler does not believe that there is a relation with the Brooks men married to these two women - just a coincidence & this fact was verified by Aunt Eva) was called "Jennie".  She was the sister of Emma Braddock Cooley and George Braddock.  She first married a Hornaday and then a Brooks.  See Larry Shuck's Greenbrier County Birth Records. 
From oral family history (i.e. from Aunt Eva) - Emma Braddock Cooley, Virginia Braddock and George Braddock were the children of the son of General Edward Braddock and an enslaved woman (The slave woman would have had to have gotten pregnant in 1755 & had the child in 1756).  The mother of Emma, Virginia and George was Josephine.  Aunt Eva said that she didn't remember anyone "ever calling the name of  Josephine's husband".
There was a "famous" photo of Josephine (in an elegant Mona Lisa like pose) that has gone missing from the family but which Aunt Eva could remember vividly. 
General Braddock arrived in America in 1755 and died not many months later but apparently in those months had time to father a child with an enslaved woman.  This son was the first of the Braddock line in the studied area.  Among General Braddock's command were (the future President) George Washington and 21 year old Daniel Boone.  (Note:  There was a blonde haired - blue eyed - but Black man named Daniel Boone in Brushy Ridge, WV - but I  have been told there was no relation to the famous Caucasian Daniel Boone). 
Lillian and Aunt Eva (who are sisters) are descended from Virginia's sister Emma (who was their grandmother).  Emma's son was Samuel "Oscar" Johnson who is Lillian's father (Aunt Eva was not sure where the Johnson surname came from).  Lillian's mother is Ethel Celina Haynes (sister of compiler's grandfather, William "Hubert" Henry Haynes & daughter of George Washington Haynes and Elizabeth Jane Payne/Haynes Haynes Lewis.  (Coincidentally there was a Black man named Samuel Johnson from Greenbrier County, WV who was an aide to President George Washington but this compiler can make no connections to Samuel "Oscar" Johnson of Greenbrier County).  I have often thought that this would be a good research subject for the History Detectives.  Most of the men in this family became high-ranking military men (?coincidence).  Unfortunately we do not have an artifact - which is required for that television show.  Perhaps another genealogist will take on this search. 
Celestine M. Curtis - I have not yet researched this individual. 

Index - 2011 Posts

1/1/11 - New blog by this blogger (This is What I Know - Silly Putty History), William Henry Haynes, 1/11/11 - Shoveler/Shovler/Shuvler/Shuffler, Lewis Skipper, Annie Matthew Perkins, 1/13/11 - Photo - Unidentifed Church in Monroe County, WV, Photo - 2 unidentified women associated with Haynes family, Photo - Unidentified baby - from Dunsmore photos (Brushy Ridge), Photo - 3 unidentified girls standing in doorway - from Dunsmore photos (Brushy Ridge), Photo - 4 women and 1 child in yard - from Dunsmore photos (Brushy Ridge).  Note:  All Dunsmore (Brushy Ridge) photos were contributed by E. Carter of Greenbrier County.  1/27/11 - Photo - Mary "Jennet" Haynes Dunsmore/Mrs. Frank Dunsmore  - from Dunsmore photos (Brushy Ridge), 1/29/11 - Photo - Toddler Standing in Chair, Blondish haired girl, Women Inside Fence on Farm, Two ladies standing and one sitting, Young Boy Barefoot, Tintype of two men, Man with mustache wearing hat, Young men in boots and hat, Girls in doorway (duplicate), 2 girls sitting on chair, Women on Farm (all are Dunsmore (Brushy Ridge) photos).  1/29/11 - Note on Earl Clay Dissertation which is accompanied by a Photo of 2 women on grass in hats, 2/07/11 - List of surnames in BLACK RESIDENTS OF GREENBRIER, MONROE, POCAHONTAS, AND SUMMERS COUNTIES by Carol L. Haynes that begin with the letter "Q", Photo - 2 sided photo showing two young boys in sailor suits - first with hats then without hats, 7/20/11 - Photo - Cleo Caval Haynes Dickason Blakey, 7/21/11 - Personal Note, Photo - Wedding photo - Dr. Robert J. Howard and Edna Haynes Howard.

Index. No posts from 3/24/09 to 6/13/2010. 2010 posts.

6/13/10 - James Baldwin, Daniel Boone, Zebby Liggons Terrell, Julius Henderson Love, Simon Lee, Greenbrier Historical Society has old newspapers, Mary Frances Bodemullet (death), Boston Haynes, 6/14/10 - Boston Haynes (continued), Helpful Resources, 6/15/10 - Ulysses Grant, 6/19/2010 - PAYNE, 6/19/10 - Bush family members who died in 1905 fire, James Brown, (Sister) Florence Brown, Bush/Strain, SPOTTS, 6/20/10 - Tarry Milbourn/Torry Milbourn/Millburn, 6/20/10 SARAH HAYNES (dies in fire), 6/22/10 - William Dudley/Safronia Carter (court case), 6/24/10 - Lydia Seames Jordan/Georgia Cousins/Alex Crawford/Mary Lewis Crawford, 6/27/10 - Richard Harry Curry, Sr., DRAFT CARD REGISTRATIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS WHOSE SURNAMES BEGAN WITH THE LETTER "A",
7/3/10 - Lucy Peck, 7/7/10 - Erksine, 9/14/10 - Daugherty Family of Pocahontas County, 9/16/10 - Contact me, 9/17/10 - J. Calvin Curry, 9/17/10 - Mary Dickson (?mother of Barbour children?), Barbour/Barber, Nan Curry, Claybourne Burl Curry, Sam (Curry), Rev. Samuel Houston's Diary, 9/9/10 - Buckland, Sam (Dickson), Jordan Davis, Doubt, 9/20/10 - Sally (Dickson)/Isaiah Dickison, 9/20/10 Trial of Jack, a slave, 9/20/10 Jane Dolan/Jane Dogan, 12/27/10 - GEORGE WASHINGTON HAYNES 1860 - 1914, SAMUEL 'OSCAR' JOHNSON, "Mama, these are William's Xmas cards", ENOCH FERRELL, Explanations of the four preceeding photos (including George Washington Haynes, William with Santa, and Samuel "Oscar" Johnson. 
No more entries until 2011. 

Index - No posts from 4/9/07 to 3/24/09. 2009 Posts.

3/24/2009 - Housekeeping.  Received over 100 photos from E.Carter of Lewisburg which had come from the Dunsmore home on Brushy Ridge. 

Index of 2007 posts

1/2/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. Thomas Brooks, Rev. S.H. Brown, 1/3/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. Wm. Moorman.  1/6/07 - Josephine Bealle Wilson Bruce, 1/7/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. J.W. Bownell, Rev. W.L. Booze, Rev. Wm. Madison Boggs, Rev. Sanford Boggs, Rev. Carl Edward Boggs, 1/12/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. Wm. M. Perkins, 1/13/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. G.W. Clark, 1/13/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. Charles Williams/Charles (Creigh), Rev. Daniel Collins, Rev. R.H. Clark, 1/20/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. Irving Hosea Carpenter, 1/21/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. Frederick F. Sawyer, 1/25/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. L.A. McLean/L.A.M.Lean, Rev. H.M. McLaughlin/Laughlin, 1/26/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. John Barnett, Rev. F. Barkins, Rev. H.D. Bishop, Rev. W.H. Berry, 1/28/07 - LITTLETON, 1/29/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. Leftridas/Leftridge, Rev. Lamber, Rev. George T. Lyle, Rev. L.L. Loyd, Rv. Wm. Linton, Rev. P.H. Lilly, 2/1/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. O.T. Harris, 2/4/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. Jennings, 2/7/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. R.D. Haynes, 2/12/07 - 761st Tank Battallion - WWII (and involvement of residents of the area), 2/20/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. D. Frank Eutsur, 3/23/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. L.B. Allen, 3/24/07 - Marriages performed by Rev. Robert L. Kelly.  4/9/07 - Marriages peformed by Rev. G.B. Gibson, Rev. Wm. Rhodes Grisby.

Mattie Haynes

Oldest child of George Washington Haynes and Elizabeth Jane Payne/Haynes Haynes Lewis. 

The Greenbrier Historical Society and the West Virginia Division of Culture and History both have about 30 volumes of my work entitled "BLACK RESIDENTS OF GREENBRIER, MONROE, SUMMERS, AND POCAHONTAS COUNTIES"  by Carol L. Haynes.  Amistad Research has very old drafts from the late 90's and the West Virginia college at Institute has an old copy.  This is not a formally published work - only self published information that I update frequently and send to the above two museums/societies.  The recent edition includes around 240 photos.  So, if you are in Lewisburg please stop in to the GHS and ask them to see my work.  Or, if you are in Charleston, do the same.  The work attempts to list every Black individual who ever lived in GC, MC, SC, or PC.  It is an index of all of the places where these persons can be found (censuses, court records, other family histories, newspaper articles) and it also contains interviews of family members.  Hope you find the information helpful!!! 

Nola and Edna Haynes.

Nola and Edna Haynes.  Daughters of George Washington Haynes and Elizabeth Jane Payne/Haynes Haynes Lewis of Brushy Ridge, Greenbrier County. 

Unidentified Boy

Photo contributed by E. Brooks. This child is somehow related to the HAYNES family of Greenbrier/Monroe Counties. 

Unidentified Girl

Photo contributed by E. Brooks.

This child is somehow related to the Haynes family of Greenbrier/Monroe Counties. 

Index 10/10/06 - end of 2006

10/10/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. Grandison, Rev. L. Baxter Goodall, Rev. A.C. Gearhart, Rev. Henry C. Gray, Rev. Faust Nickell, 10/20/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. Matthew Lyle Lacy, 10/27/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. W.F. Patterson, 10/28/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. B.P. Pennington, 11/1/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. William M. Nickell, 11/4/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. J.D. Noll, 11/7/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. Floyd Meadows, Rev. J.J. Meadon, Rev. F.A./J.A. Meade, 11/9/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. Charles Lewis, 11/18/06 - Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society, Vol. 8, # 2, 2006 - article by Mr. Layton regarding old courthouse documents, 11/21/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. Bosley Boyce, 11/22/06 - Marriages peformed by Thomas Brooks, 11/27/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. ? Brooks, 11/30/06 - MARTHA JONES (there were at least 5 of them in the area), 12/4/06 - Anderson Jones, 12/22/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. T.R. Morris, 12/23/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. R.H. Mason, 12/24/06 - Marriages performed by Rev. John H. Simpson, 12/25/06 - John Wesley United Methodist Church - Lewisburg - Greenbrier County, Marriages performed by Rev. J.L. Brown, Marriages performed by Rev. H.A. Brown, Marriages performed by Rev. John H. Simpson.