1. Virginia, U.S., Divorce Records, 1918-2014; Ancestry.com Website.
"Name: A D Blankenship
Gender: Male
Race: White
Divorce Age: 49
Birth Date: abt 1898
Marriage Date: 16 Oct 1916
Divorce Date: 22 Nov 1947
Divorce Place: Buchanan, Virginia, USA
Spouse: Virginia Boyd Blankenship
Certificate Number: 1947006212
Number of Children: 1"
1. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1948); Page 314; WV Archives Web Site.
John Asbury; age 52; widowed; born in Logan, WV; living at Isaban, WV; married on 12 May 1948 in
Welch, WV; Virginia Boyd Blankenship; age 47; widow; born in Floyd Co, KY; living at Isaban, WV.
2. Virginia, U.S., Divorce Records, 1918-2014; Ancestry.com Website.
"Name: Virginia Boyd Blankenship
Gender: Female
Race: White
Divorce Age: 48
Birth Date: abt 1899
Marriage Date: 16 Oct 1916
Divorce Date: 22 Nov 1947
Divorce Place: Buchanan, Virginia, USA
Spouse: A D Blankenship
Certificate Number: 1947006212
Number of Children: 1"
3. FindAGrave.com Web Site; submitted by RobMinteer; 2 Jan 2013.
" Virginia “Jennie” Boyd Asbury
Birth 1 Aug 1900
Kentucky, USA
Death 12 Apr 1970 (aged 69)
Burial
Short Ridge Cemetery
Garland, McDowell County, West Virginia"Additional Information Posted:
"First husband was..
Adam Daniel Blankenship
----------------------------Daughter of...
Jim BOYD and Cinda MOYER"
1. 1940 Census, McDowell Co, WV; Sandy River District; Iaeger; E.D. 24-56; taken on 5 Apr 1940;
Page 1073B; Image 10 of 28; Household #82.
Listed as Frank Asbury; age 7; born in WV; 1st grade education; attending school; lived
in same house on 1 Apr 1935; in household of father, Reece Asbury.
2. North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011; Ancestry.com Web Site.
"Name: Franklin Asbury
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 22
Birth Year: abt 1933
Marriage Date: 27 Aug 1955
Marriage Place: Alleghany, North Carolina, USA
Father: Reece Asbury
Mother: Vetie Pearl Asbury
Spouse: Wanda Jean Kestner
Spouse Gender: Female
Spouse Race: White
Spouse Age: 21
Spouse Father: James Floyd Kestner
Spouse Mother: Edith Kestner
Event Type: Marriage "
3. Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007; Ancestry.com Web Site.
"Name: Frank Delano Asbury
[Frank Asbury]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 28 Oct 1932
Birth Place: Iaeger McDow, West Virginia
[Iager, West Virginia]
Death Date: 14 Aug 2003
Father: Reese Asbury
Mother: Vetia P Hauley
SSN: 233489384
Disability Status: Disability denied - no record of type.
Notes: May 1949: Name listed as FRANK DELANO ASBURY;
07 Jul 1982: Name listed as FRANK ASBURY"
1. North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011; Ancestry.com Web Site.
"Name: Franklin Asbury
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 22
Birth Year: abt 1933
Marriage Date: 27 Aug 1955
Marriage Place: Alleghany, North Carolina, USA
Father: Reece Asbury
Mother: Vetie Pearl Asbury
Spouse: Wanda Jean Kestner
Spouse Gender: Female
Spouse Race: White
Spouse Age: 21
Spouse Father: James Floyd Kestner
Spouse Mother: Edith Kestner
Event Type: Marriage "
1. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1934); Page 221; WV Archives Web Site.
Bennie Asbury; age 22; born in Tazewell Co, VA; single; miner; living in Warriormine, WV; son of
George and Liza; married on 14 Mar 1934 at Warriormine, WV; Pauline Pack; age 17; born in
McDowell Co, WV; single; living at Warriormine, WV; daughter of Jess and Susie.
1. 1930 Census, McDowell Co, WV; Big Creek District; taken on 3 Apr 1930; Page 152A; Family #24/25.
Listed as Pauline Pack; age 13; born in VA; in household of father, Jesse J. Pack.
2. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1934); Page 221; WV Archives Web Site.
Bennie Asbury; age 22; born in Tazewell Co, VA; single; miner; living in Warriormine, WV; son of
George and Liza; married on 14 Mar 1934 at Warriormine, WV; Pauline Pack; age 17; born in
McDowell Co, WV; single; living at Warriormine, WV; daughter of Jess and Susie.
1. 1930 Census, McDowell Co, WV; Browns Creek District; taken on 17 Apr 1930; Page 77A; Image
25 of 47; Family #218/224.
Listed as Goldie M. Culp; age 7; born WV; in household of father; Charles A. Culp.
2. 1940 Census, McDowell Co, WV; Browns Creek District; Big Sandy; E.D. 24-37; taken on 25/26
Apr 1940; Page 758A; Image 30 of 35; Household #226.
Listed as Goldie Culp; age 18; born in WV; 6th grade education; lived in Hemphill,
McDowell Co, WV on 1 Apr 1935; in household of father, Charles Culp.
3. 1950 Census; McDowell Co, WV; Davy; taken 11 Apr 1950; Sheet Number 30; Dwelling #225.
Listed as Goldie Culp; age 27; born in WV; never married; in household of sister, Mary Culp.
4. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1954); Page 156; WV Archives Web Site.
Charles Lee Smith; age 30 born in Welch, WV; divorced; living at Roderfield, WV; married on 16
Jan 1954 at Roderfield, WV; Goldie Marie Culp; age 30; born and living at Roderfield, WV; single.
5. FindAGrave.com Web Site; Iaeger Memorial Cemetery, Roderfield, McDowell Co, WV; submitted
by B. Walls; 29 Dec 2013.
Goldie M. Smith; born 5 Aug 1922; died 27 Apr 1988; buried here; triple headstone shown with
husband and son.
1. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1941); Page 50; WV Archives Web Site.
Willie Warrix; age 21; born and living in Iaeger, WV; single; married on 15 May 1941 in Iaeger, WV;
Dora Bailey; age 21; born in Panther, WV; single; living in Iaeger, WV.
1. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1941); Page 50; WV Archives Web Site.
Willie Warrix; age 21; born and living in Iaeger, WV; single; married on 15 May 1941 in Iaeger, WV;
Dora Bailey; age 21; born in Panther, WV; single; living in Iaeger, WV.
1. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1946); Page 3; WV Archives Website.
Vernie Baldwin; age 31; born and living in Leckie, WV; singel; married on 31 Oct 1946 at
Jenkinjones, WV; Dora H. Bailey; age 21; born in McComas, WV; single; living at Leckie, WV.
2. McDowell Co, WC; Death Certificate #'68 004203; WV Archives.com Website.
Laverne (Vernie) Baldwin; age 53; born 31 Oct 1914 in VA; married; husband of Dora Bailey;
machine operator in coal mine; SS# 235-09-7017; served in WW II; living at Anawalt, WV; son of
George and Mahalia (Blevins) Baldwin; died 28 Feb 1968 at Leckie, WV; due to a self-inflected
bullet wound to the forehead; buried 2 Mar 1968 in Roselawn Cemetery, Princeton, WV; informant
Dora Baldwin, Anawalt, WV.
3. FindAGrave.com Website; submitted by kenneth bowen; 14 Apr 2013; maintained by BeVera.
"Birth 31 Oct 1914
Virginia, USA
Death 28 Feb 1968 (aged 53)
Leckie, McDowell County, West Virginia, USA
Burial Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA GPS-Latitude: 37.350307, Longitude: -81.125739
Memorial ID 108457753"
1. 1930 Census, Mercer Co, WV; Rock District; taken on 8 May 1930; Page 217B; Image 98 of 99;
Family #853/918.
Listed as Dora Helen Bailey; age 4 yrs, 2 mons; born in WV; in household of father, Grover C. Bailey.
2. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1946); Page 3; WV Archives Website.
Vernie Baldwin; age 31; born and living in Leckie, WV; singel; married on 31 Oct 1946 at
Jenkinjones, WV; Dora H. Bailey; age 21; born in McComas, WV; single; living at Leckie, WV.
3. "Bluefield Daily Telegraph", Tuesday 29 Mar 2005, newspaper Obit.
"ROANOKE, Va. - Rev. Ulysses G. Bailey, 86, of the Roanoke, Va. United Methodist Home, formerly
of the Whitmell community, died on March 24, 2005...". "In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Irene Hall Bailey on Aug. 28, 1994;
son, Stanley Bailey;
brothers, Leonard, Clinton, Bernard, Delmar, David; and sisters, Mamie Bailey Taylor and Dora
Bailey Baldwin..."
4. FindAGrave.com Website; submitted by F. Hylton; 20 Sep 2010.
"Dora Helen Bailey Baldwin
Birth 4 Oct 1925
McComas, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA
Death 2 Dec 2004 (aged 79)
Burial Prosperity Cemetery
Mercer County, West Virginia, USA
Memorial ID 58950094"Additional Information Posted:
"Dora Helen Bailey Baldwin, 79, formerly of Leckie and Bluefield, died Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004, in Hollywood, Fla., following a long period of declining health.Born at Windmill Gap, on Oct. 4, 1925, to Grover Cleveland and Mabel O'Brien Bailey, Dora Helen was the 10th of 17 children and the fourth daughter. The symmetry between her birthdate, 10/4, and her birth order, 10th child/4th daughter, both pleased and amused her.
She was a graduate of McComas High School, earned her undergraduate degree in education from Concord College in Athens, and her Master's from West Virginia University in Morgantown. She firmly believed she was born to be a teacher and could never imagine herself doing anything else. She began teaching on an emergency teaching certificate at the age of 19, in a one-room school at Little Creek, where some of her students were nearly her own age and many were much larger than she. From Little Creek, she went to Anawalt Jr. High School, where she spent the rest of her 38-year career in the McDowell County School System. A reading specialist, she taught home-bound students and adult literacy classes, in addition to her regular students. She devoted one summer to tutoring underprivileged children in Philadelphia. Over the years, she taught literally thousands of children and adults to read and to love poetry and literature.
After her retirement, she tutored hospitalized children and speakers of other languages, as a volunteer, and worked as a paralegal assistant in her son-in-law David's law office. She also volunteered as a hearing clerk in her daughter Sue's office scheduling and coordinating tax appeals hearings.
Even more than she loved teaching, Dora loved her extended family. She was the family genealogist and historian, collecting and passing on stories and pictures. She compiled and published a family history in 1993. She was the driving force behind Our House, the Bailey family website, which has helped keep our far-flung family close over the past five years. During her final illness, she enjoyed viewing a treasure trove of old photographs unearthed, scanned and posted to the website by cousin Boo. She never faltered in her love for her siblings, nieces, nephews, and cousins and was interested in their activities up to the last day of her life.
Formerly a member of Prosperity Methodist Church, Windmill Gap, and Boyd's Chapel Methodist Church, Leckie, Dora belonged to Trinity Methodist Church in Bluefield. In Florida, she attended St. James Episcopal Church in Hollywood, with her daughter.
Dora was predeceased by her parents, Grover Cleveland and Mabel O'Brien Bailey; husband, Vernie Baldwin; sisters, Frances Bailey and Mamie Bailey Taylor; brothers, Leonard Bailey, Bernard Bailey, Delmar Bailey, Clinton Bailey and David Bailey. Her beloved cats, Stuffy, Sam and Fritz, and special dogs, Harry Houdini and BucaMarie, also predeceased her.
She is survived by daughter, Sue Baldwin and son-in-law, David McLauchlin, of 4011 Thomas Street, Hollywood, Florida 33021, with whom she made her home; surrogate daughter, Marilyn King, of Hollywood, Florida, grandchildren, David McLauchlin Jr. and wife Jamie of Riverview, Fla., and Beth McLauchlin Johnson of Woodstock, Ga.; great-grandchildren, Devin Brown McLauchlin and Megan Elizabeth Lee Johnson; sisters, Zelma Bailey Settle of Rich Creek, Va., Bonnie Bailey Hodge, of Rocky Gap, Va., Bridget Bailey Morrow of Fredericksburg, Va., Patricia Bailey Sadtler of Seminole, Fla.; brothers, William Bailey and wife, Lucy, of Palatka, Fla., U.G. Bailey of Roanoke, Va., Raymond Bailey of Mansfield Center, Conn., Marvin Bailey and wife, Annette, of Ward, Ark., and Kenneth Bailey and wife, Betty, of Casa Grande, Ariz.; one aunt, Mamie O'Brien Cooper, of Glenwood Park Nursing Home; too many much-loved nieces, nephews and cousins to mention individually; and her cherished and special caregiver, Doris Anderson, her husband, Leo Deacon, son, Leo, Jr. and niece, Tameka O'Gilvie. Also surviving are her beloved animal companions, Casey Patrick and Kioshi Omega, Keeshond dogs, and Buttercup and Babycakes, cats.
Friends and family may call at Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell on Friday, Dec. 10, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Graveside services will be conducted on Saturday, Dec. 11, at 11 a.m. at Prosperity Cemetery, Windmill Gap, the Reverend Jim Stanley officiating. Directions to the cemetery will be available at Cravens-Shires.
Bio Contributed By Nancy Walker (#46944851)"
1. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1965); Page 339; WV Archives Web Site.
Ronald Lee Warrix; age 21; born 21 Jan 1944 in Buchanan Co, VA; single; no previous marriage;
living at General Delivery, Red Jacket, WV; son of Willie and Dora (Bailey) Warrix; married on 30 May
1965 in Roderfield, WV; Linda Carol Culp; age 18; born 29 Nov 1946 in Davy, WV; single; no previous
marriage; living at Box 853, Roderfield, WV; daughter of unknown father and Goldie Marie Culp.
1. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1965); Page 339; WV Archives Web Site.
Ronald Lee Warrix; age 21; born 21 Jan 1944 in Buchanan Co, VA; single; no previous marriage;
living at General Delivery, Red Jacket, WV; son of Willie and Dora (Bailey) Warrix; married on 30 May
1965 in Roderfield, WV; Linda Carol Culp; age 18; born 29 Nov 1946 in Davy, WV; single; no previous
marriage; living at Box 853, Roderfield, WV; daughter of unknown father and Goldie Marie Culp.
1. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1965); Page 263; WV Archives Web Site.
Elwood Ward; age 22; born 26 Jan 1942 in Coaldale, WV; single; no previous marriage; Negro; lving
at General Delivery, Maybeury, WV; son of Oliver Thomas and Gennie Mae (Smith) Ward; married on
20 Feb 1965 in Maybeury, WV; Della Elizabeth Ramsey; age 22; born 8 Sep 1942 at Kimball, WV;
single; no previous marriage; Negro; living at Maybeury, WV; daughter of John (deceased) and Pearl
(Edwards) Ramsey.
1. McDowell Co, WV; Marriage Records; Vol #__(1965); Page 263; WV Archives Web Site.
Elwood Ward; age 22; born 26 Jan 1942 in Coaldale, WV; single; no previous marriage; Negro; lving
at General Delivery, Maybeury, WV; son of Oliver Thomas and Gennie Mae (Smith) Ward; married on
20 Feb 1965 in Maybeury, WV; Della Elizabeth Ramsey; age 22; born 8 Sep 1942 at Kimball, WV;
single; no previous marriage; Negro; living at Maybeury, WV; daughter of John (deceased) and Pearl
(Edwards) Ramsey.