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Robertson was born in 1742 in Brunswick County, Virginia, of Scots-Irish and English descent, to John Randolph Robertson and Mary (Gower) Blakely. Around 1749, his father relocated the family to Wake County, North Carolina. Robertson worked with his siblings on their family farm and had limited formal education, but he learned to track and hunt ...
[50] [52] After her 1908 marriage to Karl Benkner, she moved west, living in Pennsylvania and Ohio, before retiring to Arizona. Already a supercentenarian and the oldest person in Arizona, Benkner returned to Ohio to live in North Lima with her sister Tillie O'Hare, her youngest sibling. [ 50 ]
The sisters were lifelong residents of Clarksburg, West Virginia, two of four children born to Italian immigrants Salvatore and Maria Audia Buttafusco.. At age 15, Gramma married schoolmate Frank Musci (1913–1988), taking a cab ride during school hours from Clarksburg to Oakland, Maryland to be married before a Justice of the Peace.
Logan County, West Virginia: Act of Vengeance: John Mackenzie: 1986 Charleston, West Virginia: Matewan: John Sayles: 1986 Mingo County, West Virginia [1] [5] [4] [3] Chillers: Daniel Boyd: 1986 Kanawha County, West Virginia: Big Business: Jim Abrahams: 1988 Fayette County, West Virginia: Rain Man: Barry Levinson: December 16, 1988 Huntington ...
The following is a list of living centenarians (living people who have attained the age of at least 100 years) known for reasons other than just their longevity.For more specific lists of people (living or deceased) who are known for these reasons, see lists of centenarians.
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
The North Bend Rail Trail was built on one of the most distinguished railroad lines in U.S. history. [3] Chartered in 1851, the Northwestern Virginia Railroad built 103 miles from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) mainline at Grafton, West Virginia, to the Ohio River at Parkersburg, West Virginia. The line was sold to the B&O upon ...
Nov. 17—MORGANTOWN — There's a heavyweight match brewing in Milan Puskar Stadium on Saturday. When West Virginia (6-4, 4-3 Big 12) hosts Cincinnati (3-7, 1-6) this weekend (2:30 p.m./ESPN ...