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Wheeler was born on December 9, 1932, in Boone County, West Virginia.He graduated from Warren Wilson College in 1953, and Berea College in 1955. [2] After serving as a student pilot in the Navy, he served as Alumni Director of Berea College.
Steve Allen Rowe, 30, a fellow resident of Boone County, West Virginia, town of Prenter, shot D. Ray and his sons Jesco and Dorsey White with a 12-gauge shotgun outside D. Ray's home on July 2, 1985, after quarreling with White and his sons.
Poney White – the only one of D. Ray and Bertie's children to have left Boone County at the time the documentary was produced. He moved to Minneapolis and is a house painter. [5] Poney states he felt he needed to leave West Virginia to improve his life, a decision he made after a prescription fraud conviction.
Jesco White, also known as the "Dancing Outlaw" (born July 30, 1956) is an American folk dancer and entertainer. He is best known as the subject of three American documentary films that detail his desire to follow in the footsteps of his famous father, D. Ray White, while dealing with depression, drug addiction, alcoholism, and the poverty that affects some parts of rural Appalachia.
Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,809. [1] Its county seat is Madison. [2] Boone County is part of the Charleston, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Leading industries and chief agricultural products in Boone County include coal, lumber, natural gas, tobacco, and strawberries.
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Adkins was born in Boone County, West Virginia on April 29, 1937, [2] where he spent his entire life. [3] He was the youngest of ten children of Wid Adkins, a coal miner, [4] and Alice Hale, [5] raised in a tarpaper shack on property rented from a local coal company. [6] Born at the time of the Great Depression, Adkins' early life was stricken ...
Haddad was born into a Syro-Lebanese Orthodox Christian family in 1921 in Clothier, West Virginia, the son of Nathan Makoul Haddad of Beirut (then Syria) and Sarah Emma David of South Dakota. His father Nathan immigrated to West Virginia in 1909 with his four brothers. The Haddad family owned a clothing store in Madison, West Virginia, for ...