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Walter Engle "Jack" Rollins (September 15, 1906 – January 1, 1973) was an American musician born in Scottdale, Pennsylvania and raised in Keyser, West Virginia. [1] Rollins wrote the lyrics to holiday favorites "Here Comes Peter Cottontail," "Frosty the Snowman," and "Smokey the Bear." The music was written by his partner Steve Nelson.
Thomas Rosabaum Carskadon (May 17, 1837 – January 21, 1905) [1] from Keyser, West Virginia, U.S. had a national reputation as a Prohibition Party leader. [2] He was the Prohibition candidate for Governor of West Virginia in 1884 and again in 1888. [3] He was an influential Mineral County farmer and political leader.
He entered the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1899, representing Mineral County until 1900. Davis became a U.S. Representative from West Virginia's 2nd District [2] in the 59th Congress, serving from 1905 to 1907 after the resignation of Republican Alston Dayton. He died in Keyser and was buried at Maplewood Cemetery in Elkins.
Ruth Ann Davis (May 25, 1936 – September 18, 2009) was an American educator and academic who lived and worked in the U.S. states of Michigan and West Virginia.Davis was born in Keyser, West Virginia, in 1936 and graduated from Keyser High School as valedictorian and an honor student in 1954.
The J. Edward Kelley Society administers two awards available to people associated with Kelley's alma mater, Keyser High School. The Ed Kelley Award, established the year after Kelley's death and awarded annually ever since, is a scholarship available to students who played varsity basketball or football at the school for at least two years ...
Accidental deaths in West Virginia (1 C, 15 P) D. Disease-related deaths in West Virginia (4 C) Drug-related deaths in West Virginia (1 C, 3 P) F.
Marshall was born in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1914. [1] [2] She was the daughter of the Reverend John Ambrose Wood and Leonora Whitaker Wood. [1]From the age of nine until her graduation from high school, Marshall was raised in Keyser, West Virginia, [1] where her father served as pastor of a Presbyterian church from 1924 to 1942.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1861 to 1959. Capital punishment was abolished in West Virginia in 1965. [ 1 ] From 1861 to 1959, 112 people have been executed in West Virginia, [ 2 ] 102 by hanging , 9 by electrocution and 1 by hanging in chains .