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New River Notes Photo Gallery

A Collection of historic and current photos mostly covering the upper New River area of southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina.


Last additions - New River Valley People
Carl&SallyRutherford.jpg
Carl&SallyRutherford.jpg592 viewsCourtesy of Bobbi huskypup@bellsouth.netMar 16, 2006
FrancesSadlerJeffery~GreatGrandfatherBillJeffery_smoth.jpg
FrancesSadlerJeffery~GreatGrandfatherBillJeffery_smoth.jpg554 viewsCourtesy of Bobbi huskypup@bellsouth.netMar 16, 2006
GeorgeLaRue,MaryLaRue,EdJeffery,SallyJefferyRutherford.jpg
GeorgeLaRue,MaryLaRue,EdJeffery,SallyJefferyRutherford.jpg516 viewsLeft George LaRue, Mary LaRue, Ed Jeffrey, and Sally Jeffery Rutherford. Courtesy of Bobbi huskypup@bellsouth.netMar 16, 2006
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Kilby, Roby973 viewsCourtesy of Eleanor Jo Cox ejcox@naxs.comMar 16, 2006
osbornenancydrucilla.jpg
osbornenancydrucilla.jpg762 viewsNancy Drucilla Osborne, daughter of Franklin Leander and Malvina Weiss Osborne, and her husband Arthur Owen. Courtesy of Eleanor Jo Cox ejcox@naxs.comMar 16, 2006
spencerbrothers.jpg
spencerbrothers.jpg722 viewsSpencer brothers: Charles Enoch, Victor Franklin, William Glen. Courtesy of Eleanor Jo Cox ejcox@naxs.com
Mar 16, 2006
CBdeerhunting.jpg
CBdeerhunting.jpg1333 viewsMy grandfather was born in 1889 and in this picture he looks to be in his 40s at most, so I guess this scene was in the 1930s, and though he had lived in Maryland since 1920, this hunting party probably was "back home" because his brother Dent and, according to an aunt, his nephew Glenn Kilby, both Ashe Countians, are in the picture. I send this, thinking you might recognize the other hunters. To identify those I know: at deer's hindquarters with gun over shoulder--Charles Bradley Pennington, second from right, Dent Pennington; far right, Glenn Kilby. Courtesy of Emily Kilby erk44@verizon.netMar 16, 2006
Littlewoodcarsocks.jpg
Littlewoodcarsocks.jpg977 viewsThe Littlewood's first car, which would take them as far north as Providence, RI, visiting their East Coast relatives during the 1920s, was purchased with profits from their government contract for making woolen socks for the army during WW I. Jack Littlewood, the only son of Herbert and Hannah Haigh Littlewood, apparently festooned the new machine with socks as a tribute. How DID they drive on those roads!?!?
Courtesy of Emily Kilby erk44@verizon.net
Mar 16, 2006
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pennington car942 viewsTaken in the 1920s in the Helton area of Ashe County: Second cousins Bryan Pennington, son of Stephen E. Pennington, and Dent Pennington, youngest son of Cicero and Almeda Grubb Pennington. Courtesy of Emily Kilby erk44@verizon.net
Mar 16, 2006
spencervictor.jpg
spencervictor.jpg640 viewsVictor Franklin Spencer, son of William Troy and Alice Osborne Spencer and husband of Melinda Jane Weaver, in his WW1 uniform. Courtesy of Eleanor Jo Cox ejcox@naxs.com
Mar 16, 2006
spencerisaacgreely.jpg
spencerisaacgreely.jpg796 viewsIsaac Greeley Spencer, son of William Troy and Cynthia Alice Osborne Spencer. Courtesy of Eleanor Jo Cox ejcox@naxs.comMar 16, 2006
spencerbud1939.jpg
spencerbud1939.jpg711 viewsGrandpa Bud, William Troy Spencer, at the Whitetop Mountain Folk Festival in 1939. Courtesy of Eleanor Jo Cox ejcox@naxs.comMar 15, 2006
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