"The Memories and Writings of Harold David Somerville"

Title: "The Memories and Writings of Harold David Somerville, 'Tommie Sewell' "

A series of three volumes will be completed of H. D. Somervilles work. This is a collection of work sometimes written by Somerville under the pen name of Tommie Sewell. Tommie Sewell was a young boy that traveled from the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland with the Hayward family in the 1820’s. The Haywards were great grandparents of Somerville and it was through his grandmother Jane Hayward Somerville and listening to her talk of early stories that he became interested in recording family history. Somerville had kept notes and wrote articles spanning a time frame from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Somerville was born in 1895 and died in 1973. He wrote about families in Wirt and Jackson Counties, West Virginia.

With so many things fading with age and deteriorating his daughter and granddaughter, Pauline Somerville Smith and Lola Smith, endeavored to finish what he started so many years ago. His goal was to put his writings in book form. When we are finished we hope to have three volumes. Volume I is completed and Volume II we hope to have available in the fall of 2000.

Volume I

  • THE RED MEN ORGANIZE AND THE VEILED TRAGEDY
  • (THIS IS ABOUT A VIGILANTE GROUP FORMED AFTER THE CIVIL WAR)
  • FAIRVIEW – JACKSON COUNTY
  • JAMES W. SMITH
  • HISTORY OF THE DEPUE FAMILY
  • THE DESERTED HOMESTEAD
  • THE HOLLERON FAMILY
  • THE FULL FAMILY
  • THE SOMERVILLE FAMILY (THIS INCLUDES THE HAYWARD AND BUMGARNER FAMILIES)
  • SANDYVILLE AND VICINITY
  • THE SLAVEN FAMILY
  • THE BURDETTE FAMILY
  • THE GUM FAMILY
  • THE WOODDELL FAMILY
  • THE CROW FAMILY
  • THE MOREHEAD FAMILY
  • THE CONRAD FAMILY
  • THE THOMAS FAMILY
  • THE OTT FAMILY
  • THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF WIRT AND JACKSON COUNTIES
  • PICTURES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AND REBECCA MARTIN SMITH, MARY ANN MORAN AND GEORGE MORAN, DUNCAN, LEROY AND SAMUEL SOMERVILLE FAMILY PICTURES

    Volume II
    [NOT YET AVAILABLE]

  • WIRT COUNTY PIONEER LIFE OF WIRT AND JACKSON COUNTIES (THIS INCLUDES DETAILS OF A
  • PIONEER WEDDING)
  • THE SHEPPARD FAMILY
  • ZACHVILLE POST OFFICE
  • THOMAS MILLS
  • PEE WEE
  • HISTORY OF MT. PISGAH CHURCH
  • THE STORY OF WILLIAM HOLMES MCGUFFEY
  • PIONEER SCHOOL ON LYNN CAMP
  • THE LOCKHART FAMILY
  • THE CHEUVRONT FAMILY
  • LOCKHART AND VICINITY
  • THE EARLY HISTORY OF WISEBURG
  • PROVIDENCE AND VICINITY
  • CIVIL WAR STORIES
  • THE FLOOD OF 1889
  • THE DERENBERGER FAMILY
  • TRACE FORK AND JOES RUN MAIL ROUTE
  • THE WISEMAN FAMILY
  • THE WOODYARD FAMILY
  • MORE CIVIL WAR STORIES
  • THE GRAY FAMILY
  • THE VILLAGE OF LUCILLE
  • PICTURES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND 1812 SOLDIER MONUMENTS, LOCKHART FAMILY MEMBERS, DERENBERGER HOUSE, REBECCA SHEPPARD SOMERVILLE, LETTICIA SOMERVILLE WINKLER AND FAMILY, H. D. SOMERVILLE’S GARFIELD STORE, THE GARFILED STORE AND OTHERS.

    Order Form for "The Memories and Writings of Harold David Somerville"

    Volume I is available, Volume II will be available in the fall of 2000.

    Cost of Volume I is $26.50 and $3.00 postage, book rate.

    Write to: Pauline Smith, Rt. 1 Box 135, Ravenswood, WV 26164 ( Phone: 304) 273-4707

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