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Crook, E-mail address: vfcrook @earthlink.net February 1998 unless otherwise noted. *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** Greenbrier County, West Virginia - Obituaries - *L* Surnames From THE MONROE CO. WATCHMAN, Vol. 36, Num. 3; Thursday, Feb. 14, 1907: "On Feb. 4, 1907, at her home in Rich Hollow, Greenbrier county, Mrs. Malinda RODGERS (nee LIVESAY), aged 87 years. Interment at Lewisburg." *********************************************************************** From THE GREENBRIER INDEPENDENT, June 15th, 1905: "Geo. LOUDERMILK, esq. died on Tuesday of last week at his home on Meadow Mountain, nr. Clintonville this county, aged 92 yrs, 7 mos. & 24 days, leaving his second wife & a large family of children, some of whom now reside in the west, surviving. Mr. LOUDERMILK was a blacksmith by trade as long as his health and strength permitted him to labor. He was an excellent citizen and a good man. Throughout his long life enjoyed the confidence, respect and good opinion of all who knew him. (1812-1905)" [Submitted by Melba L. Purkey, email: , 1998] *********************************************************************** OBIT: Chesapeake-Mrs. Elva Arritt Luchard, 65, of 1602 Hazel Ave., the widow of James Earl Luchard and a retired employee of King's Department Store, died Thursday night in a Norfolk hospital. A native of Ronceverte, WV, she lived in this area for 15 years. She was a member of Woodland Heights Baptist Church and Indian River Senior Citizens Club. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Darlene L. Nicely of Virginia Beach; a son, Carl D. Luchard, and a sister, Mrs. Oleta M. Pitcher, both of Chesapeake; a brother, John C. Arritt of Glendale, WV and six grandchildren. A funeral will be held Sunday at 4 p.m. in Woodland Heights Baptist Church by the Rev. Paul D. moore. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens. Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Indian River Chapel, has charge. The family will be at 3432 MacDonald Road, Virginia Beach, and at the funeral home today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. They suggest that flowers be omitted and memorial donations may be sent to the New Creations Center Fund, 3908 Holland Road, Virginia Beach. [Submitted by Louise Perkins , September 20, 1998] ************************************************************************** Mrs. Effie Myrtle Long, 71, wife of Clarence Elmer Long, of Route 3, Covington, Virginia, died in the C & O Hospital, Clifton Forge, Virginia. She had suffered a heart attack at her home earlier in the week and while recovering, suffered the second and fatal attack in the hospital, Friday, March 27, 1964. She was born January 20, 1893, in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, on a farm on the Greenbrier River near Whitcomb, West Virginia. She was a daughter of Andrew Jackson Morgan and Rebecca Honaker Morgan and had spent most of her life at Moss Run, Virginia. She was a member of the Regular Baptist Church of Ronceverte, West Virginia. A funeral service wwas held Easter Sunday, March 29, 1964, in the chapel of the R. M. Loving Funeral Home, with the Revend Guy Wykle of Ronceverte, West Virginia officiating. Interment was in Greenbrier Memorial Gardens, Lewisburg, West Virginia. [Submitted by Louise Perkins , September 20, 1998] ************************************************************************** Clarence Elmer Long, the fourth child of Achilles Murat Long & Nancy Ann Bennett, was born and raised in Irish Corner District, Greenbrier Co., on Monroe Draft Road about three miles south of Caldwell, West Virginia. When Clarence was sixteen years of age, he went to work as a laborer in the Maintenance of Way Department, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company with his brother Vernal who was section foreman at Renick, West Virginia. Greenbrier sub-division. Shortly after this, he worked for several years as a laborer with his Uncle Obie T. Bennett who was section foreman on the C&O main line at Caldwell, West Virginia. Clarence and his brothers, who worked in the Maintenance of Way Department for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, were called out to work at all hours both day and night, in all kinds of weather due to train derailments, slides, washouts, broken rails and almost anything else that needed immediate attention. One of the hardest things to do was go out in the middle of the night to remove dead bodies from the track. On one occasion, the county coroner had to view a body before it could be removed from the track at Backbone, Virginia. It was a severely cold and windy night when Clarence met the coroner at Moss Run, Virginia, and took him to Backbone on his open top motor car. They were both about to freeze making the four miles round trip. It was determined that the man had been previously killed and placed on the tracks in an attempt to cover up the crime and place the responsibility for the death on the railway company. In 1911, at age 21, Clarence married Effie Myrtle Morgan, daughter of Andrew Jackson Morgan and Rebecca Jane Honaker Morgan. He was still working as a laborer at Caldwell and they set up housekeeping in the section foreman's house. Two of their children, Oleta and Shirley, were borne there. About 1917, he was assigned section foreman of section No. 106 at Backbone, Virginia, on the east slope of the Alleghany Mountains where two of their children, Edna and Hazel, were born. In 1920, he bought a house on East Main Street, Covington, Virginia, where their only son, Roy, was born. They disposed of the house in Covington and bought five acres of land at Moss Run, Virginia, from Hugh McAlister and contracted Arch Morris to cut the timber and saw it into lumber for use in building their new home. In the meantime, while the house was being built, they moved back in the C& O section house at Backbone. In 1923, they moved into their new home at Moss Run, Virginia, where their other children, Ina Mae, Enscovene and Arlene were born. Clarence retired from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company in 1958 after having worked fifty years. Clarence Elmer Long, 85, died Thursday, January 22, 1976, in Emmett Memorial Hopsital, Clifton Forge, Virginia, after suffering a heart attack. The son of the late Achiles Murat and Nancy Bennett Long, he was a retired employee of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and was a member of the Johnson Creek Ascension Reformed Presbyterian Church. A funeral service was held at the R. M. Loving Funeral Home in Covington, Virginia, Sunday, January 25, 1976, with the Revend Lester Dottler officiating. Interment was in Greenbrier Memorial Gardens, Lewisburg, West Virginia. (born in Ronceverte) [Submitted by Louise Perkins , September 20, 1998] ************************************************************************** WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS-Mr. Ernest Baxter Loudermilk, 77, died Thursday in Greenbrier Valley Hospital, Fairlea, following an extended illness. Born in Pocahontas County on June 28, 1916, he was the son of the late Charles and Ida Carter Loudermilk. Mr. Loudermilk was a retired painter who had been employed by The Greenbrier Hotel for 48 years, was a member of the painter's union, and attended Emmanuel United Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Emma, a daughter, Miss Rhonda K. Loudermilk, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Louise L. Stacy and Mrs. Alma I. DeLong, both of White Sulphur Springs. The funeral will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Shanklin Funeral Home with interment in Mt. Carmel Cemetery at gap Mills, West Virginia. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Shanklin Funeral Home. [Submitted by Louise Perkins , January 12, 1999] ***************************************************************************