Lets take a walk down memory lane to McComas, West Virginia a place many people CALLED HOME at one time.  Although we no longer live there we'll never forget the time we spent there.                      

The Fourth McComas Memory Walk will be scheduled in the Spring of 2012.  The Committee had tentatively scheduled the next gathering to be held in the Spring of 2011, but came to the decision that it would probably be more feasible to delay the get-together until the Spring of 2012.  We will notify those whom we have addresses prior to the scheduled 2012 event and will hope that more folks will be able to attend at that time.

Looking for someone:

email 8/29/2011 from Judi Sutherland to Pat Smith

Hi Pat

I AM JUDI (SUTHERLAND) SPANGLER AND I CONTACTED JUDY COLE CONCERNING MY INTEREST IN THE 2012 MCCOMAS MEMORY PICNIC. I PLAN TO ATTEND IF POSSIBLE. I ALSO ASK HER IS SHE HAS ANY INFORMATION ABOUT JESSICA HURST WHO LIVED IN MCCOMAS. WE WERE VERY GOOD FRIENDS AND SHE ALWAYS SHARED PART OF HER LUNCH WITH ME! THAT WAS A REAL TREAT FOR ME. I HAVE ONLY FOND MEMORIES OF MCCOMAS AND EVERY ONE LIVING THERE WHEN I WAS A CHILD. IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT JESSICA OR CAN FIND SOMETHING OUT CONCERNING HER, I WOULD DEARLY LOVE HEARING FROM HER OR ABOUT HER. SHE SHOULD BE AROUND 70 NOW. PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I DO HOPE TO SEE YOU IN SPRING OF 2012. THANKS JUDI  

please email me Pat Smith @pssmith@hughes.net if you have any information about Jessica I'll pass it on to Judi

Area Info

December 29, 2010 Bluefield Daily Telegraph
BLUEFIELD — A tractor-trailer loaded with food and supplies from Feed the Children arrived Wednesday morning at the Crane Creek Pentecostal Holiness Church in McComas. The truck-load of food from the Oklahoma City, Okla. based not-for-profit agency was inbound to Mercer County on Dec. 16, when an ice storm prompted the load to be diverted to Tennessee.  Vickie Kennett, the coordinator of the Crane Creek Area Food Bank said the distribution will be Thursday morning at 11 a.m.

August 11, 2010 by Wilson Butt Bluefield Daily Telegraph Curtis King provided me with a history lesson on McComas last week. He shared many stories about the community’s glory days as he and I climbed to the top of the ridge near his home to document the location and existence of an old family cemetery. Now in a state of neglect, the old field provided a final resting place for many members of his family. Most of the graves were unmarked and those that were had only a stone. He figured that in a few years there may not be anyone around who would know about the cemetery or any of the stories about those buried there.

The same might also be true about much of the rest of the community. Hillside farms that once provided much of the food families depended on are now overgrown. His stories about having to carry potatoes from the field to the house and helping his father were reminiscent of a bygone era. Too many similar stories will soon be lost to a generation intrigued with cyberspace. However, I have one young friend that knows her garden vegetables and can easily identify a half runner or a pole bean. She often spends time helping he grandfather tend his garden. The library in Bluefield Va., has a gardening program for youngsters and several participate. It is through these youngsters that I am reminded and confident that there is hope for the next generation.

April 25, 2009 Former McComas residents join for walk down memory lane By Bill Archer Bluefield Daily Telegraph read more...

February 2009 I don't know how many of you remember the old Payne House at Pinnacle across from the Pinnacle Store down across the little bridge and just before you passed the garages it sat on the left (leaving Pinnacle) It  burned down recently.  Another of our memories of McComas now gone..

February 21, 2009 Family’s McDowell County roots extend to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame  By Bill Archer  Bluefield Daily Telegraph -  Maybeury   read more...

November 14, 2007  Solving a difficult problem— Windmill Gap ATV solution a precedent read more...

My memories of McComas were instilled in me in a large part by my mother Helen Ann Huffman Spicer.  The early beginnings of this website were inspired by all she introduced me to before her untimely death in 1957.  So I dedicate this website and all it's beautiful memories to my mother.  She loved McComas and all the friends she had there.  webmaster Patty "Spicer" Smith