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McComas Memories

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.                      

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 The Windmill Gap Reunion will be held

  • September 10, 2011

  • at the Glenwood Park 4-H Park (off Rt 20). 

  • It will start at 12:00 noon,

  • lunch at 1:00 p.m. 

  • Bring a covered dish. 

  • Drinks will be provided. 

If you have questions, please call

  • Connie Darago at 410-535-2066 or

  • Diana East Worrell at 540-915-0881. 

Please pass the word to everyone.  

Diana East Worrell


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.

All who have ever lived or had connections to the McComas area are welcome. 

Please pass this McComas Memory Walk information to your McComas friends and encourage them to attend in the Spring of 2012.     

For more details of information contact:

We hope to see you in the Spring of 2012!  Judy, Pat and Pedro

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

June, her father Morris and Frazier Eanes at McComas, WV - click for a larger view

William Morris Eanes a McComas Miner with his children June and Frazier early 1940s. They lived in a double unit house above where Cecil Todd and his family once lived in the  Thomas Coal Company Superintendent's House. 
Morris died in 1946 in a mining accident at Tralee
 photo was colorized by David Thompson 2007



Thanks to Judy Sutherland Spangler for this trip down memory lane -
Who remembers the high school bus stop across the tracks and the bridge -- I sure do...
Notice the single file waiting line on the steps to get on the bus.


 


help name these students - recent photo additions to the website

 2 new photos from Betty Todd with Pinnacle Elementary students - help us identify them view it ...

   
new school photo added 3/2/2009  Mora Grade 1/2 1946-47

Sampling of Emails sent to Webmaster Pat Smith  from web viewers over the years (their precious) read more...
 

If you want to share your McComas Memories on this website please contact me.  I would love to publish them.


Photo supplied by
 Minnie Mariotti Kuzemka, MHS class of 1940

Glen Scott - 1st Manager of the McComas Theater note Mora Elementary School in the background photo taken in the 1930s
 
 
Terry Tabor's
Memories of McComas


Terry has been compiling information for a book which he has asked to be included on this site for others to enjoy  thank you Terry!!!! 

 



 

click to enlarge thumbnail photo
 

McComas Community Center 1943 Photo ...click to enlarge
 
McComas UMWA Local 5864 Band 1935, at Crane Creek...click to enlargeMannering, WV between 1901-1904...click to enlarge
McComas Community Center during its early days ...click to enlargeMcComas High School during its early days - so early the steps were not built...click to enlarge
McComas High School around 1950 the work shop and steps are now present...click to enlargeMHS Sports Participation Letter  Photo supplied by Tony Basconi November 2001...click to enlarge

 


McComas High School (1925-1960)

Home to the BLUE and GOLD McComas LOADERS

There were 105 steps going up to the McComas High School according to Jackie (Curran) Howard.
Click here to see those same McComas High School Steps as of May 2001.
(if you can see them through the trees - 41 years after the school closed.)
Does it make you loose your breath just to remember walking up them?

   MHS steps 1         MHS steps 2 

I'm seeking contributions (data/pictures/memories) from anyone
willing to share concerning McComas History.
I'll gladly include it on these pages annotating the contributor.
As a recent convert to the wonders of family genealogy I'd like to stress that each and everyone of us need to pass on to our children their heritage. How often do we talk to them about their ancestors - or even what our lives were like in our youth. Many of us no longer live in a small close knit community like we were raised in. We had family and friends surrounding us and sharing in teaching us every day. Our children don't know where there roots started from unless we take the time and initive to teach them. Write it down, talk about it, visit old friends and places and introduce them to your children. Maybe re-introduce yourselves to them as well. It feels good!
       
 
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