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BY WAYNE BALDWIN
RaDpahann rk News Writer
Meeting 1 10 a.m. on April 22 in Gid Brown Hollow, instigated by that unquenchable '"'sire to seek out remnants ; ’ r emains of their forbeari earthly presence, our gr > consisted of Daniel and Bessie N' rman, Mary Nr rman V lley and son, Travis, 1 ichard and Rena Norman iurke, Kenneth and Fran - "rman and their sons. Will, Wade and Wyatt and of course me.
Our first stop on this quest of finding physical evidence of the Norman family’s existence in this area was at the Milton “Bub” Gore property. On the hill above the house is an old cemetery, and I must confess, I’ve know it for years, been by it hundreds of times but had never actually dug around to read the names etc. on the gravestones. I’d been informed this was sort of a community cemetery and such names as Clatterbuck and Beahm were buried here. In the past couple of years I’d learned that Normans too had been interred here.
Today, though no stone with the name of Norman was found, those who had done their homework were none the less dissuaded as the stories prevailed. We did find stones (all fieldstones) with the names of Sims, Clatterbuck and one marked with the initials “B.B”.
We left here and proceeded up Route 622, passing old familiar sites to me. Near the Oscar Baldwin property there is a road to the left which serves the private land owners Sealock, Bailey, Baldwin and Clark. The same road in years past was a county road known as the Thorough Fare, running across the gap in the ridge over into what is now called Keyser Hollow.
Long before the Keysers came though (the Keysers came from Page County about 1870) there were the Finchams, Dwyers, Bakers, Baldwins, Sims, Greens,
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