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to the contrary many documents saved by this part of my ancestry. There is overwhelming evidence of interaction with folks out-side of the hollows and mountains, even the county and state. Such an example is a receipt from the firm Woodard & Cliser dated June 10, 1878:
M. J. Dwyer in account with Woodard & Cliser to 8 1/2 pounds harness leather at 35 cents.$ 2.97 to tanning 1 dog skin, 2 ground hog skins 30 cents which total $3.27.
Received pay in full on the above account
Woodward & Cliser
More familiarly known as “Jack” or “Jackson” Dwyer he had married in November 1850, Elizabeth Frances Bolen. To this couple were born 15 children, ten daughters and five sons. Jack Dwyer died in 1914, his widow lived into her 97th year dying in 1927.
, One of the daughters, Delphia, died at the tender age of five. The rest grew to adulthood and most married and moved out of the hollows. Richard Melvin “Dick” Dwyer, one of the sons seems to have eventually bought the property. Uncle Dick was a bachelor.
Earlier in the 1890’s he and his brother John M Dwyer had gone to Springfield, Ohio as is witnessed in a letter written to him by his mother in 1894. His mother giving all the local news and suggesting that he and John should save all the money they could and come back and buy a little farm of their own...’’hiring out is hard work”, she said. There they worked for a Mr. Fox.
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