Arbuckle Stories and Belle Vue farm in Greenbrier County, WV

ARBUCKLE STORIES

Belle Vue Farm, Greenbrier County, WV

Arbuckle Stories - Index

Chapter 1 - The Sugar Hollow – A field, a horseback ride video, and some history of Belle Vue Farm.

Chapter 2 – The Quaker - A neighbor comes to dinner.

Chapter 3 - Belle Vue Meadow – A field on Belle Vue Farm, plus Jim riding Cochise. (Plus “Cousin May”)

Chapter 4 – Cousin May - Head strong May Arbuckle comes for a visit. (Part of Chapter 3)

Chapter 5 - The Woods - A horse- back ride with Jim and Cochise. (Plus “Cousins from Birmingham”)

Chapter 6 – Cousins from Birmingham - CC Arbuckle and his family come for a visit. (Part of Chapter 5)

Chapter 7 - The Black Horse - Jim rides his horse, Fury. (Plus “The Botts Girls”)

Chapter 8 – The Botts Girls - Carrie Arbuckle’s sisters come for a visit. (Part of Chapter 7)

Chapter 9 - Cry in the Night & The Old House - An old tenant house and a nearby ghost.

Chapter 10 - Blessed Are the Children - The children of Emily Arbuckle Sydenstricker.

Chapter 11 - The Autumn Leaves - Some Godly Arbuckle family and an autumn horse-back ride.

Chapter 12 – Carrie - Granddad Alex tells Jim about how he met his Grandmother Carrie.

Chapter 13 - The Unsung Heroes - A Korean missionary and an 18 century African American man.

Chapter 14 - The Christmas Sleigh - A Christmas Eve at Belle Vue farm.

Chapter 15 - Meet Me under the Maple Tree - Jim meets a girl from long ago.

Chapter 16 - The Arbuckle’s of Greenbrier County – History of the Alexander Welch Arbuckle family.

Chapter 17 – The Stray Dog – A lost brown dog finds his way to Belle Vue Farm.

Chapter 18 - Arbuckle Fort and Shawnee Indians – Mathew Arbuckle and Chief Cornstalk.

Chapter 19 - The Trip to Missouri – A fun summer trip to Mexico, MO.

Chapter 20 - The Top of the Ladder – Granddad Alex becomes really upset with his grandson, Jim.

Chapter 21 - The Greenbrier Ghost – The world famous ghost of Greenbrier County.

Chapter 22 - A Voice of Long Ago – A family friend helps solve the identity of a long lost opera singer.

Chapter 23 - The Springs of Belle Vue – Jim details the springs that run under the farm.

Chapter 24 - Weavers Knob – The history and mystery of a near-by mountain.

Chapter 25 - The Martyr of David S Creigh – The sad an awful execution of an Arbuckle relative.

Chapter 26 - A Different Life – A look at Dr. Lockhart Davis Arbuckle Sr.

Chapter 27 - Clifton the McLaughlin’s – A look at the house and family of A.M. McLaughlin.

Chapter 28 - A Cousin and a Queen – A personal fond remembrance of Lynn McLaughlin Unger.

Chapter 29 - The Clendenin Massacre – The brutal 18th century Indian killing of a Lewisburg family.

Chapter 30 – Waveland – A look back at the home and life of John B. and Emily Sydenstricker.

Chapter 31 - A Time to Die – The death and funeral of Carrie Botts Arbuckle.

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