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Constance Bowles Eve

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Apr 5, 2024 Biographies

Constance B. Eve, one of ten children, was born on July 14, 1932, in Havoco, W. Virginia to Robert Bowles and Georgia W. Bowles. She married Arthur O. Eve, Deputy Speaker, New York State Assembly in J...

Education Havoco United States WV

Virginia M. Allen Price

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Sep 13, 2020 Biographies

Virginia M. Price was a leader who was recognized for her lifetime of service to her community. She was born Virginia Allen in Fairmount, West Virginia, but she was raised in Youngstown, Ohio. She gra...

Business Fairmount United States WV

Robert Augustus Busby

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Jul 17, 2018 Biographies

My Great Grandfather Robert Augustus Busby was born a slave in 1822 in Kanahawa County, West Virginia which at the time was western Virginia. He was the son of Matthew (1799) and Milly (1804-3/7/1873)...

Kanahawa County United States WV

Connie Robinson Williams Spentz

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Nov 28, 2015 Biographies

Connie Spentz was born March 19, 1947 in Coalwood, West Virginia to Eddie although she considered Willie Williams to be her true fatherÂ and Connie Mae Robinson. Connie came to Buffalo with her famil...

Coalwood Healthcare United States WV

Henry C. Leftridge

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Aug 14, 2011 Biographies

Mr. Leftridge was a retired director of patient relations at Erie County Medical Center. He was born in Ronceverte, West Virginia. He served with the US Air Force during World War II and earned a degr...

Ronceverte United States WV

Drusilla Dunjee Houston

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Jul 13, 2011 Biographies

In 1999, the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Inc. was established in Buffalo, New York in honor of Drusilla Dunjee Houston. The Institute is named after Houston's 1917 ...

Harpers Ferry United States WV

Julia Mae Williams Nettles

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Julia Mae Williams was born on January 20, 1934 in Glen Rogers, West Virginia. She was the tenth of eleven siblings born to the Rev. Samuel W. Williams Sr. and Julia Ann Redd Williams. Shortly after g...

Glen Rogers United States WV