Sugar Grove

Sugar Grove By Paula Mitchell Early immigrants to America often spoke of the filthy people they encountered along their journey.  There was evidence that many didn’t bother to bathe weekly or monthly.  Some believed that the oily coating on their skin helped to ward off all manner of ills that...

Members of the Franklin High School basketball squad in 1943-1944 were, from left, seated, Bobby Jack Sites, Stanley Elyard, Dewey Mullenax, Robbie Eye and Keith Allen; and standing, Dona Propst (coach), John Sites, Elwood McCoy, Junior Murphy, Alton Crigler, Lacy Moyers and Irvin S. Propst (manager). Sugar Grove By Paula...

Silas and Vada Smith Wilfong and Phil and Jane Downs Sugar Grove By Paula Mitchell These late spring mornings are a balm for the soul.  Before daylight, the song birds are turning up the volume into a full-fledged orchestra. The sun struggles to break through the early morning mist that...

Sugar Grove By Paula Mitchell Nursery rhymes and lullabies have traditionally been used as a way to teach children about history.  Many a time, they were an accepted way to calm restless children.  Do the children of today learn any of the traditional rhymes that were once well known in...

David Wilfong lived at Brushy Fork and was the son of the late Silas Peter Wilfong and Vada Ellen Smith Wilfong.  He was born Sept. 18, 1947, and married Sherry Gail Hammer.  They had a son, Allen Gail Wilfong.  David's ancestors were Michael and Sophia Wilfong, the pioneers who homesteaded...

Eugene Varner’s mushroom was 5-3/4” tall with a stem measuring 8 inches in circumference. This allowed for two to three messes of eating mushrooms. Sugar Grove By Paula Mitchell The date of Decoration Day, as general John A. Logan, the commander-in-chief of the Union veterans called it, was chosen because...

Sugar Grove By Paula Mitchell A former resident of Sugar Grove returned Saturday afternoon to be with many friends and relatives who had assembled at the VFW Pavilion to help him celebrate his 90 years of age.  “Junior” Grogg had a grand time at his birthday party, despite the weather...

The photo is of the Franklin Elementary School’s 1970-1971 second-grade class. Mattie Adamson taught until January, with Paula Schulz Mitchell finishing out the year. Students were, from left, first row, Mark Hevener, Jay Mallow, Larry ‘Chip’ Harper, Mark Glover, David Waggy and Carl Hevener; second row, Gary Rexrode, Greg Moyers,...

Members of the Sugar Grove Maple Leaves 4-H Club picked up five bags of trash, including some larger items, from Sugar Grove Road to the Sugar Grove Rescue Squad Building to Stoney Run Road. Participating in the trash collection were, from left, Emma Puffenbarger, Ava Bowers, Ben Puffenbarger and Nathaniel...

Ella Virginia Michael (Dec. 9, 1871 – Sep. 6, 1965) and Franklin Mitchell (July 20, 1865 – February 1905) had Eva E. (May 5, 1893 – Nov. 30, 1918, marrying Boyd Hoover), Beulah F. (Feb. 17, 1896 - July 2, 1990, marrying Frank Rader), Flora Jane (April 16, 1898 – Feb....