BOOKS BY WILLIAM SANDERS
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WHSBC Books
320 Courthouse Road
Princeton, WV 24740
On
the Skirmish Line
Autobiography, from 1917 to present. Early childhood in Princeton,
college years, Marine Corps World War II service fighting the Japanese
in the South Pacific, General Staff service of the Occupation Government
in Berlin, early Law practice in West Virginia, family life, Civil Rights
and environmental concerns, as well as accounts of interesting cases and
reflections upon the practice of Law based upon a life in court litigation
of both criminal and civil cases throughout southern West Virginia and
Virginia. A story of Kind Providence prevailing throughout.
1997, 300 pages, with maps, photos and illustrations.
McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $18.00 ($16.98 plus $1.02 tax)
ECHOES OF THE LAST WORLD WAR
Story of survival and tough island warfare against the Japanese forces in World War II, and the realization that another - and final - world war must be avoided through worldwide racial integration and world international preemptive police action and government. The post-War life, first in Military Government service in Germany, followed by nearly 50 years Law and public service at home, concludes the life story.
Cost: $10.60 ($10.00 plus .60 tax)
Legacy of Homes and Families/Princeton-Athens Area/West Virginia
A history of the towns through its prominent early families and the homes
they built.
1985, 132 pages, indexed, with maps, photos and illustrations.
Walsworth Publishing, Marceline, MO
OUT OF PRINT/NOT AVAILABLE
Lilly on the Bluestone (Third Edition, Enlarged)
The story of the first two generations of the Lilly-Meador(ows) family
settlement on the Bluestone - Pack, Farley and Neely connections in Flat
Top/Bluestone hill country.
1989, 100 pages, indexed, with illustrations, photos and cemetery map. (Revised
1997.)
McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $10.60 ($10 plus .60 tax)
A New River Heritage, Volume I
Exploration and first settlements along the River from George Pearis' settlement
at Pearisburg to Island Creek, accounts of Indians, families, slaves,
marriages and cemeteries.
1992, 298 pages, with index of family cemeteries, maps, photos and illustrations.
McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $31.80 ($30 plus $1.80 tax) - SOLD OUT
A New River Heritage, Volume II
The story of River settlement continued from Island Creek and Lick Creek
and Crumps Bottom through the Pipestem area, Old Farley community and
related families and cemeteries.
1992, 400 pages, with index of family cemeteries, maps, photos and illustrations.
McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $21.20 ($20 plus $1.20 tax)
A New River Heritage, Volume III
Details settlement along the River at Hinton, Madam's Creek and Jumping
Branch, including Pack's Ferry and the creation of Summers County. Lists
all cemeteries of the first 200 families which were moved when the Bluestone
Dam was constructed. Also contains name index for the first three A New
River Heritage volumes.
1994, 332 pages, with index of cemeteries, maps, photos and illustrations.
McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $21.20 ($20 plus $1.20 tax)
A New River Heritage, Volume IV
Flat Top, Camp Creek and Bluestone settlements off the New River, including
selected stories of the late Barty Wyatt, and an account of the early
life of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, as well as Bailey-Davidson Bluestone
headwater settlement.
1994, 429 pages, with name index, maps, photos and illustrations.
McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $21.20 ($20.00 plus $1.20 tax)
Early Princeton and the Episcopal Church
Early Princeton and the political battles with Athens and Bluefield over
the seat of Mercer County Courthouse, and the origin of first churches.
1993, 87 pages, indexed, with maps, photos and reproduced original records.
McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $10.60 ($10 plus .60 tax)
A Fairfax County Hard Times Heritage 1872
Story of the author's line of descent from 1706 in Fairfax County, Virginia
with emphasis on the year 1872 farming the Potomac River bottom and the
organization of several Methodist churches in Fairfax County, Virginia.
1998, 100 pages (private, limited edition)
Sandrine Publishing Company, Princeton, WV
Pioneer Church in Mercer County, West Virginia 1840-1915
Story of the Baptist Church from England to Philadelphia, eastern Virginia
and over the mountains to West Virginia, including splitting of churches
and their associations and gradual evolution of paying preachers and
missions in all forms. Pastors, leaders and their hardships described,
together with the background story of the first founding member families
in the Bluestone-flat Top Mountain area congregating at Princeton, West
Virginia.
1998, 133 pages with photos and early membership lists.
McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $10.60 ($10.00 plus .60 tax)
CLAY FAMILY SETTLEMENT ON THE BLUESTONE RIVER
Story of the first White settlement of the Bluestone River Valley in southern
West Virginia, showing the migration of the eastern Virginia families
of Clay, Farley, Shrewsbury, Belcher and Bailey to claim this area from
both the British and the Shawnee Indians. Descendants of these
intermarried families constitute a majority of the citizenry of southern
West Virginia today. The Clay-Pearis and related family original
settlement site and hillside cemetery where three of the children were
massacred in 1783 is being preserved as a historic memorial park overlooking
the Bluestone Clover Bottom settlement tract. The book researches
the persistent burial of Clay-Pearis descendants at this site where the
murdered Clay children were buried.
1999, 175 pages, with name index, maps, photos and illustrations.
McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Cost: $12.72 ($12.00 plus .72 tax)
A NEW RIVER HERITAGE, VOL. V – Bluestone-New River Indian Frontier
Story of first Bluestone-New River families’ encounters with the Shawnee
Indians and their perseverance on the western front of American independence
and their interrelationship and genealogy. The birth pangs of Mercer
and surrounding counties detailed.
2004, 290 pages, with name index, maps, photos and illustrations.
Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, MO
Cost: $21.20 ($20.00 plus $1.20 tax)
OLD TOWN PRINCETON, MERCER COUNTY, W. Va.
Portrays
Princeton and Mercer County from Indian days to the present.
2006, 312 pages, with name index, maps,
photos and illustrations.
Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline,
MO
Cost: $21.20 ($20.00 plus $1.20 tax)
Please visit our friends at the Mercer
County Historical Society