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By Bill and Mary Wiles: The story of a West Virginia mountain farm, a road and the people who lived there. Primarily, the story centers on the family of William and Hazel Wiles, but also gives a wonderful account of rural life in the mountains of Tucker County, WV. Mary Wiles enjoyed hearing her husband’s stories of growing up on the farm and decided to write them down in an album to take to
family reunions. After about two years of writing and collecting family pictures, they decided to publish a book. Bill and Mary met in 1959 while he was on TDY in Bermuda, and she was there on vacation. Two days after they met, he proposed and two years later they were married when he was discharged from the service. He was a farm boy who only got electricity in his home in 1950. She was a city girl who lived in a row house in Reading, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of two children and now have four grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren. Their ancestors lived about twenty miles apart in the Palatine region of Germany and immigrated to the New World in the 1600s and 1700s. Tucker County was named after a Virginia jurist, Henry St. George Tucker who was born in–Bermuda!

217 pages, softbound.