Article from Weston Democrat 1892

“Oliver Letters”  

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It will be remembered that at the time of which I write (1844) Lewis County was bounded on the North by Harrison County, on the South by Braxton county on the East by Randolph county and on the West by Jackson County, embracing a territory as large as the State of Rhode Island.  The citizens of this vast territory were compelled to attend Circuit Court at Weston.  The men from the extreme western part of the county would start two days before the commencement of Court, dressed in regular backwoods style, hunting shirt, and their feet enclosed in moccasins, with their rifle on their shoulder and their shot pouch strapped around them and hunt their way through, oftern bringing venison enough with them to pay their board during attendance of Court. They took their small game to Major Bailey’s hotel.  He had a large room over his bar room with four or five beds in which he kept for the citizens from Little Kanawha County.