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Membership
Individual membership - $12.00
Family membership - $20.00
Businesses - $100.00
Life membership - $200.00
Membership Benefits:
Access to the Meigs County Museum; Quarterly newsletter - "Meigs Historian": Voting privileges in selecting trustees; Membership year January 1-December 31.
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All Research Requests must be written for by mail. General questions pertaining to what is available can be answered by phone or email, but not actual research requests. Following are fees and type of records available.
The fee for general research is $5.00 for a half-hour search per individual name, plus cost of copies (.50 cents a page, minimum of $1.00).
This research can include:
Census
Original Estates & Wills - 1819-1935 Probate Records - file can be large or nothing and is generally not copied until requestor is notified what is available. These may contain estates, wills, inventories, guardianships, etc.
Marriage - 1819-1913 - (Wes Cochrans transcribed book is used for general research)
Transcribed death records from 1909-1926.
Various County and Family Histories
Cemetery Tombstone Records
And numerous other resources. We have a very extensive library of Meigs County genealogical and historical resources, as well as compiled information for surrounding counties.
Research of the Official Records for Marriage 1819-1930, Birth and Death - 1867-1908 (from original probate records) are charged at a $3.00 non-refundable search fee per record. If a record is found a copy is either typed or photo-copied (marriages are not photo-copied) and mailed. Add $1.00 for notarized copy.
Checks are made to the Meigs County Historical Society, P.O. Box 145, Pomeroy, OH 45769 or we can bill for completed research.
Following are a couple of articles from a recent quarterly newsletter.
River Ripples, The Leader, February 15, 1900
The Stanley struck a pier of the Southern Railway at Cincinnati Monday morning and sunk in 25 feet of water. Ed. Anderson, the steward, is the only person known to have drowned. The Stanley was built by the Bay Bros. about 10 years ago.
C. L. Bell, the veteran skiff builder of Racine, shipped five new skiffs to down river points on Saturday last.
I. N. Flesher and H. E. Spilman have purchased the R. J. Graves, a 3-boiler boat with steel hull They got four coal barges with the boat.
The H. E. Spilman will be raised as soon as the water is low enough, and will be rebuilt sometime in the coming summer.
Our people had a high water fright Monday, but all is serene now.
The Pittsburg towboat, Iron Sides, burst one of her flues, 12 miles below Gallipolis, last Friday afternoon. Her bulkshead was badly wrecked but the boat did not sink. She floated one mile below Bashore’s landing where the accident occurred and was landed. One of the firemen was blown into the river and badly scalded. He was rescued. The Iron Sides is an old boat and belongs to the Pittsburg coal combine and was on her way to Pittsburg from Cairo with a tow of empties. -(Pt. Pleasant Gazette).
The Joseph B. Williams, which recently took the biggest tow of coal down the river ever shipped by a boat, sunk 10 of the barges at Pt. Pleasant, MO., grounded 13, and then had only 13 afloat.
July 1924
The first air mail letter came into Pomeroy at noon on July 9th after a flight of sixty hours from San Francisco, California. The letter was postmarked in San Francisco at 6 a.m. on July 7th and reached here on the noon Hocking Valley train on the 9th. The rate of postage on this class of mail is 8 cents for each ounce for each zone. The letter in question touched three zones and therefore cost 24 cents.
