| Photographs from the past... |
| The Ballengee and Burdette Families |
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| The family of Mary Catherine Burdette Ballengee. Mary Catherine is the woman seated in the center of the photo with long curly hair and a dark dress. The other people are assumed to be her brothers and sisters, but are unidentified. Mary Catherine was the daughter of Lewis Austin Burdette and Christina Fink Burdette. She was born in Summers County, WV, in 1881 and died March 1912. |
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| Photo taken at Homecoming at Chestnut Grove Baptist Church near Ramp, WV, in Summers County in the 1960s. Left to right: unidentified man, Irma Amick Ballengee, Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Burdette (son of Mary Catherine Burdette), Gladys Spade Burdette (wife of Frank Burdette), Tom Shepherd. Back row: Mr. Lively (first name unknown), Callie Shepherd (daughter of Tom Shepherd), Austin David Ballengee (son of Lonnie David and Mary Catherine Burdette Ballengee), a Mr. Lively (first name unknown). |
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| Lonnie David (also known as Davis Lonnie) Ballengee, son of Herndon and Melvina Duboys Ballengee. Born in Summers County in 1881 and died in Fayette County in 1937. He was married to 1) Bertha Cales, 2) Mary Catherine Burdette, and 3) Cordie Treadway. He was the father of Austin David Ballengee. |