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Pomp-a vanished town |
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Pomp was for many years a distinct community, but like many others has lost that distinction.
Pomp was named for Walter C. Kendall who was called Pomp Kendall, when the first post office was established about 1890. |
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This is a picture of the old Lick Branch School, ultimately turned into a dwelling house. It was the first school house built at Pomp. |
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Pomp was for many years a distinct community, but like many others has faded away. Settled about 1830 by Thomas D. Perry, it ran from the mouth of Mordeci to the mouth of Lick Branch.(this is several mile). There he homesteaded with his wife, seven sons and seven daughters, and several slaves.
These slaves cleared the land along lower Elkfork. This land is now divided up among the descendant of Mr. Perry and others.
The first school house was built around 1900. Another was built a few years later.The first was called Lower Lick Fork School and the second was Upper Lick Fork School. Today they are an abandoned dwelling house and Upper Lick Fork is used as a church. The only church located in Pomp, was the Missionary Baptist Church at the Lower Lick Fork School. Later this church was moved to West Liberty. |
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Mordeci is a small tributary of Elk Fork, named after Queen Esther in the Bible. This area was originally settled by Caskeys and Fairchilds.
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Indian Creek is a small tributary of Elkfork below Lick Branch. It got it's name because of Indian graves and other signs of Indians. |
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Thomas Didymus Perry married Martha Wells they were parents of: Cyrus, Newt, Jihn, Ned, WIll, Dudley, Rachel, Sally, Pierce, Frances, Jane, Mag, Mary and Elizaneth. This family spread far and wide in Morgan County. |
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