66 Years Ago In The Beckley Post-Herald

66 Years Ago In the Beckley Post-Herald

Today in McGraw History: August 31, 1959. . .

Today in McGraw History. . .

This is the last in the series of articles we found about the death of H.G.

We have another series of articles about an event coming up in October into November.

This time we'll be looking at an engagement and wedding!

Any guesses who we'll be featuring?

Today in McGraw History: August 12 1956

Today in McGraw History. . .

At the reunion, I told a few people how it was H.G. "Dad" McGraw's habit to stop in at the newspapers to visit when business would find him in Beckley. On many occasions, the editors thought the visits were interesting enough to share with their readers. We will have a few more of these columns to share in the months to come.

If you were at the reunion, you may remember Herk McGraw talking about H.G.'s tobacco and how everybody wanted it. The second to last paragraph has H.G. talking about that very thing!

It's interesting that John named his son after Horace Greeley, as well as a dog, a horse and an ox!

We still haven't been able to verify the story about why or when John changed the family name, and this is the story that has been passed down, but since his son relayed it as such it could be true. We continue to research this and a great many other things and as we learn new information we will continue to share it with you here and on our web-site!

Today In McGraw History. . .

Today In McGraw History. . .

From the Beckley Post Herald

June 30, 1972

When Galena retired, it was the first time since John McGraw established the first post office in current-day McGraws that a McGraw was not running the post office.

Robin McGraw, wife of Brian McGraw, the great-great-Grandson of John currently runs the office. (John>HG>Jack>Mike>Brian)

Pine Grove Celebrates it's Birthday

From the Beckley Post-Herald Raleigh Register - September 4, 1977

2013 is the church's 144th year.