Photos

The old Reip farm was the home of Goldie Reip Elliott. Built, according to family recollection, by either Goldie's father Frank Reip or grandfather Peter Reip, it was in an area south of Grantsville, WV known as "up on the West Fork." The West Fork (of the Kanawha River, I believe) passes through an area in southern Calhoun County along Rt. 16.

Jabez Elliott, Sr. is buried in the Ayres cemetery in Smithville, WV. According to an article by Edna Elliott Schartiger in a Calhoun Co. historical chronicle, his wife, Elizabeth Wigner, is also buried there but I have not been able to identify her grave.

Maxine, Nina, and Pauline Elliott are picture in this photo from what is probably the mid-1940s. It is not clear where the picture was taken, but from the general location of the road and the hill in back could easily be up on Sycamore.

The woman standing between Maxine and Nina is, I believe, Aunt Lura -- wife of their Uncle Oley Elliott. If this is her, the picture may be taken at her and Uncle Oley's house on Sycamore.

In this photo are, front left to right:  Nina Elliott (Bernard's daughter), Millie Elliott (Bernard's sister), Pauline Elliott (Bernard's daughter), and Maxine Elliott (Bernard's sister).

Back left to right are Bernard's brother Oley and his wife Lura Parsons Elliott, Bernard's second wife Minnie, and Bernard Elliott.

The time of this photo is likely to be the late 1940s since Maxine looks to be about college age. The location is surely Sycamore, and probably in front of Millie's house or perhaps Oley's house.

Edith Jane Reip was one of the 4 daughters of Frank Reip and Victoria Mace.  She was a younger sister -- by 4 years -- to Goldie Reip Elliott.

Edith was born in Calhoun County in 1909. She lived in Calhoun and in Parkersburg, and died in 1973.  The photo to the right is probably taken around 1970.

John Francis Elliott was the oldest child and only son of Bernard and Goldie Elliott.  He was born in Grantsville in 1927.

He lived in Yonkers on Long Island most of his adult life.  He was married to Bernice Grossman in 1956.  The photo below is of him and Bernice in 1975.

He died in 2002.

Nina Rose Elliott was the youngest child of Bernard and Goldie Elliott.  She was born in 1932(?) in Grantsville.

She married Charles Nicholas and live in Harrisville, WV most of her life. She died in 2007.

Maxine Elliott Mottice was the second child and oldest daughter of Bernard and Goldie Elliott.  She was born in Grantsville, WV in 1928 and lived there with her family on the south side on the hill overlooking the Little Kanawha River.

She and her family spent many happy times visiting Elliott relatives up at Sycamore and Reip relatives up on the West Fork. When her mother died -- when Maxine was 10 years old -- these trips became a welcome respite to an increasingly difficult life.

There are no markings on this photo, but appears to be from the late 1940s to early 1950s.  It is likely a group of Elliotts or cousins of Elliotts, and potentially taken at the Elliott homestead in Sycamore.

Does anyone recognize them?
 

This is a 1940s vintage photo of a birthday party at the old Elliott place up on Sycamore.

Eula Elliott says the birthday was for one of the cousins whose family would regularly visit Sycamore during the summer.

There are 7 more photos of this event.  Follow this link to see the rest.

This photo is from the collection of Maxine Elliott Mottice, and portrays -- in all likelihood -- Jabez Elliott, Jr., his wife Sarah Ann Johnson, and their seven children; John Anderson, Charles Musgrave, Columbus, Linsey Johnson, Jasper Lafayett, Frances Harriet, and Izetta Matilda.

The only identification mark on the photo is that it was taken by the Gibson Studio in Morgantown.

John Anderson Elliott was the oldest son of Jabez Elliott, Jr. and Sarah Ann Johnson and the father of Bernard Elliott.  He was born Nov. 24, 1852 and died July 21, 1937.

He married Arminda Hathaway in 1877 and they had 9 children:

Alva, married Clara Haught;
Roxy, married Leeson Proudfoot;
Watson, unmarried;
Bernard, married Goldie Reip;
Oley, married Lura Parsons;
Florence, married Mallie Sturm;
Millie, married Mr. Price;
Verna, married McClellan (Clella) Haught.

John is buried at Mt. Zion Cemetery south of Grantsville, WV in Calhoun Co.  Pictured below is his grave.

Goldie (or Golda, as it sometimes appears) Reip was the wife of Bernard Elliott.  She died in childbirth on Dec. 16, 1938 at the age of 33 with her unborn son, Lewis.  She and Bernard had four previous children:  John Francis, Maxine, Pauline, and Nina Rose.

She was the daughter of Frank Reip and Victoria Mace.  She was born in Calhoun County near the village of Orma on the West Fork.  She grew up there at the Reip family home built by Frank Reip, just down over the hill from the Reip family cemetery.

This photo of Watson, Millie, and Bernard Elliott was probably taken in the mid-1960s.  The location is Aunt Millie's house, which was the Elliott family home up on Sycamore Creek.

The photo is taken toward the front of the house, and the room is a sitting room entered from the front door which is barely seen to the right of Bernard.  To the right of the photographer was a natural gas fireplace that stayed on all year long -- even in the hottest days of the summer, as I recall -- since it was attached to a gas line drawn from a well on the property.

Sara Johnson Elliott was the wife of Jabez Elliott, Jr. She was the mother of seven children, including John A. Elliott father of Bernard Elliott.

Her grave, pictured here, is at the Mt. Zion Cemetery south of Grantsville. She is buried beside her husband, Jabez Elliott, Jr.

Obituary as recorded on Calhoun County GenWeb site (http://www.lindapages.com/calhoun/obits-oldfile.txt):

ELLIOTT, SARAH A.
7/18/1893

abez Elliott, Jr. was the grandfather of Bernard Elliott.  His grandfather was Henry Elliott, the earliest known ancestor of this Elliott clan.

Jabez Jr. was born Sept. 29, 1826 in Lewis Co., VA or Ritchie Co., WV, and died in 1917 in Calhoun Co., WV.  He was married to Sarah Ann Johnson of Wood Co. on July 17, 1851.  They had seven children:

John Anderson 1852-1937 (father of Bernard), who married Arminda Hathaway in 1877;
Charles Musgrave 1855-1914;
Linza Johnson 1858-1899;
Frances Harriett 1859-1937, who married Mr. Barr;
Izetta Matilda 1863-?, who married Mr. Sickel;

*Update*

Here is another photo from among Maxine Elliott Mottice's loose photos.  It is an older photo -- it appears to be from the early 1900s. 

One of the photos in the loose group was of Jabez Elliott Jr., Bernard's grandfather.  Might this photo be of one of his sons or other descendants?

This family photo was found in Maxine Elliott Mottice's loose photographs with no identification.  It is possible that this is the family of one of her maternal aunt's.  Goldi Reip had 3 sisters.  Might this be the family of one of them?

On the other hand, the older gentleman in the middle looks an awful lot like one of the Fayette County cousins of the Elliotts who used to visit during the summer.

This photo was found among Maxine Elliott Mottice's older family photos, and probably dates before the 1930s.  The photo shown is a copy that was enlarged to 8'x10', which suggests that it was a valued photo.

If I had to hazard a guess as to who it is, I would say Maxine's grandmother -- Bernard Elliott's mother -- Arminda Hathaway.  My reason for this guess is that there is a similar enlargement of her husband, John A. Elliott, although it appears to be from a different period in time.

The caption on this photo from the Goldie Reip Photo Album reads, "Ira Reip Family."  But which Ira Reip family?
 
There was an Ira Grant Reip who was brother to Peter Reip and uncle to Frank Reip.  This would make him great-uncle to Goldie. If this is a photo of his family, then it is a group of Goldie Reip's second cousins (Frank Reip's first cousins).
 

View the Goldie Reip Photo Album here

This is the album in the possession of Nina (Elliott) Nicholas. It contains photos spanning an undetermined period of time, although presumably during Goldie's lifetime which was from 1905 to 1938. Some of the photos appear older, however.