James A. PACK

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CENSUS RECORDS

1870 United States Federal Census
Taken on 29 Aug 1870; Page 297B; Family #585
Name: James Pack
Age in 1870: 9
Birth Year: abt 1861
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1870: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Knob
Household Members:
Fleming Pack 35
Rebecca T Pack 30
Levi Pack 7
James Pack 9
William Pack 5
Eliza Pack 4
John Pack 1

1900 Census, McDowell Co, WV, Big Creek District, page 74B, Family #35. Listed as James Pack, age 30, born in Sep 1870 in VA, in household of father, Flemming Pack.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Tazewell Republican; 13 January 1910

Pounding Mill Items

James Pack, who has been attending Roanoke College, Salem, Va., is now touring the West.

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Clinch Valley News 10 June 1910

Pounding Mill

W.B. STEELE has bought James A. PACK'S farm near here, price paid, thirty three hundred dollars.

Mr. James A. PACK returned the first of the week from visiting at Bristol and his old schoolmates at VPI, Blackburg and Emory and Henry College. He expects to leave on tomorrow for the West. His many friends here wish him
much success.

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Tazewell Republican; 16 June 1910

POUNDING MILL NEWS

James Pack was a visitor to Tazewell today, returning in the afternoon.

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July 8, 1910 Clinch Valley News

Pounding Mill

James PACK left yesterday for Oklahoma, and will attend a business school in Kentucky on his way and brighten up in bookkeeping, and accept a position in Oklahoma in that capacity.

STORIES

Note: Georgia Maude Quesenberry Maxfield, an 80 year old Tazewell resident (deceased), has written these recollections of early Tazewell County life as told to her by her great-grandmother and her grandmother. Her Recollections appeared in the Tazewell Newspaper sometime in the early 1980's. Georgia was the daughter of George & Mary Frances Burress Quesenberry.

A Cape Becomes A Coffin

Now, along about this time everywhere you would look there were posters and advertisements, every one just alike, "Go west, young man, go west." After Jim having talked it over with some of the older men in Pounding Mill, he decied this was the thing for him to do.

Second Cousin Jim Pack left on the No. 5 train headed west on April 30, 1905, taking his ring with him and leaving Grandma and the rest of the families weeping. They all felt sure they were never see him again. They prayed for many years - Grandma prayed on 'til the very day she died, but they never heard from young Jim again, at least not that we know of. The woman writing this was his second cousin born the next day after Jim left. Her real name is Maudie Georgia Quesenberry, but it was changed later to Georgia Maude Quesenberry. She married a Scotch-Irishman named Robert Nathan Maxfield. At this writing she is still living.