[1] The first white settler on the Tygart Valley River in the region now known as southern Taylor County was a man from Pennsylvania named David McDaniel (ca.

In 1884, a post office was established at the stone house, but by that time a man named Howard H. Arnold (1847-1915) owned it and lived there.

In 1885, another post office was established at the neighboring community of Cecil, about a mile and a half upstream (and up the line) on Frog Run.

Living descendants were notified and named as defendants in a case in the Northern District Court out of Elkins presided over by Judge William E. Baker.

[5] The 50 bodies were relocated to Mary’s Chapel Cemetery just across the boundary in Barbour County, with the unidentified ones going into a common vault.