Matewan WV

Stub for now.

Follow-Up: Flesh out details, show link to book "Massacre at Matewan" and "Before the Massacre" that we owned this land, link to the movie and episode of The American Experience.

Matewan was formed by selling off the family farm of F.A.J. "Anderson" Ferrell. This land was the focus of the suit and West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals case "Ferrell v. Ferrell, 53 W. Va. 515 (1903)", when son Floyd sued his father Anderson for more of his estate after Anderson remarried Mary Chambers and updated his will to provide for her and her children.

Check out the book Matewan Before the Massacre

Page 61-62, Matewan Before the Massacre, by Rebecca J. Bailey, 2008 (&#1F4D9;Buy at Amazon) 🦁