Stories from Prenter

"Memories you make along the way ... if you don't make the best of those memories every day of your life, when you're older you don't have those memories to dream about or pass on." - Maria Lambert

The family photographs and the two recorded interviews (Maria Lambert and Patty Sebok) that appeared on this page were lost before 2010.

Richard, Minnie's grandfather, made a land purchase located on Clear Creek, North of Coal River, which was further described as the “Rock House Survey”. There were 186 acres involved in that purchase.

 

That land purchase would become known as The Rock House, and a home for many of the Scott clan. Some time later Richard entered into an additional land purchase, forming a partnership with a man by the name of John F. Clay. They jointly negotiated a purchase of 2989 acres being sold on the Fayette County courthouse lawn for default in tax payments.  The nearly 1,500 acres falling to Richard would bring into existence what is known until today as Scott Mountain, located at the headwaters of Little White Oak Creek. The water shed would direct water courses down Little White Oak Creek on the Boone County side to empty into Coal River, and into the Great Kanawha. However, the county line ran along the ridge of Scott Mountain, passing through the Scott properties. This meant that part of the property was situated in Kanawha County, and water shed from this part of the property flowed down Dawes Creek to empty into Cabin Creek, and into the Great Kanawha some 30 miles upstream from the junction of Coal and Kanawha Rivers.

 

The county line ran by the school house “out on the ridge”, and the kids of later years would many times have their pictures taken with one foot in Kanawha County, and the other in Boone County. It would become a favorite pose that would make history. The schoolhouse and community out on the ridge grew a strange mixture of Scott’s, Asbury’s, Carr’s, Cooper’s, Pettrey’s, Massey’s, Foster’s, Browning’s, Presley’s, Pruitt’s, and Greene’s.The area has been stripped now, and Patty says she has not been to the family cemetary since she was 8 years old.

Patty's mother and sister (more information coming)