Asturian-American Migration Forum

Bob, my condolences.

Ken

Amy, I am always trying to figure out folks from the area when names are mentioned and looking for ties to my days there. So, you mentioned your grandmother, Faye Palmer, working in the office at the smelter. I guess that was under TL Diamond and not M&H Zinc. My great-grandmother was a Palmer f...

Amy Miller, I enjoyed reading your script. I believe you captured the emotions that one feels for Spelter, Clarksburg and West Virginia after they have left the state for over 40 years (me!). My father, his father and two brothers worked in the Spelter zinc works. My father was fortunate in that he ...

I just received and watched the video for the first time. I was spell-bound by it. Far too memories of a very happy childhood in Spelter. It was a wonderful vibrant community, very close knit--Spanish, Italian, Anglo. How much I miss the many men who stopped by my grandfather's store (Joe "Mike...

geaniegirl, send me your e-mail address and I will forward a picture of your grandfather and one of his neighbors, Mutt Phillips, taken at the old zinc plant. Also, I have lots of genealogy information on the Hickman's going back to the early 1700 in Maryland if you are interest. Your dad, Fred, is ...

to geaniegirl: your grandfather, Fred Hickman, was my great uncle. I remember Fred and Dora very well, as well as Freddy and Richard. My maternal grandparents were Joe "Mike" Alvarez and Viola Hickman Alvarez. Viola was Fred's sister. My great grandmother, Susanna Mae (Palmer) Hickman (Fre...

I have a second cousin who just returned from Aviles/Piedras Blancas. He visted with some cousins and took pictures of my grandfather's/his father's house there for me. I have an address for a distant cousin in Castrillon. I am not familiar with the area so I do not know where Castrillon is in relat...

Rich Rodriquez has Astrurian roots, as does Barry Alvarez, athletic director for Univ. of Wisconsin. Rodriquez is from Grant Town, WV, near Fairmont, WV (approx. 20 miles north of Spelter). Alvarez is from Langeloth, PA, south/southwest of Pittsburgh. When WVU played Wisconsin in Morgantown, WV, a f...

Patty, I received your e-mail and will provide you with pictures of Andres Gonzalez and his wife Josefa Vega, my great-grandparents, your great-great grandparents. Andres came to the USA, but returned to Spain to be with his wife Josefa and their daughter, Audlia, who was blind. The other Gonzalez c...

Victor "Vic" Gonzalez, first mayor of Anmoore, died on June 17, 2006., in Clarksburg, WV. He was born on Feb. 8, 1925, in Anmoore. In 1954, Vic was the youngest elected municipal official in West Virginia, having been elected mayor in 1950.

Well, I didn't want to respond to this; however, I decided to weigh in on the comments under this posting. I am on the Right, not far right, but a moderate Republican. I gave up the Democratic party with LBJ (a result of the Vietnam War and how he fought it, as a Vietnam era vet) and it became final...

Mary Fernandez Folio, 91, of Clarkburg, died December 1, 2005, in a Clarksburg hospital. She was born on December 15, 1913, in Aviles, Spain, a daughter of the late Jose and Maria Blanco Fernandez. She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Folio, in 1966. In addition to her husband and parents...

Rosalie Maria Fernandez Hermosilla (no age listed) died Mary 31, 2005, in Fairmont, WV. She was born in Riosa, Spain (no birth date listed), the daughter of the late Jose and Maria Sariego Fernandez. She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Hermosilla, Sr.; one son, Frank, Jr; two sisters, Lo...

I agree with Corsino. Take Kansas where I live outside of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas is a Republican state. Kansas City itself is heavily Democratic (lots of blacks and Mexicans reside within KC and are registered as Democrats). However, even Missouri is now changing with Republican senators ...

Barbara, when I read your post on your grandmother's soup with cabbage or kale, beans, potato's, etc., I could smell in my mind the same dish my grandmother Menendez would make in Spelter. It was wonderful with great flavors. I still have one of her cookbooks (in Spanish). Need to see if the receipe...