Logan County WV Archives - Appalachian History

The Ghosts of Guyan

At one juncture, the moon appeared from behind clouds and fully revealed his consort: a Negro apparition, barely dressed, with a broken neck!

The miners of “The Red neck Army” picked up their Winchesters and gathered at Marmet (near Charleston) that summer morning in 1921.

Sheriff Don Chafin ruled Logan, WV with iron fist till the late 20s. In 1921 he blocked protesting UMW workers trying to cross Blair Mountain.

On June 22, 1932, she was found where she’d been dumped on 22 Mountain, then called Trace Mountain. Mamie Thurman had been savagely murdered.