The Story of Smithfield (Middleway), Jefferson County, West Virginia

V. 1: The story of Smithfield -- A settler and his family arrive in America -- John Smith marries a Quakeress -- Settlers come to the valley -- John Smith becomes a settler justice -- Subsistance -- Beverages -- Land titles -- Deeds of lease and release -- The passing of settlers -- John Smith succeeds John Smith: A straggle village grows -- Highways and by-ways -- Genealogy of counties -- Social history as reflected in acts of Virginia Assembly -- A pestilence strikes -- How a young man spent his time -- The quest of health -- A story of love was told -- The founding of Smithfield -- The churches of Smithfield -- A legend of enchantment -- A case of nostalgia -- Notes on education -- A word about the slate -- Smithfield changes name for Post Office -- Early slave owning -- Henry Smith and his tavern -- The town in 1810 -- A Smithfield epithalamium -- Romance in reverse -- Families and clans develop -- Some population trends in the early decades -- Approaching the middle of the nineteenth century -- Education in the middle decades -- The country folk -- Early medicine and medical practitioners -- 55th Regiment of Virginia Militia--Middleway Blues -- John Fry Smith: The fellowtownsman -- James Macoughtry: artist -- Triluminar Lodge, A.F. and A. Masons -- Trouble ahead -- The war -- The Battle of Smithfield -- Mollie Pultz' adventure in espionage -- The war is over -- Entertainment -- The colored folk -- Fencing in the landscape -- The eighties and stagnation -- Property owners of the eighties -- Families who buried their dead in Smithfield -- William Lyne Wilson: educator and statesman -- In legislative halls -- A village blacksmith -- Other good Democrats -- Politics in the nineties -- A tournament -- Folkways in the nineties -- A way out of the dilemma -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Vanmeter Brothers acquire land in the valley -- Seating of the Hite families -- Governor Gooch's grant to John Smith -- Legislative act incorporating the Town of Smithfield -- Livingston's deed conveying Priest's Field -- Census of 1810.