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This was Coy and Velve (Quesinberry) Martinβs house. It is long gone, sold to the park service and torn down. The yard is overgrown and unrecognizable other than the large spruce tree that has been there for over 100 years. Coy was a farmer but had to go to the WV coalfields during the depression to survive. He and his young wife adopted a baby while in WV because the child would not survive if left with his parents. Coy was a coal shooter, he would set and detonate the explosive charges in the mines. He paid for it with brown lung but still managed to live a nice long life. The family returned to the county and started farming and raised an additional four children of their own. There are no buildings remaining from this photo, their entire physical existence erased from the surface of the earth other than a headstone in Martin Cemetery.