Old Family Photos

My Father James Ronald Amburgey

He was named for the writer James Still a family friend who wrote books about Appalachia .The Amburgey family was his inspiration and he remained

close his whole life even living in the family cabin where he wrote .

My Grandparents Covie Laskie Amburgey and Gertrude Katheryn Hudgins
pictured here at the first family oil well .We still receive royalty from this well not much but it still provides for our entire family some revenue.

My Greatgrandmother on my fathers side Ethel Hudgins with my Grandmother .I called my Greatgrandmother Mamaw Hudgins.

My fathers senior picture he graduated from Charlestown High school 1957.

My dad at about ten years old.

Grandpa Covie and Grandma Kat on a picnic when they were in their twenties.

James Still

Click Below : Information about James Still
http://faculty.colostate-pueblo.edu/sandy.hudock/jshome.html

Original Amburgey cabin over 100 years old James Still was allowed to live there until he died and he wrote several books there.