About everyday life in rural West Virginia.He said he was born in 1917 between Drunkard's Roost and Squat N Dodge, Greenbrier county, West Virginia.If you can't find anything on it, maybe it's just part of the rural folklore?West Virginia had a lot a stills in the hills, could be it's just a nickname.

Bowes Family of West Virginia By Sheila Larabell at 08:14:13 Researching Maternal grandmother, Belva Annie Bowes born in 1920 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Her parents were James Bowes and Alva Hughes. She married Carl Pyne in 1936 in Gap Mills, Monroe County, West Virginia. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Unable to find the parents of James Bowes.

Creek), VA (now Greenbrier County, WV) d. 29 October 1892, Rosedale, Russell County, VA bur. Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, VA 1st married: Sarah Kincaid d 1854 Red Sulphur Springs, VA (now WV) or Alderson, VA (now WV); Died at a young age and at least one child, Elizabeth Scott Humphreys, was raised with families in Pocahontas County

Sept. 17, 1883 Burwell Morgan, son of Noah Morgan and Leanner Fry Morgan married, in Greenbrier County, WV, M. E. Hicks, his second wife, she was born in Henrico County, Va. (Source “Descendants of Enoch Morgan,” a 70+ page report filed with the Greenbrier [County, WVa] Historical Society).