The Beaver Valley Hall of Fame is a program administered by the Beaver Valley Historical Society.  The purpose of the
program is to honor residents of the community, living or deceased, who have made significant contributions to their
community, state, or country.  These contributions shall bring credit and honor to the Beaver Valley community.  Their
lives will hopefully  serve to inspire future generations of residents to perform and serve in similar fashion.
NOTE: Nominations for the Beaver Valley Hall of Fame Are Due
by March 1, 2010.
Carl Williams - Class of 2007
Donald Roger Overly - Class of 2007
Charles Merton Emory - Class of 2007
Martin Dale Vulgamore - Class of 2007
Wray Bevens - Class of 2008
Danny Lee Schrader - Class of 2008
Louis Eugene Brushart - Class of 2008
Richard Dean Rapp - Class of 2008
Thomas Jefferson Sizemore - Class of 2009
James Wiliam Kuntzman - Class of 2009
Jerry Lee Bobst - Class of 2009
John William Chandler- Class of 2009
Eli Halterman - Class of 2009
Margaret Butcher - Class of 2009
Reva Sagraves Bailey - Class of 2009
Raymond Fout Jr. - Class of 2009
Kenneth Thompson - Class of 2009
Frank Walton Pyle - Class of 2009
James Erskin Crabtree - Class of 2009


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Donald Roger Overly was born in Groveport, Ohio on August 14, 1936.  He was the third of five sons born to Delbert O. and
Murial Clouse Overly.  Roger grew up in the village of Beaver and graduated from Beaver High School in 1954.  Shortly after
graduation he enlisted in the U. S. Army in which he served from 1956 to 1958.  Upon returning from military service, Roger
found employment at the Atomic Energy Plant near Piketon.  He would work at this facility for the next 44 years, many as a
foeman.  During his service at the Atomic Plant he was a member of the Top Ten Foreman’s Club and received the Goodyear
Spirit Award.  Roger has dedicated his life to the betterment of the community in which he has called home.  As a young man
he joined the Beaver Volunteer Fire Department.  He recently completed his fiftieth year of service to the department, eight of
which were as fire chief.  His fire service has also included 23 years as a member of the Beaver Firefighter’s Association, a
trustee of the Pike County Firefighter’s Association, a member of the Pike County Firefighter’s Honor Guard, and a member of
the Pike County Hazardous Materials Team.  In 1974 he became one of the original members of the Pike County Emergency
Medical Service.  His service as a volunteer EMT lasted over twenty years and he responded to hundreds of emergency calls to
help his neighbors.  He has been a member of the Pike Heritage Foundation and served as its President for three years.  He was
a twenty year member of the Pike County Gideons.  He is a lifelong member of Beaver Emmanuel United Methodist Church
where he has served various capacities including President of the Administrative Board.  He was a long time member of the
Boy Scouts of America where he served various leadership positions including Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, camp staff, and
commissioner.  He was awarded the Silver Beaver Award for his service to the local scouting program.   He has served as a
trustee of Franklin Valley Golf Club.  He assists other various organizations to help they fulfill their missions.  These include
the Beaver Oktoberfest, the Eastern Youth Soccer League, and the Beaver Valley Historical Society.  Roger married Ernestine
Compton on June 13, 1959.  They have three children.
Carl Williams was born November 21, 1915 in Magoffin County, Kentucky.  He was the oldest of three sons and two daughters
born to Walter S. and Bertha Hensley Williams.  His parents moved to Ohio from Kentucky in 1925.  Throughout his youth
he moved with his family to several communities.  They lived in Sciotoville, Sciotodale, and along Swift Creek north of
Beaver.  He was married to Thelma Reed in 1936 and made their home and began raising a family.  The couple moved to
Stockdale where they raised two sons, Danny and Fred, while a third son, Carlos, died at birth.  During World War Two Carl
moved his family to Baltimore, Maryland where he worked as a welder in the ship building business until the end of the war.  
At the conclusion of he war the family returned to Ohio and again made their home in Stockdale.  Mr. Williams was introduced
to the retail grocery business after the war when he worked at the A. K. Wheeler Market in New Boston, Ohio where he served
as manager.  He worked at that establishment for twenty years.  He then opened a grocery in the village of Stockdale.  His full
service grocery was a community mainstay which offered a variety of products including hardware goods, and fresh cut meats.  
Carl was an active and dedicated member of Stockdale United Methodist Church.  He served that congregation in numerous
capacities including Sunday School Superintendent and Administrative Board Member.  Mr. Williams was also a founding
member of the Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department where he served as a trustee.  He also served as a member and President of
the Scioto Water Company.  Carl was an elected member of the Stockdale Board of Education.  Throughout his life he enjoyed
raising Tennessee Walking Horses at his farm near Stockdale.  Mr. Williams died at his home in Stockdale on May 3, 1991.  
He was laid to rest in Stockdale Cemetery.  
Charles Merton Emory was born July 27, 1880 in the village of California in Pike County, Ohio.  He was the son of Oliver E.
and Amanda J. Adams Emory.  Charles grew up in the same community in which he was born and attended the local schools.  
As a teenager he enrolled in college at Ohio University where he played football.  He would eventually transfer to The Ohio
State University to complete his education.  He returned to California where he assisted his father in the operation of the family
business, O. E. Emory and Company.  Charles would eventually assume full operation of the business.  He expanded the
services offered to include groceries, ice, dry goods, new automobiles, farming implements, seeds, gasoline, furniture,
automotive repairs, and clothing.  He was also a real estate agent serving much of the area.  On October 10, 1902 Mr. Emory
was united in marriage to Maude Cockrell.  The couple were the parents of five children.  Charles was a dedicated member of
Stockdale Methodist Church where he served as Sunday School Superintendent.  He was active in numerous social and fraternal
organizations including: the Waverly Masonic Lodge, the Stockdale Daughters of the Confederacy, the Waverly Eastern Star
Lodge, Delta Tau Delta and Delta Chi Fraternities, the Independent Farmer’s Institute, Union Grange No. 1505 of Stockdale,
the Stockdale Junior Order of United American Mechanics Lodge No. 273, the Alhambra Lodge Knights of Pythias No. 554,
and the Stockdale Masonic Lodge.  Mr. Emory was elected to several public offices.  He served on the Marion Township Board
of Education, the California Special School District Board of Education, and the Pike County Board of Education.  He served
as Justice of the Peace and as the chairman of Marion Township’s Liberty Loan Program during World War One.  He was
elected to two terms to the Ohio House of Representatives.  During his tenure in the state capital, Charles sponsored legislation
to designate the road linking Minford, Stockdale, and Beaver as a state highway.  Charles Emory passed away March 17, 1940
in Stockdale.  He is buried in Evergreen Union Cemetery in Waverly, Ohio.
Martin Dale Vulgamore was born April 21, 1915 in Wakefield, Ohio.  He was born the son of Ralph and Virgie Waid
Vulgamore.  Martin attended school in the same community in which he was born and graduated from Wakefield High School
in 1933 at the top of his class.  During these years he helped support his family by working at Noel’s Market in Wakefield.  In
1934 he enlisted into the Civilian Conservation Corp in which he served for six months.  Martin returned to work at Noel’s
Market in 1939 where he was employed as a huckster, driving a truck loaded with groceries throughout the countryside.  It was
on one of these stops that he met Rhoda Marcella Tomlison.  She asked him on a date, and three months later the couple was
united in marriage.  For a short time Martin was employed at the NCR Corporation in Dayton, Ohio.  In 1947, Martin would
return to Pike County where he purchased a small grocery in the community of Givens.  With hard work, determination, and
perseverance, he expanded the business over the next six decades.  His store became the center of the Givens community.  It
was a welcome retreat for people of all ages.  It was a place where customers were respected and appreciated, even when they
often had no money to pay for goods.  In support of the area’s children, he built an outdoor basketball court.  He sponsored
and coached his own slow pitch softball team for twenty years.  He supported the local churches, both financially and
figuratively.  For some ten years he also operated a bulldozing business to support his family.  Martin’s respect as a
community leader was exhibited through his election to the Eastern Local Board of Education. He served as the board president
in the 1960’s when the three local school systems were consolidated and Eastern High School was constructed.  Martin and
Rhoda’s marriage would prosper for 58 years, until her death in 1997.  They were the parents of three children.  Martin
Vulgamore passed away May 7, 2007 and was laid to rest in Bailey Chapel Cemetery near Piketon.
Wray Bevens was born May 5, 1907 in  Lawrence County, Kentucky the son of William and Martha Ann Chandler Bevens.  
In 1921 he moved with his parents to Marion Township in Pike County OH.  In 1925 he graduated from Beaver High School
and later that fall enrolled in The Ohio State University.  In September 1926 returned to Beaver where he taught school for
two years.  In June 1928 he returned to the Ohio State University and in June 1932 received his law degree.  He passed his
Bar exam in June 1932 and was admitted to practice law in Ohio in August 1932.  From the fall of 1932 to June 1933 he
practiced law in Waverly.  In June he moved to Adams County to establish a law office there and also held several public
positions.  From May 1934 to January 1937 he was Administrator of Aid for the Aged for Adams County.  In January 1937
he was appointed secretary to the former Governor Martin L. Davey and remained in that position until September 23, 1938.  
He was then appointed Chief of the Division of aged in the state of Ohio which he held until he resigned on January 25, 1939.  
At that time his family from Columbus back to Waverly where he opened a law office.  He served three terms as Pike County
Prosecuting Attorney (1949-1960).  He was the state representative for Pike County from 1961 to 1966.  In 1966 he returned
to Pike County to serve as judge of Probate Juvenile Court for one term.  From 1969 to his retirement in February 1973 he
served as judge of Pike County Common Pleas Court.  He was also the solicitor for the Village of Beaver for a time.  On June
5, 1942 Wray enlisted into the United States Army to serve his nation as it entered the second World War. He spent two of
three and half years of active duty during World War II in the southwest Pacific Islands including combat in the New Guinea
and Papuan campaigns.  He received the Presidential Unit Citation with an Oak Leaf Cluster. After the end of the war he
stayed active in the Army Reserves.  In 1962 he was promoted from the rank of major to Lieutenant Colonel in the U. S.
Army Active Reserves.  He was active in the International Order of Odd Fellows which he served as Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Ohio.  He was united in marriage to Mary Mavis Cole  who survives.  The couple had two sons, Gordon and
William “Buz” Bevens.  Wray Bevens passed away September 27, 1980 and was laid to rest in Beaver Union Cemetery.
Richard Dean Rapp was born September 25, 1930 in Beaver, Ohio.  He was born the son of Harmon Emory and Carol Louise
Pratt Rapp.  Richard grew up in the same community in which he was born and attended the local school from first through
twelfth grades.  He graduated from Beaver High School in 1949 and enrolled in The Ohio State University.  He received a
Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education in 1953  and was hired to teach at his alma mater Beaver High School.  
However, before he began his teaching career he was drafted into the military.  Richard served as a military policeman in the
United States Army for two years.  Upon completing his military service, he  returned to Beaver and his teaching career.  He
furthered his personal education by earning a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from Ohio University.  Richard
served as Stockdale Elementary principal from 1967 to 1970.  From 1970 to 1973 he served as the Secondary Supervisor for
Pike County Schools.  In 1975 he returned to Beaver to serve as Elementary principal, a position he held until his retirement
in 1988.  Richard was twice elected to the Eastern Local Board of Education.  He was a lifetime advocate of education and
truly cared for the children of the Eastern Local School District.  He was a long time member of the Beaver Lion’s Club, an
active member of Beaver Chapel United Methodist Church, an advisor for the local Boy Scout Troop.  Richard was first
married to Allarae McGuire in 1953.  On August 25, 1962 he married Esther Ruth Downey.  Richard and Ruth had two
children, Jacob Dean and Carol Deanette.  He was also very close to his niece and three nephews.  Richard Rapp passed away
June 13, 1997 and was laid to eternal rest in Beaver Union Cemetery.  
Louise Eugene Brushart was born July 20, 1934 in the Zahn’s Corner Community of Pike County, Ohio.  He was the son of
Glen L. and Audrey F. Blanton Brushart.  Gene is a 1952 graduate of Piketon High School.  Upon graduation he enrolled
into Rio Grande College where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education in 1956.  He would continue his
personal education by earning a Master’s Degree in Education in Guidance/Counseling from Xavier University, and also
earned additional Graduate School credits at Ohio University in School Administration, culminating in his receiving an Ohio
Superintendent’s Certificate.  He started his teaching and coaching careers at Clarksburg OH where he was employed from
1956 to 1959.  He was then hired to teach in Beaver where he taught and coached at Beaver High School and later Eastern
High School.  During his coaching career at Clarksburg, Beaver, and Eastern he had a combined record of 202 wins and 83
losses. Gene was the last coach at Beaver High School.  While at Beaver and Eastern, his teams won the last five Pike
County Tournaments (a record), His 1963 Beaver High School team advanced to the Regional Finals before losing to State
Champion Dresden 55-53. He coached four Tri-County League Championships, one Southern Valley Athletic Conference
title, two Sectional Titles, one District Title, one District runner-up title, and one Regional runner-up title. He was
instrumental in organizing the Eastern Athletic Booster Club in 1964. He had eight Beaver/Eastern boys to go on to play
college basketball. In 1967, he was recognized at the Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association Clinic receiving
their achievement award. He was the First Inductee into the Eastern High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991. Gene
remained at Eastern until 1969 when he became affiliated with the Vern Riffe Joint Vocational School.  There, he served as a
Guidance Counselor, Director, Adult Education Supervisor, Job Placement Coordinator, and Shawnee State University
Coordinator. In 1987 he was employed as the Principal at Zahn’s Corner Elementary.  Two years later he returned to Eastern
High School where he was hired as the Principal and Athletic Director.  He retired from Eastern Local Schools in 1991.  
Gene is a member and former President of the Pike County Retired Teachers Association, the Ohio and National Retired
Teachers Associations, the Ohio School Boards Association, the Pike County Chamber of Commerce, and the University of
Rio Grande Boosters Association.  He is an active member of Beaver Emmanuel United Methodist Church.  He has served as
Chairman of Administrative Board, Board of Trustees, Pastor-Parish Relations Committee, a Sunday school teacher, and
choir member. In 2000 he was elected to the Scioto Valley Local School Board of Education and was re-elected in 2004.  He
is a former Board of Trustees member of the Hillview Retirement Center at Portsmouth OH.  His hobbies include gardening,
golf, his grandchildren, and currently serves as a travel escort for the American Automobile Association.  He was married to
Sarah Connett on August 17, 1957.  The Brusharts have five children and five grandchildren.
Danny Lee Schrader was born in Beaver, Ohio on February 27, 1939.  He was the son of Roberta Schrader and was raised by
his grandparents Nick and Eliza Schrader.  Danny grew up in the village of Beaver and graduated from Beaver High School in
1957.  Shortly after graduation he enlisted in the U. S. Army in which he served from July 1957 to 1959.  During his
military service he served in Company H 2nd Armored Regiment.  He served in Berlin, Germany from February 5, 1958 to
July 8, 1959.  He served on border patrol between West Germany and Czechoslovakia.  He also participated as a member of
the honor guard for Queen Elizabeth in November of 1957 while stationed in Washington DC.  After the conclusion of his
military service Danny returned to Pike County where he was employed at Jisco Industries in Jackson County.   After seven
years he enrolled in Ohio University where he would earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Education.  After graduation he was
employed by the Eastern Local Board of Education where he would teach for the next twenty-eight years.  During his tenure at
Eastern he coached track, volleyball, quiz team, and cheerleading.  Yet, his passion for coaching was eighth grade boy’s
basketball for which he coached for fourteen years.  During that time his teams won eight league championships, five
tournaments, and earned a won-loss record of 175 wins and 49 losses.  Seven of his league championships were consecutive.
He takes pride that he never cut a player for lack of ability.  During his teaching career he  and his wife took in three troubled
boys as foster children.  Danny has been an active member of Beaver Veteran’s of Foreign Wars Post 9942 of Beaver since
1976. He was a charter member of the Beaver Oktoberfest for which he has been a vital person including serving as emcee for
twenty years. Danny has also served as a member of the Pike County Board of Health, the Pike County Community Hospital
Board, the Beaver High School Alumni Association, and is a current Beaver Township Trustee for which he has served for
eight years.    Danny married Ellarose Allen on October 12, 1962.  They have tone child, Cory Schrader.
Orlando Bapst - Class of 2009
Orlando Bapst was born April 5, 1922 the son of  Phillip William and Margaret Ophellia Offenbaker Bapst.  Orlando grew up
in a family of fifteen children, attended the local primary school, and graduated from Beaver High School in 1941.  One year
after America entered World War Two, Orlando answered his county’s call.  On October 26, 1942 he enlisted into the United
States Army at the Waverly Court House.  He would be assigned to Company C of the 331st Infantry 83rd Division.  In July
of 1944 Orlando would become a part of the largest single day amphibious invasion in the history of the world.  Leading
elements his Division landed at Omaha Beach on June 19th after lying offshore in rough channel weather for almost a week.  
The Division assembled in the vicinity of Bricqueville, Normandy and then moved west, where elements of the 101st
Airborne were relieved on  June 26th.  This sector was heavily defended by crack Nazi SS, Panzer and paratroops.  The initial
offensive of the 83rd was launched July 4th and the final objective, the high ground in the vicinity of Periers, was reached a
few weeks later.  The Germans had four years to prepare defenses against a possible invasion and employed every known
defense to stop the American advance.  Hedgerows were zeroed in by enemy artillery, paths of machine gun cross-fire were set
up and entrenchments were constructed not only behind but also under the hedgerows.  Connecting trenches gave the enemy
escape routes when their positions were overrun by the doughboys.  During this campaign, the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier
Division was given a decisive beating by the 83rd.  When the Normandy breakthrough came on July 25, the 83rd smashed
remnants of enemy resistance.  It was during the fighting at St. Lo that Orlando was killed in action.  He was buried in France
and awarded the Purple Heart.  His body was returned to Beaver five years later and buried in Beaver Union Cemetery on
August 28, 1949.
Thomas Jefferson Sizemore was born in Scioto County OH on December 18, 1940 the son of Arnold and Perlina English
Sizemore. Tom grew up in the community of Stockdale and graduated from Stockdale High School in  the class of 1958.  
Shortly after graduating from Stockdale High he enlisted into the United Sates Army.  During this enlistment he served one
year in Korea.  Tom was honorably discharged in December of 1961.  He would again answer his country’s call in 1967 when
he re-enlisted into the Army.  He was assigned to Company A 2nd Infantry 1st Division and was deployed to Vietnam in
May of 1968.  Tom had attained the rank of Staff Sergeant when he was severely wounded in action by multi-fragment fire on
June 6, 1969.  He was transferred to an Army hospital in Okinawa, Japan where he died of his wounds on July 7, 1969.  His
body was returned to Ohio where he was laid to rest in Memorial Burial park in Scioto County.
James William Kuntzman was born February 19, 1924 near Beaver the son of Henry W. and Edith Bobst Kuntzman.  He
grew up in the Beaver community and attended the local school.  While still a teenager, James entered the military as many
youth before him as the nation was embroiled in the Second World War.  He enlisted in the United Sates Army in March of
1943 at Waverly OH.  He was assigned to Company A of the 63rd Engineering Battalion.  Just four months after his
enlistment James was stationed at Fort Lewis WA.  James was aboard a raft, heavily loaded with equipment including a jeep
and guns, when the raft capsized while crossing American Lake. James, along with two others, drowned.  James had attained
the rank of Private First Class when he was killed on July 21, 1943.  His body was returned to Beaver where he was laid to
rest in Beaver Union Cemetery.
Jerry Lee Bobst was born October 16, 1938 in Beaver OH.  He was one of eleven children born to Ezra Damon and Gladys
Schrader Bobst.  Jerry graduated from Beaver High School in 1957 where he was a proud member of various sports teams.  
After graduating he enlisted into the United States Army where he served as a medic at Fort Meade MD as well as Germany.  
After an honorable discharge in 1959 he returned to Beaver to work in the family business, Bobst Hardware.  In 1962 Jerry
married Charlotte Wallete, of Piketon, and made their home in Beaver. Jerry and Charlotte are the parents of two daughters,
Tammy and Kelly.  In 1968 Jerry purchased Wellston Hardware and began to slowly build his own business.  In 1977, Jerry
and Charlotte opened the Beaver General Store which they operated for several years.  In 1988, he opened Jerry’s Do-It Center
in Wellston which currently employs twenty-five people.  Recently, Jerry saw the realization of his dream of bringing a
hardware back to Beaver by helping Kenny Bobst open the Beaver Valley Hardware in 2007.  Through the years Jerry has
been the supporter of various functions in Beaver and Wellston. Since its inception, he has donated time, goods, and money
to the Beaver Oktoberfest.  He purchased and later donated the home of Harvey Wells, the founder of Wellston, to be restored
as an historical building for Wellston.  Jerry has been a member of the Beaver Valley Historical Society since its beginning.  
Jerry was a member of the Beaver Village Council for several years and was Mayor of Beaver in 1982.  He also served as an
emergency medical technician for Beaver Emergency Squad #3.  In 1994, Jerry was honored as the Beaver Citizen of the Year
by the Beaver Oktoberfest.   Jerry semi-retired in 1996, but continues to be active in his various business and community
pursuits.  He is proud to be a life long resident of the Village of Beaver.  He enjoys the time spent with his daughters and his
three grandchildren.
John William Chandler was born February 23, 1929 in Beaver OH the son of John Henry and Nora Hayes Chandler.  John
received his public education in the same community in which he was born and graduated from Beaver High School in 1947.  
While at Beaver High he was Vice President of his Senior Class and played all four years on the basketball team which won
the Pike County Tournament his last two years.  After graduation John, along with his four brothers, founded Chandler’s
Plywood Products, Inc.  Chandler’s was one of the pioneers in the mass production of quality, custom cabinetry.  
Headquartered in Huntington WV, it employed dozens of people throughout the tri-state region and still thrives to this day.  
John Chandler served the company for sixty years as owner, Past President and Past Chairman of the Board.  In addition to
his career John has been active in numerous organizations and civic programs.  In 1969 he was invested Knight Commander
of the Court of Honor Scottish Rite Bodies.  In 1975 he was coroneted an Inspector General Honorary Masonic Thirty-Third
Degree in Washington DC.  He has a DeMolay of Honor Degree, DeMolay Guild of the Leather Apron Degree, and Order of
Rainbow for Girls Grand Cross of Color.  He is Past Potentate of Beni Kedem Shrine Temple.  He devoted his efforts to help
crippled children gain admission into Shriner’s Hospitals.  He is a Past Master of Mason Lodge #32, the Past Director
Shriner Jesters, Director Emeritus WV DeMolay Foundation, Inc., Past President of Little League #1, Past Director of
Cammack Children’s Center, Past President Boys DeMolay Camp, and Past Director of the National Kitchen and Bath
Association.  One of John’s passions is restoring and collecting antique cars, especially the rare Chandler model.  He owns
three Chandlers, one of which won a National First Place award from the Antique Auto Club of America. He is a Past
President of the Huntington Antique Car Club.  John fosters his interest in history through his memberships with the Wayne
County WV Genealogical Society and the Beaver Valley Historical Society.  On May 4, 1947 he married his high school
classmate, Cuza Phipps.  The Chandlers make their home in Huntington WV and have three children and four grandchildren.  
Their children are Linda, David, and Karen.  John is a member of Oak Springs Baptist Church.
Eli Halterman was born April 28, 1843 in Jackson County OH the son of Levi and Lena Dykes Halterman.  He received a
common school education in the local one room schools.  As a teenager he answered President Lincoln’s call and volunteered
for military service as the country entered the Civil War.  Eli enlisted into Company F of the 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry on
October 28, 1861.  He served a total of four years in the service and participated in several of the war’s most important
battles.  He fought in the battles of Shiloh, the Siege of Vicksburg, and Sherman’s March to the Sea.  Eli was wounded in the
foot at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.  When he was discharged from active service on August 11, 1865 he had attained
the rank of Corporal.  He would remain active in local veteran’s groups including the Grand Army of the Republic.  After the
war he returned to the Beaver Valley to make his home.  He married Mary Elizabeth Albin on November 12, 1865 in Pike
County.  To this union were born ten children, nine of whom grew to adulthood.  In his early adulthood Eli taught school in
one of the local one room school houses.  On April 25, 1898 he was appointed postmaster of the Beaver Post Office a position
he held for some sixteen years.  He also served as a notary and operated one of the early telephone exchanges in the
community.  When the Village of Beaver incorporated in 1900 Eli was active in local politics.  He served as a member of the
Board of Health, Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer.  Eli Halterman passed away August 1, 1917 at the age of 74 in
Portsmouth OH after a short illness.  When he was laid to rest on August 3, 1917 his remains were transported in Beaver’s
first motorized funeral procession.  He was laid to rest in Beaver Union Cemetery.
Margaret Butcher was born in Jackson County OH about 1878 the daughter of John Wesley and Mary Elizabeth Kaufman
Butcher.  She was one of six daughters, several of whom would become school teachers.  Margaret’s family moved to the
Beaver area when she was but a little girl.  She attended the local graded school as well as the early version of high school.  
She continued her education by becoming one of the first college graduates from the Beaver area when she received her
Bachelor’s degree from Ohio University.  She earned her Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago.  She would later
enhance her education through additional course work at Columbia University in New York.  Margaret was assigned her first
teaching position at the age of sixteen.  Her first class of students were only a few years younger than she and attended one of
the several one room schools in the valley.  Eventually she would obtain a position at the larger school in Beaver.  There, she
would influence the lives of generations of area youth.  Her tenure in Beaver began in the old two story wood structure.  In
1924 she was on staff when the new brick building was completed.  When she retired she had accumulated nearly fifty years of
teaching service.  In her youth she attended the German Reformed Sunday School and church.  Later in life she united with
the Beaver Methodist Church and Sunday School where she taught and supervised the primary department.  She was a
founder of the Beaver High School Alumni Association and held the position of president for many years.    She was a
member of the county, state, and national educational associations.  She was a member of the Band Boosters.  She shared
every sorrow and every happiness of the multitude of boys and girls who eagerly flocked about her.  She never forgot a boy or
a girl.  She never lost interest in those she loved.   After retirement Margaret tended the family farm south of Beaver.  
Margaret passed away at the family home on March 31, 1950.  She never married or had children of her own, but hundreds of
children were impacted by her life.  She was laid to rest in Beaver Union Cemetery.
Reva Mae Sagraves Bailey was born July 15, 1929 in Beaver OH the daughter of Jacob A. and Bertha Mae Keppler Rapp.
She grew up in the Beaver community and graduated from Beaver High School in 1947.  Reva has held several occupations.  
Among  her earliest jobs she worked in the family business, Rapp’s Grocery which was located on Ohio Avenue in Beaver.  
Included in her duties was the delivering of groceries to the town’s elderly residents, a job she very much enjoyed.  At an
early age she also worked at Border’s Restaurant serving the local fans at the conclusion of BHS basketball games.  For many
years she was employed at Buckeye Mart in Jackson, and eventually retired from Martin Marietta Inc. where she  worked in
the Piketon plant’s fire department.  Reva cares deeply for her hometown and throughout her life has been active in many of
its organizations and events.  She has been an integral member of the Beaver High School Alumni Association of which she
served as secretary for many years.  She is a faithful member of Emmanuel United Methodist Church where she has served on
various committees and is an active member of the United Methodist Women.  She has been a member of the Beaver
Homemakers, the Beaver Elementary Parent Teacher Organization, and a 4-H advisor.  Reva was a founding member of the
Pike County Emergency Medical Service and served on Beaver Squad #3 as an emergency medical technician.  She was also a
founding member of the Beaver Oktoberfest.  Reva has been an avid baker all of her life and has won numerous baking
contests including one sponsored by WSAZ Television 3.  For many years she was a community reporter for the county
newspaper sharing news about Beaver.  Reva married Dorse Sagraves on July 23, 1949.  They raised two daughters, Teryl
and Rebecca.  She also has four grandchildren.  Their marriage would be celebrated for more than forty years before Dorse’s
death in 1991.  Reva would again marry, the second time to James Bailey on July 19, 1992, who also preceded her in death
in 2009.  
Raymond Fout Jr. Was born in the community of Dove OH on June 9, 1930 the son of Raymond and Golda Rhea Fout.  He
grew up in the Beaver community, attended the local school, and graduated from Beaver High School in 1948.  On October
16, 1963 he was united in marriage with Berneta “Minnie” Smith.  He was the father of three children, Robert, Jonathan and
Vanessa.  Raymond, better known as “Shorty” by his friends and neighbors, was proud to be a lifelong farmer and Dekalb
Seed Corn dealer.  He was also a long time school bus driver for Eastern Local Schools having accumulated twenty years of
service.  He was active in numerous agricultural organizations including the Pike County Farm Bureau, the National Farmer’s
Union, and Scioto Grange No. 1234.  His agricultural interest also included being a long time supporter and member of the
Pike County Fair Board.  Raymond also served his community through numerous elected offices and positions.  He served as
a Trustee for Marion Township for 23 years.  He served on the Beaver Union Cemetery Board for 18 years.  He was a Marion
Township Committeeman, elected to the Pike County Joint Vocational School Board, appointed to the Pike County Health
Department Board, and served on the Juvenile Detention Board.  He was elected to three terms as a Pike County
Commissioner where he accomplished numerous projects to benefit the citizens of the Beaver Valley.   Other organizations in
which he supported or serve included the Pike County ASC Board, the Young Democrat’s Club, the County Commissioner
Association, the Pike County Community Action Board, and the Beaver Valley Historical Society.  Raymond has been
recognized by numerous organizations for his community service.  He was elected to the Democratic Hall of Fame, was
honored as the Beaver Oktoberfest Citizen of the Year, and served as Grand Marshall for the Waverly Jingle Bell Parade.  
Raymond attended Faith United Methodist Church.  Raymond “Shorty” Fout passed away May 25, 2003 in Columbus OH
and was laid to eternal rest in Beaver Union Cemetery.
Frank Walton Pyle was born August 21, 1883 in the Sargents community of Pike County, the son of John Frank and Matilda
Cutlip Pyle.  Walton attended the local graded school and when reaching adulthood joined his father in the general
merchandise business.  In 1907 he and his father opened a store on Main Street in Beaver.  The new firm was known as J.F.
Pyle and Son.  They carried dry goods, notions, ready made clothing, hats, men's furnishing, goods, Queensware, hardware,
paints, oils, patent medicines, groceries, flour, provisions, farm supplies, wagons, gasoline, engines, etc.  "Shoes and Rubber
Goods were a Specialty."  In 1905 Walton married Jane Violet and the couple would raise four sons: Clayton, John, Rodney,
and Joseph.  Walton was a long time member of the Beaver Methodist Church.  He was an active leader in the Beaver
community having served a number of years on the village council.  He served on council when the village obtained its first
electrical service.  He also actively supported improvements to the local fire department.  Their store even housed the village’
s early fire fighting equipment.  Walton passed away in Beaver at the age of 76 on August 16, 1960.  He was laid to rest in
Mound Cemetery near Piketon.  He is survived by numerous grandchildren.
Kenneth Thompson was born April 5, 1936 in Stockdale OH the son of William Jennings Bryan and Ruby Lillian
Streitenberger Thompson.  He grew up in the same community in which he was born and graduated from Stockdale High
School in 1954.  While at Stockdale he participated in numerous activities, but was best known as a productive member of
the Bulldog basketball team.  Upon completing high school Kenny continued his education by enrolling in Morehead State
University in Morehead KY.  In addition to his academic pursuits Kenny was active in numerous athletic teams at Morehead.  
He started for the basketball team, was a member of the cross country team, and also the track team where he achieved an Ohio
Valley Conference High Jump Record in 1958.  In 1957 & 1958 he was selected as Most Versatile Male Student on the
Morehead campus.  Kenny graduated in 1958 with a bachelor’s degree.  Shortly after graduating he was hired by the Western
Local Schools in Pike County where he taught biology, physical education, and coached.  Three years later he moved to
Parker Elementary School to serve as principal.  In 1962 Kenny received his Master’s Degree from Morehead State.  In 1963
he became the Superintendent of Western Local Schools.  Three years later he joined the Ohio Department of Education where
he served two years in the division of school finance.  He then served four years as Superintendent of the New Boston
Schools.  In 1972 he became Superintendent of Pike County Schools and held that position until his retirement in 1988.  
During this time he completed post graduate work at The Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, and Miami
University.  In 1975 he represented the United States Association of Public School Administrators at conferences in the
Soviet Union, Armenia, and Switzerland.  Kenny has served on the Pike County Chamber of Commerce, the Pike County
Retired Teacher’s Association, and is a member of the Beaver Valley Historical Society.    He was among the first Board of
Trustees for the then new Shawnee State University serving from 1985 to 1988.  Kenny married Joyce Irene Weddington on
November 15, 1952.  The couple have four children: Pam, Ed, Chuck, Tom, and several grandchildren.
James Erskin Crabtree was born in the Stockdale community on September 3, 1894 the son of  Bertie Alma and Florence
Viola Bennett Crabtree.  James was educated in the local graded school prior to joining the United States Navy.  He entered
the service on June 14, 1917 in Portsmouth OH.  He received his initial training at the Naval Training Station in Newport
RI.   Upon completion of his initial training he was stationed in Boston MA.  In 1918 Fireman Second Class Crabtree was
assigned to the USS Mount Vernon.  In September of 1918 James was in the midst of his eighth trip across the Atlantic.  His
voyages consisted mostly of transporting troops as the Mount Vernon was a captured German cruise liner, modified to carry
American soldiers.  On September 5 the Mount Vernon was on its way back to the United States after delivering troops to the
European war zone.  While underway in a convoy some 200 miles west of France, the crew spotted a periscope and opened
fire.  At the same time German submarine U-82 launched a torpedo.  Though she attempted to evade, Mount Vernon was hit
amidships. The resulting explosion blew a large hole in her side, putting half the boilers out of action. Thirty-six of the crew
were killed and another thirteen injured.  As the sea began to rush into its hull, the Mount Vernon’s captain was forced to
close the hatches to the damaged compartments.  James Crabtree, was caught behind one of those hatches, and drowned as
efforts were made to save the ship.  James Erskin Crabtree was 24 years old when killed on September 5, 1918.  He was the
first Pike Countian killed in combat in World War One.  The Secretary of the Navy commended the crew of the Mount
Vernon for her sacrifice during the attack.  James’ body was returned to Stockdale where he was buried in Scioto Cemetery in
Marion Township.