Andrew's world West Virginia history

      Photo sourced from wikipedia.org       How do you celebrate WV DAY? Do you? Well, either way, you should at least have an idea of what happened...      Ok, I've already made a post about the Wheeling conventions of 1861. So, you should already know about the restored government of Virginia.       Now, were in 1862 on this timeline. Senator Waltman Willey of the restored government of virginia submitted a bill to congress for the admission of West Virginia to the Union in May of 1862. He proposed an amendment to the bill calling for West Virginia to amend their constitution to include the gradual emancipation of slaves in the state. On July 14th, the senate approved the bill, with statehood conditioned on approval of the Willey amendment, and the house approved the bill in December. Lincoln signed the bill on December 31st. March 26th, 1863, west virginia ratified their revised constitution and on June 20th, 1863, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that West Virginia would

     You may have read my post about mother's day, and saw the spoiler alert about father's day. That's right, father's fay originated here in West Virginia, too.      In a church in Fairmont, Wv on July 5th, 1908 people gathered for a church service in honor of the father's who had died in the mine explosions in Monongah on December 6th, 1907. This church service was only two months after the first mother's day service in Grafton.       The following year, a woman from Washington state got involved, inspired by west virginia mother's day creator Anna Jarvis. It wasnt until 1966 that it became a nationally recognized holiday. History.com editors, December 30th, 2009, father's day, history.com Cristy, May 21st, 2020, few people know that father's day was created by a mining accident in west virginia in the 1900's, onlyinyourstate.co      Photo from timeswv.com