The People
The Slagles were a German family who had settled
in this valley in the late 18th century. By the late 19th century
a large family had grown up in a house down the road from the
little Methodist church of Fairview. The mother of this family
died when the children were still young and the family was raised
by the oldest sister, America Anzinette. Three of the brothers
built a house about two miles away and to that house the youngest
son brought a wife, Mamie Lee Lundy. He also gave a lifelong home
to the sister who had raised him.
The Lundys were English and lived about 20 miles
away in Grosclose. About the time that Mamie married Henry Slagle,
her sister Lilly Mae married a man of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage
who owned a dairy farm about one mile away from the home Mamie
went to.
Henry Slagle and Mamie Lundy's first child was
Vivian Ardelia Slagle, this project's storyteller.
