Notes:

[Helmick's from online.FTW]

[Fair Sabra & Abraham Helmick.FTW]

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #1718, Date of Import: Feb 6, 2000]

!Isaac was one of the three Bays brothers who came to the Loop and married into
pioneer families here. Isaac married Avelina, daughter of James and Jane
Blake, who had come here from Greenbrier County in the early 1800's. Isaac and
Avelina lived first in a log house on the Bluestone Road near the intersection
of the Crooked Run Road. Then, after about two years, they moved into a cabin
on a farm obtained from an earlier settler. This farm was on the Crooked Run
Road, a short distance east of the "Pigeon Roost", a landmark mentioned in the
land survey of an earlier settler, Amos Linegar.

The date of the Bays settlement was thought to have been about 1829, but was
given as 1833 by a local historian. A valid deed to the farm of 98 1/2 acres
was not obtained by Bays until 1847, and then not from the original claimant
and builder of the cabin. It seems probable that this first settler was Amos
Linigar who came to the Loop before 1810 and who claimed land surveyed for him
by Francis Pinnell at the "Pigeon Roost", in 1826.


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