Does anyone have information about the early oil industry in West Virginia. My Dad had told me my grandfather James Bert Ash son of G.W. Ash and other family members came to the midwest during the old cable tool drilling days following the oil. Is there a connection to Levi Smith? Anyone have any old pictures. I know G.W.'s son's James Bert and Alvin Guy followed the oil, and Charles Elmer Ash son of Vincent Ash made a name in Kansas as the Smith & Ash oil company. Also looking to talk to Mary "Ash" Goff a 2nd cousin, her last posting was in 2001.