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This old civil war vet was the last of his family as well as the last of his regiment.

1. Civil War Veteran Visiting Graveyard, Pendleton County, W. Va.

Flood waters seen in Wheeling, W. Va. The water is seen at the top of some buildings and part way up other buildings.

2. Flood, Wheeling, W. Va.

Civil War Map of West Virginia. Showing present counties and county seats 1936. Includes railroads, turnpikes, lateral roads, county lines, states lines, and rivers.

3. Civil War Map of West Virginia

Main Street in Downtown Wheeling, West Virginia is underwater because of the damaging flood of 1936.

4. Flood Waters on Main Street in Wheeling, W. Va.

People are watching a car being towed because of high water on the Monongahela River at Jimtown (Randell), junction U.S. Route 19, state route 7-100.

5. High Water on Monongahela River, Jimtown, Monongalia County, W. Va.

Group portrait of the 1936 West Virginia University Football Team. 'First row (left to right) are Hedrick, Ronai, Nebera, Sorenz, Neilson, Cropp, Atty, Barma, Wendell, Hodges. Second row (left to right) are Baker, Isaac, Eller, Keyle, Schwartzwalder, Gilmore, and unidentified. Third row (left to right) are Phares, McCue, Audria, Moan, DeAngelic, Dickenson, Frantz, Vockin, Faley, and unidentified.'

6. WVU Football Team

'Charles T. Gorby on porch above Gorby Brothers store fills a grocery order by lowering a bucket which has been added to the photograph. Jesse K. Gorby lived his last years in the apartment to the left of the upper porch; From a photograph in the Wetzel County Historical Museum.'

7. Grocery Delivery During Flood, New Martinsville, W. Va.

Buildings on both sides of the tracks.

8. Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Coke Ovens, White School and Tipple

Two cars are trapped in the flood waters while a crowd looks on from a railroad bridge.

9. Monongahela River Flood at Jimtown, Monongalia County, W. Va.

Shelves with stocked store merchandise. Mr. Guinn is standing in the background of the picture.

10. Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Store Stock

Water is receding as people try to clean up the mess. Mud seen on the side walks and on people's clothes. Road is visible now, no longer covered with water.

11. Flood Cleanup, Wheeling, W. Va.

People are paddling boats in order to travel down Main Street in Wheeling, West Virginia during the flood of 1936.

12. Navigating the Flood Waters on Main Street in Downtown Wheeling, W. Va.