Charlie Cromer was interviewed in his modest living quarters in Durbin, West Virginia. He was born 4/5/1885 and died 3/24/ 1983 at the age of 97. When I interviewed him in 1975, he spoke proudly of his children one of whom was J. R. Cromer appearing in The History of Pocahontas County as submitted by his great granddaughter Connie Johnson. He explained his modest surrounding by expressing pride in the fact that he had been able to give away his land etc. to his children.

Mr. Cromer worked for many years for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company as a surveyor and appeared to be the surveyor in the survey dispute mentioned by Mr. Bruce Crickard in his interview. The quality of the interview tape was very poor due to low batteries. Among the accounts that I remember was that Mr. Cromer was also one of the Shay engineers who brought one of the last load of logs down to Cass from Cheat Mountain. It was unfortunately that I could not interview him again because he gave a very rich account of his work with the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company and the events in Cass. It is sad that this interview was not preserved; because he started by saying that he didn’t have much to say, but he was abound with rich oral history.