Robert Bruce Crickard was born 12/21/1889 and died 2/26/77 at the age of 87. Mr. Crickard was interviewed on a Sunday afternoon in the living room of a relative’s house in Marlington. The quality of his accounts were excellent, however, the equipment used even when attempted to be enhanced were not of the best quality. He appeared to be well educated, married to a schoolteacher the former Lucille Waugh, and worked as a surveyor, paymaster and other skilled jobs. I had hoped to interview him again but he was one of the first that I had interviewed who died. He knew so much about the Cass operation and could remember it vividly. His story of a boundary that had been changed in a survey is a classic and is also written about in one of Blackhurst’s books. The background noise is that of his wife and my wife talking.

The accounts of taking pay to the loggers in the mountain log camps holds much interest.

Mr. Crickard was from Valley Head but was buried in the Harlow Waugh cemetery plot in Mountain View cemetery, Marlington, WV.