3641 Teays Valley address has been home to five generations of the Estes family.

By Helen Estes Carter

It was in 1824 when Thomas and Mary Estes migrated from Culpepper, Virginia to the Hurricane Cow Creek area, then part of Kanawha County, West Virginia. It wasn’t until March 11, 1848, that the bill was passed by the General Assembly of Virginia to form Putnam County from portions of Kanawha, Mason, and Cabell.

There were…