Notice is hereby given that the Diocesan Trustees of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of West Virginia, will on or after July 16, 2025, convey, without consideration, to the Hardy County Historical Society, Inc., Moorefield, West Virginia, that certain tract or parcel of real estate situate in Moorefield Corporate District, Hardy County, West Virginia, more particularly bounded and described as follows, to-wit: All that certain tract or parcel of real estate situate at the intersection of Winchester Avenue and South Fork Road, in the Town of Moorefield, Moorefield Corporate District of Hardy County, West Virginia, together with parish house and any and all other improvements thereon and rights,
interests, easements and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anyway appertaining, and described in the prior deed in chain of title as containing “one rood, and five square poles,” to which deed reference is hereby made for a more particular metes and bounds description of said real estate. Being all the same real estate conveyed by John J. Chipley and Sallie V. Chipley, his wife, unto John W. Inskeep, Hamilton Mc. S. Gamble and Joseph Sprigg, Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia, known as Emanuel Parish, by deed dated June 20, 1877, and of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Hardy County, West Virginia in Deed Book No. 32, at Page 96, to which deed reference is hereby made for all proper and pertinent purposes. This real estate is currently assessed by the Hardy County Assessor as Tax Map 3, Parcel 288, consisting of a lot measuring 185.46′ x 127.9′ x 226.9′. Dated this 1st day of July, 2025. Diocesan Trustees of The Episcopal Church in the Diocese of West Virginia:
Gat Caperton
Thomas Gilpin
David Kersey
John R. McGhee,
Steve Robey
Rt. Rev. Matthew D. Cowden, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia
7/9,7/16
