Jay Brackenrich

Greenbrier Jay Brackenrich

Rumelow immigrated to escape impending war in Austria and dreamed of a little home in the mountains. Dare basked in the envy of the belles of Greenbrier County and poured out tea as future mistress of Fairlea--until bloody Civil War turned their American dream into nightmare. Their generation--Noke and his sister, Raeleen; Bonnie and her forbidden Union officer; opposing brothers, Trace and Connard--all sacrificed on the altar of war. West Virginia was admitted to the Union in 1863 with the North pulling from the Mason Dixon Line and the South gripping along the Shenandoah; it broke along the fault line, Greenbrier County