3-cent token: "Lemondale Farm" from Sleepy Creek, WV

[TrpnBils]

Found this 3c token tonight: "Lemondale Farm". There are only three references to Lemondale Farm on Google and they seem to tie into this area back in the early 1900s so it seems right. Normally when I find tokens they have no monetary value associated with them. What would have been the purpose of it having one?

 

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[idahotokens]

There is a listing with "image wanted" on tokencatalog.com and a note from somebody saying, "I found a brief (and confusing) mention on Googlebooks from a West Virginia newspaper: "Lemondale Farm Sleep} Reek (Sleep Creek ?), 19 Jan. 1914." It is not listed in the WV Merchant Tokens book.

I'd encourage you to post your pics on tokencatalog - or with your permission I could do it.

Why 3¢? It was likely used as a piecework token - a picker may have gotten paid 3¢ for picking a bushel of whatever was grown there. As they turned in the bushel, they got a token. At the end of the day, they turned in their accumulated tokens for money.

John in the Great 208

 

[idahotokens]

The quote above that is on tokencatalog refers to an obituary in the Frederick, MD News of 19 Jan 1914 for Rev. Martin L. Maysilles who had died at his home, Lemondale Farm, Sleepy Creek, WV. The obituary and a portrait of the good minister can be found at
Rev Martin L. Maysilles (1839 - 1914) - Find A Grave Memorial

He was shown in the 1910 Census as a farmer, so he is quite possibly the man behind the token.

John

 

[BuckleBoy]

The quote above that is on tokencatalog refers to an obituary in the Frederick, MD News of 19 Jan 1914 for Rev. Martin L. Maysilles who had died at his home, Lemondale Farm, Sleepy Creek, WV. The obituary and a portrait of the good minister can be found at
Rev Martin L. Maysilles (1839 - 1914) - Find A Grave Memorial

He was shown in the 1910 Census as a farmer, so he is quite possibly the man behind the token.

John

Great detective work, John. Always nice to add some knowledge to an unlisted token! Congrats to the finder on a really neat piece.

Cheers,

Buck

 

[TrpnBils]

There is a listing with "image wanted" on tokencatalog.com and a note from somebody saying, "I found a brief (and confusing) mention on Googlebooks from a West Virginia newspaper: "Lemondale Farm Sleep} Reek (Sleep Creek ?), 19 Jan. 1914." It is not listed in the WV Merchant Tokens book.

I'd encourage you to post your pics on tokencatalog - or with your permission I could do it.

Why 3¢? It was likely used as a piecework token - a picker may have gotten paid 3¢ for picking a bushel of whatever was grown there. As they turned in the bushel, they got a token. At the end of the day, they turned in their accumulated tokens for money.

John in the Great 208

Interesting thought - if you want to post that to the page go ahead. I saw they were looking for one (with that page being one of only three results I got on Google) but I couldn't figure out how to post it.

The quote above that is on tokencatalog refers to an obituary in the Frederick, MD News of 19 Jan 1914 for Rev. Martin L. Maysilles who had died at his home, Lemondale Farm, Sleepy Creek, WV. The obituary and a portrait of the good minister can be found at
Rev Martin L. Maysilles (1839 - 1914) - Find A Grave Memorial

He was shown in the 1910 Census as a farmer, so he is quite possibly the man behind the token.

John

Thanks for the clarification on this! I saw the newspaper scan but couldn't zoom in enough to read anything. This lends more evidence to the portraits link on Google because I could see something about Lemondale Farm in the results summary but not on the page itself.

 

[idahotokens]

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John

 

[46Wheat]

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