Show I I I I I I I Jack Dempsey's Is an Heirloom Salt Lake Lake- Champion Reported to Have Hav Sprung Sprung- From W. W v. v V. V Mountaineers Mountaineer 1 vt W W. Va Va-J Va a July July 29 ISON J Jack Dempsey champion of ot the world al although although al- al though born bom in n Manassa Cola Colow sprang from the purest type o of wt Virginia mountaineer l' l stock The rhe s 's grandfather Ance Anc Demp Pemp sey say was a a. pioneer settler settler- of ot Logan county count The report ort widely circulated circulated that Dempsey w was s born 1010 never this city is incorrect it Is la slightly over a quara quarter quarter ter of a century since lne o II n. L Dempsey Demps y and aim the th mother of the new champion left their old h home homa ms here lere Jack was WM born about a year after his hia parents arrived In the West The old Dempsey Jempsey homestead In the mountains mountains- here la is located loc ot only ly a short distance from the abode abod of oP De Devil Devit va vaAnce Ance Hatfield who g w widespread lI notoriety during the Hatfield feud Although there are stilt still many close relatives of the Dempsey family re residing residing residing re- re siding n this vicinity the present champion ChaJ never lots has visited them Both Dempsey's father an and grandfather grandfather grandfather grand grand- father were farmers and woodsmen and are remembered by old residents here as fearless mountaineers who stood high in ht a community Where courage was demanded of o aU aLl At the time Um there thele Ire ar two Uvo uncles and several cousins of the champion Champlon residing in Mingo county One of the latter Is to Mrs Mra W O O- Potter otter wife of ot the tho mayor major of Williamson |