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Comment by mike st clair on March 25, 2018 at 4:38am

My Family has 8a ac, o/g minerals only Marion County Fairmont District.Currently entertaining offers.Thought we had a deal fell thru..Message or email mmscoroner1@aol.com

Comment by Kyle Nuttall on September 28, 2016 at 5:47am

I was up in the clerk's office in Marion County a couple months ago.  There were quite a few landmen there, and they were talking about oil and gas work.  Just thought people might be interested to know that interest in Marion County seems to be picking up again.

Comment by James M Campbell on September 27, 2016 at 12:09pm

Took us 3 yrs from original lease,to finally get turned over to production . Due to the fact more heirs surfaced . Check your will and all the records. The tax office in Marion County is sheriff's office . Check all the survey companies around make sure it hasn't been surveyed . We had issues with some folks

Comment by Nancy Mosley on January 14, 2015 at 3:01pm

Rosetta, If you need help sorting out what steps to take, please ask. I have some ideas, and maybe others here do also.

If you know the current surface owner,  I might be able to at least help find out the deed book and number of the deed selling to him, if you don't know that. You could maybe order it from the Marion County clerk.

Comment by ROSETTA WILKINSON on January 14, 2015 at 4:40am

Thanks for your input Nancy.  I guess whoever had the surface rights, sold it to him. The deed( for minerals only) was to my stepmother, and then to me via her will in 2008.  My portion is clearly only the mineral rights, coal, oil and gas, etc. I am trying to figure out what to do.  I live out of state, so its not like I can just go to the court house and do research, so I am gathering everything I have here, putting it in order and figuring out exactly what I will need to research, if and when, I have to go there.  Thanks again.  Rosetta

Comment by Nancy Mosley on January 13, 2015 at 5:19pm

Rosetta, when the property was purchased in 2010, who sold it? I think you said you have that deed, and it is clearly just surface sold? Minerals retained?

And, back to what the landman said, it is possible that the landman is thinking of the Ohio law and not West Virginia about land reverting to surface owner. There is some law there that if the minerals are separated, then nothing is done with the minerals for 20 years (no leasing or things like that) then the minerals revert to surface owner. But WV does not have that law. We pay taxes on the minerals so that is the big difference.

Yes, it sounds like you also need to see the will where the gggrandmother inherited from her mother in law. If that will stated that she only had a life estate, it might mean something (not sure what) but otherwise, I can't see how that abstractor could have thought that.

Comment by ROSETTA WILKINSON on January 13, 2015 at 3:45am

I have the deed information, where in the 1860's, her father-in-law, my step ggggrandfather, divided the property in thirds, for each of his three children. In 1880's, my ggggrandfather purchased his brothers 1/3, giving him 2/3. This 2/3, over 81 acres was divided into 5ths. I have a letter in 1961 from an attorney, a month or so after gggrandmother died, in which it states that she got the minerals from her mother-in-law...so I guess I need to find that will and or deed to see. I went to the tax dept online website and truly it states that when the property was purchased in 2010, it was surface only; yet he got this company to lease the minerals. The tax office sticks by their story and of course, the burden falls upon me.  I appreciate your comments. Thanks

Comment by Nancy Mosley on January 12, 2015 at 4:37pm

Rosetta Wilkinson, do you have a copy of the deed where your ancestor sold the surface? If the minerals were really retained as a life estate, then when your step gggrandmother died, the minerals went however the deed said. I think the first thing to do is somehow get a copy of the deed, and any deeds before that in the chain of title.

It could be that one or more of those offices made a mistake but you'll need the deed to find out.

At least that is where I would start. Anybody else with more ideas?

Comment by ROSETTA WILKINSON on January 12, 2015 at 5:17am

Good morning. I have a bizarre thing going on now that deals with Marion County, so any input would be appreciated. I had a company looking into purchasing my portion of mineral rights on two different tracks, one Lincoln District, the other one PawPaw District. According to them, an abstractor told them, that when my step great great grandmother died in 1961, that the mineral rights she owned, since she had a life estate, should have reverted back to the surface owners and that the tax office, should not have issued a tax id for the mineral rights and that the taxes we have paid since 1961, was simply our family paying for someone else......fast forward to 2010, when a gentleman in GA purchased the surface land only and that is exactly what his tax information shows..turns around in 2012 and leases the mineral rights to Stone Energy Corporation. As bizarre as this sounds, this is exactly what I have been told by the assessors office, sheriffs tax office and county clerks office, we don't make mistakes like that, you need to get a lawyer and prove that it is our mistake and once you do that, you can file an appeal to receive the taxes paid in error, oh yeah, by the way, you can only reclaim the last five years and then it will be in the form of a tax credit for any future taxes you might owe in Marion County.
So someone, please explain to me, how we can pay taxes for 54 years and yet the man who has surface rights only, can lease the minerals?
Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
Rosetta Wilkinson

Comment by Daniel Morris on October 17, 2014 at 2:48pm

Does the Chesapeake sale  announced in the newsletter today affect Marion County, WV?

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