Yep DD. Grandad Perky, he had a farm around Liberty way up on Red House hill and he had this really big pot belly stove down in the basement of his house back when I was a kid. He called it the cellar, but it wasn't really a cellar. More like a shop for the house. The farm shop was in the barn. He built the house and had these vents in the floor so the heat would go upstairs. Anyway, it'd get cold and he'd cut up up some tire, throw it in that thing with some newspaper under it, add some coal and used oil from the tractor on top of that and I don't care if it was 40 below outside you was looking for a cool corner in that house once it got going!!!
I've seen that thing cherry red. He put a squirrel cage fan behind it... big one too... and when it would get cherry red he would turn it on and it would blow the heat all over the basement. Open up the door to upstairs and you had a natural heating system. Hell we'd keep our coffee warm by putting the metal coffee pot on the base of it. No microwaves back then!
Those were good days. Grandma always had good coffee. 8 'o clock coffee, ground fresh from the A&P down in Poca, perked in an old coffee pot with the little glass button on the top. I still drink that brand of coffee to this day and on the weekends I use on of those old perkers. 
My uncle had a mill he ran, grinding feed for farmers in one part, and milling flour in the other. He had an old pot bellied stove in the office at one end of the mill, and when it was COLD outside, it felt 20 decrees COLDER in the mill. But not the office! That place was like a sauna! He kept one of those perkers on the stove with water in it. If you wanted coffee or hot chocolate, you brought your own, and your own cup!
You mention Poca, Red House, and Liberty. I've been thru all those places, going up 34 to Kenna. Went thru a town(?), or at least saw a sign, for Paradise, WV, near Liberty. To this day, I'll tell people "I've been to Paradise!" Once, someone thought I was being a smartass, and asked me WHERE Paradise was. I told him the truth.
"On WV 34 outside of Red House, between Confidence and Liberty, before you get to Kenna."
Tires were a LOT easier to cut up back in the day, before steel belts and such. With the exception of the bead, you could cut one with a good pocket knife. Today, you almost have to burn it whole.
