Hello my name is Sharon White and I’m writing in regards to my husband’s (David) inherited mineral rights in Ritchie County WV . I’m writing to everyone in hopes that someone can help us. I’ll just start at the beginning.
Back in March 2023 we received a letter in the mail from Antero Resources, a lease agreement for gas & oil mineral rights that we supposed to have inherited through my late Grandmother who passed away in 2014. Lol you know the old saying . " I wish I could get an inheritance from a long lost cousin" well this felt just like that. Anyways. My husband David, never knew his father’s side of the family he knew of them but because of his father and mother divorcing when he was just a baby he never met his father or that side. So of course we wanted to look into this further before signing any lease. The lease stated we had 0.50000 AC in Ritchie county Clay district. Small I know but keep reading it gets better. So we started researching and found out that due to a false affidavit of heirship that my aunt filed saying she was the only child of Anna Titus See my husband’s father died in 1995 19 years before his grandmother. Sarah David’s Aunt knew about my husband and 4 other of David’s siblings. The affidavit wasn’t even completely filled out. Look it up on Ritchie IDX unders Sarah Mae Bennett if you want.
So in 2014 my husband and his siblings would have stepped into their dad’s spot and should have.
So in 2023 Sarah passed away and in her death bad she admitted she lied and said she had a brother and she loved him very much.
So in 2023 Antero had to get their titles right and that’s when we first heard of Mineral Rights.
During our research we found more than just that 1/2a. Sarah received right around 400a. She was leased with Antero and EQT We have asked Antero for a full accounting on what is owed to us from 2014. They have admitted they owe us but they say * sign the lease and we will pay it" We do not want to sign any new lease until we get what is owed to us. They are holding our money hostage. Not to mention Sarah’s Husband Ritchard B Bennett and there children are all leased and still getting paid our money. We haven’t got one red cent from Antero. Antero sent us division orders for the new units we are on we signed them but the interest % is so low it’s a fraction of a fraction. But I think they are lying to us. They have Sarah in the new units that just started up in 2025. Now tell me how does a dead woman sign new pooling orders. Also her husband died in April of this year and he is in the units along with their children. So tell me how the interest % is correct? We have spoke to a couple of attorneys but they won’t touch the case because of the fraction of a fraction interest that is shown. We have caught Antero in so many lies. They tried telling us that Sarah never received a bonus because she died before she signed a lease. What?! Sarah was signing leases with them since 2014!!! I’m at my wits end with this. I have proof of everything but I don’t know where to go with it.
Any suggestions please let me know. Also has anyone been through a similar situation. Let me know
Thank you
Sharon White.