Richard Thomas Sutton of Westmoreland Cty, PA by Anna Herbertson, 6584 Bull Hill Court, Colorado Springs, CO 80919 West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, Hardesty's Wood Co., v8, p. 112: Richard Thomas SUTTON -- was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1856, and settled in this county in 1821. His wife Nancy Jane, daughter of William James and Nancy Ann (Moore) Lowry, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1860. She was married to him in Washington county, Ohio, April 18, 1878, and is the mother of 3 children: John Lowry, born June 14, 1879; Myrtie, July 2, 1880; Rose November 12, 1881, died March 2, 1882. Mr. Sutton had two brothers in the Civil war. Reuben enlisted in 1861 and served 100 days, and in 1863 enlisted again and served to the close, Eugene served abut two years. Mrs. Sutton's grandfather, John Moore, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and is now living in Washington county, Ohio. He is 89 years old. Mr. Sutton is engaged in growing fruit trees, and expects to keep a stock on hand at all times. He has a stock of trees in Ohio, also. His nursery is one mile from Valley Mills, in Williams district, and those wishing to buy either fruit, ornamental trees or shrubbery, will do well to call on him, as he will well at prices as low as at any regular nursery. Address, Valley Mills, Wood county, West Virginia. West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, Hardesty's Braxton Co., v3, p. 9394: F. J. Sutton -- son of James and Mary (Skidmore) Sutton, of this county, was born in Braxton county, October 19, 1841. He has made his home in Birch district, where he has fifty acres of land under cultivation, and 130 to 140 acres in excellent timber oak, poplar and walnut. At the age of twenty he entered the Southern army, enlisting in June 1861, at Braxton Court House. He was in the engagements of Carricks Ford and McDowell, and then a participant in the Shenandoah Valley campaign, at Winchester and Cross Keys. He was in the seven day's fight before Richmond, and in the battles of Gordonsville, Harpers Ferry, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Antietam, second Bull Run, Cedar Creek, along the Potomac capes in the battle of the Wilderness, where he was captured, May 5, 1864, and sent to Fort Delaware, remaining prisoner until the war closed. He was constable, 185861, and in 1787 was elected to the office of justice of the peace, which he acceptably filled four years. The wife of F. J. Sutton is Mary A., daughter of James and Savina (Pack) McLaughlin, of Greenbrier county, West Virginia. She was born in Nicholas county, (now) West Virginia, October 11, 1844. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Sutton are eight, all at home: Okey S., born March 23, 1869; Rush, July 7, 1870; Susan, July 5, 1872; Mark, September 5, 1874; Frank, August 3, 1876; Mary S., December 12, 1878; Julia, November 16, 1881; and the baby, November 29, 1882. F. J. Sutton's post office address is Twistville, Braxton county, West Virginia. [Note: Sutton is the county seat of Braxton County, which is in central West Virginia on the Allegheny Plateau. Sutton was established in 1826 and is the trading center for a farming region. The first settlement was formed in 1810 by John D. Sutton, for whom the city is named. In its 1826 charter the city was originally called Suttonville, but a new charter in 1889 reinstated the name of Sutton. This John D., probably John Davidson, is of Dorothea Sutton Morris' line.]