Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/186 Surname: FLINN, BARTLETT, STAATS, HOSTLETON, SLAVEN, COX, HOWARD, HICKS, BOSO ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Flinn Family In 1785, a party from Wheeling took possession of an old Indian improvement of about twenty acres, above the mouth of Lee Creek, and built a blockhouse. Among these were an old man named Flinn, a widower, and Thomas and John Flinn, his sons, and a daughter who married John Barnett. Owing to the hostilities of the Indians, they moved, for greater security, to the fort at Belleville, in 1787. This blockhouse was called Flinn's Station, and the Flinn family were descended from this old man. Old Billy Flinn was born about 1790, and was up in the nineties when he died. He married Polly Staats, a sister of Dave Staats, and daughter of Noah Staats. He lived at the mouth of Meat House Fork of Little Sandy. Their children were: William Flinn ("Cap") married a Hostleton. Sarah Flinn married Henry Slaven. David Flinn married a Cox. Kale Flinn married Baxter Howard. (R.B. Howard, near LeRoy) Nancy Flinn married George Howard. Jane Flinn married Newton Hicks. Other children were Joe, George, Lafayette. Old Johnny Flinn, a brother of Old Billy, lived on Pond Creek, at the mouth of Cabin Fork. George Flinn once lived at the first place below John Flinn's, on Pond Creek. Sisters of these Flinns married Old John Boso, and his son, Charles.

1840 Jackson Co census William Smith 1m 15-20 1m 40-50 2f 0-5 1f 20-30 1f 40-50 Whiten Smith 2m 20-30 1f 0-5 1f 20-30 1860 Jackson Co # 1223-1155 Jackson, David, 22, 200-125, VA Juliana A, 21, VA William, 5, VA Wilson, 3, VA Smith, Lucinda, 21, domestic, VA Rader, Madison, 4/12, Va Smith, Willliam, 55, Famer, VA Jackson Co marriages: David Jackson, 19 to Juliana Smith, 16, d/o William, 2/12/1854 James McKinley, 24 (W) Meigs Co, OH, s/o Arch & Sarah; to Lucinda Smith, 21, Jackson, d/o William & Elizabeth, 3/26/1861 Both girls and their families appear in the 1870 census, if you want that info, but I don't see William. 1861 Jackson Co Land Book William Smith, 41 acres, Ohio River, NW18 miles Betty daath11 wrote: > Seeking information on William Smith born abt 1805 in Virginia. William is listed on the 1850 Jackson County, 27th District census; > > Household #782 Family #789: > > Smith William 45 M Farmer VA > Smith Juliann 16 F VA > Smith Lucinda 12 F VA > > At Household #780, Family #787 is the family of Whiting W. Smith. > > Michael E. Anthony > daath11@msn.com > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/n/t/Michael-E-Anthony/index.html > > ==== WVJACKSO Mailing List ==== > Take a look at the GenConnect boards for Jackson County. > Do you have items that you can add?

Dee, I finally got connected to the Bios Board, and Ables wasn't there. Don't know why. I typed it about the same time as a lot of others, so either I got bumped while posting or the cyberspace monster had a good meal. At any rate, it should be there now, and I've checked - all the others are posted. I'm sorry to have caused any confusion. :( Betty

Seeking information on William Smith born abt 1805 in Virginia. William is listed on the 1850 Jackson County, 27th District census; Household #782 Family #789: Smith William 45 M Farmer VA Smith Juliann 16 F VA Smith Lucinda 12 F VA At Household #780, Family #787 is the family of Whiting W. Smith. Michael E. Anthony daath11@msn.com http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/n/t/Michael-E-Anthony/index.html

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/185 Surname: WASHBURN, CARDER, STUTLER, MURPHY, DAVIS ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Sandy Valley". Washburn Washburn came out some years earlier than Carder and Stutler. He died at his home at the mouth of the Washburn Run, and the family scattered - mostly going to Ohio. He had sons, Isaac, Elias and William, and two daughters, Clarissa, who married Joe Murphy, and Sally, who married Joe Davis, and lived on Copper Fork.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/184 Surname: WASHBURN, LOWTHER, CARDER, HYRE, SMITH, STUTLER, BUTCHER, CHEUVRONT, HARTLEY ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Sandy Valley". Upper Sandy Valley In the month of June, 1782, there lived in the village of Clarksburg, a man named Charles Washburn, who, while chopping wood in his yard, was shot by a party of Indians lurking in the vicinity. One fellow more venturesome than the others, rushed up to the dying man, cleft his skull with an axe, and, quickly scalping the body, made his escape with the bloody trophy. Three of the Washburn brothers had formerly been killed by the savages: Isaac, who was shot on Hacker's Creek in 1778, and James and Stephen, who were waylaid, while hunting for pine knots for making shoe wax, near their home on West Fork. Stephen was shot and scalped, and James was carried off to their town, where he was put to death by cruel torture. Charles Washburn's widow, who before her marriage was Nancy Lowther, was afterward wedded to William Carder, who was living "near below" the mouth of Hacker's Creek (as my informant expressed it) when on the 25th of July, 1794, his place was raided by the Indians. Though the savages were repulsed, they burned the house and drove off the stock. This was the last depradation committed in that section. The history of some of William Carder's descendants is, for the most part, the early history of Upper Sandy. His father, says family tradition, was a rope maker by profession, while living in England. He and a friend and comrade named Hyre, crossed the ocean and located together on a large tract of land they held in partnership. Carder had the most perfect confidence in his friend, and they were, it is said, "just like two twin brothers." But, alas for trust in "mortal man!" As is too often the case, this friend proved treacherous, and taking advantage of the perfect reliance the other place in him, swindled him out of nearly all that he possessed, and left him old, infirm and poor, to drift about the country and into a grave in the potter's field. Carder was a deeply religious man, and withal, it appears, something of a prophet, for it is said he told Hyre that his ill gotten gains would not profit him much, for he and his family would be stricken with blindness. In a few years both Hyre and his sons and sons-in-law were stone blind. William Carder had several children. Among them were: John Wesley, who married Margaret Smith. Manley. Elizabeth, who married Thomas Washburn. Nancy, who married John Stutler. William, whose last wife was Priscilla Butcher. John Wesley Carder was born and reared in Harrison County. He married , and lived there until his older children were married and had homes of their own. He then, early in the winter of 1838 or 9, decided to follow his brother-in-law, Washburn, to the fertile valley of Big Sandy Creek in the new County of Jackson. Washburn had preceded him by several years, and now Carder, Stutler, and a neighbor by the name of Cheuvront, packed their rude belongings and followed him to the new West, where land could be had at a nominal price and game was yet abundant. Stutler, it is said, came by the overland route, arriving sometime in January. Carder and Cheuvront took the long way by water, down the West Fork past Clarksburg, and down the Monongahela by way of Pittsburgh, and the Ohio River to Ravenswood, reaching their new home in April. Carder was an expert blacksmith and gunsmith, a craft always in demand in a pioneer settlement. His patronage came from many miles in every direction. He and his boys were successful trappers, and famous as hunters, and prospered in their agricultural pursuits. He bought a large boundary of land, and located on the present site of Liverpool. But, living at first in a squatter's cabin near the site of Mr. T. I. Hartley's residence. Later, he built a log house practically on the site of Hartley's house, perhaps a little nearer to the well.

Dee, Go here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvjackso/JACK.HTMo.com Scroll down the page to the GenConnect Boards, click. On that page, click on Bios. Scroll down until you find Ables. I get the message that the server is down, so there must be a lot of traffic this evening. Betty Dee wrote: > Betty says that "Ables and Straley have already been posted." > > I found Straley, but I cannot find Ables. > Can someone who might have it send it to me. I just don't have it in > my file.It could have been before I subscribed, I don't know. > > I see that there is an Ables listed on the Straley bio, but from > reading above, it looks as if they were two separate families. > > Thanks so very much. > > Dee. >

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/183 Surname: ABLES, PARSONS, STRALEY, STAATS, CARNEY, STEWART, HAMILTON, SWAN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Sycamore Creek" Ables Family >From the forks of Sycamore, the Parsonses at one time or another, owned the valley of the right branch up for over two and a half miles, or as far as the site of the Centennial Church and school house. They were probably the first permanent settlers of the lower Sycamore valley. About 18–, Martin Ables came from Greene County, Pennsylvania, and located about a mile and a half up on Sycamore, at what is now known as the Straley farm, where he made the first improvement, though it is probable Parsons had lived for a time at the wide bottoms above at an earlier date. Two sons came with him and lived somewhere near Sandy. He is said to have had a horse mill, which was patronized by the pioneers of Sandy. Some of his descendants are still living about Ravenswood. Alexander (commonly known as Alec) Ables, married Hannah Staats, daughter of Old Abram Staats, of near Evans. He got a piece of land at the farm now owned by William Carney, building his house across on a knoll near the mouth of two runs which here flow into Sycamore. Here was born on January 5th, 1831, his daughter, Anna, who is now residing at Reedy, in Roane County (Mrs. William Stewart). He lived a while at the mouth of Sycamore. Margaret Ables, a sister of Alec, married William Staats, a son of Abraham, and brother of Alec's wife. He lived on Sycamore for a time, and then emigrated to Indiana. Late in the thirties, a man named Hamilton bought the farm now known as the Connolly farm, about a mile above town, there was a camp ground laid out by the Methodist people in the woods in the Connolly bottoms. Here they continued to hold camp meetings annually until the ground was cleared, when the camp ground, with its paraphernalia of sheds, cook rooms, seats, etc., were removed to the flat at the head of the run where the road crosses from Sycamore to Station Camp. Here the meetings were kept up until the division of the church, in 1844. This was locally known as the "Seedtick" camp ground, from the immense quantities of a small white insect, known as seedtick, by which the leaves and brush of the thickets were inhabited. These, with the still well known "Chiggers" and woodticks, were a pest to the backwoodsman. Where the run just mentioned enters the creek, another large run enters from the right, which heads a the Short Bend schoolhouse. At a spot near the mouth of this run was the site of the Ables cabin. Mr. William Staats, of near Reedy, informs me that he remembers when small, perhaps about 1846, going with his father when he took his wool to the carding machine. They stopped with his aunt, Hannah Ables, and she sent a son, Alfred, to a neighbor, on the adjoining farm, the house was by the creek on the Carney farm– possibly the same one torn down about 1903 – for a cabbage head, on which errand he went also. The people, he remembers, were German, the old lady talking volubly in that tongue. There is on record in the Clerk's office at Ripley, a deed made January 30th, 1834, wherein Martin Ables, in consideration of the sum of $200.00 and the maintenance of himself and wife, Margaret Ables, conveyed to Alexander Ables, three hundred acres on Sycamore, being the upper part of the tract of four hundred acres bought by him of John Leonard, and by Leonard of John Swan. As a means of easy reference, the following condensed information is given: Martin Ables (wife's name was not learned) came from Greene County, Pennsylvania. His children were Alexander, married Hannah Staats. He died in Illinois. Jacob. Margaret married William Staats. There was a family named Ables who moved from Greene County, Pennsylvania, to Guernsey County, Ohio, about 1805, or earlier.

Betty says that "Ables and Straley have already been posted." I found Straley, but I cannot find Ables. Can someone who might have it send it to me. I just don't have it in my file.It could have been before I subscribed, I don't know. I see that there is an Ables listed on the Straley bio, but from reading above, it looks as if they were two separate families. Thanks so very much. Dee.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1945 Surname: STARCHER ------------------------- It would help to determine which Jacob Starcher you are referring too, as there are lots of Jacob Starchers in WV. if you could give us a name of his wife or even some of his children, I might be able to give you dates. Happy hunting.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/WV/Jackson/1944 Surname: WINTER, CASTO, CUNNINGHAM, BRANNON ------------------------- I am wondering if anyone knows of a Winter family cemetary in Ripley, Jackson Co. Before my father died, he mentioned having visited this cemetary where there are a lot of Winter relatives buried. I haven't turned up anything on the internet so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/182 Surname: PARCHMENT, MCKOWN, HARPOLD, PARSONS ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Mill Creek". Parchment Two miles above Evans, still on the south side, a large creek flows into Mill Creek, which bears the name of Parchment, said to have been derived from an old man of that name, who lived at the mouth of the creek in pioneer days, leaving his name to the stream, which is the only trace of his existence I have been able to discover. There was a Mr. Parchment, his wife and two sons, John and Jacob, in the colony at the mouth of Lee Creek, in 1785. This man may have been one of the sons. There are on Parchment waters, five post offices, and ten or twelve schoolhouses. The fall of 1896, I crossed from Ripley to Parchment, a few miles from the mouth, the country is rough and hilly, with narrow bottoms, but appears fertile. Among the names identified with the early history of Parchment, are: John McKown Solomon Harpold John Harpold William Parsons Henry Parsons

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/181 Surname: PICKENS, STUMP, BONTEMPT, BONTO, REYNAUD, RAYNO, LITTLE, RHODES, PARSONS, LYONS, FLINN, EDWARDS, SHEPHERD, HAWK ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Middle Sandy Valley". Middle Sandy Valley Cherry Camp is a small stream emptying into Sandy, from the right, about a mile above Crooked Fork. Elijah Pickens lived near its mouth, and some of this descendants own land in that vicinity. There is a large area of flat, or slightly rolling, land, extending from below the mouth of Cherry Camp to the mouth of Mud Run, know as the Mud Run Flats. It is a lovely plateau with its system of water courses, little brooks, some rising in the hills and some wholly within the boundaries of the flat, which may be three quarters of a mile in length, and perhaps a half a mile wide, in the widest place. There are some bottoms along the creek, which are probably of good quality, and each little stream had its miniature bottom, a few rods wide and sloping back to the tops of the "hills" so gently it can scarce be told where bottom ends and hill commences. A remarkably pretty country, to look at, but with a white clay soil of little use for agricultural purposes. Mud Run is about a half mile above Cherry Camp, and also heads against the Left Fork of Sycamore. The first settlers at the mouth of Mud Run was a man named Stump. The name is all I have. As to whence he came, or where he went, none appear to know. The "Sandy Fever" plague may be the solution. The date probably was about 1830. The next stream entering the creek some hundred rods higher up is Trace Fork, so named from an old Indian trail leading from the settlements in Harrison and Lewis Counties, by way of Shade River, to the Indian towns on the Scioto. A short distance above the mouth, on a kind of plateau, is the house of Peter Bontempt, built four or five years ago. Near it is a row of four very large apple trees, which may be the remnant of a "pioneer" orchard. Just above, on the left, in the mouth of a small run, is the old Bonto house, built of heavy hewn logs, with cut stone cellar, but the old folks passed to the Great Beyond, and the old buildings are falling before the ravages of time. Bonto (Bontempt is the original spelling), like Raynaud (Rayno), who lived below, was of French descent. The first settler on the Bonto farm was Robert Little, who died of "Sandy Fever", in 1858. He was (said Mrs. Rhodes) there in 1836. George Parsons settled the next place above Little's, about 1830. The site of his cabin I have not been able to make out. There are two old orchards on the place now, one on a point across the road from the house, and a little below, the other about two hundred yards lower down the creek, and on the opposite side, in a bottom cut off by a bend in the stream. There is no sign of a house there now, but at the upper site, there is an old house on the bank above the road, among some trees. If either orchard dates back to the first settlement, it is probably the lower one. George Parsons died about 1838. His wife was Sarah Lyons (See Mill Creek History). His son, George Parsons, died on lower Trace Fork a few years ago. Another son, Charles Parsons, was the father of J. W. Parsons, some time assessor of the first District, and Isaiah Parsons a former County Superintendent. Charles Parsons lived on the home place, some say. His sister, Mrs. Rhodes said he moved to Charleston. Another son, Fielding Parsons, was a Union soldier, and died at Ravenswood three or four years ago. A Flinn lived on the Parsons place afterwards. The next improvement was made, as nearly as can be ascertained, by a man named Edwards, who took a lease and built a cabin across the road, next the creek, from where Mack Shepherd now lives. There was a Lewis Edwards, a skillful carpenter, who lived at different places along Sandy before the war, who was probably the same man. He was not a land owner, but rented and worked at his trade. It is not mentioned who owned the land at that time, but it was a part of the same farm now owned by Frank Hawk.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/180 Surname: CUNNINGHAM, BARNETT, PARSONS, FLESHER, TOLLEY, GRAHAM, SKIDMORE, POWERS, CASTO, BOGGS, WILSON, ROUSH, HUMPHRIES, HUFFMAN, RAY, GREENLEAF, COON, DUFF, COMER, DAWSON, BOOTH, ALDERMAN, VANDYNE, SAYRE, SMITH, ONG, ROLLINS, TUCKER, HARDMAN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Tug Fork". Cunningham Family Another name prominent in the history of Tug Fork and of Jackson and Roane Counties is that of Cunningham. The history of the Cunningham family is given, as follows: James Cunningham and a brother (possibly Hugh) came from Dublin, Ireland, to America, landing in Virginia, and James made his home somewhere beyond the Blue Ridge. One of his sons, James Cunningham, came across the Blue Ridge and located in Pendleton County, where he lived and died. His wife was Keziah Barnett, who was born in 1766, and came with her children to Mill Creek, and died at Ripely, aged eighty six. Their children were James, William, Isaac, Joel, Thomas and Phoebe. James Cunningham married Sarah Parsons, whose mother was a Flesher before marriage. They lived at the mouth of Bear Run on Tug Fork. Matilda Ann Cunningham married Sam P. Tolley, and lived on Bear Fork. Benjamin R. Cunningham (Rath) lived near Ripley, where he is buried. His wife was Jane Graham. Isaac Marshall Cunningham married Isabel Skidmore, was drowned at Cincinnati, Ohio. William P. Cunningham married Emily Andrew. Thaddeus (Nic) Cunningham was in the Ninth West Virginia Infantry. He had three wives, the first Margaret Powers, second, Saranna Casto and third Charity Boggs, a widow Wilson. He lives on the head of Joe's run, and is seventy five years old. Elias Cunningham married Mary Roush. George B. Cunningham was a soldier in the Twentieth Indiana, and was killed in Richmond. Lezy Cunningham married Joe Humphries. Emily Cunningham married Calvin Huffman in Mason County. Martha Cunningham married Elias Huffman in Mason County. Of the other Cunninghams, the most famous family is that of Joel, who lived on the Middle Fork of Poca. Joel Cunningham married Mary Magdalene Casto, a daughter of George Casto, afterward sheriff of Jackson County. Joel Cunningham died at Buffalo, VA., in 1862. His wife died at the age of ninety two years, at the home of her son Robert Cunningham, at Clendenin, on the Elk River. The children of Joel and Mary Magdalene Casto Cunningham were: Nathan, Robert, Keziah, Caroline, Matilda, Dan, Miriam, Phoebe, and Sally. Their son, Nathan Cunningham, was born in Jackson County, on the 9th day of February, 1839. In August 1858 he wedded Parmelia Ray, daughter of William Ray, also of Jackson County. When about twenty three years of age, he enlisted in the Eighty West Virginia Infantry, and served about one year as Second Lieutenant of Company E of that Regiment, and served two terms of four years each as Justice of the Peace, and four years as Assessor in Jackson County. During the war, he made himself particularly obnoxious to the bushwhackers and their friends, and on the 10th of August, 1877, he was shot by some of his many enemies, from a wagon, while returning from Ripley. Dan Cunningham married Beulah Greenleaf, a daughter of Elliot Greenleaf. He taught school for several years, and is now a successful U.S. detective and Deputy Marshall, residing at Charleston. Robert Cunningham married a Coon, a sister of Chess Coon. Keziah Cunningham married George H. Duff, on June 26th, 1856. He was born in Amherst County, Virginia, in 1831, and was of Scotch Irish descent. In April of 1844, he came with his parents to Jackson County, settling on Mount Tell, on the head of the middle fork of Poca, when that region was yet all a wilderness. The only cleared land close was a patch which "Devil Bill" Parsons had cleared around a little hut he had built on the land the elder Duff had purchased. The latter agreed to give Parsons three bushel of corn for his claim and improvement. George Duff succeeded in getting a good education for that day, and in 1853 taught his first school on Spring Creek, near Spencer. June 22nd, 1856, he married Keziah Cunningham. He died in 1898. His sons, Robert and George, were both teachers, as were some of the younger children. Phoebe Cunningham married Noah Comer, who is sixty three years old, having been born in Kanawha County, in 1842. One year later his parents moved to the Left Fork of Poca, in Jackson county. His parents were William Comer, raised on Poca in Kanawha County, son of George Comer, a son of Daniel Comer, who came from Germany to the Kanawha Valley among its first pioneers. Noah Comer's mother was Delila Dawson, a daughter of Noah and Ruth Fisher Dawson, and granddaughter of John Dawson. Caroline Cunningham married Isaac Duff, a brother of George H. Duff. Matilda Cunningham married Joe Booth. "Marm" Cunningham married Anderson Alderman, and lived at the head of Wolf Creek. Sally Cunningham married "Zay" Vandyne. Isaac Cunningham lived on Mill Creek a few years. His second wife was Anna Sayre, daughter of Joel Sayre. William Cunningham lived on Mill Creek, below Ripley. He married a widow Smith, and had seven children. Phoebe Cunningham married first Elmore H. Casto, and later Isaiah, one of Nathan Ong's sons. Thomas Cunningham married Peggy Casto, who was a sister to Nic Casto. Theri children were: Emeline, who married Mason Casto, Daniel's son; George, Ben and Phoebe. Phoebe Cunningham married Ben Rollins, son of Elijah J. Rollins. It does not appear what relationship this family has to the Cunninghams who were so conspicuous in the Indian Wars on the western border of Virginia. The Phoebe Cunningham who was captured by the Indians on Bingamon Creek in 1785, and suffered such hardships at the hands of the savages before being ransomed by the notorious Simon Girty, may have well been of the same line, when we consider that the name is repeated in every family of the Jackson County Cunninghams. The Hugh Cunningham who was the head of that family might easily have been the brother of James who came from Ireland with him. An outline of the family runs thus: Hugh Cunningham came from Dublin, Ireland, to Fairfax County, Virginia. He lived on Bingamon Creek and later in Harrison County. He had sons, Thomas, Edward, Adam, Walter, William, Joseph, and Benjamin. Of these sons, Adam was an early settler of the South Branch of the Potomac. Thomas and Edward resided on Bingamon Creek in 1785, Thomas having married Phoebe Tucker. William, son of Thomas, was a Methodist preacher. The Leah Cunningham who married Ben Hardman (see History of Reedy Valley) was a descendant of this family.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/179 Surname: DAWKINS, HARRISON, CARDER, HARTLEY, SWEEZY, MCCALL, CHEUVRONT, ABLES, BARNETT, FLINN, BOGGESS, HOFF, JENKINS, MCCOY, DELANEY, INGRAM, SYOC, RARDON, CUSTER, HUTCHINSON ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Middle Sandy Valley". Dawkins Family Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and three times governor of Virginia, father of W. H. Harrison, ninth president of the United States, patented a large tract of land comprising nearly all the valley of the Right Fork, or "reaching from Sandyville to Liverpool". The line between the farms of Floyd Carder and John Hartley is called the "Old Harrison Line", and may have been the outside line of this survey. The title of much of this land was forfeited to the state, and resold for taxes, one time or another. Several hundred acres of this land above Sweezy's had been bought by George McCall, and was sold by him to Thomas Dawkins, who lived on the flats of Tygart's Creek, near the Mineral Wells, in Wood County, about 1840. In 1840, the Dawkins boys came out to the place and made an extensive "deadening", preparatory to clearing the land, but for some reason, the family did not move out. Six or seven years later, Jim Dawkins came out and built a cabin at the mouth of Bear Tree Run, but within two years, he had succumbed to the Sandy fever, and his cabin was vacant. Thomas Dawkins was from Culpepper County, Virginia, but had been in Wood County since about 1825. In 1830, Thomas Jefferson Dawkins married and moved on the land. In 1852, he built a house on the lower side of the road, where the creek which came to the hill just above makes a sharp bend back through the fields, leaving room for a house, barn, garden, etc., on the promontory cut off by the pike, then just newly built. Above the barn is a steep bank down to the creek, by the side of which stands, or did stand a few years ago, a pine tree. It was here the teams were fed, and we had lunch, when moving from Pond Creek to Reedy, in February, 1872. We had come from Buttermilk, where we stopped the night before, at Isaac Cheuvronts, that morning, and got to the Three Forks of Reedy ten miles farther on our way, just after dark. At that time, there was no house there, just a barn, and perhaps a corn crib. Jeff Dawkins lived back on the hill, just out of sight from the road. The intervening hillside was cleared, and in bluegress, but thickly studded with beech trees of the primeval forest. William G. Ables, probably a grandson of Martin Ables of Sycamore, had a lease on the Dawkins land before Jeff Dawkins came out. He afterward lived with his son, Jake Ables, on Strait Fork. Jim Dawkins and John Dawkins, who once lived on the Charley Carney farm on Mill Creek, were cousins to Jeff. It was about 1850 that John M. Barnett (perhaps a descendant of the John Barnett who lived at the mouth of Lee Creek, in the Flinn blockhouse) came out. Barnett had married on of the Dawkins girls, and made the first improvement where Perry Boggess now lives, two and a half miles above Sandyville. After his death, his widow married Moses Hoff. Jeff Dawkiins lives just above the old house site mentioned above , at the mouth of Lunn Camp Run. The next run on the left is at Meadowdale. Some say the first improvement here was by the negro, Felix Jenkins. Jacob Ingram was living here about 1845, and Jenkins at the Baker farm next Sandyville. About 1850, Ingraham went to the Middle Fork of Reedy, and later to Ohio. Jenkins was not a pure negro, but he and his wife were classed as colored people. He had several sons and daughters. They moved from Right Sandy to the head of Straight Fork. Felix Jenkins at one time owned two hundred acres on Bush Run, comprising the Delaney, McCoy, and a part of the Boggess tracts. He hired John Carder to build him a house, in the bottom, at the forks of the run, which stood several years, but I think he never moved to it. About a hundred yards up the rim, above Ingram, was the residence of Abel V. Syoc (as the name is written in the deed book at Ripley). He was a soldier in the war of 1812, came from Grave Creek to Crooked Fork, and from there to Meadowdale, about 1850, perhaps. He was twice married, his last wife being a daughter of David Rardon. Big Lick Run comes on the right of Sandy, and a short distance above. It has been a wild rough country in the pioneer days. The hills are high, steep and rocky. There are imposing cliffs and walls fo sandstone lining the sides of a gorge, below the Grant farm, with rocks framed in the walls as large as a house. This strata of rocks seems to run solid through the hill, and crops out on the right fork of Coon Run in a solid wall of rock on each side of the stream, twelve to sixteen feet in thickness, through which the valley has been worn in the course of centuries. Near the mouth of Trap Run, the left bank of the stream is a wall of stone. The run is named from a spring in the bottom, on the right side of, and near the stream a little distance from its mouth. This once famous deer lick is only about a hundred yards below the site of John Custer's cabin, and near the upper line of K. C. Hutchinson's land, and the water comes out from under the foot of a towering mountain.

Looking for information on the Parents/Siblings for Frank HUFFMAN that was married to a Harriet something. He died in Putnam Co., WV in 1931 and left a Will, dated 12/8/1921, mentioning Children Perry L., Ervin, Frona Virginia HUFFMAN and Laura MCGREW. Also looking for information on Jesse FORD, that died in Putnam Co., VA in 1853 at age 62. In the death register he is listed as being born in Cumberland Co.,VA and having Parents Jesse FORD and Mary Something. He is listed as being born in Cumberland Co., VA. Jesse's Wife was an Elizabeth SOMETHING and died in 1855 in Putnam at age 74. In the death register, Elizabeth was listed as being born in Rockingham Co., VA and her Mother as a Sarah FULNALL (sp. ?). He lived in the part of Cabell Co., VA that became Putnam in 1848. At least one of his Sons may have been a steamboat captain on the Kanawha River as early as 1850-1860, and living in Kanawha Co., VA as early as 1847 (PPT listings and marriage record). Wanting to know of any FERGUSON' neighbors Jesse FORD may have had; they might connect with this potential Son. His Children, one was a John H. FORD, 35, a shoemaker, and in the household of Jesse in the 1850 VA Census in Putnam Co., and another one most likely a William R., married to a Rhody, who were 27 & 28 respectively in that same Census, are NOT the one described above though. Jesse & Elizabeth also had a Daughter named Elizabeth, who also died in 1855 as her Mother, in Putnam Co., VA. She was married to a Mr. DAVIS. I find Jesse in the 1840 VA Census in Cabell Co. with a male 20-30 and another 15-20 as well as he and his Wife and two females. Jesse is in the Personal Property Taxes (PPT) listings in Cabell Co., VA as early as early as 1838 (may be earlier than that but I didn't have time to check), with three males over 16 (He was one and John, his Son probably one. William was not 16 yet, but would have been in 1841 when three Males were also present over 16. In 1842 Jesse was only paying on himself. There are other FORDs paying PPT in that time period (Chesly, William, Richard, James & Morris). James is the ONLY FORD buying a lot of property there however (between 1815-1834). James, and his Wife Elizabeth, sell some property in 1838. There were several FORDs in Putnam in the 1850 VA Census other than Jesse. They are David, two Williams and a Frances. The Frances, age 65, may be a Sister or Sister - In - Law of Jesse as she lives close by. One of the Williams, age 42, could be a Brother. The other William is living next door to Jesse and is most likely his Son mentioned above. David's not important I believe. Only two remained in Cabell, James, Son of James & Elizabeth mentioned above in this inquiry, and Morris, also mentioned. There was also a Jesse FORD buying land in Putnam around 1888 and selling in 1892. Thank you for any help with the two relatives (?) of mine above. Julius (Tim) Emmett Spradling, III

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Obits Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonObits/885 Surname: Daniel Hubert Jackson ------------------------- I wANT TO KNOW IF ANY OF dANIEL hUBERT jACKSONS relatives live in this county I need information on him he died Jan 22,1981 he was bornin Feb 24,1950 he was my ex husband

Dear Betty, I am interested in the what the book says about my surnames: Boswell Knopp Straley Wolfe There are no Stewarts? Thanks, Kathy Daily

The 1850 Jackson County census is now online. http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/va/jackson/1850/ Betty

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/178 Surname: HARPER, COE, WARFIELD, STUTLER ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Sandy Valley". Harper-Coe Later owners of the land where Stutler first located were Messrs. Harper, Coe and Warfield. Harper was the father of Samuel and John Harper. Levi Coe was probably connected with the family of that name on Lower Reedy. He died, and is buried at Liverpool. He came to Duncan after the war and lived on the farm at the turn of the road below Warfield Run. Danger Camp or Defeat Camp was the pioneer name of the steam, so given because of a hunter's camp, which was destroyed here by Indians before the country was settled.