Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/177 Surname: SLAVEN, WOODDELL, CLINE, WARTH, SOMERVILLE, FLINN, GOUGH, BELL, DAVENPORT, WILKESON, MCFEE, CAWTHORNE, PICKENS ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Slaven Family One of the most prominent families on Little Sandy for the past sixty five years are the descendants of one William Slaven, who came there in 1843 or 1844. Prior to his removal to Jackson County, Slaven had served as sheriff of Randolph County, and had represented Lewis County in the House of Delegates at Richmond. He was a magistrate, or Justice of the Peace, for many years, and a prominent buyer and shipper of cattle in Randolph, Barbour, Harrison, Lewis and adjoining counties. He was a son of Jacob Slaven, a soldier in the Revolution. Of his brothers and sisters, there were - Jacob and John, who lived in the eastern part of the state. Nancy, who married and went to Ohio. Margaret, who married Stewart Wooddell, at one time sheriff of Pocahontas County. Joe Wooddell, the newspaperman, was their son. William Slaven was almost ninety two when he died, in 1889 or 1890. He was twice married, his first wife being Margaret Wooddell. After her death, he was again married, to Nancy, daughter of Old Johnny Cline. William and Margaret Slaven's children were: Charles was a forty niner, went to California and disappeared. John W. married Mary Cline, John Cline's daughter. He was born in 1825 and lived on Little Sandy for many years. William W. married Fidelia, daughter of Robert Warth, and lived on Little Sandy. James Slaven married Emmeline, daughter of James Somerville. Margaret Slaven married Andrew Somerville, and lived on the head of the left fork of Sandy. Nathan Slaven was in the Confederate Army, and was wounded at Fort Donelson and died. Henry Slaven was also in the Confederate Army, and lost a leg at the Winchester fight. He married Sarah Flinn, and lived on the Nesselrode place. Elizabeth M. Slaven married Joseph Yeager Springston. The children of the second family were: Francis was a chaplain in the Confederate Army, married in Ohio. Mary married first Jake Gough, and second a Bell. Roland married Lucy Davenport. Harriet married Harry Wilkeson, and lived near Cottageville. "Carline" married George, son of Bill McFee. Martha married a Cawthorne and went to Michigan. Sarah married Tom Ingram and lived on Pond Creek. Lucy married Dave Pickens, and lived on Sandy. Harry.
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/176 Surname: HARRIS ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Middle Sandy Valley". Harris Family About 1862, Anthony Harris bought and moved to the Adams farm. Harris was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, March 25th, 1822. When he was six years old, the family removed to Tyler (or Pleasants) County, Virginia. He died in 1902. Shortly after moving to Trace Fork, Harris was out hunting. He saw a large buck standing in the edge of a thicket. Taking careful aim, he fired, and the deer fell, on going up to his quarry, he was surprised to find two deer, instead of one, lying dead. The ball had passed through the buck's heart, and also killed a fine doe that was standing behind him, in such a manner as to be concealed from his view. This farm was a fine one. My father looked at the farm in November, 1871, and liked it very well. He would probably have purchased it, had it not been for the reports of its unhealthfulness and "arsenic" springs.
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/175 Surname: FULL, HAWK, NUZUM, LOCKHART ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Middle Sandy Valley". Full Family A short distance above the Hawk house, Horner's Run comes in, at the upper schoolhouse, further up is the mouth of Five Mile, which heads at the Ed Nuzum farm, on Limestone Ridge. David Full lived at the mouth of Five Mile, his father, Joseph Full, having been the first settler. Joseph Full was born in 1791, and died in 1865, aged seventy three. His wife was Mary Lockhart. She was born on New Year's Day, 1804.
> > >I know there are Seamans mentioned in the book, but no sketch on them. >Keep you eyes open and check the other postings >- the surnames are listed. None on Boards, except Tom, which I just posted. >Betty >Listers: >"Fact Tom" Bord and my Thomas Seaman (son of Ann Elizabeth Board) were >cousins. Patrick Board appeared on the Monongalia County tax records just prior to the move to Reedy. Before that, he was in Greene County census. I believe he had a brother for whom "Fact Tom" Bord and Thomas Seaman were named. I am not aware that Board researchers have delved into the records to prove this, (if it can be proved) but I would enjoy hearing from others who might be interested in corresponding about the Board/Seaman relationship. M. > Marilyn Steber in San Diego, Ca. ------- Pvt. William B. Potter, Civil War Union veteran, my Great-grandfather, was memorialized on May 18, 2000 at Warm Springs, Montana. His headstone was dedicated with the assistance of the Montana Veterans Council's color guard and firing squad. ____ Currently researching these families: Potters of WI, Oppenborn of MI; McCoy of Greene Co. PA; Powhatan Carter of WV and Indiana, Seaman of KY, WV & NJ and Clark of NJ.
--WebTV-Mail-30347-202 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit --WebTV-Mail-30347-202 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhUAuuYnO3csQRdVhVFRv8FmpyceNsUCFFjlEpKmSH1q5sMomRq6b/zYEo1G From: kathypowers@webtv.net (Kathy Powers) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:45:12 -0500 (EST) To: bettyb23@uswest.net Subject: JACKSON CO WV FAMILYS Message-ID: <11199-3A02C168-133@storefull-291.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) DEAR BETTY I HAVE BEEN RESEARCHING JOSEPH SMITH (BORN WOOD CO.) AND INDIANOLA MILLS .... WHO WERE MARRIED IN JACKSON CO .BORN 1865 MARR.NOV.20 1881 BY JABEZ SWIGER . THEY HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN . AMONG THEM WAS MY GRANDFATHER ELDON SMITH BORN 1903 WV DIED APRIL 29 1947 .I AM INTERASTED IN FAMILY NAMES I HAVE ON OIL LEASE FROM 1967 AMONG THEM ARE THE NAMES 1. ANNA E. LEDSOM,(WIDOW)..2. OZELL ANDERSON AND A.S. (HER HUSB.) .3. ALTA M. AND CAM BUFFINGTON (HER HUSB.) . 4.ERNESTINE HUNT AND HUBERT C. HUNT (HER HUSB.) 5. GERALDINE ELLIOTT & TROY D. ELLIOTT()HER HUSB.) 6. ROY F. SMITH &DORIS C. SMITH(HIS WIFE) 7.IRENE FRIES & GEORGE FRIES (HER HUSBAND) 8. GAIL MOORE AND GAY MOORE(HER HUSB) 9.ETHEL MOORE &RICHARD MOORE(HER HUSBAND) 10.MURHL SLAVEN AND D.O. SLAVEN (HER HUSB.) 11. FRANCES E. WOLFE & MELVIN E. WOLFE (HER HUSB) 12. BERNIE D. SMITH & FREDA M. SMITH (HIS WIFE) 13.NORMA O. BROPHEY (WIDOW) 14.DELMA WHITE & CECIL E. WHITE (HER HUSBAND) . MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS JOSEPH SMITTH AND INDIANOLA (NOLA ) MILLS SMITH HAD SEVERAL KIDS AMONG THEM WAS HARRY... HIS OBI. IS ON JACKSON CO DEATHS 1900- 1942 .BURIED IN MOUNT ZION CEMATERY.(LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF WOOD CO. NEAR BELLVILLE RD. IHAVE SOME CEMATERY RECORDS OF FAMILY MEMBERS AMOUNG THE FAMILYS THAT MARRIED INTO JOSEPH AND INDIANOLAS KIDS LIVES WHERE 1. FRANCES L. KIMES 2.PIFER 3.AUDRA SWAIN .I HAVE BEEN HAVEING A VVVVVERY HARD TIME WITH JOSEPH'S FAMILY .ON THE OIL AND GAS LEASE IT IT SAYS THERE ARE 66 ACRES ON THE WATERS OF POND CREEK ; DISTRICT HARRIS; COUNTY WOOD THEY ARE BOUNDED ON THE NORTH; BY (RICHARD RAWSON.). ON THE EAST; BY( RICHARD RAWSON ).. ON THE SOUTH; BY (OLAN PIERCE) NEXT TO OLAN PIERCE IT SAYS (NOLA SMITH) 19?? . ON THE WEST; BY (C.H. PICKERING),HIERS AND (OREM FARM) I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHO SETTELED THIS PIECE OF LAND . I DO KNOW THAT JOSEPH SMITH'S FATHER AND MOTHER WHERE JOSEPH SMITH AND MAHALA BOWMAN SHOWN ONJACKSON CO BIRTHS AS PARENTS OF RABECCA. NO MENITON OF JOSEPH. I CAN NOT FIND ANY OTHER RECORD OF JOSEPH OR MAHALA ..DID THEY SETTEL THAT PIECE OF LAND .ETC ETC ?????? INDIANOLS PARENTS; THOMAS MILLS AND LOUISIANA SUSANA JACOBY, ARE BURIED IN (MILHOAN RIDGE CEMETERY) IN JACKSON CO. I CAN NOT FIND ANY INFO ON THIS CEMATERY POSSIBLE NEAR BELLVILLE MT. ZION CEMATERY ???? I HOPE I DID NOT SUBMIT TO MUCH INFO ..... BUT ANY THING YOU HAVE ON ANY NAMES OR PLACES I MENTIONED WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED .. HAVEING THE SMITH FAMILY TO TRACE IS CONFUSING AS THERE WHERE A FEW JOSEPH SMITHS IN THAT AREA ..thank you so much .......any info will be great !!!!!!!!! kathy SMITH powers --WebTV-Mail-30347-202--
--WebTV-Mail-12334-237 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit --WebTV-Mail-12334-237 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhUAuuYnO3csQRdVhVFRv8FmpyceNsUCFFjlEpKmSH1q5sMomRq6b/zYEo1G From: kathypowers@webtv.net (Kathy Powers) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:45:12 -0500 (EST) To: bettyb23@uswest.net Subject: JACKSON CO WV FAMILYS Message-ID: <11199-3A02C168-133@storefull-291.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) DEAR BETTY I HAVE BEEN RESEARCHING JOSEPH SMITH (BORN WOOD CO.) AND INDIANOLA MILLS .... WHO WERE MARRIED IN JACKSON CO .BORN 1865 MARR.NOV.20 1881 BY JABEZ SWIGER . THEY HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN . AMONG THEM WAS MY GRANDFATHER ELDON SMITH BORN 1903 WV DIED APRIL 29 1947 .I AM INTERASTED IN FAMILY NAMES I HAVE ON OIL LEASE FROM 1967 AMONG THEM ARE THE NAMES 1. ANNA E. LEDSOM,(WIDOW)..2. OZELL ANDERSON AND A.S. (HER HUSB.) .3. ALTA M. AND CAM BUFFINGTON (HER HUSB.) . 4.ERNESTINE HUNT AND HUBERT C. HUNT (HER HUSB.) 5. GERALDINE ELLIOTT & TROY D. ELLIOTT()HER HUSB.) 6. ROY F. SMITH &DORIS C. SMITH(HIS WIFE) 7.IRENE FRIES & GEORGE FRIES (HER HUSBAND) 8. GAIL MOORE AND GAY MOORE(HER HUSB) 9.ETHEL MOORE &RICHARD MOORE(HER HUSBAND) 10.MURHL SLAVEN AND D.O. SLAVEN (HER HUSB.) 11. FRANCES E. WOLFE & MELVIN E. WOLFE (HER HUSB) 12. BERNIE D. SMITH & FREDA M. SMITH (HIS WIFE) 13.NORMA O. BROPHEY (WIDOW) 14.DELMA WHITE & CECIL E. WHITE (HER HUSBAND) . MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS JOSEPH SMITTH AND INDIANOLA (NOLA ) MILLS SMITH HAD SEVERAL KIDS AMONG THEM WAS HARRY... HIS OBI. IS ON JACKSON CO DEATHS 1900- 1942 .BURIED IN MOUNT ZION CEMATERY.(LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF WOOD CO. NEAR BELLVILLE RD. IHAVE SOME CEMATERY RECORDS OF FAMILY MEMBERS AMOUNG THE FAMILYS THAT MARRIED INTO JOSEPH AND INDIANOLAS KIDS LIVES WHERE 1. FRANCES L. KIMES 2.PIFER 3.AUDRA SWAIN .I HAVE BEEN HAVEING A VVVVVERY HARD TIME WITH JOSEPH'S FAMILY .ON THE OIL AND GAS LEASE IT IT SAYS THERE ARE 66 ACRES ON THE WATERS OF POND CREEK ; DISTRICT HARRIS; COUNTY WOOD THEY ARE BOUNDED ON THE NORTH; BY (RICHARD RAWSON.). ON THE EAST; BY( RICHARD RAWSON ).. ON THE SOUTH; BY (OLAN PIERCE) NEXT TO OLAN PIERCE IT SAYS (NOLA SMITH) 19?? . ON THE WEST; BY (C.H. PICKERING),HIERS AND (OREM FARM) I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHO SETTELED THIS PIECE OF LAND . I DO KNOW THAT JOSEPH SMITH'S FATHER AND MOTHER WHERE JOSEPH SMITH AND MAHALA BOWMAN SHOWN ONJACKSON CO BIRTHS AS PARENTS OF RABECCA. NO MENITON OF JOSEPH. I CAN NOT FIND ANY OTHER RECORD OF JOSEPH OR MAHALA ..DID THEY SETTEL THAT PIECE OF LAND .ETC ETC ?????? INDIANOLS PARENTS; THOMAS MILLS AND LOUISIANA SUSANA JACOBY, ARE BURIED IN (MILHOAN RIDGE CEMETERY) IN JACKSON CO. I CAN NOT FIND ANY INFO ON THIS CEMATERY POSSIBLE NEAR BELLVILLE MT. ZION CEMATERY ???? I HOPE I DID NOT SUBMIT TO MUCH INFO ..... BUT ANY THING YOU HAVE ON ANY NAMES OR PLACES I MENTIONED WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED .. HAVEING THE SMITH FAMILY TO TRACE IS CONFUSING AS THERE WHERE A FEW JOSEPH SMITHS IN THAT AREA ..thank you so much .......any info will be great !!!!!!!!! kathy SMITH powers --WebTV-Mail-12334-237--
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/174 Surname: KEENAN, BORD, PARSONS, HYRE, CARNEY, HARPOLD, GRANT ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Mill Creek". Keenan Farm A short distance above this, the creek divides the bottom into two more or less equal portions, and somewhere in this bottom the first cabin on Trace Fork was built, save a hut in which the hunter, Joe Parsons, lived. So far as we can ascertain, the first occupant of this cabin was Jacob Hyre, who came from Hacker's Creek to Mill Creek, in 1815, and lived here two or three years before moving farther up the creek. The land may have belonged to Carney, as claimed by some, and possibly there had been a squatter or tenant occupant before Hyre came, thought I do not think it probable. The road or trail in the early days followed the creeks usually, and there used to be a large beech tree, which died a few years ago, and has fallen down, on which was carved J. H. 1815, which was cut by Jacob Hyre the year he came out here, when he was only a little past twenty one years of age. Who next lived on this farm is not given, all being blank until some time in the early thirties, when it passed into the hands of Thomas Bord, who had married a daughter of John Harpold, who lived at the ford above Ripley. Bord was a son of Patrick Bord, the pioneer of Reedy, being four years old at the time of the emigration from Greene County, Pennsylvania, to the wilds os western Virginia. He lived on this farm several years, and was one of the most ingenious blacksmiths, gunsmiths and mechanics ever in Jackson County. It is said he experimented a long time with the problem of perpetual motion, and there used to be a story extant that he once constructed a flying machine, with which he rose from the top of a neighboring hill and soared majestically over Ripley, unfortunately breaking his machine. >From a habit of always expressing assent to a proposition by a phrase, "That's a fact, sure", he was known every where as "Fact Tom" or "Fact-sure Tom Bord", which served to distinguish from two others of the same name. He was born in November 1811, and died in the summer of 1869. The farm belonged for a time to a man by the name of Grant, from Lynn Camp, in Wirt County. Next, about the middle of the war, it was bought by an Irishman named Keenan, since which time it has been known as the Keenan Farm. Keenan came from the green isle of Erin to Kanawha County, in 1861. He moved to Calhoun County, but only stayed there one year, owing to his neighbors who, because of his ourspoken and radical union sentiments, made it too hot for him there. Driven away from home, he found an asylum in the wide and pleasant valley of Mill Creek. There is a graveyard on this farm, in which are buried some negroes who were slaves of Charles Carney. One hot, dusty, summer's day, while passing, I stopped for a drink at an old well out in the field from the road a bit. The proprietor who was working near said he knew nothing of the history of that well, probably it was the site of the old house in which Bord lived. The Keenan house is a double log cabin, still standing, on the opposite side of the creek.
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/173 Surname: casto ------------------------- Looking for Reba Mae Casto born in Ripley W.VA around 1922-23. Lived in Point Pleasant in 1942. My mother is growing old and would love to connect with her old friend. Any help would ge great. What a great christmas present.
This is the index to the book. Betty Ables Family Acree Family Adams Family Alkire Family Angerona Aplin Family Armstrong Ayers Family Baker Family Baggs, Captain Beatty Family Bord, Fact Tom Boso Family Boswell Family Bradley Family Ripley Bridges Buffalo Trail Bush Family Butcher Family Thomas Butcher Ephraim Carder Reminiscences Carder Family Carez, Joseph Casto Family Casto, George Casto, John Casto, John J Casto, Levi Casto, William Ripley Cemetery Chancey, James Charcoal Burning Churches: Ripley Churches: Little Creek Cleek Family Coe, Levi Crites, Isaac Cunningham Family Custer Family Davis Family Dawkins Family Dawson Family Derenberger Family DePue Family Dilworth Family Duff, George Duncan Eagle Farm Evans, Village First Settlers: Buffalo First Settlers: Frozen Camp First Settlers: Grass Lick First Settlers: Joes Run First Settlers: Little Creek First Settlers: Lower Mill Creek First Settlers: Tug Fork Fitzhugh Family Fleming Family Flesher Family Flinn Family Floods: Jackson County Floods: Poplar Fork Fountain Family Flowers, Thomas Fouty, William French Settlement Frozen Camp, named Full Family Gallatin Family Gallatin land Game, last on Sandy Gandee Family Garnes, George Graham Family Graham, James Green, Edward Green Trial Greenleaf Family Greer, Jimmy Greer, John Hannaman, William Harner Family Harper Family Harper, Samuel, John Harpold Family Harpold, Hannah (Staats) Harpold, James Harpold, John Harris Family Harrison Lands Hartley Family Hartley, John Hartley, Thomas Hawk Family Hood Family Hogsett Family Homicides Hopkins, Lawrence Hopkins, Robert Horner Howes Family Hunting tales Hutchinson Family Hyre Family Hyre, Jacob Hyre, Jonathan Hyre, Mary Hyre, John A Indian Fighting Indian Mounds Indian Trail Ingram, Jacob Jackson Co, organized Johns, William Johnson Family Keenan Farm Keeney Family Kelley Family Kidd Family King Family Knopp Family Henry Knopp Farm Knotts Family Koontz Family Landfried Family Lattimer Family Ancient Laws Lisez, Charles M Lodges, Ripley Ludwick Family Ludwig Family Mackintosh Family Magee Family Maguire Family Mate, Robert Mill Creek Valley: Heart of Mill Creek Valley: Upper Mills, Ripley Morgan Case McDade, Samuel McFarland Family McGrew Family McMahan, William McPherson Nesselrode Family Newspaper, Ravenswood Newspaper, Ripley Norman Family Ours Family Parchment Parish Family Parsons Farm (Luke) Parsons Family Parsons, Charles Parsons, Charlesfamily Parsons, Charles Jr Parsons, Devil Bill Parsons, George Parsons, Joe Parsons, John Parsons, John Fink Parsons, Joseph Parsons, Joshua Parsons, William Lowther Payne Pfost, Abraham Rader Family Rader, James Rader, Joseph Rader, Michael Rader, Michael C Rader, John R Rardon Family Ravenswood Ravenswood, named Reed Family Richardson Family Rhor Family riley Family Ripley Ripley, 1905 Ripley, Civil War Roads Roberts Family Rollins Family Roy Family Sandy Valley:Lower, Middle, Upper Sayre Family Sayre, David Sayre, Elijah Sayre, Jacob Ripley Schools Shamblin, Jesse Shinn Family Slaven Family Smith, Nehemiah Smith, John V Snyder Family Staats Family Starcher Family Straley Family Street Family Stutler Family Sycamore creek Thomas, James Tolley Family Trueman Family Tug Fork Vandyne Family Vint, George Washburn Family Washington Lands Weas Family Westfall Family Wetzell Family Wiblin Family Windon Farm Wolfe Family Woodruff, John
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1943 Surname: Kersey Grady Mullinex ------------------------- I have this name listed on my web site.. Here is a link to my site.. http://members.citynet.net/kersey/kersey.html Link: Kersey Family History URL: <http://members.citynet.net/kersey/kersey.html>
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1942 Surname: MULLINNEX ------------------------- Does anyone know any members of the MULLINNEX family who still live around Cottageville in Jackson county? I would love to get in contact with some of them and see if they could give me any help in finding more info. I want to make another trip to Cottageville soon and maybe meet with them. Any help would be appreciated. Carolyn Mullinnex Cole
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/172 Surname: CHEUVRONT, LOCKHART, SOMERVILLE ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Middle Sandy Valley". Another pioneer on Left Fork of Sandy was Isaac Cheuvront, who came to Jackson County in 1831. He lived at a little village long known as Buttermilk Station, a name bestowed on it when it was a logging camp and sawmill site, about 1870. When the timber had "fled the country", and an oak or poplar tree had become a curiosity, the name remained , and the name of "Buttermilk" is even now far better known than the more dignified one of Lockhart. Isaac Cheuvront was born August 24th, 1802, and died March 22nd, 1896, aged ninety three years. John Somerville, James Somerville, Andrew Somerville, Isaac Lockhart, A.J. Somerville were all prominent citizens on the head of the creek. Turkey Fork is a small stream not so large as the Right Fork of Reedy, but there are bottoms thirty to fifty rods in width, and the hills appear to lie well. The quality of the soil is probably not the best, on the main stream. At the head of the creek, and where its branches reach up among the spurs of Limestone ridge, the hills are high and steep, and the soil is very fertile.
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/171 Surname: MITCHELL, HOFFMAN, LUDWICK ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Mill Creek". Marshall Mitchell had come from Barbour County, to Jackson County, sometime before the war. William Hoffman, who had married Mitchell's sister, came in 1866. Bet, a daughter of Henry Ludwick, was to marry a Hoffman, a cousin of Daniel and William Hoffman. The old folks approved of the marriage, but she fell out with Hoffman, and "ran off" with "Jake" Mitchell, got married and came to Jackson County. It was while on a visit to her that Henry Ludwick became so pleased with the country that he sold his farm in Barbour County, and came to the waters of Little Creek, of Mill Creek.
As you've probably noticed, I have posted several sketches from John House's "Pioneers of Jackson Co" on the GenConnect Bios board, and those are automatically gatewaryed to this list. Several people have written requesting info on other families, and it seems most time efficient to post the sketches of the people you are interested in. So if you will tell me what family name or the area of Jackson county you are interested in, I'll see what is in the book and post it. Betty
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Clark, do you know who Elizabeth Nancy Asbury's parents were? My line is Asbury's, thanks, Janet
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1941 Surname: Parsons, Asbury ------------------------- George Walker Parsons was b. Jul. 11, 1821, s. of William Parsons and Elizabeth Nancy Walker; he d. Oct. 12, 1901; m.1) 11/26/1846, Mary Elizabeth Asbury. She was b. May 15, 1826; d. Sep. 14, 1824. I have the following children, all born in Jackson Co. 1) Judge William Asbury Parsons, b. Apr. 21, 1848; 2) Robert Bruce Parsons, d. Dec. 25, 1886, Methodist minister; 3) Mary Frances Parsons, b. 1855; d. 1937; 4) George Nimrod Parsons, U.S. Deputy Marshall; 5) Perry Hoffman Parsons, d. 1896; 6) Elizabeth Susan Parsons, b. 1864; d. 1906; George Walker Parsons m.2) Nancy Emeline Milam. Children:1) Zelpha Anne Parsons, b. 1865; 2) Martha J. Parsons, b. 1865 (twin?); 3) Marjorie Belle Parsons (m.Francis Joel Sayre); 4) Arabella M. Parsons, b. 1868; 5) M. D. L. Parsons (a minister; lived in Sharpsville, PA; 6) Henry Roscoe Parsons.
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1940 Surname: ------------------------- Thanks, Charles, Can you tell me where your info re: Frozen Camp, Jackson County, WV., comes from? Cheers on All Saints Day Andrea sextons@address.com
In a message dated 10/31/2000 11:30:17 PM Central Standard Time, TWolfe132@earthlink.com writes: > Sorry to say, no Andersons listed. Jackson County, Given Cemetery. > > > Who was looking for Andersons buried in Given Cem.? Somehow I missed that post. A lot of Jackson Co. ANDERSONs are buried in the Stonelick (Gandee/DeWeese) Cem. and Goshen Cem. I have burial sites on a lot of Jackson Co. ANDERSONs, please contact me.
Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1939 Surname: Wolfe, Foglesong, Hanning ------------------------- Sorry these are the only 3 Harrisons that are buried in the Given Cemetery in Jackson County. Harrison, Jessie B. daughter O.B. and C. Harrison 3/13/1891 5 mos 4 days Harrison, Clara d. 3/8/1891 25 yrs 1 month 4 days wife of O.B. Harrison Hope it helps anyway.