Hi Janice, I would like you to send me the map of Indian trails also. Thanks, Pat pjbalse@home.com

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1782 Surname: SMITH, RUYAN, HARDMAN, HARTLEY, CARDER, SHEPPARD, SELLERS, WRIGHT, ROY ------------------------- John Smith (c. 1778-1858) was one of the first settlers in old Jackson County, WV, arriving in the valley of the Right Reedy in 1808. He did not know who his parents were, where he was born, or when. For John was captured by Indians when young and after returning to white environs, knew none of these things nor his white name. It has been said that he was adopted by a man named Smith and so took the name John Smith. More on this pioneer can be found at the address below. Descendants of John Smith: 1 John Smith b: Abt. 1778 in PA d: Mar 13, 1858 in Wiseburg, WV/ ....2 Harriet Smith / .... +Elijah Runyan m: Aug 29, 1833 in Wood Co., WV / ....2 Rebecca Smith d: Bef. 1858/ ....2 John V. Smith b: 1802 in PA d: 1862 in Leroy, WV/ .... +(Unknown) Hardman m: Jan / .... *2nd Wife of John V. Smith: / .... +Elizann Hartley m: February d: 1845/ .... *3rd Wife of John V. Smith: / .... +Elizabeth Carder b: 1816 in VA m: Jul 31, 1845 / .... 2 Diana Smith b: Nov 19, 1805 in Pittsburg,PA d: Dec 19, 1868/ .... +Henry S. Sheppard b: Sep 27, 1796 in Harrison Co., WV m: 1823 in Wood Co., WV d: Feb 4, 1870/ .... 2 Jonathan Sheppard Smith b: 1811 d: Feb 19, 1848 in Wiseburg, WV/ .... +Maria Sellers b: 1815 in VA / .... 2 James E. Smith b: 1812 d: June 1863/ .... +Mary Wright m: Jan 25, 1832 in Jackson Co., WV / .... *2nd Wife of James E. Smith: / .... +Sedora Roy b: 1832 m: Abt. 1850 I have a lot more on the descendants of these people and would like to hear from those of you who are relatedm. Link: John Smith Captured By Indians URL: <http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/m/i/Dixon-B-Smith/FILE/0002page.html>

Hello Jackson County researchers, The link to Jackson County books available has been fixed and updated. I will be adding listings for other Jackson County books that are available in the next few days as the information is sent to me. The last link shown is to the Jackson County Library listing of books and pamphlets that they have available. You will need to use the "back" button on your browser to return to the Jackson County pages. Anyone that has books about Jackson County or Jackson County families, please provide me with a good description of the book as well as the ordering information. Les Shockey ------ Les Shockey email address = lshockey@citynet.net or wvgenweb@citynet.net Visit the Jackson County, WVGenWeb Page, part of USGenWeb Project at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvjackso/JACK.HTM Visit the (West Virginia) WVGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvgenweb/ RootsWeb Listowner for the SHOCKEY family discussion group. SHOCKEY-L@rootsweb.com

I am still hunting for my elusive Barnhart ancestors -- specifically the parents of my ggg grandfather James Barnhart. James Barnhart married Anna ROSOLY on 4 April 1850 in Jackson County, VA/WV, according to Jackson County marriage records. While recently perusing Jackson County, VA/WV death records, transcribed by Linda Murdock, I found the following new information: BARNHART, Sarah 12/26/1873 87y. Parents are Jacob & Hannah Love. Born PA. Sarah BARNHART is found living next door to my ggg grandfather James BARNHART in 1860 Jackson County, VA/WV. Sarah is listed as a 66-year-old living in the household of Jesse HANSHAW & his wife Elizabeth. Sarah BARNHART's place of birth is listed as PA. My ggg grandfather James BARNHART's place of birth in the same census is also given as PA. The age in Sarah BARNHART's death record does not correlate with the age given in 1860 census records. She is 66 according to 1860 census data. So she should be circa 79 at the time of death instead of the 87 given in the death record. But I've found that ages in census records, death records, etc. aren't always reliable. (Seems that vanity was sometimes a major factor.) Also found in Jackson County death records is the following report of my ggg grandfather's death: Barnhart, James died 9/17/1902, 74y 11 months 20 days, died Goldtown, parents H & S Barnhart Given the proximity of the HANSHAW residence to my ggg grandfather James BARNHART's house, I am lead to believe that Sarah BARNHART may be the mother-in-law of Jesse HANSHAW, mother of James BARNHART & therefore the "S" of H & S BARNHART, who are listed as the parents of my ggg grandfather in Jackson County death records. Does anyone have a copy of the 1860 Jackson County, VA/WV Census that lists the relationship of Sarah BARNHART to head of household Jesse HANSHAW? Does anyone have in their records a PA nuptial between Sarah LOVE, d/o Jacob & Hannah LOVE, & a Mr. H______ BARNHART? Thank you in advance for any guidance or information. Thank you also for your patience in this matter. I look forward to reading your E-mails & hopefully learning the answers. Sincerely, Mike Peters npeters102@aol.com

I have been reading with much interest the sketches taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County" by John House. I would love to have the book. This is what I want to know. Is there any mention of the Pfost (Post) name in this book? Debbie Harmon

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/166 Surname: TOLLEY, CARNEY, MILLER, ADAMS, LITTON, DUFF, STAATS, THORNE, CASTO, CARDER ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Heart of Mill Creek" Tolley Family The Tolleys came from Rockbridge County in the 30's. There were two brothers, William and Joseph Tolley, among the pioneers of the middle Mill creek country. William Tolley (familiarly called "Old Billy") came about 1832, and settled on the creek at the Chase bend, back next the other hill. He built the first house for Jesse Carney on his farm. He leased of Carney, moved to Turkey Camp Flats about 1835, later to Tug Fork, about Staats Mill. He married Elizabeth (maiden name not learned), and their children were: Jordan, Eliza, Sally and a grandson was Lewis Tolley. A Tolley had a mill on Spring Creek near Spencer. Jerry Miller's wife was a Tolley. Dr. Adams's wife on Sandy was a Tolley. Martha Tolley married John Litton. Sam Tolley lived on Laurel Run in 1904, aged eighty three years. He married Letha Duff, thought to be the cousin of Staats wife. Alfred S. Tolley. Fanny Tolley married Lem, son of George Thorne. A Tolley married Isaac Staats (?). Gran Tolley, who died on Elk, was a cousin of Staats wife. A Tolley married Jim E. Casto. There was a Tolley from Rockbridge, whose wife crossed the ocean in seven days and nights. She knit seven pairs of stockings. O'd Tommy Tolley lived in 1840 with his daughter, Widow Adams, widow of Phil Adams, on the Carder place on Joe's Run.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/165 Surname: RHODES, FLESHER, PETERS, BRADLEY, THOMAS, HARPOLD, BORD, ROLLINS, PARSONS, HAMILTON, BOWLES, STRALEY, SMITH, HAMMOND, CASTO, VANDYNE, EDEN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Heart of Mill Creek" Rhodes Family A man named Rhodes lived in the pioneer days in Rockbridge County, Virginia, near the Natural Bridge. He was a hunter and Indian fighter. At one time, his stock were all killed or carried off in an Indian raid, and his cabin burned, but the family escaped to the fort. In 1832, six of his sons came to Mill Creek Valley, to the Flesher farm opposite Ripley. Their names were Christopher, Benjamin, Michael, Samuel, Mathias and Peter. Chris, Sam and Ben were married, and lived at the different improvements on the farm, beginning at the upper end. Mathias was married, but had no children. Mike and Pete never married. The old farm is still in the hands of descendants of the Rhodes family. Chris Rhodes married Catherine Peters, of Lexington, Virginia. They came from near Natural Bridge to Wood County. Their children were: Ben Rhodes, married a Bradley. Peggy Rhodes, married a man named Rhodes. "Suckey" Rhodes, married Archie Thomas. Nancy Rhodes, married James Bradley. They had a son, Charles Bradley. Madeline Rhodes, married Absalom Harpold, son of John Harpold. Peter Rhodes, married Letha Bord, daughter of George Bord. Jacob Rhodes, married Linny Rollins, daughter of John Rollins. Mary Rhodes, married Watson Rollins, son of John Rollins. Ben Rhodes was twice married, but I did not learn the names of these wives. His children were: Peter Rhodes, went to California. Mathias Rhodes, married a Parsons. Joe Rhodes, lived on the old home farm. Ben Rhodes, married first Patty Parsons, who died, and he later married Hannah, daughter of John P. Parsons. John Rhodes, married a Hamilton. He died on Elk Fork in 1910 or 1911, aged eighty four years. Christopher Rhodes, married first Sarah Bowles, and later Mary Rollins, widow of John Rollins, whose maiden name was Straley. Mary Ann Rhodes, married a Hammond, and went west. Jane Rhodes, married a Smith and lived on Kentuck. Sam Rhodes married a Hammond, and lived on the Flesher farm at Ripley. D.D. Rhodes, married Prudence V. Casto, daughter of John R. Casto. She was born in 1836, and died in 1907. They had eight children. Sam Rhodes married Parthena Vandyne. She died about 1884, and he died several years earlier. Both are buried in the Roach graveyard, on Middle Fork of Reedy. John W. Rhodes was their oldest son. He was born Feb. 2nd, 1831, and died in June, 1902. He married Lucinda Parsons. She was born July 11th, 1832, and died June 1st, 1904. A family named Rhodes lived on Elk fork. Of these, there were: Chris Rhodes, born at the mouth of Billy's Run, in 1844. His children: John W. Rhodes, who married a daughter of Sam Rhodes. Alex Rhodes had a little water mill at the mouth of Haw Run. He married Malinda Eden. Solomon Rhodes. William Leeper Rhodes. His grandson was Jap Rhodes, of Buffalo. Archie Thomas, a noted preacher of Mill Creek Valley, also from Rockbridge County, Virginia. He married Betsey Rhodes, a daughter of Chris Rhodes. Daniel D. Rhodes was born in Warren County, New York, in 1817 and came to Cottageville in 1857. D.W. Rhodes, the miller, was his son. They were not related to the Mill Creek Rhodes.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1779 Surname: slaughter ------------------------- Can you tell me where Augustus Festus Slaughter is buried, have researched this for a long time any help appreciated. Thanks...Fred L. Slaughter

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1778 Surname: slaughter ------------------------- Walter L. Slaughter, was my grandfather, died in Gassaway, WV in ??? will get you the info from the cemetery as soon as I can.....Walter's son William Martin Slaughter will be 87 on August 29th, he lives in Gassaway, WV seeking info on brothers or sisters of Walter L. Slaughter, I believe he had at least one brother named Henry Walker S. but my father says he never spoke of any family except his father A.F. Slaughter....anything you can provide would be appreciated thanks.....Fred

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1777 Surname: KIDD ------------------------- In search of any information pertaining to HARRY WARDEN KIDD born in Ravenswood in Jackson Co. in 1891. Looking for his parents and siblings. Believed to have had a sister named Anne but cannot confirm the name.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1776 Surname: SLAUGHTER ------------------------- Augustus Festus Slaughter, who was married three times, died March 14, 1912 in Jackson County, West Virginia. He was born November 10, 1853. I believe I have the place of burial and will check again.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/164 Surname: REYNOLDS, WRIGHT ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it is called "Introductory". Big Mill Creek empties into the Ohio River eleven miles (by railroad) below Ravenswood and thirty-three miles above the mouth of the Great Kanawha River, though the railroad follows the river, the distance by water would be greater. Four miles above the mouth of Mill Creek, at the Post Office of Willow Grove, commences a fertile bottom land, about a half mile wide, and extending to the mouth of Mill Creek. This is know for an indefinite distance below Willow Grove as Warth's Bottom. Mill Creek at the mouth is a sluggish stream with low sloping shores, several rods wide covered with a heavy growth of brush and weeds, willows, elm, river maple and other trees, which carry in their tops driftwood left by floods from the up-country, or backwater at time of freshets in the Ohio River. Back of this are the real banks of the creek, some sixteen or twenty feet high, and from which stretch away wide and fertile fields of bottom land, reaching up the creek to the "falls", and down the Ohio to the mouth of Little Mill Creek, and probably to the county line. It was on these bottoms vaguely referred to as "The Mouth of Mill Creek" and "Warth's Bottom", that the first pioneers of Jackson County planted their homes in the unbroken wilderness. The hills are low, and go up very gradually, bing intersected occasionally by small streams and hollows. Mill Creek is about thirty miles long, and has two main branches. These were known to the early settlers as Tug and Trace Forks, but the latter is now known as Main Mill Creek. They rise in the high range of hills which form the watershed, dividing the waters flowing into the Ohio River from those which discharge into the Great and Little Kanawhas. Before uniting, the Tug Fork flows for twenty-two miles through a very mountain like and broken country, for tht most part, though toward the head of its right hand branch lies some of the finest uplands of Jackson County; and the Trace Fork flows sixteen miles through a section with wider bottoms and with hills less precipitous. The two units, as stated above, about thirty miles from the Ohio, making the total longest length fifty-two miles. The surface of the Mill Creek country is quite diversified, with many wide bottoms along the main watercourses, narrowing as the streams grow smaller. Some of the hills are low, with gently sloping sides, while others are rugged and lofty. In some places, there are wide stretches of table lands nearly level, or smoothly rolling, and again, the high mountain tops (as they were called by the pioneers) are narrow and rocky, with steep sides, or overhanging cliffs, coming down to the water's edge, cleft and scarred by the deep fissures and gulches. In the early days, there was everywhere a heavy growth of timber, sycamore, water elm, river maple, birch, beech, sugar, poplar, walnut, lynn and white oaf, along the streams, in the bottoms and up the rich, loamy, north and east hillsides, sometimes to the tops of the hills. Shellbark hickory, wild cherry, buckeye, and red oak also were common, while several varieties of oak and hickory, red maple, black gum, white walnut, ash, locust, and cucumber abounded on hill slopes, banks and flats. In places, the tops of the ridges were crowned with pine forests, or chestnuts of giant girth. The soil was for the most part fertile, especially in the bottom lands, which were often of sandy loam, in northeast coves, northern and eastern slopes, and the red clay of the hill tops. Southern and western exposures, oak and hickory flats and white clay summits were less fertile, and chestnuts and pine lands were generally thin. Three miles from the river, Mill Creek falls from a plateau which extends up the stream about eight miles, and was known as the "Flats of Mill Creek". This plateau had good bottoms along the streams with a sort of second bottom of white clay, in many places apparently sour, crawfish land. Some places, this section is gently rolling and frequently cut by deep ravines, but commonly it is almost a dead level, sometimes a half mile or more in width. The principal tributaries of Mill Creek are Cow Run, Parchment, Tug Fork, Elk Fork, and Frozen Camp, on the south side, and Lick Run, Log Lick, Mud Run, Sycamore Station Camp, Joe's Run, Big Run, Little Creek, and Buffalo, from the north. The general course of the stream is northwest. >From the forks of Mill Creek, five miles down the stream, or one mile below the mouth of Sycamore, is probably the best farming land in Jackson County, saving only along the Ohio River bottoms. It has been styled the "Heart of Jackson County". On the right side of this stretch of bottom, which will probably average more than an quarter of a mile wide, rises a high range of hills, in many places, of abrupt ascent, culminating at the upper end in a towering height, known as Salt Lick Hill, of Reynold's Knob, while across a saddleback depression is a twin peak, scarcely inferior (now known as Reynold's Hill). The United States Geological Survey places the elevation where the pike crosses it as 947 feet, and the summit of Salt Hill as 1,080, Smith Hill near Garfield 1,180, Stalnaker Hill, North Peak, 1,080, and South Peak 1,120. The same authorities place the altitude of the mouth of Mill Creek at 570 feet, and at Ripley 615 feet. The lowest point in the valley of Big Mill Creek is at the mouth of the creek, probably the highest point is at a knob at the head of Frozen Camp, a difference of about 630 feet. Little Mill Creek has its rise in the upper edge of Mason County, and flows north into the Ohio River, perhaps a half mile below the mouth of Mill Creek. Mill Creek was so named from a water mill built at the falls, now Cottageville, by Benjamin Wright, in 1802.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1775 Surname: Staats ------------------------- My Staats lineage is as follows: 1) grandmother Georgia Staats, dau of 2)Elijah Matson Staats & Rhoda (Postelweight) Staats; E.M. staats son of 3)Calvin Staats & Caroline Riley (Staats);4) son of Elijah Staats & his 1st wife Sally (Marvin) Staats; 5) son of Abraham Staats & Anna King. So, it appears we have something in common. I also heard from a woman who is a descendant of Cornelius Staats, Elijah's (#4) eldest brother. Which of Abraham's children is your direct ancestor?

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/WV/Jackson/1774 Surname: Staats, King ------------------------- Lana, I'm descended from Abraham Staats and Anna King. Steve Hall

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/WV/Jackson/1773 Surname: Staats, King ------------------------- Lana, I'm descended from Abraham Staats and Anna King. Steve

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/163 Surname: CLICK, RABHOLD, STANLEY, ROWLEY, ANDERSON, FLESHER, GANDEE, ALLEN, SHERMAN, BECKWITH ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Click Family Christopher Click, born in Germany, was a son of Christopher and Barbara Rabhold Click. He came first to Pennsylvania, and to Ravenswood in 1859. Their children were: Christopher, Henry, Andrew, George, Philip, Jacob and Sarah. Other early settlers in the vicinity of Ravenswood were the Stanleys, Rowleys and Andersons, on Lower Sandy. William Flesher, at Silverton. Uriah Gandee, who lived "on the banks of the Ohio river above Ravenswood" in 1804, when his daughter, Susan Gandee Allen, was born. Eli Gandee, on Little Sandy. Shermans, at the mouth of Little Sandy. Tapley Beckwith, on the head of Bar Run, in 1830.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/162 Surname: WELLS, WASHINGTON, PARKS, MCINTIRE, BROWN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Wells Family Ephriam Wells had, in 1835, purchased the large tract of land above Ravenswood, which had been inherited from General George Washington, by the Parks, through Harriet Washington Parks. He had disposed of part of it, but retained for himself seven hundred and fifty one acres. Ephraim Wells was born in 1801, in Brooke County, and died in 1874. He married Margaret McIntire, and for many years held the position of Justice of the Peace, and member of the County Court. Of their children, I have: Charles P. Wells, who had purchased a part of the tract of his father. He had a son, J.D. Wells, and a daughter, who married Judge R.S. Brown. His father is said to have been named Absolom Wells.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/161 Surname: ANDERSON, TILTON, WOOD, DEWEY, SHERROD, COLEMAN, LEE, STANLEY, HAYNES, HUGHES, BOICE, WOODRUFF, BISHOP, PICKENS, SHANNON, RICHARDS, ROMINE, PRUDEN, VANNOY, ROWLEY, ADAMS, PARSONS, EDWARDS, LITTLE, BONTO, REED, MAGEE, SAYRE, SMITH, BOONE, COPEN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Anderson Family Many, many years ago, when the silence of the forest was yet unbroken by the sound of the woodsman's axe, while the wild animals and wilder redmen roamed hill and vale at will, in undisturbed security, Andrew Anderson left his home in New Jersey, to seek the adventures of a life in the unbroken wilderness of the Ohio Valley. He crossed the mountains and drifted down the "Beautiful River", as far as the Big Bend, below Ravenswood, where he established himself in a camp, made in the hollow of a huge sycamore tree which stood in the fertile Ohio bottom. This tree was his home for several years, while he hunted and trapped among the neighboring hills, raising corn enough to provide his Johnny cake, roasting ears, and hominy, and making occasional canoe voyages to some fort or station to dispose of his furs or venison ham, and lay in a supply of salt, powder and lead. Finally tiring of this solitary life, he left his strange, yet roomy and comfortable abode (it is said the hollow in the tree was sufficiently large to turn an eleven foot rail in), and moving further up the river, entered a piece of land, married and settled down for the remainder of his days, bringing up around him a large family, of hardworking industrious sons and daughters whose descendants are thickly scattered over Meigs and Jackson counties. So runs the family tradition. Here history comes in and relates a story, different, yet easily reconcilable, if one only knew how. In 1785, Captain Tilton and Judge Wood planted a colony (mostly Scotsmen) at Belleville. in 1787, Joel Dewey, Joseph Dewey, Stephen Sherrod and family, from Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Malcolm Coleman and family, from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Andrew Anderson, from Wheeling, joined the colony. Some years before the Belleville settlement, David Lee, a native of Pennsylvania, a famous hunter and trapper, had camped for a time on the banks of the stream which still bears his name, and , hunting until after Wayne's treaty with the Indians at Greenville, in 1795, brought security to the frontier. He married a sister of the Anderson's, and with peace, purchased a tract of land on Tygart's Creek, and raised a family of five sons and three daughters. Many of his descendants are still inhabiting that part of the state. Andrew Anderson may, like Lee, have visited this section before the building of the fort at Belleville, afterward returning to Wheeling, or he may have drifted to the wilds of the Big Bend forests from the colony, preferring this wild, free life to the companionship of his fellow men. Who he married has not been preserved, but it is known that he settled down to quiet farm life until swept away with the many victims of the Cholera Scourge that visited the Ohio Valley in 1832. Andrew Anderson's children were: Joseph Anderson, married Nancy Stanley, a daughter of one of the early Sandy pioneers. He was married about 1822, and located on the creek one and half miles below the John Haynes farm, then the home of John Stanley, his wife's father. James Anderson (Jim), married Susy Hughes (it is said she was a niece of Jesse Hughes), and lived at the "Flatwoods", below Ravenswood. John Anderson, married a Boice. Andy Anderson, married a sister of John's wife, and lived on Straight Fork. His son, Lewis, married Sydney Bishop. Polly Anderson, married John Woodruff, and lived near her father's home, at Big Bend, Ohio. William Woodruff was one of their children. Sarah Anderson, married John Stanley, a brother of Joseph Anderson's wife, and lived on Sandy, in the same neighborhood. ‘Lizbeth Anderson, married Robert Pickens, of the Big Bend, Ohio, where they continued to reside. A son, Bartholomew Pickens, lived on Crooked Fork for a while before his death. Andrew Anderson had another daughter whose name my informant was unable to recall. Joseph Anderson married Nancy Stanley, about 1822. They lived a mile and a half above Haynes, and raised a family of four sons and four daughters. Elizabeth married Josiah Stanley, a son of James Stanley, and presumably her first cousin. Elmira (Miry) never married. Priscilla (Prissy) married first a Shannon, and second, Sanford Richards, who lives on Trace Fork. Mary married Bill Romine, and lived on the creek below Sandyville. They lived at one time on the north side of Sandy. At the mouth of Bearry's Run, in one of the two cabins where so many fell victim of the Sandy Fever. John Anderson married Elizabeth Pruden, and lived on Sandy. Lewis Anderson never married. George Anderson married Hester, a sister of John Vannoy. Joseph Anderson married Hepzibah Rowley. Joseph Anderson was born in 1829, and was married to Hepzibah, daughter of Harry Rowley, in 1854. His death occurred in 1907, on Cabin Run, about a mile north of Liverpool. He was a large man, physically, but had been in poor hearth for several years before his death. Mr. Anderson was a good talker, and related many interesting reminiscences of pioneer life on Sandy, when I visited him in 1904. He remembered many of the early settlers of this section, and I am indebted to him for much information. He had known Dr. Adams, Parsons, Edwards, Little, and Bonto and all the early settlers of the Trace Fork, as well as Reed, Magee, and the Sayre family at Sandyville, Jim Smith, the guerilla captain and many others. Uncle Joesy, as he was familiarly called by all, was a crack shot with his famous deergun. He had shot with the noted Patton Carder rifle, with which someone is said to have killed Boone, in the siege of Spencer, in 1860, at a distance of a hundred yards, and fondly described it as a "honey darling". The old hunter was, until his death, as fond of a good gun as the horseman is of his steed. The first school Anderson went to was taught by a man named Copen, in a log hut on Crooked Fork, probably about 1836 or 1837. He remembers going with an older brother on a fishing expedition one winter. It had been very dry that summer, and the fish had some up the creeks in the spring as usual, but owing to the low stage of water on the bars, had not returned, and winter caught them in the deepest pools. Winters in the early days were much more prolonged and severe than they are now. A heavy freeze had formed ice several inches in thickness, and the brother, who was grown, made a harpoon with which to spear the fish through holes they cut in the ice with an axe. The fish taken were white suckers, and they took enough to make a twelve gallon sugar kettle full of dressed fish. The rock bar at the mouth of Bar Run was a favorite place for taking fish. He had seen fish and "tortles" so thick in the Bar Run hole that they almost "hid the water". After his marriage, Anderson lived some years on Mud Run. In 1861, he moved to Trace Fork, living below the Adams, now Hawk, farm. About 1896, he bought a piece of land at the mouth of Cabin Run, and put up a corn mill, and a few years later, moved up on the run to the farm now owned by his son, Jeff Anderson.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/160 Surname: ROWLEY, ANDERSON, PARSONS, CARDER, ADAMS, MCGLOTHIN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Rowley Family William Henry Rowley had two brothers, but their father dying when he was small, they became separated, and he lost sight of them. W.H. was "bound" to a shoemaker on Long Island. It is not stated whether he came to West Virginia or not. A son, however, did, and his daughter married Joseph Anderson, as previously related. This son's name was Harry Rowley, and he may have been the "old man Rowley" who was living on the east side of Sandy, between the mouth of Trace Fork and the bridge, about 1835. He and his wife both died with the Sandy Fever afterward. Of his children: Thomas Rowley married Tabitha Parsons, daughter of George Parsons (Trace Fork George), and they went to Ohio. Huldah Rowley married John Smith Carder, and lived for a time on Trace Fork, and later of Joe's Run. Nancy Rowley married first Philip Adams (probably son of Dr. Adams), who died in Middleport, Ohio,. Was said to have been the smartest man J.A. ever knew, to have had no education. Her second husband was Jacob, son of Thomas McGlothin.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/159 Surname: PICKENS, ANDERSON, LAWRENCE, GREATHOUSE ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Pickens Family Probably Robert Pickens, who married Elizabeth Anderson, was of the following family: John Pickens, a Revolutionary soldier. His children were: James Pickens, a soldier in the War of 1812. John Pickens, born in 1806, in Mason County, married Mary Lawrence. Their daughter, Samantha, married Ed Greathouse. Also, Elijah Pickens, whose children were: Ben, Dave, Sam and Joe.