Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/10222 Surname: PARISH, MORGAN, HAMILTON, PARSONS, HUDDLESTON, STAATS, GAINER, SINNETT, GOFF ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Mill Creek" Parish Family There is a village known as Parishtown at Joe's Run, and Gay is on Elk Fork a few miles from its mouth. The Parish family were descended from one William "Parrish" who came from England and was connected with the "celebrated Morgan family." His son, William, born near Fairmont, west Virginia, in 1804, married Elizabeth Hamilton, died at Ripley in 1896. He moved to Wirt County in 1855, and to Ripley in 1868. Calder H. Parish, his son, was born near Mannington, in 1848. He lived near the mouth of Joe's Run, and married Mary Frances Parsons, born at Middleport, Ohio. Their children were : Clero A Parish. Della Parish, married Francis Huddleston. Libbie Parish, married Benjamin Staats, a Spencer baker. Homer C Parish. Grace E Parish, married A B Gainer, a Spencer butcher. Marie Parish, married E M Sinnett, of Spencer. Isabelle Parish, married Henry D Goff. John C Parish. Children of William Parish, Jr, were Nancy, wife of Wils Parsons, Hamp Parish, and Charley Parish.