Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/192 Surname: HYRE, RADER, PARISH, ALLEN, FLESHER, PARSONS, DOOLITTLE ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Mill Creek". John A. Hyre The first man to erect a cabin at the Hemp Parish farm was John A. Hyre, who married Rebecca Rader. This is one of the most beautiful locations for a residence on Mill Creek. It is situated on top of a gentle eminence, and well back from the creek, which it overlooks for quite a distance. Immediately in front, the opposite hill comes down to the water, while a little wooded hollow and a rocky bluff add picturesqueness to the scene. A run flows into the creek a short distance east of the house, which comes down out of the hills a half mile back, reaching the creek after meandering over a wide rolling plain. Above the run, the hill runs back in a smooth slope of easy grade, that along the creek is a cliff sixteen or twenty feet high, of rocks, here and there covered with a scant soil, to which cling a row of spruce pine and other trees and bushes, their gnarled roots fastened in the crevices of the cliff. Jesse Allen, whose wife, Mahala Flesher Allen, a sister of George Flesher, of Reedy, who died here in 1861, was long a resident of this spot. He sold it to D.W., son of Elias Parsons, in 1865. Hyre was living here in 1839. The land was a part of the Doolittle farm in 1826.