Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/191 Surname: FLOWERS, HALL, WRIGHT, KING, BOSWELL, HARTLEY, WOLFE, BAREMORE, CARTER, SQUIRES ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Mill Creek". Cow Run Cow Run is the first considerable stream falling info Mill Creek on the south side. It is a country basin shaped with low hills gradually ascending from the bottom lands, running back perhaps a half mile or more, to the tops of the ridges. The hill sides are not steep or bluffy, and are all cleared out and green with succulent pasturage, timothy, blue grass and red top, and along the roadway at the base of the hill nestles cozy white farmhouses surrounded by orchard and garden, truly a beautiful picture as seen from a train window on a hot day in early August, 1904. Cow Run Valley early attracted the attention of the hardy pioneers who at first clustered like bees on the rich bottomlands of the Ohio River, at the mouth of the creek, but soon becoming cramped and crowded for elbow room, pushed out up Mill Creek. Thomas Flowers, who came to Warth's Bottom in 1806, married Mary Hall, a daughter of Joseph Hall, and shortly after located on Cow Run, is the first recorded settler. Thomas Flower's daughter, or sister, was the second wife of Benjamin Wright, Sr. Other names identified with the early history of Cow Run are King, Boswell, frequently spelled "Bozzle", and Hartley. Descendants of all of these still live in the vicinity. Francis and John King, who live on Cow Run, are sons of Elijah, who was a son of the Francis King who came to Mill Creek with James Wolfe, in 1821. Francis married Ruth Baremore in Wood County, in 1852, and has nine children. John married Julia Carter in 1862. He had two children, Susan E. and Charles T. Gilbert, sometimes called "Bird" (Bert) Boswell, was a magistrate at the organization of Jackson County, and was appointed a school commissioner at the second session of the County Court, June, 1831. Another family of Boswells, connected with the Squires people, came from Rockbridge County, Virginia, to Mason, at an early day. A daughter, Jane, married John Carter, who purchased land and settled about seventy-five years ago. It is related that he used to walk barefoot to the Court House to settle his taxes, so economical did he have to be while saving money to pay for his land. Huntsville Post Office is up near the head of Cow Run. It is one of the six post offices in Union District prior to 1887, the others being Ripley Landing (Millwood), Cottageville, Angerona, Willow Grove and Pleasant View. In the past twenty years have been added others.