Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/201 Surname: ACREE, CLEEK, VINYARD, PAXTON, HARPOLD, STAATS ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Hill of Mill Creek". Acree Family Lewis Acree was from Bath County, Virginia. He married Mary Cleek, who was a daughter of Peter Cleek, for whom she named her son Peter. Their children were: Peter C. Acree (mentioned above) was born March 9th, 1829, and died at Walton, in Roane County, in June, 1904. He married Nancy, daughter of John and Mary Vinyard Paxton. They had two sons, George and Adam Acree, who were in the Confederate Army. Charles L. Acree, son of Lewis, was in the Union Army, as was Peter C., the father of the two boys mentioned above. Lewis Acree was born in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1783, and died on Mill Creek in 1844. Mary Cleek Acree was born in Bath County, Virginia, in 1802, and died August 1th, 1843. My informant "Aunt" Hannah Harpold Staats, now deceased, described Mary Acree as one of the "kindest and best women that ever lived". Lewis Acree moved to the section known as Kentuck, in 1845.