Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/190 Surname: NESSELRODE, ATKINS, SLAVEN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Nesselrode Family Ambrose Atkins is authority for the following statement: "Ellis Nesselrode lived at the mouth of Little Sandy (about 1855). From his appearance he would suppose him to have been born about 1800 or 1805. He was a noted hunter and had a camp under a rock below John Slaven's which is known as Ellises Rock." If this was the pioneer mentioned as a first settler, he was either much older than Mr. Atkins supposes, or came much later than the date given. Israel Nesselrode lived on Little Sandy. He had sons: Peter, Frank, Ed and Shelton. David Nesselrode, who kept the post office on Little Sandy, beyond Utah Hill, called Israel "uncle". There was also an Elias Nesselrode living in that vicinity, in 1900, then an old man past three score and ten.