Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/199 Surname: PARSONS, ROLLINS, FOUTY, RUBLE, HYRE, RADER, PARISH, RHODES, PAYNE, KNOPP, VINT, JOHNS, HARPOLD, CASTO ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Mill Creek". Settlements on Frozen Camp The first man to settle on Frozen Camp was the redoubtable Captain Billy Parsons, who erected his humble cabin on the eminence at the end of the point near the Iron Bridge, now cut off by the public road. There were two reasons for choosing this location. One was the bottoms were low and subject to overflow when the creeks were at flood tide. The other, the principal factor in locating all the pioneer cabins, proximity to a spring. This settlement may have been made between 1820 or 1830, possibly a few years earlier. A sketch of Captain Parsons will be found in the Parsons Family given earlier in the book. A half mile or less up the creek, Isaac Rollins made the first clearing on the present farm of L. D. Parsons. There are some old apple trees still standing, where he planted an orchard, near his house, which was in the bottom near the creek. He is said to have settled here then he married Polly Parsons, about 1843. The old orchard across the road from the Parsons house was planted by William Fouty. He married a Ruble and lived there in the 1800's, in the old Rollins house. At the next farm above, now owned by John Hyre, a son of John A. and Rebecca Rader Hyre, who lived on what is now the "Hamp" Parish farm, on the creek below, first settled about a quarter of a mile below a road crosses to Gay, on Elk Fork. The next place above is the Old Payne farm, where Levi Payne once lived. J. C. M. Rhodes lived there, and D. W. Knopp, son of Gideon Knopp, has built across the creek, up on a point from the old building site. David Knopp received a deed for land here, for maintenance of Payne's widow, after his death. She was still living at Knopps in 1906, and said to be one hundred years old. A quarter of a mile below, lived George W. Vint, who came from Lewis County, about 1856. He is said to have been rather an eccentric individual. He died August 9th, 1869, and was buried on the farm, at the upper side of the road, a short distance below the house. The graves, three in number, are enclosed with a cut stone wall three and a half feet high on the lower side. There was a pine tree there when the grave was made, but it is gone now. His wife and her sister are buried by his side. She was Miss Elizabeth Johns, and died April 29th, 1872, in her seventieth year. She was a sister of the late William Johns, of Elk Fork, and aunt to Mr. W. L. Johns, and Mesdames John A. Harpold, J. H. Evans, and Martin Casto.