Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/162 Surname: WELLS, WASHINGTON, PARKS, MCINTIRE, BROWN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Wells Family Ephriam Wells had, in 1835, purchased the large tract of land above Ravenswood, which had been inherited from General George Washington, by the Parks, through Harriet Washington Parks. He had disposed of part of it, but retained for himself seven hundred and fifty one acres. Ephraim Wells was born in 1801, in Brooke County, and died in 1874. He married Margaret McIntire, and for many years held the position of Justice of the Peace, and member of the County Court. Of their children, I have: Charles P. Wells, who had purchased a part of the tract of his father. He had a son, J.D. Wells, and a daughter, who married Judge R.S. Brown. His father is said to have been named Absolom Wells.