Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/150 Surname: MAIRS, ARNOLD ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Middle Sandy Valley". Mairs Family Dr. Joseph Mairs, said to be the first resident physician at Ripley, came to Sandy about 1840 or 1845, and built a large brick house above the road, about a mile up the Left Fork. I passed there three years ago. Most of the walls had fallen down, a part of the angle of one corner of the wall six or eight feet high was standing, with other foundation walls and scraps and remnants, while piles of bricks and rubbish were strewed all around, and the whole grown up in a dense thicket of saplings, brush and weeds. An English sumach tree, planted in the yard as an ornament for the lawn, had taken complete possession of that quarter of the grounds, large trees standing thick inside the old walls and out. The place was abandoned nearly forty years ago, and has borne the name of being haunted ever since. Dr. Mairs died in 1841. A brother, Thomas Mairs, lived at the mouth of Service Fork. His wife, Louisa, died in 1862, and is buried at Sandyville. Susan, wife of Benjamin Arnold, a prominent citizen of the Sandyville vicinity for several years before the war, was a sister of the Mairs.