Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/160 Surname: ROWLEY, ANDERSON, PARSONS, CARDER, ADAMS, MCGLOTHIN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Sandy Valley". Rowley Family William Henry Rowley had two brothers, but their father dying when he was small, they became separated, and he lost sight of them. W.H. was "bound" to a shoemaker on Long Island. It is not stated whether he came to West Virginia or not. A son, however, did, and his daughter married Joseph Anderson, as previously related. This son's name was Harry Rowley, and he may have been the "old man Rowley" who was living on the east side of Sandy, between the mouth of Trace Fork and the bridge, about 1835. He and his wife both died with the Sandy Fever afterward. Of his children: Thomas Rowley married Tabitha Parsons, daughter of George Parsons (Trace Fork George), and they went to Ohio. Huldah Rowley married John Smith Carder, and lived for a time on Trace Fork, and later of Joe's Run. Nancy Rowley married first Philip Adams (probably son of Dr. Adams), who died in Middleport, Ohio,. Was said to have been the smartest man J.A. ever knew, to have had no education. Her second husband was Jacob, son of Thomas McGlothin.