Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/148 Surname: MCKOWN, STONE, LOVE, ONG, GRIFFIN, HOGG, SMITH, ROLLINS ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Lower Mill Creek" McKown Family John McKown was born in 1788. He came with his father's family from Greene County, Pennsylvania, about 1810 or 1812. John McKown was of Irish descent, his father was James McKown, and is said to have seen service in the Revolutionary War with General Washington. John was the youngest son. He had a brother, Gilbert, who also came to Jackson County, later. John married Sarah Stone, who was born in 1788. He owned a fine farm three miles below Ripley, and had a grist mill, saw mill and carding machine. He was also prominent in the organization of Jackson County, in 1831, and was one of the first magistrates of the county. He died in 1883, and Sarah (Stone) McKown died in 1882. Of their children: Elias McKown never married. Lydia McKown married first a Love, and second Nathan Ong. Margaret McKown married first Robert Griffin, and second John Hogg. James McKown was born on the farm at the mouth of parchment, in 1828, and died in February, 1905, at he age of seventy seven years. While engaged in merchandising in Ripley with Nehemiah Smith, he married his partner's daughter, Samantha Smith. They lived at what was later the site of the Valley Bank, and had a large family of ten children. Gilbert McKown, their son, was the father of Isaac and Ephraim McKown, of Roane County. Gilbert McKown, son of John McKown, lived about the time of the Civil War, in Spencer. He had a son Norman McKown. A Sam McKown married a Rollins, and died before the war.