This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whitehair, Magruder, Strawser, Wolfe, Wile, Nine, Beatty, Burke, Scott, Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1112.1 Message Board Post: Hi, DEW, In Oren F. Morton's "A History of Preston County, Volume I," Morton writes on p. 404: " August Christian Whitehair came to Union in 1788, settling on the Jacob Elsey place. He taught at Carmel in 1790. He was the first teacher in Union and possibly the first in the whole county. The connection, now well represented in Portland as well as Union, is derived mainly from his son George, who lived on the C.T. O'Brien place, midway between Terra Alta and Aurora. Edmund, a grandson, has served some time on the Portland Board of Education. Spencer K. brother to the latter, is a veteran teacher." On p. 479, Morton writes under the heading, WHITEHAIR, lists the following children for August C.: George m1. Elizabeth Magruder and m2 Mary Strawser; John migrated to Indiana; David m. Elizabeth Wolfe; Catharine m. Henry Wile; and Susanna m. Christian Nine. In Samuel Wiley's "History of Preston. . . " in his chapter on education, on p. 343, he mentions Augustus Christian Whitehair as having been in the German Settlement and among the early teachers of Preston. On p. 299 of Wiley's text, David L. & John P. Whitehair are listed as having served as a Privates in Company E of the Sixth WV Infantry in the Civil War. On p. 302, Fydala Whitehair is listed as having served as a Private in Company B of the Fourteenth WV Infantry and Francis Whitehair, in Co. E, Fifteenth WV Infantry. On p. 303, Geo. W. Whitehair is listed has having served in Co. F. of the Seventeeth Regiment. In the second cem. listing book by Janice Sisler, there are Whitehairs noted as buried in the Terra Alta Cem. in the Portland District, but none of the specific names you have mentioned. There is also a Whitehair Farm Cem.noted as being "located along Route 7, in a small stand of trees approximately .8 miles West of Terra Alta" Only one Whitehair stone was found, that of Lula 1891-1895 d.o. Joshua & Phebe; other surnames: Beatty, Burke, Scott & Smith. Three illegible stones were noted, with one beginning "Ninnie A." Regards, Jane