B. H.
Sterrett
B. H. Sterrett, a prominent farmer of Putnam county, died at his home near
Buffalo on the fifteenth inst. Mr.
Sterrett's father was the County Clerk of Mason County, and he was born near
Point Pleasant, January twentieth
1814. He married Miss Alexander and settled near Buffalo, where he spent his
life as a quiet steady country gentleman. He connected himself with the
Pres-byterian Church some time ago in the decade of the 50's, and in 1860, on
the organization of the Buffalo Presbyterian Church, he was elected a ruling
elder, which office he held with credit to himself and profit to the church
until the day of his death. He was called upon during the war to suffer
imprisonment for his sympathies with the South. His children and grandchildren,
who are living, were all present in his last hours. The funeral was at his
residence on the seventeenth and was conducted by Rev. Geo. T. Lyle, pastor of
Buffalo Church.
(Excerpted from The Charleston Daily Gazette, Saturday, March 19, 1892]
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