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Abbott, Joseph (d. 1852) (Jemima): C.-St. Clair-Wilson-John (Esther Farley, 1807)-Lucinda-Joseph-Sophia (George W. Hutchinson, 1830) - Esther (John Roberts, 1829). pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916

ADAIR: The progenitor of the Adair's followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066. A descendant moved from the southwest of Scotland to county Antrim, Ireland, and thence William, a Presbyterian minister, who had been educated at Glasgow College, came to Philadelphia. As an Irish patriot and obnoxious to the British government he had to flee his native country hidden in a barrel and he never ceased to be bitterly hostile to England. He was sent as a missionary to Monroe, Greenbrier, and Pocahontas. Both he and his wife Ellen often prayed that the death angel would call for them at the same time. Their petition was answered and they were buried at New Lebanon in 1848.
James, a brother, arrived later and settled near William. His sons, William and James, Jr., located at Red Sulphur Springs, where they were prominent and prosperous citizens and conducted a large mercantile establishment many years. William was for a long time owner and manager of Red Sulphur Springs resort, was a man of large influence and repeatedly represented Monroe county in the Virginia Legislature. C. of James, Sr., (1761-1809) (Mary Wallace): William (1804-1887) (Sarah Harvey)-James (1807-1868) (Jane R. Smart-Robert-Mary-Jane.
C. of William. James H., Robert C, John R., Walter S., L. C.
C. of James: Asa R., Robert W. (b. 1848) (Julia Bane), Hugh T., John A., Mary J., James A., Manilius
C. Robert W. settled near Cashmere in 1874. C: Willie, Nancy B., Asa., Hugh H.
In 1812 one William (Catharine) was living on the Penturff patent at the head of Second. An older William died in Augusta in 1763 leaving a library of religious and medical books. He was one of the earliest settlers. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

ALDERSON: John (1738-1821), the pioneer of this family in Monroe, was a son John T.( 1719-1781) who was a native of England and a SON of John, a clergyman of the Church of England. The second John as about to take a matrimonial choice which his father disapproved. With the view of breaking the attachment, the parent gave the son a horse and some pocket money as a means of traveling around his native country. After he had used up his money, including that derived from the sale of the horse, he came to America as a redemptioner and was bought by a Mr. Curtis of New Jersey After his release from service, the young man married his master's daughter and became a Baptist preacher. A letter to his father brought a kind response and two volumes on theology, which books have been passed along from generation to generation. This second John came to Rockingham in 1755, but died in Botetourt, where he was a merchant. Other sons were Curtis, James, and Thomas. The last named also lived here a while but left no posterity in this region.
The third John Carroll, 1759 was preaching for the Baptist congregation on Linville Creek in 1775. After two missionary trips to the Greenbrier he became permanent in 1777, and built his house where now stands the Alderson Hotel in the town of Alderson. His patent overlapping that of Samuel Lewis just below, he extended his boundary into the hills south of the river. His brother-in-law, William Morris, had also a patent of 1200 acres and it lay across the river. As pastor of Old Greenbrier Church, and founder of the Baptist Church in the Greenbrier valley, the Rev. John Alderson is spoken of in Chapter XXIII. C: George (1762-1811c) ( Osborne of Josiah)-Joseph (b. 1771) (Mary Newman, 1789) -Margaret (1778-1869) (Thomas Smithson)-Jane (b. 1780) (William McClung)-John (1783-1853) (Jane Walker, 1805, Nancy Robinson Mays)
George moved to Kanawha, where he was a justice. George's Creek was named for him. John, Jr., lived on the homestead, and Joseph a mile south.
C. of George: John (France's Alderson, 1815)-Levi (Clementina Alderson)-James O. (Abigail McClung)-Polly ( McClung). J. O. was the father of Rev. James G. and Margaret.
C. of Joseph: George (b. 1789) ( McCreery, Davis)- Sarah (Thomas Smithson)-Mary (b. 1793) ( Lewis) -Martha (s)-Margaret (William Feamster)-Newman (s)-Joseph K. (s)- Lewis A. (1812-1880) (Lucy B. Miles, Eliza Coleman). George was a Colonel in Fayette and the father of 23 children. The Rev. L. A., who took the master's degree at the University of Ohio in 1832 and was ordained the next year, was the first native Baptist preacher in Virginia who was a college graduate. He was principal of the Monroe Academy, 1834-6 and 1840-43, meanwhile preaching in the vicinity. In 1858 he went to Kansas, where he was offered the presidency of several colleges. It has been said of him that "the world might soon become converted if there were more such noble-hearted, self-sacrificing Christian men."
C. of John: Malinda (b. 1805) (James Callison, 1840)-Albert (b. 1807) (Matilda Hines)-Louisa (Aaron Newman, 1829)-Evaline (Thomas D. Crews, 1834)-John (b. 1812) (Harriet E. Johnson, 1839)-Mary (Andrew Ellis, 1834); by 2d w.-Jane (b. 1824) (Joseph A. Huffman, 1847) Amanda (Samuel Carraway, 1847)-Catharine (A. Jackson Smith, 1843) -Elizabeth (William Gray)-Lucy (1831-1899) (Joseph P. Hines) - George (b. 1833) (Mary J. Hines, Virginia M. Stevens Boyd).
C. of George of John: Charles O. (Dy)- Emma C.-Ida N. By 2d w. -L Cary- Bernard C. (1870-1905)-George (1875-1907) - Virginia S. (Charles B. Rowe, 1907). Both George and George, Jr., have represented Monroe in the legislature. I. Cary was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College and in law from the University of Virginia. He practiced at Logan and was president of the Guyan Valley Bank. Bernard C. was a graduate of West Virginia and Chicago universities, and for two years instructor in Latin and Greek at the former. In 1900 he and Emma C. organized the Alderson Baptist Academy, in which the latter is still a teacher.
C. of Albert of John: Joseph K. (m. in Tex.)-Mary A. (Higgens)-Catharine (James Bobbitt)-Margaret ( Foster) - Frances ( Keaton)-John W. ( Garstang)-Henry C (dy)-Amanda (dy)-Susan (Jackson Bledsoe). Most of the above went to Texas. J. W. returned, built the Alderson Hotel, and it is still carried on by the widow.
C. of John of John: Elizabeth J. (DeWitt Smith)-Sophronia (Christopher Ballard)-William-David-Ellen-Harriet. John and the four younger of his family went to Missouri before 1860. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

ALEXANDER: This family was the first to settle where the county seat was established. Owing also to its intermarriages with other leading families of Monroe, the Alexander connection has been very prominent in local annals. James, Sr., who lived in Beverly Manor, is mentioned there as early as 1746 and was a captain in the Old French war. James, Jr., (1750-1814) visited this region before his settlement in 1773. He located on land which he understood was to be conveyed by a man from Pennsylvania, but that personage failed to appear. His first house was built on the hill just east of Union. The second year he started for the Valley, and from the summit of a knob the couple saw their cabin in flames. It was the year of the Dunmore war. The second house was built on what became the main street of Union, and the third, "Old Hundred," was low down on the western slope of Green Hill. It was afterward the home of Matthew Alexander, and was burned several years ago. The cemetery at the top of the knob is on land granted by the pioneer. He was a member of the Greenbrier court in 1784 and was sheriff in 1793. Two years before Union was founded he took out a tavern license. His wife was Isabella Erskine. C: Andrew (b. 1773) (Phoebe Bracken, 1805) - Jane (b. 1775) (Alexander Dunlap)- Catharine (b. 1776) (Richard Shanklin)-Matthew (1777-1825) (Elizabeth J. Marshall)-Michael (1779-1857) (Mary Benson, 1801)-Henry (1782-1866) (Elizabeth Cathron, Frances P. Burrell)-Elizabeth (John Byrnside)-Mary (Henley Chapman).
Jane, Catharine, Henry, and Michael had each a James, and by will each of these grandsons had a legacy of $50.
C. of Andrew: Mary A. (Hugh McClaugherty, 1828)-Rebecca B. (b. 1811) (Samuel Kean, 1837)-Isabella (Michael Cotton, 1835)- Catharine (Stephen Wright)-Jane (W. G. Henderson)-Maivina (William Byrnside, Saunders).
C. of Matthew: James (d. 1854) (Ingabo )-Matthew-John- Catharine (Joseph Porter, 1807)-Mary (Robert B. Wallace, 1808)-Andrew-daughter (Robert Ross)-daughter (George W. Curry).
C. of Michael: John E. (Jane Miller)-Mary M.-James A.-Catharine A. (William H. Shanklin, 1831)-Jabin B.-Isabella E. (Benjamin F. Steele)-Delilah (George Beirne, 1827, Hugh Caperton).
C. of Henry (by 1st w.): Charles C. (s)-Isabella (Rev. John Pinkerton)-James H. (1810-1866) (s)- Elizabeth (Newton E. Keenan, 1834) -Frances C. (Lewis E. Caperton)-Harriet B. (William G. Caperton)
C. of J. E. of Michael: James R. (Elizabeth Baldwin, 1855)- Mary J. (John Ross)-Michael C. (Sarah McFadden)-Jabin B. (s)-Delilah C. (John Miller)-John M. (Annie E. Zoll, 1872)-Margaret E. (Frederick D. Wheelwright, 1869)-Madison S. (Isabella Zoll).
C. of Michael C. of J. E.-William M., Elizabeth, Libbie, Kyle.
Rev. William M. Alexander, D. D. was born in Union in 1861. He was graduated from the Washington and Lee University in 1884 and from Union Theological Seminary in 1887. He was chosen moderator of the 55th General Association of the Southern Presbyterian Church and is well qualified for such a position. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

ALFORD: John (Jane) came from Rockingham during or just after the Revolution. C: Thomas (1771-1853) (Phoebe Cummins)-John (1773-1853) (Margaret )-James-Margaret-Sarah (James Ellis)-Jane. C. of Joseph (d. 1830c) (Jane): James, John, Nancy, Lois, Robert, Polly, Joseph. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

ANDERSON: C. of John A. (Susan McMann): Ednonia (Robert Ralston), Ada, Arthur C, Susan, James (Birdie Hoylman), Homer (Minnie Parker), Mamie (Otey Bland), Ella ( Wickline), Cora (William Hoylman, Boone), John (Ida Nicely). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

APPLING: David (1802-1884), was a native of Amherst . C-R. C. and W. T. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

ARCHEY: Charles S. (1809c-1901) (Francena Shirey, Isabel Neal Poole) came from Virginia in his youth. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

ARNOT: Henry (1761-1847) when 18 years old ran away from his home in New Jersey to join the army of the Revolution. With his wife, Elizabeth Truesdale, he came here in 1793 and settled on Swope's Knobs, about 3 mile* west of Union. C: Elizabeth (b. 1781) (Matthew Wood, 1799)-Martha (b. 1786) (Charles Neal, 1802)-Deborah (b. 1787) (Walter Neal, 1804) -William T. (b. 1789-1863) (Mary Garten, 1812, Lucinda Handley, 1817) -Henry (b. 1791) (Mary Phillips, 1815)-Sarah (b. 1795) (Joseph Baker, 1834)-Almeda (b. 1799) Levi Canterbury, 1816. The couple was devout Methodists and as long as they were able would walk long distances to attend religious meetings.
C. of William T.-Jesse (1812-1896) (Mary E. Hanley)-Jacob (Rebecca Thomas)-Anderson (1816-1892) (Mary J. Hill). By 2d w.- Mary (1819-1908) (John Maddy, Jr.)-Elizabeth (1820-1907) (John McNeer)-Margaret (1824-1908) (Charles Maddy)-James W. (1826-1894) (Derinda Ross)-Elisha T. (1829-1910) (Ruth A. Miller, 1853)-Martha A. (John P. Maddy)-William H. (1833-1910) (Martha Coalter)-Rebecca (1837-1910) (Isaac F. Ballard).
C. of Elisha T. (m. 1853): Estill M. (s)-Lycurgus B. (Mary E. Cummins)-J. William (Rose V. Lively)-Ella M. (Dewey E. Pence)- Charles (Mabel E. Johnson)-S. Pemberton (Stella M Varner).
Another Arnot was John, who came from Sussex Co., N. J., and purchased land in Gap Valley in 1792. Some of his children married into neighboring families.
Jesse Arnot built with very limited resources the first stone building at Salt Sulphur Springs. In 1834 he went to Glasgow, Mo., and established himself in the stage business, which he pursued with great success, carrying the mails over a wide area. In 1848 he removed to St. Louis and for nearly 50 years conducted the livery business on a large scale in that city. His name is connected with many of the enterprises which are associated with the growth of St. Louis, yet he never pushed himself to the front except in his private business. He was a Freemason and Odd Fellow, a member of the Merchants' Exchange, and a lifelong Methodist. He was very charitable, especially toward orphans and the aged and friendless. It was through his exertions that the Methodist Orphan's Home of St. Louis was established in 1883, and he was a heavy subscriber to the fund for its maintenance. On Mr. Arnot was conferred the honor of burying President Lincoln at Springfield, 111.
Charles, son of Elisha T, went to Nebraska in 1887, where he has been very prominent as an educator. During eight years he was county superintendent of Dodge county. For the same length of time he was in charge of the schools of Schuyler, where he won very high commendation. Recently he has gone into the banking business. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BAKER: Powhatan (1824-1900) (Caroline Tuggle)-came from Bedford in 1830-Disciples minister of Red Sulphur District. C: George-Rev. Granville- Charles A. (Jennie Miller of W. F.).
C of Granville: Mattie (E. L. Dunn)-Emma V. (J. P. Williams) - Frances (Charles Caldwell)-Ella N. (Charles M Via).

BAKER: About 1787 Jacob came with the Lewis family from the Valley of Virginia and was the first professional baker employed at Sweet and Sweet Chalybeate Springs. Later he settled on the Faudree farm four miles west of Sweet Springs. He married Christina C. Goliday (1761c-1851) who never learned to speak English. Their son Jacob (Polly Hull, 1811) was born here in 1788 and died 1860. C: John (Nancy Calwell)-George W. (Mary Carter)-David (Rachel Tigert)-Henry ( Argabrite) Lewis (Catharine Worsham)-Anderson (Mary Griffith)-Chapman (Ann Griffith)-Mary (Peter Carter)-Elizabeth (Conrad Piles)-Catharine (Adam Piles).
C. of John: W. A. (Catharine Lugar)- C. O. (Caroline Kelly)-George (Mattie Lugar)-David O. ( Jones)-Joseph B. (Nicatia Baker, Amanda Wickline)-J H. (Mary E. Eggleston)-Julia A. (John H. Cook)-Mary E. (Daniel S. Wickline)-Amanda C. (F. L. Beckner) -Eliza J. (John E. Wickline, Jr.).
Another Baker was David (d. 1840)-C: Jacob, Catharine (Ragland), Anne, Madison, Sarah. Still another was Frederick, naturalized 1811, d. 1830 (Elizabeth)-C: John-Frederick (Nancy Rains)-Joseph- Sarah (Jacob Pyles, 1818)-Elizabeth ( Given). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BALLANTYNE: Andrew and his wife, Agnes Smart, and their four children came from Dundee, Scotland, to Norfolk in 1801, and thence to the Sinks of Monroe. Their friends, Andrew Miller, May Broady, and others, came by the same ship and others had preceded them. Ballantyne was a skilled weaver. And like a true Scotchman of his time he was a great reader and student, especially of the Bible. For many years he taught in an old schoolhouse that stood close to his home near Hillsdale. He and Andrew and James Miller would regularly walk to one another's homes on Sunday, a circuit of 10 miles, for the purpose of religious worship. They were elders of the first session after the Lebanon brick church was completed. The three daughters were as fond of reading as their parent . In order that a borrowed book might be promptly returned, they would read at night what their father had read by day. Their books, heavy both in binding and subject matter, are still in possession of their descendants. They also delighted in feats of memory. One of these was committing the 119th psalm, the Shorter and Longer Catechisms, and much of the Presbyterian Confession of Faith. C: Jean (Michael Beamer, 1824)-Elspeth (b. 1796) (Philip Beamer, Jr.)-Catharine (Robert Boyd)-Robert (Mary Harper) -Marjorie (born at sea 1801) (John Crawford).
C. of Robert: Isabel, Jeanetta, Elizabeth, Calvin, Andrew, James, Madison, John. Andrew was a Methodist local preacher. Madison lost a leg at Cedar Creek and later became editor of the "Milton Star" at Milton, W. Va. His parents removed to the West pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916

BALLARD: William (1732-1799) (Elizabeth Step, d. 1830) was one of the 10 children of William, Sr., who came from Scotland to the vicinity of where afterward arose the city of Washington. With several of his brothers he served in the American Army of the Revolution. Shortly after that event he left his home on the Rapidan and after a short stay in Albemarle he journeyed to Indian Creek with two horses, one cow, and a few household goods, arriving at Benjamin Harvey's on Christmas night, 1793. He acquired no realty. The years in which he was born and died were precisely the same as in the case of the Father of his Country. C: Johnson (Ky.)- Jeremiah (1777-1867) (Jaley Thompson)-Lucy (John Stodghill, John Goodall)-Millie (Jacob Mann, 1804)-William (1784-1880) (Mollie Snow)- Nancy (William Farrell)-Mollie (Mathias Kessinger, 1803)-Willis (17911880) (Isabel Thompson, 1813)-James (Jennie Keaton, 1804).
C. of Jeremiah: Elizabeth (Andrew Campbell)-Margaret (Anderson Keaton, 1831, Robert D. Shanklin)-John (b. 1818) (Jane Dennis)-Baldwin (b. 1821) (Emily Mann, 1847) (Leah Mann, 1850)-Riley (1823-1915) (Amanda Cummings)-Lewis (d. 1906) (Malinda J. Spangler, 1854) - Mary (1830-1914) (John Hecht)-Frank (1833-1915) (Lizzie Chapman, 1866).
C. of Baldwin: Allen T. by 2d w.-Simpson S. (s)-Marion C. (Kate Humphreys, 1878)-Henry (Jennie McNeer, 1885)-Jeremiah (Amanda Burdett, 1883, Mamie Hinkle, 1913)-Margaret (Charles Lingo)-Wallace (Cornelia Humphreys)-Isaac N. (Kate M. Walkup, 1893)-Emma A. (Henderson Reed)-Charles S. (Ida Borden, Nancy Buchanan).
C. of Frank: India W., Don B., Cora, Eva L., Roland E. Willis and Jeremiah purchased in 1817 of the heirs of Daniel Jarrell, 280 acres for $350. This property still remains in the Willis branch.
C. of Willis: Thompson (b. 1814) (Anna Miller, 1841)-Elizabeth (Henly Mann, 1833)-George (1819-1879) (Delilah Mann, 1838)-William (1821-1914) (Elizabeth Riner, 1914)-Harrison (Huldah Mann, 1847) -Susan (1826-1914) (Samuel Miller)-Sylvester (Lucinda Riner, 1848)- Nancy (1830-1904) (Eli Mann, 1850)-Hugh (b. 1836) (Rachel Mann, 1866). AH these sons except Hugh, who had the homestead, opened new farms on Stinking Lick.
C. of Thompson: Overton (d. "63), Willia, (d. '62), Isabella (b. 1844) (Lewis Campbell), John T. (b. 1845), Ellen (Dayton Humphreys), Millard F. (Lydia Keatly), James K. (Mary Campbell), Agnes (Henry Wills), Sarah A. (James McClaugherty).
C of George: Polly (1839-1861) (Garland Hurt), Isabella (Henry Humphreys), James (Mary Wills), Clayton (Ellen Spangler), Jarrett (Mary Spangler), Gaston (Catharine Spangler, Molly Thompson)
C. of William: Marinda (b. 1849) (Lewis Ellison), Amanda (Henderson Barton) Molly (John Spangler), Juretta (William Keatly), Martha (John Keatly).
C. of Harrison: Maston (b. 1848) ( Barton, Ruth Smith), Mary (Wilson Davis), Isabella (Benjamin Tinsley), Delilah (Lewis Meadows), Nelson (Elizabeth Hanks), Grant (Lidia Bonham), Sylvester (Chambers).
C. of Sylvester: George (Margaret Thompson).
C. of Hugh: Oliver (Kate Broyles), Molly (F. G. Lilly), Annie L. (Sylvester A. Miller).
The Ballards are remarkable for longevity and they constitute a numerous connection. The five brothers of William, Jr., came to Monroe before he did, but we have little knowledge of them. Curtis (Esther) moved from Hans Creek to Ohio in 1810. His daughter Sarah married Isaac Hutchinson in 1801.
Baldwin Ballard, 95 years of age as we go to press, is of striking personality and has had an eventful career. A white swelling in his ankle made him a cripple at the age of 12. A few years later he removed a splintered bone by the free use of a razor and kept on hoeing corn to the close of the day. He learned to sew and to weave and followed the tailoring trade more than 20 years, doing much of his work at the homes of his patrons. He thus traveled much territory on the east of the lower course of the Greenbrier. In partnership with his brother John he purchased in 1845 the farm on which he now lives. Previous to the war he carried on for a while a mercantile career in connection with his tailoring business. The latter came to an end with the appearance of readymade clothing in the stores. Mr. Ballard was one of the three men at Greenville who voted against secession. His lameness rendered him exempt from military service but his opposition to the Confederate cause was uncompromising. His unconcealed sympathy with the North made his position a trying one, yet he did not discriminate in the matter of hospitality. Many a time Confederate soldiers ate at his table while at the same time Union soldiers or runaways were concealed in the loft. On one occasion he was brought into Greenville under arrest and for a while it looked as though he would be hanged, but the intercession of neighbors who nevertheless were of Confederate feeling caused him to be let off with a lecture and a warning. At another time he was fired upon and his horse wounded. During the reconstruction period he was six years a justice of the peace and it has been his boast that not one of his decisions was ever reversed by a higher court . Mr. Ballard has been very successful as a business man and is one of the wealthiest stock growers of Monroe. He is quick at repartee, as is well known to those acquainted with him. His iron will and inflexible convictions have in political discussion made him able to give as well as take blow for blow. Yet he is a personage of kindly nature, and now that the tempestuous period of the 60's and 70's has receded almost half a century into the background, his relations with his neighbors are entirely cordial. With his second wife he lived happily for the remarkable span of 65 years.
Others of the connection also espoused the Federal cause. Frank, son of Jerry, became a captain of West Virginia state troops, and his was the first Federal command to enter Monroe county. He was at Cloyd's Mountain and in other engagements. During the reconstruction period he served as county superintendent, twice as delegate to the legislature, and once as prosecuting attorney. He secured the passage of a law permitting a landholder to pass through the land of another to reach a public road.
Lewis Ballard sat in the West Virginia legislature in 1863, and was the first sheriff of Monroe after the war. His property had been confiscated in 1863, but he made his escape from the military prison at Salisbury, N. C [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BARE: Samuel (1796-1874) came from Staunton about 1824 and settled on Indian Draft. He was a son of Jacob (Eve) of Germany and could speak no English until seven years old. He was a captain of militia. His wife, Mary P. Smith (1808-1884) was of this county. C: Jacob W. (1827-1909) (Elizabeth P. Chambers, 1844, Amanda B. Baker)-Isaac E. (1831-1912) (Sarah F. Lynch, Margaret Surber)- Paulina (Joseph A. H. Ellison, 1853) -Virginia F. (William F. Nelson, 1861)-John H. C. (b. 1844) (Mary S. Thompson, Mary P. Kershner).
C. of Jacob W. by 1st w.-Mary E. (b. 1848), Newton J., Margaret A., Samuel F., Elizabeth V., Georgia A., C. S.
C. of J. H. C.-Sarah E. S., Ellen M-, Carol C., Frances M., Jennie A., E. G., Sarah C.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BARNETT: William A. (Lydia A. Boyd, 1865), a native of Harrison, and a member of the 19th Virginia Cavalry, came here during the war and settled on the Knobs. C: Eliza (Gordon Taylor), Harvey (Jessje Kuhn), Annie (Floyd Flack), Laura ( Flack), Mary (James DeHart), Jessie ( Bowyer), Porterfield (Mrs. Spencer), Archelaus, William. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BEAMER: Philip (1763-1838 (Elizabeth , d. 1840) left Reading, Penn, to go to Tenn., but not finding a suitable location the family came about 1799 to the Plank Cabin Draft near Hillsdale. The journey was made in a large four-horse wagon. On the land purchased were a hunter's cabin and an acre of clearing. Here the parents and two or three children lived two years until better quarters could be provided. C: Elizabeth (Conrad Cart, 1808)-Joseph (b. 1796) ( Bayley)-John (1798-1868) (Susan Cart, Harriet Stayley Fleshman)-Philip (Elspeth Ballantyne)-Michael (1801-1882) (Jean Ballantyne, 1824)-George (1805-1877) (Louise Byrd)-Henry (Oregon)-Benjamin (O.)-Sarah (James Crosier, 1820)-Mary (s)-Harriet ( Milholland).
C. of John: Amanda (Nicholas Vanstavern)-Mary (Benjamin Vanstavern)-Thomas-Calvin (Virginia Parker)-?Catharine S. (Thomas Brown, 1845).
C. of Philip: Andrew, Jean, Eliza, Mary C. (1833-1915) (George R. Williams, 1857), Franklin, Louise.
C. of Michael: Rev. Augustus B. (1826-1903) (Romanza Miller)-Eliza S. (s)-Robert M. (b. 1831) (Mary S. Young, 1853)-Benjamin (1832-1909) (Caroline Parker).
C. of R. M.-Isabel, Erastus (Elizabeth Baker), Byrd (Minnie Speilman), Serena C. (George Anderson), William M., Hugh (Virginia Hawkins), Laura (William Hawkins), Walter (Bessie Lynch), Edna L., Elsie L., Asa, Roy (Sarah Moore).
C. of Benjamin of Michael: Alphonso, Ida, Virginia (William Wimmer), Simpson, Joseph, Leslie, Dona, Mary.
C. of George: Clementina ( Handley), Mary (William T. Patton), Elizabeth (Charles Sydenstricker), Byrd (k. '64).
According to the mortuary records of Monroe, John was born in Germany in 1798. Yet the deed-book records the purchase of the Larkin place in 1796 instead of three years later. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BEARD: John D. of David and Felicia was b. 1833, came from Augusta 1867, and acquired several good grazing farms, particularly at Johnson's Crossroads. He was one of the oldest Masons in Monroe. (Mary M. Johnson, 1867, Mahala E. Dunn, Ella Campbell) C: Charles O., Rufus J. D., Hugh D., Robert E., and (by 2d w.) Richard P. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BECKETT: About 1785 three Becketts, said to be of a collateral branch of the family to which the celebrated Robert A. Beckett belonged, came from England, one settling in Connecticut, one in Maryland, and one in Virginia. Of the eight children of Daniel (Lydia Wade) of Blacksburg, William H. H. (Catharine D. Callaway, 1841, Margaret Tracy) came to Monroe before his first marriage. C: Amanda M. (A. C. Lynch)-Margaret (Rice Cart, Rev. P. S. Chandler)-Wilber F. (Jennie Devers)-James D. (A E. Peck, 1879)-George H. (Sarah M Michie, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hodge)-Henry C. (Mary W. Crews)-A. W. (m. in Wood) -Elizabeth E. (George Kountz)-Erastus (Margaret Still) ; by 2d m.- Ballard P. (Elizabeth Harvey)-Samuel F. (Nannie Spangler)-Robert D. (Julia Robertson)-Catharine B. (William Martin)-Dora B. (Walter Dent)-Arthur T.-Willie H. (Charles Stromer).
All but the first of the older family are yet living and none is under the age of 58. W. F. and J. D. were in the Confederate army, the former being present in 17 battles. J. D. has spent much time in school work and has served three terms as county superintendent and two as circuit clerk; is now President of Monroe county court. Dr. H. C. studied at Holbrook and Vanderbilt universities and graduated in medicine at the University of Nashville. He has been a practitioner at Scottsburg, Va., since 1885, ranks high in his profession, and is author of several papers on medical topics. Samuel ( Eddy), brother to W. H. H., married in Monroe.
C. of J. D.: Ray P. (Lorna Miller) Mamie (R. M. Steele) and Emile.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BECKNER: Daniel (Elizabeth Evans) came from Botetourt to Sinks Grove about 1820. His children by this marriage were John (dy) and Lewis (18241864)
C. of Lewis (Catharine Wickline of Daniel, 1849): Napoleon L. (d)- Ferdinand L. (Amanda C. Baker, 1875)-Julian H.-Josephine M E. (d)-Alfred A.-D. Powell, 1893-Spurgeon M.-Lewis F.
From 1873 to 1907, F. L. was concerned in the management of Sweet Springs, beginning under Oliver Beirne. J. H. , now of Florida, was associated with Beirne and Burnside in the management of a sugar plantation. A. A., now of Baton Rouge, managed a Burnside sugar plantation 27 years. D. P. like A. A., managed the Lewis Place a while, was then transferred to Burnside, La., and at length returned to become manager of Sweet Springs. He was murdered by one John F. Wiley. S. M. is at Easton, Md. L. F., manager of Lewis Place 24 years, is now in Texas.
C. of F. L.-Currie L.-Nelson A.-Minnie B.-Mabel R.-Alfred C. (d)-Tilghman-Robert E.-Fitzhugh L.-John L.-Fred H.-Bessie M. -Lake S. T. and F. L. are foremen of the Myron Stratton Home Farm in Colorado. Their father is one of the most successful farmers of Sweet Spring's valley.
The Beckners are of Lancaster county, Pa. Daniel was murdered by rangers in Nicholas.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BEIRNE: Andrew Beirne and his wife, Plunkett, had three sons who built themselves largely into the history of Monroe. He was himself of the Irish gentry and of classical education and comfortable circumstances. Andrew, Jr., decided after coming to manhood that he would leave the old home in county Roscommon and come to America. He saw a better future for himself in the land that had just gained its independence than by remaining in his native Ireland which was so grievously oppressed by the British government. At the age of 22 he arrived at Philadelphia with about $150 in money. This sum he handed to a man who agreed to take him in a while so that he might have opportunity to gain a practical knowledge of the new country. The tradesman soon failed and the money was a total loss. Nevertheless the young man decided on a mercantile career, and a worthy countryman named Flanagan became his security for a few hundred dollars worth of goods. This supply he soon sold out and the same Quaker merchant, having faith in the young Irishman, furnished a larger stock. After about two years of very successful exertion Beirne found his way to this county and opened a small store on the farm of Edward Keenan, whose daughter, Ellen G., he married. As soon as Monroe and the town of Union were established, Mr. Beirne moved his store into the village, and his brother George arriving in 1800, the firm of A. and G. Beirne was formed and it continued many years. In 1824 Mrs. Royall speaks of its success as ''without a parallel, taking into view the nature of the country."
     Andrew Beirne soon became a great landholder. He acquired an estate of 2200 acres just north of the county seat, the half lying near the village being unsurpassed even in the famed bluegrass belt of Kentucky. There is running water in every field and the land is worth from $125 to $150 an acre. Near the Beirne mill, which is yet standing, he built a house which he painted red, and from this circumstance it was known as the "Red House." It has since disappeared. Later he built midway to Union a large brick dwelling which he painted white, and thus it became known as the "White House." As captain of a rifle company he led his command to Norfolk in 1814, all the more willingly because of his resentment at the injustice of England toward Ireland. But the news of peace came before there was any need for his further service. At the disbanding at Norfolk he very generously offered the homebound expenses of any member of his company who might need such help, regardless of whether it were repaid or not. Afterward he became colonel of the Monroe militia. His political creed was Democratic and he was repeatedly honored with office. In 1807 he was a member of the Virginia Assembly. He was afterward a state senator, a member of the constitutional convention of 1829, and in 1836 a Presidential elector. He was also sent to Congress.
Colonel Beirne was not only a great financier but was of pleasing manners and high education. He took great interest in the affairs of his state and county. He died in 1845, aged 74, while on a visit to Huntsville, Ala. His possessions were then worth about $1,000,000. Beirne was of kindly impulses and much usefulness. Yet it must be added that this fortune, amassed while America was still a poor country, was not built up without recourse to grinding business methods. Such practices as his tended to deepen the inequality of wealth and to reduce the mass of the people to a condition little better than vassalage.
Of the ten children of Colonel and Mrs. Beirne the following attained maturity: Christopher (s)-Edward (s)-Mary D. (Biele Steenberger)- Susan (Charles H. Patton, 1833)-Nancy (William McFarland)-Oliver (1811-1888) (Margaret M. Caperton)-Ellen ( Turner)-George T. (Eliza Gray)-Andrew (d. 1872) (Mary A. Alexander, Ellen Gray). Steenberger was once the owner of the celebrated Mimm's Bottoms in Shenandoah county. He was a financier after the order of Jay Gould and others of New York fame. On one occasion he borrowed $600,000 from the United States Bank with Col. Beirne and others as security. He failed but his endorsers won in a suit for relief from their obligation. He cornered the beef market in St. Louis and the flour market in San Francisco, where he sold flour at $50 a barrel. And yet he died at St. Louis a poor man. Patton was a distinguished physician of Alabama, and McFarland an eminent lawyer of Richmond. Turner was of Connecticut. George T. became a brilliant attorney of Huntsville, Ala. Oliver and Andrew were the only married sons who remained in Monroe.
     The latter, known as "young colonel," lived on the Lewis place, where he was very successful as a grower of blooded livestock. He was not only a large slaveholder but an extensive employer of hired labor. But the war of 1861 was disastrous to him in a financial way. Andrew J. Beirne was over six feet tall, dressed like a planter, with brown slouch hat, highly polished boots, and large flaps to the pockets of his riding coat. He was known as the most superb horseback rider in the county. Mounted on "Honest John," he would lope in a single hour the eight miles between his house and Union, and to the schoolboys who envied his equestrian ship it seemed as though horse and rider were one. His colored attendant, "Black Joe," riding "Peacock," could with difficulty keep up with him. His children were Mary G., Rosalie, Ellen, and Andrew. The one son died in a Federal prison in 1865. The first daughter married Thomas J. Middleton, of South Carolina, the second married Col. Garrett Andrews, an eminent lawyer of Mississippi, and the third married Adolphus Blair of Richmond, whose son, Andrew B., is a prominent business man of that city.
     Oliver had a college education and was a graduate in medicine, although he never practiced. On one of his return trips from school he met John Burnside at Fincastle, and this casual acquaintance led to the employment of the latter by the colonel. At length Oliver Beirne formed a partnership with Burnside for buying and selling sugar, Burnside taking the New Orleans end of the business and Oliver the New York end. After making a great deal of money they closed out in 1847, Burnside then becoming a sugar planter. Oliver enlarged the "White House" and lived there until the war, when he moved to Sweet Springs, where he was the owner of the hotel. To this property he gave the great benefit of his capacity for business organization. Oliver Beirne was at length not only the proprietor of the family homestead and of Sweet Springs, but also of the Lewis place, the Burnside estate, and large holdings in Texas, the whole being worth some $6,000,000, and making him at that time the wealthiest man in the Virginias. All this property except Sweet Springs still belongs to his heirs. Mr. Beirne was a person of warm attachments as well as strong prejudices. He was large-hearted toward his friends, but could tolerate no petty meanness. In his later years he was known as an erect, well-groomed gentleman of somewhat more than average size and he wore a long, white, patriarchal beard. His children were John, Jane E., Bertie, Andrew, Susan, Nancy, and Alice. Bertie married William P. Miles, of South Carolina, a scholarly gentleman and a great book lover. He served in Congress and was one of the organizers of the Confederate government at Montgomery. He was one of the near counselors of Jefferson Davis. Susan married Major Henry Robinson, and Nancy married Samuel B. Parkman, who was killed at Antietam. In 1869 she married Emil von Ahlefeldt, a German, and spent thirteen years in Europe. The only living grandchildren are those of Mrs. Miles, two of whom spend their summers at the White House.
     George Beirne (1780-1832) married Polly Johnson in 1805. His children were Andrew P., Jackson, Christopher, George, Susan, and Mary R. Andrew P. (1808-1842) married a Miss Smith, of the Shenandoah Valley. Jackson, a surgeon in the Confederate army, settled in St. Louis. George, who died at an early age, married Delilah Alexander in 1827. Christopher, a bachelor, and the owner for a while of a fine estate immediately south of Union, moved to St. Louis. Susan and Mary R. married respectively Manilius and Augustus A. Chapman. Andrew P. had a son and a daughter, the latter marrying a Kinney, of Staunton. The former, who married Elizabeth Caperton, was born in 1842, was educated at the United States Military Academy, and served in the Confederate navy. In the year of his marriage-1867-he came to Monroe as a farmer and attorney, but at length moved to Ronceverte. The children of George were Michael A. J., Oliver F., and Christopher J. Oliver (1785-1845), a brother to Colonel Beirne, lived unmarried.
None of the Beirnes in the male line are now residents of Monroe. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BENSON: Erwin (d. 1818) (Mary Black, d. 1852) owned Salt Sulphur. C: Elizabeth (?John Hawkins, 1808)-Mary (Michael Alexander, 1801)-Nelly (William Clark, 1808)-Jane (Isaac Caruthers, 1816)-Margaret (William Erskine, 1810)-Mathias (d. before 1818).
C. of Mathias: Ervin William (minor, 1796) son of Levin.
The Bensons came from the Cowpasture.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BEST: Francis (Isabella) was living in the Sinks, 1800, adj. James Wylie, William Young, Joseph Alford. He came from Va. Mary (b. 1766) married John Lynch.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BICKETT: Michael (Elizabeth Erskine), who lived on the flat-topped mountain which bears the family name, was probably a son of an older Michael, who died in this county in 1814. Thomas (Mary) and John (Margaret), who also lived in this neighborhood between 1800 and 1810, seem to have been other sons. Michael, Jr., was found in a dying condition in his field early in May, 1858. C: James H. (b. 1798)-William-Catharine (Joseph Perry) - Henry-John L.-Jean-Benjamin L. (b. 181*). These births took place between 1798 and 1814. James H. (Polly Tapscott) lived on the homestead but had no family.
C. of William (Nancy Boyd): Catharine (1836-1857) (s)-Elizabeth (Joshua Leach, Matthew Walkup)-Michael (1831-1888) (s)-James D.
Thus by failure in the male line the surname has become extinct. Michael, son of William, died an hour before his mother and both are buried in one grave.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BIGGS: A-C. (Lydia Broyles, Delilah Ballard) was born in Giles in 1830. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BITTENGER: Rev. M. H. (1826-1913) (Martha R. Moffett, 1858) was born at Georgetown, D. C, and was a descendant of Adam, an immigrant from Alsace to Pa. His grandfather, a captain in the Revolution, was captured at Fort Washington and suffered great hardships. M. H. came to Greenville in 1855, after being a missionary in Giles two years. He was graduated from Nassau Hall, Princeton, N. J., 1849, was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, 1852, and became pastor emeritus 1902. He preached also at other points than Greenville, and was a teacher and county superintendent. "Few men in Monroe were more widely known and perhaps no one was more highly esteemed." [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BLACK: Samuel (d. 1845c) was probably of a Scotch-Irish family that first settled on the Cowpasture. He was neighbor to James Handley. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BLAND: Robert (d. 1795c) seems to have been the father of Robert (Anna) of Peters Mountain valley, whose own son Robert was born here 1784. C.: Robert (1784-1857)-Esther E. (James T. McKinney, 1813)-James (India Dawson of Isaac, 1813)-Joshua (Polly Shires, 1807) Joshua, probably a brother, had Robert (Elizabeth Hand, 1808). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BLANKENSHIP: Richard bought land of James Ellison on Stinking Lick in 1800. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BLANTON: William came from the Cowpasture at a very early day. He settled on the Gaston Caperton place, was constable, 1773, and was a prominent member of the Rehoboth congregation. The family went to Kentucky. John was a son and Isabel (Abner Wiseman, 1800) a daughter or granddaughter. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BOGGESS: Thomas (d. 1831) (Mary) C: Abraham (Elizabeth)-Seth-Mary A. -Bury-Phoebe (James Pinnell, 1806)-Judith ( Life). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BOON: Mark (1824-1896) was a native of Appledore, Kent County, England, and came to America with his parents in 1828. His wife was Annie Chaplin, also a native of England, who came in 1844 at the age of 17. Mr. Boon came from Warm Springs to Monroe in 1860 to engage in the mercantile business at Greenville; but the war demoralizing commercial operations, he engaged in hospital and field service. In the spring that the war closed he set up as a tailor at Greenville and was also a partner with his brother Daniel in a store. They dissolved partnership in 1878, and after merchandising four years at Hunter's Springs he purchased the Swinny farm near Lindside. In connection with his farm he conducted a store which he opened in that village in 1880. C: Sarah A. (David Watts of Wilson, 1874)-Lydia V. (Thomas Shider)-John W. (Margaret J. Thompson, 1879)-Cary L., (Annie E. Swope)-Wilber F. (Nora Brown, 1893). Five other children did not reach maturity and neither of the daughters is now living. The sons all engaged in the mercantile business, but W. F. forsook it to follow railroad and carpenter work. J. W. has been a merchant at Greenville since 1880. Of his children, Arthur, Charles, and Kate are associated with him in his store. The others are Ethel J. (Robert E. Riner) and Frederick M. (Bertha Gilman). The last named is an insurance agent at Huntington, W. Va.
     Daniel, brother to Mark, (Martha E. Hughart of Ervin), served four years in the Confederate army and was later a farmer and merchant of Greenville and vicinity. He died in 1915. C: George E. (Zora E. Hill) -James A. (Nannie Pence). The former is a traveling salesman, the latter a physician in N. Y. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BOONE: John (1755-1835) (Elizabeth) was a nephew to the celebrated Daniel Boone. C: Nancy (Willis Burdette, 1807). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BOSTICK: Moses (d. 1799) (appraised at $281.41) and John (levy-free, 1815) seem to have been brothers. It was probably a younger John who lived near Crimson Spring and had Ruth (Bayles Glover), Eleanor (Robert Fury, 1817), Margaret (s), William (Anne Shaver), John, Thomas, Jonathan (s), Reuben (Polly Parker).
Thomas (Elizabeth Bland) was first cousin and neighbor to the foregoing. C: Robert (Nancy Foster), Calvin (1811-1904) (Charlotte Hall, 1841), James L. (Mary A. Carlisle, 1847), Thomas (Elizabeth Griffith of Hannah, 1845), Caperton (Jennie Sams), Charlotte (s), Sarah (s), Esther (Charles Foster, 1838), Mary (Thomas Shaver).
Others: Alexander (Sarah Pyne) (1794-1869); Madison (Elizabeth McMann). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BOWYER: Adam (d. 1800) (Christina) lived at the head of Second. C: Jacob (Mary), Reuben (Mary A. Bird, 1803), Isaac, Adam, David, Barbara ( King), Susan ( Arnot), Margaret (James Anderson, 1802), William, Sarah (William Crosier, 1808). Christina (d. 1828) C: Jacob, Mary (David Baker), Elizabeth (Anderson Lewellin 1824), Catharine, Abraham, Susanna, Jacob, Isaac, John. Christina was guardian of Sarah, 1803. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BOYD: Patrick (1759-1835) an orphan, was in 1772 bound to John Crawford, a blacksmith. Four years later he came before the Augusta court to complain of ill treatment by his master. By 1783 he was living on the place now occupied by his grandson, Edward Boyd, and had a shop where he pursued the trade of blacksmith and bell-maker. He acquired much property and left his children well provided for. It is thought that his father's name was Robert and that his mother was a Porterfield. He seems to have had a sister Esther, born 1750. Her father Robert died before 1765. His marriage to Ann McDowell is said to have taken place at Donally's fort. C: Robert (Catharine Ballantyne) (d. 1879)-P. Porterfield (d. 1881) (Eliza H. Gray, 1839)-Esther (George Drummond, 1812, James Foster)-Jane (1788-1858) (James Hawkins, 1808)-Margaret (1797) (Martin Hill, 1819, James Leach)-Nelly-Nancy (1795-1888)-(William Bickett, 1825).
C. of Robert: Andrew B. (Catharine Gray, 1847)-Agnes A. (Andrew Wylie, 1845)-Ann (James Jarrett)-James-Margaret (s)-Rachel (s) -Cassandra (s)-William (Elizabeth Lemons)-Matthew (s)-Robert (Jennie Stevens) (d. '62) (Rachel Nickell, 1830c).
C. of A. B. of Robert: Robert A. (Elizabeth Lynch).
C. of William of Robert: Lomax (Howard Kennedy).
C. of P. Porterfield: William L. (1831-1853) (Mary A. Miller) - George A. (1835-1909) (Caroline Leach, Mary A. Still); by 2d w.-Harvey H. (Minerva ) Patrick A. (1842-1905) (Amanda J. Leach) -Lydia A. (William Barnett)-John H. (Emma White)-James A. (Sarah Persinger)-Robert P. (Anna Rittenhouse)-Grier M.-Archelaus R. -Thomas J. (Emma Hawkins).
C. of William L.-Mary A. (C. B. Selvy)-Robert P. (Sarah Connor)-William L. (Mary Connor)-Virginia M. (William Still)-Dora B. (A. L. Withrow)-Newton A. ( Tigret)- Rachel S.-Otho C.
Another Boyd was James (1769-1846) (Florence). C: Thomas, John, Jane (James McDaniel, 1819), Nathan. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BRADLEY: George of Giles Co. married Catharine Shires of Monroe. Of his 10 sons and 4 daughters, the following located near Lindside: Sylvester (d. '62) (Elizabeth Crosier, 1855), Alexander (Adaline Holland), Cornelius (Jane Mitchell), Tyrannus (Susan Wickline, Mrs. Sarah Shaver), George W. (Magdalen Fleshman), W. Green (Linnie Fleshman), Pembroke (Hannah Bradley, Emma Bowers). G. W. is a minister of the Church of the Brethren. Dr. C. P. is the only surviving child of Sylvester. James (Isabel N. Dunbar) had William, Thomas M., Calvin, John. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BROOKING: Charles (Ann) came from Albemarle to Humphrey's Run. C: Rhoda (Henry Miller, 1799), Mary (James Curry, 1803), Susanna (John Lawrence, 1803), Nancy (William Lawrence, 1803). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BROWN: A county without the names of Brown, Miller, Smith, and Jones would be sadly incomplete, and Monroe has never lacked for any of these. Yet we are able to set in order only a few items of our data. A list of the persons present at the Samuel Brown sale in 1794, the schedule totaling $426.24, will be of some interest, since the names are chiefly of Second Creek district. Matthew Alexander, John Akin, William Arbuckle, Thomas Best, William Brown, Samuel Brown, John Cantly, James Corbit, John Cornwall, Elijah Cornwall, James Dempsey, Hugh Douling, Jonathan Dunbar, William Dunbar, Thomas Flowers, Nimrod Foster, Nathaniel Foster, Isaac Foster, John Foster, John Gray, Senr., John Gray, Peter Grass (Glass?), James Glenn, Jesse Green, Joseph Ham, Senr., Joseph Ham. Junr., David Jarrat, Robert King, William Leach, John Leg, Nicholas Leak, Jacob Longingacre, Moses Massy, Henry McCart, Nancy McKensy, William McKinster, Daniel McMullin, Samuel Miller, James Murdock, David Nelson, John Perry, Daniel Perry, James Smith, Matthew Wealch, Andrew Young.
     William (Jane) (d. 1806) lived in the Sinks. C: John, Alexander, Mary, Jane, William, Sarah, Margaret, Rosa. Alexander of this family (Polly Foster, 1805) (d. 1822) had Polly, John, and Samuel. An older family was composed of Samuel (Mary), John, Margaret, Sarah, Martha, Dorothy, William, Mary (James Nelson). Several of the above groups appear to have married into other families of the Sinks. John of Potts Creek moved to Kentucky about 1808.
     J. W. A., a son of Reuben, (Nannie Thompson, Allie Garvin, and Mrs. Mary E. Smith) came from Franklin to Orchard. C: William H. (Elsie Mead), C. Reuben (Amelia Ferguson), Nora (Wilber F. Boon), (Mints (Eli Weaver), Sudie (Harry Zink), Willie ( Alexander). Henry C. (Ann Pack) is a brother to T. W. A. Edwin M. came from Lynchburg, Va., m. Caroline, Va.; Marshall (Fredericksburg, Va.). C: Emma (Chas. Maddy), Frank (Mary Montgomery), Ferdinand, Carrie (J. W. McNeer), H. M. (Mary Rudd), Lizzie (J. W. Bell). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BROYLES: Peter the pioneer is thought to have come from Rockbridge. He purchased the W. S. Broyles place of the widow Henderson. C: Zachariah (Susan E. Riner)-Ephraim (Elizabeth Harvey, 1805)-Aaron (d. 1837) (Lydia Spradling, 1830)-Jacob (Ann Riner, 1833) ( Pack) - Absalom (Lucy Riner, 1814)-boy (drowned)-Elizabeth (Robert Rains, 1807)-Margaret ( Campbell).
Ann, a daughter of Zachariah, was born here in 1800. Lovel (Sarah) was born 1803, died 1865.
Solomon settled on Lick Run in 1808. He divided a large body of land among his sons. C: Nancy, Andrew J. (1822-1910) (Sarah McGhee, 1834), Thompson, Green, Margaret, Elizabeth (Jesse Copeland, 1840), William. Augustus.
C. of Andrew J.-John (d. '61), Thompson (d. '61), James, Allen; 4 others.
C. of Andrew J. (another?): William L. (Lessie V. Davis), G. C. (Julia Chambers), John A. (Etta McDaniel).
C. of Augustus: Edward L. (Cora Raines), Charles W. (Viola Raines), John D. (Sarah Booth).
C. of Simeon (Cynthia Smith of Wm): W. S. (Elizabeth Broyles of Thompson) Lewis H. (Mrs. Riner Broyles).
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BRYAN: Christopher (Catharine), a prominent settler of the Sinks Grove vicinity, went to Kentucky about 1793. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BUDD: Undrel (1780-1845) (Mary Keenan, 1807) came from N. Y. and lived in Union. Of his large family Christopher died in Mexico as a soldier in 1848. Sarah m. Jacob Osborne, Charles m. (1) Mary E. McCartney (2) Marietta McCartney, Harriet m. John Mann. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BURDETT: William (d. 1836) was a son of James of Culpeper county. He settled on Flat Top about 1800, as a neighbor to Andrew Miller, with whom he was on close terms of friendship. After his second marriage he moved to Wolf Creek. He was resourceful and ingenious. He m. (1) Sarah Cornwell of Edward, (2) Scott C: Isham (Nancy Shumate, 1805)- Elizabeth (Tolison Shumate)-Margaret (William Walker, 1808) -Miles ( Legg)-Willis (Nancy Boon of John, 1807)-Rachel ( Aymick)-William (Clay Co.)-Archibald (Rhoda Shumate) -John ( Swope)-Alexander (Mary L. Hill)-Ruth (John Rob ersen, 1816c)-Eliza; by 2d w.-Harvey (dy)-Lewis ( Hedrick)-Clarkson ( Burns).
     The wife of Isham, while working as a girl in the sugar orchard, carried a bucket of sap in each hand and another on her head. The first of her 12 children were twins, and when the third was a baby she would ride to her father's home, 35 miles away, carrying the baby in front and the twins behind her. The return would be made the next day. She lived to the age of 98, at which time there were 89 descendants of her children.
C. of Isham: Sarah, Mary, Abner (Tex.), Granville, Nancy J., Julia A., James H., Andrew J., Elizabeth S., Joseph H., Lewis A.
     C. of Alexander: Lucy J. (Samuel Gwinn), Elizabeth A. (James E. Miller), Sarah (James Y. Miller). Emmeline (Harry Shanklin), Eliza, James, William, Lee, Powell. William was a Confederate scout who did not think he could get lost in West Virginia. His captain said he fired the first shot in the war in West Virginia and the last in Virginia.
A number of the above connection entered the ministry.
     Another early Burdette was Giles (d. before 1829) (Sarah Dunbar). C: John (1795-1882) (Lydia Curry, 1816). C. of John: Sarah A. (18171895) (James M. Nickell, 1833)-Mary (1824-1894) (James Crawford, 1840)- Elizabeth J. (Andrew F. Young, 1855)-Rebecca M. (E. F. Patton)-Lydia S. (A. F. Wickline, 1864)-Robert C. (1819-1893) (Elizabeth B. Curry)-James H. (1821-1890) (Rachel M. Christian, 1847) - John C. (Mary C. Lynch, 1851)-Calvin H. (Barbara A. Curry, 1849) - Franklin C. (b. 1832) (Elizabeth A. Ford, 1858, Arlie Smithwick, 1870)
     C. of Archibald (Margaret) (d. 1834): Archibald, James, Polly, Margaret, Elizabeth (Holmes), Samuel (has James and Archibald) .
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BURNS: Thomas (d. 1849) (Martha Miller, b. 1769, d. 1844) was a resident of Union, where he had a brewery. There was a contemporary Thomas. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BURNSIDE: John Burnside came from the north of Ireland in his boyhood and found employment in a store at Fincastle. It was here that Oliver Beirne met him casually, and being very favorably impressed, the young man entered the Beirne store as a clerk. After a few years he became a partner. Finding this business field too narrow for the powers of which he felt himself capable, he and Andrew Beirne, Jr., established at New Orleans the large dry goods house of Beirne and Burnside. Andrew Beirne was succeeded as partner by his brother Oliver. Burnside had an ambition to become the greatest sugar planter in the world, and a few years before the war he paid one million dollars cash for the Preston plantation in Louisiana. To this he added nine other estates, so that if he did not quite realize his ambition, he became the largest sugar planter in the United States, his holdings being valued at $6,000,000 and producing 7500 hogsheads yearly of sugar and about 14,000 barrels of molasses. He was unmarried and at his death at White Sulphur in 1881, he left his estate to Oliver Beirne. Though a man of remarkable business qualifications, John Burnside seemed to be without human sympathy or public spirit It was said of him that he professed to be a British subject and used this claim to avoid confiscation of his goods during the regime of General Butler. Yet he took out naturalization papers in 1830. He was morose and reserved, and it was one of his peculiarities that he would tell his age and place of birth to no one. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

BYRNSIDE: Esther, the mother of James, married for her second husband Archibald Clendennin, who died on the Cowpasture in 1749, and whose son Archibald by a former wife was murdered in 1763 at the massacre at the Great Levels. The name of Esther's first husband was probably Robert She had also a daughter by him whose name was Rachel. The two children lived with their stepfather, who provided for them in his will, leaving James 300 acres on the Bullpasture. In the colonial time the family name was spelled Burnsides. Another of the same name was John, who was living at the Stone Meeting House in Augusta in 1765. He had an only daughter, and a nephew John died on the upper Greenbrier in 1809.
     James moved here from the Bullpasture soon after 1760, his second child John being by his own statement born near Union April 15, 1763. There is a family tradition that he dreamed his cabin was on fire and waking to find the dream correct he returned to his former home. At all events his settlement was marked for destruction in the Pontiac war of 1763. About 1770 he returned and built a blockhouse a little south of Union. But for a while he was living on the farther side of New River in what was then Montgomery County. He was an alert land prospector, active in business, and his name often occurs in the record-books of Augusta and Greenbrier. His latter years appear to have been clouded by reverses. He died at Union in 1812. His wife's name was Isabella. C: Esther (William Shanks, 1782)-John (1763-1816) (Elizabeth Alexander, 1797)-James (Anne)-Rachel-Sarah-Martha (Joseph Carlisle, 1809)-Mary. The above are mentioned in the will of James, Sr., and in the order of age. But we are told of another, William (Malvina Alexander). He moved to Texas, James, Jr., to Boone.
     John lived on the large plantation immediately south of Union which was deeded him by his father. He became a deputy surveyor in 1785 and was the first county surveyor of Monroe. For his time he was a very wealthy citizen, his estate including seven slaves and personality to the amount of $5037.19. C: Isaac (b. 1798) (Mary Vanstavern), Jane, (b. 1799) (Andrew Alexander)-Eliza (b. 1802) (Thomas Edgar, 1821)-Juliana (b. 1804) (Absalom S. Bolinger)-John (s)-James M (1814-1873) (Eliza Peters, 1833). The latter was a business man of Peterstown and member of the constitutional convention of 1872. C: Elizabeth J. (b. 1834) (William T. Akers, 1852, Henry S. Shanklin, 1868)-Cynthia (Matthew H. Walkup, 1856)-Margaret J. (s)-Cynthia A. (Lewis F. Clark, 1855) - Henry C. (b. 1843) (Jennie Wiseman, 1866). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CALLAWAY: Zachariah (d. 1816) (Ellender) had a blockhouse on Trigger Run near Peterstown. C: Andrew, Margaret, Nancy, Patty, Polly (?James Ellison, 1796c), Sarah, Joshua (Rebecca Campbell, 1808, ?Nancy Roads, 1813), James, Priscilla (Delaney Swinney, 1806), Elizabeth (Ephraim Simmons, 1802), Charles (Ellen Garten, 1812). Richard may have been in this locality in 1775. He was a resident of Fincastle, which then included the southern extremity of Monroe. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CAMPBELL: Robert (1760-1847) was born at Armagh, county Antrim, Ireland, his parents, Archibald and his wife Jean Meathers, being of Scottish blood. In 1781 he came to Philadelphia, and thence by way of Fincastle to Pickaway, where he at length owned 1500 acres of the best land in that locality and from 30 to 40 slaves. Owing to an unpleasant experience in his early life he never afterward incurred a debt. He was a heavy owner of livestock and a great lender of money. He was a hard trader yet charitable. He was a justice and otherwise prominent in the social and political life of the county. In religion he was a Presbyterian and in politics a Democrat. Since there was no local bank in his time he kept large sums of money in his home. In November, 1846, he had $13,000 in his possession, a heavy payment having been made a few days before a visit by five robbers. One of them broke into his sleeping room, tore the money drawer from the table and tossed it through the window to his companions. The aged man grappled with the robber, and two others came through the window to his relief. But his son Andrew Campbell, a very large, powerful man, heard the noise, rushed into the room, pitched two of the would-be thieves out of the entrance they had used, and pursued the third. The negro men came to the rescue and the robbers fled, nothing more being heard of them. They secured no booty, the money being in another room. During the affray the old gentleman was severely cut on the head with a club and the son received several slight bruises. The wife of Robert was Lydia Jeffries, a native of Wales, whom he was married to in 1791. C: Archibald (Susan Jones)-Robert (1801-1880) (Sarah McDowell, 1830)-Matthew (Virginia Brown)-Andrew (Ann Hawkins) -Isaac (Mary A. Jenness, 1831)-Lewis (Mary Brown)-Caperton (Rebecca Jennings)-Sarah (John Skaggs, 1817)-Jean (John Holsapple) - Mary (William Patton).
     C. of Archibald: Robert, Dr. William, John, Allen, Wentworth, Margaret, Mary. All these left the county.
     C. of Robert: James (d. 1899)-Mary J. (Clark Johnson)-Ann (Calvin Young)-John (d. 1903) (Alcesta Black)-Dr. Robert (d. 1862) - Margaret S. (Kenneth Williams)-Isabella (Thomas Williams)-Alcesta -Sarah C. (Henry Dunn)-Burnett-Thompson (d. 1906)-Zerilda E. (Joseph Brown)-Dr. Clark R.-Everett L.
     C. of John of Robert: Edwin ( Frap)-Gertrude-Burnett-
Catharine (James B. Mason).
     C. of Matthew: Elizabeth, Jane, Amanda ( Smith), Nannie, Henry, William.
     C. of Andrew: Mary J. (N. H. Roberts)-Frances A. (William Boyd) -Archibald-Andrew N. (Eliza J. Leach)-James P. (Fannie Crews) - Lewis E.-Isaac N. (Mrs. Elizabeth Parker)-Nathaniel B. (Bettie Davis).
     C. of Andrew N.-Nannie E., Nettie G., Andrew A., Kenna C., Walter R., Crete H.
     C. of James P.-Gertrude, Nannie M., Hattie, James, Carey.
     C. of Isaac N.-Georgia.
     C. of Nathaniel B.-Frank, Annie ( Shanklin).
     C. of Isaac: Dr. Christopher C, John E., William H. H., Virginia J. (Robert Humphreys, 1841).
     C. of Lewis: Charles R., Henry B., Isaac, Andrew L., John, Mary A. C. of Caperton: Elizabeth (James Parker), Ella D., John H., Lewis C.
     Andrew N. Campbell served throughout the war of 1861 and was graduated from the law school of Washington College during the presidency of General Robert E. Lee, with whom he was personally acquainted. By reason of the test oath restriction he was not admitted to the bar until 1870. As an attorney he acquired a statewide reputation. He has represented his county in the state legislature and has been a member of the Board of Regents of the West Virginia University. In 1888-1896 he was judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, and was unanimously re-nominated by his party. In 1912 he retired from the active practice of his profession. Judge Campbell enjoys the esteem and respect of those who know him by reason of his kindly social qualities and his abundant store of anecdote and reminiscence.
     Of the 29 grandsons of Robert Campbell all but one was in the Confederate army. The sole exception was a resident of Illinois and a Southern sympathizer. Two great grandsons, David Skaggs and Cephalus Black were also in the same service.
Samuel (Margaret) died, 1814. C: Sarah (George Steele, 1800)-Samuel (Elizabeth M. Steele, 1805) - Mary A. (Matthew Ellison, 1806)-Jane (Michael Smith, 1808)-William-Rebecca-Isaac (1786-1860) (M ) -John.
The above John was the father of Jesse (1813-1909) and Anderson; Isaac, of Clement, Calvin, Emily ( Vass), Elizabeth (Robert Humphreys, 1841).
     Samuel (Elizabeth M. Steele) lived on Indian a mile and a half above Red Sulphur. C: Robert D. (b. 1818) (Mary K. Johnson, 1850) Isaac- ( Vass)-Thomas-William-Eliza (Wilson Shumate, 1841) - Agnes ( Wheeler)-Polly ( Dunbar)-Amanda (Morgan Barger, 1847)-Adaline (Christopher Handley). Thomas and Isaac were proprietors of Red Sulphur Springs. They died before the war, William in 1879.
     C. of Robert D.-Elizabeth M. (J. Oscar Neel)-Margaret E. (John D. Beard-Charles W. (Jennie E. Ratliff of Wayne Co.)-George
     C. (Susan Wylie, Eliza VanBuren)-Ann R. (Clark O. Neel)-Lewis M.- Robert E. (Annie McClaugherty)-Eldridge H. (Elizabeth Spessard) - Walter (Mary Bowner)-Roxie (James Miller). L. M. and E. H. are physicians. W. M., an attorney, lives in Cal. and G.
     C. in Arizona. Charles W., an attorney of Huntington, is a circuit judge. C: Nannie M., Ruth R., Rolla D., Jennie E., Charles W.
     C. of R. E.-Catharine K., Robert M., Walter M., Mary E., Agnes M., William L.
     C. of E. H.-Eldridge H., Elizabeth.
     C. of Isaac: James A. (Margaret Rutherford)-William (k. '61) - Thomas-Henry-Lewis-Robert-Erastus (O.)-Mary ( Ballard).
     C. of William of Samuel: Walter I., Edgar H., William, Emma.
     Still another Campbell was William (d. 1827). C: James (Sarah Young, 1806)-William-Thomas-Sarah (Alexander Hutchinson, 1807)-Polly ( Caldwell)-Mattie E. (William Chanley, 1811)-Rebecca (Joshua Callaway, 1808). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CANTLEY: John, Jr., (Sarah) was in 1800 living on the north side of Swope's Knobs. In 1802 he purchased the place of John, Sr., on Indian. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CAPERTON: The Capertons are derived from a French ancestor who went from the south of France to the British Isles. The progenitor of the Monroe connection was John who crossed the Atlantic about 1725 and at length found his way from Philadelphia to the Valley of Virginia. His wife was Mary Thompson, whom he met on the ship that conveyed him to America. In 1759 we find mention on Christian Creek of John Caperton, a yeoman, whose wife was Mary. The following year John "Capbritton" is spoken of as in the vicinity of Peaked Mountain. His final location was on the east side of New River, below the mouth of Rich Creek and very near the line of Summers County. His children were Hugh, William, Adam, and Elizabeth. Hugh and Adam were in the Dunmore war and the Revolution. The former, whose wife was Rhoda, lived on the homestead. His children were Hugh, John, Thompson H., Elizabeth, Polly, Augustus W. J., Green, Washington and Overton. Some of their descendants are to be found in Mercer county. William, who married Lucy Woods in 1790, went to Kentucky. Elizabeth married James Gibson and went with him to Tennessee. Gibson County of that state is named for John H., one of their sons. Adam was a deputy sheriff of Greenbrier in 1780. His wife, who was of German parentage, was Elizabeth, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Fudge) Miller. He went to Kentucky, where he was killed in 1782 in the battle with the Indians known as Estill's defeat. His widow married a minister named Smith. The children of Adam were Mary, Elizabeth, John, George, and Hugh. Mary, who married George Swope, went to Louisiana. 'Elizabeth and John went with their consorts to Tennessee, and George to Alabama. Soon after the death of his father Hugh returned to his uncle's home on New River, but after the organization of this county he established himself at Union. As a merchant, even in the face of the formidable competition of the Beirnes, he was very successful, and became wealthy in land, slaves, and other forms of property. In physique he was large, and he is spoken of by Mrs. Royall as handsome. He built "Elmwood," near Union, and bequeathed it to his son Allen T. It was here that he is said to have entertained Henry Clay about 1845. Mr. Caperton died in 1847 at the age of 66 years. His first wife was Jane Erskine, to whom he was married in 1806. The second, married in 1834, was Delilah Alexander, widow of George Beirne. His children, and their consorts in marriage, were as follows: Elizabeth, married (1) William Steenbergen, (2) Anders R. Rude; Lewis E., married Frances C. Alexander; Allen T., married Harriette Echols; Margaret M., married Oliver Beirne; William G., married Harriette B. Alexander in 1843, John A. married Mary E. Coke Guthrie; Hugh, married Eliza J. Mosher; Mary J., married John Echols; Sarah A., married James F. Preston; George H., married Mary E. Henderson.
     The children of Lewis E. are Hugh, Elizabeth, Bettie, Henry, and Lewis. Hugh married Catharine A. King, Bettie, Andrew P. Beirne, and Lewis, Mary W. Carr. The children of Allen T. are Eliza J., Mary, wife of Tomlin Braxton, Harriette E., wife of William A. Gordon, Melinda, wife of James Patton, and later of E. F. Bingham, Allen, who married Elizabeth V. Rowan, Ella, and Lelia, wife of Robert Stiles. William G. had John, Alice B., wife of Frank Hereford, Jane E., James A., William G., who married Rosa A. Stiles Christian, and Isabel, wife of John B. Hereford, brother to Frank. John A.'s children are John H., Mary E., Sarah J., and Hugh S., the first of whom wedded Virginia Standiford. Hugh had James M., Jane, Hugh, Imogen, and Mary. Of these, James married Emma S. Ratcliffe and Hugh married Mattie Booth Kyle. The children of George H. are Eliza H., Walter, Allen T, George H. (married Anna P. Chambliss), Jane E. (wife of William M. Warrick), Sarah P. (wife of Isaac P. Wailes), Florence, and William G. (married Mary A. Austin).
     At an earlier day the Capertons were very wealthy and possessed great social and political prestige. Among their best known rural seats are Elmwood, Walnut Grove, and Idlewilde.
     Allen Taylor Caperton was born at Elmwood Nov. 21, 1810, and died at Washington, D. C., July 26, 1877. When a boy of fourteen he rode horseback to Huntsville, Ala., to attend school. In 1832 he was graduated from Yale College, standing seventh in a class of fifty-three. He studied law at Staunton and took up the practice of that profession in his native county. In 1841 and again in 1859-1861 he represented Monroe in the Virginia Assembly. In 1844-8 he was state senator, and in 1850 he was a member of the constitutional convention, representing Monroe, Giles, Mercer, and Tazewell. In the controversy which divided that body he stood with the western counties in advocating the white basis of representation. In the secession convention of 1861 he was present as a delegate. When the crisis came he voted for secession. At the close of hostilities he counseled his constituents that it was the part of wisdom and patriotism to accept the logic of events. In 1876 he was elected to the Federal Senate, thus enjoying the unique distinction of sitting in both the Federal and Confederate senates as the choice of two different state governments. His term of service at Washington was brief, a sudden illness cutting short his career. In person Mr. Caperton was of rather more than medium size and he wore a long beard without a mustache. He was well groomed and was regarded as handsome. He delighted in horseback riding and in natural scenery, and was fond of agricultural pursuits. Socially he was aristocratic and exclusive, yet was courteous and affable. He was a close student of political science, a good talker, a ready debater, and a prominent lawyer. Like his father before him he was a Whig, adhering to that creed until political lines were modified by the war. After that event he adhered to the Democratic party. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

Caperton: Allen Taylor, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 21, 1810. in Union, Va. He served in the state legislature of Virginia a number of years; in 1861 was a member of the state convention to consider the impending trouble and took the side of the union; but when the state went out of the union he sided with the south. In 1863 he was elected to the confederate senate; and was pardoned by President Johnson after the civil war. In 1875-77 he was United States senator from West Virginia. He died July 25, 1876, in Washington, D.C.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by AFOFG]

Caperton: Hugh, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1780 in Virginia. He was tor many years a member of the Virginia state legislature. In 1813-15 he was a representative fromVirginia to the thirteenth congress. He died Feb. 9, 1847, in Monroe county, Va.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by AFOFG]

CARDEN: Joseph (d. 1818) (Mary) had Isaac, John, Rachel.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CARLISLE: Robert (Polly) came from BulIpasture river and was of the group family to which John G. of Kentucky belonged. He died in 1823, an old man.
     C: John, Jane ( Graham), Joseph, Elizabeth {Ham), Samuel, Nancy ( Glenn), Mary ( Mims?), Margaret ( Alford), James. In 1782 Joseph and David had military claims on Indian. The latter was appraised, 1786, by John Hutchinson, Hugh Caperton, Roger Kilpatrick, Valentine Cook.
     William (1815-1895) was a native of New York City and came here in 1835.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CARNIFAX: William (d. 1836) (Elizabeth Miller) was a prominent citizen in his day. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CARUTHERS: Isaac (1772-1854) (Jane Benson, 1816) was a native of Rockbridge, and partner with his brother-in-law William Erskine in Salt Sulphur Springs. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CHAMBERS: Colonel William F. (1798-1858) (Perlexana) was a resident of Peterstown. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CHAPMAN: Heoly married Mary Alexander. Their children were: Augustus A. (1803-1876) (Mary B. Beirne, 1830)-Manilius (Susan Beirne)- Mrs. French-Mrs. Albert G. Pendleton-Mrs. P. Cecil. C. of A. A.-Henley C-William C.-George B.-Christopher J. (Ark.)-Ann (Col. John J. Wade)-Frances F. (Michael A. Steele, Mo.)-Susan (s)-Ella J. (Orr).
     Augustus A. Chapman was a gentleman of fine presence, cultivated manners, and ripe scholarship. He was an able lawyer, a finished orator, and almost invincible in courts or in political debates. His memory is held in great respect, largely because of the fact that in criminal cases he was always the defender and never the prosecutor. He served his county in the Virginia Assembly and his state in the 28th Congress (184345). At the outbreak of the American war he was a brigadier general of militia. As such he took the field with his command in 1861 and performed good service during the campaign of that season in the Kanawha valley. He died of apoplexy on his way to Charleston to nominate for the governorship his friend, Pi. B. Mathews. His oldest son died in 1858 \us after his graduation. The second died in boyhood. The third, best known as Beirne, was a young man of 'great promise, a natural orator, and looking forward to the profession of law. At the opening of hostilities he quit his studies to become first lieutenant of Lowry's Battery. After some months he resigned in order to organize the artillery company ever since known as Chapman's Battery. This command did gallant service until almost annihilated and its beloved captain mortally wounded at Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CHARLTON: The Charlton's crossed the ocean to Philadelphia about 1750. One of them was Thomas, who died in that city in 1791, leaving to his cousin Thomas 30 pounds and all his wearing apparel. His benevolence is illustrated by his legacy of 60 pounds to the poor among the communicants of his church. The second Thomas (1741-1819) (Alice Perry, 1763) came here about 1792 and settled on a large tract between Hillsdale and New Lebanon. It is said he was the first pioneer to arrive in a wagon. It was a four-horse conveyance with a canoe-shaped bed, and it held himself and wife, their eight children, and their household goods He is also credited with bringing the eglantine to Monroe. The two roomed log house he built stood by the spring near the home of S. R. H. Irons. The only one of his children with descendants in the county was his youngest son, Joseph (b. 1784, m. Janet Ewing, 1807)-C: Frances -Oliver-Thomas -Jennie-Lettie-Joseph P. E.-James E. 'Like three of the sisters of their father, the three daughters of Thomas, Sr., never married, but lived most of their lives in a home of their own. The door of John's house was made like a slat curtain or a stave hammock, and in the day time was rolled up and fastened by pins above the door.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CHRISTY: This family came from Pennsylvania about 1783, but we cannot trace the line of descent with assurance. James (d. 1840) had Isabel (Bealy), James (Kate Dubois, 1806), Robert, Elizabeth (1785-1856) (Andrew Allen). Elizabeth (James Carpenter, 1846) was a daughter of Robert C. of James M. (Cynthia P. Clark, 1839): Damaria K. (William S. Hobbs)-Margaret E.-Newton J. (d. '65)-Harvey C-Richison C . (Elizabeth P. White)-Thomas H. R. (Rosa Hunt)-Lewis F. (Linnie A. Lemon)-M. W. (Oselia R. McKenzie)-Samuel M. (Emma C. Burdette). Harvey C., a professional musician, was 10 years at the head of Christy's Music and Business College of Tennessee and 16 years editor in-chief of the music department of the Standard Publishing Co. of Cincinnati. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CLARK: Benjamin, born in King and Queen, 1730, settled in Augusta. He was a son of Jonathan and his wife Elizabeth Wilson, the father being the fourth in descent from John, who came from England to the James River about 1635. The wife of Benjamin was Elizabeth Lee. Their son Samuel (1764-1857) settled near Union in 1783. He was a veteran of the Revolution, later an officer in the militia, and carried a somewhat prominent part in the public affairs of the county. He married Margaret Handley.
     C: James H. (1792-1864) (Cinderella Davis)-William (Nelly Benson, 1808)-Alexander (Elizabeth Dickey, 1819)-John (Mary E. Johnson, 1814) -Cynthia (John Peters, 1813).
     C. of James H.-Samuel (Anna Lewis)-Lewis F. (Cynthia A. Byrnside)-George W. (Mary C. Johnston, Mary M. Wickline).
     C. of William: Jackson ( Walter)-Cynthia A. (Samuel A. Wallace)-Paulina (John A. Wallace)-Mary J. (s)-Ellen (William O. Johnson)-Grace (Dr. Walter Douglas).
     C. of Samuel of J. H.-James H., George W., Walter D., Samuel W. , Rella F., Verdie, Alice.
     C. of Lewis F.-James H. ( Spangler), Lydia B. (Dr. Kelley), Julia, Rosel, Annie R., Luther H., Minnie, Nora (L. E. Tierney), Bertha.
     C. of George W.-James, Cinderella, Charles L. By 2d w.-Elizabeth A., Robert L., George H., Rose E., Walter D., John D., Alexander H., Anne S., James F., Daisy J-, Edward M.
     C. of John: Thomas J. (1818-1885) (Mary Johnson)-Samuel M. (Martha Ballard)-Cynthia P. (1821-1900) (James M. Christy, 1839)-Mary R. (David Pence)-Caroline A. (1829-1900) (Granville Smith)-Margaret (Thomas Eddy).
     C. of T. J.-Maria C. (E. L. Shanklin), Ella C. (Augustus M. Shanklin), Susan (Augustus M. Shanklin), Preston (Julia Ballard).
     C. of S. M.-Araminta C. (D. C. Elmore), Shelton (Johnetta Morgan)-Edgar (Susan Brawford), Etta (C. E. Lynch), Annie S. (John P. Parker).
     But Clark is by no means a rare name and there have been others in Monroe. Alexander (Sarah), mentioned as an old man, seems to have lived on Indian. He helped to appraise the Estill estate in 1792 and died in 1794. Samuel Clark was a testator to his will. In 1809 the widow owned five slaves and personality valued at $1389.03. C: James, Rebecca ( Cantly), William, Ralph, Martha (John Campbell, 1804), Alexander, John, Samuel. James died 1801, leaving Sarah ( Lafferty), Alexander, John. Ralph (Isabella) died 1828, leaving Owen, Elizabeth ( Neel), Julia, John, Joseph, William H., Clara (John Patton), Margaret (John Johnson), Thomas, Abner.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

COALTER: Robert (Mary A. Erskine) was a wheelwright at Union. C: Madison (Nancy Ross), John (Celia Tuggle), Robert (West), Agnes, Mary (George Walker), Isabella K. (Larkin Tuggle), Caroline (Andrew J. Keadle), Martha (William Arnott), Eliza (murdered by negress). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

COCHRAN: Dennis (Nancy) was living on the top of Jarrett's Mountain in 1800. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

COMER: Augustus, of German parentage, was born on the Rapidan river and was an artilleryman in Washington's army. One night while the Americans were in camp on Assanpink creek, at Trenton, N. J., Comer was placed on guard duty with orders to hail any strange person three times and then to fire unless answered. An officer who thought he would have some fun with Comer and stampede him got down to the brink of the creek and threw up firebrands. The sentinel was alarmed but obeyed his orders and fired, wounding the officer. Comer was placed under arrest, but exonerated by Washington, who complimented him for his faithfulness. After the war he married Catharine Rush and located at St. Lawrence ford on the Greenbrier, where his son Frederick was born in 1787. Some 10 years later he started for Tennessee, but while lodging with Isaac Miller on Indian, this same boy was accidentally hurt and the journey was terminated. He became very corpulent in his later years and spent much of his time in an armchair that was made for him. D. 1822. C: Elizabeth (Daniel Miller, 1801)-Frederick (1787-1848) (Polly Mitchell, 1814)-Jacob (Anna Meadows(-Michael (Lucy Willis)-John (Mary J. Mitchell, 1824) -Catharine (Joseph Ball, 1812)-Barbara (s)-Augustus (Sarah Fore) -Sarah (John Peters).
     Frederick with no resources except his wife, their two pairs of willing hands, and the 60 acres given them by the father-in-law, at once built a cabin, added at length 281 acres to his possessions, reared 12 children who grew to maturity, and died without owing a penny. He was methodical as well as industrious, and whenever he was done with his tools he put them under cover. He was one of the most hospitable of men, and liked to have his neighbors serenade him before daybreak on Christmas morning, after which the visitors shared his breakfast. All his children were taught to work. The daughters could hoe corn and pile and burn brush as well as spin and weave. C: Mitchell (1815-1892) (Ann Cummings, 1837)-Sarah-Catharine (?Jacob W. Harvey, 1838)-Elizabeth (Isaac M. Harvey, 1838)-Ann-William (dy)-Delilah-Martha (Adam Miller, 1845)-Jane-Amanda-Mary J.-Amanda-Samuel (b. 1835) (Mary Hutchinson, 1857)-Rachel-Rebecca. The example of Frederick Comer is offered in contrast to those persons of the present time who think they must begin where their parents leave off, and also think they cannot afford to have families even then.
     The experience of his son Samuel is also of interest. He was left an orphan at 13 along with four sisters. They and their mother had a hard time to get on. It took two good calves to pay the tax of $9 on the large farm. Early in his married life the war came, in which he served four years and was in several heavy battles. When he returned from the military prison at Elmira he found his mother, wife, and two little girls all well. He went to work at once to put the farm in order, and at length added merchandising and sawmilling to his agricultural interests. His children are three sons and four daughters. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CONNOR: John, Sr. (b. 1764) (Mary Carraway) built on an extensive farm near Blue Sulphur Springs a large brick house of six rooms. This was about 1789. The walls are two feet thick, and the interior, including doors, floors, and paneling, is in solid black walnut. The house is yet standing, the walls both inside and out being in perfect condition, and it is occupied by Henry George, a great-grandson of the builder. To John and Mary were born 11 children, one of whom was William (b. 1792c) (Mary Rader of Anthony). While still a young man he was sent by his father by way of Cincinnati to sell some slaves, and as nothing was ever seen of him after he had received his money, there is strong suspicion of foul play. The oldest of his five children was Perry, Sr. (1810-1877) (Evaline Jarrett, Sarah Ellis of Joseph). Henry and Margaret, the children of the first wife, are not now living. After the second marriage, Perry settled on Wolf Creek. C: James A. (Emma Ellis)-Fletcher (s)-Evaline (C. Lon Johnson)-Elizabeth (s)-Amanda (Dr. O. S. Baker)-Martha (Allen Bowles, John H. Burgess)-Perry E. (Mae Woodson)-Luella (Dr. C. E Copeland). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CONRAD: George (Katharine Miller) had mill on Indian. App. 1784 by Edward Keenan, William West, James Alexander. Settlement by Isaac Estill and John Hutchinson recorded, 1793, at $1540 including 5 slaves. Names mentioned in settlement:
John Aldstatt
Henry Armentrout
Edward Barrett
Robert Bland
Adam Bowyer
Enoch Bush
Felix Gilbert
Joseph Haynes
Thomas Hughes
James Handley
Gasper Haynes
Jacob Hermans
John Herlener
Moses Hickenbottom
John Jeffries
Peter Hinders
Edward Keenan
Peter Kisling
Zepheniah Lee
Thomas Lewis
Felty BIoss
Isaac Barnes
Adam Byers
Nickles Conrad
Edward Cornwell
Mathias Cash
William Carnifax
William Mady
William McFarlin
Elizabeth Morrison
James McNutt
Andrew Moore
John McMulen
Moliston Pettijohn
James Pettijohn
Augustine Price
Peter Runkle
Lawrence Rains
Levin Reinhart
Adam Sellers
Michael Shuler
Catharine Conrad
Henry Cook
James Dempsey
Thomas Edgar
John Futch (Fudge)
Thomas Gulley
Martin Grider
Sebastine Shaver
John Tygert
William West
Jacob Warren
S. Williams
Layton Yancey
Ralph Yath (Yates or Gates)
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

COOK: We find mention of Valentine Cook as Felty Koch, which is indicative of German birth or ancestry, but we are told that he and Jacob were sons of John Hamilton Cook, of London, cousin to the celebrated Captain Cook. They came about 1770 to the J. R. Johnson place just below Greenville and built Cook's fort. His wife was Rachel Bofman (Baughman?) and he died in 1797. The widow went with her sons, Henry and David, to Kentucky. Valentine, Jr., and Jacob were both ministers, and the latter died on the family homestead in 1844. His sister, Christiana, married Philip Hammond, the scout. Valentine, Sr., had several adventures with the Indians, and was several times taken by them. Rev. Valentine Cook, Jr., who settled in Kentucky, is mentioned in Chapter XXXII. C. of Jacob (Rachel): Riley* B.-Ward-Jacob A.-Lewis G.-Caroline-Sarah-John H.-Lorenzo D. (Ann Vawter, 1831). The family has long been extinct here in the male line.
     One William Cook, several of whose children married into the Dubois family, of Wolf Creek, died about 1825. An Isaac had a license to build a gristmill on Laurel in 1813.
     William G. (1800-1888) was a son of Joho and his wife Lucy Gray Cook, of Prince Edward. He graduated from Hampden-Sidney College and in 1833 from the Baltimore School of Medicine. After practicing his profession in Clarkesville and in Chesterfield county, he came to Union in 1840, but some 11 years later he moved to Sweet Springs. In 1836 he married Mary E., daughter of Jesse Wherry, of Manchester. She died in 1863, aged 55. Of the 10 children of Dr. and Mrs. Cook, 8 lived to adult age, their names being as follows: Anna H. (s)-John H. (b. 1838) (Julia. A. Baker, 1864)-Mary E. (Robert E. Jordan, of Fluvanna Co.)-Alfred W. (Martha E. Carter, 1866)-Harriet G. (Andrew A. Kean, 1868)-William F. (Alfaretta Wickline, Blanche Carter)-James R. (Clarissa B. Settle, 1872)-Margaretta C . (John P. Wickline, 1874).
     C. of John H.-Walter J. (Ella Dransfield, 1894)-Randolph G. (Anna F. Dransfield, 1892)-William E. (Sue M. Kingsberry, 1906)-John F. -Florence G. (Lee Walker, 1893). John H. has been a veteran teacher and served a term as county superintendent W. J. is deputy sheriff, W. F. a physician, and J. F. a graduate of Roanoke College and Crozier Theological Seminary, is a minister of the Baptist church.
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

COPELAND: John, son of an English immigrant, came from Albemarle in his youth. A son was William M. (1835-1901) (Margaret Hines). C: William H. (1862-1915) (Hallie V. Kershner-Charles E. (Luella Connor). C. E. graduated from Shenandoah Normal College; 1889, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, 1893. He established himself at Charleston, 1899, where he has a large, successful practice, but delights in long visits to his native county. W. H., law graduate of the University of Virginia, was prosecuting attorney of Monroe at the time of his death. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CORNWELL: Edward (or Edmund) was a large landholder on Second Creet after the Revolution. His wife, Frances, is said to have been a niece to General Wolfe. of Quebec fame. John (Margaret), who sold land to John Gray in 1803, seems to have been a son. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CORRELL: William L (b. 1839) (Sarah C. Johnson, 1867, Eliza S. Burdette), came from Greenbrier in 1869. He was a magistrate and member of Monroe County Court C: John F., Anna L., Caroline H., Willia L, Henry F., Charles M., James L., Marietta, Maud (J. P. Foster), Ethel (F. C. Jones). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

COSTLER: Lewis (Catharine) sold land in 1799 to John Lemons and in 1805 to Patrick Donally. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

COUNTS: George (1777-1865) seems to have been a son of John (Keziah), who was living here when the county was formed. He came from Pennsylvania and married Margaret Keenan. C: Sylvester (s)-Kate (s) -John M. m. in Tenn.)-Michael (Margaret Reed)-Philander (Sarah Thomas)-Eleanor (John Johnson)-Mary (George Mitchell)-George (s) -Andrew (s). Sylvester went to Arkansas and John to Tennessee.
     C. of Michael: Newton B. (s)-John W. (Florence Sharp)-James (Etta Harless)-Jennie (Caperton C. Campbell)-Mary E. (John Trout) -Margaret (Edward Trout)-Nannie (John Campbell).
     C. of Philander: George (Uene Beckett)-William (Leone Wickline, Sarah Elmore)-John (s)-Melissa (s)-Ellen (John Kessinger)-Kate (Jessie Arnot)-Robert L. ( McNeer).
     There are other connections with the spellings Counts, Kounts, and Koontz. Henry (Susan) moved from Indian to Kanawha about 1806. Several of his family married here. William Counts, of Devil's Creek, married Delilah Dransfield. He had a brother Charles (Rebecca Tigert, 1833), and a sister, Mary D. (Josiah Dransfield, 1845).
[pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CREBS: Conrad (b. 1760) (Lucy Brunen, 1784) was a native of Hesse Cassel, and came to America as a soldier under Burgoyne. He settled at Winchester, where he had been a prisoner of war. His wife, whom he married at Frederick, Md., was a descendant of Sir Walter Raleigh, and also a relative of the mother of George Washington. William B. (b. 1808) (Mary Ragan, 1832), fourth son of Conrad, was drawn to Monroe through a love of adventure and settled here after his marriage. C: Virginia L. (James Claiborne)-Lewis A. (Mahala Shanklin)-William C. (b. 1837) (Mattie Tooke)-Harriet-Otho H.-Fannie-R. J. (18471912)-Ella G.-Floy (Ernest Rochefort).
     Claiborne, whose daughters are Mrs. George DeVere and Bettie, was a descendant of the famous William Claiborne, of Kent Island, Md. L. A., W. C, and O. H. saw much service in the Confederate army. L. A., captured at Gettysburg, made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the military prison at Fort Delaware. He was one of the guards that escorted the remains of General Stonewall Jackson to Richmond. W. C. was one of the men that boarded and captured the ship "Harriet Lane" This was one of the most memorable exploits in the annals of war. W. C., O. H., and the Rocheforts settled in Texas. R. J., a resident of Union, had for two consecutive nights a most vivid dream of buried treasure on Calder's Peak. Ella G. has been 33 years a teacher. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CROSIER: Andrew married Elizabeth Maxwell in Pennsylvania and settled a mile south of Gap Mills somewhat later than 1784.
     C: William (17841355) (Sarah Bowyer, 1808)-James (d. 1860) (Sarah Beamer)-John (Tenn.)-Thomas (Tenn.)-Margaret (Robert Christy, 1804)-Hannah ( Milhollen).
     C. of William: William H.-Adam B. (1810-1888) (Elizabeth Nickell, 1839)-John M. ( Champ)-George-Thomas- Andrew (Alleghany)-Susan (Thomas Hepler)-Elizabeth H. (John Motteshead, 1841)-Margaret A. (John Sumpter, 1844)-Nancy (John Dodd).
     C. of James: John R.-Andrew M. (1821-1904) (Martha Hively)- Philip B. (1823-1883)-William A.-Elizabeth (1824-1890) ( Bradley)-Margaret S.-James M. (1835-1907).
     John M. was born Mar. 1, 1811, and lived until Mar. 27, 1912. He was a blacksmith and not only made his own pocket knives   but even his farming tools and his sawmill. For 80 years he was a member of Carmel church and was a regular attendant from his home at Waiteville. When the railroad came to Potts Creek, he asked only that his spring be let alone and the wish was respected. The rough men who appeared daring the railroad construction never molested him and used no profanity in his presence. When remonstrated with for living alone in his old age, he drew his well thumbed Bible from his shoebench and exclaimed: "Here's my protector, here's my shield, and here's my weapon. With this as my protector, I fear no evil, I fear no robber, I fear no murderer." [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CROTSHIN: Wolf Crotshin, a refugee from Poland, became a merchant of Peterstown and died in this county in 1907, at the age of about 90. His first wife was Amanda J. Hobbs, of Giles Co. C: Thomas L., county surveyor-Alma (Frank Hale). [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CUMMINGS: M. Homer Cummings was born near Pickaway, August 23, 1890, and was graduated from Trevecca College, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1909. After spending a year in the University of Chattanooga, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1911. Since then he has written more than sixty hymns, the more popular being these: "My Lord and King," "There is a Gladness," "What Will You Do with Jesus?" "Come Where the Blessings Fall," The Gospel According to You," "Jesus Is the One You Need." Others appear in "Echoes from Beulah," published by the author at Ripley, W. Va. Mr. Cummings has also written "You Are My Sweetheart," a secular song that has been well received by the music public. His parents are H. M. Cummings and wife, Pickaway. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

CURRY: Robert (Ann Curry), of the Isle of Man, came to Augusta in 1755, where each of the couple lived to the age of 84 years. Of their 9 children, William, James, Alexander, Samuel, Isaiah, Robert, Molly, Margaret, and Ann, three came to this county. These were Molly ( Erwin), Margaret (Isaac Nickell), and James (Mary Francis). The latter moved to Highland in 1812. His children were: Ann (Samuel Ralston), Robert (Susan Nickell), Polly (Edward Erwin), James (Elizabeth Nickell, Ruth A. Newton), Josiah (Sarah Nickell), William (Rachel A. Malcom), Benjamin A. (Rebecca G. Bell), George W. (Isabella Alexander, Martha George). Of the Currys of a later period we have no coherent account . There seem to have been others of the name in Monroe. [pgs. 298-333, Chapter XXXIV, "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 - Sub. By Andrea S. Pack]

Dunbar, Judge Mathew
     We very much regret that the immediate relatives of this eminent lawyer and jurist (Judge Dunbar) have, themselves, passed into the great beyond, which places it beyond our power to give the merest outline of his distinguished career. He was born in Monroe County, Virginia, in 1781. It is said he was well educated, and came to Kanawha County, when he was a young man, and read law in the office of James Wilson, who was a prominent member of the Charleston Bar, in the early part of the nineteenth century. He was known as a great student, and was not long in mastering the legal text books upon which he had to be examined. He was admitted to the Charleston Bar in 1818. He was not long, because of his studious habits and close attention to business, in attaining a high rank as a lawyer, among his associates. He is still by the older citizens of Kanawha County, kindly remembered, both as a lawyer and a judge of sterling integrity and honor.
     He was elected a member of the Virginia Legislature, first, in 1823, and again in 1829-30. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Kanawha County in 1853, and afterwards served a term as Circuit Judge. To all of these offices he gave his strict attention, and acquitted himself with honor and ability. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and died in 1859.
[Bench and Bar of West Virginia by George Wesley Atkinson, 1919 - Transcribed by AFOFG]

Dunsmore, James Gaston
     James Gaston Dunsmore, the distinguished educator of Staunton, Virginia, whose name has been associated longer than that of almost any other with the teaching of business methods in the United States, the founder of the Dunsmore Business College, Inc., is of Scotch origin. The first form of the name is stated to have been "Dinsmoor," alter which appear the variations, Dinsmore, Dinsmuir, Dunsmore, and yet another variation, sometimes found in Scotland, Dunmure.
     The Dunsmore family history, in so far as it is known, dates back to about 1600. Rev. Dr. John W. Dinsmore, D. D., of Bloomington, Illinois, gives as the probable origin of the patronymic: "1 have no doubt but that the original ancestor wrote (if he could write) 'Dunsemoor' (dunse, a little hill, and moor, heath). He probably lived on, or by, a little hill at the edge of the heath or moor." The first known man to whom reference can now be made lived in the south of Scotland, near the river Tweed, bore the name Dinsmoor, and was known as the Laird of Achenmead. His youngest son, John Dinsmoor, born about 1650, became the ancestor of the family settled in the parish of Ballywattick, Ballymoney county Antrim, Ireland, from whom all the American families of Dinsmore and Dunsmore are descended. This original Irish settler lived to the great age of ninety-nine. He gained high standing in his community as a man of good morals, strong sense and a pious life. A description of the coat-of-arms, written by Robert Dinsmore, of Ballywattick, on August 12, 1794, to his kinsman, is given as follows: "A farm laid down on a plate, of a green color, with three wheat sheaves set upright in the centre, of a yellow color," all emblematical of husbandry and agriculture.
     John (2) Dinsmoor, son of John (1) Dinsmoor, was born in Ballywattick, Ireland, about 1671, and in 1723, accompanied by his family, came to this country. After going through long hardships, being taken prisoner by the Indians, and having numerous adventures, he located in the Scottish settlement of Londonderry, New Hampshire, being acquainted with many of the settlers there. Being a stonemason, he built for himself a stone house in that part of the town which is now known as Windham.
     Robert Dinsmoor, son of John (2) Dinsmoor, was born in Ireland in 1692, married Margaret Orr in Ireland, and with his wife and four children came to New Hampshire in 1730. He was prominent in the affairs of the town in which he located, and filled various public positions. He died October 14, 1751, and his wife died June 2, 1752.
     James Dunsmore, probably related to the above ancestry, was a native of Ireland, and settled at Sinks Grove, Monroe County, Virginia, in the earlier years of 1700. He married and was the father of three sons: James, Joseph, William.
     James (2) Dunsmore, son of James (1) Dunsmore, was married twice, and of the first marriage there was one child, who died in infancy. His second wife, Margaret (Reed) Dunsmore, bore him seven children: Elizabeth, John. Margaret, Hannah, George Washington, Andrew Lewis, Mary Ann. The sons were all farmers, and the daughters all became farmers' wives, and the entire family connection settled in the immediate neighborhood where James (1) Dunsmore located.
     George Washington Dunsmore, son of James (2) Dunsmore, was a prominent farmer, and held for many years the offices of justice of the peace and county supervisor. He married Amanda Melvina Crews, and they were the parents of two children: James Gaston, and Mary Martha, who became the wife of James W. Ellis, of Wolf Creek, West Virginia, and of this marriage there were two children: Lula Elner and Mabel. Mrs. Ellis died in 1892.
     James Gaston Dunsmore, son of George Washington Dunsmore, was born October 22, 1848, at Sinks Grove, Monroe County, Virginia, now West Virginia. His childhood was spent on his father's farm, where he performed the work of a farmer's boy between the times given to education. This was obtained at the Rocky Point Academy of his native town, where he employed his time to such advantage that at the age of sixteen he was given a position as assistant teacher in the academy. In 1872 he accepted the position of principal of the same institution, but shortly after gave up teaching to take a course in the Eastman National Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, from which he graduated with the degree of Master of Accounts. The post-graduate degree of Fellow of the Institute of Accounts of New York City was also conferred upon him in April, 1896. His interests were completely enlisted in the profession and he determined upon it as his life work in spite of the opposition of his parents. He taught for some time in the public schools of Monroe, and founded at Sinks Grove, February 22, 1872, the Dunsmore Business College. Here he remained for eight years or until the spring of 1880, when he removed to Staunton, Virginia, and there reestablished his commercial school. It was incorporated by the legislature of Virginia and its charter approved by Governor Cameron, November 29, 1884, and reincorporated by the department of the state corporation commission, February 20, 1914, as the Dunsmore Business College, Incorporated. With the ever growing importance of the industrial and commercial elements in the life of to-day, the business college is coming to occupy a larger and more conspicuous place in the educational world, and among such schools there are few older and none with a higher or more deserved reputation for high ideals and efficiency than The Dunsmore Business College, Incorporated.
     Mr. Dunsmore is a Presbyterian in religion, and a Democrat in politics. He is prominently affiliated with the Masonic order, being a member of the Blue Lodge, No. 13; Union Chapter, No. 2, Royal Arch Masons, of Staunton, and Stevenson Commandery, No. 8, Knights Templar. Mr. Dunsmore is also a member of many educational associations and learned societies. He has done considerable traveling, and is a member of the National Geographic Society.
     Mr. Dunsmore married (first) February 8, 1872, S. E. Nickel!, and they were the parents of eight children; she died April 19, 1890. He married (second) September 8, 1892, Mrs. M. J. McClung, granddaughter of Robert Sitlington, deceased, daughter of J. W. Alexander, deceased, both prominent farmers of McDowell, Highland county, Virginia, and a half-sister of the late Professor J. R. S. Sterrett, deceased, who held the chair of post-graduate Greek and Archaeology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, at the time of his death, June 15, 1914.
[Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under The Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 1915 – Transcribed by AFOFG]

Kean, Robert Garlick Hill
     The paternal ancestry of Mr. Kean is thus traced: About 1790, David Kean, of County Armagh, Ireland, came to Virginia, and settled in Monroe county. With him came his son, Andrew Kean, who became a physician of Louisa county, and whose son, John Vaughn Kean, married Caroline M. Hill. They were the parents of the subject of this sketch, who was born in Caroline county, Virginia, October 7,1828. His first wife was Jane Nicholas, daughter of Col. T. Jefferson Randolph, of Edge Hill, Albemarle county, Virginia, born November 3, 1831, died August 28, 1868. The children of this marriage were: Lancelot Minor, born January 11, 1856, now practicing law at Sioux City, Iowa; Pattie Cary, born April 11. 1858, now the wife of J. S. Morris, of Campbell county; Jefferson Randolph, born June 28, 1860, now surgeon. U. S. A.: and Robert G. H. At the residence of Col. Nicholas Long, near Weldon, North Carolina, Rev. Mr. Norwood officiating, Mr. Kean married, on January 14, 1874, Adelaide Navarro de M. Prescott. She was born in St. Landry parish, Louisiana, November 5, 1844, the daughter of William Marshall Prescott, who was born in South Carolina, and who married Evelina, daughter of Judge Moore, of Louisiana. The children of Mr. Kean's second marriage are four, born: Evelina Moore, June 28,1875; William Marshall Prescott, July 6, 1876; Caroline H., September 1, 1877; Otho Vaughn, April 5, 1881.

     Mr. Kean entered the Confederate States Army as a private of Company G, 11th Virginia regiment, on April 21, 1861. In February, 1862, he was commissioned captain, and appointed A. A. G. assigned to Gen. G. W. Randolph's brigade. On April 1, 1862, he was ordered to Richmond, and commissioned by President Davis as chief of the Bureau of War, which position he filled until the close of the war. He was graduated in law from the University of Virginia in 1853, and holds the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Law from that University. From the time of his graduation to the present he has been in practice, in Lynchburg, except for the years given to military duty.
[History of Virginia From Settlement of Jamestown to Close of The Civil War by Robert Alonzo Brock and Virgil Anson Lewis, 1888, Transcribed by AFOFG]

Mann, John
John Mann is the eldest of seven children born to Joseph and Rebecca (Gibson) Mann, natives of Virginia ; he was born August 1, 1822, in Monroe County, Va., where he remained until he was fourteen, and in 1837 removed with his parents to Henry County, Ind. Here he worked out by the month until he was twenty-eight years of age, and in 1850 came to this county, locating on eighty acres he had purchased a few years before. He has added to this until now he has a good farm of 164 acres, with all the modern improvements, all of which he has accumulated by hard labor and economy. Mr. Mann was married, December 7, 1848, to Barbara Fatic, a native of Virginia. She was the fifth child born to Andrew and Barbara (Thumma) Fatic, both natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Mann have two children—Christina Brown, born August 6, 1850, and William F., born July 16, 1852. Mr. M. is at present County Surveyor. Mr. Mann attended school only eighteen months during his life, and has taken a pride in giving his children a good education. He was at one time Township Trustee, and he and wife have been active members of the Christian Church over twenty years; he was formerly a member of the Democratic party, but since 1856 has been an active worker in the Republican ranks.
[Source: Counties of Howard and Tipton Indiana Historical and Biographies]

Massie Family
     Massie Cheshire. The family of Massie, settled at Coddington county, Cheshire, in consequence of the marriage of Hugh Massie with Agnes, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Bold, aud his son William by the said Agnes purchased with other manors that of Coddington in the reign of Henry, VI. This William married Alice, daughter and heiress of Adam Woton, of Edgerly, and the family subsequently intermarried with that of Grosvenor, of Eaton. The celebrated General Massie so distinguished during the Civil Wars, was the son of John Massie, of Coddington, by Anne Grosvenor, of Eaton. The present representative is the Rev. Richard Massie, of Coddington. Arms.—Quarterly gu. and or — in the 1st & 4th quarters three fieurs de-lis ar, for difference a Canton ar. Crest — A demi-pegasus with wings displayed quarterly or. and gu. Massie Quarterly az and ar. on the 1st and 4th a millet, Or. Crest— A horned Owl ppr. Massie Ar a pile, quarterly gu. and or: in the field quarter a lion pass, off the Held. Crest — Between two trees a lion salient ar.—[Encyclopaedia of Heraldry of England, Scotland and Ireland, by John Burke.]
     The first representatives of the family in America were Major Thomas Massie and William, his brother, who settled in New Kent County, in the Colony of Virginia. Thence Major Thomas Massie moved to Frederick County, and afterwards settled in Nelson county, where he owned large estates on Tye river and about the head waters of Rockfish river. For his services in the War of the Revolution he received a grant from the Government of valuable lands in Scioto Valley, Ohio, near the present city of Chillicothe. He married Sally Cocke, and spent the remaining years of his life in retirement at his seat, known as "Level Green," in Nelson County. The issue of this marriage were three sons: Thomas, William and Henry.
     Dr. Thomas Massie, the eldest son, married [1] Lucy Waller, by whom he had two sons; [i] Waller, [ii] Patrick; and two daughters, one of whom married Boyd, and the other of whom married Wm. 0. Goode. His second wife was [2] Sally Cabell; by whom he had one son, Paul. Waller Massie, eldest son of Dr. Thos. Massie, married Mary James of Chillicothe, Ohio, by whom he had issue: [1] Gertrude Waller Massie, [2] Thomas Massie, recently deceased without issue. Patrick Massie, second son of Dr. Thomas Massie, married Susan Withers, by whom he had issue: [1] Robert, [2] Patrick C., [3] Thomas, [4]Thornton, [5] Withers, [6] . [7] Susan.
     William Massie, second son of Major Thomas Massie, was married — times. His eldest son was Col. Thos. J. Massie, of Nelson, lately deceased without issue. His daughter, Florence, married [1] Tunstall, son of Whitmell P. Tunstall, [2] Judge .Tno. D. Horsley, of Nelson.
     Henry Mamie, of Falling Springs Valley, Alleghany County, Virginia, third son of Major Thomas Massie, married [1] Susan Preston Lewis, October 22nd, 1810, daughter of John Lewis of the Sweet Springs, and Mary Preston, daughter of Capt. William Preston of Smithfield, Montgomery county; [2] Elizabeth Daggs, May 18th, 1826, the daughter of Hezekiah and Margaret. The issue of said Henry Massie by his first wife, Susan Preston Lewis, were: [1] Sarah Cocke, who married Rev. Franck Stanley and died without issue on March 30, 1879. [2] Mary Preston, born September 26, 1813, married John Hampden Pleasants, December 15, 1829, and died April 18, 1837, leaving issue: [i] James Pleasants: [ii] Ann Eliza, who married Douglas H. Gordon: [iii] Mary Lewis, who died in infancy. [3] Henry Massie, Jr. [4] Eugenia S., born February 19, 1819, married Samuel Gatewood. and died October, 1884. leaving issue. [5] Thomas Eugene Massie. [6] Susan Lewis, who died in infancy. Said Henry.Massie died in January, 1841; and Susan Preston, his wife, died November 22, 1825, in the thirty-third year of her age. Said Henry Massie had by his second wife, Elizabeth, one son, Hezekiah, now living in Falling Spring Valley on his paternal estate.
     Henry Massie, Jr. , oldest son of Henry Massie and Susan Preston Lewis, was born July 4, 1816, married Susan Elizabeth Smith, March 23, 1841, daughter of Thos. B. Smith of Savannah, Georgia, and Caroline Sophia Rebecca Thomson, his wife, who was the daughter of William Russell Thomson, of Charleston, South Carolina, who was the son of Col. Wm. R. Thomson, born 1729, died 1796, who was the son of William Thomson (of the family of James Thomson, the English poet), and the founder of the family in America. The issue of said Henry Massie, Jr., and his wife Susan, who was born February 5th, 1822, and died November 25th, 1887, were: [1] Henry Lewis Massie, born May 12, 1842, died October 5, 1887, unmarried. [2] Caroline Thomson, born December 16, 1845, and married November 8, 1865, to James Pleasants. [3] Lulie, bora June 15, 1849, died May 7, 1878. [4] Thomas Smith Massie, born August 15, 1850, died Sept. 17, 1863. [5] William Russell Massie, born February 24, 1852, now living in Richmond, Virginia. [6] Susan Elizabeth, born February 2, 1855, died January 10, 1869.[7] Charles Philip Massie, born November 15, 1857, died October 31, 1863. [8] Eugene Carter Massie, born May 27, 1861, now practicing law in Richmond, Virginia.
     Dr. Thomas Eugene Massie, second son of Henry Massie and Susan Preston Lewis, was born April 22, 1822, married in 1858 Mary James Massie, the widow of Waller Massie, and died in 1863, leaving issue: [1] Frank Aubrey Massie, now practicing law in Charlottesville, Virginia. [2] Eugenia Massie, who married Oscar Underwood of Kentucky, now living in Birmingham, Alabama. [3] Juanita Massie.
[History of Virginia From Settlement of Jamestown to Close of The Civil War by Robert Alonzo Brock and Virgil Anson Lewis, 1888, Transcribed by AFOFG]

Pack, Samuel
In England this name is historic. One of the Packs was in the Long Parliament. Another was one of Wellington's generals. Samuel wandered into this region from Tidewater Virginia, and in 1763 was trapping with Swope and Pitman on New River.
A son was Samuel, Jr. (1760-1833) (Mary Farley), who settled on that stream. The Packs were large slaveholders and owned much New River bottom from the mouth of the Greenbrier up to and around the mouth of Bluestone.
C. of Samuel, Jr.
-John (d. 1830c) (Elizabeth Lively, 1812)
-Matthew
-Samuel (Sarah Wyatt, 1802)
-Bartley (d. 1834) (Dicea Harvey)
-Loammi (1791-1858) (Jane Lively, 1811)
-William
-Anderson (Rebecca Peters)
-Elizabeth (Jacob Dickenson)
-Polly (Joseph Lively, 1812)
-Jennie (Jonah Morris)
Anderson and Loammi owned a large body of land on Brush in the vicinity of Cashmere. The latter was a zealous Methodist, and built and
did very much to maintain the Pack church. The wife of President Hayes was a daughter of Jennie Pack Morris. While Hayes was in this region
as a general in the Federal army he recognized Captain John A. Pack as a relative and gave him the freedom of his camp at Raleigh C. H.
After the death of Anderson, his sons moved to Kansas and Oklahoma. Since then the name is locally extinct in the line of Loammi.
C. of Anderson:
-Conrad B.
-Samuel B.
-John A.
-Allen C.
-Loammi C.
-Charles H.
-Virginia (Dr. Charles G. Manser)
-Clara (E. B. Meador)
-Kate (Capt. Robert Saunders)
C. of Loammi:
-Cynthia (1812-1882) (James McGue, 1839)
-Lucinda (Archibald Swinney, 1833)
-Sarah (1818-1885) (Lorenzo D. Martin, 1849)
-Bartley (Hester E. Carper, 1844)
-Polly (Vincent Callaway, 1863)
-Eliza J. (Andrew J. Carper, 1849)
-Samuel C. (1829-1903)
-Lorenzo D.(Mary J. Douthat, 1858)
-John L. (1833-1895) (Elizabeth J. Ellison, 1867).
C. of L. D.
-Annie M. (Henry Brown)
-Jennie L. (C. A. Brown)
-Henry W.
-James J.
-Charles B.
-Mary L. (Robert Green)
-Lucy P.
-Thomas R
C. of J. L.:
-Walter J (Lida Ralston, 1901)
-Charles H. (Nora Miller)
-Luther J. (Eva Broyles)
These sons began life as teachers, secured academic or collegiate education, and became ministers of the Baptist Church.
[Source: "A History of Monroe County West Virginia" by Oren F. Morton, 1916 .... page 388
Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack]

Sparr, William W.
     William W. Sparr, deceased, was born in Monroe County, W. Va., January 26, 1825, and was of German descent. His father. G. W. Sparr, was a native of Virginia and married Sarah Wickline, by whom he had five children. Our subject was born and reared on his father's farm, and in the public schools he acquired a good business education. With his parents he remained until twenty years of age, when he began to earn his own livelihood by working as a farm hand. After a short time, however, he secured employment in a gristmill and to that work devoted his energies for a number of years. He became a carpenter and millwright by trade.
     In 1847, Mr. Sparr emigrated to Ohio, where he made his home for the fifteen succeeding years. It was in 1862 that he came to Illinois and took up his residence in Noble Township, Richland County, purchasing the farm now occupied by his family. It comprised one hundred and ten acres and he at once began its development and improvement. Within the boundaries of the farm there are now three hundred and ten acres of highly cultivated and valuable land.
     On the 10th of November, 1850, Mr. Sparr was united in marriage with Miss Eliza J. Adams, who was born near Wheeling, W. Va., February 25, 1831, and is a daughter of Martin and Phoebe (Taylor) Adams. Her father was born in Virginia and was of German descent. In the Adams family there were twelve children. There were fifteen children born unto our subject and his wife, namely: Lizzie M. and Olivia J., both deceased; George, Phoebe, Martin A., Arthur W., Seward (deceased), Robert N.. John C., Sarah, Mary A., Lillie J. and Luella M., both deceased, and two who died in infancy. The family is a prominent one in this locality and its members rank high in social circles. Mr. Sparr always took an active interest in political affairs and kept himself well informed on the issues of the day. However, he never sought or desired the honors or emoluments of public office. He voted with the Republican party and did all in his power to upbuild it and insure its success. With the Methodist Episcopal Church he held membership. He was an industrious and enterprising man, and the comfortable properly which he left to his family had all been acquired through his own well-directed efforts. In the community where he lived he was held in high regard, for he was a man of sterling worth and possessed many excellencies of character. His death occurred May 17, 1884, and his remains were interred in Wesley Cemetery, in Denver Township. In his death the community lost one of its best and most highly-respected citizens.
[Portrait and Biographical Record of Effingham, Jasper and Richland Counties Illinois, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Governors of the State, and the Presidents of the United States. (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887), p.286 - Submitted by Judy Edwards]