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Richwood. _W Va. 26261. settled near the mouthofCur­ settlement on Hacker's Creek man died at her home near While Hlllbllly appreciates letters‘and manuscripts from readers, tis Run on Little Skin Creek and married Mrs. KatieH de Georgetown in 1854, aged 74. it is impossible to return such or to enter into any verbal exchange and his lands embraced the a widow whose maiden name and her husband died near the OVEF same. It is suggested that the writers keep copies of their farms known in after years was Katie Hardman and asis­ close of the Civil War. Both _ _ ‘\v/ork. or.lf this can't be done,t 0 request return and send postage. as the Isaac Butcher tract ter to ev. John Hardman. were buried at Georgetown and the George H. Corathers Elizabeth, so say the his­ xx Poetry is usedas spacepermits. . tract. i Richar 0 nson is believed ...... '.‘. .;.;.'.-.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;. as notrestoredto ---no-mn­ - His residence stood near her people until after the to have been the first settler This act within itself did the site now occupied by the treaty of Greenville in 1795. on Big Skin Creek and the date not constitute ownership but George H, Cgnathers resi­ Some few years later she of settlement is fixed at 1797 The People‘ merely denoted priority to ence. He built a mill on the married Rev. John Hardman or 1798. This perhaps is the other claims which might be creek south from his resi­ as already stated. As theV_'Qg_­ date he received a patent to subsequently made. Hacker’s dence run by water power oner massacre is so his land, but if the statement Qf Vandalia second day's pursuit of the which ground corn only. One thrillingly told by Withers in of Joshua Hardmanis correct. buffaloes brought him to the of the runners of these corn his “Border Warfare" and by and we have no reason to doubt mouth of a stream on the head buhrs is at present used as Mcwhorter in “Border Set­ it. he was not living there waters of the West Fork Riv­ a top step at the front.en­ tlers -of Northwestern Vir­ when his father made settle­ er and tradition says having trance to the house of Thom­ ginia" and also by Edward ment on Little Skin Creek at Community discovered there a colony as Meadows who lives not C. Smith in his “History of the mouth of Curtis Run. Sam W. Hardman. 1928 crams he named the stream far from the old mill site. Lewis County." nothing Joshua Hardman, in an inter­ B y further need be said on that Part 1 Cram Camp Run. Here he The workmanship onthis stone view given the writer over also located a claim and the is superior and a model for score. 35 ears ago, states thattheir /2911 HE F I R S T next day again hit the trail its kind and shows unmis­ There is a tradition in the nearest neighbor for five Hardman family, especially white man to of the buffaloes which he takably the hand of an artist": years was ten miles distant. explore the failed to apprehend for two This mill is said to have among the living grandchil­ The Johnson tract is declared days yet. He killed a cow, been built several years be­ dren0‘&Eamm by historians to be an aban­ Skin C r e e k Hardman , region ofwhich so the account says. and re­ fore the Curtis mill on Stone­ that_ their grand- . doned tomahawk claim of John . any record turned home. coal known in modern times as mother. through the aid and Hacker occupied for a time has beengiv­ Tradition says that he Gaston. But it ground corn for assistance of anlndiantrader, by his son Alexander some sh’ _ _ en to local named the two Skin Creek the surrounding neighborhood escaped from captivity and years after the close of the history is John Hacker, the streams, Big Muddy and Lit­ for fifty years when both mill was brought to Fort Wheel­ Revolutionary War, but that first settler in the Hacker's tle Muddy. and dam were swept away by ing. Louis Bonnett. her uncle. he shortly afterward left it Creek district about the year While it is well known that a flood. , who was at UTe’time a soldier This could very well have been 1712. According to that tra­ western Virginia as a whole Rev, John Hardman, as he in the fort brought her through true: but no local tradition has ditional account he was at the had longbefore beentraversed was known in late life, was 3,7the wilderness and to her been found to support such bt ­ time on the trail of three by hunters and trappers, it is son of Peter Hardman, a pio-° home. lief. If he did live there in. buffaloes that had devastated not known if this particular neer settler on Jesse's Run 5‘She became the mother of 1787 as is claimed by the his ­ his corn patch during the sum­ region had even been seen of- Hacker's Creek,_ and he thirteen children. eleven of torians, and then left it, itwas mer while absent to the South until John Hacker gazed upon married Elizabeth W , whom reached maturity and through fear of prowling indi­ Branch to remove his family it. * a daughter of John Waggoner, some passed into old age. ans who were seen about the to the newly made home in John Hardman was beyond who lived also on Jesse's There was only one daughter settlement as late as 1795. the wilderness. The first day's doubtthe first permanentset­ Run. The Hardmans and Wag­ and she became The wife of trail brought him to the mouth tler in the Skin Creek region. goners were close neighbors.‘ Jacob W. Hudson. Henry, one of a small stream afterwards The exact date of his com­ Elizabeth Wa oner ‘and -of the sons, settled on the ing cannot be given without sis‘mm.ahead waters of Big SkinCreek; named Curtis Run on Little Skin Creek. Here he located recourse to an examination brother. were all threetaken Joshua lived on Big Skin Creek; and John G. moved to a claim which according to of the Harrison County rec­ Captive by Tecumseh and two ords which even then would Braxton in 1855 where he 444024 Y‘ E/' = the custom of that day was of his warriors in 1792 and lived and died. The other accomplished by simply show only the date his patent carried to the Shawnee vil. to the land was issued. The boys went West at different girdling some trees. lages on the Sciota River in times shortly after reaching fit! .0‘.-. . PART I1 '53. perhaps made the same error ‘a member” f the pron—ii'nent Lewis County they all spelled who came into Collins Sottle­ The Richard Johnson tract ‘°’ ‘“ W5‘ 3 “°:“’ Y°*'*!’5.“° family of B nnetts who made their ' name “Butt" or ment that year, is evid ntly embraced all the land sur-’ had’ by purchasing adJ°im"gi settlement near Walkersville "Butte." They all went to one and the same per n. rounding the mouth ofCharles l8°dS' 5° extemed his b°”“d‘ about the year 1800. Iowa accept ‘Jacob who then There was no other Jacob Run and for some distance up ‘"3’ [0 embrace over a th°”‘ Some few yearsyafter set­ changed the spelling of his Bennett in the country at that and down Big skin Creek sand acres, more than double tlement had been made by name to "Butt” and all of me. e same is true in valley. It was a choice tract the acreage °f me ‘mgmal his descendants continued to regard to Louis B? and and by many was considered: Richard Johnson patent. In oJohn urtis I-iardma Run: atHthe enr mguth utt spell theirs that way. The the most desirable in the en-I 1882' John J‘ w‘lrd' Whome“ located on land since known ones who went west and their wife, Mary. It is also known as the Corathers farm. that a man by’ the name of tire valley. Before the wide' owned and occulned me farm" descendants so far asis known . Bennett lived on the Louis bottoms were cleared’ ponds became so heavily involved in He is thought to be the continued to spell their names and Swamns were numerous debt that ‘the land was sold to second oldest settler onLittle “Butt." Bennetf farm prior 'to the but ditching, tilling and filling Satlsfy “*5 °’ed"°’5 3”“ A­ Skin Creek and his patent time the latter took up his' included all or nearly all of - The John Butt named above residence there as a lone" has rendered these lands the gdr(g1c;‘;l:d?tnd W‘ R‘ Jewell Blacklick Run and extended arried a daughter of Louis grave, that of an infant, long most fertile to be found in the‘ ‘ known to be one of the Ben­ county. The farmwas toolarge ' Gould razed the old John" down the creek to the Hard-' B nnett and crossed the plains_ to Show any great impmVe_ son residence which was a man tract embracing several to OregonTerritory from Iowa nett children, mute evidence - - large hewn log structure and hundred acres. In 1826he sold in 1845 in the same emigrant of the fact, exists on an ele­ $3?‘ algidtg%v}:j“e§_'7‘?_e0v%f:33upon the old foundation erected the south portion of this tract train that my uncle, Henry J: vated plot ofgroundinthe open succeeded Johns i W _ a modern residence now including his improvements to Peterson was in. John Butt’s .pasture just above the house." ship in 1854 “Q3113: pigs owned and occupied by_W.T. Col. John Corathers and wife died before‘ the train Louis Bennett dug the well for rapid development. He Jones. The Jewell residence erected a residence on the reached Oregon. He lived in where e ived on Little Skin made use of slave labor sup. occupied the site of the tobac­ north portion at the mouth of Washington County, Oregon, Creek, which is very deep and Blacklick Run. Tradition says and presumably has been dead walled it up with flag rock. plied by his 1-athe1._m_1aw’ co warehouse and factory op­ This same well furnishes wa­ Captain William R. Roach, who erated ,by David 5- I-«CW9Until that Richard Johnson once many years. His nephew,John perhaps exacted only a 1-nin_ beginningOfthe War. lived on the Corathers farm J. Butt, son of Jacob Eff, ter today to the inhabitants imum wage for the slaves_ It is interesting to know that even before the entrance of came to Kittitas County in of the place in abundance and Lowe was 3 man of big ideas a sufficient amount of framing Henry Butt. There is some 1885 where I was then living its waters are just as cool­ LucullusV.McWh0I‘leI‘-The and was not lacking in energy timbers and lumber was sal­ ‘support to this claim because and where he continued tolive ing to thirst perhaps as they ‘B_¢_yg_r_i_¢Lttswillbemorefully to develop them. He planted a Vaged fmm the 91d 1053000 as late as 1853 Richard John­ until he died some years ago. were over one hundred years son and wife Elizabeth con­ \ ouis Bgnnett althoughre­ ago. large acreage in apples and faCtOI'y 3. barn the Louis Bennett was born in peaches which he planned to 5?me “OW”‘ U59 by the 1'08d­ veyed to Col. John Corathers Eafiaed as one of the pioneer ma iBto app1e_jaCksideoppositetheJewelldwell­ a small strip of land adjoin­ settlers on Little Skin Creek 1762 and could not have been ing the Corathers tract to did not come into the com­ under 58 years of age whenhe and peach brandy.He had from mg‘ The bmag yellow poplar came to Little Skin Creek. the first kept a man employed plank °°I.np°s.mg the hull °f westward near the head of munity as early as maintained Hall's Run. by some. The records show He was a soldier during the ‘ distilling corn and rye liquor. the building. 15 a pr.°d”°t‘ °f Henr Butt was the ances­ that one, Louis Bennett and last four years of the Rev­ He raised tobacco in great the old Alkire sawmill of the olutionary War for which quantities, built a three story pioneer perpendicular pat" tral head of all the families Mary, his wife, conveyed to by that name living in the George Bush in 1819 a saw­ service he was granted a warehouse in which to storeit tern run by water powei" district. mill and gristmill on Stone­ pension and which proved to and manufactured some of it These planks. “Ye” sawed 1“ born and coal _including three acres of be an unhappy incident for into plug. The remaindei‘ was the early nmes and have him. The en came from v "PV’3--r1?ni'i''l\i' packed in hogsheads and therefore weathered the ra'mLmu se near Georgetown and a land for $500.00. We also find that in l822 he exchanged 96 Hardy County to the Hacker's hauled overland to Richmond Storms 9f over 70 yegrs and resident in the communityun­ Creek settlement some time over. the newly constructed given evidence of lasting out til after the close of the Civil acres on Stonecoal lying ad­ jacent to lands ofGeorge Bush prior to the beginning of the summon and parkersburg a full century of service with War but who is now a resident Revolutionary War, and older turnpike; “But the Civil War “"9” 3 d"°P °‘ Palm­ of Tacoma, Washington, in his and Benjamin Taylor, tolacob Bennett for 176 acres on Lit­ members of the family were came .on and Mr. Lowe like Richard Johnson died near 90th year, gives the following referredto“BorderSettlers.-JNv"‘I"‘~ ‘ e in Creek; consideration with Eblnezer Zane at Fort many "others found his busi­ the close of the year 1853 ­information relative to the ;dianfightersthereaderis ness ruined. closely followed by his wife family of Henry Butt: “Henr in both transfers $860.00 GIN‘;Wheeling in 1770 when zhehgjwNti John J. Ward was the next and they were both buried in Butt had ‘five sons whose at; even exchange. The Ja fort was established and sub- ’ Bennett and wife Rachael.men­ sequently at intervals other owner of this finefarm who the family burial plot on the. names were John, Adam Job . )1/‘S!’ ‘ ’ brought financial disaster crest of the hill east from the ione .ere in this”t?ansac> members of the faimly at this , “luff upon himself by a too liberal residence 01' -W. T. Jones. {$1a so one _and by Jafb, the name and ofHenr 1'mini’: . tion and the Jacob Bennett who frontier post until the final w-at purchase of adjoining lands. His Wife WES. before her _I don‘t know anything aboutfils settled on Leamerback Run in Indian treaty of Greenville girls if he had any at all. 1800, and a memberuof the in 1795. ' ‘ . A. G. Gould,_his successor, marriage, Ij1iz_a_bgtliBennett, Prior to their removal from prominent family of Bennetts or a full account of the 93'‘? 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While living here _one of first wife of Henr Hardman reared his family of eleven PART III his sons, a stout husky boy of of Stonecoal. There is reason children. He was buried on a The Marsh family came i to believe that John Helmic level plot of ground some two from Culpepper County, Vir­ attempt to hoist upon his had removed from Randolph hundred yards north of the ginia, and settled on Big Skin shoulders a log of wood, cut County to the settlement on present school building now Creek in 1812. S enc rh/Ia)-sh ready for the fireplace and Hacker’s Creek not later than­ grown up in second growth was the first o)f that name which upon a wager he was to 1808 where soon afterward timber but which was then the and he was 52 years old when carry into the house. He had his first wife died and in due burial ground for the neigh­ he moved into the wilderness the log upon his shoulder but time he was married to Mary borhood. Two half grown sons with his family. It is highly somehow slipped and fell, the Ann Hack r. The ten years of Rev. John Hardman were probable that he brought his log pinning him to the hard s marriagemayalso burie ere. ere are few household goods in over frozen ground. Hewas carried have been spent in the a ' few other graves here but pack horse ' trails for at into the house where his injury Hacker’s Creek region or on the names of those whooccupy that early date there were no was found to be serious and he Little Skin Creek. It was very them are no longer knownfor wagon roads. Mutterings of died. He ‘was buried on the often the case that actual set­ they are already a century the War of 1812 were then brow of the hill east of the tlement upon land in pioneer old, and large oaks have grown rampant and many persons Main Ekin Creek Road and days was made long before up from the mound of some. thought it ought to be and northwest some few hundred the title was obtained. John could be averted. All New yards from_ the Round Knob Helmic had nine children by‘ England was against it and school house which was then his second wife as follows: _ only in the-south was it at the burial ground for the John, Jacob, Ira," David, Jo- '_ all popular. neighborhood. Mrs. Hiram anna, Hannah, Margaret ahd Marsh had children grown Ma the unfortunate young Barbara. Daniel RyanHe1mic, ­ up to manhood and woman­ man's mother, is also buried the eldest, was for some years, hood when he came into the here. Out of perhaps a dozen a school teacher: later he community but some were others buried here in pioneer became a prominent minister born afterward. Whohis first days these are the only two in the Methodist Protestant wife was is not known nor is whose names are now known. church in which service he it_known what year she died. Spencer Marsh the pioneer, continued until the infirma­ HIS second wife was the widow had four other sons, namely tion incident to old age ren­ of _Alexandar SinClair Wau h John C., Geor e l., Alexan­ dered him inactive. He died already the mother of seven _Lz', and Jonathan, two of in Palatine,now a part _ of ' children and who also bore whom, George I. and John C., Fairmont in 1886, at the ad-‘ children by Marsh. She was a were lifelong residents in vanced age of 81. sister of John Curtis, anearly the community and closely Alexander S. Helmic, the settler on Curtis‘ Run and identified with early develop­ stfimtfson, was also a teach­ an aunt of Ge r W Curtis, ments. These names will be er in the schools about one time member ofour coun­ referred to later on. Georgetown andelsewhere and ty court. He had, prior to his John Helmic was an early later entered the Virginia removal to this community, pioneer in the Georgetownset­ State University, completinga been employed 'for years as tlement but the date of his course of studies. He then en­ overseer on a large planta­ entry is questionable. He ob­ tered a medical college where tion in Culpepper County. Vir­ tained title to the land upon he graduated, after which he ginia. Hiram, one ofhis eldest . sought a suitable location in sons who was perhaps already ghichrst wi hef e lived was in Mar 1819. R His an eastern Virginia and settled married whenhis father came whom he married in 1863. in the practice of his chosen 4­ to Big Skin Creek, was, in He was a resident ofRandolph profession. He later married 4: . in education, culture and refine­ County in‘1805 whenhis oldest into a prominent Virginia fam­ J3 W‘ ment somewhat ahead of the child, Daniel R., was born lly and his wife having in­ average young man in this and Alexander was his second. herited a number of slaves, OJ %(W\-l-L WM,;. new pioneer settlement. These were all the children he went to Louisiana and His cabin stood on the by his first wife. His second bought a sugar plantationand if .wL”° M ' 17.4% /:1: )"’w:itw5 beautiful eminence south and wife was Mary Ann Hacker, a became prosperous. west from the mouthof Raines daughter of John Hacker, the Runnowoccupiedbythemod-first settle er's dwe ing stood near thepioneer pres­ 9_/J#'L°//W (-i°"’&;:01%,. 9% A"/‘"_m:,j,w*’$Q ent location of the George­ I.“ /71:11 ern residence of Bonce\Creek, anila sister to the town schoolhouse and there he “F” 47”” '9.1-_*aa2L- 0 ix“ ‘ l‘\o °J“)\xs&»A“T"vN,W)}'°i“'<\a,<\N»; 9» 3*‘ 490 0 0 0 PART IV Little Betty West, .his aunt,­ large family of children about PART V was knownin the early eighties married 391171Reger, the big equally divided —- boys and ‘Felix Albert was one of the In 1818 P. McNemar bought as Eatti Davis. The Philip strong and gallant fellow who, girls, One daughter became 182 acres for $400.00 off McNemar farm at George­ early residents in the com­ _historians tell us, walkedfrom town was sold by him in 1854 munity but what year he came his home in below Buckhan­ the wife of Henr D. Hard­ Daniel Stringer upon which is not now known. His wife man, one the wife of ____h-_ the village of Georgetown was and although owned and oc­ non through the unbroken for­ afterward built. This wasevi­ cupied by various parties was Abi ' , daugh­ est to Winchester, Virginia, _t_i_n4a Protestant minister, since, ultimately became the tervof William and Mary Ben­ and back to purchase calico one the wife of James Mor­ LmL£g rison and a fourth the wife of dentlyP}imgrhe was t e on y one by that as‘property of Levi Clark and to make his intended bride in 1810, died near Hacker's Marshal Clark. James mar­ name in the county. At this is at present the Home of an enviable bridal costume. date he was known to have his two spinster daughters. Valley in 1862. Their first \ Charles West-‘slocation was rie r stine Allen, andJohn child, Mary C. Albert, was andSterSfifi§ been living on his farm ly­ Philip McNemar was of a short half mile up from the ing north of the present vil­ Scotch-Irisfi descent and born in 1842; Rebecca A. A1­ mouth of Hughes Fork.Tradi­ daug ters of Noah Hyrehgi; came to Virginia with his bert in 1845, and the third and mund Alexander, Betty and lage of Gaston and his dwell­ tion says that he settled upon Malinda were never married parents when he was three last., wasbornand. attempted to hold the ing stood on the north of the in 1847. The last named was and Became bachelors and pike close the bridge. It is years old. His father was tomahawk claim made by his named Philip and kept a a regular itinerant minister father, Alexander West, years bachelor maids, respectively. known also that he bought a Edmund was brutally mur­ tract ofland adjoiningHenry roadhouse or inn a half day's in the United Brethern church before. nt 15e ortitseerns, journey from Monticello and for many years, and at last he was not successful, as the dered by Exra Ours in 1870 Hardman on the west in 1821 for hordes of gold and silver near the forks of Stonecoal the distinguished Thomas Jef­ account (1927) was superan-­ records show that in 1818 he ferson always stopped at the nuated, and living in Elkins, he was believed to have hid­ which he occupied soon af­ obtained a deed to 150 acres den somewhere about his inn for his noonday meal on West Virginia. The late David on Big Skin'Creek from Dan­ terward and where he con­ his road to the Capital which H. H who was a nephew iel Stringer, the County Clerk bachelor premises. Aboutfour tinued to live until about the years later John West and perhaps at that time was at of Felix Albert says that he at that time, and the con­ year 1844 when he moved to New York and young Phili was a soldier in the War of sideration was $300.00. Also his son, Ed. Jr., were shot Little Skin Creek onto the 1812. If this be true, he could and killed on Stonecoal near property purchased in 1818. was then ten years of age. that same year _Alexander It is said that he built the Philip McNemar, the elder, not have been under 47 years West his father, obtained a the Hopewell church by Dick later moved with his family of age when he married, as­ deed for 440 aces on Big Skin E93121; , ,.,­ log dwelling now standing in suming that his first child was David’West inheritedfor his the meadow bottom on Stone­ to Hardy County known then Creekfromgfl call near the mouth of Till­ as “1{nobly." born the following year there­ for the sum of $550.00. It portion of the Charles West_ It is not known what year after. In 1835 he was living is assumed that the addition­ estate, lands embracing the man Run nearby which dwell­ the McNe 5 came to the upon and owned the farm known al purchase ofAlexander West original homestead and now ing there is a pine tree. But 'Hac k andStonecoal in later years as the Marshal was made for the ultimate the property of one of his in the 26 years’ interval be­ settlement. Some of the male Clark homestead but sold it benefit of his son Charles, sons. The descendants of tween the time of purchase of members of the family re­ tfiarsame year tohis brother­ Charles West became the the Georgetown property and the total boundary falling just the time he became a resi­ mained in Hardy Countywhere in-law, George W. Harris. He a little short of 600 acres leading citizens of Skin Creek their descendants may be then bought a farm on Big dent upon it, it is not known which would embrace the ma­ community. found today. , , Skin Creek and moved upon it For a full account of the that he retained ownership jor portion of the land lying which fact could be ascer­ Philip McNemar, the sub­ and after some years’ resi­ on Hughe's Fork. But there “West Massac“e” by the in­ jec o 5 etc was mar­ dence sold again to George are reasons for believing that dians read “Border Settlers of tained only bya careful search riedto in1806. Charles West had established Northwestern .Virginia” by of the county records which The following are the names ;amily there. whorearedhis The property a residence upon this land Lucullus V. McWhorter and is immaterial. It is known, of his children: William, originally belonged to the some years prior to the date “History of Lewis County” by however, that Henry Peter­ Mar , Mar aret, Joseph, Richard Johnson tract andwas indicated by his deed. He was Edward C. Smith. These two 1911.was,liv e P'h‘ifi,p John and Isaac, and also at one time owned and married to May McLaughlin books should Be in every home Georgetown property in 1840 all but two became residents occupied by Ira Smith, The about the year , an t in the county. It mightbe when he left the community of the Skin Creek community. present owner and occupant is believed that he came to well to add that there were with his family for the un­ known regions of the west. His second wife was Betty is_Levi ll Big Skin Creek that year. He two Charles . Wests. Alexan­ William Penni ar was also Means and the following are __g1;les&t_ was one of was not likely to waste any der West. had a brother their children: _S_a,11i,_e.E41: the early settlers of Big Skin _harles after whom the once a resident ofthe George­ energy in makinga homeelse­ town property and he too cy, and Julia. His first wife Creek. He was a son of Alex­ where when plans had doubt­ was buried inthe familyburial ander West and a grandson H____.J5l.es1G“31’1*3Swhosettledughes Fork was named. on trekked west in 1845. Hedied, ‘ West whocameless been made long befbre however, on the‘trai1 some­ ground above the home on a his marriage that this old where in southern Indiana and flat overlooking the present fro ounty onthe tomahawk claim was to be village of Gaston; the second eastern shore of Virginia and his portion of his father's his widoaL.and_tiao_hoys.came wife who died in 1844 was settled near Jane Lew in 1772.. estate. Charles West had a back to Stonecoal near Gaston where she married again and buried in the Georgetown

[9 9 9 For a fuller account of_VLil_— WM? 2 liam Peterson and family the Cofl//J reader is cited to the pages Phineas Chidister, f8tl'l€l;0f _Peter was born in Hardy of the Peterson Family His­ the Hon. W._V' ' ' r, was County- in 1764. He was per­ tory compiled largely by Wil­ a longtime resident onHughes haps married in 1805. His ‘liam Henry Peterson_aW Fork and where nearly all his eldest child was born in 1806. cemetery where Philip.him­ edited y one 0 e c an in children were born and and Peter was then 42 years self was buried in 1856. 1924. Copies of this book may reared. His farm was the Vill­ old. When we recall the-fact ' William Peterson in l824 be purchased from _EarnestQ, liam Peterson property and" that youthfulmarriages in pio­ acquired a oun ary of land Sgtlrin the office of the Cir­ is residence dates from 1837, neers days was a common on the head of Hughes Fork of cuit Clerk. »’ the year Peterson died, and­ practice indulged at a more Big SkinCreek andestablished Isaac Caste located on the there he. Chidister, spent the tender age even than now, we: a residence thereon that same e of HughesForkremaining years of his life. are led to wonder why Peter year. . closely following the settle­ His wife before her marriage Bonnett deferred marriages The land was a part of an ment of William Petersonjust was _Susan Vincent. There until past middle age. He \ old patent known as the Ben­ belowo am. were several children who to net; survey, and as William His wife's maiden name was evidently married and left the daughtermarried, 0 ic olas and Mar-­ Peterson'swifewasformerlyE3_§_ andSheW35community. W. V. Chidister garet MCN ' , and it Mary Bgnnett, a sister to a sister to Phillip M.Lin er's married Polly Linger, a is not likely that she was over William Bennett who settled wife who settled at the head daughter of Phillip .Linger, 25 years of age at the time of near Walkersville in 1800,the of Little Skin Creek about the and their c ildren of whom her marriage to Bonnett, as‘ transfer of ownership to Pe­ same time. Asall Caste one_of there were many nearly all their last child was born in terson is the culmination of _his sons, married a daughter lived to maturity and became 1830. Peter Bonnett was that sequence. WilliamPeter­ of Arron D. Peterson and in turn heads of families. therefore his wiIe’s senior by ‘ S/QB‘ moved directly from shortly afterward located on The descendants of'Phineas at least fifteen years, arather Stonecoal, where he settled the head of Wheeler Fork of Chidister were prominent in uncommon thing in pioneer in 1801 and where all his Big Skin Creek. ‘ ‘ all the affairs of the com­ life.‘The country was infested’ thirteen children were born Mary J, Caste, a daughter, munity. _W.V. Chidister was by Indians for twelve years’ and reared. He was one of the became the wife of_John L. in early mafihood a Captain in following the close of the Rev­ leading citizens of his day, Queen who was a doctor, and the militia, later a merchant, olution. The massacre of the filling various county offices they inherited the Isaac Caste a justice of the peace, a post­ Bozarth family near Buck­ and died in 1837 shortly after homestead which'they later" master, member of the county fiannon occurred in 1795 the close of his term of of­ sold to a Mr. Dix and moved court, a surveyor, and was closely followed by the final fice as sheriff. . to Flatwoods, Braxton County.’ elected to represent his dis­ treaty with all the Indians He had for his deputies Another daughter of Isaac trict in the Legislature which that same year. three nephews, David, Jgmes _Caste married Chris Yoke, convened in 1873. Granville M. The Revolution caused the ®and Jonathan M. M.’Bennett a brother of S. C. Yoke, one Chidister a grandson of the postponement of many mar­ the latter ol whom became time assessor of Lewis elder Chidister, became a riages and some were post­ one of the most prominent County. prominent lawyer at the Wes­ poned indefinitely; but the con­ men in the State serving a term The Isaac Caste homestead tonbarand stant dread of an attack by as State Auditor as well as is now grace y a splendid a brother, besides serving a Indians rather accelerated various other offices of trust modern dwelling and for al­ term in the State Legislature them. A father with a house from time to time. most a half century has been is the present sheriff of Lew­ full of children, with some His‘ wife died in 1833 and the home and property ofP. F. is County and all three, fa­ already arrived to marriage­ they both lie side by side in Linger. Some few years ago titer and two sons, were once able age rarely bulked at an the Vandalia cemetery. The while plowing the garden the teachers in the public schools. addition to his family in the David H. Harri farm . on plowshare unearthed a mag­ Peter Bonnett was a broth­ person of a son-in-law when Hughes Fork is a part of nificent lot of the most beau­ er of Eouis Bonnett and both such an addition meant great­ the William Peterson tract tiful amber colored Indianar­ were soldiers in the Revo­ er protection for his family, and the latter’s dwellingstood rowheads and spurheads per-, lutionary War from 1779 to‘ and less responsibility for on the identical spot now oc­ haps ever found in a single 1783, according to sworn ’\ himself. The main question cupied by the modern dwell­ cache in the community. The statement made by them when for solution was the worthi­ ing of the David H, Harris place was evidently once 'a they jointly applied for pen­ ness of the young man for heirs, present owners andoc­ favorite Indian camping sions in 1833. ‘ his daughter's hand. cupants. ground as a never—fai1ing spring is close by on the I'Y‘l'fT|l!~'.i'H. .' 9 ' “ll:/~x‘tiflvv £"‘:"‘.::;';+:‘.;.‘vv’-"I ulufz 0>L7L­ NJ‘ ,.<’ eral Government was4%‘..‘§:7f:t..::.r..°e not to he moved back “ma. by way ox r PART VI ")~LLI.\{Thethe youngest eldest was in 1830. born His in 1806; wife declaredscendant by" of thea prominent family to de­ be blame; it was the jealous and French Creek onto the head .The Bonnetts were Aclefit utch died sometime between 1830 an error. The mystery per‘­ -prejudiced citizenry. Pen­ of Big Skin Creek as already and their forebears were Hol­ ehd 1335- ' haps lies in the possibility of sioning soldiers was then a stated and blazed the first landers. But the name is In 1835 he 501d his farm two Nicholas Alkires." beneficence only in its in­ wagon road over the divide. purely French. It is quite pos­ and all his livestock and farm The Bonnettbrothers shon1d fancy not clearly understood In 1834 he again sold and sible that the Bonnetts were Utensils he did?” Went except not have gone west when they nor judiciously applied, and moved over on Little Skin originally Frenc ut ecause two horses andawagon.Load- did; they were too ojd to be. animosities over it were eas­ Creek. His father, William of religious wars that raged ihg UP With 3 few heuseheld come pioneers in a new coun­ ily provoked. The instance 0 ‘Peterson, was in the mean­ there for over a hundredyears 800135findsome farm t001s he try nor was it necessary had ‘the Bonnett brothers was n time living on Hughes Fork. many sought an asylumin Hol­ leftfor Iowa territory in the they only known it as was exception and numerous sol­ Henry Hammer became the land the first country in con­ same Wagon train With his subsequently proved. Thecir­ diers shared the same fate. owner of fhe William B. Pet­ tinental Europe to tolerate hfethel‘ L0‘-lis ehd famili’ ehd cumstance under which they (It seems only as the bitte ersonfarmw Protestantism. The Bonnetts Henry EU“ and femhy end left the community wassome­ irony of fate that two sturd was occupied by the Har ers. "were Protestants and from Oihers 801118West at that t1fDe- what pathetic. To briefly state pioneersastheh Hanner’s wife was before her their first inception into the The oldest members of his the case ‘they’ had" in 1833 ers were denied the enjoy marriage, Kate Wheeler Hacker's Creek colony took a family some of whom were made application for pen. ment of the fruits of their toi daughter of Jacob Wheeler who already merried- remained sions for services as soldiers and labor in their efforts t lived just ahove on Wheeler lehding part in religious wor­ establish law and order for ship. behind: 8180 the W0 Yeuhgest and spies during the Revolu­ Fork. Leonard Hyge a long­ Peter Bonnett perhaps set­ aged 5 ahd 7 “me were left tionary War from 1779 to which they had so often risked time resident on Big Skin tleElon Big Skin Creek closely with relatives. All the mem- 1783_ They stated on oath both life and limb, and after Creek also married a daugh­ following the date of his bers of Louis Bennett's fam- before a‘ justice of the peace havingabrother.,andsister]terof. ­ marriage in 1805. His set­ ily left the country with their that they were born in Hardy with her three infant children Henr Hardman, sonofRev. tlement was at least prior to parents except those whowere county in 1762 and 1762 re­ sT5in by savages in the early‘ Jolfi Hardman, who settled married. About half of both spec[1ve]y_ e one was 69 ln‘cli?a‘rTTv'ar§. near the mouth of Curtis Run 1816 for in this year Lewis "Jac‘c'ib"Wheelerwas the first County was separated from families were left in the com­ and the other was 71 years of . on Little Skin Creek, located Harrison and no record has munity. Peter BOUHGUL age_ The pensions were a].to locate on Wheeler Fork and his farm on Big Skin Creek been found of any patent is­ On the trail Somewhere in lowed and they had received from whom the stream was just above the present loca­ sued to him since that date. southern Illinois and lji;:h- some payments, A party who named. The date of his entry tion of the White schoolhouse cannot here be stated but ap­ We are therefore, to con­ °_1§__s_his50h»then 22 Years Of subsequently was proven a about the year 1825. clude that his patent exists age assumed C°htr°1ehdt1'3i1' notorious libeler and was run proximately was about the His wife was Mary West in the Harrison County rec­ ed the family on into Iowa out of the country went be­ year 1827. Verylittle has been daughter of Charles West {he ords. The same is true in all territory. Louis Bennett also fore a justice and made oath learned about him. His daugh­ first settler on Hughes Fork. other similar cases. Peter died tW° Years after Iehaihg in that the Bonnetts had sworn ter Elizabeth taught school He is said to have taught Bonnett’s dwelling stood Iowa and his widow shortly fa15e1y_ Their pensions, about the close of the Civil the first subscription school where Mrs. 01' tnow afterward returned to West therefor-e_ were revoked and War in a cabin which stood on Big Skin Creek in 1822. lives and the present log Virginia where tradition says they were about to be or. near the present location of He had three children, Eliza­ the White schoolhouse known beth, Matilda and Marcellus. structure was perhaps built she ageih married but the rested. They, like many ofthe Elizabeth married 3Mr. Grib­ by him. It is positively known Party she married is in dis‘ pioneer settlers couldneither ,then as Wildcat School. Short­ that he did build that part of PUte- read nor write andgouldhard­ 'ly after the Civil War the ca­ ble and lived near Lost Creeh; bin was replaced by abuilding it which was torn down some He!‘ hePheW. 13-F. Linger. ly be responsible fort echir­ constructed of sawed lumber "Matildamarried Martin Hge years ago. His farm extended nowan octogenarian, affirms, ogrephy of their sworn state­ whodiedshortlya tert ebir southward and may have in­ that she married NicholasAl­ and painted white which was of his first child named merits. Had they -stood trial the first and onlyonefor some Charles‘ Marcellus married cluded all or nearly all of the kire; and that she Brought Back the case would have been from the west two grandchil­ years so treated; hence the Mahala Hyre and located just land lying on the small stream cleared and their pensionsre-' name, “White." above on t e creek where he‘ coming in from the south. dren, Mar M as, and B_e_n; instated. Even such sterling , In 1824 William B. Peter­ lived and died and where his The meadow lying east of the to s. He further states men as Colonel William Low­ that Benton eventually therw ­ son located on Wheeler Fork son Lee now lives. creek did not then belong to the Peter Bonnett tract. married Ruhama Lin er, _,——zcure a pension or obtain bounty just below the location of r located Peter Bonnett had eleven daughter of William (Filing lands although he made stren­ ‘Wheeler, made some three on Big Skin Cree about the children whose names are as Bill) Linger moved to Rggne uous efforts to do so. Many ‘years later. Petersonhad for­ year 18-——-on lands adjoin­ County, and in course of time merly lived on Stonecoal ing Dayid Hall and his dwell­ follows: Mar P 1 ,Sarah, worthy soldiers were denied Creek and sold it and moved Margaret, Nicholas, Samuel, w'aEelected sheriff. The claim pensions and many were re­ ing stood as it also stands "Elizabeth, eter, William, that Louis Bonnett’s widow voked on trivial charges that to what is now Upshur Coun­ today on an elevated plot of Matilda, Catherine an avi . married Nicholas Alkire is had been allowed. But the Fed­ ty. Notliking his location there ground just south from the _.___ ,_,__ present village of Vandalia. '0 O O 0 O /’/‘f7\’7" ZLLL /My /X I 773 '4.. ...‘. . ‘evening; interiding’to”p‘ass the ,“sto'x"e'‘on’Big’ Skin ‘Creek and none of the family or their pa/er _zz_7‘ ;=*',PAnT.- '”..’’.j'-.'‘--,. ‘tight with her ‘sister, ‘$5. avastfor years postmaster, and descendants now live in mg;-_ +1«James-“Rains ._in‘lS23‘ob'-V Richard Johnson, who lived a. the name of the office was community, ’ T‘ 1- '_'-.> CDWKJ taffied aputcnt to 699acres on "mif mile downthe creck.'Butf i.Big Skin Creek.by which name‘ The original" -Josep’hfll-lall ‘BigSkin Creek adioining lands she never arrived ,'Lh.9!’B.She {it was known until about the survey once included all the He built a mill on'the'.crcek‘ ;of Josephiiall for $700.00. Up-, was found the next day stiff =3/ear "1883; ‘-when the ..name lands lying on‘Halls Run, from on‘actualsurvey the boundary ‘in death and her body covered .was‘changed to Vandalia. ' ' *iwhence-t_he'stream,_toolr its close by which ground corn. was lfound to contain a much irname; and which seems to have only; “later it was equipped with- snow that ;had, fallen " David-Hall married Eliz­ greater--'-acreage; The tract" athan.Hal1's-sons married and -settle the _matter, Jietook‘ the‘ the close of .the Civil War he tradition .is ‘that’ they.,-came. fceias justice ofthe peace,;and located on.the Han tract of pants and with a mighty heavél sold the mill to which the new from New York state,-and that besides beihg a life-long mer.--..land:-5' ' " 3' " ' - '2: V store them asunder and.to_each_‘ proprietors in about the year "chant. _.was, ' toward ‘the’ ‘clos,--. ’r’“Shortly after.-the close of. ~-the ‘gave a leg,.“which“_1t;ié, 1870 attached steam power. theyi went »back there. .it was? '?.he'Civil War, the whole-“of ‘said they .wore,and‘we '3 g.’ while[administering to the sick ting years_of_'his-li.’e, a min­ Nicholas D, Linger diedrin in the home;.of 'James .Rains‘ iister '_in__:.;theMethodist E­ ‘,the_",]_Qsephl-Iall.: tract “had isfied;.‘.'.-.., _‘._TL; re‘-'a"3 Ln 1:. 576 aged 56. His widow shr­ thatMrs..Will piscopal ‘Church, although hag.'-passed into to er hands’ and vived him 37 years and ,LJE.\jPeterson metdeat . e.ie t never.tookupregular itinerant in 1913aged 79. ' the Rains’ home late in the ework-“ He..esml>lis'rst1,t1"ia.11_r§t_

«Is :~.Alexander Sihclair flung; § ::lt“‘ls -‘icnovin‘that. hehhad a­ ‘was. a_so an earlvresidentggg. son named Thomas‘. born-in). Curtis Run; He rnarriedsalliej 1816 wvhurhad ‘a; son William Curtis; sister. to-John Curtis -_§L.-bo_rn'.in 184l';'.who7JTI8§I'~" was a. resident» oi. -Witchita,." ‘aTiEi"a3‘r‘i aunt’ of - eor e _C_u,ris.‘Wau h was a“brother Kansas."-= ~~ » .. " I .. 1"‘-". of J§g9_b___a__g_.Wufigrandtatherot Alexander; Hacker, ~ after? Hon. ,1 R0 au h .. present some few years’ residence on Judge of‘the..Upshur-Randolph Little Skin Creek. movedaway Circuit ‘Court; The.”following but where heweut is notknownr’ are" the.- names o(‘Alexa'nder John‘ Cfirtis‘lo‘<':ated"nea'rthe h s Run‘sometimeShizigdc ten: SallieJ(Curtis§ :3 _3g_1g§, i1J\VAaugh’s ax-ibng between 1815 and 1820.-His‘ Margaret. ' A513, S,a_m,Benton, iand- embraced all the bound­ Lorenzi-Dowand Beverl . ary'lying on the head of this deamoibK1emnder stream. The tradition is that Sinclair. Wau h,‘ '._-'fii?fia‘ow he first located on Stonecoal marrie genceraMarsh, him­ nearfithe. present .village .of ‘self: 'a~-widower‘and to. this Geston._ but: later. moved _t_q, union; some- children --were Curtis Run, » . ’ A born; one -9! -whom,was::Ai_­ ;.c..l-iis wile wasLa ,i\11_s._s';Q1t-I‘ exander; ' -~ ’ ’.,"'I”n.’Ts4o. Alexander. Mai-sh". t .s" thatand»agranddsugter she was a sister married. . . to Philli ‘M. ‘Linger’s wife daughter of .Willi2'im B. and and Isaac Caste's ,*.v_ife..He‘ -:rT° ‘had; several children. one of‘ t 13union t‘ ea c ildrenwere whom b-was-..the ' well-known Geor e W. Cu is, who at one b°T“and.eR.' .. EmilyJane time was ‘aprominent member ;- V. -,«-«:5. o1'.our County’Court. A family_ = -(Continued Next Week)-.-Eur-‘ by the ‘name.of'Allen liven; .just ‘below the Curtis home­ 'stead, andMa1_'yAi11g1i,amern'- , her. of‘this amily became the: wife of George W. ~Curtis. Christine Al1en',"‘also a - member o . _ amily, anda sister. to the wife ot.George‘ W. ‘-Curtis. -1married ‘ James". ' est,-' son;--o{‘Char1es West of Hughes Fork,‘of Big _Sk‘in _Creek. ...The Aliens formerly lived on Glady' Fork -of Big Skin Creek and were perhaps” the .first_ to"_lgcate on that ;8LI'8aIIl... N Part VII! but left no issue. The Mg to America in 1786 and John across the Kentucky border, bystander said, "Bill, yousold Jacob Forinash, Sr., came Cardles moved to Wood was born in 1788. He mar­ bought cattle and leisurely those cattle and the man has toabout 1825’Co‘LfiFy.Isaac Forinash mar­ ried Nancy Wilson and they drove them through to his tendered you the money. You or shortly thereafter.,He lo­ ried Millie Ann Plant and left were Both Born and reared in farm. When they were con­ can't go back on your word." cated on the east portion of the neigfiborfioa in_'l865, lo­ Monongalia County near the ditioned ready for the market, ‘Corathers got the cattle. He the David Hall tract of land cating in Braxton County. Ja­ Doddridge and Tyler County he drove them overland to died in l872_, aged 84. whic ually bought.co rinash Jr., was mar­ line. To this union six chil­ Baltimore or to Richmond. Aaron D. Peterson, son of He was a brother-in-law of ried twice. First wife was dren were born as follows: He was somewhat eccentric, E ' r on, and grand­ David Hall and rendered val­ but,there was always wisdom son of William and Mary Ben­ Fisher, sister to LeviFisher. Henr ,_ who married Eliza­ nett P , ocatednear the uable service in erecting Elias Forinash marrie _a}­ eth inzman; John,who mar­ in what he did. ­ buildings and in general farm riet Smith, and located abouta ried Eliza Marsh, daughter , Some amusing stories are land of Big SkinCreek approx­ work, as Hall's time was tak­ ‘mile above the Forinash OfRa-‘G h; E1­yet bandied about the neigh­ imately about the year 1836. en up in tending his store homestead and was a life­ borhood concerning his ex­ He was born in 1814. He len, who (1) married a Mr. married Lydia Tolbert and which was the first and only long resident in the commun­ ‘Sims, (2) LemuelPeter­ periences on these long and their first child was born in one on the creek for years. ity. To this union six chil­ somewhat perilous trips after The Halls andForinashes both son; Sarah, whomarried I_s_Qc cattle. It was at a time when 1835, and the last one was dren were born as follows: Sm'U1: Na_I1gy, who mar­ born in 1858. To this union came from the same commun­ , ied Gideon Clark, and Man­ bank checks were unknownand Vinton, Alice, Arga,rida, Egg, he was therefore obliged to eleven children were born as ity in below Buckhannon.Jm Myrtle, an—dTjy,four of whom y, ho married Isaac ' s­ cob Forinash, Sr., married became prominent teachersin man. carry currency insufficient follows: David, Sar_n_uel,Catli­ Kat rites w 0 was a sis­ amounts to make his pur­ erine, Ila e, J9h_n, Mm, the public schools. ..—'m"“’C7)ncerning Colonel Cor­ chases. To avoid robbery he. Ch_iist,‘u3a,‘Jo5,Nicholas, Ma­ ter to John Linger’s wife. The children of Jacob For­ athers, W. H. Peterson who tilda andChimes. Forafulfir She bore him two sons, Isaac inash, Jr., by his first wife was born near Georgetown in wore _ clothes abundantly account 0 is family see and Jacob, Jr. Isaac was born 1836 has this to say: “Co1­ patched and when he had made were: Emery, Sanford, David, a purchase of stock, he de­ Peterson Genealogy by W. H. in what is now Upshur County M§;t_ha, Ma_i;ga_ret, Jane and onel John Corathers, often in 1817 and his mother died called ‘Jackie’ Corathers, liberately sat down, drew‘.out Peterson. _ Lfiti. His second marriage a hunting knife, ripped off a David was a Federal soldier there not long afterward. was to Polly Linger, daugh­ removed .from Morfongalia in {he Civil War and served Jacob Forinash Sr.’s second terof ofStone­ County, Virginia, on the farm patch under which there was coal. To this union five chil­ on Little Skin Creek upon always the desired amount of the entire four years. After bills. He once made a sharp his return he married and wifewasldaughter of illiam and Mar dren were born as follows: which he continued to reside located on Stonecoal about one Frank Bert, Geor ia, FEE up to the time of his death. bargain because of histramp­ m wF6'i>3Y'¥‘ like appearance. One day he mile out the pike fromweston haps at the time of their daugh­ aTd‘T3L_o,r_a_'.‘Oft e_numerous ‘‘In the war of 1812he com­ descendants of Jacob Forin­ came upon some men whowere where he lived and died. He ter's marriage to Forinash manded a company in the married (1) a Miss Jackson, ash, Sr., who settled on Big changing a bunch of cattle to were residents on Hughes American army which was another pasture and the cattle (2) a Miss. Post, (3) a Miss Fork of Big Skin Creek. Creek over 100 years ago, stationed at Norfolk for the were in the road. Corathers Corathers. daughter of Henry To this union eight chil­ only two married grand­ defense of the coast of Vir­ Corathers. daughters remain in the com­ offered to buy them provided dren were born as follows: ginia. As the English fleet the owner priced them right. Samuel Peterson was a Con­ Lorenzo and Elias, twins, munity. never made an attack, he was Malinda Forinash, daughter The owner of the stock. be­ fede andashe Uliver, Wigiam, Afifigail, M§_­ never in any battle. At the iieving Corathers tobemerely never returned, the supposi­ of Jacob Forinash, Sr., mar­ tion is that he died in the linda, Betsy and Jonas. No ried John G. Hardman, son of close of the war he returned. a poor journeyman with little ffirzther account will be given I think to _Mono_ngalia County or no money. named a lump service. of the Jacob Forinash, Sr., Rev. John. Hardman, the pi­ and was afterward elected oneer settler on Little Skin sum for the entire bunch. Af­ Job married Sarah Virginia family except those who mar­ Colonel of the Militia Reg­ ter some deliberation Cor­ ried and located in the com­ Creek, and after some years Hyre and moved to Missouri. residence in the community, iment in that county; hence, athers said hewouldbuythem. Nicholas married aMiss Hyre munity as his family record his title of Colonel." They all stopped and riveted and for a time lived at the is so fully shown in the “Pe­ moved to Braxton in 1866 Mr. W. H. Peterson is of where they lived and died. ' their eyes on the tramp who old homestead. He sold and terson Family History” com­ the impression that Colonel sat down by the roadside. and built a steam" flour and grist piled by W. H. Peterson, Colonel John Jackie) Cor­ Corathers did not move to athers in 1825 oug 0 after ripping offa fewpatéhes, mill in ~Vandalia and finally copies of wh'fEh_may Be pu7'7 acres of land of Henry Butt Little Skin Creek before 1830.‘ counted out the desired went to Kansas. chased in the office of our But the records show that he One of Aaron Peterson's Circuit Clerk. on Little Skin Cree an too amount. The owner of the bought the farm in 1825, and cattle then refused toclose daughters marr e . . possession shortly there­ he must havetaken possession , diedinafter. _ the deal. Corathers claimed Jones, one married Thomas 18 8 and his wi ow married ‘closely following this date.‘ C e To this un­ Colonel. John ers’ that he had bought the cattle Eékes, one married Asail parents came from Scotland He was a good farmer and fair and square and called up ion only one child was born an excellent judge of cattle.­ witnesses to prove it. One Cast:, and-. He onemarried was a teacher James ‘in named Peter, who married, He frequently made trips 0/at 7' 17/7; Part ‘IX ditional information to be streams. This incident was grandmother of Jacob Forin­ explained by stating that hunt­ ash, Sr., and Elizabeth (For­ There is a tradition current gathered on the subject the two ers and trappers often re­ don/J throughout the neighborhood streams now known as Big inash) Hall; that she was 10­ that a fort once existed near Skin Creek and Little Skin sorted to the expedient cally referred to as “Granny Creek were first knownas Big of packing skins and pelts Bozier," but never suspected the mouth of Hughes Fork on Iinto a bale and sinking them early life in the days of the Big Skin Creek. The tradi­ Muddy and Little Muddy. that Mary Bozather and subscriptionschools and be­ tion is too strong to be re­ These were the names given by means of weights into a "Granny Bosier" were one sides filling various offices by John Hacker in 1772, the deep hole of water until such and the same person. _ garded as a myth. This in­ time when they could be con­ of minor importance in the formation is handed down by first white men to explore the . I was at a loss to know how county, was prominent in the the descendants of Peter Bon­ region and render an account veniently carried away to the Mary Bozather could be the measures taken to separate of it which historians have any markets. But floating snags nett and Alexander West, of trees and limbs often tore grandmother of Jacob Forin­ western Virginia from east­ Wffise families were the first record. From the color of the ash, Sr. , and David Hall's wife. ern Virginia and was a mem­ water in these streams these these bales of skins from the ber of the first Legislature to to settle near the purported moorings and scattered the I sought the answer by-look­ location of this fort, which names seem most appropri­ remnants downthe stream for ing into the family history and assemble at Wheeling. He_was may have been nothing more ate. genealogy of the Forinashes. a strong Union sYmP3[h1Z91' an incredible distance. It is I found that Uriah Forinash than a blockhouse. But no one ! The very interesting legend not unlikely that the forty and lamented sorely that one knows now who built it or who given by John Strange Hall, married Elizabeth Bozarth, of his boys enlisted as a born and reared in the com­ deer pelts taken in this fa-­ daughter of John and Mary Confederate soldier. occupied it. It was evidently built just prior to 1795 for munity, relative to the origin mous deer hunt were tempo­ Bozarth; that the name “Bo­ John D. Peterson was a there would be no reason for of the name "Skin Creek" and rarily disposed ofin this man­ zarth” and "Bozather" were tea 'y—'life Intheits construction afterthat date now recorded in the pages of ner and werelater foundfloat­ one and the same, as all the public schools but later be­ as the Greenville Indian Border Settlers ofNorthwest­ ing in the stream. Hence the other names as well as. local came a merchant in Van­ name, "‘Skin Creek.” This dalia. Treaty of 1795 removed for­ ern Virginia. is, with perhaps traditions concerning the B0­ ever the probability of any some slight modification, alleged hunting party of zather family corresponded Some time about the year further invasion of the coun­ true. This narrative goes on Hughes, West and their two 1878 he went to Texas and to say that Jesse Hughes, Al­ companions occurred near the exactly with the tragic his­ engaged in the sheepindustry. try by the Indians east of the close ofthe Revolutionary War toric account of the Bozarth Ohio River. Had it been built exander West and two others family on Finks Run in Up­ By an accidental discharge of even ten years prior to the forming the hunting party eight or ten years subsequent shur County at the time of a rifle he was permanently Indian Treaty of 1795 there staged a deerhunt on a wager to the date of John Hacker's the last Indian raid and mas­ crippled in the left arm and would have been left as a with West and Hughes pitted explorations in the same re­ sacre in 1795. hand in 1882, whereupon he result of such occupancy ev­ against the other two, that gion. . So to know the history of returned again to his home idences of cleared land about the party killing the greatest THE BOZARTH FAMILY community and shortly there­ number of deer in the day’s In the .Vandalia cemetery the_Mary. Bozather who lies after married AnnJones (Tal­ this, blockhouse where crops buried here in the Vandalia had been grown, which fact is hunt were to have the pelts. there is an old-fashioned white cemetery one has only to turn bert), his boyhoodsweetheart. not coupled with the story now. Forty‘ deer were slaugh­ marble tombstone of the slab to the pages of history and «V­ It is believed that the occu­ tered in the vicinity of Van­ pattern upon which is the fol­ read the account of the In­ pants of this fort or block­ dalia by the four in a single lowing inscription: "Mary Bo­ dian_massacre of the Bozarth house, after learning of the day; but that the party com­ zather, wife of JohnBozather, family purported to have been Indian treaty moved on west­ posed of Hughes and West, born 1763; age 100 years.” perpetrated near the site of ward across the Ohio where two well seasoned and exper­ The uncommon age. of this the Jacob Lorentz old colo­ better lands under more fa­ ienced hunters should lose to deceased party is sufficient nial homestead four miles vorable terms were to behad, the other two might well be to attract more than a casual west of Buckhannon. ' and yet secure from the scouted. The local tradition as glance. I have perhaps gazed Notice the difference in the molestation of the savages. to —the origin of the name upon this tombstone many spelling of the name, “Bo­ West Virginia had in pioneer “Skin Creek" as obtained times in my life since early zarth" and "Bozather.” The times numerous temporary from the oldest residents in youth; but it never took hold monument to the grave of residents of this sort who, by the community forty-five upon my mind until some five Mary Bozather was erected reason of sickness or deathor years ago (1928) fail to dis­ years ago when I became cur­ by Elizabeth Hall, a niece, news of Indian massacres on close anything at all concern­ ious to know more about May who could neither write nor the border, stopped for a ing the abovenarrative. These Bozather. And this. is what I read writing, though perhaps old residents state that the season only, after which they learned about her: That the she could read print a little. continued their journey on names now applied to the two closing years of her life were She_ evidently procured the westward. streams originated from find­ passed in the home of Rev. assistance of someone to HOW SKIN CREEK ing a large number of skins David Hall; that she was the write the name she desired GOT ITS NAME and pelts floating in the Cut Upon the slab and they From the most reliable tra­ mgr If bought a sugar plantation near Part X was then called/, was one of mastering‘ without assistance C’and / ’o/ the pioneer teachers of early New Orleans and became one of ‘any one all the usual Georgetown was perhaps of the leading planters of that the center of greater activity days. He was very popu­ branches taught in the "high lar as a teacher and taught in state. His wife inherited schools and colleges oflthat simply misspelled it. Very in schools than any other point slaves_.. , . in the county. To thisvgreat many parts of LewisCounty. _day.He taught his firstjschobl. few persons-, if any, in the Not long after he completed "Ezra" ‘Hall "was a son of when 17 years old and_1foft;r,1’i1e vicinity at the time knew the‘ progress in the schools dur­ ‘Jonathan Hall, one of the pio­ ing this period, the improve­ his last term of school on following fifteen ye‘z_a_"1‘._S';”.—px'€_>b'= correct name or howto spell Little Skin Creek he went to neers of Big Skin Creek. I ably taught more ‘,schools’on it. The name is undoubtedly ment over the old methods can be largely ascribed to the en­ Iowa, which at that time was don't know if he ever taught the two Skin Creeksgthan any Bozarth. ‘ _ still a territory. After going more than the one term of other teacher of"his‘ ‘day;. in Historians do not agree as ergies and the superior schol­ school or not. He afterward arship of one man, Albert there he married and raised the fall of 1868 he moved with to time nor place of this Bo­ married and reared a large his family to Sullivan County, zarth massacre nor as to how Jewell, from the state of a well educated and respected family. family. He lived on a farm Missouri, where he resumed many of the family were taken Maine, indirectly from Alba­ below his father's old home marl County, Virginia. Hewas “Washington Summers was his profession as a teacher. into captivity or were killed; able to teach branches of a son of George Summers who on Big Skin Creek. He taught almost continually but local tradition coincides lived on Stone Coal Creek. I “Albert~ Jewell was prob­ in the public. schools of that learning which'up to this ‘ably born in the state of with the historic record of time no teacher had attempt­ never heard of his teaching county. He was County Supt. the event that Mary Bozather school except the one he taught Maine. I think he was edu­ of Schoolsfor severalterms; ed, and in those commonly cated in the public schools of or Bozarth together with four pursued he was more thor­ in the Linger School house. also was Superintendent ofthe of her children, two girls and Not long after that he took up Bangor City in that state. city schools of Milan for sev­ ough. The effect was seen for He afterward taught in the two boys, were made cap­ many years following. Hanson his residence in what is now eral terms. He was also pro.­ tives and taken beyond the Upshur County, where, after schools of that state. He later fessor of mathematics in Peterson and W. H. Peterson came to the valley of Vir­ Ohio into the Indian country. were two of his most apt holding the office of sheriff Humphreys College for sev­ "Zed,” one of the boys, a a few terms, he was elected ginia and after teaching there eral years. Although he owned pupils, both of whom became some years he came to Lew­ weak minded fellow, returned prominent teachers in the to the Legislature of Vir­ a fine farm in Sullivan County, with the rest of the family ginia. is County, West Virginia, he spent nearly all his life community. where he taughtvery success­ taken captive at the time, Believing that the work “Of John Johnson but little in educational work, only re­ shortly after the Indian treaty is known. He was a middle fully for a few years. He spent­ tiring when old age and its which was effected the same accomplished by“the_pioneer the closing years of his life fnfirmities madeit necessary. teacher should not be for­ aged man at the time he taught. as a farmer in Lewis County. year. “Zed Bosier," as he gotten, and that his name He moved with his family in­ He spent the closing years of was locally known, seemed "George I. Marsh, who his life on "the farm with his should be preserved to future to a vacant house onBlacklick taught the first school ever never to have fully recovered generations, the following Run just in time to open his family. _ from the fright sustained at transcript from the files of school and soon after its close taught in the old Mount Gilead “Wellington V. Chidister the time of the massacre and log church at Georgetown had the venerable W. H. Peter­ moved to some other part of previously taught at other was a son of Phineas W. from traditions handed down son of Tacoma,'Washington, the country. Chidister on-Big Skin Creek. through the families since pi­ “Alexander S. Helmick was points in the district. l-lewas now past 90, is given: "The a very. pleasant and popular After teaching several terms oneer times he lived in con­ following short sketches of a son of John Helmick, one of he retired and entered the stant dread of a similar In­ the lives of teachers who the old pioneer settlers of man, and a regular ordained mercantile business. In mid­ dian attack. He seems to have minister and a good speaker, taught schools on Little Skin Little Skin Creek, and a half but never entered into exten­ _dle. life he was engaged in had no regular home late in Creek between 1840 and 1860 brother of Daniel R. Helmick, sive church work. He was a farming and stock raising. In life and spent much time vis­ may be of interest to the res­ a noted Methodist pioneer the closing years of his life iting about the country. When idents of the creek, and serve preacher of West Virginia. justice of the peace for sev­ he again entered the mercan­ his visits became tiresome to preserve their memories After he finished his last term eral years, _andassessor of tile trade. In the meantime at any time, he could be eas­ from being lost to future of school he went to the east­ Lewis Countya term or two. he served a term in the Leg­ ily frightened out of the neigh­ ‘ “Hanson M. Peterson was islature of West Virginia, and generations. No doubt they ern part of the state and after a son of William B. Peter­ borhood by staging a mock all did the best they could taking a course in the Uni­ was for many years a justice Indian raid. A few initiative considering the backward edu­ versity, graduated from a son,. one of the pioneers of of the peace, and served also Indian war whoops by boys cational conditions of those medical school. After prac­ Lewis County who lived on a as a member of the County from a nearby woods was all early days. They have all ticing medicine a few years farm near Georgetown for Court. l-le was postmaster at that was necessary to, put he met and married a r*~""" over twenty years. He never Vandalia for many years. He long since passed over the -mended school over twelve Zed to flight when he would ‘Great Divide’ except the of Thomas H. and Willi. _lived to a good old age and was exclaim, "Lord, God, the In­ writer of this, who is still Boceek, two prominent men of months, but he was a born a useful and honored citizen dians are coming," and living in the city of Tacoma, Virginia at that time. Notlong student and by dint of hard of Lewis County. . breaking away at full speed, in the state of Washington after his marriage he moved vstudy, perseverance and nat­ "There was a McDameron never stopping until well out at the advanced age of 90 to the state of Louisiana and ural_ ability he succeeded in who; taught a term of school of the community. ' (1927). ‘Jack’ Cpzad, as he i 96 Q Q. 2 Q / 00’7?l,O/ on Curtis Run during the win­ moved to Yakima County in ter of 1851.Hellved onFrench Washington ’I‘e,rritory.- After Creek and hadbeena success­ teaching a few years;in that ful teacher for a number of county he was elected County years. He afterward taught Superintendent-‘of Schools for one other .term in the dis&c.na_-xterm °f't*w‘G.yem.s_ After trim‘ ‘TL 1 “Lu “‘(““i’"‘¥‘"5l"*ic’l£’/{WconlpléhinghisYakima County term was divided of office. in of acob W. u son, an he winter of 1,882-.Mn;Peter­ oftaught school many in successful different termsafison parts 61 Kittitas. resided in . He me newgcopmy lived n in of the district. He finally set-in‘ Kittitas County for over 20 tled on a farm near Central years. During that time he was Station in Doddridge County, County Superintendent of West Virginia, where he con­ Schools for two years, County tinued to live for some time, Auditor 6 years, Clerk of the when on account of the fail­ District Court 6 years, mem­ ing health of his wife he went ber of the State Legislature to Florida and bought a citrus for two years, Postmaster at fruit farm. After living there Ellensburg for 4 years by several years. he was thrown appointment of President from a buggy by a runaway Cleveland. horse from the effects of For the benefit of his wife's which he died. ‘ health he changed his resi­ “Hiram Marsh was a son of dence to the Puget Sound sec­ George I. Marsh and was tion of the state in 1899. His raised on’Little Skin Creek. lwife died in 1906. l-le~ is He entered the Confederate still living at the age of 90 Army at the beginning of the (1927) in the city of Tacoma Civil War and died before its in the state of Washington. close. He belonged to what was He is the author of a book known as the Skin Creek Com­ giving the genea1ogy_and his­ pany and was an intelligent tory of the Peterson genera­ and promising young man.” tion in the U. S. just recently William H. Peterson was a published and now on sale in brother of Hanson M. Peter­ Weston. son. He was 18 years old when he taught his first school in .9<—»<’x--— the old log church at George­ town in 1854, just 73 years ago. (1927) The next winter he taught on Lifes Run. After the adoption of the free school system he taught two other terms, one on-Sand Fork'of West Fork and the other on Big Skin Creek. In the spring of 1866 he removed to ,Green­ brier County and taught for~3 years near the town ofFrank­ ford. In the winter of 1863 he removed to Sullivan County, Missouri. and taught in~the public schools of that county for several years. In 1879he

Q. ' on‘ I 55. /1, PART XI In 1796 the Legislature of pack. No sooner than one was pepper County, Virginia. Virginia passed an act estab­ dian wars except those who Districting of Counties. By shot or crippled than the whole Wild flowers of most ex­ came intafter the development an act passed by the Legis­ lishing a system of public in­ Peek. lllelted by the Smell Ofcellent hue grew everywhere of our coal. oil. gas and lum­ lature in 1863 the counties struction, but its provisions fresh blood, pounced uponhim in great profusion and espe­ ber. were laid off into magisterial were so abstruse nothingcame and devoured him, leavingcially, in the open spaces. Our citizenry is therefore districts. Nocounty couldhave of it. Another attempt was mothing but the bones. They.rendered so by forest fires. largely the descendants of less than three nor more than again made in 1846, and by were very destructive an amendment to this law two to Here the blackberryandrasp- early pioneers. Due to the ten districts. Lewis County sheep, which at night were.berry fruited abundantly and retarded development of our was divided into five dis­ years later free schools might brought in from the fields and the deer, bear, elk, opossum natural resources we were be established in the counties put into secure pens close to and the fowls of the air took not able to hold all the native desi-ring it only. Due to the trictsshi s. designated Skin Creek then was as orig tuggi­ ­ the dwelling. their early morning meal. . born who persisted in trekking stiff provisions of it, it was. Deer were numerous, many Nuts of all kinds were plen­ west until herein recent years % knownas Lincolntown­ never popular and only a few ship but later on ue to pol­ bands containing as high as tiful and wild grapes of ex­ since factories have sprung itics the name was changed of the counties adopted it. one hundred and over, and they cellent quality could he gem. into existence fostering vari­ to Skin Creek. When West Virginia became were often shot from the cabin ered in ton lots if Wanted. ous other industries, furnish­ a separate state in 1863, the door of the early pioneer. The pioneer could get his ing employmentto allwho seek The act- provided that the Constitution provided for a Beaver,milk, otter districts be divided as nearly muskrat . infested and living from the forest except it, at lucrative wages, West equal as possible. For some system of public free schools; 811 the that a little corn must be Virginia. in time, is destined reason not clearly known, but it was not put into opera­ streams and trappers had in- raised for bread and his to become the center of great Skin Creek district failed to tion actively until near the Vaded 811 01' them Pel‘h8DS85 larder was then complete the manufacturing industries due get her pro rate apportion­ close of the Civil War. All early as 1750 to obtain bea- year round to its rich endowment of coal, ment, and by lack of utility the schools prior to this act ver _pelts which found ready Great changes have been oil. gas. salt. iron and some.­ were by subscription and for development falls much below sale in all the frontier towns wrought slnce the first Set. what yet of timber. It is al­ any of the other districts in a period never extending be­ Find Villages east Of the A1- tiers came to Skin Creek one ready leading in the glass area gid corresponding yond three months. 1e8hehleS- C0hSe-fluentlythese hundred and twenty-nine years industry and coal. So what­ fur-bearing animals. whose ago. The Indiansinhabitedthis ever good comes to our state wealth, although agricultural­ pelts are so highly prized land unmolested ly her lands are equal to WEST VIRGINIA 160 years as a whole our community any in the county if not in WILD LIFE today, were soon decimated. ago_ one hundred years ago will profit by such develop­ the state. The Indians were the first there were scarcel y a'dozen mem, All the game animals and trappers and sold their pelts families living upon the two If, by an act of the Legis­ fur bearing animals found in to white men who made year- creeks embracing this com­ lature, her boundary was ex­ the district at the present ly visits among them express- munity. We are led to wonder tended toward the north and time together with many other ly to trade him articles which what will be the status of northwest by taking a small species not common today strip off of Hacker's Creek the Indian craved. These In- affairs a hundredyearshence. were found in great numbers dian traders penetrated as And Yet We h3V9 deVe10Ped and a corner of Court House by the first settlers of the far as the Ohio River as early slowly in comparison with this predicament could be county. The buffalo or bison as 1740 but left us no re- sections west of the OhioRiv­ remedied and would work no and the elk. though never nu­ corded description of the var- er. Ohio was a thickl)’ Set’ hardship whatever to the two merous here. have become tled state when western Vir­ districts mentioned, while ious sections visited. .So far extinct. The bear, panther, as we know, John Hacker was ginia was yet practically an justice only would be attained. wildcat and wolf have long the first to explore this com­ unbroken forest. Soon after There is no reason why the ago been driven out and killed the close of Indian hostilities children of Skin Creek dis­ munity and give a description until they exist only in the of it in 1772. , in 1795 a great stream of trict should be denied the wildest parts of the state. The The two Skin Creeks were, immigrants came into western benefit of advanced schools panthers and wildcats, though as a whole, notsettled as early Virginia from the east, but enjoyed by other districts in dangerous animals, seldom as many nowthink. JohnI-lard­ very few of that vast number the county simply because the attacked man, but, like the man was the first permanent stopped to consider the ter­ commissioners in 1863failed wolf, were very destructive to livestock. settler -and Richard Jonson ritory now embracing West to comply with the act of the was the second; and neither of Virginia owing to the fact that Legislature to district the The wolves ran in packs them had any neighbors for supposedly better lands just county equally. By the and when ravenously hungry across the Ohio River could attacked man as well as beast ten years following. Henry /72*»! ' 7%: [’¢’\./’,’.’l;t accessions here proposedskin Butt, Peter Bonnett, Lewis be had for less money and Creek district would yet be and many a hunter has been Bonnett and Spencer Marsh under more favorable terms. far behind the others in tax obliged to take refuge in ‘a tree where he remained all came in some ten years after Our state has had no great /7/,7//5;/Q valuation, not even up to Co ­ Hardman and Jonson. Spencer influx of immigrants dating lins Settlement district which night and far into the day, Marsh made settlement here from the first quarter century ,527;/ /:7 /' i’73 stands next above us now. occasionally shooting into the in 1812, coming from Cul­ following the close of the In­ /)0‘/Ce 4 /f. 9 Q , .C C /4. A .... ‘/AW?‘ /// /’ro//7 7-/4’./:‘ /A/£5?’ //Qyézlz 5e/o/ 519 /'?73 PART XIII Some of the above name: ///LLO’/AL/ a few decades the names of the prices of many of the 5:717’ .23 /7/3 articles of commerce were NAMES OF PIONEER SET­ parties held their offices for these pioneers who fill prac­ cut in half and when it pene­ TLERS PRIOR TO 1860 several terms, and it may b« /0 (: —ff ticaily nameless graves will trated as far inland as Wes­ By W. H. Peterson the list is not complete. be forgotten entirely. These have heard all of them preaci dead have been themakers ton, Sutton and Buckhannon, List of the male heads of PIONEER BURIAL GROUNDS they were still cheaper. Many families that lived on Little inthe» rc* When the country existed of history however humble at Geor etown, to which all their station in life. No stu­ of the graves of the early Skin Creek from the time I their circuit visits were made only in the primeval forest dent of history can stand at pioneers were unmarked, save can first remember till 1860: with a settler nestled here by the common flagstone Rev. John Hardman, Isaac it being the leading churcl and there striving to wrest a the graves of these neglected where it was easier to raise ones and not experience a with no inscription, not so Bufcfier, Anthony Spaur, Sr., living from the soil, anddeath much because of sheer in­ I-lesekiah W. Spaur, Anthony the apportioned salary for th1 pang of sorrow. He feels that Presidents. stalked forth and entered the he is one of them only a cen­ difference but because the R. Spaur, Jr., John Curtis, humble cabin, the dead were near relatives themselves George W. Curtis, Henry Cur­ Doctor George Brown live! buried most frequently on tury behind. That he too, like were taken in death before tis, William Curtis, Spencer in Pittsburgh, Pa., and wa: those before him, will pass one of the most noted min some suitable spot on the from life and in time, will suitable marble slabs could Marsh, Alexander C. Marsh, homestead. be obtained. And so, today Lemuel D. Peterson, John J. isters of the Pittsburgh Con As the country became more also be forgotten like the rest. ference District. He was a: Be friends or relatives are the absence of a fitting mar­ Bott, James Westfall, Jacob settled, the lone grave framed ble monument is an exception. Bott, Marshall Clark, Bailey educated man and an English the nucleus for a community left to shed the wanted tear The status of any community Stalnaker, John Johnson, Col. man by birth, an able speaker burial site, and not until the or place _a flower upon his John Corathers, Henry Cora­ well adapted to thework ofth tomb. So let them sleep; their is determined largely by its creation ofchurches withtheir adequate school buildings, its_ thers, John Corathers, Abel pioneer ministry. He wrot accompanied burial ground did gift to posterity may be for­ Johnson, George W. Harris, what was said to be an in gotten by the living but they brightly painted churches and these almost private grave­ well-kept cemeteries. These Nathaniel" ‘D.-APinckard, Wil‘5 teresting account of his ex yards cease to be patronized. are not forgotten by Him who are the unmistakable marks of periences in which his travel gave His life to all alike and liam B. Peterson, Hanson H. - Nearly all of these community civilization. Peterson, William H. Peter­ and experiences in Wester their resurrection will be as Virginia composed a larg and private burial grounds momentous as any of ours. son, Isaac McNemar, John.C. are unkempt and neglected. \ Westfall, John Clark, Joshua part. Could a copy of that ol In many instances the grounds The white marble and book be found, I imagine granite tombstones were not \ W. Hardman, Isaac Clark, are not enclosed andlivestock John c emar,DanielR.Hel­ woulddisclose manyinterest munch the grass growing available in the early history ing things unknown to th thereon unmolested and make of the country and the few mick, John R. Helmick, Jacob present generation. In it an their bed there at night. Only erected were done at great _fie. - V1._&d§2n­ Perry Hudson, ecdotes about his experience a flag rock marks the grave cost and not infrequently at figggmuflbeorgeI.Marsh,­ while traveling with Rev. Jot with sometimes an illegible a sacrifice. When the Balti­ man, John G. Hardman, Sam­ uel Summers, David H. Hard­ High, a pioneerresidei inscription poorly executed more and Ohio Railroad and preacher ofLewis Count: upon it and just as often no reached Clarksburg in 1856, /"man,_ Albert Jewell, Isaac was given. The last sermt rock at all. or when found monuments were to be had at ‘finger, George Linger, Wil­ I heard him preach was lies upon the ground. a trifle of the cost prior to liam C. Linger, Phillip H. short time before the divisic this -date which were brought Linger, Granville R. Linger, of the Pittsburgh district at Great towering oaks and in overland frornWinchester Phelix Albert, Jesse L. Pet­ the organization of ti spreading trees of various and Cumberland, along with erson, Tabitha Peterson Stan­ Western Virginia d_istrict. kinds have found rooting upon regular merchandise. Goods ley, Robert H. Clark, William Doctor Peter T. Lashl these isolated graves; «and were also freighted in by wan B. Roach, Dr. J. R. Roagh, was President of the Pitt Jacob Westfall, Lewis Ben­ should these trees be felled gons from Parkersburg, burgh Conference district I by storm as is likely- to oc­ transported by steamboat up ' ng,_John r. a few years, and also sever cur, the bones of the dead the Mississippi River and the List of the presidents of terms in the new distri will be laid bare. It is next‘ Ohio from New Orleans which the Pittsburgh and Western He was an able and eloque to impossible to ascertain the in turn received goods from Virginia Conference district -preacher. names of those who fill these‘ Baltimore, New‘ York and from 1840 to 1865. Names: isolated graves and only a other points along the At­ George Brown, Peter T. Lash­ few of them are remembered lantic coast and from foreign ley, John Clark, Gillis­ by the oldest citizens, and ports of the world. After the pie, Daniel R. He1mick,—— when these pass away what­ railroad reached Clarksburg, Dorsey. ever knowledge they possess M will be gried with them.én C 0 Q 0 5/’: — " fly! x_/,1 c‘o~*=7 '-‘‘A. man by the name of Os­ known post office which con­ ,born ‘__conducted a boot and? tinued to dispense the mails “Shoe:"shop: "he -was. followed’ until free_delivery made it All theother parties narnedi each’ in turn. 'th‘e*fir‘stvpasta:-:,-§~:=:fi.5fl_-..,-., .. . . =H'ol]‘an'd,~ t-\110.'.iti." pater by;_a Mr. _Flanigan.; w,. necessary, _to-.discontinue it. were Presidents of the West-’ ofthe-old church; but of tidal IH. ' Dadisman-‘ manufactured-‘;. The office was kept in resi­ ern Virginia‘. dlstrictq They: have no positive information­ { first-AnameT_I*am not.-sure, the:-. furniture, and David-Ruhl"was~;,’dent-'_hous‘es- and not: infre­ were" all good men, possess-‘ ' Grenberry A. Compton was .:.:::m:’:::“ed.;.g°°d lng the-ability necessary"to, one of theearly day pastors, churchin-l860;1e,§,_-r_ Ihe resi‘dent»car"penter‘.‘Joseph: .-quently ‘some -~distance from flll their offlces'.Icouldtruth-~ He_wasa-~small"man andsa R. Roach;.‘son'of Capta'in'Wil’-* -‘the . mill but ,-the name of - Eli. Westfa1l'was,j..'m:c,{m-.§e: ;liam B,” Roa'ch,""was :the'res"-‘­ .the ‘office was never changed. fully write gmany words" in) ‘notedrevivalistn ,. [Q«’-'_4 ‘ ’r-‘fr.’ ' -4 their ‘praise, but "the'_deslrel Eli Martin,“.wm1e' gfthe churchgfil think”in1862‘--" ident .doctor_ :\.-and -"spent__.'his‘ }"‘;iacob Alkiréiiwho lived at entire_‘fllfe.-"_practicingfinfthe the mouth of‘Glady Fork was to be brief. and the- fact that. the: church,-: was lax‘-Jgaefiltytrmiici)-11 J ‘in’ .; -. . . ."~v_:_;,,‘"> they have been wellandfavor-‘ strumental-in layingioffithe‘ _the postmaster for a number neer resident-',‘who had at ongf "-‘;_James '*lAlki1'e-,‘-L-"a _ _ ,of;-years.':«Justafter the close ably "known ' by: the people townsite- of‘ Georgetown,-bandw Joseph: Alkire_,..built‘ a’:water of. the .Civii War- and‘before among‘ whom"-they‘ .Iabor,€d£ erected. and opened up-the. ‘timeminister‘; been"'"‘‘a"V"*mn€1‘ant3 but by;-'1geason.—o£ constrains me to closer; -_ ‘ first.store in the village.. . l: mills about...one{half_.mile; be­ the existence of the office at‘ 3 °1d age had.retired';.for'.m'any 10W-4.-th__6mouth,.of Little Skin “Alkires ;Mills;=ith_e‘residence '_ . ..‘ A '. .‘ . ~- ‘_" - .-Revzr John 'Walker.was£& years: filled ‘the.-pulpit in. mg Creek: .about the . year. I_184& "ofHeseldah Spaur, later known List -1of the? Pastors. of the pleasant J-man,"and.ioved. to absence of-‘theregula;-,_min; whiclv groundf. corn.. for “the; as the Geo.HCorathers place, Church - from‘ ‘I840 to, 1865 tell .. good-2 jokes especially. isterf. In after‘ years. George I ­ gsettlers for miles around; " was designated as ‘a post of­ By W. H. Peterson -: about himself. He was a tall _"Marsh generally substimt_gg§s -..-.A sawmill ,was°soon- after fice but‘ the’ name of it isnot It would not. be possible manjand. an-easy.~speake,§;-‘ff ;added ‘to the equipment of the knownby the writer. ' for me to givethe dates and .think heonly filled the pul.-Ii 6 M73’'<=-;early pioneer pattern, the saw INTRODUCTIONOF '7'’ timesvof‘ service of each of pitfor one year; ‘ ? -‘Q {being held in a frame-or sash ‘ .‘:' ‘FARM MACHINERY the per.sons_named,but l.have! “John Hestor was a grate: ... ­ ' and operated perpendicularly.» '-""Christopher Yoke, a res­ a distlnctlremembrance’ of 'sort'_,of fellow; His sermons ;T::;-”__-'="PAnr XIV ~ .. - ,__ each one of ‘ them"; and have were noted fox-"their quota­ ‘Georgetown. _up.to the time. "NOP many_.hur_n_iij_e_dfeet could. ident‘ of Glady Fork of Big of the Civil War. was ajthriw 'b'é"turned out -in a day but SkinCreek, andJames Morri­ heard each of them preach; tions' from‘ the"Bible. I He enough"-lumber was producgri jsan ‘were among the first to List: 2-Daniel, R. .,Helmick.' seemed. to‘ have_ "memorized ing‘ little;-village.-' It had a do threshing about the neigh­ Grenberry. A. Compton, Eli the Scriptur_e,;.and. could ten church, a school,ablacksmith to_ supply "the demand’ of. the“ shop,‘a store; a boot and shoe neighborhood in the construc­ borhood. The‘ machine was Martin. Joel ' Wallcer,John where all his quotations..could tion- of frame dwellings which of ‘a type known as the “chaff Hestor, William N..E.=tts,Wil.-. be found. He‘must have'pos# shop;.- -a';‘; furniture;_. shop­ equippeci .with . a..' “turningr ‘up, to ‘thistime were built. piler“, that threshed out the liam .Slsk. George —I‘.'l'-{larsh,‘sessed a‘marvelous memory. out of".-logs; Oliver Alkire, grain, the'who1e-mass ofchaff Holland and Eli West-.' William. M.’ Betts. besides‘! lathe,"-' a carpenter shop, a ‘tannery: a horsepower mill a brother of James, cameinto straw- and grain falling in one fall. —.' ._ -4 _‘’,-‘:;;1_being. a good-_preacher, was possession of the farmiand» heap to be later separatedby Daniel R. Helnuck, was:a noted for,his.energy and in-" ._for..grindlngcorn and a doc-— mill property ‘to which -he skillfully removing the straw son of JohnHelmic!:, apioneefi dustrious. habitsi To .him-be-4! tor. ‘The Methodist Protes­ tant. parsonage was also lo-. 'added‘“* buhrs ‘form. grinding with forks\and by dipping up resident. of.l..ittle Skin Creek; longs a‘ ‘large. -.part..of'.7the wheat.’ . "' '‘’."_~‘ ~ :­ ' and passing the grain through by his first_wifewhose maiden honor"for and_erection4of,the: cated‘ there. Eli Martin con.­ ducted the first storefolioweri Alkire continued'to‘-operate a hand windmill.,..The power name was Mary,Ryan.-lg‘re-1_new_church.‘;He-continued._as in‘; succession: by -.Iesse—'R. this mill to whichsteam power was furnished .by'four horses memb_er‘that he was the pas=_.‘,rfpastor’ for ,the.. full.time:.a1­ West, the:-two last conducting­ was attached _"in jiythé early each hitched . to ‘a separate °f. Jshfi .Chu£Qh,,.1D;.L§‘§4.;,.'anc§lottedto niinisters.. i, ' '7. business under the.firm name« ,eightles."l'he old,verticaljsaw lever,4;the horses pulling in a circleB;'I'his method was is­ again.‘ 1851.-2. Each time‘ ha‘;___Wi_1l_lamSisk.' aszpastor of? of_Marsh. and1..West..Wellingé was ‘-replacedby: a Lcirculaz“ resided. on his. own farm near‘ ‘the. church-—atT3xTeEt1me”,.-"fificfx;ton. V. fchidister‘ and..Robert. saw and n1anymillions*ofJeet' borious; slow and tedious, but the church. He owned_thefarm‘. incline to-.,the.opinlon;..served~. of choice poplar a_nd.oak*ium-_. it 'was,t,a great. improvement at the time -he’ entered. the. again some years afterwards,;-:»‘’.H.<,Clark._followed.iater_;* The latterfé .was : also. P0531113-“elf: her were ._manufactured_,_.—here .-over.,.the;~;method"'of=;threshlng ministry; ‘and probably was; ‘ George .I.,Marsh, one of.the1 during the-«Civil-War-‘and f,_c_:,_2:},‘and. hauled-. to .-Weston.-".This, by .l’laii‘;;and.~_was._hailed with instrumental in ‘locating -the. pioneers_.:_of.-éllewis County"; ' 9‘-1. some timeafterwardsi-- X . ;.mil1*‘-=ceased _to. operate ,en_­ -_trium'ph.:v~'I’be "chaff P118?" cemetery,and buildingthe first: lived on ,a :farm.-'.andtneveri The blacksmiths.from time'­ §tirely- about_., the"-.-yea,r.~‘1898. rcesltinueti.-19.-«i’-1_i@:_5eF!'i¢9 ‘.99. church. - —. 2 -£entered lnto.ger.eral.itineraht. to time weregzachariah Till‘-;,,iafter, giving-'-service‘-to the: to _about.fl1e:yea1+~1875.yvhen In this "he. was-=’no"doubt. work‘ asza _.minister;‘:'but. ati man,..Abram Crites,;" James‘ ‘community for a..per-iodof 50, the Palatine machine, a “self- _ ussisted',,by Rev.‘ Hardman,-}times officiatedas. a substi-C} years, and today not a vestige' cle:mer"_ "J--'as it _«was then who lived-on--a farm in‘the; tute for churches withoutpas-1 ‘Hicks .and,_0wen_ '1‘. Francis‘ who, ‘each’;in, turn, "lived ..'in.; of it is_to. be’seen.;_or-a sug§'_, termed.'came upon the mar­ same neighborhood. I am also! tors. He was a-good speaker;l_ '. - vi, 7%.; ~gestion-I that, a. dam. ._v-once” ket; '.‘'A-:... f..__- . . _«: _ _ : . inclined to the opinion that I123;'ar.*.l«-.«attimes.. filled .distric:.:: t13..:e_v.i1..1.§.aeJ. :.—i-3+ ‘.i—:'-"z. spanned"-~the: stream», at- this, and Rev. Samuel C_lawsonwage! _an;i county offi_ces.: ‘ _.‘ ~ point. Alisiges. M111wasaiwellr‘

1'0 A“/t;;7" ’ P. I -[The cutter bars of all the ward it is again seen winding L70’?/L §1§Yi5.’.'-ha.‘­ dle.-path in 1854. It did not improved farm:.‘.machinery into the valleys‘ only to cross. becomes public highwayuntil Creek, soon followed suit by such as {mowers and rakes:-' did not‘ bear ti1i_S'.‘€.Vm9“c_9°-I; streams; when they took‘to_the, purchasing. in" 1875_mowing at least.one' U‘iP..=—l'° ' ,-near.the-beginning ofthe Civil machines. called the" Cham-­ Strange to’ relate,’)‘the*:prices' townSaltworksai‘ . .5hills. again;:The uplandswere‘ ‘War. 4 The old Bulltown on mowing machines and-hay valways fmoreopen and.needecL{ Hackers‘ Creek road from the pion. I‘But -homemade, horse-­ rakes then were very little,’ ‘ The» first. roads, of cotxrsega only-~asapiingand some brush; drawn, wooden hay rakes had were _mere bnid1e;.p&ti1§."%§1¢i ‘Co:-athers farm to .‘themouth if any, above the prices pre­ cut .'.awaya,here.-and there to; fol.’Rainels Run was annulled long been .in.use‘especially vailing today; althoughabout detached :portionsmre .'_Y€t-1,‘"render ‘the trail .fairly,_pass» on level - meadowlands for} the‘year .1910 a good mower; 'som_e.ffewyearsafter the close be _seen;in short:- 5i_1'9t°.1“."­-’_able.—while;along; the'“streams bf-.thé.'Civil‘War.- .". - ' many‘years prior'to the in—_.could be ..purchased_. ,as_.':lov& troduction.-_.. of ‘mowing ma­ ;1_ongsince abandor:ed.;_0T.1B 0t sWe.mas.w.ar.e;encounte:ed anti“ _ chines andsulky-rakes as they as. $45.00., _t- ’ 't’;‘.'1’u"vthese Bu11toWn.—t1'8115*?.15-Ved =75 were then called; Hill mead-| _quite\ plain..Wh91‘9 1f,°f°55e .; the hill.-fron1~_the‘ A, J - C917‘: ows~were. still harvested by ,athers farm to the.-_m‘.’._‘.m?-° the old method and even some 'Raine"s Run __whererit 288553 of the bottom‘ lands"as late jemerges2-intothe. main as the year 18_§0.:{.5 ~.--­ ,Skin Creek-1133511’ '.r.‘.’.-...n°£‘:“.»'.

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sold to Spaur and moved to the‘ Isaac '-Butcher‘was a man elected to succeed him, who ment of Militia, these 135: Q I :'’‘£_':'3}‘.1-vicinity of «Georgetown on with an education somewhat soon afterwards removed above "the-‘rank and’ file of named’ parties were in of­ Isaac‘ Butcher was a.'so'n lands he °WT19dthere-'--” . ,.l from the district, and Abram ficeeat the beginning of the wfValentine Butcher andwns‘ Isaac- Butcher‘after clear? ‘the 'men‘ of his day: Late in. R. AHall. was elected to" his ;Civil-‘War, and like most of gem in 1816 and reared son".-ei ing a house-site proceeded tr; life he‘ and -otb.ers--conceived« place. .. -"' -.__ . .. _­ the officers in the country, -ew miles below Westoa"in build thereon a two-story o3‘ tho?‘-idea‘ _of. drilling for“ -‘oil' ;- Not long after he was elect-­ both civil and military, per­ the vicinityvof the -famous‘ dwelling * containing V.' four’? on .-'.’land which jflhe‘-.own_ed in­ _ed,-the, district was divided’ mitted. their terms of office Webster. County.'and 'although«' .so._-that Little Skin Creek and Jackson's Mill. 'I'hos. J_.'.Iack-_ rooms,-‘two ‘in each story; to__lapse._. ‘ _ son. who in after years be­ The’ major parts of the logs.­ oil was‘ found -‘offa'='s'uperiorJv:_jupper _Stone".Coa1 were in one came a noted Confederate gen­ were huge black walnut which" _quality‘it_.was;' not-fin.’paying’ company district and Bigskin _FirstPost OfficeOn eral. ‘washis-schoolmate and he- later weatherboarded and‘ quantity "n'or ‘could.’ theyfimar.-*1. Creek in the other. . - -» ‘ ' " ‘ Little Skin Creek Dlaytnate. Mr; Butcher states celled. The lumber to.do-this‘! fketi .-it..~'The =expense~‘ ob.-this; Captaini Hall, .being a‘-resi-5 _ By W. H. Peterson­ that Jackson was a great de­ was all whipsawed anddrawrr venture“through unfairnessof dent-‘of Big ‘Skin Creek, re’­ Sometime between the in­ votes of athletics, very skill­ on a'_"blocksled" "inthe win-­ his -associates.-«‘fell .on Mr‘: tainedrhfs office in that com­ auguration of President Polk iui on. ice‘ skates and from terwover the snow from the Butcher andhis estate“ was. Deny. andl-lanson M. Peter­ andthe beginning of the Mexi­ early manhood exhibited mili‘­ head of ~:Stone ,Coal.’.Creek. so heavily? involved that he. son was elected captain of the can-»-War. Probably in 1345, tary traits of character that ~This=was:before the Alkire was financiallyalmost mined. otherzcompany which was gen-’ #1‘newmail route was estab­ in after years made him'a Mill was equipped for sawing­ Due to.-advanced age and dis-I erally_ known‘ thereafter as the-Georgetown Company. lishedf national character. anda world ease incident thereto, he surr mck to The.house todayafter 88years renowned"military. tacticiam of.service (1927) is still some-r~ vived- only: welfemyears but ‘-‘Notlong after this, the Leg­ Bennett Mills in the vicinity In his decliningyears,‘,' what above the average in the didrinot live‘ long enough to islature ot the state of Vir­ o a ersv e on the West. Butcher. loved to talk about‘ community. and int: splendid. "extricate himself from debt-. ginia amended the militia law fork and thence back to Weston Pom Jackson,- and often en-. state of preservation. ~1 - ‘ »­ l~ie‘-had, however. Years be­ by dispensing with all com­ by the way of Hall's Store on 'ertafned , the -writer when a. Isaac. Butcher had ten chil­ fore, provided a homefor each panyand regimental muster, Big Skin" Creek and from ‘toy discussing him. He re-' dren, five sons andfive daugh­ of his children except twowho and ;also.the general training thence to and down Little Skin rnembereda how .proud Jack- 5 ters,. as- follows? Milton who lived on the involved estate of commissioned officers; The Creek. son was ‘upon being,commis­ married ;‘Virginia' v. Spaur, and fared badly. Isaac Butcher amendment, however, pro-' The mail was delivered once sioned constable when yet’ in daughter Jot Anthony Spaur; and‘his estimable wife were vided that the countyassessor a week and carried on horse'­ his teens .and how dignified Adeli whomarriedwebster ‘should list _everyone of mili­ back.. The last two offices he bore arms that dangled Gibson; figg:1;,who-married buried ‘in the ~cemetery:-.Fzr tary age in the company dis­ served before reaching Louisa Janevchapelis ‘- _"~.--; trict in gghich _h_eIjesidad. in the scabbarsi at hisbelt and‘ ‘Abel:Spaur; a son‘ of Anthony. The Skin Creek and . ‘ Weston were named Big Skin how fearless-he was lama}:­ Spaur; Sila .who married(l)' For a number of years after Creek and Little Skin Creek. ing arrests. 7' 1 g - ‘ ' Melissa hiflet,“ daughter of Georgetown Military Company this change. was. made, the 'D.8.vid Hall was appointed Isaac Butcher‘-married Henry Shiflet, (2)Jamima Sny­ By Will. Peterson law continued in-effect, but postmaster at Big Skin Creek Christiannag.-Life, a daughter‘ der; ' Martha who,’ married The boundary- line of the near. the close of the term and the office was located at 3f John ‘Life-‘and a brother of Worthy, trader; ‘a son.of original Skin. Creek Company of Gov. Henry A. Wise, and his store. . , \!oah Life. He made settle­ Abram Strader ‘of -Upshurgzj was- neat'.ly.. if not exactly, at his insistence, the state _ William B. Peterson was rnent -"shortly after. marriage" Annie. who'ma.rried Lon. H.’ the, same as that of thepres-' legislature in 1858-59passed appointedpostmaster at Little near the‘ mouth for Little Skin Hall,‘son of Ezral-fall; Isaagl -ent‘municipal district ofthe an act restoring company and: Skin Creek. and the office Creek in l839‘ when the vi->= whb~married Mar.ci1ia­ tew-ff ‘same ‘name. in Lewis County; ‘regimental musters and train.-... was located at his farmhouse. sinity aboutthe mouth‘of the; art, =daughter .—...:ofr‘Benjamin’ I;‘hag_nq L.-informationas .to ing of"officers, and providing, His; t_:ommis_sionwas signed -reek was an unbrokenforest. Stewart; J n 17.,‘ ‘who, “the, date .'the- military com­ for, the general re-organizer by C. Jonson who ’was ‘pany was first organized» W11» .tion to carry- the law into ef­ i‘here"was an improved farm married Ettie Morris, daugh‘-" liam E. Peterson was elected Postmaster General during iust above him-.on Little Skin ter -of. William Morris; and fects. Of. course by ..reason the- administration of Presi­ Zlreek known in-late years as Sarah who married Edgar Captain of the.company in of .death,~=~remova1-'and.othexu dent Pelk.' Afterholding the­ Bruce l-lardman sonof. Sala­ 1835 or; 1836, succeeding-.a. causes there -were many var he Geo.. l-li_Corathers farm cancies tofi1l:‘-.;, . . ‘M office for. sev'eral:years_, hé ipon which Rev.AnthonySpaur' thlel B. I-'iardman.~~ ‘ an, the man by, the‘ name .of McDan-­ resigned,.'and Hanson _M.Pe-‘T 'ived and upon. which Rev.. eldest; was never marr e . He iels ‘who’had-removed tolowa. f;..Jol1n "TW-..,Ramse9‘.::- beinae terson was appointed to sue­ Iohn Hardnian-«had settled was a-soldier inithe Confed­ Territory..,After holdingthe elected'.:.to.- :;SLlCCe€d’:iCaptain ceed_-,liim.' He, continuedito orty years e ore and reared’ erate Army and :was‘ taken office three‘ or i’our.years,_he Hall;. in1:.the'-=Big -Skin ..Creek _holdthe office for some time, resigned;,and Jacob -W-.l-ludr company;-. and '*William...H. llS family but who had some prisoner and died in Camp son was. elected to succeed and-following his resignation cars prior.to Butcher's en-" Chase: Milton was a1soaCon_-I Peterson‘ elected. to fill: the Williani H. Peterson was ap­ rance into the neighborhood,:| federate -soldier and served!‘ him. ,_He-held the. office’ for .'vacancy..—.caused.by the‘-pro-I. pointed and continued to hold tbeentirefour years.‘ .~_L-' a‘ short time '-and resiflledé Tmotion of its captain to the thegoffice up to the time of» and Washington Sum_meI‘3..W8U=fco1onelcy.oL_thB 12531. R981?’ thefsecession of the state of .' ’7’,\ . J ,7, V/"' .1/‘er’.2 7 /973 teachers on Little SkinCreek the’-expoiinder‘or the Gospel. up“and maintain the dear old L raarxvn i‘It, 3 also had.-five‘-or six- old­ log tchurch upon. that little hill.-— also -taught at various times on Big Skin Creek. Prior to The GeorgetownChurch‘ fashioned windows.’~- , nl-0 ~-_,. Doubtless most of, them as­ Vlrginia,_whenthe 'mail,serv- . ' ' . And.Cemetery { ._ -Ki well, as ,many, members of ?l863 not more than two cabins This ‘~ol¢_i__church_w_as'chgsjg ‘were’ built,... expressly for ice on.,the route,.was-sus-_e ' -5' .v By W.'H. Peterson ."'..—_'.‘rj-;tened the‘Mount?Gilead Meth,-T‘their .families are'.nowsleep: pended:.-»-..— The original plot oi ground, ing..ln _the-silenticernetery on‘ _-schools;r.they, were generally Soonalter the_organization odist’ Protestant Church ,;-ganrl‘ conducted in some untenanted selected for the purpose above; was the“ leadingpone‘ on"-the. that consecrated. little’ hi1l.'1 of the new state of West Vir-'_~named‘ was probably marked er ''.\.E,..‘ p, "cabin"-.‘:-'.. ' . ginia, mail.. service -on -the“ ministerial" ‘circuit to which Shortly after-the close of out prior. to" 1837, perhaps in1 it_,belongcd;".VIn*-.-itwas; or-- route was resumed;_and the­ the.‘ Civil War,-. live school Little- Skin Creek. post. office 1835 .or. I_836., It .was-»under-2? ganized the first Sundayschool. stood -at: the : time :that.‘ the 1*-.'v ' ' houses -were built, two on rernoved4 to-Georgetown arc! church, would,.be-built on ‘the. ever»"organ'ihed I_on"Little Skin Little" Skin Creek. and three located. in’,the store of Rol.-.. southjside, and thatthe higher‘ Creek. It._,,was"organized by on Big Skin Creek and these ert H. Clark. who.had been Robert .l-i:e«Cla'rk,' I think,‘ in still in u_se,._was,_builtip.l856._ werezethe Ifirst built out of ground north .oi_—itwould be‘ 18.49‘or"-1850. Mr. Clark was The trustees very wiselylo--, appointed postmaster where I. used fora cemetery ‘andhad cated _it,_on.the south end part. sawed lumber. They were built think it remained tillafter ti 2. e ec ed uperintendent -6 and “Yankee fashion," ‘the boards been so -.used—‘for a_year.g.or­ Hanson’ ~M.~‘Peterson, Secre­ ofnthe.‘ plat, _the old. church end of the Civil War. _ v two ~beforelthe church was h’aving.gbeenfi too” hear ,»-the standing upright~in the walls, .“I, know’ nothing about ti m. --..'.:-4.‘,"_'.'‘ tongued and grooved, planed on erected. The church was prob‘-._.«I,Not long aiter‘its organiza­ cemetary.—' David 'S_.'Lowe had subsequent history of the Li _ —ably_built in..l838. it was a" the contract gfor ._the build-;', both sides and a strip over tle Skin Creek post oificeit tion, the Freys Bros., drug­ ing. He furnished. themater-­ the joint on the outside. These soon after the closed!" ti ­ large hewed._.log-buildinghigh glsts in Baltimore, donated buildings were painted--white enoughfor a gallery, and a. a .ten.-dollar‘. library to ‘the ial "and hired_..David Rule, to. Civil War I removed. fro." large hewed log beam.extend­ buildit..-,_ - 5;-‘ and were neat in appearance Lewis County and remembei - . schoolgl was present when and were agreat improvement 1ng.._throus11.~.it. was .50 ,-1°.-s. the school was organized". Ai­ - .l» was. ‘p_resent"and ,.helped ing the sad fate of Lot’s wif-3;} raise the frame.‘ When com­ over the old log cabin. They never; looked back. In. con-'-= cated .-that ’--it‘could - be"“1i§edj ten ‘serving 3as.»$upe1*‘l_ntend­ were heated by-stoves burn­ ent for "several Fyears, Mr. pleted , it. was formally ded­ eluding this. shorthistory, I to support. the-_gallery when.­ icated, the dedication sermon ing coal...In .time, these were can truly say that the fifteen‘: ‘Clark declinedr re-election, replaced. by modern build­ constructed,‘ but it was never; and being _very properly preached years that the office was kept‘ utilizedfor that.{purp_ose.'. .­ ‘ n wasby Rev.: William N. Bette, ings and,three others added - The: door was.-‘located on’ ‘electe to succeed h m -and at the farmhouse in whicirl’ pastor of_the..church..at whose; By the year 1885as many as was born.‘ it was oi more the north side and the pulpit? continued to -holdtheoffice for William H: ins'tance,‘.and largely through 6_0pupils were often enrolled value to me than all"of the. was of .the.~,'old'~"style,"very: -several, years.“ ‘ -whose energy and persever­ in ‘a school and all were full. schools I ever attend-ed..Fig-u high with»:».an‘.ent1'ance_ "from; Peterson ..and'-Perry Hudson Bin year‘ by year. the enroll‘­ uratively -speaking; ..it threw the, south'and~-by means_ of two also served ass secretaries­ ance it was completed. ..-.l nient is gradually growingless open the ‘window shutters of or three‘ steps’. It was‘seated for several years.__,,-. , - ‘I . I---.was present .and heard and at the present time (1927) our pioneer, ,log. house“ and with the”:old -kind of pioneer A In the latter years of..its him ‘preach an- able and‘ ap­ is not above fifteenpupils per enabled me to look out -into benches, supported by two» existence, the churchwasalso propriate sermon. The church was packed: by’-_alarge con­ school, due wholly to asmail­ this big. world ' and, glimpse legs .1at each end, the benches; used for school purposes, and er population. . ' _ . being so-.placed -as to leave schools'I;were taught in .it by gregation. With such. repairs the shining.._-possibilities. oi‘. as therravages of time“have, ' Th'e' -Bonnetts' emigrated the future.'.’.._, ‘ V _. .‘ .. , an aisle ‘extending, from the. George.__' I. ;Marsh,~ .-Albert made necessary; it‘is still. from Holland but at what date The rnail».route'_:as.already door’ to" the ‘pulpit; '-For one‘: Jewell, Hanson M. l?.eterson,_ is‘:unknown.. They came into described above _byMr. Pe­ or -two’-3’winters.'.fafte1_.‘ _;?“.the William H, Petersonand Per-. in - * the good ..old ‘age the Hacker's Creeksettlement terson continued in operation building :was constructed‘,"’it2' ry Hudson. After having E511. oi seventy, years.-'_I wonder for some years after theCivil was . heated "bynan '7open ‘-fire. u’s?a'<_T'f'cT£:about~»18,3rears. . the-‘ how many ‘of '-that-vlarge-icons dlrectly‘_‘fr_-gm,}ig%a *veryearly date osely County,8_L_, fol­ gregation. who -were,-.present* War when the route down Lit-': in "a large iirehoxpaftet‘ the‘: old" churchj.having._been re­ lowing-, ‘:7Johxr ‘I‘l-lac_ker . __and tie Skin Creek was..discon.­ manner of bunk houses; but; placed by ‘a new.-one, as her._e.-,, at the dedicatovrysarvicesare others. . _'.' " 2 timed and passed up anddown was later heated byttwo old-1 after- ‘described, waspgiismanv; now livingi~‘.‘-s"‘.;‘, 3'.W 9',’ "' ;. tied; and ;sold [and , .hau1ecL. - some -,of.‘the2pioneer-1"eSf<» .‘ Big Skin Creek. from ._Weston"1fashioned -"Bee-gumifl. coal! dents=in--thtzdistrictsent their of’~the.‘am y were assoc ate to some. ._.point_in. Webster.­ stoves. The building was cov--'‘­ down ’ into;-‘Georgetown and. ’w'i'th‘;fhe _s_ettlement-_m_agefiat County. It was at the:same= ered withhand-made shingles; used for other purposes. ilté.‘ children to .,the3schools early, Wheelin" b _ ene' , time disconnected with the‘ and lighted- by“ tallow,can-.'| would ‘-be ‘hard to overesti.-,2 in-.’existence;-hon Hacker's. - 770' but never: became route .from-Weston‘ to Sutton dles set.’-“insockets: fastenedi mate the; usefulness -of that; Cn,ee,k,._.,They,_boarded either perman t there and-dropped and‘remained so until‘super-­ on the walls around the room;« dear__oldchurch, as a civilizingil With-::.S°|?.1$.< 1‘-.°1aI4.V€+‘4th91'94-9_3'a ack_to'the newly made set­ Besides these_there were two; center for the‘ surrounding sornex, family -r.esiding gneagr.tlement ' wherethe family had seded by rural free delivery_;_:­ the._'s‘cho0J.rliiany of the pi,­ copper candlesticks on“ the,“ -c_ountry_."Allhonor to theplo-J one'er.. teachers listed’ ois:.:-.­ lntthe meantime located. The Dulpit for the special usefof neers whose‘hearts, ..brains» ~"Bennett". is distinctly ’a_rid,brawncontributed to build; where. in th1s';1.1t_,t_lsa-.1:,i.st<.>.r‘.Itt,3,;;l;

_Q (0 _ Mm'2_?.l7_.,7T'­ flr¢;€7' L7X- /U01//a./77.3 col?/cfi ‘V xx " PARTXIX -- - 7 .';;_:;ranrxvm ‘ _._ 24..-4 - ' ­ .» ~ .'3.,-,;I-_ ‘ . .t,, twnb“was a,-life long resident} rieci‘-"Matilda. West,’ 'daugiiten ~ =‘..=.-ncn:";a'nc_xalthoughgtbey-. I 9f—th°Ge°1'E8F0yncommunity. ..of- Charles West; Gideon.who Jacob Bott was a son 0 ' .lc.i.ne into the country as Hol.. :5.-Peter‘ Bennett’ had" 'elev%fl married Nancy: Corathers, Henry Bott and he lived at landers andProtestant intheir children allofwhotnwere born,‘ *~_i'__I_t1is‘notdefinitely known‘ the mouth of Blacklick Run. and raised_ on the old Bonnett; what. year the ,C1arks'Eame to’ “daughter of- Colonel John ‘rg-'l‘1tzion.‘lt_'is“not unlikely Little SkinCreek. The records; jcorathers: Levi, whomarried His wife was a Miss Rohr­ hom‘estead'"near the -prese V Elizabeth Leggit; Emily, who baugh.‘ They had four chil­ tint ‘they were ‘originally,-, village of Vandalia, andtheir would show of course the date" '.l~_=E€—‘_h.:_8_n_<.1..‘7l’_<_3I'9_€1I‘lV€n,out; they became possessors of; m:_t_r1;igd_Bivin, Wetzel: Lu­ dren, two sons and two daugh­ of France ‘alongwith thdus-~ names together with date of real-estatebut we have long cinda,‘ who married George ters, as follows: John, who birth, are all on record. The married «RulinaStauts; Wash­ “ands of others to Holland dur.-. girls married and settled in ago learned thatthe twoevents‘ ._Warner; Lucetta, who mar­ ing the religious wars that the" vicinity as did some of do not always coincide. But ried David Wetzel, Jr.; Mar­ ington. who married Margaret waged‘ there almost inces—‘.the sons but some of the male they doubtless each made set-2', garet, who married. Nathan Marsh. daughter of John C. santly for twocenturies wher I members went west withtheir tlement shortly I after mar­ Marsh; Harriet who married Marsh; Matilda, who married they.found. an asylum. Hol father in 1845. Lewis Bennett riage which could bc approx­ Jarret Hull: and Nathan, who Luther Casto, a son of Isaac land being the: first in con also had a large family but imately fixed at from 1825 to married Margar_etMolar. . Casto and Amy who married 1835. Four brothers, John, Robert Clark, son .'of_Wil-« (1) Yoke; (2) John tinental _Eurocpe to . toleratr no record of them can be; Somers. All the Botts nowliv­ reli ions free om. . . ' : found.The girlswereailmnr-i. Robert, Isaac Fauntleroyor liam Clark, was a lifelong ried and settled before their; -“Fe1ton" were the sons of resident on Little SkinCreek, ing in this community are 2 ,l1§ ‘3nd Leas William Clark a pioneer set­ and his wife was a sister to descendants of Jacob Bott, his -Bennettm W"father tracked west where it; James Rains whoin 1823made brothers, together with their M,\ daughters of Nicho as Lin89T~'appears that all the. male: tler on Stonecoal Creek above x‘, the pioneer. They ha rev­ members of the family went the.present village of Homer. settlement on Big Skin Creek father having gone west in .-,obrothers. John, Samuel Ellf‘ There is good reason to be­ near the mouth of the stream 1835. Jacob Bott once con­ also, including John Butt's which has- since borne his ducted a store located just’ “Y”,Jacob.John'me’ xife. «Lewis Bonnett, prior; lieve that William Clark, the “X./.»1nd1ans'lfiT'773 and his com; proprietor of that family, name._Robert Clark conducted above the_road some two hun­ 5.6.34”ra es uried his body in 1 tq the time he purchased lands" came from Randolph County a store in Ergetown during dred yards below the*jBot1 i . ' on Little Skin Creek owned the Civil War and afterward. schoolhouse. He died about a farm on Stone Coal which as he was a brother-in-law of &\,3g&\cave_nearner Creek, the Gilmer mouth mgTan‘! ount_, John Helmick who it is known: and was postmaster there. the year 1879 and his wife was a part of the Peterson fpassed away some few years 9* c\where'.a half centu1'Y M19?! tract. He evidently built the also came from that county.! One of his daughters married Afiq ward. some children at plal first mill in what is nowthe It is quite likely that John! J ommers w ose father, {prior to this date,'and both discovered his remains. Ex Helmick and William Clark‘. Ge ers, wasanear­‘were buried in the Corathers hurnation was completed an­ village of Gaston as the coun­ became residents in Lewis; zly pioneer on Stonecoal. An­ -burial plot. . the. body given a decent bur; ty records show that he and; at or ‘about the same year. other dau mep became me John Bott, son ofJacob Bott, ial. His widow continued t his wife, Mary, conveyed to taught the second term of George Bush 3-1/2 acres of, John and Robert Clarkwere. wi e of avid an. broth­ live pin the Hacker's Cree lifelong residents. on Little' FE‘ of quire Thomas d­ school conducted in the Bott settlement .and perhaps die land and the mill in 1819 schoolhouse erected some few for the sum of $500. This Skin Creek. John Clark was 5man, son 0 enry ardman, K there. . born in early pioneer onStonecqai_. [years after the close of the does not tally of course with, :Civil War. Edward C. Smith's "History. Margaret179% Be and ett, his daughter wife, an ._ V _ 17The,§ommt 0 of Lou s ennett the pioneer _,(conunuea um ween) .' 1 There were never but two f§ml““ m of Lewis County", but Lew­ ‘slave owners in the commu­ oi Shewastewieo o ag is Bonnett had no son or an it an scoutand soldier. of the Revolution, was born, lnity. Captain William B. Roach goner,tE€m os nephew of marriageable age 7% on Little Skin Creek. and Wil­ tam1ry_1T__T_9g2'”iis‘t’1aru1ingi at that date and it would be in 1805. They were married tolilwby AleJ;£ll1d§L.W_fl1J9F5 i liam Ramsey on Big Skin a strange coincidence even if in 1824 and settled on lands his ‘:‘Border:.._Vi§1_',I.aL<:'' and 5 there was another Lewis Bon­ adjoining that of his father­ Creek. They were slave own­ Lucullus V. McWhoFtE’r i.. in-law on the south and up a ers by inheritance and not "Border Settlers of North­ nett of pioneer days whose from choice. Neither of them wife bore the same name. We. small stream where they both western Virginia." Elizabeth lived and died after rearing a owned above ten in number therefore, are toconcludethat and never sold any of them Waggoner. aged l2. taken cap­ he is the same party, the family of some ten or more tive at the time became he children who in turn married although Ramsey did trade a wife ofJohnHardman, the ft. 5: subject of this sketch, and young colored woman to Eliz­ who, after sale of his prop­ and became residents in the permanent settler in the Skin community. Marshal, the old­ abeth Hall for atract ofmead­ erty on Stone Coal took up ow bottom land. Ramsey owned Creel: community. ;. his residence on Little Skin est child, was born in 1825. The following are the names and lived in the house now Creek. His eldest child was owned and occupied by Mrs. not born till 1805, and she of, some of the children of John and Margaret Bexmett Porter West. The tract ofland eventually married JohnClark Clark: Marshal, who mar­ received in exchange for the

..O_-LL_.1L.Cmé/.1. 472.ea? ' ­ ;.i.l\‘e woman was the meadow Hudson's wife died in 1856. z.‘£‘..Jtofthe creek. His reason Ed Junior, but escaped prison riage. a Miss Rohrbaugh. The in the community prior to Some years later he mar­ the night before the execution wife of Jacob Bott who lived for the exchange was that she ried Mrs. Permella Watson 1815. The two creeks up to and fled the country and was a short distance up the creek‘. this time had but few settlers ‘.\'.lShard to control. Ramsey Jackson. He died in 1901 at never apprehended. George from Spaurs was also a r-.:.‘.nefrom Albemarl__County, the advanced age of 90. : and a sufficient number of Hall, in an altercation, shot Rhorbaugh before her mar-j ichildren could " not‘ be Virtrinia, in the early forties The first church construct-! and killed Abel Cutright, gave ' 1121was an uncle of the late ed of sawed lumber on Big riage, but it is not known ifj assembled at any one point ‘fiilliam R. Jewell. Near the bond for his appearance at they were related. ‘ . j Skin Creek was erected in court,‘ but the day and hour in to warrant a school. Begin­ close of the Civil War, and i558. Its location was upon Rev. Anthony Spaur had ning with the year 1822 after he had lost his slaves, which he was delivered by his three sons, Hesekiah,Anthony schools were taught and by ground nownccupied bygraves bondsman,- escaped, and was R., and Alpens. It is said. he moved to Kentucky. Cap­ in the Vandalia cemetery. and never- heard of. afterwards. 1835 a. deep. interest. in ed­ tain William B. Roach after in denomination was Methodist that there was-one daughter; ucation was manifested and the close of the Civil War Lloyd Spaur""was shot and. whose name was Malinda. W. rapid progress was made.' went to Missouri. Two of his Episcopal. Prior to this time killed in the railroad yards at, A. Spaur of Grafton, now de-5 Father Spaur, as he —was Cheyenne . by an unknown faithful slaves begged to be religious worship was con-_ ceased, was born and reared. called, was a plain pioneer‘ ducted in a hewn log church" assassin. _ ­ in this community and‘ who; teacher with strong convic­ taken along which the author­ that stood upon ground now’ Rev. Anthony Spaur became ities would not allow. They perhaps was as well informed­ tions,_deeply seated religious were instructed to follow the. occupied by G. B. Marsh's identified with the future his­ as any member of his family; practices, very earnest butt residence. In pioneer times. tory of the Skin Creek com­ concerning his ancestors, up­ somewhat eccentric andoften telegraph line to Parkersburg religious services were held, munity whenxhepurchased the where they oyertook the on inquiry has this to say? amusing. Once when praying in groves and in private farm and mill; of Rev. John “The Spaurs came from for a penitent at the altar who Roaches and were taken along. homes. Some few years ago a. Hardman near ‘the mouth of Jacob W. Hudson, stepson of Holland, they are not Dutch" was notorious for his back­ -$7 new M. E. Church was built. Curtis Run. on Little. Skin but German.-Hesekiah had a sliding tendency and who at Dav: ie ze , r., was bornin do\vn in the village and the’ ienan oa ounty, Virvinia, Creek about the~year 1836,‘ son named Anthony, a pioneer. each annual protracted meet—_' inIBM.Flem ­ old one‘ upon the hill was and moved his family there­ preacher. He in turnhad three ing came forward to the altar razed and removed. In 1867 on. If he ever lived at any sons, Anthony, Hesekiali and» to profess anew, Father Spaur \ the M. P. Church was erect­ other place in the communi­ Alphens..The last named went said: "O, Lord, convert this g§$ an,of John and Elizabeth onlydaughter (Wag­ ty prior to this time it is not X goner) ar an. It will be ed at the upper end of the.­ to Iowa and settled, and, one man and kill him and take him remembered that Elizabeth village. After the lapse of Eli‘ known as to where he lived of his sons is a ministerof up to heaven, for Thou know-­ T: E years it is in a splendid before coming to .Little Skin the Gospel, now quite old, est.he is a slippery dog." Waggoner and her sister Mary state of preservation and will Creek, nor can any of his and brother Peter were cap­ located in Pittsburgh, Paul-ie Another eccentric incident perhaps give -service for descendants give anyinforma­ is filling a station in the old is related that whencalled up­ tured by lndians in 1792, an years yet. " tion of value. The only clue so account of which is given in M. P. Church in that citynow. on to perform a marriage all the. histories of border Five murdered menlie bur­ far, is that the Lewis County Rev. Wayne Morrison, reared ceremony late in the evening .ied in the Vandalia cemetery records show that in ,l8l7 on Hacker's Creek, met him after‘ he had retired,.he or­ warfare. -_ ~ and only one of the assassins. one Anthony Spaur transfers at one of our general confer­ dered the bashful youngcouple Some years prior to the ever paid for. his rash deed,; Civil War Jacob W. Hudson a small tract of land by deed ences a few years ago; He to stand atghis bedside and and the penalty. was life im.-. lying on the-east bank of the told me that he resembled the ‘with his feet and naked legs served a term as sheriff.'He: prisonment. . - - ‘­ Buckhannon River to a Mr. was a strong unionsympathiz-. Spaurs in~Lewis County and. dangling over the bedrail and The following are the names' Black. As. there never has that heheld a degree of doctor_': the covers thrownloosely over er and took_an active part in‘ of the victims: Edmund.West,l-' been _any other family of of divinity.".' V' '. y. hislap heperformedthe cere­ the measures taken to sever John West, brother of Ed-'­ Spaurs in the county but this western .‘Virginia from the‘ Rev.‘ Anthony ‘ Spaur, by. mony that made them.man and mund, Ed West, Jr., son of one, and none in'the adjoin­ some historians, is said to wife. He then ordered themto mother state, for whichhe was; John West, Abel Cutright and ing counties except those who have been a teacher in" early -“clear out. home". as ‘he­ bitterly denounced by neigh­ Lloyd Spaur. All these crimes borsand relatives who were trace their origin to'Anthony life. This may be true. but if wanted to sleep, whereuponhe occurred within. a period of Spaur, early pioneer of Lit-_ so it must have been before he promptly‘slid back againun-. sympathizers ofthe south. The 42 years — from 1870 -to tle Skin Creek, it is quite moved to Little. Skin.CreelL following are the names ofthe I912. The criminals were all. der the covers_.-and‘was_soon_ likely that the Anthony Spaur­ fcr,no one n_ow_living has__any_ 4 s children of Jacob W.andEliz­ apprehended, but one and all; who made this transfer of fast asleep. '..__ ‘ ~.* ­ abeth I-lardman Hud on: ar­ l:r.o'wledge of his ever hav­ Though a ‘regularfordained: d.Frank these acts were committed in­ lands on the Buckhannon Riv­ ing‘ been a teacher in this‘ minister such as was common this district butonewhichhap-, er in 1817 and the Anthony" McCue: Almina, who married community. The teachers in in his day, he was not an itin­ pened in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Spaur who purchased the farm this community from 1840 to erant preacher. He died some Andrew Lunsford; Matilda, the summer of 1912. Ezra‘ and mill of Rev. John Hard­ *l3S0 are well known and who married Lee Smith; Per­ man on Little Skin Creel<'in few years pl‘lOl".tO the Civil Ours was sentenced to the S_oaur’s‘name does not appear war and was buried beside his rv, Marion, Washington and penitentiary for life for kill­ 11:’-S5are one and the same. Worth, the last two being on this list. There is no re­ wife in the Georgetown ce..1e­ tuins. ' ing John West and his s_on,i, His wife was, before her rnar_­ tery. __ _,...... '­ '- .. 1 cord of any_schoolbeing taught 41­ /4//-‘, I //C. 1.’ /' ',’ I) -. PART XIX left the neighborhood before Georgetown. David Wetzel, ow bottom land. Ramseyownedt PART XX the Civil War and nothing Sr., died shortly after the Albert and Clinton Hardman and lived in the house now further is known of him. close of the Civil War, and owned and occupied by Mrs. ‘Some years prior to the were the only sons of David­ David Wetzel, Sr., located his wife died during the clos­ Porter West. The tract ofland Civil War Jacob W. Hudson Hardman by his first wife’ ing years of that war. ’ and the former now lives near upon a tract of land lying up received in exchange for the served a term as sheriff. He a small stream emptying into Jacob Bott was a son of slave woman was the meadow was a strong unionsympathiz­ Jane Lew. Isaac Clark, broth­ Little Skin Creek near Henry Bott and he lived at east of the creek. His reason er and took an active part in er of John and Robert Clark, -the mouth of Blacklick Run. and sons of William Clark the Georgetown. The exact date for the exchange was that she the measures taken to sever of his entrance into the com­ His wife was a Miss Rohr­ was hard to control.,Ramsey western -.Vlrginia from the pioneer on Stonecoal. after munity is not known but it baugh.‘ ' They "had four chil­ some years of residence on came from Albemarle County, mother state, for whichhewas was some years after the­ dren, two sons and twodaugh­ Virginia, in the early forties bitterly‘ denounced by neigh­ Little Skin Creek finally lo­ first settlers had located ters, as follows: John. who and was an uncle of the late" bors and relatives who were cated on Spruce Fork ofStone­ along the Little Skin Creek coal where he lived and died. married Rulina Stauts; Wash­ William R. Jewell.~ Near the sympathizers ofthe south. The valley. His farm was a part ington, who married Margaret close of the Civil War, and­ followingarethe-names ofthe The Rev. Doctor Hyre_ D. of the Adams survey and em­ Marsh, daughter of John C. Clark of Buckhannon is a after he had 1ost'his—slaves. children of Jacob W.and Eliz­ braced all the land" lying on‘ Marsh; Matilda, who married he moved to:Kentucky... Cap‘-7 abeth Hardman Hudson: Par­ grandson of Isaac Clark and a that stream. He was a native Luther Casto, a son of Isaac son of Jacob Clark. John tain William B. Roachafter U‘-CD18.who married Frank of‘ Shenandoah County; Vir-­ Casto and "Amy who married the close of ‘the Civil War"­ MCCUE5Almina. who married. Clark was a, prosperous ginia; and was married there (1) Yoke; (2) John went to Missouri. Twoof his­ Andrew Lunsford; Matilda, farmer and a big land owner. Somers.- All the Botts nowliv­ liis home farm was not so; long before he came to Lewis faithful slaves . begged to: be‘ ‘Whomarried Lee Smith; Per­ ing in this community are taken along which-the author-. ry, Marion, -Washington and l.-wge. but he manipulated his giniaCounty.Hemarr Hudson, a young ’ w ow‘ descendants of Jacob Bott, his ai'.:*.irs so as to be able to ities would not allow.‘ They­ Worth, the last two being, with one child whose name brothers, together with their were instructed to follow the­ twins. ' "' ‘ " purchase a farm upon which was Jacob, who in after years­ father having gone west in‘ telegraph line to Parkersburg Hudson's ‘wife died in 1856. he settled each and every one became prominent in the at’­ 1.535. Jacob Bott once con-_ of his children as they mar­ where they overtook the Some years later he. mar-­ fairs oi the community. Mrs. dudted a store located just Roaches and were taken along. ried Mrs. Permelia Watson ried. At the time of his death, Hudson's maiden name was"-' above the road some two hun- $9 Jacob W.-Hudson;stepson of Jackson. He died in'l90l at. he, together, with his four Fultz and she was an elder dred yards below the Bott sons and a son-in-law, owned David Wetzel, Sr.,‘ was bornin the advanced age of 90. half-sister "to the wife “of schoolhouse. He died about Shenandoah County"; Virginia, ' The first ‘church construct-‘ lands from the mouth of Cur­ Joshua Hardman: The follow­ the year 1879 and his -wife tis Run to within'a stone’s in 1811. He married Eliza­ ed of sawed lumber on Big ing are the children of David passed away some few years beth Hardman, only daughter Skin Creek was erected ‘in throw of Vandalia, all join­ Wetzel, Sr., and his wife, prior to this date, and both of John and Elizabeth (Wag­ 1858. Its location was upon ing. He bought a tract of Regina Fultz Hudson Wetzelsfg were buried in the Corathers land on Round Knob Run which goner) Hardman. It will‘be ground nowoccupied by graves George, David H., Elizabeth burial plot. , ' ‘ remembered‘ that’ Elizabeth in the Vandalia cemetery, and extended over onto the waters Anna; William, Aaron- and John Bott, son ofJacob Bott, of Sand Fork of West Fork as Waggoner and her sister Mary in denomination was Methodist Rebecca. David H’. married taught‘ the second ,term— of and brother Peter were cap~j Episcopal. Prior to this time far. as the Duncan school-­ Lucetta Clark, daughter- of school conducted in. the Bott house, a stretch of some 3 tured- by Indians in 1792, an religious worship was con­ John Clark; Elizabeth mar­ schoolhouse erected some few account of which is given in ducted in‘aliewn log church miles, upon which he settled ried John Stalnaker; Anna years after the close’ of the three of his sons-in-law, and all the histories of border’ that stood upon ground now married William Hinzman. Civil War. . , 7*’ warfare. ' i occupied by G. B. Marsh's’ all descend nts of John and -There were never but two who lived on Glady Forlt- of . $.C°n.li.m=_9d_Next lVeel5>';=-. residence; ,In pioneer times. tt Clark.Big Skin Creek, and Webster slave owners in the commu­ religious services were held 0 ark died in 1884, Hinzman and Jacob Hinzman nity. Captain William B. Roach­ in groves. and-fin ' private aged 85; his wife died the were their sons: Rebecca on Little Skin Creek, and Wil­ year previous, aged 78, and homes. .Some few "years ago a married William Curtis, liam Ramsey on Big Skin new M. _E. Churchwas built both were buried at George­ brother of George W. Cur-. Creek. They were slave own­ town. ~ A down m":ne nrillagei and the tis, one-time member of our. ers by "inheritance.and- not old one" upon, the._ hill was “Felt" Clark,’a son ofWiI­ county court. ' ~ from choice. Neither of them razed and removed.‘ In 1867 !iam Clark of Stonecoal, as The David Wetzel who lived‘ owned above ten in number the M. P.’Church was erect-_ ilready stated, was a pioneer on Stonecoal and who married­ and never sold any of them ;ed at the upper end of the cacher in the Georgetown Ta daughter of Henry Hardman although Ramsey did trade a :<...:nunity and was also a "village. After the_lapse 02 61 was a nephew of the David young colored woman to Eliz­ years" it is in a splendid ;-._-.ier of vocal music. He Wetzel, Sr., who lived near­ aL‘.-thHall for _atract of meatl- . state of preservation and will perhaps give service for_' >”~=‘”'.5.¥.e‘-.:..-'. '5'at - - ­ «gt flmr 227 W Creek. nor can any of his of his sons is a minister of man and kill him and take him-' bar. —/~ /773 . E‘/emurdered menlie bur­ descenriants give any informa-_ the Gospel, now quite old, up to heaven, for Thou know- PARTXXI it ;i .n the Vandalia cemetery tion of value. The only [clueso. located in Pittsburgh, Pa. He est he is a slippery dog."­ On the dividing ridge be­ and only one of the assassins far, is that the Lewis County; is filling a station in the old ‘ Another eccentric incident. tween Big Skin Creek and ever paid for his rash deed, records show that in 1817 M. P. Church in that city now. is related that whencalled up-. Wolf. Fork and on lands of and the penalty was life im­ one Anthony Spaur transfers Rev. Wayne Morrison, reared‘ on to perform a marriage_ -the late W.‘ R. Jewell there prisonment. a small tract of land by deed on Hacker's Creek, met him ceremony late in the evening is an. interesting curiosity, The following are the names lying on the east bank of the_ at one of our general confer­ after he had -retired, heor-I a huge rock, hundreds of tons of the victims: Edmund West, Buckhannon River to a Mr, ences a few years ago. He dered the bashful youngcouple. in weight resting high upon John West, brother._of Ed­ Black. As there never has. told me that he resembled the to stand at his bedside and’ a stern. insignificant. in size mtmti, Ed West. Jr., son of been any other family of Spaurs ‘in Lewis County and with his feet and naked legs as regards- strength, known John West, Abel Cutright and Spaurs in the county but this: that he held a degree of doctor‘. dangling over the bedrail and locally as the "‘tea-table. Lloyd Spaur All these crimes one, and none in the‘adjoin­ of divinity." - i the covers thrownloosely over rock." This curiosity is the occurretl within a period of ing counties except those who Rev? _Anthony Spaur,’ by‘, his lap heperformed the cere­ result of erosion and although 42 years — from 1870 to trace their origin to Anthony §9_r_nehistorians, is said to; many that made them man and irregular in shape is well­ 19122.The criminals were all Spaur, early pioneer of Lit­ have been a teacher in early,‘ wife. He then ordered them to balanced uponlts frail’ stem il[i[1r&il\:li(ied, but one and all tle Skin Creek, it is quite life. This may be true, but if‘ “clear out’ home"" as ' he somewhat resembling a gob-' vi‘.-2"-:acts were committed in. likely that the Anthony Spaur so it must have been before he­ wanted to sleep, whereuponhe let. ‘ . . . ­ who made this transfer of moved to Little Skin Creek‘ promptly slid backiagain un-' To mount the rock one must this districtbutone whichhap-_ lands on the Buckhannon Riv­ [‘i'ili'.'(i in Ch-eyenne, Wyomiiig,‘ for no one now living has any: der the covers and was-soon‘ climb a sapling close by from" the summer .of 1912. Ezra er in l8l7_ and the Anthony knowledge of his ever hav-: fast asleep.- - _‘ which one can. easily step to Ours was _sentenced to the Spaur-who purchased the farm ing been a teacher in‘ this? the summit- For more than a and mill of Rev. John Hard­ community: The teachers -in ' '1‘fioiigh a 'regula’r‘3ordained century the .“tea-table".rock penitentiary for life for kill­ man on Little Skin Creek in‘ minister such as was common ing John West and his son, this community from 1840 to. in his day, he.was not an itin­ has been‘the “Mecca” of pic­ 1835 are one and the same. 1860 are well known and. nic.parties and.visitors in Ed Junior, but escaped prison" His wife was, before her mar-; erant preacher.‘He died some the night before the execution Spaur's name does not appear, few years prior to the Civil general which fact is fully and fled the country and was. riage, a Miss Rohrbaugh. The on this list. There is no re­ War and was buried beside his attested by the scores -of wife of ‘Jacob Bott who lived never apprehended. George cord of anyschool being taught wife in the Georgetown ceme­ names chiseled upon its sum­ Hall, in an altercation, shot a short distance up the creek in the community prior to. tery. . ,mit. In time. perhaps soon, and killed Abel Cutright, gave from Spaurs- was also at 1815. The two ‘creeks up to its weightwill crushits wasp­ bond for his ‘appearance at Rhorbaugh before her mar­ this time had but few settlers --'-7*-7‘-2'“ like stem because of the cut­ court, but the day and hour in riage, but it is not known if: and a sufficient number" of ting winds, freezing andthaw­ which he was delivered by his they were related. J A‘ ­ children could ' not be ing, and the rock will then go bondsman, escaped, and was Rev. Anthony Spaur had assembled at any one point thundering downthe mountain never heard of afterwards. three sons, Hesekiah,_Anthon_y to warrant a school. Begin­ side through the timber to the Lloyd Spaur was shot and" R., -and Alpens, It Vis said. ning with the» year 1822 valley below. killed in the railroad yards at that‘ there was one daughter‘ schools were taught‘and by James Morrison married Cheyenne - by- an unknown whose name was Malinda. W.. 1835 a deep interest in-ed­ Mrs. Uriah Forinash, ayoung assassin. ‘“ -­ A. Spaur of Grafton, now de-i ucation was manifested and widow with two children whose ‘ Rev. Anthony Spaur became ceased, was born and reared} rapid progress was made. . names were Elizabeth and id.-nlified with the future his­ in this community and who’ Father Spaur, as he .was. Jacob. Her maiden name was perhaps was as well informed. called, was a plain -pioneer Elizabeth Bozarth, and. she tort.’ of the’ Skin Creek com­ was a,member of the Bozarth innnlty \vhen he purchased the as any member of his family. teacher with strong convic­ farm and mill of Rev. John concerning.his ancestors, up­ tions, deeply seated religious family so cruelly massacred on inquiry hasthis to say: practices, very. earnest but. at or near Buckhannon by the Hardrnan near the mouth of somewhat eccentric and often .Indians the; summer of 1795. Curtis Run on Little Skin “The Spaurs came froml ‘Elizabeth and her- mother, Creek about the year l836,l Holland, they. are not Dutch‘ amusing. Once when praying­ but German. Hesekiah. had a. for a penitentat the altar who; sister Mary andtwo broth­ and moved his family there-j son named Anthony, a pioneer» was notorious for his back--i ers were also taken in cap­ on. if he.ever lived at any] tivity at the same time, but other place in the communi-' preacher. He in turn hadthreei sliding tendency and who at, sons, Anthony, Hesekiali-andi each annual protracted meet­ ‘all returned home again the 11' prior to this time it is not jsame year after the Green­ l.no'.vn as to where he lived Alphens. The last named went ing. came forward to the altar before coming to Little kin to Iowa and settled, and one to profess anew, Fatherspaur '_vi_l1eTreaty. The two chil­ said: "O, Lord, convert this 93$

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lndnx to 3150?‘: Abifinil Mrs D1 Butcher, Jnmimn Mrs Curtis. Henry The PEOPLE of the VANDALIA Albert, Felix D1 N4 Jefferson 1) John C1 B1 B2 N4 Albert. Mary C In Hnrcilia Prs Mary "Molli ell COMMUNITY Rehecca A D] Lynch, Mary Mrs W Sam Rardman 77- H. D1 Melissa Mrs Rebeccs Mrs ""73 Alkire. B2 Milton Sallie Mrs This work is a gold mine of Jacob 05 Nancy William N4 genealogical information for James 04 Sarah Cutright, Hl X1 anyone having interests in Joseph 04 Silas Abel U2 Lewis County, WV. During the Nicholas F2 F3 Valentine Dorcas preparation of the index error Oliver 04 Virginia Mrs Dadisman, W. E. and inconsistency were noted Allen, Christine Butt, Abs,-1 David, Mary to which the comments below Mary Adam Davis, Patti Mrs are addressed: Arnold, Elizabeth Henry 33 F2 12 Dean, Rachel Beal, Jennie Mrs Henry J, Dix, 1) Several names appear to be 5959191: 59”} Jacob B3 Dolly, Catherine questionable: Bennett, Job ­ Dorsey, Name as Correct David John B} B4 Dowel, Dick published spelling Elizabeth John .1 Duncan, James Jacob ' Butte, Eckos, Thomas Bennett Bonnett '* James 37 Caste, Amy E2 Fisher, Bott mu *' Jonathon M M A3311 E2 Levi Caste Gasto Louis B4 B5 N4 ‘ Dow . Flsnigan, Bslmic Helmick ' Issac E2 E1 Forinash, Abigail flsthas ‘Mathews Mary Mrs Luther Alice Oden Odom Rachael Mary J Amanda Reach Roach William Matilda Mrs Bert Stauts Staats Betta, William Mn?) Rev mean Mrs Betsy Summers Summers 01 02 R4 Chideater, Granville M Cora ' References to Bennett as Black: U3 X2 Phineas W E} David follows maybe correct: Boceek, Thomas E K} Polly Mrs Elias Il Willis P K} R. V. Elizabeth Mrs Elizabeth Bennett Bennett, F1 R5 S1 Susan ltrs Elizabeth C4-T5 W5 Bennett Catherine . Fl Wellington V E} K5 Emery Jacob J: Rachel Bennett David Fl Clark, Eva Wary Bennett Peterson Elizabeth .Fl Elizabeth Mrs Frank Bennett Survey Jacob _ S1 Emily Frona Mary Bennett John 51 Fauntleroy(Felton) Georgia William Fennett Louis (lewis) A4 134E} s} Hannah David, James and M} S1 S1 S2 S3 Gideon 15 Harriet Mrs Jonathan Bennett Margaret Fl 53 V1 Harriet Isaac I1 I2 The indexer believes otherwise Mary (Polly) F1 Eyre D Rev Ivy Jacob Bennett should be Bgnnett. Mary Mrs 52 Isaac N4 S3 Gl 04 Natilda F1 Jacob W5 M *' Note the discussion at Nicholas F1 F2 John G2 B4 S2 S3 Jacob Jr G411 I2 B4 regs:-ding"Butt" and "Bott". Peter E} 34 F1 F2 J2 V2’ Jane Note also, the name "mtt" in ll)’ S1 S2 X2 Levi D5 Jonas line 6 appears to be an error. Peter Jr Fl Lucetta S4 Xaylirs Jacob Bott, who remained in Samuel Sl F1 Lucinda levi WV., appears to be the one who Sarah F1 X2 X3 Margaret Mrs S} 34 Lorenzo changed his name to "Bott". William Fl Margaret Malinda I1 Bott, . 85 Marshall D1 D3 N4 Margaret 2)'I‘he distinction between some Martha commonnamesis difficult, as Amy 55 Matilda Mrs Charles West Sr. and Jr. Henry S5 Nancy Mrs I} Myrtle Jacob B4 N4 S5 U4 Nathan Oliver up 3) Females are indexed under John 55 Bobert G2 55 54 Sanford their maiden name and married John J N4 Robert E N4 05 R1 Uriah G435 W5 "surname, given name"; but not Marga_1-at Mrs S5 William G2 S3 S4 Vinton as "Doe, John Mrs." Matilda S5 Clawson, Samuel Rev William 4) Original page "T" contained Rulinn Hrs 55 Compton, Greenherry A 01 Francis, OwenT all of original page "S", plus Washington SS Corathers, B3 I5 Fultz, Reginis a fifth column- the beginning Bozarth, F41J4 J5 K1 W5 A. J.‘ P2 Gibson, Adeline Mrs of Part XIX. Original page "S" Elizabeth J5 w5 x1 Y1 Amanda(Mandy) Wgbster is deleted, page "T" is re­ John J4 J5 Eliza Mrs Gillispie, labelled "S". The result 15 Mary Mrs J4 J5 Kl Elizabeth Mrs Could, A. G. that the page sequence runs Mary W5 Ellen Graves, '3", "U", etc. ' Massacre E4 J5 K1 W5 George H A) 0')’ P4 Gribb1e,E1izabeth Mrs Zed K1 Henry I) I5 Hacker, Alexander A5 G5 5) Certain material appears to Bradshaw, Matilda G1 John Col B3 I2 N4 John Al A5 G2 G5 J3 have been published in dupli­ Bake, Jacob Y1 John J: I} M3 P4 R5 cate. Delete from page "Y" col Brown, George N4 N5 Nancy 13 Mary Ann } line 6, thro the remainder Bush, George B4 82 Nancy Mrs Thomas at page Y and page W, cols 1 Butcher, Adeline Q2 Sarah William G to 4 inclusive. This material Annie Q2 Cozad, Jack Hall, Abram Abram R appears from page 5 col 5 thro Christianna Mrs Q1 C;-ites, « Gl £2388hfidfiflfifififi page H. Ettie Mrs Q2 Abram Annie Mrs 41% Evan Q2 Kay David F5 G5 G4 Isaac A} N4 P1 O1 Q2 Alice Q5 Q5 Curtis, George I C1 B1 132 Elizabeth 64 J5 mtcher.lsaac Jr _ 02 V2 X2 Hall. Elizabeth |'.rs C4 J5 .___..’.a.,..¢_,. Hall, Emery G4 Hudson. Matilda Marsh, Lucy Mrs X) Morrison, Susan Ezra G4 G5 K4 Q2 Parthenis Margaret 55 Verdelis . George U} Permelia Mrs Margaret Mrs 54 Viola (» Jennie Mrs 04 Perry Ll N4 R} Marshal C H2 Wayne Rev John Strange G4 65 J} Reginia Mrs Nathan S4 William Jonathon G3 G4 K4 Washington Spencer C1 C2 E2 M3 N4 McCurd1e, Rnnnah Mrs Joseph G2 G3 G4 G5 Worth 13 James Lnn H Q2 Hughes, Jesse 63 William X} Peter Martha G4 Hull, David Martin, Eli D} 01 02 0) McCue, frank Mary 64 Harriet Mrs James Y2 Parthenis Mrs Jarret Melvins Mrs Y2 Hamer, Henry P5 P53 Mcbameron, Kate Mrs F5 Hyde! Katie Mathas, P1 Mcbaniels, Hsrdman, V2’ Hyreo D} Benton F2 Molaughlin, May , /Albert V1 , ,Charles Mary F2 McNemar, 4 /Clinton V1 Leonard Ruhama Mrs F2 Betty Mrs J David g_Vl Mahala Meadows, Thomas A) Isaac D5 /David H _N_4_ ,Martin Means, Betty D5 John D5 ’,—Edgar Bruce Q2 /Matilda Mrs Molar, Margaret S4 Joseph , Elizabeth )5 U1 Noah Morris, Dora Y4 Julia Elizabeth Hrsggfi S1 U1 Sarah Virginia Eli Y1 Y4 Margaret D5134 Henry C5 D4 E2 54 V2 Jackson, Ettie Q2 Mary Henry D D} Per-mslia Mrs Florence Y4 Nancy John A2 A3 A4 B3 C4 F5 Thomas J Leslie Y4 Philip D4 D5 El G5 , ‘ I2 M3 N5 01 03 Jewell, Albert K2 K4 N4 Mary (Mollie) Y4 Sallie Levi William Q2 William E , Q1 S1 U1 D} W. R. B2 John G I2 \_N_4_Y2 Morrison, Alice Mrs Y3 O'Brien, Emmet ,.Joshua A5 N4 V2 Johns, Robert Alvsy(Alvin) X1 X2 Martha Mrs ..-Katie ‘"" A4 Johnson, Abel Camdena Y4 Oden(0dem), William A-bee F5 Elizabeth B2 Carrie Mrs Y4 Osborn, ,,Mahala Mrs F5 John Charles X2 Ours, Ezra 135 Charles Granville X1 Malinda Mrs I2 Richard A5 B1 B2 155 Pennigar, Patti Mrs 4 _ Marcelia I} 03 M3 Christine X1 William f ‘ /Marcellus F5 Jones, Ann Columbus Y1 Y3 Petersen, E2 ' Martha Y2 Samuel C G3 15 Cordelia Y1 Y4 Aaron D B2 flu! .-Mary Mrs F5 W. T. David X1 X2 X5 Y1 Y4 Abigail ;Matilda F5 Lashley, Peter T Dow Fulton Y1 Y4 Anna - Peter A} leggitt, Elizabeth Edward X) Catherine ‘ Salathiel B Q2 Life, Christianna Elizabeth Mrs W5 )Cl Yl Catherine Mrs g’ ‘ Sarah Mrs Q2 John _.—' Ellen Y1 Charles \. ' Thomas 54 Noah Prank X1 Christina . Harper, F5 Linger, Bonce Gideon Xl David Harris, David H Dl E1 Catherine Mrs Hanley X1 Ellen Mrs Ezekiel C1 George W D1 N4 George Hannah Mrs Y4 John G5 Granville R Harriet Mrs X1 Hannah Isaac ‘ Helen Mrs Y1 Y4 Hanson M L1 4]] ’ . John W G2 John Henry X1 R3 I Heck, Susan Y2 Helmic, Alexander C2 C5 K} Margaret Hester Xl Henry Margaret Mrs Homer Y1 Y2 Henry J Barbara C} Jane Daniel R C2 C} K} N4 Mary Ida Mrs Y5 Matilda Mrs Issac X1 Jesse L 01 Job David C} Nicholas Jacob X1 X2 Y4 John D Hannah C5 Nicholas B F5 James D) 05 W5 X1 X2 I5 Ira C) Nicholas D G1 Y1 Lemuel D 1} » Jacob C} P. F. . James Jr Xl lydia Mrs Phillip H Jane X1 X2 1131'! “I;’ , Joanna C3 Jennie 11 1 John C2 05 GS X3 01 Phillip M 323} Polly E5 Jerome Y1 Y2 Mary Ms GQPEII s2 ;' 55 Matilda f John R N4 Ruhama John X1 X2 X5 Y4 William Lafayette Doc Y1 Y3 Nicholas 3 Ma1‘gB1‘O’C 0} Samuel ‘ Mary Mrs C3 01 William C Leonidas E1;.=e;x1 Yl Y} William(Fii‘ing Bill may X2 X3 Sarah Virginia Mrs _ Mary Ann Mrs C2 C) A II.H. B}I1I3I5 ‘ ‘ Amanda Mrs I5 lorentz, Jacob Lucy Mrs X1 Marcelia Mrs Y3 N4 Q4 Q5 R3 ‘ Hersman, Isaac I3-. Love(lowe) David s BlB2 Lowther, Mary Margaret Mrs X1 William D1 El E2 85 J, Hester, John Rev 01 02 William Col Martha Mrs Y2 I1 15 Martha Ann Y1 Y3 William 13 F4 F5 G2 m;( ’ ' Hicks,Hinzman, James Anna Mrs 05V2 Lunaford, Amine Mrs }: , Elizabeth I3 Andrew Mollie Mrs X2 I1 K4 N4 P5 Malone , Benjamin Mary Mrs Y2 Q5 [ Jacob V? Rhoda Mary Y1 ' William Henry E2 Ll I: ~ 4 - Webster V2 Pinckard, Nathaniel D ‘- ' . ‘ William V2 Zachariah Mary Ellen Y2 Melvina Y1 Y2 Plant, Millie Ann Holland, Rev 01 03 Marsh, Alexander C Morgan X2 Post, g \—f‘p kfiudson, Almina U1 Annie H Munroe Y2 Powers, Benoni Eliza Ora Y4 Hannah -A Elizabeth Mrs U1 2: . Enily Jane Rachel Mrs X2 Y5 Martha Ann Mrs C. B. Rhoda Mrs Y3 Walter ], 3<§\\’ \‘wi\ . Jacob L1 M Q} :1’: John L mt I “P. Jacob W 34 George I Rev C2 1} Riley X1 Queen, L1N40l0205R3X3 Roxie Mrs X} Mary J Mrs 0 » “VF léggf A4 Hiram C1 C2 Sam X2 Rains, N Y1§J1:1I5J1;1£1I1i1 '0 1 lg? A4 Raine, James 0 0 \7| .91 ‘ U1 Marsh , John C C2 Morrison, Susan Mrs Y2 Jonathon C2 Marsh. I «-2 O(

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Waggoner, Eéfiddfltflfifihfiiédfiiifififififififlfifiififififia Elizabeth A} A4 A5 S1 in John A3 51 U1 Mary A3 Waggoner liassacre Waggoner, Peter A) A4 171 Walker, Joel 01 _;:~_~__; —,.._~,,—_.7 74“. _.. .' 111/ ‘Con/J (‘Mefar?‘ /l(L£///;‘9 ll of Uriah Forinash, Eliz­ Morrison, married (1) a Miss er Sam's wife. LucyMorrison ! -:h and Jacob, grewto man­ Black: (2) Sarah . Bonnett, married Jonatl_1:1_tLMarsh.son ..t. id and womanhood in the daughter of Peter Bonnett, 0! Spencer Marsh, Sr., an Lianne of James Morrison.‘ early pioneer on Big Skin early pioneer 'on Big Skin their step-father, who lived Creek. The children by the Creek. A daughter of Jon­ in below Bucklianncn, andboth first wife were: James; Sam, athan Marsh became the wife vi.-re__m~a4rriedthere before John. Morgan, Jacob. Alvin, of William Marsh, youngest they moved to Big SkinCreek. Lucy, Susan and David. James son of Rev. Geo. I. Marsh, Elizabeth became the wife of married Rachael West, daugh­ of Big _Skin Creek. .Susan David Hull, longtime mer­ ter of Charles West, early Morrison married ' Dow chant in Vandalia. Jacobmar­ pioneer on Hughes Fork of Caste. David Morrison mar­ Big Skin Creek, and they had ried Roxie Vandevender. He ried a Miss Cutright,who bore two children, Charles and was killed by a falling limb. him two children, Isaac and Jane. Charles married Moi-' He left a son named Edward, Jacob Forinash, Junior. As lie Curtis, daughter ofGeorge who -lives at ‘Lost.Creek, Jacob Forinash, ’Sr., Eliza­ ' W. Curtis of. Curtis Run. Harrison County:-This com­ beth Hall and Jacob Forinash. Jane met a tragic death in. Jr., have already been dis­ p]e[es‘g the -list of-_the, chil­ cussed on previous pages, an attempt to shoot a hawk dren '01"John Morrison, Sr.-, nothing further need be said that had caught a chicken and ' by his first Wl.f€.‘?-T'.lQ1‘e«W8l‘9­ here concerning them. '. was devouring it near the no issue by the second Wife.-, The children ofJames Mor­ house. In her excitement,sh.e who as already stated was­ rison and his wife who as al-‘ snatched the gun. from .‘the. before. her marriage Sarah ready stated was the widowof rack above the doorand with, Bennett. ..-4 . * Uriah Forinash and whose the butt of the gun resting up­ maiden name was Elizabeth on the floor, and her foot ~/-447‘ Bozarth are as follows: upon the hammer, was in the James, Isaac, Jacob, John and. act of blowing throughit to David. There seems to have see if it was loaded, when her” been no daughter. James had foot slippedfrom the hammer two sons who lived near and the gun was discharged, Rock Cave in Upshur Coun­ killing her instantly., Her ty, named David and Alvey, mother at the time lay sick. the latter living on the home in bed and unable to summon­ farm; [sage married Harriet the neighbors for assistance ~———-———.The following are and the rest of the family the names of their children: was absent from home. Henry, who married Lucy The family of.James Mor-' — ; Hester who mar­ rison lived on Glady Fork of ried ‘Ailen Skidmore; Jennie Big »Skin _Creek when 3 this \vho married Bea]; tragedy ‘occurred. Sam Mor­ Elizabetii who married rison married a MissGraves. Reed and Christine who was Very little isknown of him. never married. . "John Morrison went west and Jacob, the third son of married there. Morganmar­ James and Elizzabeth Mor­ ried a Miss Cutright andlived. rison, married Margaret Mc­ -on Glady Fork oi Stonecoald Nemar, daughter of Phillip He wasrnarried 'a -second: i‘.ici\’emar. he - names of} time to a Miss Snyder. Jacob their children are as fol­ Morrison also married a‘ lows: Riley, Gideon, Haniey, Miss . Cutright and lived; harles Granville, Dr. Frank, there in the neighborhood. Al- » Jane and Leonidas, commonly ,vin Morrison married a Miss’ railed Lee. John. the fourth Graves, a sister. to his._broth- A son of James and Elizabeth

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