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George Beirne (1780-1832) married Polly Johnson in 1805. His child- ren were Andrew P., Jackson, Christopher, George, Susan, and Mary R. Andrew P. (1808-1842) married a Miss Smith, of the Shenandoah Valley. Jackson, a surgeon in the Confederate army, settled in St. Louis. George, who died at an early age, married Delilah Alexander in 1827. Christo- pher, a bachelor, and the owner for a while of a fine estate immediately south of Union, moved to St. Louis. Susan and Mary R. married re- spectively Manilius and Augustus A. Chapman. Andrew P. had a son and a daughter, the latter marrying a Kinney, of Staunton. The former, who married Elizabeth Caperton, was born in 1842, was educated at the United States Military Academy, and served in the Confederate navy. In the year of his marriage-1867-he came to Monroe as a farmer and attorney, but at length moved to Ronceverte. The children of George were Michael A. J., Oliver F., and Christopher J.
Oliver (1785-1845), a brother to Colonel Beirne, lived unmarried.
None of the Beirnes in the male line are now residents of Monroe.
BENSON
Erwin (d. 1818) (Mary Black, d. 1852) owned Salt Sulphur. C: Eliza- beth (?John Hawkins, 1808)-Mary (Michael Alexander, 1801)-Nelly (William Clark, 1808)-Jane (Isaac Caruthers, 1816)-Margaret (Will-
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iam Erskine, 1810)-Mathias (d. before 1818).
C. of Mathias: Ervin
William (minor, 1796) son of Levin.
The Bensons came from the Cowpasture.
BEST
Francis (Isabella) was living in the Sinks, 1800, adj. James Wylie, William Young, Joseph Alford. He came from Va. Mary (b. 1766) mar- ried John Lynch.
BICKETT
Michael (Elizabeth Erskine), who lived on the flat-topped mountain which bears the family name, was probably a son of an older Michael, who died in this county in 1814. Thomas (Mary) and John (Margaret), who also lived in this neighborhood between 1800 and 1810, seem to have been other sons. Michael, Jr., was found in a dying condition in his field early in May, 1858. C: James H. (b. 1798)-William-Catharine (Joseph Perry) - Henry-John L .- Jean-Benjamin L. (b. 1814). These births took place between 1798 and 1814. James H. (Polly Tapscott) lived on the home- stead but had no family.
C. of William (Nancy Boyd) : Catharine (1836-1857) (s)-Elizabeth (Joshua Leach, Matthew Walkup)-Michael (1831-1888) (s)-James D. (s).
Thus by failure in the male line the surname has become extinct. Mi- chael, son of William, died an hour before his mother and both are buried in one grave.
BIGGS
A-C. (Lydia Broyles, Delilah Ballard) was born in Giles in 1830.
BITTENGER
Rev. M. H. (1826-1913) (Martha R. Moffett, 1858) was born at George- town, D. C., and was a descendant of Adam, an immigrant from Alsace to Pa. His grandfather, a captain in the Revolution, was captured at Fort Washington and suffered great hardships. M. H. came to Greenville in 1855, after being a missionary in Giles two years. He was graduated from Nassau Hall, Princeton, N. J., 1849, was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, 1852, and became pastor emeritus 1902. He preached also at other points than Greenville, and was a teacher and county superintend- ent. "Few men in Monroe were more widely known and perhaps no one was more highly esteemed."
BLACK
Samuel (d. 1845c) was probably of a Scotch-Irish family that first set- tled on the Cowpasture. He was neighbor to James Handley.
SPRING VALLEY FARM Residence of Clarence F. Dickson, Second Creek Bridge
BENJAMIN F. HOGSHEAD Late of Second Creek
NEWTON DICKSON Second Creek District
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BLAND
Robert (d. 1795c) seems to have been the father of Robert (Anna) of Peters Mountain valley, whose own son Robert was born here 1784. C .: Robert (1784-1857)-Esther E. (James T. Mckinney, 1813)-James (India Daw- son of Isaac, 1813)-Joshua' (Polly Shires, 1807) Joshua, probably a brother, had Robert (Elizabeth Hand, 1808).
BLANKENSHIP
Richard bought land of James Ellison on Stinking Lick in 1800.
BLANTON
William came from the Cowpasture at a very early day. He settled on the Gaston Caperton place, was constable, 1773, and was a prominent member of the Rehoboth congregation. The family went to Kentucky. John was a son and Isabel (Abner Wiseman, 1800) a daughter or granddaughter .
BOGGESS
Thomas (d. 1831) (Mary) C: Abraham (Elizabeth)-Seth-Mary A. -Bury-Phœbe (James Pinnell, 1806)-Judith (- - Life).
BOON
Mark (1824-1896) was a native of Appledore, Kent county, England, and came to America with his parents in 1828. His wife was Annie Chap- lin, also a native of England, who came in 1844 at the age of 17. Mr. Boon came from Warm Springs to Monroe in 1860 to engage in the mercan- tile business at Greenville; but the war demoralizing commercial opera- tions, he engaged in hospital and field service. In the spring that the war closed he set up as a tailor at Greenville and was also a partner with his brother Daniel in a store. They dissolved partnership in 1878, and after merchandising four years at Hunter's Springs he purchased the Swinny farm near Lindside. In connection with his farm he conducted a store which he opened in that village in 1880. C: Sarah A. (David Watts of Wilson, 1874)-Lydia V. (Thomas Shider)-John W. (Margaret J. Thompson, 1879)-Cary L., (Annie E. Swope)-Wilber F. (Nora Brown, 1893). Five other children did not reach maturity and neither of the daugh- ters is now living. The sons all engaged in the mercantile business, but W. F. forsook it to follow railroad and carpenter work. J. W. has been a merchant at Greenville since 1880. Of his children, Arthur, Charles, and Kate are associated with him in his store. The others are Ethel J. (Robert E. Riner) and Frederick M. (Bertha Gilman). The last named is an insurance agent at Huntington, W. Va.
Daniel, brother to Mark, (Martha E. Hughart of Ervin), served four years in the Confederate army and was later a farmer and merchant of Greenville and vicinity. He died in 1915. C: George E. (Zora E. Hill)
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-James A. (Nannie Pence). The former is a traveling salesman, the latter a physician in N. Y.
BOONE
John (1755-1835) (Elizabeth) was a nephew to the celebrated Daniel Boone. C: Nancy (Willis Burdette, 1807).
BOSTICK
Moses (d. 1799) (appraised at $281.41) and John (levy-free, 1815) seem to have been brothers. It was probably a younger John who lived near Crimson Spring and had Ruth (Bayles Glover), Eleanor (Robert Fury, 1817), Margaret (s), William (Anne Shaver), John, Thomas, Jon- athan (s), Reuben (Polly Parker).
Thomas (Elizabeth Bland) was first cousin and neighbor to the fore- going. C: Robert (Nancy Foster), Calvin (1811-1904) (Charlotte Hall, 1841), James L. (Mary A. Carlisle, 1847), Thomas (Elizabeth Griffith of Hannah, 1845), Caperton (Jennie Sams), Charlotte (s), Sarah (s), Esther (Charles Foster, 1838), Mary (Thomas Shaver).
Others: Alexander (Sarah Pyne) (1794-1869) ; Madison (Elizabeth McMann).
BOWYER
Adam (d. 1800) (Christina) lived at the head of Second. C: Jacob (Mary), Reuben (Mary A. Bird, 1803), Isaac, Adam, David, Barbara (- King), Susan (- Arnot), Margaret (James Anderson, 1802), William, Sarah (William Crosier, 1808) .
Christina (d. 1828) C: Jacob, Mary (David Baker), Elizabeth (An- derson Lewellin 1824), Catharine, Abraham, Susanna, Jacob, Isaac, John. Christina was guardian of Sarah, 1803.
BOYD
Patrick (1759-1835) an orphan, was in 1772 bound to John Crawford, a blacksmith. Four years later he came before the Augusta court to com- plain of ill treatment by his master. By 1783 he was living on the place now occupied by his grandson, Edward Boyd, and had a shop where he pursued the trade of blacksmith and bell-maker. He acquired much prop- erty and left his children well provided for. It is thought that his father's name was Robert and that his mother was a Porterfield. He seems to have had a sister Esther, born 1750. Her father Robert died before 1765. His marriage to Ann McDowell is said to have taken place at Donally's fort. C: Robert (Catharine Ballantyne) (d. 1879)-P. Porterfield (d. 1881) (Eliza H. Gray, 1839)-Esther (George Drummond, 1812, James Foster)-Jane (1788-1858) (James Hawkins, 1808)-Margaret (1797) (Martin Hill, 1819, James Leach)-Nelly-Nancy (1795-1888)-(William Bickett, 1825).
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C. of Robert: Andrew B. (Catharine Gray, 1847)-Agnes A. (Andrew Wylie, 1845)-Ann (James Jarrett)-James-Margaret (s)-Rachel (s) -Cassandra (s)-William (Elizabeth Lemons)-Matthew (s)-Robert (Jennie Stevens) (d. '62) (Rachel Nickell, 1830c) .
C. of A. B. of Robert: Robert A. (Elizabeth Lynch).
C. of William of Robert: Lomax (Howard Kennedy).
C. of P. Porterfield: William L. (1831-1853) (Mary A. Miller)- George A. (1835-1909) (Caroline Leach, Mary A. Still) ; by 2d w .- Har- vey H. (Minerva -) Patrick A. (1842-1905) (Amanda J. Leach) -Lydia A. (William Barnett)-John H. (Emma White)-James A. (Sa- rah Persinger)-Robert P. (Anna Rittenhouse)-Grier M .- Archelaus R. -Thomas J. (Emma Hawkins).
C. of William L .- Mary A. (C. B. Selvy)-Robert P. (Sarah Con- nor)-William L. (Mary Connor)-Virginia M. (William Still)-Dora B. (A. L. Withrow)-Newton A. (- Tigret)-Rachel S .- Otho C. Another Boyd was James (1769-1846) (Florence). C: Thomas, John, Jane (James McDaniel, 1819), Nathan.
BRADLEY
George of Giles Co. married Catharine Shires of Monroe. Of his 10 sons and 4 daughters, the following located near Lindside: Sylvester (d. '62) (Elizabeth Crosier, 1855), Alexander (Adaline Holland), Cornelius (Jane Mitchell), Tyrannus (Susan Wickline, Mrs. Sarah Shaver), George W. (Magdalen Fleshman), W. Green (Linnie Fleshman), Pembroke (Han- nah Bradley, Emma Bowers). G. W. is a minister of the Church of the Brethren. Dr. C. P. is the only surviving child of Sylvester.
James (Isabel N. Dunbar) had William, Thomas M., Calvin, John.
BROOKING
Charles (Ann) came from Albemarle to Humphrey's Run. C: Rhoda (Henry Miller, 1799), Mary (James Curry, 1803), Susanna (John Law- rence, 1803), Nancy (William Lawrence, 1803).
BROWN
A county without the names of Brown, Miller, Smith, and Jones would be sadly incomplete, and Monroe has never lacked for any of these. Yet we are able to set in order only a few items of our data. A list of the persons present at the Samuel Brown sale in 1794, the schedule totaling $426.24, will be of some interest, since the names are chiefly of Second Creek district. Matthew Alexander, John Akin, William Arbuckle, Thomas Best, William Brown, Samuel Brown, John Cantly, James Corbit, John Cornwall, Elijah Cornwall, James Dempsey, Hugh Douling, Jonathan Dunbar, William Dunbar, Thomas Flowers, Nimrod Foster, Nathaniel Foster, Isaac Foster, John Foster, John Gray, Senr., John Gray, Peter Grass
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(Glass?), James Glenn, Jesse Green, Joseph Ham, Senr., Joseph Ham, Junr., David Jarrat, Robert King, William Leach, John Leg, Nicholas Leak, Jacob Longingacre, Moses Massy, Henry McCart, Nancy McKensy, Will- iam McKinster, Daniel McMullin, Samuel Miller, James Murdock, David Nelson, John Perry, Daniel Perry, James Smith, Matthew Wealch, Andrew Young.
William (Jane) (d. 1806) lived in the Sinks. C: John, Alexander, Mary, Jane, William, Sarah, Margaret, Rosa. Alexander of this family (Polly Foster, 1805) (d. 1822) had Polly, John, Samuel. An older family was composed of Samuel (Mary), John, Margaret, Sarah, Martha, Doro- thy, William, Mary (James Nelson). Several of the above groups ap- pear to have married into other families of the Sinks. John of Potts Creek moved to Kentucky about 1808.
J. W. A., a son of Reuben, (Nannie Thompson, Allie Garvin, Mrs. Mary E. Smith) came from Franklin to Orchard. C: William H. (Elsie Mead), C. Reuben (Amelia Ferguson), Nora (Wilber F. Boon), (Minta (Eli Weaver), Sudie (Harry Zink), Willie (- - Alexander). Henry C. (Ann Pack) is a brother to T. W. A.
Edwin M. came from Lynchbur, Va., m. Caroline, Va .; Marshall (Fredericksburg, Va.). C: Emma (Chas. Maddy), Frank (Mary Mont- gomery), Ferdinand, Carrie (J. W. McNeer), H. M. (Mary Rudd), Lizzie (J. W. Bell).
BROYLES
Peter the pioneer is thought to have come from Rockbridge. He pur- chased the W. S. Broyles place of the widow Henderson. C: Zachariah (Susan E. Riner)-Ephraim (Elizabeth Harvey, 1805)-Aaron (d. 1837) (Lydia Spradling, 1830)-Jacob (Ann Riner, 1833) (- Pack)- Absalom (Lucy Riner, 1814)-boy (drowned)-Elizabeth (Robert Rains, 1807)-Margaret (- Campbell).
Ann, a daughter of Zachariah, was born here in 1800. Lovel (Sarah) was born 1803, died 1865.
Solomon settled on Lick Run in 1808. He divided a large body of land among his sons. C: Nancy, Andrew J. (1822-1910) (Sarah McGhee, 1834), Thompson, Green, Margaret, Elizabeth (Jesse Copeland, 1840), William, Augustus.
C. of Andrew J .- John (d. '61), Thompson (d. '61), James, Allen; 4 others.
C. of Andrew J. (another ?) : William L. (Lessie V. Davis), G. C. (Julia Chambers), John A. (Etta McDaniel).
C. of Augustus : Edward L. (Cora Raines), Charles W. (Viola Raines), John D. (Sarah Booth).
C. of Simeon (Cynthia Smith of Wm) : W. S. (Elizabeth Broyles of Thompson) Lewis H. (Mrs. Riner Broyles).
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BRYAN
Christopher (Catharine), a prominent settler of the Sinks Grove vicin- ity, went to Kentucky about 1793.
BUDD
Undrel (1780-1845) (Mary Keenan, 1807) came from N. Y. and lived in Union. Of his large family Christopher died in Mexico as a soldier in 1848. Sarah m. Jacob Osborne, Charles m. (1) Mary E. McCartney (2) Marietta McCartney, Harriet m. John Mann.
BURDETT
William (d. 1836) was a son of James of Culpeper county. He set- tled on Flat Top about 1800, as a neighbor to Andrew Miller, with whom he was on close terms of friendship. After his second marriage he moved to Wolf Creek. He was resourceful and ingenious. He m. (1) Sarah Cornwell of Edward, (2) Scott. C: Isham (Nancy Shumate, 1805)-Elizabeth (Tolison Shumate)-Margaret (William Walker, 1808) (- Aymick)-William (Clay Co.)-Archibald (Rhoda Shumate)
-Miles (- - Legg)-Willis (Nancy Boon of John, 1807)-Rachel -John (- Swope)-Alexander (Mary L. Hill)-Ruth (John Rob- ersen, 1816c)-Eliza; by 2d w .- Harvey (dy)-Lewis (- - Hedrick) -Clarkson (- Burns).
The wife of Isham, while working as a girl in the sugar orchard, car- ried a bucket of sap in each hand and another on her head. The first of her 12 children were twins, and when the third was a baby she would ride to her father's home, 35 miles away, carrying the baby in front and the twins behind her. The return would be made the next day. She lived to the age of 98, at which time there were 89 descendants of her children. C. of Isham: Sarah, Mary, Abner (Tex.), Granville, Nancy J., Julia A., James H., Andrew J., Elizabeth S., Joseph H., Lewis A.
C. of Alexander: Lucy J. (Samuel Gwinn), Elizabeth A. (James E. Miller), Sarah (James Y. Miller). Emmeline (Harry Shanklin), Eliza, James, William, Lee, Powell. William was a Confederate scout who did not think he could get lost in West Virginia. His captain said he fired the first shot in the war in West Virginia and the last in Virginia.
A number of the above connection entered the ministry.
Another early Burdette was Giles (d. before 1829) (Sarah Dunbar) . C: John (1795-1882) (Lydia Curry, 1816) . C. of John: Sarah A. (1817- 1895) (James M. Nickell, 1833)-Mary (1824-1894) (James Crawford, 1840)-Elizabeth J. (Andrew F. Young, 1855)-Rebecca M. (E. F. Pat- ton)-Lydia S. (A. F. Wickline, 1864)-Robert C. (1819-1893) (Eliza- beth B. Curry)-James H. (1821-1890) (Rachel M. Christian, 1847)- John C. (Mary C. Lynch, 1851)-Calvin H. (Barbara A. Curry, 1849)- Franklin C. (b. 1832) (Elizabeth A. Ford, 1858, Arlie Smithwick, 1870)
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C. of Archibald (Margaret) (d. 1834) : Archibald, James, Polly, Mar- garet, Elizabeth (- - Holmes), Samuel (has James and Archibald) .
BURNS
Thomas (d. 1849) (Martha Miller, b. 1769, d. 1844) was a resident of Union, where he had a brewery. There was a contemporary Thomas.
BURNSIDE
John Burnside came from the north of Ireland in his boyhood and found employment in a store at Fincastle. It was here that Oliver Beirne met him casually, and being very favorably impressed, the young man entered the Beirne store as a clerk. After a few years he bcame a partner. Finding this business field too narrow for the powers of which he felt himself capable, he and Andrew Beirne, Jr., established at New Orleans the large dry goods house of Beirne and Burnside. Andrew Beirne was succeeded as partner by his brother Oliver. Burnside had an ambition to become the greatest sugar planter in the world, and a few years before the war he paid one million dollars cash for the Preston plantation in Louisiana. To this he added nine other estates, so that if he did not quite realize his ambition, he became the largest sugar planter in the United States, his holdings being valued at $6,000,000 and producing 7500 hogs- heads yearly of sugar and about 14,000 barrels of molasses. He was un- married and at his death at White Sulphur in 1881, he left his estate to Oliver Beirne. Though a man of remarkable business qualifications, John Burnside seemed to be without human sympathy or public spirit. It was said of him that he professed to be a British subject and used this claim to avoid confiscation of his goods during the regime of General Butler. Yet he took out naturalization papers in 1830. He was morose and re- served, and it was one of his peculiarities that he would tell his age and place of birth to no one.
BYRNSIDE
Esther, the mother of James, married for her second husband Archi- bald Clendennin, who died on the Cowpasture in 1749, and whose son Archibald by a former wife was murdered in 1763 at the massacre at the Great Levels. The name of Esther's first husband was probably Rob- ert. She had also a daughter by him whose name was Rachel. The two children lived with their stepfather, who provided for them in his will, leaving James 300 acres on the Bullpasture. In the colonial time the fam- ily name was spelled Burnsides. Another of the same name was John, who was living at the Stone Meeting House in Augusta in 1765. He had an only daughter, and a nephew John died on the upper Greenbrier in 1809.
James moved here from the Bullpasture soon after 1760, his second child John being by his own statement born near Union April 15, 1763. There
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is a family tradition that he dreamed his cabin was on fire and waking to find the dream correct he returned to his former home. At all events his settlement was marked for destruction in the Pontiac war of 1763. About 1770 he returned and built a blockhouse a little south of Union. But for a while he was living on the farther side of New River in what was then Montgomery County. He was an alert land prospector, active in business, and his name often occurs in the record-books of Augusta and Greenbrier. His latter years appear to have been clouded by reverses. He died at Union in 1812. His wife's name was Isabella. C: Esther (Will- iam Shanks, 1782)-John (1763-1816) (Elizabeth Alexander, 1797)-James (Anne)-Rachel-Sarah-Martha (?Joseph Carlisle, 1809)-Mary. The above are mentioned in the will of James, Sr., and in the order of age. But we are told of another, William (Malvina Alexander) . He moved to Texas, James, Jr., to Boone.
John lived on the large plantation immediately south of Union which was deeded him by his father. He became a deputy surveyor in 1785 and was the first county surveyor of Monroe. For his time he was a very wealthy citizen, his estate including seven slaves and personalty to the amount of $5037.19. C: Isaac (b. 1798) (Mary Vanstavern), Jane, (b. 1799) (Andrew Alexander)-Eliza (b. 1802) (Thomas Edgar, 1821)-Juli- ana (b. 1804) (Absalom S. Bolinger)-John (s)-James M. (1814-1873) (Eliza Peters, 1833). The latter was a business man of Peterstown and mem- ber of the constitutional convention of 1872. C: Elizabeth J. (b. 1834) (Wil- liam T. Akers, 1852, Henry S. Shanklin, 1868)-Cynthia (Matthew H. Walkup, 1856)-Margaret J. (s)-Cynthia A. (Lewis F. Clark, 1855)- Henry C. (b. 1843) (Jennie Wiseman, 1866).
CALLAWAY
Zachariah (d. 1816) (Ellender) had a blockhouse on Trigger Run near Peterstown. C: Andrew, Margaret, Nancy, Patty, Polly ( ?James Ellison, 1796c), Sarah, Joshua (Rebecca Campbell, 1808, ?Nancy Roads, 1813), James, Priscilla (Delaney Swinney, 1806), Elizabeth (Ephraim Sim- mons, 1802), Charles (Ellen Garten, 1812). Richard may have been in this locality in 1775. He was a resident of Fincastle, which then included the southern extremity of Monroe.
CAMPBELL
Robert (1760-1847) was born at Armagh, county Antrim, Ireland, his parents, Archibald and his wife Jean Meathers, being of Scottish blood. In 1781 he came to Philadelphia, and thence by way of Fincastle to Pick- away, where he at length owned 1500 acres of the best land in that local- ity and from 30 to 40 slaves. Owing to an unpleasant experience in his early life he never afterward incurred a debt. He was a heavy owner of livestock and a great lender of money. He was a hard trader yet
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charitable. He was a justice and otherwise prominent in the social and political life of the county. In religion he was a Presbyterian and in poli- tics a Democrat. Since there was no local bank in his time he kept large sums of money in his home. In November, 1846, he had $13,000 in his possession, a heavy payment having been made a few days before a visit by five robbers. One of them broke into his sleeping room, tore the money drawer from the table and tossed it through the window to his compan- ions. The aged man grappled with the robber, and two others came through the window to his relief. But his son Andrew Campbell, a very large, powerful man, heard the noise, rushed into the room, pitched two of the would-be thieves out of the entrance they had used, and pursued the third. The negro men came to the rescue and the robbers fled, nothing more being heard of them. They secured no booty, the money being in another room. During the affray the old gentleman was severely cut on the head with a club and the son received several slight bruises. The wife of Robert was Lydia Jeffries, a native of Wales, whom he was mar- ried to in 1791. C: Archibald (Susan Jones)-Robert (1801-1880) (Sarah McDowell, 1830)-Matthew (Virginia Brown)-Andrew (Ann Hawkins) . -Isaac (Mary A. Jenness, 1831)-Lewis (Mary Brown)-Caperton (Re- becca Jennings)-Sarah (John Skaggs, 1817)-Jean (John Holsapple) - Mary (William Patton).
C. of Archibald: Robert, Dr. William, John, Allen, Wentworth, Mar- garet, Mary. All these left the county.
C. of Robert: James (d. 1899)-Mary J. (Clark Johnson)-Ann (Cal- vin Young)-John (d. 1903) (Alcesta Black)-Dr. Robert (d. 1862) - Margaret S. (Kenneth Williams)-Isabella (Thomas Williams) -Alcesta -Sarah C. (Henry Dunn)-Burnett-Thompson (d. 1906)-Zerilda E. (Joseph Brown)-Dr. Clark R .- Everett L.
C. of John of Robert: Edwin (- Frap)-Gertrude-Burnett- Catharine (James B. Mason).
C. of Matthew: Elizabeth, Jane, Amanda (- Smith), Nannie, Henry, William.
C. of Andrew : Mary J. (N. H. Roberts)-Frances A. (William Boyd) -Archibald-Andrew N. (Eliza J. Leach)-James P. (Fannie Crews) - Lewis E .- Isaac N. (Mrs. Elizabeth Parker)-Nathaniel B. (Bettie Davis).
C. of Andrew N .- Nannie E., Nettie G., Andrew A., Kenna C., Wal- ter R., Crete H.
C. of James P .- Gertrude, Nannie M., Hattie, James, Carey.
C. of Isaac N .- Georgia.
C. of Nathaniel B .- Frank, Annie - Shanklin).
C. of Isaac: Dr. Christopher C., John E., William H. H., Virginia J. (Robert Humphreys, 1841).
C. of Lewis: Charles R., Henry B., Isaac, Andrew L., John, Mary A. C. of Caperton : Elizabeth (James Parker), Ella D., John H., Lewis C.
HON. ANDREW N. CAMPBELL Judge of Tenth Judicial Circuit, 1888-1896
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SIX PYNES Upper. Left to Right: Madison Pyne James McGuire Pyne. James Pyne Lower Left to Right. Tomac & Denn Waltre II Den Tem J.D.
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Andrew N. Campbell served throughout the war of 1861 and was grad- uated from the law school of Washington College during the presidency of General Robert E. Lee, with whom he was personally acquainted. By reason of the test oath restriction he was not admitted to the bar until 1870. As an attorney he acquired a statewide reputation. He has repre- sented his county in the state legislature and has been a member of the Board of Regents of the West Virginia University. In 1888-1896 he was judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, and was unanimously renominated by his party. In 1912 he retired from the active practice of his profession. Judge Campbell enjoys the esteem and respect of those who know him by reason of his kindly social qualities and his abundant store of anecdote and reminiscence.
Of the 29 grandsons of Robert Campbell all but one were in the Con- federate army. The sole exception was a resident of Illinois and a South- ern sympathizer. Two great grandsons, David Skaggs and Cephalus Black were also in the same service.
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