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C. of James: Archibald M. (1809-1876) (Anna W. Gray, 1833, Isa- bella Miller, 1856),-Frances E. (David Hanger)-Ann M. (b. 1813) (An- drew Campbell, 1830)-Joseph C. (Julia Patton)-William H .- Adelia J. (John W. Gray, 1845)-James S. (1824-1891) (Nancy N. Nickell, Su- sanna J. Parker, 1854)-Patrick H. (1826-1902) (Sarah C. Wills, 1847' -Robert A. P. H. went to Missouri, and R. A. to Texas.
C. of A. M .- Addison (Delilah Lemons), Isaac N. (- Dirkie), Eliza A. (- - Wiggins), Mary J. (Addison Leach), Lydia C. (W. W. Jones), Thomas J. (Rebecca J. Erwin) ; by 2d w .- Hiram H. (Ruth M. Potts, 1893), Andrew J . (Jennie Thacker), Virginia A. (Hugh A.
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Beamer), Emma M. (Thomas J. Boyd), James A. (Mattie C. Brannon). Nearly all these went to Nebraska, Illinois, and Texas.
C. of James S. (by 2d w.) : Joseph M. (Grace A. Dodds, Sarah A. Kincaid)-William A. (Laura J. Beamer, 1881)-James N. (Sarah V. Irons, 1882)-Robert P. (Sarah B. Simpson)-Carrie A. (mission teacher) -Erastus B. (Frances L. Daniel, 1895). It is only this last branch of the Hawkins connection that is represented in Monroe in the male line.
HAYNES
This connection is noted for longevity and powerful physique and for the proverbial German fondness for limestone soil and bluegrass. Joseph (1751-1847) (Mary J.) came to a patent on Wolf Creek about 1772. Their one son Henry (1774-1849) (Barbara Huffman of Joseph, 1805). C: Eva- line-Nancy-Joseph-Henry-Barbara (William Hines, 1814)-George W. -John. All but George W. (1813-1892) (Patsy Hines, 1833) left their native county. He was a veteran horse dealer.
C. of G. W .- Lewis C. (drowned 1853)-Thomas L. (1837-1892) (Mrs. Virginia Wood, 1865)-Isabel C. (J. M. Willis, 1856)-Joseph N. (1840-1913) (Emma Mclaughlin, 1868)-Mary J. (dy)-Martha E. (J. Cary Woodson, 1868-Wallace P. (b. 1846) (Lenora W. Gooding, 1876) -George L. (Virginia Beckner, 1874)-James A. (Mary Cole, 1873)-Cor- nelius E. (Nannie Dunn, 1880). Of the above, only Isabel C. and Wal- lace P. have remained in this county, the latter living on the family home- stead. The other branches of the connection are dispersed through other counties and other States.
C. of J. N .: (Arthur Hank), J. W., H. G.
C. of W. P .- Lola-Roy.
C. of T. L .- C. O .- F. N .- Mrs. Walter Skaggs.
Seemingly related to the foregoing Joseph was William (1763-1819) (Catharine Shanklin, 1793, Magdalen Kelly, 1812). He was a son of Isaac, a German, and his brothers Benjamin and Joseph lived on Jack- son's River. The latter married Barbara Riffe in 1782. Another, Charles, married Mary Dixon of Greenbrier, in 1781. About 1793 William came as a merchant to Sweet Springs, but in 1795 removed to Gap Mills, where he carried on a mercantile business with William Shanklin. He was a very prominent citizen in his time. C: James M. (1794-1858) (Isabella Dunlap, 1821)-Agnes D. (b. 1797) (Michael Erskine)-Andrew S. (s) -William P .- Thomas N. W. P. and T. N. both graduated in medicine and died in the South. J. M. removed to Summers in 1840.
C. of J. M .- William (Amanda E. Harvey, 1850)-Alexander D. (Jane Shanklin)-Robert P. (Elizabeth Swope of George, 1858)-James (Susan Shanklin, 1861)-Catharine (s)-Jane A. (Norman C. Gwinn, Wil- liam Carraway) .
William was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1872 and
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a state senator in 1892. A. D. was a delegate to the Virginia Assembly in 1856-7. James graduated from Washington College and Union Theo- logical Seminary, was a chaplain in the Confederate army, and after the war was a Presbyterian minister.
HEDRICK
Frederick (- - Tuckwiller) lived in Rich Hollow, Greenbrier. A son was Moses, father of S. Taylor, James J., and John.
HENDERSON
The brothers John, James, and Samuel, supposed to be sons of William, came to Augusta about 1740. Colonel John, a justice of Greenbrier, mar- ried Ann Given, sister to the wife of General Andrew Lewis. He died in 1787, leaving four minor children, Samuel, John, James, and William. Two wealthy and prominent pioneers of Monroe were the captains, John and James, who took the state census in 1782. The former, who appears to have lived in the valley of Rich, died in 1787, and his estate was ap- praised by residents of that section. James married Sarah Estill, a daugh- ter of Wallace Estill, but died about 1793, leaving only one child, and the widow remarried. The wife of John was Elizabeth Harvey. Other Hendersons, male and female, are mentioned in the records. William, brother to the above James, had Nancy, James, Alexander.
HEREFORD
Frank Hereford was born in Fauquier county, July 4, 1825. In early youth he removed to the West, not pausing until he reached California. In the new country his honesty and faithfulness gave him success. Com- ing to Monroe shortly after the war of 1861 he engaged in the practice of law, and in this field he exhibited a conscientious duty toward his clients. At the same time he took a strong position in the political affairs of West Virginia. He served four years in the House of Representatives, and four years in the United States Senate, completing the term left va- cant by the death of Allen T. Caperton. Mr. Hereford was popular and public spirited, and firm and true to his convictions of right. For many years he was a most loyal member of the Methodist church, but his lib- erality in his support of Christian work was by no means confined to his own denomination. The severe labor and exposure which he went through in his earlier years showed their effects in middle age, and toward the end his health was considerably impaired. He died February 21, 1891. Mr. Hereford was married to Alice B. Caperton, who survived him pre- cisely ten years. Their children are Francis G., Alexander (- Morton), Harriet (J. J. F. Shaw) and Katharine ( Stoddert).
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HIGGENBOTHAM
Thomas had Moses (d. 1805), Catharine (- Surgeon), Margaret - Higgenbotham) .
C. of Moses (app. $473.56) (Polly Bowyer) : Andrew, Mary, Mar- garet.
Henry (d. 1816) calls himself very old. C: James and others.
Mary (Leonard Fisher, 1804), daughter of Joseph.
HILL
C. of Martin (Margaret Boyd) : Spencer (Margaret Patton), William (Barbara Nickell), Nancy (James Curry), Malvina (William Nickell) . Spencer and William built the first houses in Sinks Grove.
HINCHMAN
William (d. 1815) (Elizabeth) is said to have built the first shingled house in Wolf Creek. His home was on Kelly Creek near Creamery. The only children we learn of were William, John, and Elizabeth. The first, as we are told, had only 24 children by his second wife. Of all this host the only names we have are John (1828-1896), Hannah, Eliza (Andrew A. Miller, 1845), Minerva (Thomas Johnson, 1844). The children of John of William, Sr., (w. Virginia Nickell, 1853) are Wellington, Annie E., A. Luther, Allen T., John. John of William, Sr. had William, Polly. The same or another contemporary John had Cynthia, Joseph, James, John, Andrew, Nancy (d. before 1842), Malinda. Other early Hinchmans were Margaret, born 1758, and Thomas, levy-free, in 1816. William, Sr., had a daughter who married a Dickson and had a daughter Elizabeth.
HINES
Charles (Margaret) settled on Wolf where he died in 1804. His children were William (Jean Alford, 1806, Margaret Haynes) -Charles (s)-Henry-Felicity, or Fidelity, (Loyd Ellis, 1819)-Iba (s)-Mary (Jo- seph Swope, Jr., 1800)-Nancy (James Alford, 1806). Henry was a sad- dler at Union and lived to an old age. Many are the stories told of his waggishness. Of the children of William, two were by the first wife.
C. of William: Charles R. (Cynthia Connor) -Matilda (Albert Alder- son)-Catharine (David Longnecker)-Martha (Beniah; B. Hutchinson, 1846)-Eliza (Ephraim Honaker, 1845)-Margaret (William Copeland) -Virginia (s)-Emeline (drowned crossing a footlog)-Madison (Eliza- beth Jameson)-Joseph P. (Lucy Alderson). Of the children of Charles R. two were by a second wife, Sarah R. Beard. C. of C. R .- Mary I. (George Alderson)-James W .- Lorenzo N .- Mattie C. (Henry Butt)- John W. (Ill.)-Jesse L. (- Winn)-Charles B.
Of the above, Charles R. kept store several years at Johnson's Cross- roads but died at Pence Springs. James W., a physician and surgeon,
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was a graduate of Emory and Henry College and had practice in the Con- federate army. Butt was his professional partner. Jesse L. is a fruit grower of Albemarle and Charles B., a pharmacist, was president of the county court of Summers at the time of the contention over the boundary line.
Joseph P., of Dropping Lick, had 10 boys: Jesse E., Charles A., and Robert L., thrifty farmers of Monroe; George R., John P., and Thomas H., farmers in Missouri; William E. and Cary C., attorneys at Sutton; James E., an agent, and Samuel O., deceased. This is a good record.
Another Hines was Joseph (Margaret) whose daughter Catharine mar- ried Jacob Haynes, 1804.
HODGE
John S. (1827-1906), a very worthy son of Rockbridge County, came in 1871 and purchased the Andrew Campbell farm near Pickaway. He married Sarah Ramsay in 1851. C: Luella T. (James G. Leach, 1875), Lelia S. (C. L. Morris, 1888), Thomas S. (Hattie Hammitt, 1889), Ashby A. (druggist), William H., Anna R. (B. C. Young, 1895). John S. would appear to be a descendant of Samuel (Elizabeth) who settled on the Calfpasture river about 1745, and died there some 30 years later, leav- ing these children: Eleanor, John, James, Sarah (- - McDonald), Agnes (- Martin, Margaret ( - McElvain), Catharine (- Kelly), Elizabeth (- -- Mccutchen) .
HOGSHEAD
John (1744-1781) (Ann Kilpatrick, 1764) was the oldest son of James (Elizabeth Davis) of Moffett's Branch, and he in turn was a son of John (Nancy Wallace), who came from Ireland with his wife and settled on Elk Run in Augusta about 1740. The grandson lost his life in Indian war- fare. C: James (1767-1854) (Johanna Wilson, 1803)-Charles (1769- 1843) (Jane McGlamery, 1801)-John (1773-1819) (Mary Smith, 1799c) -Margaret (Alexander Malcom)-William (Ann Kilpatrick, 1798). Wil- liam married and lived in Anderson county, Tenn. Margaret lived in Highland.
C. of James (Johanna) : Ann (John McNair, 1825)-John W. (Jane R. Huggins)-Polly (James Hogshead, 1829)-James H. (m. in Mich.) . The McNairs went to Iroquois Co., Ill., and James H. to Schoolcraft, Mich. The four children were born in Augusta between 1804 and 1809.
C of Charles (Jane) : Humphrey (s)-Isabella (1803-1886) (John B. Hogshead, 1828)-John (1806-1857) (Polly Hogshead, 1829)-Sarah A. (James H. Hogshead, 1839) . This family came to Monroe in 1822.
C. of John (Mary) : Eliza E. (1800-1878) (Tristram Patton, 1827)- John B. (b. 1802) (Isabella Hogshead)-James H. (b. 1804) (Sarah A. Hogshead)-Benjamin G. (s)-Ann M. (John Remley)-Charles P. (m.
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in Tenn.), Calvin P. (m. in O.)-William H. (m. in Va.)-Alexander L. (m. in Rockbridge). This family were born in Monroe, the parents being married here. C. P. went to Miss., Calvin P., a Presbyterian min- ister, to Ohio, W. H. to N. C., and A. L. to Washington Co.
C. of James (1808-1886) (Polly Hogshead) : Hugh H. (b. 1830) (Nancy Robeson, 1852)-Joanna J. (Calvin C. Remley)-Elizabeth M. (James Jackson, 1851)-John W. (Rebecca A. Poage)-Charles F. (Virginia C. Vanstavern, 1860, Mary E. Buster)-Mary E. (Charles Hedrick)-Isa- bella B. (Francis M. Hoylman, 1866)-Sarah A. (b. 1845) (John W. McDowell, 1867).
C. of John B. (1802-1847) (Isabella) : Newton H. (b. 1829) (Adaline S. Erskine, 1853)-Benjamin F. (Rebecca A. Price, 1853)-Hiram M. (Mary G. Miller, 1854)-Washington M. (b. 1833-1865) .
C. of Benj. F. (1831-1913) and Rebecca Anna Price (1831-1909) : Mary Isabel (H. W. Sanford) (Phila.), H. A. (Etta Porterfield), Margaret J. (A. Given-Henry Dillon), Sarah M. (S. W. Anderson), Paulina W. (S. C. Peters), John C. (d. '84), Jas. L. (Edith King) (Boston), Rhoda E. (Thos. L. Payne).
HOLSAPPLE
Philip (Elizabeth Carnifax) came from Pennsylvania at least as early as 1793 and settled on the line of the pike between Union and Gap Mills, on land now owned by the heirs of Oliver Beirne. C: Philip-Henry- John (Jean Campbell)-Polly (Henry Shock, 1806)-Susanna (James Fos- ter, 1821). Henry lived near the Burdette Spring and died a few years after the war. John lived at Hollywood, where he operated a grist and saw mill. He served on the county court. The holster pistols which he wore in the war of 1812 are now in the possession of a grandson.
C. of Henry: John W .- Samuel-Jerry-Mary A. (Charles Reed, 1846) (Gershom Keys) .
C. of John: Lewis (- Higgenbotham)-Caperton (Ann Reed)- Mary A. (Andrew E. Reed, 1845)-Virginia (Parke Goodall) .
Of the above grandsons all but Caperton moved away, Lewis moving to Missouri about 1852. The sons of Caperton are living in Kansas.
C. of Caperton : Isaac-John-Virginia S. (Joseph Tomlinson)-Mary (John Tomlinson) .
HONAKER
Frederick (d. 1825) C: John, Isaac, Magdalene (George Cantly, 1808), Mary (James Davis, 1803), Jacob, Margaret (Alexander Campbell, 1823), Rachel, Sarah (Thomas Reynolds, 1825), Anna, Letty, Elizabeth (William Saunders, 1822), Frederick S.
HOUCHINS
Edward Houchins, an Englishman of pure Saxon origin, came to Vir-
THE HOUCHINS FAMILY
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COURT-HOUSE OF MONROE COUNTY At Union
REV. CHARLES L. CAMPBELL A Very Worthy Colored Citizen
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ginia a little earlier than 1750. Of his two sons, Bennett and James, the latter (b. 1776) came to Monroe in 1795 and upon his marriage, 1798, with Mollie Harvey he built a house on Buzzard's Run near Greenville and within a mile of his father-in-law. In 1810 he moved to the west side of New River at Crump's Bottom, and thus it was outside this county that his children grew to maturity and married. But in his later years, when a widower, he returned to the vicinity of his old home and lived with his married children. C: John (1799-1855) (Celia S. Mann, 1824), Ben- jamin, William, Elizabeth, Polly, Charles (Katharine Hobbs, 1831), James, Thomas H. (Elizabeth Ellison, 1838), Nancy. John was a carpenter and millwright and built most of the earlier houses in Greenville. He was a person of great ingenuity and practical insight and when the waters of Red Sulphur Springs temporarily lost the peculiarity which gives them their distinctive name, in consequence of some digging and blasting near by, he was able to divine the trouble and effect a remedy.
C: Caroline (b. 1825) (Richard D. Shanklin, James Cooper)-Mary A. (John Ryan, 1845)-Allen D. (b. 1827) (Delilah Keaton)-Rufus (1829- 1903) (Margaret E. Bibb, 1858)-William (Louisa Gumm)-Amanda (Dr. George Thompson)-Granville (b. 1835) (Mollie Ballard, 1870c) -Syrena (Henry P. Cummings)-Clayton M. (b. 1839) (Martha J. Harvey)- Elizabeth (Rev. Woodson R. Cummings)-Thompson (Lizzie McCreery) (d. 1914). All but one of 12 children grew to adult age and had fam- ilies. In 1880, Mrs. Celia Houchins at the age of 75 could say she had 11 children living, 85 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren.
C. of Rufus: Laura B. (R. M. Ryan), William M., Mary S. (Manser Harvey), Nellie (Leiton Miller), Emma (Luther M. Garvin), Edward M. (Jennie Mann), Ida (William E. Houchins), Charles T. (Mary Lilly), Ryan (Ella Mann), Clinton T. (- Allen), Omer R., Lucy (Estelle Copeland) .
C. of William: Ettie (John W. Mann), John G., Lizzie (Cyrus Mil- ler), Luther, Elbert, Caroline (- French) .
C. of Granville: Gilmer, Maud (D. B. Daugherty).
C. of Clayton M .- James F. (b. 1866) (Carrie S. Beach), Mary C. (George W. Peck), Celia F. (Henry F. Mann), William E. (Ida Houch- ins), Virgil C., Lewis T. (Mintie Canterberry), Henry B. (Minnie Biggs). C. of Thompson : Ellen, John, Robert, Otis, Mary, Ethel, Harriet, Carl.
In 1899, on the anniversary of the birth of John Houchins, a family reunion was held by the descendants, then numbering, living and dead, 225. Of these but 33 had died, all from natural causes except John Shanklin, who was run over by a wagon. So far as could be ascertained, not one of the connection had ever been arrested, no one had become a vagrant or filled a drunkard's grave, nor had a case of bastardy ever occurred. Among them were a number in professional life and in com- mercial or corporate employment. John, the ancestor, was very athletic,
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and could leap after a run a distance of 42 feet, the world's record being a little over 44 feet. Several of his grandsons are also of great muscular power, one of them holding at arm's length a weight of 51 pounds. A considerable number are or have been school teachers.
"The Houchins Cornet Band" was organized 1896-7, by nine young men, sons of the brothers, Reuben and Clayton M. Later on a grandson joined. James F. was leader. Some concerts were given in the spring of 1898 that went more than half way toward paying for the instruments. A snare drum and a fife were added to the equipment. After several of the members had fallen victims to matrimony the organization passed out . of existence.
James F. is a newspaper man, a writer of pungency and force, a close student of politics, and a firm advocate of woman's suffrage. He edited the only journal that has appeared in the Indian Creek valley. His in- terest in the preparation of this volume has been most exemplary.
HOUSTON
Samuel R. Houston, a son of the Rev. Samuel Houston, was born in Rockbridge March 12, 1806. He studied in his father's classical school until he was 16, was graduated from Dickenson College in 1825, contin- ued his studies at Princeton College and Union Theological Seminary, and became a minister of the Presbyterian Church in 1834. He sailed that year to Scio, where he labored as a missionary and had to face much op- position from the Greek Catholic Church. A chieftain of Laconia invited him to his province, where he established a mission school. Ill health in his family sent him to Athens and thence to Cairo, where his wife died. He returned to Greece, and his only living child falling dangerously ill, he returned to America in 1841. Next year he became pastor at Union and held the place until 1886 when he resigned. Mr. Houston's later years were spent on a farm near Pickaway. His first wife was Mary E. Row- land, Rev. R. R., Botetourt Co., Va. His second was Margaret P. Pax- ton, by whom he was the parent of nine children: Wm. P., Lexington, Va .; A. C. (d.), a prosecuting attorney of Monroe; S. A. (d.), who represented the county in the W. Va. legislature; Dr. J. B. (d.), H. T., Mary (d. ), Helen, Bessie, and Janet, a missionary to the West Indies.
HOYLMAN
The Hoylman family of Monroe begins with James, who married Mary M. Vanstavern, born 1820.
HULL
From the Valley of Virginia has issued a host of the progeny of Peter Hull and his kinsmen. John (1788-1861) (Sophia Derieux) came from Augusta to a place near Centennial purchased in 1801 of John (Eve) Loude-
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back. He came with his father Henry (Emily Derieux White), other child- ren of whom were Elizabeth, (1800-1857) (Lewis A. Holmes), Polly (Jacob Baker, 1811), ? Henry (Abigail Massy, 1802). A son of John was Henry D. (b. 1819) (Mary A. Taylor) .
C. of H. D .: Annaliza, George W., Frances J., John W., Ellen B., James H., William L., Robert P., Charles N., Andrew J., Walter L.
Anderson? (Elizabeth Hawkins, b. 1781) lived near Red Sulphur. C: Anderson Nettle), Frances (- Wills), Malvina ( --- Meadows) .
HUMPHREYS
Samuel came with his parents to Monroe in 1799, located on Buzzard Run in the valley of Indian, and lived to be 85. His mother was a Vance and all three were of Irish birth. His own wife Sarah-or Mary-Jarvis (1778-1854) came from North Carolina. Samuel, Sr., was one of three brothers of whom Robert remained on Anthony Creek.
C. of Samuel Jr .- St. Clair (Barbara Miller)-John (m. in Ind.) - Nancy W. (James Mann, Jr.)-Jennie (Thomas Blanton)-Jacob C. (Sarah J. Woodson, 1839) (k. by accident)-Robert D. (Ellen J. Campbell, 1841) -Elizabeth (Jack Mann)-Samuel C. (Margaret I. Cook)-Olive I. (John Smith)-Alexander J. (Elizabeth A. Jones).
C. of St. Clair: Allen (- Pyne)-Samuel (s)-Henry (- Bal- lard)-Ward (- Broyles of Andrew)-Dayton C. (Ellen Ballard of Thompson)-Margaret (William Suttle)-Amanda (Adam Mann)-Isabel (Jesse Thompson)-Mary A. (John A. McDaniel)-Amanda (Addison Mann)-Isabel (Jesse W. Thompson).
C. of Robert D .- Mary J. (L. G. Cheuvront)-Emily (S. L. Slaven)- Sarah (John W. Pyne)-Ollie (James Brown)-Ellen (John W. McNeer) -Kate (M. C. Ballard)-Cornelia (Wallace Ballard).
C. of Samuel C .- Thomas B. (Margaret H. Rice, Nora E. Ballard)- Elizabeth C. (dy)-Annie L. (Walter Fuller)-Alvah H. (Sidney Wheeler) -Chapman (Rosa Terry)-Jennie B. (William Welder)-others (dy).
C. of Alexander J .- Columbia J. (Peter T. Henshaw)-Robert E. L. (Rosa Mann)-Madeline (-Douglas)-Milton (m. in San Francisco).
The connection in the north of the county is more a Greenbrier than a Monroe family.
Robert (Elizabeth) died 1809. C: James-John-Robert-Rebecca (- Wilson)-Elizabeth (- Vineyard)-Jane (- Underwood) Nancy (- Fenton)-Margaret (James Reynolds, 1805) . John died 1809. C: John-James-William-Richard-Robert-Isabel-Elizabeth-Margaret.
James (Isabella Charlton, 1800)-d. 1832c-C: Polly (Edward Foster, 1819)-Margaret (William Wilson, 1806)-Thomas-James-Washington -Joseph-Jane (Henry Roberts) .
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Robert (1788-1849) (Jean Wylie)-son of Samuel (Griselda)-C: An- drew C .- Robert W. (1811-1857) (Angelina Beard)-Alexander-Samuel -John-James-Caroline J .- Malinda-Sarah F.
Andrew of Gap Mills is a grandson of Robert. James (Sophronia Vanstavern), cousin to Andrew, lived on Second Creek. C: Benjamin F., William, Mary E., Agnes, Emma.
Samuel F. (Ann Bachman), son of Rev. James N. and Elizabeth Humph- reys, was from 1884 till his death in 1904 a leading merchant of this county, doing a very large business at Red Sulphur Springs and being for several years proprietor of the hotel at that place.
HUNTER
James (d. 1850) (Mary E.) C: Mary (- - Carter), Philip E. William, Elizabeth (- Francis), Julia (- Skaggs), Sarah (- Skaggs), Catharine (- Nelson), Joseph.
Mary was a landholder in 1799.
HUTCHINSON
This name, once so numerous and influential in Monroe, has now all but vanished. William (d. 1778) came to Augusta in 1746 and lived on Catawba Creek. John, Sr., was a miller near Tinkling Spring, also in 1746. From one or both of these the Hutchinsons of this county appear to be derived. John, the first clerk of Monroe, was born 1755 and died 1843. He was a deputy sheriff in 1781. The name of his wife is un- known. His children, so far as we possess their names, were Jane (1780- 1856) (John Pack, 1801)-Isaac (1781-1850) (Margaret - -, b. 1785, d. 1870)-John (1797-1872) (s)-Anderson (Miss.). George W. (1816- 1894) (Sarah Crow, Georgia Watt) was a son of Isaac. C: by 1st w .- Ann (Sam'l A. Sterrett), Henry (- Abernathy), Minnie, d., Amanda (Jas. E. Mann). Among other early Hutchinsons were John (d. 1796) (app. $392.75), Samuel, who died on Hans in 1807; Archibald, who moved from the same valley to Kanawha in 1806; William, who sold to Archi- bald in 1793; and Alexander (d. 1834) (Sarah Campbell, 1807), some of whose children were Thomas J., James A. (Mary J. Woodson, 1844)," Benaiah B. (Martha Hines, 1845), Isaac N.
IRONS
Andrew (b. 1786c), a native of Scotland, settled near Hillsdale about 1808. His children by his first wife (Elizabeth J. Parker of Joseph, 1804) were John (1813-1901), Elizabeth (- Nickell, Adam B. Crosier)- Sarah (David Robinson), and a daughter who married a Young. By a second wife (Mrs. - - Crosier Harper) there was Andrew (1822-1904) (Elizabeth Young, 1846c). John lived on Wolf Creek.
C. of John (Susanna Young of James, 1839) : William Y. (Mary E.
PETERS MOUNTAIN Looking Toward the Southwest from a Point near Gap Mills Methodist Church
JAMES BURNETTE MILLER A Gifted Singer
JAMES F. HOUCHINS Now of California
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Knapp, 1872)-Benjamin F. (Sarah A. Johnson)-Sarah E. (A. Y. Leach) -Estaline (Jeremiah J. H. Tracy)-John C. (Mary L. Suitor, 1883) 1 -Robert H. (Elma Barlow)-Letcher (m. twice in Ill.). B. F., J. C., and Letcher became physicians. All the sons had families: W. Y. 4 sons and 1 daughter; B. F. 3 sons and 3 daughters; J. C. also 3 of each, R. H. 2 daughters, and L. 3 sons and 6 daughters.
C. of Andrew: Samuel R. H. (Amanda E. Hinton, 1881)-James Y. (s)-Susan E. (B. F. Humphreys, 1879)-Sarah V. (J. N. Hawkins, 1882)-Andrew G. (Belle V. Allen of Ala.)-William E. (Margaret John- son, 1896). A. G. is a minister and lives in Georgia.
JAMESON
James, a hatter, was born in Greenbrier in 1797 and was in the war of 1812. He married Mary Duncan, 1820, Rebecca Hess, 1832. The child- dren of these marriages were 4 and 7, respectively.
JARRELL
Daniel (Mary) (d. 1804) lived on Indian and owned four slaves. C: Gibson and others.
JENNINGS
Simeon (d. 1854) (Rachel T. Jordan, of Pendleton county) settled in Union 1838 and built the Elmwood mansion. C: Eliza, Rhoda J., Benja- min F., Emily, William H. (Isabel Shanklin), Mary, Kate, Petrie (k. '61) .
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