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J. A. Gibson was the nominee of the Republican party for the Legislature in 1908 and more than carried the strength of his party. He also taught in the public schools of this County and the State of Nebraska for a number of years.
Francis Dold Gibson, son of Jasper N. and Rosae (Mc-
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Lead) Gibson, was born at Beverly in 1872, married Maggie Collett. Children, Ruth, Martha, Blanche, Frances D. and Eugent. Mr. Gibson was on the police force, regular and ex- tra, in the City of Elkins for five years. He was policeman for the Coal & Coke Company for three years. He is now en- gaged in the real estate business in Elkins.
THIE GODDIN FAMILY.
The Goddin Family. The Goddin family is of English descent and were pioneers in the mother state, being among the first settlers of New Kent County, Virginia. Jefferson Goddin came to Randolph in 1827 and settled near Elkins. He married Rachel Chenoweth. Their children were, Andrew J., Isaac P., Judson C., Thomas J., Clitis, George, Emmett, Melissa E., Virginia, Mary and Eliza.
Judson Chenoweth Goddin, born in 1841, married Susan (Ray) Corley. Children, Rachel J., Jacob L., Thomas J., Ben- jamin F., Hattie Lee and George Judson.
Jesse W. Goddin, son of Jefferson and Rachel (Cheno- weth) Goddin, married in 1856, Mary E., daughter of Daniel and Sallie Ann (Earle) Harper. Children, Floyd, Lucy, Ida, Betty, Jefferson, May and John. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors in 1870-1, and was president of the County Court in 1872-6. He was justice of the peace of Leads- ville District 1884-92, and was again a member of the County Court in 1892-93.
THE GANDY FAMILY.
The Gandy Family. Uriah Gandy was the leader of a band of Tories during the Revolution. He was active in be- half of the mother country in Pendleton, the eastern part of Randolph and adjoining counties. With a number of British sympathizers he established a camp on Tory Camp Run, a few miles south of the present town of Harmon. Notwith- standing the fact that he was not in harmony with the early settlers in the matter of politics, he attained a place of prom- inence in the early history of Randolph. Subsequent to the Revolution he settled on a branch of Dry Fork, which has borne the name of Gandy Creek. At that time he was miles
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from any other human habitation. His wife was a daughter of Jesse Hughes, the noted Indian fighter. He was one of the justices of the peace appointed by the Governor in the organization of the County in 1787. Being the oldest justice of peace in point of service, he was promoted to sheriff in 1793. He moved to Kentucky in 1797. Mr. Gandy located his cabin about fifty yards from the junction of Gandy Creek with Dry Fork between the two streams.
THE GOFF FAMILY.
The Goff Family. The Goff family, one of the most prominent and influential in the State, was first represented in Virginia by Job Goff, who settled in Harrison County in 1805. The Goff family is of German descent and settled in Rhode Island is an early colonial period.
David Goff, son of Job Goff, located in Randolph prior to 1829, when he was united in marriage to Christina, daughter of Peter Buckey. Their children were Claude, Cecilla and Vernon. David Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, superintendent of schools in 1853. He represented the Coun- ty in the Virginia Assembly and also in the Senate after the formation of the new state. He was Colonel of the Virginia militia in 1844. General Nathan Goff, ex-Secretary of the Navy, and now United States Senator, is a nephew of David Goff and studied law in his uncle's office at Beverly.
Claude Goff, son of David and Christina (Buckey) Goff, was for many years a practitioner at the Beverly bar and was a highly esteemed citizen. He married Anna, daughter of Franklin and Lucinda Leonard. Their children were Chas. P., David and Ralph Waldo.
Ralph Waldo Goff, a very promising young man who was preparing himself for the legal profession, died in the twenty- first year of his age at Beverly.
THE HUTTON FAMILY.
The Hutton Family. Abraham Hutton was, perhaps, the first of the name to come to America. He was of Welch de- scent, and located in what is now Hardy County. He married a Miss Evans, of Philadelphia. The children of this marriage
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were Isaac, Moses, Peter and Johnathan. Moses Hutton en- tered 200 acres of land on Stony River in Hampshire County in 1789. Abraham Hutton was living in Hardy County in 1794.
Johnathan Hutton was born June 3, 1769, and married Mary, daughter of Frederick and Barbara Troutwine, in Hardy County in May, 1790. He moved to Randolph and settled on the west side of the river, near the present village of Huttonsville in 1795. The children of Johnathan and Bar- bara (Troutwine) Hutton were Moses, Abraham, John A., Elizabeth, Sarah, Nancy, Catherine, Fannie and Mary. Eliz- abeth married Andrew Crouch, Catherine married Chas. C. See, Mary married W. J. Long.
Moses Ilutton, son of Johnathan and Barbara (Trout- wine) Hutton, married Mary Haigler. Their children were Mary, Alfred, Elihu, Eugene, Virginia and Mozella. He died in the sixty-sixth year of his age.
John A. Hutton, son of Johnathan and Barbara (Trout- wine) Hutton, married Dorothy See in 1834. Their children were Margaret, Catherine, Rachel, Lucy, Caroline and Warwick.
Abraham Hutton, son of Johnathan and Barbara (Trout- wine) Hutton, married Phoeba Ann Wilson in 1836. Chil- dren, Mary Catherine, Phoeba, Amelia, Albert E., James S. Decatur B. and John.
Lieutenant Eugene Hutton, son of Moses Hutton, gave his life to the lost cause at the battle of Bunkerhill, September 3, 1864. He was a brave and intrepid soldier and was highly esteemed for many excellencies in civil life.
Elihu, son of Moses and Mary (Haigler) Hutton, was born December 31, 1837, died April 19, 1916. He was reared on his father's farm in the vicinity of Huttonsville and was educated under private tutors and at the Huttonsville Acad- tmy, then the principal seat of learning in this section of the State. At the age of 24, in 1861, he organized Company C of the 20th Regiment Virginia Cavalry. He was elected Captain of his Regiment and by meritorious service arose to Colonel of the Regiment at the close of the war. He participated in the principal engagements of the war. He was wounded sev-
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eral times: severely at Smithfield, Virginia. His brother, Eugene, a young man of much promise was killed at Bunker Hill in 1864. At the close of the war he resumed the pursuits of husbandry on the home farm.
COLONEL ELIHU HUTTON.
In 1872 he married Miss Sophrina, daughter of Harvey Woodford, of Barbour County. To this union were born two daughters. Mrs. Laone, wife of Capt. W. H. Cobb, of Elkins, and Mrs. Beryl, wife of Floyd Strader. of Elkins: and three sons, Woodford, Forest and Ernest.
Col. Hutton represented his county two terms in the State Legislature and his genial and generous nature. coupled with qualities of mind that incited admiration, made him very popular. alike in private and public life.
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Col. Hutton was prominently identified with the Confed- erate service during the Civil War. He was with Lee at Elk- water. He accompanied Gen. W. L. Jackson in his raid in the Valley in 1863, and was with Gen. Imboden in his raid in West Virginia the same year. Col. Hutton was one of Gen. Early's subordinates upon whom he much depended in his campaign in the Valley against Sheridan.
John A. Hutton was justice of the peace in 1841. He rep- resented Randolph and Tucker in the Legislature subsequent to the Civil War. He was assessor of lands in 1880. War- wick, son of Johnathan, also represented Randolph and Tuck- er in the State Legislature and was sheriff of Randolph in 1888.
John A. Hutton in association with Mathew Whitman, Dr. Squire Bosworth, Andrew Crawford and others, were among the leaders in the organization of the Presbyterian church in Randolph and made it a power in moulding a moral and religious sentiment in the earlier years of the County. The Hutton family also deserve credit for fostering education in Randolph prior to the Civil War. It was largely through their efforts that the academy was established in antebellum days. In this school, taught by Capt. Jacob I. Hill, many men of Randolph received an education which enabled them to take a leading part in the professions of teaching, law, med- icine, the pulpit, as well as in the civic affairs of the County and State.
Il. Woodford, son of Col Elihu and Sophina (Woodford) Hutton, was born February 26, 1876, married Lena, daughter of Seymour McCarty. Mr. Hutton was educated at Fair- mont Normal and at State University. He is engaged in farming and stockraising near Huttonsville.
Bedford Forrest, son of Elihu and Sophina (Woodford) Hutton, was born in 1885, married Ethelyn Virginia, daugh- ter of A. J. and E. V. (Robinson) Bonnafield. Children, Eli- hu Bonnafield, Frances Haigler and Ethelyn Virginia. Mr. Hutton was educated at Potomac Academy, Stetson Univer- sity, Florida. Pantops Academy, Washington, and Washing- ton and Lee University, where he matriculated in the depart-
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ment of law. Mr. Hutton is engaged in farming and stock- raising.
THE HARDING FAMILY.
Joseph French Harding, born November 9, 1838, in Anne Arundle County, Maryland, son of Joseph and Alice (Elliott) Harding. He married in 1869, Luceba, daughter of Archibald and Caroline (Taylor) Wilmoth. Children, Clare W., French Leslie, Luceba MI., Roella, Jo L. and Vie Owen. Mrs. Harding died April 8, 1910. Jo Lile died January 26, 1906. The name had a military origin and the Hardings have always had a bent toward the profession of arms, many of the name dis- tinguishing themselves in military life. Maj. Harding entered the Confederate service at the beginning of the war, when 23 years of age. He remained until the close of the war firing the last shot of that conflict, perhaps, at Knapps Creek, in an engagement with Capt. Badger. He was in many hard fought battles and had many seeming miraculous escapes. Although several times wounded, Maj. Harding is today physically su- perior to the average man twenty years his junior. He rose to the rank of Major and was named for promotion to Colonel when the war closed. Maj. Harding has no characteristics of the man who yields and after Lee's surrender made an effort to reach the country beyond the Mississippi, where he be- lieved the Confederates were still holding out, but on learn- ing that all had surrendered, he wrote his own parole May 23, 1865.
Subsequent to the Civil War, Maj. Harding twice repre- sented Randolph and Tucker counties in the State Legisla- ture and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1872. He was Sheriff of Randolph from 1877 to 1881. Since 1885, with his son Clare W. Harding, as junior member of the firm, he has been an attorney at law.
Clare W. Harding, son of Major and Luceba ( Wilmoth) Harding, was born in 1872, married Ada, daughter of S. N. and Katherine (Brown) Bosworth. Children, Mildred, Ev- elyn, Neil, Lyle and Josephine. Mr. Harding has served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Randolph County and was appointed commissioner in chancery by Judge Kittle.
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THE HARPER FAMILY.
The Harper Family. The Harper family is of German ancestry. The name was originally spelled Herber or Herr- ber. Three brothers, Adam, Jacob and Phillip immigrated from the Rhine to the Shenandoah Valley in about 1750. They were in the French and Indian War from Pendleton. Henry, a son of the first Jacob, was born in 1788 and died in 1850. He was the ancestor of the Ilarper family in Randolph. He married Elizabeth Mouse. Their children were Jacob, Jehn, Moses, Henry, Eva, Elizabeth, Abraham and Daniel. In 1799, Jacob C. Harper purchased two tracts of land of Abraham Claypool on the east side of the river in the Cap- linger settlement. The Harpers and Caplingers were neigh- bors in Pendleton and it is probable that the report that the Caplingers gave of the country induced the Harpers to follow them to Randolph. There were two Jacob Conrad Harpers. The Jacob Conrad Harper who lived on Horse Camp Run was the son of Moses and Phoeba Conrad Harper and grandson of the first Jacob Harper. Jacob Harper also purchased 402 acres of land in what is now the Caplinger settlement in 1799. The grantor was Geo. See of Hardy County, who had received a patent for the land in 1783.
Geo. W. Harper, son of Daniel and Sally Ann (Earle) Harper, was born in 1849. Mr. Harper was married in 1870 to Louisa Ann Taylor. Children, W. G., Burtie M. and John T., who was a machinist and was killed by a boiler explosion in the Western Maryland vards at Elkins. Mr. Harper was deputy sheriff in 1866-7, and was constable from 1881-7.
W. W. Harper, son of Miles N. and Christina Lawrence Harper, was born in Pendleton County in 1881. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native county and came to Randolph in 1914. Mr. Harper married Margie Christina Teter. Two children have blessed this union, Freda and Lena. Mr. Harper was clerk of the Cireoit Court of Pen- dleton in 1913, and deputy sheriff in 1908-12. At present he holds the responsible position of cashier of Stockman's Bank at Harmon.
Seymour Harper, son of Jacob C. and Susan (McDonald) Harper, was born in 1865, married Sallie (Shober) Ours.
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Children, Carl, Earle C., Pearl S., William Jennings Bryan, Mabel, Brooks, Madaline, Neil Wood, Gail, Ruth. Dale died in infancy. Mr. Harper came to Elkins in 1907 and has been prominently identified with the business interests of the city.
Isom Harper, son of Jacob C. and Susan (McDonald) Harper, was born near Harmon in 1868; married Phoeb (Bright) Carr. Children, Minor, Delia, Lexie, Theodore R., and Guy. Calvin died in the twenty-ninth year of his eage; Claudie died, aged 21 ; Holmes R. died, in the eleventh year of his age, and Otos died in infancy. Mr. Harper was con- stable of Dry Fork District in 1895.
Daniel A. Harper, son of A. E. and Amanda Virginia (Hinkle) Harper, was born in 1867 ; married Minerva, daugh- ter of Nicholas and Eliza (McLean) Wilmoth. Children, Caudy,, Mittie Virginia and Benton E. Mr. Harper was born and raised on what is known as the Harper Triangle in the City of Elkins. He was also the founder of Harper Town, a thriving suburb of the City of Elkins.
Philip D. Harper, son of John D. and Ellen (Simmons) Harper, was born in Harmon, W. Va. in 1868; married Mintie E. (Goff) Lantz. Children, Harmon, Iva, Nela, Nellie, Wil- bur, John, Bessie, Maggie, Lester, Ernest, Snowden, Ross, Scott. Five children of Mr. and Mrs. Harper died in infancy, making 18 children. It is a peculiar coincidence that Mr. and Mrs. Harper were born on the same day in the same year.
THE HART FAMILY.
Hart Family. The Hart family is of English descent and has been identified with the county since 1785, when two brothers, Daniel and Edward Ilart, located at the present town of Beverly. Daniel settled about a mile above Beverly on Files Creek near the old Buckey mill site. They came to Randolph from New Jersey. John and Daniel Hart were sol- diers in the Revolution, and were sons of John Hart, who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Joseph Hart, son of Edward Hart, was born and reared near Beverly. He became a prominent lawyer, having been admitted to the bar of Randolph in 1837, and was also prom- inent in public and political affairs. He twice represented his
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county in the State Legislature and was president of the county court. He moved to the summit of Rich Mountain in 1855 for the benefit of his health, but continued to practice law until the beginning of the Civil War. His farm on the mountain top became the site of the battle of Rich Moun- tain and his residence was between the lines of the contending forces. He died April 4, 1881.
Squire Bosworth Hart, son of Joseph and Susan (Pick- ens) Ilart, was born near Beverly in 1841. He enlisted in Battery E First West Virginia Artillery and served in the Valley of Virginia. After the close of the war he taught school until 1867, when he was elected county superintendent of schools, and was re-elected in 1869. In 1849 a coal mine was opened a short distance west of the summit of the moun- tain on the Hart farm and supplied the demand in Beverly and vicinity until the building of the railroad up the Valley. In 1868 Mr. Hart married Maria L. Morgan, of Upshur Coun- ty. They had one child, who became the wife of Hon. Clyde Johnson, a prominent attorney of St. Marys, this state.
William Camden Hart, son of Calvin C. Hart and Julia Ilart, was born December 19, 1868: married Marietta E. Lo- gan, daughter of William Thomas Logan and Elizabeth F. Logan. Children, Shirley D. Hart, Logan D. Hart, Dorothy Julia Hart, Marion L. Hart, Sheffey B. Hart, and Calvin E. Hart. William Camden Hart has been constable twice and justice of the peace of Beverly District once.
THE HAIGLER FAMILY.
The Haigler Family. Though the family name in the male line is no longer represented in Randolph County, the Haigler strain of blood is transmitted in several prominent families in Randolph. The forebears of this family, Benjamin and Jacob Haigler, were soldiers in the French and Indian War from Pendleton County. The Ilaigler family is of Ger- man ancestry.
Jacob and Perry Haigler moved to Jowa in 1856. Jacob Haigler, Sr., died April 9, 1842, aged 53 years. He died from the effects of a burn received while burning brush in a clear- ing. Henry Clay Dean married a daughter of Jacob Haigler.
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THE HAYMOND FAMILY.
The Haymond Family. Creed Haymond was born in Beverly, Randolph County, April 22, 1836. His father was Calder Haymond and his mother was Martha, daughter of Ben Wilson. Calder Haymond located in Beverly in 1830 for the practice of law. When Creed Haymond was sixteen the family moved to California. In 1859 he entered upon the practice of law in his adopted state and rapidly rose to the leadership of his profession. He was counsel for Leland Stanford and prepared the papers for that gentleman's dona- tion for the foundation of that noted institution, the Leland Stanford University. He also became a national figure in politics.
THE HADDAN FAMILY.
The Haddan Family. Withers in his Border Warfare, mentions the Haddans as among the first settlers to occupy the Valley in 1772-4. There were three brothers, John, Wil- liam and David Haddan. They came to Randolph from New Jersey. The Haddans located above Huttonsville in the vi- cinity of the mouth of Elkwater, and built a fort on the farm now owned by Forrest See. Mary, daughter of David Had- dan, married Edward Jackson. She was the grandmother of General Stonewall Jackson. She was the child of the first wife of David Hadden. For his second wife David Haddan married Rebecca Barr. They had three children, David, Margaret and Elizabeth. David died in youth. Margaret became the wife of Isaac White in 1797. Elizabeth married John Stalnaker in 1804. John Haddan was one of the justices of the peace appointed by the Governor in the formation of the county. He was also assessor in the same year. He was one of the first representatives of Randolph in the Virginia Assembly. He was captain of the militia in 1795 and major in 1800. In 1806 he moved to Indiana. The Haddan families moved to the west and although extinct in Randolph in the male line, the strain of blood is represented in several promi- nent families of the county.
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THE HARRIS FAMILY.
The Harris Family. Jerome B. Harris, son of Barnabus Tunis and Rachael Marquis Harris, was born in 1836. He married Mary Crocket. Six children were born unto them, Lenora, Gaylord, Jerrold, Tunis, Mary and Raphael. This branch of the Harris family is decendant of James Harris, who was born in Bristol, England, in 1700. Imigrated to New Jersey in 1725. He married a Miss Boylen. A son, George Harris, was born in 1745. He married a Miss Tunis. A son, Barnabus Harris, was born at Pulaski, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, in 1768. He married Ester Miller. Of this marriage Barna C. Harris was born in 1811. Barna C. Harris married Rachael Marquis, and unto them was born Barna Tunis Harris, who married Rachael Marquis. Their son, Jerome B. Harris, was the ancestor of this branch of the Harris family in Randolph.
Jerrold Harris, son of Jerome B. and Mary J. Harris, was born in Pennsylvania in 1876; married Birdie McGee, daughter of Adam and Mary A. McGee. Children, Frank, Clarence and Edith. Mr. Harris is an employe of the Laurel River Lumber Company, Jennington, West Virginia.
THE HORNBECK FAMILY.
The Hornbeck Family. Benjamin Ilornbeck was the first of that line to locate in Randolph. He was of Irish ancestry and came to Randolph from Pendleton. Benjamin Hornbeck settled on Stalnakers Run, near where White Station is now located on the Western Maryland Railroad. The remains of the chimney of his cabin is still visible on the farm of Obidiah Taylor on the north bank of Stalnaker Run. His wife and children were massacred by the Indians in 1781. His first wife was a Miss Vanscoy. His second wife was the daughter of William Currence, the pioneer.
Benjamin Hornbeck was born in 1754, and died Septem- ber 6, 1827. He was buried at the old Currence graveyard on the farm now owned by John Weese. The children of Benjamin and Lydia (Currence) Hornbeck were Sarah, who married Samuel Channell in 1804: Ann, who married James Carr in 1810: Mary, Joseph, Moses, John and Elizabeth.
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Moses moved to Upshur County, Joseph moved to Illinois. John remained on the patrimonial estate.
John, son of Joseph, who moved to Illinois, married Bet- tie, daughter of William H. Currence. They had one son, John, who now lives in Beverly.
John, son of Benjamin and Lydia (Currence) Hornbeck. married Margaret Stalnaker. Their children were Adam, who married Mary, daughter of Henry Currence; Margaret, Dor- cas and Elizabeth, who married William Miles of Greenbrier County.
Adam, son of John and Margaret (Stalnaker) Hornbeck. lives on the Benjamin Hornbeck homestead near Daily Sta- tion. He had one son, William, who was justice of the peace of Valley Bend District. He was killed by lightning in 1898.
THE ISNER FAMILY.
The Isner Family. William Isner was the first of the name to locate in Randolph, perhaps. He lived in the Valley in 1775 on lands adjoining the lands of Benjamin Wilson (See Early Land Patents in another chapter. ) Thomas Isner applied for a pension in the year 1833 on the grounds that he was an Indian spy in the Revolution. Michael Isner entered 190 acres of land in 1789 in Tygarts Valley. Michael Isner was a member of the first grand jury in Randolph County in 1787.
THE JACKSON FAMILY.
The Jackson Family. The first of this Jackson family to come to America was John Jackson, who was from the north of Ireland. Upon his arrival in America in 1748, he se- cured employment on the plantation of Lord Baltimore, in Calvert County, Maryland, where he met and married Eliz- abeth Cummins, a native of London, England, and a woman of intelligence and great force of character. After a time, John Jackson moved to Hardy County, thence to Randolph, now Upshur County. where the town of Buckhannon now stands. Eight children were born to them. Five sons. George, Edward, Henry, Samuel and John, and three daughters. Ed- ward Jackson married Mary, raughter of David Haddan, who
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resided in the vicinity of Elkwater: Edward Jackson moved to Harrison, now Lewis County, in about 1800. Three sons were born to Edward and Mary Haddan Jackson, George, David and Johnathan.
George Jackson moved to Clarksburg and his parents made their home with him until their death. The father died in 1801, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. The mother died in 1825 at the very unusual age of 105 years.
Johnathan, son of Edward and Mary (Hadden) Jackson, was an attorney of Clarksburg and married Julia Neal, of Parkersburg. Two sons and two daughters blessed this union, Warren and Thomas Johnathan and Elizabeth and Laura Ann.
Warren and Elizabeth died in early life. Laura Ann be- came the wife of Johnathan. Arnold, of Beverly.
Edward and John Jackson were members of the first County Court of Randolph County, and with their associate justices of the peace organized the county in 1787. Edward Jackson was the first surveyor of Randolph County : was as- sessor in 1791, and sheriff in 1792. He was captain of the militia in 1787. Henry Jackson was surveyor in 1793. John Jackson was lieutenant of the militia in 1787. Edward Jack- son moved to the West Fork about five miles below the pres- ent town of Weston in about 1800. He died in 1827.
THE KYLE FAMILY.
The Kyle Family. This family is numerously represented in Randolph and is of German ancestry. The name was origi- nally spelled Keil. The Keils came to Randolph from Pen- dleton. George and Valentine Kyle were soldiers in the French and Indian War from Pendleton. They lived at Upper Tract in Pendleton and moved there from Rockingham in the early days of Pendleton when it was a part of Augusta. The Kyles, Friends, Bogards, Ilarpers and Caplingers were all decended from Pendleton County ancestors.
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