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1759 he enlisted in a Virginia company commanded by Colonel George Washington (later general). The company disbanded at Fort Lewis, near Staunton, Virginia, February 24, 1762. In May, 1773, he moved from Maryland to District of West Augusta, Virginia, settling at what is now Morgantown, West Virginia. When Monongalia county was formed in 1776, he was justice of the peace, deputy surveyor, coroner and sheriff. He remained in that county until 1784, when he removed to Clarksburg, Harrison county, and served as county surveyor from that time until his death. At the commencement of the revolution he was appointed captain of a militia company, serving at Prickett's Fort, 1777, promoted to major, 1781, which office he held until the close of the war. His title of major came through his service in the French and Indian war. The following is a copy of the army discharge granted to Major Haymond, in 1762, by Colonel Adam Stephen, commander of the Virginia regiment :
These are to certify that William Haymond, sergeant in Captain Byrd's company is hereby discharged according to an act of the assembly, made for that purpose. He has duly served for three years, and has behaved like a good soldier and a faithful subject.
Given under my hand at Fort Lewis, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1762. ADAM STEPHEN, Colonel, V. R.
Major Haymond married (first) Cassandria Clelland, born October 25, 1741, died December 23, 1788, who bore him four sons: John, died in Kanawha county; William Jr., of whom further; Thomas, died near Clarksburg; Daniel, died in Ritchie county, this state. He mar- ried (second) Mrs. Mary Powers, nèe Pettyjohn.
(III) William (2), son of Major William (1) Haymond, was born in 1771, near Rockville, Maryland, died at "Palatine Hill," Mar- ion county, now West Virginia, July 8, 1848. He was engaged in the latter part of the Indian wars, along the Monongalia frontier. He married Cynthia Carroll, born March 29, 1774, near the Bull Run battlefield at Manassas, daughter of James and (Heath) Car- roll, of Maryland, and was a relative of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence. They had seven sons: Thomas S., of whom further; William Calder, Hiram, Jonathan, Oc- tavius, Augustus, Marcus, all deceased.
. (IV) Thomas S., son of William (2) and Cynthia (Carroll)
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Haymond, was a member of congress. He married Harriet Franklin, and had issue including Alpheus F., of whom further.
(V) Judge Alpheus F. Haymond, son of Thomas S. and Harriet (Franklin) Haymond, was born at what is known as "Palatine Hill," in Marion county, West Virginia (then Virginia), December 15, 1823, died in Fairmont, December 15, 1893. He was reared in his native county, and after attending the common schools and Monongalia Acad- emy at Morgantown, entered William and Mary's College at Williams- burg, which he left at the end of one term, to engage in the study of law with Edgar C. Wilson, of Morgantown. After completing his required course of reading, he was admitted to the bar in 1842. Upon the very threshold of the practice of his profession he was called into politics, and ten years later was sent as a representative of his county to the gen- eral assembly at Richmond. He served a second time in that respon- sible body, in 1857 and in 1861, was a member of the convention called to determine what part the state of Virginia should take in the impend- ing struggle between the states. Throughout the stormy session of that memorable convention, Mr. Haymond by voice and vote opposed the plan of secession, but finally that body was carried in favor of with- drawal from the Union, and the protests from the minority were un- availing. When the great war came on, Mr. Haymond, like "Stone- wall" Jackson and General Lee, was impelled by a sense of allegiance due his state and a duty of obedience due her laws, and entered the military service of Virginia in 1862. For nearly four years he served as field commissary in Early's brigade, Jackson's army corps. His family had been compelled to leave Fairmont, and became refugees within the confederate lines, while the husband and father endured suffering, privations and hardships, as all southern soldiers endured, yet was more anxious for his family than he was to escape hunger, thirst and nakedness, that was his lot in common with the men of North Vir- ginia. When the war closed he was paroled and returned to Marion county, to find nearly every avenue to obtain a livelihood closed against him. The lawyer's test oath debarred him from practice, but his old- time friends and many others who desired his legal service, in 1868, united in a petition to the legislature asking a passage of an enabling act in his favor. It was passed and was the first of the special acts
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adopted for this purpose, prior to 1870, when the test oath was repeal- ed. He soon regained his extensive practice of former years, and when the Democratic party came into power Mr. Haymond was elected a delegate to the constitutional convention from the second senatorial district. He served as chairman of the committee that prepared the article on the legislative department and no member of the convention had greater influence in shaping the constitution of 1872 than Mr. Hay- mond, whose legal ability and extensive civil and political experience rendered him especially fit to devise the many excellent provisions which he suggested and which were embodied in the different articles of the instrument. At the election which resulted in the adoption of the new constitution he was elected as one of the four judges of the supreme court of appeals, and by lot was assigned one of the four terms. At the expiration of his term Judge Haymond was reelected for the full term of twelve years, over his highest competitor, by a majority of fif- teen thousand and four hundred votes. For six years of his second term he served upon the bench of the court of last resort in the state, and at the close of 1882 resigned his office to return to the private prac- tice of his profession at Fairmont. But public life closed not for Judge Haymond with his withdrawal from the bench, and two years later, in obedience to the wish of the people of his county, he allowed the use of his name as a candidate for the legislature, being elected and served as chairman of the judiciary committee.
Never defeated as a candidate, he always enjoyed the confidence of his fellow citizens with whom he was popular on account of his integrity and many intellectual and social qualities. He never disappointed pub- lic expectation and was always true to every private trust reposed in him, measuring up to the highest standard in every field in which he labored, yet his influence in the constitutional convention and his opinion on the supreme bench will constitute the chief impression to be left by Judge Haymond on the state of West Virginia. While on the bench he was president of the supreme court of appeals for several years, and his opinion on many new questions arising out of the adoption of the constitution of 1872 and its code of laws will settle the practice and establish the rule in the state as long as the constitution and the code endures. Cautious and firm as a legislator, righteous and able as a judge, of highest honor as a man, Alpheus F. Haymond was of signal
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ability in his profession and rich in experience, while large-hearted, of great energy, and faithful in all his relations, being above fear and beyond reproach.
He married, November 18, 1847, Maria Frances, born in Marion county, Virginia, November 25, 1828, daughter of Thomas Lindsey Boggess, born at Fairfax Court House, Old Virginia, and came to Marion county in what is now West Virginia, in 1810, with his father, Lindsey Boggess, of Fairfax Court House. Thomas L. Boggess was clerk of the court in Marion county for sixteen years. In 1862, during the great civil war period, Mrs. Maria F. (Boggess) Haymond went alone to Richmond to interview Jefferson Davis for the discharge of Colonel Roberts, of Roane county, who was held a prisoner. Davis granted the pardon, and remarked, "Mrs. Haymond, you are the first woman who has been strong enough to get a prisoner his discharge." Mrs. Haymond brought Colonel Roberts back with her. Later she rode over several battlefields on horseback, seeing the dead and wound- ed in all conceivable conditions. She has seen and realized more of the horrors of war than any other living woman of West Virginia.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Haymond: 1. Helen M. (Mrs. Peddi- cord), born August 30, 1848, resides at Atlantic City. 2. Lindsey B., deceased. 3. William S., resides at Fairmont, West Virginia. 4. Laura Lee (Mrs. Jackson), resides with Mrs. Haymond. 5. Lucy May, of Morgantown. 6. Alpheus Franklin, died aged eight years. 7. Harriet Elizabeth, died at the age of nine months. 8. Mary Vir- ginia (Mrs. Hill), resides at Fairmont. 9. Julia Caroline, died aged nineteen years. 10. Thomas S., residing at Fairmont. 11. Lilly Bell, died a widow at the age of thirty-two years. The wife and mother, Mrs. Maria F. (Boggess) Haymond, is still residing at Fairmont, sur- rounded by a large circle of friends and admirers.
HAYDEN William and John Hayden, brothers, came to America in the ship "Mary and John" with the company under Rev. John Warham and Rev. Samuel Maverick, land- ing at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630. It is known that they came from England, but little more is definitely known. The Hayden family are of frequent and honorable mention in English history, but the Eng- lish ancestry of William and John Hayden has not yet been traced.
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John Hayden remained in Massachusetts; William settled at Hartford, Connecticut. John Hayden was made a freeman, May 14, 1634, was of Dorchester, later of Braintree; he married Susanna, who was living in 1695; his will dated October 31, 1678, was proved July 26, 1684. Children : John, married Hannah Ames; Joseph; Samuel, married Han- nah Thayer; Jonathan, married Elizabeth Ladd; Hannah, living in 1678; Ebenezer, born September 12, 1645; Nehemiah, of further men- tion; William.
(II) Nehemiah, son of John Hayden, "the immigrant," was born February 14, 1647, or 1648, died January 12, 1717, or 1718. He was a wealthy, influential citizen of Braintree, Massachusetts; served ten years as selectman and was active in the church. He married Han- nah, daughter of Henry Neale. Children: Nehemiah, born May 16, 1680; Hannah, July 16, 1681; Mary, married her cousin, Samuel Hayden; Samuel, of further mention; Benjamin, born February 22, 1685; Rachel, married Samuel Paine; John, married Mrs. Margaret (Curtis) Hayden; Ebenezer, married Mary Hollis; Jonathan, mar- ried Sarah Copeland; all the above children are mentioned in his will except Mary.
(III) Samuel, son of Nehemiah Hayden, was born about 1683. He married Priscilla - , and lived in what is now Randolph; she joined the Braintree church in 1733. Children: Samuel, died young; Samuel, born January 20, 1713, married Esther Allen; Amy, died young; Christopher, born February 18, 1719; Richard, January 29, 1720; Jeremiah, December 29, 1722; Nehemiah, January 3, 1724; Nathaniel, February 21, 1725; William, of further mention.
(IV) William, youngest child of Samuel Hayden, was born in Massachusetts, October 5, 1727. He married Lydia Nicholson, of Philadelphia, and settled in Morris county, New Jersey.
(V) John (2), son of William Hayden, was born in Morristown, New Jersey, October 26, 1749, died in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1836. He settled in Georges township in the latter county in 1778; served in the revolutionary army, enlisting first, May 1, 1776, for a term of six months, and at its expiration reënlisted for a like period, serving in all one year. The settlement in Fayette county be- came known as Haydentown, and in 1810 more iron was made there than in Pittsburgh. He married, March 1, 1798, Mary Snider, born
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September 26, 1773, in Georges township, Fayette county, Pennsyl- vania, died October 14, 1863; she was in receipt of a revolutionary pension granted September 5, 1849, on account of her husband's service in that war.
(VI) Benjamin, son of John (2) Hayden, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1800, died in 1877. He was a merchant all his active years ; in politics a Democrat. He married, 1823, Eliza Springer, born 1805, died 1877. Children : Albert Springer, deceased; Eliza- beth Ann, deceased; Emily, deceased; Jacob S., of further mention; Sylvester Clay, deceased; Albina S., married Milford Shipley; Napo- leon Bonaparte, married Jennie Skiles; Mary Adelaide, widow of Fred- erick Martin; Chauncey Brooks, deceased; Helen M., died in infancy.
(VII) Jacob S., son of Benjamin Hayden, was born in Hopwood, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1831. He received his early education in the public school at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, later entered Madison College, Pennsylvania, but a year before graduation decided that a business career was more in accord with his ambition and left college; at age of nineteen years he located at Fairmont, West Vir- ginia, where for two years he was engaged in the hardware business on his own account. In March, 1852, he sold his store and with five others from Fairmont and five from Pennsylvania formed a party and started with ox teams, by the overland route, for the "golden land of promise," California. They arrived at Rabbit Creek, Sierra county, California, the following August and began prospecting; their money and provisions gave out and for three weeks their sole diet was musty cornmeal made into a porridge; water was plentiful and they pulled through, although sickness attacked some of the party. Mr. Hayden spent fifteen years in California, working in the mines at first, later owned and operated his own mines with much success. He made sev- eral trips home during that period, returning permanently in 1867, and located at Fairmont, West Virginia, his present home. During his California life he took part in an amateur theatrical performance in the old log theatre at La Porte. In the same play Lottie Crabtree (afterwards famous the world over as "Lotta"), then aged seven years, made her first appearance on the stage; although she became later very wealthy, she at that time was in need of kindly assistance, and as part of her stage costume Mr. Hayden donated a pair of shoes. After
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returning to Fairmont he engaged in real estate and lumbering, but for many years has lived retired from active life, attending to his own private estate. He is vice-president of the National Bank of Fairmont, and has given much time to the public service and upbuilding of his city. While in California he served four years as justice of the peace, and in Fairmont held the same office several terms; he served the city of Fairmont seven years as mayor and was a most capable efficient executive. He is a lifelong Democrat.
He married, November 27, 1862, Elizabeth Ann, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1836, daughter of Solomon Smith. Children: I. Emma L., born September 14, 1863; married M. A. Jalliff; children: Zoe and Vaughn. 2. Molly E., born January I, 1874, died October 13, 1895; married, October 10, 1894, Hugh F. Smith; child, Gazelle, born October 8, 1895.
DUDLEY A history of the Dudley family written by Judge H. C. Mc Dougal, on the "Early Dudleys of Dunkard Mill Run," contains the following genealogy of this illus- trious family : "History shows that the Dudley family originated at the town of Dud, in England, in the seventeenth century, and that since that early day through the veins of the Dudleys there coursed the purest and tenderest blood of nobility of their native land. The early history of the family is filled with song and story; they led in thought and action both in old England and in early colonial days in New England as well, and from remote times may be traced in the historic books of the day the prominent name of Guilford Dudley." Just what year or how they migrated from Dud, England, is not known, but the direct descent of the particular family which ultimately located on Dunkard Mill Run (now in Marion county, West Virginia) is as follows :
(I) William Dudley was born at Richmond, formerly Sheen, in Surrey, England, and from the town of Guilford, some thirty miles south of London, in county of Surrey, came to Guilford, Connecticut. He married Jane Lutman, by Rev. Henry Whitfield, rector at Oakley, in Surrey, England, August 24, 1636, as shown by the parish register of Oakley. In the good ship "Hector," William and wife Jane, in com- pany with said Rev. Whitfield, and as a part of the Eaton Hopkins expedition to the colony of Connecticut, sailed from London, England,
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May 20, 1639, and thereafter settled at Guilford, Connecticut, so named after Guilford, England. William Dudley was a member of Whitfield's church in England and readily joined with him in the emi- gration. When William Dudley and wife arrived at Guilford, Con- necticut, they established their home on what is now Fair street. Will- iam Dudley was a prominent man in his day, was representative to the general court at Guilford, and held other public offices. He died there March 16, 1683, and his wife Jane died there May 1, 1674.
(II) William (2), son of William (1) and Jane Dudley, the emigrants, is known in history as "Deacon William Dudley."
(III) Samuel, son of "Deacon William Dudley," was born at Guilford, Connecticut.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Dudley, was born at Guil- ford, Connecticut, February 12, 17-, died there, May 18, 1783. He married Mary Parker, born 1732, died 1821. Children: 1. Mary, born 1761, married James Brand; died in Marion county, Virginia, 1843. 2. Samuel, mentioned below. 3. Elizabeth, born July 9, 176-, died in Marion county, Virginia, April 15, 1837. 4. Asa, born Febru- ary 17, 1767, died April 7, 1845. 5. Jonathan, born 1769, died 1810. 6. Desire, born 1781 ; married James Brown; died November 15, 1843, in Marion county, Virginia, at the old "Desire House," leaving no de- scendants. These children were all born in Saybrook, Connecticut, and came from there with their mother, Mary (Parker) Dudley, in the year 1796, and located on a large tract of land on Dunkard Mill Run in what is now Marion county, West Virginia, mainly for the reason that Mrs. Dudley wished to wean her son Samuel away from the ocean, which he loved. The facts relating to the early history of this branch of the family were collected by Mrs. Caroline Dudley Barnett, from the writings of Samuel and Asa Dudley, above mentioned.
(V) Samuel (3), second child of Samuel (2) Dudley, was born at Saybrook, Connecticut, February 24, 1763, died at his home farm on Dunkard Mill Run in 1854. He is worthy of more than passing notice. The revolutionary war was in progress, and at the age of fif- teen he enlisted as a soldier in its ranks under the direct command of George Washington in 1778, and there served his country on land in the patriotic troops commanded by Colonels Mead, Bibee and Wells. Then he took service in the revolutionary navy, first on the privateer
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"Sally," Captain Seth Warner; then the "Lively," under Peck as mas- ter; and still later under Elisha Hart as commander. On both land and sea he served, and for this he did not apply for a pension until he was nearly seventy years of age, August 28, 1832. His pension shows the government credited him with fifteen full months service. "He was the only patriot soldier the writer recollects ever to have known, and with the memory of a small boy I now recall the fact that I attended his funeral at the old home in 1854. Two different and distinct recol- lections concerning my personal relations with Samuel Dudley are with me to-day: One is that while in a winter's storm, on the ocean as a sailor, in the revolutionary war, the great toe on his right foot (I think) was so frozen that it had to be amputated and more than once he told me the story of how this happened and showed me that foot. The other is that for some months in the summer of 1848, after my father, John Fletcher McDougal, sold his farm just above Bethel church and prior to our removal to Rivesville, on the Monongahela river, we occu- pied the old 'Desire House,' not far from the home of Samuel Dud- ley. While playing about my father, near that house, saw Samuel Dudley coming up the public road, one evening, riding on horseback alone, with a bag of flour or meal on his pack-saddle, and evidently laboring under some great mental strain, as he was gesticulating wildly with his cane, and muttering to himself. My father went to the gate and helped him off his horse, but as the old man still talked to himself, and jabbed his cane into the ground, father finally said to him 'You seem excited, uncle Sam, what's the trouble?' The old man said 'May- be I am excited; I have been down to Barnes mill and there met one of the damned Hessian hirelings I saw at the battle of Trenton in the war. My blood just boiled and I wanted to cut his damned heart out.' Small as I was I knew that Uncle Sam was a strict member of the Gilboa Methodist church and a pious good man, and to hear from him such fervid profanity was so startling that reared as I had been, I wouldn't have been a bit surprised to see the ground open up and swallow him; but it didn't. Then as a boy I recollect too that old-timers in the neighborhood used to tell me that on each recurring Independence Day, it was for long years his custom, in company with his brother Asa, to have a brotherly reunion at Samuel's home, discuss their early trials and triumphs, and from a friendly gourd there drink cider oil (made by
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boiling down five barrels of apple cider into one) until both were com- fortably drunk."
"Of this old revolutionary soldier and sailor of whom I now write, after coming to Dunkard Mill Run in 1796 with his mother and brothers and sisters and locating near what was later Gilboa church, married Margaret ("Peggy") McDougal, born where now stands Morgantown, West Virginia, June 17, 1781, daughter of Rev. Will- iam McDougal by his first marriage and the full sister of my grand- father, John McDougal, the date being in 1801. To this Samuel Dudley and wife Margaret were born eleven children."
(V) Asa, fourth child of Samuel (2) Dudley, was born February 17, 1767, died April 7, 1845. He came from Connecticut and settled on what is known as Dunkard Mill Run, Marion county, West Virginia, where he followed farming. He married Hannah Ballard. Children : Elias, Asa, Hannah, Lucy, Enoch.
(VI) Enoch, son of Asa Dudley, followed farming on the old homestead. He married Annie Drague, a native of Marion county, by whom he had seven children : Fleming, Arthur, Amelia, Gustavus, Will- iam, Mary, Elizabeth.
(VII) Fleming, son of Enoch Dudley, was born July 11, 1835, died December 26, 1910, in Fairmont. He resided on the old family farm which he tilled until the age of twenty-one, then moved to Fair- mont where he followed the carpenter's trade, retiring only a few years prior to his death. He enlisted in the civil war as a member of the First West Virginia Cavalry, Company A, in 1861, serving three years, and reënlisted after his first term had expired in the same regiment and company, making four years in all. He was finally discharged at Wheeling, West Virginia, from the union army, where he proved him- self a soldier true and brave. He was mustered out as sergeant. He later joined the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 6, at Fairmont, and was its commander. He belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church in which he was an officer and class leader. Politically he was a Republican. He married, in 1858, in Marion county, Sarah A. Bog- gess, born in Marion county, March 6, 1839, daughter of Lindsey and Ann (Cunningham) Boggess, both parents being natives of this coun- ty, born in 1805; he died aged seventy-five years, and she died aged seventy-eight years. Lindsey Boggess was a son of Lindsey Boggess,
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born in Virginia, who married Millie Janes. Fleming Dudley and wife had five children : 1. Dora Hempfield, married Alvah Kuhn and had one child, Russell, born in Marion county. 2. Benjamin Franklin, mar- ried Minnie Caylor, of Kansas, and they reside in Louisiana; they have one child, Marion, born in Kansas. 3. Albert L. B., married Dove Pitzer. 4. Cora A. 5. Ota Blanche, married Harry Gaston and their children are: Dorothy Ruth, Robert Dudley, Lewis Herbert, Sarah Helen.
JOHNSON This is an age of specialties, and this includes the pro- fessions. At an earlier date in the history of this country the family physician was expected to treat all diseases, chronic and special cases, as well as the ordinary complaints of men and women, but in latter years the profession sees the necessity of special training for special diseases, and Dr. Johnson was educated along the special line of caring for the ailments of the eye, ear and nose.
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