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Jermiah Ball
William Forth
George Parke
Wisan Beck
Harrison Foster
Roger Parke
David Bryan
John Ferguson
John Painter
Abram Bozart
Robert Glass
James Reaves
James Bates
Valentine Gumm
Jonathan Reaves
John Basnett John Breedlove
David Gilbert Jesse Green
William Roberts
George Braden
Elijah Hawk
Wilson Sullivan
John Buckley
Philip Huffman
William Stanley
Jonathan Bell
Jacob Huffman
Robert R. Smith
John Brown James Brown John Beck well
Jacob Hulster John Johnson
Giles Stevens
Samuel Bussey
Samuel Isor Jobn Kent
Joseph Toney
George Clouse
Richard Lawrence
Levi Tucker
John Carmack
John Landsfelt
Garrett Whitelock
John O'Conner John Cease
Thomas C. Ledderson John Ledderson Jacob Means
Joseph Watkins
George B. Craft
Samuel Walker
Charles Clark
Abe. Millan
Thomas Wills
Daniel Cook
Elijah Morris
Robert Warrick
William Day
Samuel McElroy
James Watson
Samuel Dowell
Aaron Harness
Jos.Severns(Sovereigns }
James Scott
John Stover
Daniel Crossman
William Woods
David Ray
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MILITARY HISTORY.
CAPTAIN WILLOUGHBY MORGAN'S SECOND COMPANY. .
Officers.
Willoughby Morgan, Captain
Russel Harrison, Lieutenant
Amos J. Bruce, 66
Henry Gearing “
Geo. Eckridge,
John Lewis, 6
John Whaley, Sergeant
Wm. Price, Musician
Joseph Lane,
John Mahaney,
Thos. Conyers,
Alex. Carson,
James Carmor,
John Mckinney, "
Chas. Alexander, "
James Murphy, Ensign.
Privates.
Jonathan Bowman
James Glass
Jacob McMahon
William Beck
James E. Goode
John B. Moore
Benjamin Burnside John Bradlove Samuel Bush Joseph Baldwin Henry Butler Evan Beck
William Hay wood
John McCoy
Andrew Hutchinson
Thomas MeLeggett
Powell Hall
William McDonald
Michael Harris
Joseph Miles
Jacob Hall
Henry Nicholas
James Bates George Braden (died) Robert Børr
William Henderson Aaron Harness
William Hurrald
John Hannah
Richard Jolinson
Benjamin Roberts
Enoch Roach
John Jones James Jones Fleming Keysler George Keysler
John Rice Philip Russel Dickinson Simpkins
Willlam Clark Daniel Cook
Thomas Livingston James Lavely Abe Liven
Conrad Litchliter Silas Lee
Nehemiah Slater
Henry Lane
James Lawrence
Jobn Martin
Henry Sneyd Robert Stewart John Stephens Randolph Townly
Richard Tibbs
William Day (died) Richard Dunn James G. Ferrell Adam Fast Conrad Garrett William Green
Daniel Morgan William McCarmick Jacob Moore Arch McNeal
Robert McClasky
Thos. Nutton C. S. Pryor Thomas Pratt Edward Roe
Andrew Blair James B. Brown John Beck well Robert Beck John Barber John Bissell James Batt Charles Clark
John Kingsolving
Pat. Sullivan
Thomas C. Leader
John A. Smith John Slagle Isaac Smith William Scott
James Sikes
Thomas Chatwood Jonathan Collins Isaac Davis William Dawkins Edward Daily Samuel Dowell
Joseph Hensley
Thomas McLain
James Hunt
William Millburn
Wm. Coben, Thomas Wills, Corporal
Jerry Ball, Corporal Enoch Ferrel,
Matthew Teuton Samuel Taylor Thomas Turner
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John Thomason Lewis Williams
John Williamson
Francis Tunstell James Wilson
John Walker
Thomas Toombs Jesse Wells
Thomas Winn
James Trippett Joseph Wise
Isaac H. Walker
Joseph Toney
Daniel Wisner
Thomas Wrose
James Thompson
Robert Whaley
Benjamin Wistar
Joseph Venable
Samuel Williamson
James Watkins
Thomas Watts
Captain Daniel Stewart raised a company for Colonel A. Wood's regiment, and marched for Norfolk, but only reached Dunkard Bottom in Preston County, when the news of peace arrived, and the men were discharged, having served from February 20 to March 4, 1815.
CAPTAIN DANIEL STEWART'S COMPANY.
Officers.
Daniel Stewart, Captain
Isaac Cooper, Lieutenant
Matthew Robinson, “
Levi Jenkins, Corporal
Henry Furtney, Ensign
A bel Reese,
William Woods,
Simeon Woodruf, .. John Cobun, Sergeant James Neal,
John Abdon,
Privates.
Jeremiah Abbott
David Grin
John Macgill
William Astrow
Elijah Hawkins
James Nesbitt
William Bright
John. Haskinson
David Oliver
James Bell Edward Hartley
Charles O'Neal
James Bannon
Thomas Hunt
Isaac Pearce
Ezra Beals
Adam Hyrhew
William Phillips
Jacob Brittin
William Houston
Thomas Porter
Jacob Bankert
James Hutchinson
Samuel Pearce
Michael Bannon
Joseph John
Joseob Read
Robert Bell
Michael Knight John H. Kice
Joseph Spencer Henry Snyder John Shuttleworth
Henry Criss John Clark John Cox
Aaron Luzader
James Tillard
Abraham Craxton
Charles Magill
John Dawson
Lawrence McHenry Isaac Marquess John Martin
Stephen Wilcox
Alexander Faulkner
Robert McMullen John Miller
Benjamin White
George Gould
George Glendening
John Madden
Alexander Zinn
John Campbell
Benjamin Lewellen
Samuel Lewellen
John Squires
John Thompson James Watkins Boroick Watkins
George Danly
Alpheus P. Wilson
Peter Davis
George MeRea, Sergeant John George, ..
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Captain Samuel Kennedy's company of artillery was re- cruited at Norfolk, from several companies. A number of these men were from Monongalia County. The roll of this company was as follows :
CAPTAIN SAMUEL KENNEDY'S COMPANY.
Officers.
Samuel Kennedy, Captain
Noah Ridgway, Sergeant
Michael Shively, Lieutenant
Philip Shively, Corporal
Robert Courtney,
James Hamilton, .6
John Shively, Sergeant
Levi Jones,
George Bell, 66
Abraham Huffman "
Josiah Little
Fielding Ramsey, Drummer
Privates.
John Amon
John Haught
Jacob Rodaheayer
Amariah Augustine
Jacob Haughtman
Jacob Ringer
William Ayres
Isaac Hunse
Morgan Scott
John Butler
David Jackson
Thomas Scott
Benjamin Button
Samuel Jewell Gabe Speck
William Burris
John King
George Steele
Harvey Barnes
William Lawlis Job Lee
Eph. Shroyer
John Brumasin
John Samuels
Matthew Campbell
Samuel Lazzell
Philip Short
John Clayton
John Laidley
Jesse Tucker
Anias Davis
William Lemon
Joel Tatler
John Davis
George Lough
William Tennant
William Davis
David Metheny
Caleb Trippett
Eli Fanner
David Michael
Henry Wolfe
Thomas Glisson
John Myers"
Daniel Wolfe
Robert Guthrie
James Mooreland
William Woods
Edmund Guthrie
Robert Means
John Watts
Jacob Gilmore
John Martin
John Wheeler
Jesse Hanway
Henry Pride
John Young
For the above list of companies, and for many correc- tions of the same, we are indebted to John H. Hoffman and Charles W. Finnell.
Captain Zackwell Morgan was in the retreat from Wash- ington to Bladensburgh, and died from the effects of drink- ing too much water while overheated.
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MEXICAN WAR.
In 1846, the 76th Regiment of Virginia militia, Colonel James Evans, met on May 25th, and the 104th Regiment, Lieut .- Colonel B. F. Tibbs, met in July, to ascertain how many men of them would volunteer to go to Mexico as sol- diers of the United States.
Kramer's Monongalia Blues, with Captain Fowler's Cheat Invincibles and Captain Edison's Cavalry, in all about 200 men, volunteered for one year ; but the Government refused to receive any one-year men. Lieutenant, afterwards Cap- tain, George W. Clutter recruited a squad of men in Mon- ongalia County for Captain John Tyler, Jr.'s company at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. This squad left Morgantown May 21, 1847. The following are the names of the men composing this squad :
Levi L. Bryte
George Hayes
Ellis Mitchell
William Black
John W. Hayes
John McFadden (dis.)
Jesse J. Carraco
Richard Hall
William Miller
Wm. Christy (died)
Oakley Hopkins
Amos Martin (died)
Aaron Hamilton (died)Lewis Powelson
Henry Dean William Dean
N. N. Hoffman
William Pixler (Pa.)
Wilson Dean
Alex. Jenkins
Felix Scott
George Exline
John Keefover
Jeff. Scott
Jac. Farr (Pa)
Koontz
Benj. Scott (died)
Oliver Guthrie Levi Hayes
William Miller
Davis Toothman
OREGON WAR.
The Oregon war, called in official records the Yakama and other wars, began in 1854-5 and continued nearly three years. It was the result of a general outbreak of tlie In- dians along the Oregon and Washington frontiers. They had over 3,500 warriors engaged in the contest. Colonel Frank W. Thompson, of Monongalia, commanded Company A, 1st regiment Oregon mounted volunteers, which was
ANDREW BROWN. See Page 753.
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The militia of Monongalia was twice called out in 1864, to repel threatened invasions. On Thursday, August 4th, Gen. Bunker called out the 14th and the 16th regiments, which marched, on the following Monday, from Morgantown to the Runner farm, and went into camp, awaiting further orders to advance. On the 10th, orders arrived to return home, as the danger was past. On the 30th of September, 1864, the militia of Monongalia, Marion, Taylor and Preston, in all 6000 men, were called out. They were stationed at Fairmont, Fetterman and Grafton, but were not attacked, and were ordered home in a few days.
On the 26th of February, 1867, the militia law was repealed, so far as requiring service in time of peace, unless called for by the governor; and thus the militia organiza- tions went down.
TENTH BRIGADE, THIRD DIVISION, VIRGINIA MILITIA.
The 76th Regiment, in 1800, embraced the territory of Monongalia. In 1805, the territory of what is now Preston County was embraced in a military district. We find mention at this date of the 104th Regiment, which was a regiment of Monongalia until 1818, and afterward of Pres- ton County. In 1807, it seems that all that part of Monon- " galia west of the Monongahela River was embraced in the bounds of the 118th Regiment, organized in that year. A company of cavalry was organized in 1807, and attached to the 3d Regiment, 3d Division, and the company of artillery mentioned in 1796 was in existence, and attached to the same regiment. From 1796 to 1824 we have the following data of these organizations :
SEVENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.
The date of the organization of this regiment is unknown.
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It is probable that Col. John Evans commanded this regiment, but the first mention is of Col. James McGee, who died in 1820, and was succeeded by Ralph Berkshire. Richard Watts was lieutenant-colonel in 1820.
Majors .- Dudley Evans, of 1st Battalion, 1800; James Scott, 2nd Battalion, 1800 ; John Fairfax in 1814.
Captains .- Daniel Sayre, (1800); in 1802, Archibald Moore, Joseph Kratzer, Ezekiel Cheny, Adam Brown, David Scott, John West, Samuel Minor, James Tibbs and Anthony Smith. John Scott was captain of a grenadier company attached to the 76th Regiment. In 1807, Thomas Wilson and David Bayles were captains ; in 1808, James Hurry ; 1812, Zackwell Morgan, Rawley Scott and Uriah Morgan; 1815, Daniel Stewart; 1817, Jacob Smith, Benja- min Leach, Archibald Wilson, Joseph Allen, Thomas Cain, and Cornelius Berkshire; 1819, Owen John, Francis McShane and Elisha Hoult ; 1822, Thomas S. Haymond.
ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTH REGIMENT.
The date of organization is unknown, but mention of the regiment is made in 1805, when Jacob Funk was a lieuten- ant in it.
Colonels .- Alexander Brandon, till 1806, when James Clark succeeded him ; 1812, James McGrew; John Fairfax.
Lieutenant-Colonels .- - James McGrew and William Price.
Majors .- 1806, James Carroll and John Gribble; 1815, Samuel Shaw.
Captains .- 1806, James McGrew, John Sovereigns and Jacob Funk; 1812, Robert Clark, Jacob Mouser, Daniel McCollum, David Curry, John Trembly, James Cobun and Charles Byrne ; 1815, William Sigler, Nathan Ashby and John Rightmire.
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In 1818, Preston County was formed and the regiment fell in its bounds.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT.
This regiment was organized in 1807, when James Scott was colonel, succeeded, in 1817, by Rawley Martin. The lieutenant-colonels were : 1819, Joseph Pickenpaugh; 1823, Jesse Ice. Majors : David Scott and Simeon Everly ; 1816, Jesse Ice ; 1817, John Lough.
Companies.
Captains.
1
John West
2
John Lough
Moses Cox
3 James Barker
Samuel Evans
Ensigns. David Musgrave George Barnes Zach. Barker
4 Samuel Basnett
Jesse Ice
George McCray
5
Samuel Everly
John Shively
John Fortney
6 Richard Price
John Davis
John Lantz
William Biggs
James Ballah William Stiles
Lieutenants. Andrew Arnett
Captains .- 1808, Andrew Arnett, George Pickenpaugh ; 1812, Jesse Ice, John Cox, Moses Cox, George Wilson ; 1816, Nathan Hall, John S. Barnes, Abram Cox; 1817, Daniel Arnett ; 1819, Joseph Collins; 1820, John H. Bowlby, Matthew Fleming, James Dent, Richard Wells; 1821, William J. Willey, Josiah Wilcutt; 1822, Alexander Minor.
After the death of General Washington, at a session of the county court held on the 10th of January, 1800, at which the following justices were present : John Dent, Dudley Evans, John Fairfax, Edward Jones and Nathan Springer, " on motion of Benjamin Reeder, it is ordered that the inhabitants of Monongalia County be permitted to erect a stone monument upon the public ground in front of the court-house, in honor to the memory of our late illustrious fellow-citizen, General George Washington, with the following inscription :
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"'In honor : to the memory of General George Washington, who died December 14th, 1799, aged 68 ; whose virtues are recorded by history, and which need only be mentioned to make them exein- plars to all mankind, this inscription is directed by a grateful people.'"
"Whereupon, the court ordered that Benj. Reeder, Jon. Davis, Henry Dering and Hugh McNeely be appointed to have the above work carried into execution."
The monument, however, was never erected.
On the 28th of June, 1867, the corner-stone of a soldiers' monument was laid in Oak Grove Cemetery by the Masonic fraternity. A great assemblage of people was present. The oration was delivered by Dr. Alexander Martin. Sub- scriptions were to be taken up to build it, but beyond the laying of the corner-stone nothing further has ever been done towards its erection .*
In June, 1883, a soldiers' re-union was agitated, to be held on the Fourth of July. On that day, upon the University grounds, about 400 soldiers were present, and steps were taken to effect a permanent soldiers' organization for the county.
NOTE .- Mexican War .- On page 496 the name of William Miller is printed twice. Levi Jenkins, Charles Ball and -McFarland belonged to the squad which, leaving Morgantown, May 21, 1847, proceeded by Cumberland and Baltimore to Fortress Monroe ; sailed for Mexico June 9th, and arrived at Brazos Santiago, July Gth. The company marched to Mier, July 14th, with the thermome- ter at 110° in the shade; drilled three months; was sent to Vera Cruz and served under General Scott. Their regiment (the 13th) was in two guerrilla battles-one at the Robber's Bridge, with 650 Mexi-
* The corner-stone is an eight-square stone, 5 feet 7 inches in diameter, and one foot thick, and of about 4000 pounds' weight. It is brown sandstone, and was finished by N. B. Madera. Each district of the county was to contribute one stone, upon which the names of its dead soldiers were to be inscribed.
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cans, and the other at the National Bridge, where Major Lally, with about 2000 Americans, charged two forts and drove out about 2500 Mexicans. The 13th Regiment lost thirty inen, of whom two belonged to the company in which was the Monongalia squad. This company suffered at different times for food, from sickness, and sometimes greatly for water. The company shipped for home on the 12th of June, 1848.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
COL. JOHN EVANS .- When Virginia was a Colony and after she became a State, great encouragement was given to emigration, and large inducements were offered to the strong, the brave, and the adventurous, not only within her own territory but from the other colonies and states, to form settlements in the wild and unoccupied country west of the Alleghany Mountains, then subject to the constant incur- sions of hostile savages living beyond the Ohio River in the Northwest Territory. "Tomahawk Rights" to valuable lands were confirmed by subsequent legislation to those, who, without a compass to guide them in the wilderness, or to define the lines of the land upon which they desired to make future settlement, had hastily hacked the timber on the outer boundaries of the fertile acres to which they were attracted. So great was the danger in this early day, that the stay of the settler upon his land a sufficient time to build a cabin and plant a corn-field, would have resulted in his speedy . destruction by his wily savage foes. Soon after the formation of the State government of Virginia, the General Assembly passed an act granting a patent for 400 acres of land to any person not an alien, who had theretofore or who might thereafter build a cabin and plant a field of corn thereon, notwithstanding he might not be able to occupy his cabin nor cultivate and gather his crop.
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This was known as a "Settlement Right," and might be reclaimed in the future-when the deadly rifle and bloody tomahawk had ceased their work of butchery-and then a patent was issued to the settler upon proper proof of such settlement. Very many of the most valuable lands in the District of West Augusta and in the counties of Ohio, Monongalia and Yohogania were secured by "Settlement Rights," and the cabin and the corn-field were included in the boundaries of the patents therefor.
Col. John Evans was born in Loudon County, Virginia, whither his father emigrated from Wales when a young man, and settled in and married there. While he was still a small boy and only child, his father died from the bite of a rattlesnake. The widowed mother bestowed upon her son a liberal education for those times. After leaving school at Alexandria, he returned to his mother in Loudon County, where he subsequently married Ann Martin.
Between 1762 or 1764, braving the dangers incident to such an expedition, he crossed the mountains and secured a tomahawk right by hacking the outlines of a fertile tract of land on the eastern side of the Monongahela River, about a mile north of the mouth of Decker's Creek. David Morgan's farm, on which, in 1783, the county-seat of Monongalia was located, lay immediately north of said creek, and was after- wards called Morgantown. In the year following (1765), he again visited his land on the Monongahela, and built a cabin and made an improvement on it. In the following year (1766), he started from his home in Loudon County with his family, consisting of his mother, his wife, two children, and a family of negroes, intending to take them to the new home he had prepared for them west of the Alleghanies. Learning that
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the Indians still made occasional invasions into northwest Virginia, he left his family at Fort Cumberland (now Cum- berland, Md.), where they remained until 1769, and where his son John was born. Col. Evans, in the meantime, oc- casionally visited his new home. In 1769, he obtained a patent on his tomahawk settlement for 400 acres of land, including his improvement thereon, to which, in that year, he removed his family, and upon which he settled and lived until his death, and which he named "Walnut Hill," by which name it is still known.
Col. Evans's natural ability and education soon made him a prominent man in the county, and caused him to be se- lected to fill positions of trust and responsibility. He was a colonel under Gen. Broadhead in the Revolutionary army. As a member of the Convention of 1776, as military com- mandant of the county in charge of a frontier of 300 miles, as a representative in the General Assembly, as clerk of the County Court, he served his county acceptably for nearly the third of a century.
Col. John Evans's family was composed of eight sons and one daughter. One son died in infancy. He provided for his sons even in this frontier settlement the opportunity for a liberal education. He induced a gentleman well qualified as a teacher to remove from Loudon County and settle on his farm for that purpose. His sons as well as himself were all fine pensmen, as the records of the county will show of most of them, and they were otherwise qualified to transact business, and made useful and prominent citizens. Marga- ret, the only daughter, was married to Capt. John Dent (see page 482). Each of Col. John Evans's sons took an active part in the defense of the frontier. They were well edu-
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cated and were known as polished gentlemen of culture and ability.
Col. Dudley commanded a regiment under General Harri- son in the War of 1812. He represented the county in the General Assembly at various times with marked ability. He married in early life Arah Williams, and brought up a family of four sons and four daughters. Enoch served for years as justice of the peace, married Jenkins of this county ; removed to Missouri, where he lived to an old age, and raised a family of children.
John, generally called " Captain Jack," was born in 1768. When a young man, under anthority of the government, he raised a company of men, called the "Rangers," to guard and protect the frontier. They were stationed for a con- siderable time at the fort on Pawpaw Creek (now in Marion County), and, at a later period, at Zane's Fort on the Ohio, near the present site of the city of Wheeling. He after- wards filled numerous offices of trust in the county ; was county coroner, for many years justice of the peace, mem- ber of the county court, and also sheriff of the county. He married, in 1800, Gilly Coleman Strother, of Culpepper County, Va., and had a family of four daughters and six sons. French Strother, his eldest son, born in 1801, when less than two years old (and after the birth of the second son of his parents), was adopted by his uncle, Nim- rod Evans, and his wife (who was a sister of his mother), they having no children. French was brought up in all the indulgence of his uncle's refined and comfortable home ; was well educated, being sent to the eastern part of the State for that purpose. His talents and accomplishments, together with fine personal appearance, made him generally popular. His uncle intended him for the profession of the
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law, but at the age of nineteen he became religious and joined the Methodist Church, and determined to become an itiner- ant, which was altogether contrary to his uncle's wishes, who threatened him that if he did so he would disinherit him, which threat he carried out. Notwithstanding this French joined the Baltimore Conference, which then extended to the Ohio River, in which he continued for many years, filling with ability many important appointments, including stations in Baltimore and Washington. He is still a local preacher in the same conference, living in Washington, and known and honored as a useful Christian gentleman.
John Coleman, the second son, was born 1803; was edu- cated for the profession of law, and studied law with his uncle, George F. Strother, in Missouri, but became interested in steamboating, and while in command of a boat running from Louisville to New Orleans, contracted yellow fever and died in the latter place, September 17, 1827.
George S., born in 1804, engaged a larger part of his life in mercantile business in Cumberland and Frostburg (Md.). He is now living with his son, Capt. W. S. Evans, of Alleghany City, Penn.
Daniel Strother, born in 1806, engaged in steamboating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers when quite a young man. In 1832, while commanding a boat running from Louisville to New Orleans, he too fell a victim to yellow fever.
Lucy Ann, born in 1808, and married to Nathan Goff, Sr., of Harrison County, died in 1870.
Thomas Clare, born September 3, 1812, was a merchant in Morgantown and deputy sheriff of the county under his father.
Elizabeth, born in 1815, died in infancy.
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Louisa S. was born in 1817, and was married to John H. Hoffinan, of Baltimore, of late years a citizen of Morgan- town, and now cashier of the Second National Bank of that place.
Margaret, born in 1821, was married to Daniel Clark Chadwick, an estimable man and a successful merchant of Morgantown, who died in early life, leaving his wife and four small children. She remains his widow.
Col. John Evans, fourth son of Nimrod, was well edu- cated, and known as a polished gentleman of ability. He succeeded his father as clerk of the county court, which office he held during his life. He married Elizabeth Strother-a sister of the wife of Capt. Jack Evans-and left no children.
Rawley was for many years a prominent merchant of Morgantown. He married Maria Dering, of the same place. Both lived to an advanced age, and reared a family of seven daughters and three sons.
James studied law. At an early day, while Missouri was still a territory, he went there and practiced law successfully at Cape. From letters just found we find that he was there in 1809. After some time, he was elected judge of the court, which office he held for many years. His wife was a sister of U. S. Senator Buckner, of Missouri. After her death, he resigned the office of judge and removed to a farm near Louisville, Ky. Later in life, he returned to Monon- galia, where he resided until his death at an advanced age.
Marmaduke was a young man of fine ability; studied and commenced practicing law. He died in early life, never having been married.
Col. John Evans was made clerk of the County Court at the time of the organization of the county, and for a time
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