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L. W. JAMES is of English descent, lives at Limestone ; born 1858, and has taught school three times on certificates No. 2 and 3.
GEORGE W. JONES, son of John Jones, born 1848, in Ran- dolph County ; married, 1874, Elvina J., daughter of Theo- dore Lipscomb. She died in 1879, and in 1882, he married Martha, daughter of John Stemple. Children : Leonora A., Arthur C. and Lulu Octavia; farmer, lives 6 miles from St. George, on Pifer Mountain; owns 122 acres, 25 acres im- proved; has worked considerably at the carpenter trade.
DANIEL JUDAH, of Virginia, was born 1802, and is of Ger- man descent; married Judah McCallister in 1826, whose name then became Judah Judah. Judah was working in the harvest field on his wedding day, and quit work at the appointed hour, went to the house, was married and re- tured immediately to the field. Children: Mary, Nancy, Elizabeth, Sarah and Lyda. He came to West Virginia in 1834, and lived for a while on Stemple Ridge, and he then moved to the farm where S. N. Swisher now lives. After that he lived nearly every place on Horse Shoe Run.
EPHRAIM H. JAMES, born 1819, of English descent, was married in 1849, to Sarah, daughter of John Dumire ; lives on Location, 4 miles from St. George, on a farm of eleven acres, with four improved. His wife died in 1879, and he married Mrs. Louisa Weese, who died in 1882, and he then
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married Mrs. Ruth Lipscomb. Children : Sarah Jane, Elizabeth, Catharine, George W., S. Loman, Jacob M. and Ulysses G.
SAMUEL L. JAMES, born 1849, son of E. James; married in 1874, to Jemima, daughter of William Hebb ; lives four miles from St. George, on the Location, where he owns a farm of 152 acres, with 70 improved; is a road surveyor ; has five children dead, and one, John F., living.
JOHN JONES, born in Maryland, 1821. His parents were of German and French descent, from Rockingham County, Va. In 1840, he married Unice DeMoss, of Monongalia County. Children : George W., Hannah J., Martha A., Thomas J., Henry C. and John E. He is a farmer and has lived within a few miles of St. Geroge ever since he was 16 years old. He was the first justice of the peace of Tucker County after its formation. In 1865, he held the office of supervisor, and in 1882 was elected county commissioner. In the war he leaned toward the South. Latham took him prisoner and carried him to Belington, and held him a few days. He was carried to Philippi by Capt Holler, and was again released. He was a captain of the Confederate Home Guards. He lost a son, James W., in the Confederate ser- vice, who was taken sick of a fever brought about by over- work as a carrier of dispatches, and died near Monterey, on the Huttonsville road. His farm of 150 acres is six miles west of St. George, in Clover District.
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J. M. KNAPP was born in 1859, in Upshur County, W. Va., of Irish and German descent. Carpenter, owns 100 acres of land on Haddix ; been in the county since 1880.
JOHN W. KEISER, whose father's baptismal name was
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Resin, was born in 1858, in Barbour County, of German descent ; married in 1880, to Tobitha C. Phillips ; Farmer of 113 acres, 30 acres improved, 7 miles from St. George on Clover.
WILLIAM A. KNOTTS, son of Robert Knotts, was born in 1856. Married Clara B., daughter of S. R. Fansler. He lives on Horse Shoe Run, 5 miles from St. George, and is a farmer. Their child's name is Albert C.
ROBERT K. KNOTTS, of English descent, son of Robert Kotts, born in Marion County, W. Va., in 1818. Married in 1840, to Fanny, daughter of Frederick Harsh, of Preston County. Children : Martin Luther, Ellen, John A., James, Stephen A. and William A. He has 110 acres of improved land on a farm of 180 acres. He has been in Tucker since 1852, and "has held no office, except the plow handles."
Mr. Knotts began for himself with but little on which to go, except health and industry. He commenced in the woods, and the first year raised 40 bushels of sound corn, and since that time has been selling corn every year. The first year he killed 21 deer within one mile of the house; he generally killed from 10 to 20 a year for 20 years. He never hunted except in the morning before breakfast. Often he would kill two and three and get home in time for breakfast; he sometimes carried venison to West Union and sold it. Bear skins were worth from $1.50 to $7 each. He probably had the most remarkable adventure with panthers that was ever in the county or State. One Sunday morning he went hunting as was his custom, and met three panthers, and he shot one dead where it stood. The largest of the remaining sat down and watched him until he had reloaded. He shot it, but it ran yelling into the woods and the other followed it; he reloaded his gun, and presently
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the unhurt beast came galloping back to look for its partner. He shot it dead. The one that was wounded also died, making three panthers that he killed without moving from his tracks. This was his last hunting on the Sabbath day.
M. L. KNOTTS, son of R. K. Knotts, was born in 1837, in Preston County. In 1859 he married Margaret E., daughter of Enos Sell, of Preston County ; he lives 10 miles from St. George on Maxwell's Run, where he owns a farm of 168 acres, 75 of which is under cultivation. He has been a hunter, but not so great a one as his father; he has killed 8 bears and 1 panther, 11 feet long. Children : John J., Enos. E., Fanny E., Mary E., Susan Adaline, Jennie R., Laura Belle, and Stella Mand.
J. Z. T. KEENER Was born 1847 in Taylor County ; married in 1878 to M. A., daughter of James Miller. He came from Ireland, where his father was drowned when the son was small. He keeps a boarding house at Dobbin's old hotel, in Canada, and lost a leg by a wagon's upsetting, at Mingo Flats.
JOSEPH KEPNER, a shoemaker of St. George, was born in Maryland, 1852. In his younger days he lived principally at Oakland. In 1876 he married Hellen M. Jones. The next year, 1877, he came to St. George. Before that time he had worked at his trade in New York and Maryland. Their children are : Margaret Jane, Franklin P., Harry G., George M., Carrie Adams and Enos Duncan.
JASPER KALAR, born 1852, son of Jacob Kalar, of German descent, lives on Shafer's Fork, 12 miles from St. George ; married 1872 to Mary Jane, daughter of Jonathan Channel, of Taylor County. He owns 201 acres of land, one-fifth of
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it being improved. Children : Howard D., Olive Blanche, Stark F. and Harriet.
WILLIAM A. KALAR, born 1849, brother of Jasper Kalar; married 1873 to Martha, daughter of Daniel Hart, of Ran- dolph. Children : Carrie A., Delphia A. and Albert Blaine. He is a farmer, living on Shafer's Fork, 12 miles from St. George, and owns 75 acres of land with 40 acres improved.
JOHN KNOTTS, son of R. K. Knotts, was born in 1841; married 1862 to Lettie, daughter of George Spesert. Chil- dren : Mary I., George William, Sarah Laverna, Dora Ann and Lavina Alice. He is a farmer of 197 acres, with 25 acres improved, and with an orchard of thirty-five apple trees, on Hog Back, 12 miles from St. George. He has been and still is a successful hunter, having killed many deer and bears.
R. W. KNAPP, of Pocahontas County, was born in 1831 and married 1851 to Mary Woodhull. Children: Delilah Margaret, George B., John M., Elmira F., Ida E. C., Olive C., Marietta V., Lorenzo D. He is a farmer of 152 acres, with 10 acres improved, six miles from St. George, and was in the Union army.
WILLIAM E. KIGHT, born 1856, in Maryland ; married, in 1880, to Harriet M. Welsh. Children : Elsie Elizabeth, Edward Garfield and a baby ; is a farmer, and lives on Lead Mine.
STEPHEN KNOTTS lives on Closs Mountain ; born 1851; married 1870, to Christina Spesert; is a farmer of 118 acres, with 12 acres improved.
ISAAC LIPSCOMB, son of Theodore B., was born 1858. He is a farmer, owning 53 acres, and lives 9 miles from St. George, on Licking.
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JAMES KISNER, born 1849, in Maryland ; married Eliza- beth White, who, dying, he married Columbia White, in 1867 ; has 110 acres of wild land, and 70 acres of improved land ; lives 6 miles from St. George, on Limestone ; has been in Tucker since 1872.
JAMES KNOTTS, born 1845, son of R. K. Knotts ; married in 1866, to Teena M., daughter of Christian Willis. Chil- dren : William Arnold, Amos and Mary E. He farms 40 acres of improved land and has 85 acres of woodland on Twelve Mile Creek, 13 miles from St. George. He has killed four bears, and has had some remarkable fights with them.
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STUART S. LAMBERT, son of James B. Lambert, born 1843, in Pendleton County; German descent; married, 1862, Emily Nelson, widow of Willian Nelson, and daughter of Catharine Bower. Their children are, Henry C., Susan, Emily C., U. S. G., James B., Riley and Etta. He is a far- mer, owning 25 acres, with 15 acres improved, on Dry Fork, 24 miles from St. George; has been in Tucker since 1850. He taught one school on a No. 5 certificate; was enumerator of the census in 1880. He was a Union man during the war, and was in the troops called the R. R. Guards, under General Kelly. He is a minister of the Gospel in the Chris- tian Church.
JAMES B. LAMBERT, born 1854, son of James H. Lam- bert ; married in 1876, to Alice J., daughter of Solomon Boner. Children : Laura M., Verna Olive and Walter W. He owns 402 arces, 100 acres improved, 24 miles from St. George, on Dry Fork. He taught two schools on No. 2 certificates, and was constable two years.
JAMES H. LAMBERT, born 1828, in Pendleton County,
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brother to Stuart S., married, 1852, to America A., daughter of Catharine Boner. Children : James B., Christopher C.,. Lorenzo D., Nathaniel, Edward, Prosy Ellen, Annie May and Floda V. He is a farmer of extensive means ; owns 952: acres of land, of which 100 is improved; has been in Tuck- er since 1876 ; taught several terms of school in Randolph' County ; was a captain in the Union army, and spent three ( years in the service, mostly in Tucker County.
SAMUEL H. LEWIS, of Pennsylvania, born 1861; came to Tucker with C. R. Macomber ; married Ida Harding, daugh- . ter of Joseph Harding, for whose murder a negro was hanged at Oakland, Md., in 1883. Children : Edna May and Stella Pearl ; is a laborer at Thomas,
MOSES LIPSCOMB, son of James Lipscomb, born 1848, in Preston County ; of English descent; married Mary, daugh- ter of Price Montgomery, in 1874. Children : James R., Summers M., George P. and Zora E. C. He lives 8 miles from St. George, on a farm of 172 acres, with 3 acres im- proved ; is said to be the strongest man in Tucker County.
DAVID P. LONG, son of Jacob H. Long, of English de- scent, born 1856, married in 1878 to Ruth, daughter of W. W. Hansford. Children : Gertie Lestie and Claudius Wil- son. He lives at Fairfax, where he is employed on the railroad.
L. T. LAMBERT, son of James H. Lambert, was born in 1863, is a farmer and lives 24 miles from St. George on Dry Fork.
H. C. LAMBERT, born 1852, son of Stewart S. Lambert, lives 20 miles from St. George, on Dry Fork; he has taught two schools with No. 2 certificates.
A. Y. LAMBERT, son of James H. Lambert, born 1853;
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married 1875 to Perie, daughter of Jackson Shoonover, of Randolph County. He is a farmer, living on Dry Fork, 23 miles from St. George; he has taught three schools on No. 2 certificates, as may be seen by referring to another chap- ter of this book. Children : Carrie E., Flora A. and Denver.
JEFF LIPSCOMB, son of P. Lipscomb, prosecuting attorney for Tucker County, was born October 8, 1862, at Aurora, Preston County, and is of German and English descent. He has lived in St. George for ten years. Soon after the found- ing of The Tucker County Pioneer, he entered that office as a devil, and remained at it through storm and calm, and rain and shine, for four years. He then went into the Clerk's office as a copyist for John J. Adams, and remained at that business, though not so steadily, for a year. He attended school at odd times all his life; he went to Fairmont with the intention of entering the normal school, but he did not like the looks of the building, and returned to St. George and went to work in the clerk's office. This was his business until January, 1884, when he entered into partnership with H. and C. H. Maxwell, and bought the Pioneer, and acted as editor and business manager until May, 1884, when he sold his interest in the paper to Hu Maxwell and retired from the business. He then entered business with Van Dusen & Co., of New York, as agent for their nurseries, and in that work has since been employed.
EMANUEL C. LIPSCOMB, born 1858, son of G. W. Lipscomb, of English and German descent; married 1884 to Martha A., daughter of William Weaver, of Barbour County. He is a farmer, living on Location, 7 miles from St. George, with a farm of 143 acres, 30 acres in tillage.
WILLIAM LUZIER, of Pennsylvania, born 1840, and mar-
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ried 1865, to Mary A. Wimer; came to Tucker in 1880, and has a farm of 150 acres, with 5 acres improved, six miles from St. George, on Location Ridge. He spent one year in the Union army, was wounded at Winchester and dis- charged from the service. Children : Alvin V., James E., Theodore H., William R., Anna E., Tabithia O., Hestala, Charles R., Sarenas B. and Justice.
PETER W. LIPSCOMB, son of W. H. Lipscomb, was born in 1860, and was married in 1882 to Florence, daughter of Jacob Dumire, of Limestone. Their child's name is William J .; his farm of 117 acres has 90 acres improved, 10 miles below St. George, on the river. He has taught three schools: Macadonia, No. 2, Licking District, and the White school.
PHILETUS LIPSCOMB," son of Fieldon Lipscomb, was born in Preston County, September 3, 1868. He is of Saxon de- scent. The Lipscombs were among the early settlers of Virginia. He attended nothing but common schools, never graduated at any school.+ He has taught twenty-one schools in Maryland and West Virginia, nearly all under No. 1 certificates. In 1862 he married Anamelia, daughter of John Gower, of Garrett County, Md. Children : Jeff, Camden, Howard, Florence M. and Lawrence.
P. Lipscomb commenced the study of the law in 1871, and the next year was granted license to practice, having been examined by Judges Dille and Berkshire. He never studied under or recited a lesson to a lawyer in his life. As a lawyer he has been successful, having practice not only in the Circuit and Supreme Courts of W. Va., but also in
* See History of the St. George Bar in this book.
t The Lipscombs came from Europe to Virginia, thence to Monongalia County, W. Va., and thence to Tucker.
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Maryland; his cases have been numerous in the Circuit Courts of Tucker and the adjoining counties. His ability sets rather toward criminal practice ; and, his influence over juries is plain to be seen.
He has been an officer of one kind and another nearly ever since he came to Tucker County ; he was county su- perintendent four years, prosecuting attorney four years, commissioner to settle with the sheriff four years, besides several minor positions, such as town and corporation offices and member of the county board of examiners for teachers. His war history is not of special importance; he was eighteen days a prisoner having been taken by Reed. He owns tracts of land in different parts of the county.
WILLIAM H. LIPSCOMB is of English and German descent, born 1829 in Preston County, and married in 1857, to Han- nah B., daughter of George R. Adams. Children : Peter W., William F., Arthur G., Archibald J., George K., Alice E., Sarah E., and Amy May. William H. Lipscomb and Thomas F. Hebb are the two best lumbermen and raftsmen on the river. They have made it their business for a num- ber of years. Lipscomb has been logging for 25 years, but has farmed some in the meantime. Some years he rafted to the railroad at Rowlesburg over a million feet. He came to St. George in 1884, living in property bought from H. C. Rosenberger. In the war he had many narrow escapes, although he was not a regular soldier, being a mili- tiaman. He was shot at by a whole regiment, because he had reported some of their thievery; was an associate in the county court, and has been a member of the board of education two terms ; is still following his occupation of lumbering on the river.
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GARRETT J. LONG, born in 1834, and died of a cancer, after terrible suffering, in 1874. He was the son of James Long, and of English descent. He was married in 1856, to Edith Corrick, daughter of William Corrick. His chil- dren are, Mary Alice, Sarah Samantha, Rebecca, Nora, So- phronia Ann, James, Harriet and Joseph Johnson. His account of the war in Tucker County, and particularly that relating to the battle of Corrick's Ford, is full and authentic. From the first, he took an active part in the war; was an officer of the Confederate Home Guards, until he was taken prisoner by Hooton, of Rowlesburg, on a charge of treason against the United States. The authorities were several times petitioned to liberate him; he lay in prison three months at Wheeling, and never recovered from the injury which his prison life did him. In 1870, a cancer made its appearance on his face, and four years after, he died.
His wife saw as much, perhaps, of the battle of Corrick's Ford as was seen by any one person; her father's house was made a hospital for the sick and wounded of both sides. After the fight, the Rebel prisoners, thirty or forty in all, were taken to the field of battle that they might identify the dead. The kitchen was the prison and the hospital for the Rebels and the main house for the Yankees. General Garnett was carried to the house and laid on a bed. He was visited by General Morris, the Union Commander. They had been schoolmates together at West Point. The Confederate General died in Morris' arms. One wounded Rebel tried to escape in woman's clothes; but, being de- tected, he went back to bed, and remained there, affecting to be on the point of death. After twelve days the Yankees left, and the wounded Rebel got up and went home. He was a Virginian. Another Rebel had been badly wounded,
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and they had carried him to the house. He was so con- trary that he would have nothing to do with anything that a Union man had touched. They brought him a Doctor; but, he being a Yankee, the sick Rebel would not take his medicine. They left the stubborn man, and he finally got well. He was from Georgia.
Garrett Long was a member of the M. E. Church, South, and was superintendent of the Alum Hill Sunday-school. He was much missed in this field. Since his death there has been no class-meeting or Sunday-school at Alum Hill.
J. R. LOUGHRY, son of Aaron Loughry, of German and Irish descent ; was born in 1846, and married in 1867, to Nancy E., daughter of A. H. Bowman, of Rowlesburg. Chil- dren : James A., Alice V., Claudius A., Maud D., Walton H. and Agnes M. He is a farmer and merchant, and lives 8 miles below St. George ; owns 140 acres of land, of which 40 acres are improved ; has held several offices, such as township registrar, clerk, member of the board of education, justice of the peace and postmaster.
S. V. LOUGHRY, brother of J. R. Loughry, was born in 1834, and married in 1873, to Jane, daughter of W. L. Biggs. Children : J. W. J., Nancy, Mary, Susan, Olive, Joretta, Ruth, Hiram, Sarah, Leonora, Victoria, Samuel P. and George S. He is a farmer, living 6 miles below St. George ; owns 244 acres of land, of which 40 are improved.
ADAM H. LONG, born 1818, the year that his father, John H. Long, came to Cheat River from Virginia ; is of English and German descent, and was married in 1840, to Nancy Hart. She is a daughter of John S. Hart, whose father, John Hart, signed the Declaration of Independence. Children : John H., Margaret Jane, George B., Susan W., 28
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Cornelius, Carroll W. and Lacy L. He is a farmer, owning 131 acres of land, of which 87 acres are improved ; is presi- cent of the board of education.
According to Adam Long's account there were 16 Con- federates killed at Corrick's Ford. He thinks that the Union loss was more; he was arrested by General Kelly, but his property was not molested. He also says that the first settlers on the river were Capt. James Parsons, Sims, Benjamin Ruddle and Joseph Hardman. Parsons bought Sims to the country, and the Indians killed him. Israel Schæffer, father of Israel Schaffer, of Kingwood, first set- tled on Shafer's Fork, and from him it was named ; but, the spelling has changed. Haddix Creek was named after the first man who lived there. The Moores came to Tucker in 1820. Barney Kiearns, Fansler and Rush were the first settlers on Black Fork. Brannon Run, in Holly Meadows, was named after John Brannon (not Judge Brannon) who was the first man to live there.
JOHN H. LONG, born 1843, son of Adam H. Long, married 1877 to Sara F. Musto, of Randolph County. Children : Howard Clay, Wade and Joy Jane. He is a farmer, living 6 miles from St. George, on a farm containing 81 acres, one- fourth improved, and has traveled in the West.
STEPHEN M. LIPSCOMB, son of James Lipscomb, was born 1846, married 1875 to Margaret Lipscomb. Children : Alex- ander D., George Amos and Lyda Catharine ; he is a farmer of 70 acres, with S acres improved, on Drift Run, 5 miles from St. George.
WILLIAM D. LIPSCOMB (Autobiography) : I was born 1819, in Preston County, am a son of James Lipscomb; married 1861 to Eliza H. Biggs, of Garrett County, Md. I live on
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the head of Hansford Run, and own the only grist-mill on it. I have killed fifteen bears. The biggest one I ever saw piled on me. I plugged it to it four times with my butcher knife. It scratched my shoulders, but did not do much fur- ther injury. A short time afterward I knocked an old bear down with a "sang" hoe and took a cub away from her. There were two others in a tree near by, but I could not get them. I killed a ferocious big panther on Laurel Hill. I went to watch a "lick" for a deer. I lay in a root hole and a log lay over me. The panther slipped along and got on the log over me, not five feet away. I curled my gun up and shot the whelp in the bosom. It jumped 90 feet, and came down so hard that its feet ran in the ground a foot deep, and it stuck fast until I went up and whipped it to death. I killed another panther that had slain 17 dogs, and the next day killed another with a little pistol. I killed a rattlesnake 9 feet long on Laurel Hill. It had swallowed 126 ground hogs. I killed 160 rattlesnakes, on Laurel Hill, in one day with a club 18 inches long. Another day I killed over 300 rattlesnakes with a club 10 inches long. One of them had 60 rattles on, and another had 187. I am a curi- ons fellow. Whenever I tell a thing the truth has to come.
JACOB H. LONG, son of John Long, of Randolph, was born in 1827 ; is of English and German descent ; married Lucinda Parsons, daughter of David Parsons, who was killed by a falling tree in 1853. Children : Virginia, David, Sarah D., Albert, Thomas, Tazell, Minnie, Grace, Emma, Maud, Blanche and Lulu. He is a farmer of 454 acres, with 150 acres improved ; was a magistrate in this part of Tucker before the formation of the county, and has held that office two terms since ; was four years president of the county court, and in 1875 was elected to the Legislature,
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where he was when the capitol was removed from Wheeling to Charleston ; was again, in 1880, elected president of the county court by an overwhelming majority ; but the amend- ment to the constitution went into effect and did away with the office ; was several years commissioner to settle with the sheriff, and has been president of the board of educa- tion.
During the war he was taken prisoner and was carried to Wheeling, where he lay three months in jail. The charge against him was treason ; he was sent to Clarksburg for trial, and upon the petition of Captain Hall, got his liberty. Pierpont had already appointed him justice of the peace. His commission was, however, revoked in a week or two by a plot of his enemies. Mr. Long says that a man named Moore was the first settler in the Holly Meadows, and that he lived on the Callihan farm.
WILLIAM C. LIPSCOMB, son of Jacob Lipscomb, of English and German descent, was born 1863, and is a farmer. In 1875 he had his back broken by a colt which threw him; he also had his arm broken by falling out of a peach tree, and had his throat hurt by a limb against which he rode.
AARON LOUGHRY, Sr., was born 1797 in Taylor County, of Irish and English descent, and married Nancy Loughry ; he was in the war of 1812 as a substitute ; he lives near Han- nahsville, 6 miles from St. George, and has ten children, as follows : Hiram T., Sarah, Aaron, Elizabeth, Margaret, Samuel, Susan, Mary Ann, John and Nathan.
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