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1820. Michael See, Isaac Taylor, William S. Wilson.
1824. Jonas Crane, Godfrey Hiller, Jonas Harman, John Harris.
1825. David Wiles, Robert McCrum.
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1830. Brown Jenks, David Goff, Joseph Hart, William Shaw, John Walker, William Huff, John Moore, Peter Conrad, George Nestor.
1831. George See, Henry Sturm, Jacob See.
1832. William McLain, Squire Bosworth, Jacob Keller, Ely Butcher, Andrew Miller, Robert N. Ball, John Wyatt, Joseph Roy, William F. Wil- son, Joseph Teter, Adam See.
1835. Jacob Harper, John Phares, William Rowan, Adonijah B. Ward, Valentine Stalnaker, Lorentz Mitchell, Daniel W. Shurtliff, Jarrett John- son, Abraham Harding, Samuel Keller, Arnold Bonnifield, Isaac Roy, Thomas S. White, John Arbogast, Andrew M. Wamsley.
1838. Lemuel Chenoweth, Job Parsons, Samuel Stalnaker, Samuel Elliott, Michael H. Neville, John W. Crawford.
1839. Charles C. See, Francis D. Talbott.
1841. John A. Hutton.
1842. Noah E. Corley, George Buckey, William Phares, John Kelley, William Johnson, John W. Moore, John Taylor. 1845. David Gilmore, Christian Simmons, Lenox M. Camden, Elijah Kittle, Archibald Chenoweth, Benjamin W. Kittle, Jacob Crouch, Abraham Crouch.
1848. Whitman Ward, Adam D. Caplinger, John W. Haigler, Harri- son W. Campbell, James W. Parsons, William Talbott, James Shreve, William G. Greggory, Harman Snyder, Thompson Elza.
1852. Peter L. Lightner, Isaac G. Dodrill, William Hamilton, George W. Mills, Hezekiah Kittle, Henry Harper, William C. Chenoweth, Jacob Vanscoy, William R. Parsons, George H. Long, Nathaniel J. Lambert, Joseph White, James Vance, Jeremiah Lanham, James D. Simon, Absalom Stalnaker.
1854. Jacob H. Long, Henry C. Moore.
1856. Jacob W. Marshall, Thomas B. Scott, Hamilton Stalnaker, Abraham Hutton, John A. Rowan, Edwin S. Talbott, Eli Kittle, Aaron Coberly, Arnold Wilmotlı, Samuel Dinkle, Noah H. Harman, James Wil- moth.
1859. Asa Harman, Mathias C. Potts, Joseph J. Simmons.
1860. Jacob Conrad, S. Salisbury, W. Wilson, Washington G. Ward, George Phillips, Wilson Osborn, Michael Yokum, William F. Corley, Wil- liam Raines, James H. Lambert, William Jordan, Elijah J. Nelson.
1861. Jacob Daniels, Everett Chenoweth.
1862. Henry H. Leigh, D. G. Adams.
1867. Solomon S. Warner, James W. Dunnington, Charles Crouch, William Bennett, Patrick Durkin, Peleg C. Barlow.
1869. Sampson Snyder, Reuben S. Butcher, John A. Vance, John A. King.
1873. Jesse W. Goddin, J. Wood Price, Riley Pritt, George H. Phillip, Jacob C. Collett, Adam C. Currence, Emanuel White, Patrick Crickard, Leonard H. Schoonover.
1876. George W. Yokum, Holman Pritt, Miles King, Joseph Bunner, J. W. Summerfield.
1877. Alfred Hutton.
1880. George Beatty, John Bunner, William H. Wilson, Z. T. Cheno- weth, J. W. Tyre, Jacob C. Harper, Randolph Triplett.
1882. Adam H. Wamsley, Peter Crickard.
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1884. J. H. Dewitt, Melvin Currence. James L. Coff, John A. Hamil- ton, D. E. Coberly.
1886. James Shannon.
1888. William H. Grose, Adam C. Rowan, William M. Boyd, H. N. Bunner, Adam L. Findley.
1890. Caleb White.
1892. John R. Crickard, D. P. Harper, Job. W. Parsons, William Hamilton, James Coberly, J. J. Zickafoose, Lew Fahrion.
1895. G. F. Sims.
1896. B. Y. Cunningham, Floyd McDonald, W. A. Hornbeck, N. W. Talbott, A. Brandley, Page C. Marstiller, Peter Madden, W. Scott Wood- ford, W. S. Kelley, John W. Hartman, Elias Zickafoose.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.
The prosecuting attorney, in former times, was appointed, and did not necessarily live in the county where he served. The same man sometimes was prosecutor in two or more counties at one time. Following are the names of the commonwealth's attorneys of Randolph:
William McCleary 1787
-David Goff. 1835
Thomas Wilson 1791
John S. Huffman 1841
Maxwell Armstrong .
1795
Samuel Cranet 1852
Adam See. 1798
Joseph Hart 1862
William Tingle 1809
Nathan H. Taft 1862
Noah Linsley 1809
-Spencer Dayton 1863
Edwin S. Duncan 1814
Gustavus Cresap 1867
Oliver Phelps 1817
Thomas J. Arnold 1868
Phineas Chapin 1818
Bernard L. Butcher T 1876
John J. Allen 1820
Cyrus H. Scott. 1880
William McCord 1829
Jared L. Wamsley 1888
Gideon D. Camden 1837
COUNTY CORONERS.
Salathiel Goff 1787
William B. Wilsonl 1807
Cornelius Bogard
1787
Charles Myers . 1809
Robert Maxwell
1789
John Stalnaker 1820
Abraham Kittle
1792
Jacob Myers 1827
Simon Reeder 1796
William Rowan 1854
John Chenoweth
1803
Lemuel Chenoweth 1855
Adam Stalnaker
1805
William C. Chenoweth 1873
*Edwin S. Duncan, afterwards Judge Dunean, was from Harrison County. It is said that he collected much of the data afterwards used by Alexander S. Withers in the "Border Warfare." Dunean and his elder half-brother, John J. Allen, were law partners. A story is told of them to the effeet that they were employed in a large land suit at Clarksburg, and on the opposite side was a Virginia lawyer of mueh notriety at the time. Allen was a candidate for Congress and was very anxious to go out upon an electioneer- ing tour, but was afraid to entrust the land ease to his younger and inexperienced brother. He therefore remained in Clarksburg for the trial. The evidence was submitted, and the Virginia lawyer began his address to the jury by quoting Shakespeare. He had not yet finished the quotation when Dunean leaned over and whispered to Allen, "You ean
go. I can mauage any lawyer who will quote poetry to a jury in a land ease."
¡The first Prosecuting Attorney elected in Randolph.
#Removed to Illinois.
Afterwards State Superintendent of Schools.
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Solomon C. Caplinger 1880
George W. Yokum 1886
William M. Phares 1880
Patrick Crickard 1886
Jacob S. Wamsley . 1880
C. S. Armentrout 1888
Omar Conrad 1884
Jesse F. Phares . 1890
Jacob Vanscoy 188-4
B. W. Crawford
1884
JUDGES OF THE CIRCUIT COURTS.
Hugh Nelson 1809
Robert Irvine .. .1863
Daniel Smith. 1811
Thomas W. Harrison 1867
Richard H. Field*
1827
John Brannon. 1872
Edwin S. Duncant
1831
William T. Ice 1881
Allen Taylort 1832
R. F. Fleming* *
.1882
Edward Johnsont 1842
Joseph T. Hoke .1889
George H. See 1848
George W. Lewis 1892
Gideon D. Camden 1851
C. W. Dailey* %
1893
George W. Thompson| 1853
Thomas P. R. Brown 1894
Matthew Edmiston! .1854
Samuel Woods*
1896
William L. Jackson= 1860
John Homer Holt 1897
William A. Harrison
1861
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Signatures of Randolph's Circuit Court Judges.
CONSTABLES.
In the list of Constables which follows, no segregation with regard to districts is given. Formerly they were appointed by the county court. They depended upon fees for their pay, and the emoluments of the office were usually small. Their duty, so far as it went, was much the same as
*Sitting for Judge Smith.
¡First Judge under the Constitution of 1830.
#By exchange with Judge Dunean . || By exchange with Judge Camden.
=By exchange with Judge Camden. This was the Confederate general who attacked Beverly during the war.
"Sitting for Judge Iee.
*Sitting for Judge Hoke.
Jesse W. Goddin 1892
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the duty of sheriff; but for the same work they received smaller fees. There always were persons willing to fill the office. Names of constables follow :*
1787. Jacob Riffle, Michael Yokum, Thomas Holder, Jeremiah York, Jeremiah Cooper, Charles Falnash.
1788. William Haddix, David Minear, Valentine Stalnaker, Jacob
Shook.
1794. William Clark, Henry Carr, Jacob Ward.
1796. Jacob Springston, Henry Phillips.
1797. John Runkins, Nicholas Smith, George Long, Matthew Wams-
ley.
1798. John Phillips, Thomas Cade, Joseph Joseph, John Sanders.
1799. Richard Ware, Daniel Canfield, Gilbert Bayles.
1800. Peter Buckey, John Cutright, John Hart, John Triplett.
1803. William Daniels, Samuel Pierce, Richard Ware.
1804. George Whitman, William Booth, William McCorkle.
1805. Barthan Hoskins, John Hartley, John Spillman, John Beall.
1809. George Stalnaker, John Chenoweth, William Steers, Edward
Hart, William F. Wilson, William Stalnaker, James Holder, Alexander Morrison.
1810. Adonijah Ward, Samuel Burrett.
1811. John Clark, John Miller, Joseph Roy, Nicholas Weatherholtz.
1813. Jonathan Yeager, Levi Skidmore, John W. Stalnaker, William
Kelley, Isaac Wamsley, Samuel Oliver, Isaac Stalnaker.
1815. David Holder, Wilby Taylor, John Snyder, Jesse Cunningham, John Lynch, Abraham Bryant.
1817. David Evans, Solomon Parsons, Isaac Post, Adam Lough, John Walker.
1818. Thomas Wamsley, Jonas Harman, Samuel Wyatt, Moses Phillips.
1819. Solomon Yeager, James Teter, Jesse Bennett, John Long, Joseph Walker.
1821. Robert N. Ball, Henry Sturm, Henry Cunning, Thomas W. Holder.
1823. William H. Crawford, Jesse Coberly, Enoch Minear, Abraham Wolford, Hugh Dailey, James Turner, Noah E. Corley.
1825. Elisha Poling, George Harris, Benjamin Johnson, Isaac B. Marsh. 1827. Absalom Wilmoth, William Wamsley, Jacob Kelley, Benjamin P. Marsh, John Taylor, William G. Gilmore.
1829. John W. Crawford, Eli Walker, Jacob Teter, Abraham Bowman, Edmund S. Wyatt, Thomas Byrd, Washington Taylor, Joshua Glascock.
1831. Burwell Butcher, Oliver E. Domire, Joseph Shaw, William Marsh, John Stout, William Rowan, William Pickens, Absalom Hinkle.
1832. John Conrad, John Phares, Samuel Keller.
1833. Edward Stalnaker, Daniel W. Shurtliff, James W. Corley, John P. Gray, Jesse Day, Levi Jenks, Arnold Bonnifield. 1836. Andrew M. Wamsley, William Wamsley, Thomas Phillips, John Sargent. 1837. Lair D. Morrell, Garrett Johnson, Absalom Harden, David Gil- more, James Vance, Thomas S. White, Joseph J. Simmons, John M. Crouch.
* As in all other lists of officers in this book, the name appears but once, although the person may have held the office several times. The date given is the year when he first entered the office.
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1838. Adam H. Bowman, William Simpson, Bushrod W. Crawford, Archibald Coyner.
1839. Isaac White, Elias Alexander, Lewis Gilmore, John C. Wamsley.
1841. William Wilmoth, Garretson Stalnaker, Francis J. Holder, John Tygart, Jesse Roy, John Arbogast, Jacob Conrad, Abraham Crouch.
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1842. William W. Parsons, Samuel Wamsley, John M. Phares, Israel Coffman, Flavius J. Holder, Francis O. Shurtliff, James R. Parsons, Benja- min Kittle, Henry V. Bowman.
1845. Matthew W. Brady, Milton Hart, Michael Yokum, John Q. Wilson.
1847. William Currence, Michael Walters, Samuel P. Wallace, Job Parsons, Jr., James Long, Elias Wyatt, Washington Roy.
1848. Thomas James, George W. Mills, Cyrus Kittle,
1849. Allen J. Currence, John W. Adams, Solomon C. Caplinger, W. H. Coberly, Samuel P. Wilson, Aaron Bell.
1851. Peter H. Ward, William Rains .*
1852. Hugh S. Hart, Melvine Currence, Moses J. Phillips, Samuel P. Dinkle, Isaac Roy, Samuel Bonnifield. +
1854. Jacob Currence, Isaac Wilmoth, Parkison Collett, Jesse Parsons, David O. Wilson.
1855. Alfred Taylor, Washington Stalnaker, George W. Rowan.
1856. Michael Magee, Patrick Crickard, Powhatan A. Tolly,
1858. Levi White, Squire Daniels.
1860. Thomas J. Powers, Henry J. White, Patrick Durkin, Edward Grim, O. C. Stalnaker.
1867. Sampson F. Shiflett, William O. Ferguson, William H. Quick, Andrew J. Wilmoth, James A. Hicks, W. K. Herren, John Snider, John King.
1869. Daniel Cooper, Granger Lamb, Montgomery G. Mathews, James Hicks.
1870. John McGillivany.
[There is a gap of six years in the records which show the election of constables. ]
1876. S. Tyre, E. O. Goddin, George W. Phares, John Pritt, Jasper Bolton, W. D. Currence, A. J. Wilmoth, Caleb White, A. J. Bennett, James S. Hutton.
1884. French H. Kittle, Lee Yokum, James R. McCallum, P. B. Con- rad, A. B. Mouse, J. A. Cunningham, John J. Nallen, John W. Hartman.
1885. Creed L. Earle, R. L. Pritt.
1888. Page C. Daniels, R. G. Thorn, Charles W. Channell, Gideon M. Cutright, Hamilton Markley, Hyre A. Stalnaker, A. H. Summerfield, George W. Stalnaker.
1892. Lloyd D. Collett, J. H. Currence, Elam E. Taylor, W. D. Cur- rence, C. C. Crickard, L. W. McQuain, William Snyder, Patrick Phillips.
1894. R. T. Hedges, Page C. Marstiller. 1896. R. C. Sassi, Daniel Cooper, Frank Shoemaker, James Brady, Oliver Daniels, A. B. Coberly, E. E. Taylor, N. B. Hutton.
*Following the year 1851, the constables were elected; before that they were ap- pointed.
¡Grandson of Samuel Bonnifield who was justice in 1795.
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SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS.
The statistics of early schools in Randolph County are meager. Almost nothing exists, except the occasional mention of the appointment or elec- tion of school commissioners, and occassional reference to a superintendent. In a former chapter of this book may be found an account of the rise and growth of the free school idea in Virginia, and the poor showing in com- parison with conditions in other States. . A list of the Superintendents of schools in Randolph County follows:
David Goff. 1853
Blain W. Taylor 1881
William F. Corley
1865
P. F. Madden 1885
Squire B. Hart
1867
C. S. Moore, 1887
Jacob J. Hill
1863
D. A. Hamrich
1889
J. W. Price
1872
S. L. Hogan
1891
Alonzo F. Wilmoth
1875
H. S. Whetsell, 1893
A. S. Bosworth
1877
W. T. Woodyard
1895
OLD WILLS IN RANDOLPH.
In the first fifty years of Randolph County's history, only fifty-six wills were recorded. The estates were usually small, few of them exceeding three thousand dollars in value. Interesting points of local history, senti- ment and custom are often found in those old documents. Some of them are written by lawyers and are in the formal phraseology of the profession, while others show the uncultivated, native simplicity of the man who writes his last will and testament. The first will recorded in the county is to the point. It was written by Andrew McMullen June 21, 1786. He had little money or worldly goods to dispose of, but he wanted to leave the little he had without room for disputes. The document is as follows:
"In the name of God, Amen. I, Andrew McMullen, of the county of Harrison, and State of Virginia, being weak of body, but of perfeet mind and memory, do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following: That is to say that it is my desire, after my decease, that I be decently buried agreeable to my eireumstanees, out of what little I leave behind; and as my affairs are in a very seattered condition at pres- ent, owing to my by-past troubles, I therefore nominate and appoint Robert Maxwell as my executor to seek into and examine what trifles are mine, and goods likewise. When I was at Uriah Gandy's, I lent him two pounds five shillings eash, and gave him an order for a great eoat of mine at Thomas Goff's tailor, and a dollar to pay for the making of it; and I gave him my note, as I got his gun by way of loan. But at the time I was at his house I was not right in my head as I ought to have been, and I know not what way the note or anything else was; but I hope he will do justiee as a Christian. And his gun he ean have again: and what serviec he did for me, I hope he will be paid out of what he owes me. And for what orders I gave or sent Mr. James Cunningham and Mr. William Cun- ningham, about getting my traps and other things, I hope they give them up to Robert Maxwell as I have appointed him to settle my affairs. And I do acknowledge this and no other to be my last will and testament; as witness my hand and seal this 21st day of June, 1786.
"ANDREW MCMULLEN. "Witness: James Taffee and Joseph Friend."
The following will, recorded in 1804, is very brief and to the point. It was evidently dictated or written by a very sick man.
"Whereas, I, Vincent Marsh, am going to depart this life. I am in my proper senses. I leave my soul to God and my body to the mother earth to be burried in a decent inan- ner. I leave the money which is in Ezekiel Marsh's hands, to my Aunt Darkey Bonni- field, and Elizabeth Daniels, my mother, to be equally divided between the two.
VINCENT MARSH.
"Witness: Sarah Bonnifield and Mary Loughery."
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A list of all the wills recorded in Randolph County before 1837 will be found in the following table, with name of testator and date of record:
Andrew McMullen 1788
James McLain 1820
George Ward 1791
George Mitchell. 1822
David Haddan 1791
Robert Phares .1823
Jacob Stalnaker 1791
Elias Alexander 1825
John Miller 1794
Boston Stalnaker 1826
Jeremiah Channel 1797
Raphael Warthan
1798
Catharine Carlick
1801
Benjamin Hornbeck 1827
Thomas White
1802
Joseph Summerfield. 1828
Josiah Westfall 1802
Frederick Troutwine 1829
John Hardan 1803
William Parsons 1829
Vincent Marsh 1804
Joseph Pinnell 1831
St. Leger Stout
1806
John Rush . 1831
Thomas Phillips 1806
Rinehart Domire 1831
Henry Mace. 1807
Richard Kittle 1831
Mary Ann Marteney 1809
John Chenoweth 1831
Thomas Holder
1810
Joseph Pitman 1832
Edward Hart. 1811
Sarah Bond 1832
Charles Myers 1812
Jacob Wees 1832
Abraham Kittle 1813
Jacob Stagle. 1832
Adam Stalnaker 1814
James McClurg 1833
Jacob Helmick 1815
Valentine Stalnaker 1833
John Phillips 1815
Henry Petro 1834
Isaac Kittle 1816
John Light 1834
Ebenezer Kelley 1816
Richard Ware
1834
Isaac Bond. 1818
Isaac Poling 1834
Hezekiah Rosencranz. 1819
Gilbert Boyle.
1835
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Martin C. Poling
1819
Solomon Collett 1836
Martin Poling
1820
Matthew Whitman. 1836
LAWYERS WHO HAVE PRACTICED IN RANDOLPH.
Since the county was organized in 1787, the records show that 209 law- yers have been admitted to practice at the Randolph bar. About one half of them were residents of the county; the others visited the Beverly courts as business called them. The list shows the names of several who achieved reputations extending beyond the State. The bar has at all times been able, and law business in Randolph has been sufficiently large to attract talented
*This name was originally spelled Toomire in Randolph County, and oeeasionally Doumire. The family eame from Germany, but the name is believed to be Freneh. DuMire, it is said, meant "Seafaring." It is known that the Domires were sailors, and Rinehart Domire had a reeord for adventure comparing favorably with the old naviga- tors. He was born 1765, in Germany, and before he was thirty-four years old he had dou- bled the Cape of Good Hope six times; had cruised among the South Sea Islands, had vis- ited China three times, and had spent nine years with whaling fleets in the Arctic Ocean. He then eame to America, and about 1800 settled at Stemple Ridge, in the present county of Preston. Later he removed to Randolph, in that part which is now Tueker County, and there lived and died, leaving many deseendants who still live in this and adjoining states.
Jacob Wees 1826
Samuel Bonnifield 1826
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attorneys from elsewhere. Following is a list of lawyers, with the date when the name of each first appeared on the court records:
William McCleary 1787
Daniel G. Morrell 1823
Alexander Addison 1787
George C. Baxter 1823
Maxwell Armstrong
1790
William L. Jackson 1824
Adam See 1793
Edgar C. Wilson 1825
George J. Wilson 1825
Isaac White Williams
1794
Joseph Lovell 1827
Gilbert Christie. 1795
Solomon Wyatt 1827
Patrick Hendrin 1797
Blake B. Woodson 1827
Nathaniel Davisson 1798
Reuben W. Short 1827
Christopher Lamberton 1801
Gideon D. Camden 1828
John G. Jackson
1801
Augustine L. Smith 1828
Isaac Morris 1802
W. W. Chapman 1828
James Wilson 1803
W. G. BrownªT
1829
James Evans 1803
W. G. Naylor. 1829
John M. Smith 1804
James H. Craven 1829
William Tingle 1805
William C. Haymond§ 1830
George C. Davisson 1807
William R. Crane 1830
Samuel McMeechen 1809
Frederick M. Wilson. 1830
Nathaniel Pendleton 1809
William A. Harrison. 1832
Noah Lindsey 1809
George H. Lee 1832
Philip Doddridge* 1809
Beverly H. Lurty 1832
William G. Payne,
1809
George I. Davisson
1809
William Parinlaw 1810
Leroy E. Gaston 1833
Oliver Phelps 1810
Burton A. Despard 1834
Lemuel E. Davisson
1810
Edwin S. Duncan
1811
Jonathan Jackson 1813
James Gilmore 1813
Thomas Brown 1835
William Colwell
1814
William McKinley 1836
Thomas Wilson
1815
Hyre Jackson 1836
James McCally 1815
Joseph Hart 1837
Marmaduke Evans
1815
Wesley C. Kemp 1838
James McGee
1815
>John S. Carlilett 1840
John Brown
1817
Matthew Edmiston
1840
Phineas Chapin.
1818
Bernard L. Brown 1840
Thomas C. Gordon.
1820
John L. Duncan 1841
John J. Allen 1820
Richard M. Whiting 1841
Jefferson Phelps 1822
James M. Jackson 1841
Lewis Maxwellt ..
1822
Edgar M. Davisson® 1842
John Ramsell
1828
John D. Stephenson 1842
* Author of " Doddridge's Notes on Virginia."
|| Father of " Stonewall " Jackson.
+ Member of Congress from the district including Randolph.
1Afterwards member of Congress.
¿ Father of Creed Haymond, the well known California lawyer. ##Afterwards in the United States Senate.
Charles McClure 1832
Robert Wallace 1832
John G. Stringer 1834
Cabell Tavener 1834
David Goff 1834
Francis Brook 1793
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Charles A. Harper. 1843
Alphus F. Haymond 1843
Uriel M. Turner 1843
Preston W. Adams.
1844
Edwin L. Hewitt.
1844
Benjamin F. Myers
1845
Samuel Crane
1847
- Caleb Boggess
1847
Jonathan Koiner
1847
Phillip M. Morrill
1847
Jonathan M. Bennett*
1847
Joseph C. Spalding
1848
-Nathan H. Taft
1848
Benjamin Wilsont
1850
Philip Williams.
1851
Daniel A. Stofer
1852
John N. Hughes.
1852
Edwin Maxwell
1852
William H. Ferrill
1853
Thomas A. Bradford.
1853
Samuel Woods
1853
Charles Hooton
1858
George W. Lurty 1854
James Bennett
1855
Edgar M. Williams 1855
Claudius Goff
1856
David M. Auvil
1856
David H. Lilly 1858
Thomas B. Rummell 1858
John W. Barton-
1858
William H. Gibson
1858
John W. Crawford 1859
Charles W. Cooper
1859
William Ewin.
1859
John Keranans
1860
Spencer Dayton
1863
Thomas J. Arnold 1863
C. J. P. Cresap 1863
Charles J. Pindall
1893
Joseph Thompson
1863
Fontain Smith
1864
James W. Dunnington 1866
W. C. Carper
1866
Cyrus Kittle. 1866
Willis J. Drummond 1866
Charles S. Lewis
1866
James M. Seig
1867
Alexander M. Poundstone .. 1867
John L. Hoffman
1870
Lorenzo D. Strader
1870
Thomas R. R. Brown
1873
A. G. Reger
1873 -20
E. T. Jones
1873
Stark W. Arnold 1873
Gustavus Cresap
1873
Adonijah B. Parsons
1873
J. L. Hall
1873
W. G. L. Totten 1873
C. C. Higginbotham
1873
Jasper N. Hall
1875-
Henry Brannon
1875
Bernard L. Butcher
1876
William T. Ice
1876
W. B. Maxwell,
1876
Philetus Lipscomb
1877
Shelton Lake Reger
1877
William L. Kay
1878
Alston G. Daytont
1879
Cyrus H. Scott
1879
A. C. Bowman
1880
Leland Kittle.
1880
H. C. Thurmond
1880
B. F. Martin+
1881
William G. Brown,
1881
John W. Mason
1881
W. W. Haden
1881
John E. Wood
1881
R. S. Turk
1881
John Bayles Ward
1881
A. S. Bosworth 1882
L. S. Auvil
1883
Frank Woods
1884
William E. Clark
1884
E. D. Talbott:
1884
James A. Bent
1884
Jared L. Wamsley
1884
J. F. Harding
1885
S. M. Reynolds,
1885
H. N. Ogden
1887
A. Jay Valentine
1887
W. C. Clayton
1887
Charles W. Russell
1888
Melville Peck
1888
C. W. Dailey
1890
Charles W. Lynch.
1890
*Afterwards Auditor of Virginia.
tAfterwards member of Congress.
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COURT NOTES OF A CENTURY.
W. G. Wilson. 1893
C. W. Harding 1897
George B. Scott
1893
Malcolm Jackson
1897
George M. Curtis. 1893
J. N. McMullen. 1897
A. M. Cunningham,
1893
E. P. Durkin 1897
W. T. Woodyard
1893
George B. Scott. 1897
Andrew Price
1894
J. C. McWhorter 1897
Henry C. Ferry
1895
W. T. George
1897
W. H. Baker.
1895
C. P. Guard 1897
Lew Greynolds.
1895
B. F. Bailey 1897
Judson Floyd Strader 1896
S. H. Sommerville. 1897
William E. Baker. 1896
H. E. Wilmoth
1896
C. W. Maxwell
1898
W. B. Kittle.
1896
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
From 1866 to 1872 the affairs of the county were managed by a Board of Supervisors, sitting as a court, and having the general powers of the county courts which were in existence both before and after that time. Fol- lowing are the names of the supervisors and the dates of their entering office.
1866. Elijah Kittle, John K. Scott, John M. Haney, John M. Crouch, John A. Hutton, Powhatan A. Tolly, Sampson Snider, Elijah M. Hart, Charles W. Burk, William Rowan, James H. Lambert.
1867. Benjamin F. Wilmoth, William D Armstrong, Orlando Wool- wine, George Buckey, Crawford Scott, Oliver Wilmoth, A. E. Harper.
1869. Samuel Tyre, Eli Kittle, Riley Pritt, A. J. Swecker, Melvin Currence, John W. Phares, Jacob Vanscoy, Elijah Cooper.
1871. John Cain, Adam Yokum.
BOARD OF REGISTRATION.
After the close of the Civil War sympathizers with the South, and par- ticularly those who had actively supported the Southern Confederacy, were disfranchised in the Southern States. As nearly as can be estimated from the records of the Board of Registration, one-third of the voters of Ran- dolpli County were disfranchised, from first to last; but while some names were being scratched from the lists of voters others were being re-instated, so that one-third of the names were never off the books at one time. Gov- ernor Stevenson commissioned Willis J. Drummond, Cyrus Kittle and Elijah M. Hart a Board of Registration for Randolph County, and they held their first meeting March 21, 1866, in Beverly, and appointed the following per- sons as registrars to make lists of the voters: In Clay Township, James Wilmoth; Green Township, O. C. Stalnaker; Beverly Township, C. W. Hart; Clark Township, John M. Crouch; Reynolds Township, Squire B. Hart; Scott Township, Jefferson Scott; Dry Fork Township, Sampson Snider. No one was appointed in Mingo or Union Townships. The regis- trars compiled lists of the voters in the townships, and in June, 1866, the Board of Registration met to examine the lists and to strike off the names of persons who could not prove that they had been loyal to the United States Government. Witnesses were subpoenaed and the trial for disloy- alty was conducted as a court would conduct a trial for a misdemeanor or a felony. The first to be put on trial was William Apperson, who, failing to
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