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Jonathan Arnold possessed one of the largest and most carefully se- lected libraries in his section of the State. Endowed with an unusually re- tentive memory, he read his books, and between the lines, the result being that he was a man of unusual information.
In the year 1827 he united in marriage with Miss Thursa, daughter of Ely Butcher, a prominent merchant and resident of Beverly. He lost his wife within a few years, one child only surviving the mother, but dying in infancy. In 1841 he married Miss Phoebe Ann, daughter of Solomon Col- lett, and was again unfortunate, his wife dying in a few months. In Sep- tember, 1844, he was united in marriage with Miss Laura Ann, daughter of Jonathan and Julia Neale Jackson of Clarksburg, W. Va., and the only sister of Thomas J., afterwards General Stonewall Jackson." By this mar- riage there were four children, the youngest dying in infancy, the three eldest being Thomas Jonathan, Anna Grace and Stark W., recently de- ceased. Anna Grace became the wife of Major C. H. Evans, of Springfield, O., and died in 1878, having previously lost her two little children.
Rev. STARK W. ARNOLD, son of Jonathan Arnold, was born in Beverly, December, 20, 1851. Early in life he was appointed to a clerkship in the Interior Department at Washington, where he remained about seven years. During this period he took the law course, graduating from the Columbia Law School. He then came to Beverly, locating soon afterwards at Buckhannon, engaging in the practice of his profession. In the fall of 1876 he was a candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney of Upshur County, and was elected by an overwhelming majority-the largest that had been given a candidate in that county at that time. On account of his father failing in health, requiring his personal attention, he returned to Beverly to reside in the year 1879, and continued there until after his father's death in 1883. During this last residence at Beverly he was elected
* See sketch of Edward Jackson.
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to the Senate from that Senatorial District, serving out the full term of four years, introducing and successfully carrying through several measures of legislation that attracted considerable attention throughout the State- notably, the election law, the changes then made leading up to the present system. It was while serving in the Senate that he concluded to do that which had long been a subject of deep consideration with him, viz .: to go into the ministry. In order to prepare himself for this, he entered Drew Theological Seminary, where he remained and completed his theological course. Shortly afterwards he began his ministerial work in the State of New York, where he continued in active work to the end of his life, preach- ing his last sermon only three weeks preceding his death. In December, 1880, he married Miss Lizzie Gohen, of Cincinnati. She and four children survive him.
THOMAS JONATHAN ARNOLD, was born at Beverly, November 3,1845, eld- est son of Jonathan and Laura Ann Jackson Arnold. At the age of twelve he was placed at school at Lexington, Va., making his home with his uncle, Major Jackson, afterwards General Stonewall Jackson. In 1863-4 he attended school at Parkersburg, W. Va., under Rev. William L. Hyland, Rector of Christ Church. In 1866 he began the study of law at Beverly, under Col. David Goff, and he afterwards took the course in Law and Equity at Wash- ington and Lee University, Va. graduating from that institution in 1867, with the degree of L. L. B., Judge John W. Brockenbrough at that time filling the chair. The next year he began the practice of his profession in his native town, and in the autumn of that year was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Randolph. In 1870 he was re-elected by a largely increased majority, and in 1872 was for the third time elected, with a still larger majority. The last term was for four years, under the new constitution but recently adopted.
On June 1, 1876, Mr. Arnold married Miss Eugenia Hill, daughter of Lieutenant-General D. H. Hill, of Confederate fame. Miss Hill was a na- tive of Lexington, Va .; but from childhood her father's home was in Char- lotte, North Carolina. In 1880 Mr. Arnold removed to San Diego, Califor- nia, where he continued the practice of law until 1886, when he was ap- pointed by President Cleveland, Collector of the Port of San Diego, and continued in that position for nearly two years under the Harrison admin- istration. The duties of the office during the period of his incumbency were particularly.arduous in consequence of the rapid growth of San Diego from a town of 3,000 to a city of 25,000 inhabitants. The following news- paper extract is from the pen of his successor in office under the Republi- can administration:
"Mr. T. J. Arnold yesterday surrendered the office of Collector of the Port of San Diego to his successor. Mr. Arnold has held the office for nearly a full term, and has administered it with his characteristic integrity and fidelity. His rulings on close ques-
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tions, upon which there were no decisions, have been sustained by the Department with much uniformity, and he has had the pleasure of seeing several of his suggestions adop- ted as Department rules of administration. The business of the office has increased largely during his term of office, and he turns it over to his successor in good condition."
Since then Mr. Arnold's business has caused him to make frequent vis- its to his native State, where, in addition to his private business, he was interested in an effort to establish a Confederate Home in Tygart's Valley.
JAMES M. ADAMS, born 1848, in Rockbridge County, son of Joseph and J. B. (Gilmer) Adams; Scotch-Irish. In 1875 he married Lina A., daughter of Jacob S. and Minerva (Hamilton) Wamsley; children, Cornelia H. and J. Howard. Mr. Adams was killed on the railroad in 1887.
JOSEPH MILTON ALLEN, born in 1837 in Taylor County, son of John J. and Nancy (Powell) Allen; Scotch parentage; in 1869, at Kingwood, he married Lavila K., daughter of Elijah and Mary (Seypole) Shaffer; children, Minnie E., Charles E., Edward E. Learned the carpenter trade with Har- man Sinsel at Pruntytown; was in Union army, in the battles of Second Manassas, McDowell, Cross Keys, Culpeper, Rocky Gap, Droop Mountain, Cloyd Mountain; was under Averell; lived in Preston awhile; came to Elkins 1892. His father was born in Morgantown in 1802, died in 1883; his grand- father Allen was born in Scotland 1769, came to America 1778, died 1847.
CHARLES HERBERT ALT, born in Grant County, 1873; son of Martin and Sophronia (George) Alt; in 1893, in Grant County, he married Rebecca Margaret, daughter of Isaac and Sena (Mallow) Judy; children, Freddie Harrison, Isaac Martin, Effie Myrtle; farmer, owns 63 acres, 40 improved; has lived three years in Randolph.
WILLIAM E. ALT, born 1865, son of Martin Alt; in 1891 he married Sarah Jane, daughter of Isaac Judy; children, Bertha, Delphia, Samuel Lester; farmer and saddler.
J. S. ALKIRE, born 1864; married Charlotte Tacy 1885; children, Olive, Mary, James, Louisa, Oliver, Darius, Alice, Rosa.
JOHN AMMETER, born 1862 in Switzerland; was married 1884 to Mrs. Anna Hostetter; child, Flawie; owns 112 acres three miles from Beverly.
JACOB ANSTEREGG, born 1851 in Switzerland, son of Valentine and Mary Ansteregg; married in New York 1873 to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Katherine (Bergermaster) Wehile; children, Lena, Robert, Ida, Irene, Alfred, Frida, Birdie, Manla, Minnie; farmer and blacksmith; owns 100 acres, 45 improved. It is a model farm for thorough cultivation. He worked two years as a machinist in New York. The land was a wilderness when he bought it. His children are well educated.
GEORGE ANSTEREGG, born 1858 in Switzerland; married Amelia Leh- man in 1869; children, Annie, George; farmer.
GEORGE W. ARBOGAST, born 1858, son of Solomon; married Sophia
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Simmons 1878; children, Columbus J., James B., Grover C., Adam H., Wal- ter, Amos, Delos, Maud B.
RANDOLPH C. ARBOGAST, born 1858, son of Solomon; married Jane Snyder 1879; children, Alice, Blaine, Elam, Dora, Bruce, Eva.
JOHN B. ARBOGAST, born 1849, son of Moses and Peggy (Wamsley) Arbogast; married, 1876, Ophelia Ramsey; children, Samuel H., Elisha W., Charles W.
MARSHALL ARBOGAST, born 1853, son of Henry and Annie (Warwick) Arbogast; German-English; married 1875 to Rachel Nottingham; children, Nettie, Harry, Jessie, Samuel, Edna, Annie, Mamie.
WILLIAM DANIEL ARMSTRONG, born 1825 in Louisa County, Va., son of Thomas F. and Cecelia (Lowry) Armstrong; married 1849 to Susan, daughter of James and Lydia (Smith) Shreve; children, Thomas, Lydia, Vir- ginia, Cecelia, Wm. L., James, Luvera, Oscar, Samuel, Tucker, Ida, Maud, Lily, Russey, Effie, Myrtle; owns 300 acres, 40 improved; second marriage to Theresa Jane Channel.
SOLOMON ARMENTROUT, born in Grant County, 1844, son of, Isaac and Susan (Shobe) Armentrout; Dutch parentage; married 1871 in Grant County, to Mary Jane, daughter of George and Margaret (Hart) Fout; children, Ver- nie, Daisy, Margie, Sudie, Wilbur Camden, Buyrl; was merchant at Peters- burg 15 years; came to Randolph in 1892, and engaged two years in the mercantile business with John H. Fout; was U. S. gauger under Cleveland; was in the Confederate army, with Captain John H. McNeill's Rangers; was in the Jones raid, 1863, into West Virginia.
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DANIEL RANDOLPH BAKER, son of Isaac Baker, born 1846; German ancestry; was married in 1868 to Christina M., daughter of Lemuel and Nancy Ann (Hart) Chenoweth; children, Nora Lee, Hattie Maria, Edgar Daniel, Bernard Lemuel, John Ulysses, Nannie, Eva, Naomi. His mother is a daughter of Adam Stalnaker, and Adam was a son of Jacob Stalnaker, whose children were, Adam, Jacob, William, Katie and Eunice. Adam married Naomi Morgan, daughter of Zedekiah Morgan, of an old Connecti- cut family. On the Stalnaker side the family is very old, but the direct line is not certainly known. An old coat of arms, said to belong to the Stalnaker family, and painted on the mantel of the old Westfall fort, indi- cates that the family was well established in Europe before the emigration to America. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Baker were married in 1825. He came from Pendleton County, and they returned to his home on their bridal tour, traveling on horseback along the old Shawnee trail by way of Seneca. Later they returned to Randolph and made it their home. Mrs. Baker is still living (1898). The old Westfall fort, which was originally built near the river, was torn down and rebuilt on the bluff, and it still stands in D.
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R. Baker's yard, and the logs are tolerably well preserved, although they were cut from the forest a century and a quarter ago.
ELI BAKER, son of Isaac Baker; born 1835; died 1898; German descent; mother's maiden name Maria Stalnaker; married 1862 in Upshur County to Rebecca J., daughter of William Sexton; she died in 1865; second marriage to Maggie E. Sexton; children, William E., Charles C., George C. and Anna G. Mr. Baker was postmaster at Beverly 24 years. He entered the mercantile business in 1861; was a farmer, owning 1000 acres, nearly all improved.
ISAAC BAKER, son of Isaac Baker; born 1833; brother of Daniel R. and Eli Baker. His father taught German School in Pendleton County; was married in 1859 to Harriet, daughter of Cyrus Wees; maiden name of wife's mother, Abbie Hart; child, Stark L. Mr. Baker has been a miller fifteen years; owns 2500 acres, 600 improved.
STARK L. BAKER, son of Isaac Baker; born 1860; mother's maiden name, Harriet Wees; married 1883 at Fairmont to Mabel S., daughter of J. J. Burns; maiden name of wife's mother, Margaret Stewart; child, James. He owns 4000 acres, half under improvement. The first white man's house on the waters of the Monongahela in West Virginia stood on land now be- longing to him; and the first Indian massacre in West Virginia took place on his land. He graduated from the Fairmont Normal School; was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue from 1889 to 1893; Chairman of the Repub- lican County Committee sixteen years; was U. S. District Court Commis- sioner a number of years, and in 1898 was chosen by the Republicans as their representative in the State Senate from the Tenth District of West Virginia.
EDGAR DANIEL BAKER, son of D. R. Baker, born, 1874; attended Ohio Weslyan University, and in 1898 graduated with the degree B. S., from the West Virginia University; and also took a course in law.
BERNARD LEMUEL BAKER, son of D. R. Baker, born 1876; German an- cestry; attended the Buckhannon Seminary four years; is a merchant in Beverly.
WILLIAM E. BAKER, son of Eli Baker, born 1873; graduated from the West Virginia Conference Seminary at Buckhannon, 1893; and three years later graduated from the West Virginia University with the degree A. B. L. He was admitted to practice law in October, 1896. He holds the office of Commissioner in Chancery. In 1896 he was the the Republican candi- date for Prosecuting Attorney, and was defeated by only 47 votes in a county with a usual Democratic majority of 500.
JAMES C. BAKER, son of John Baker; born 1859, married in 1883 to Catherine O'Brien; children, John C., Mary P., Edward L., Maggie, Jessie, Portie, Annie, James O.
PEHR GUSTAV FRIDOLF BACKSTROM, born in Oskarshamn, K. L.
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Sweden, son of Pehr and Mary Sophia (Holmsberg) Backstrom; married 1891 at Kane, Mckean County, Pa., to Amanda Elenora, daughter of Alex- ander and Mary Colson; children, Walter Adolph, Elmer Fridolf and Mary. He served three years in the Swedish army; was naturalized in Randolph, 1893; came to America 1885, landing at New York; went to Ludlow, Pa., where he worked a year as a millwright; in 1886 went to Kane, Pa., where he worked four years, went to Buffalo, N. Y., and remained two years; came to Elkins in 1892; worked thirty months as foreman in W. C. Russell's planing mill; was a contractor and builder three and a half years; now has a planing mill and woodworking establishment. He learned his trade in Sweden with his father, and was educated as a draughtsman in the indus- trial schools of Sweden, and was awarded a bronze medal. €
CHRISTIAN BALLY, born 1845, son of Christian and Mary Bally, Swiss; married 1872 in Switzerland, to Mary, daughter of Andrew Balsiger; children, Fred, Mary, John, Andrew, Rosa, Lena, Christina, Lettie, Christ, Martha, Rudolph, Charles; farmer ownes 62 acres, nearly all improved, good orchard.
JOHN MARSHALL BALL, born in Illinois, 1836; son of George W. and Malinda (Parsons) Ball; in 1860 he married Christina, daughter of Adonijah B. and Patsy (Carper) Ward; children, Hattie and Maggie; lives in Beverly.
DAVID WHITCOMB BALL, born 1863, in Jackson County, W. Va., son of Morgan and Amanda (Barringer) Ball; Dutch ancestry; in 1886 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Susan (Heltzel) Payne; children, Francis, Ernest, Mabel, Edmond, Thomas, Harry. He is a teacher; taught 14 years in Dry Fork District.
A. D. BARLOW, son of Alexander Barlow, born 1847; married, 1874, to Jennie Belle, daughter of C. W. Russell; children, Hattie C., Willis D., Agnes, Mattie, Russell and Ralph.
MARCUS BAZZLE, born in Virginia, 1860, son of Wilson Bazzle; married Rachel C. Morral, 1877; children, Robert, Mary, Delphia, Martin, Bertha, Preston, Carl, Stirley.
GEORGE BEATY, Irish ancestry, born 1839 in Rockbridge County, son of James and Eliza Jane (Long) Beaty; married 1867 to Ann Eliza, daughter of Rezin and Mary Jane (Keiger) Simpson; children, Fannie M., Mary Ellen, Annie Laura, Portia Wilson, Maggie Grace; 2d marriage to Sarah, daughter of Augustus Wood. He came to Randolph 1878; owns 190 acres, 50 improved; is a blacksmith; was Justice of the Peace one term; was in the Confederate army; surrendered with Colonel Pegram the day after the Rich Mountain fight; was exchanged in 1862, and then was under Colonel Harman, Fifty-second Virginia Infantry, and afterwards under Imboden; was in-Imboden's raid, 1863.
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EDWARD BENDER, born 1846; married Lucy Tacket; children, Nancy, Isaac, Verna, William, John, Nathaniel, Jane, Mary, Elithia, Flota.
GEORGE BETZ, born 1844; married Amelia Rustart; children, Eugena, Nellie, Kathenka, Flora, Mollie, Mary, Elsie, Elwina, Miller.
JOHN N. C. BELL, born 1844, son of Aaron and Eliza (Currence) Bell; German and English parentage; in 1868 he married Hannah, daughter of W. H. and Eliza (Conrad) Currence; children, Alverta, Robert S., Bernice, Eva L., Aaron S., Charles H .; was in the Confederate army; was formerly a photographer and machine agent, later a farmer, stock dealer and mer- chant. The post office, "Lee Bell," is named for his daughter, Eva Lee. He is interested in the "Randolph Salt Sulphur Well."
ROBERT S. BELL, born 1860, son of J. N.C. Bell; married, 1889, to Nannie, · daughter of William and Cynthia (Woodford) Osborne; children, Clinton, Clyde, Hattie, Thamer, Diver; farmer, owns 120 acres.
JAMES APPLETON BENT (autobiography). "I am the son of George and Elizabeth Bent, and was born July 15, 1852, in the county of Roane, this State, where I lived till the age of 18 years. In 1869 I located in Kan- sas and went to farming and raising cattle on the prairies, which I followed with success till 1874, when the grasshopper raid resulted in my abandon - ment of that business. In 1875, having in the meantime obtained a fair education in the common schools of West Virginia and the high schools of Topeka, Kansas, I entered the law office of John C. Tomlinson, of Atchi- son, Kansas, where I studied law three years, and was admitted to the bar at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1878. In 1879 I located for a short time in the practice of the law in Kansas City, Kansas, where I remained till 1881, at which time I came on a two years' tour as immigration agent of the A. T. & S. F. R. R. Company in the eastern States. At the end of that time I had become convinced that there were as many things cast of the Ohio and Mississippi to profit and attract a man as west of them, and so settled in the practice of law at Beverly in 1883. While at Beverly I published "Bent's West Virginia Digest," a digest of West Virginia supreme court decisions from 1863 to 1897, and later edited a supplement thereto. In 1889 I married Maggie Butcher, daughter of C. W. and Amanda E. Butcher, of Beverly. In 1890 I moved to Elkins, and with F. J. Triplett, established the Tygart's Valley News, but later sold my interest to Triplett, who, with others, has the sole control of the paper. There were_sixteen children of our family, ten boys and six girls. These are all dead except myself, three brothers and one sister, and my mother, who is at this time about 80 years of age. My father was a native of Virginia. I know of nothing particu- larly interesting or noteworthy in his family history, except that of recent years I have had correspondence with branches of the Bent family, who are his relatives, in different States. He was one of the early pioneers to the
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county of Roane, between 1820 and 1830, where he raised the large family I speak of. Of my family history on my mother's side, I take a special pride. She was the daughter of Rev. John Mitchell, of Lewis County, W. Va. He was a Methodist preacher of great ability in his day, and in a gen- eral conference of that church came within one vote of being elected bishop thereof. I am not now able to give the date of his birth, but he was an Englishman, born in London, and when of sufficient age was put in training in the British Navy, where he was serving at the breaking out of the Rev- olutionary War. Shortly after that time a British ship on which he was serving landed near Boston, and my grandfather, seeing a chance, deserted the ship and at once volunteered in the Continental army under Washing- ton. He signed an enlistment for three years, and at the close of that period he went in as a substitute for another man, and served till the sur- render at Yorktown. Immediately after peace was declared in 1783, he was among the first of the pioneers west of the Alleghany Mountains. He set- tled on Hacker's Creek, in Lewis County, where he built a four-story log house, and owned a large farm, part of which is still owned by his children and grandchildren. The principal part of this history of grandfather Mitchell is engraved on his tombstones at the family burying ground on the old Mitchell farm, where he was buried."
MARTIN VANBUREN BENNETT, born 1839, in Pendleton County, son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Bennett) Bennett; Irish ancestry; in 1865 he married Mary Jane, daughter of John and Lucy (Hensley) Snyder; children, Andrew Johnson, Elizabeth, Mary Jane, Walter, Oscar, Minnie. It was Mrs. Ben- nett, then Jane Snyder, who, in 1862; notified the Federal outpost stationed where Parsons now stands, of the advance of Imboden down Glady Fork, and thus saved the Union troops from capture, and also probably saved the railroad bridge and the trestles at Rowlesburg from destruction .* Mr. Bennett came to Randolph to make it his home in 1865, but he had been in the county before while a member of the Home Guards, under Captain Sampson Snyder, and also while a scout under General Milroy. Immedi- ately after settling in Randolph he commenced farming and dealing in stock, and has continued at the business nearly ever since, sometimes shipping as high as 800 cattle and 4,000 sheep in a single year. He ships principally to Baltimore and Philadelphia, but visits at times all the eastern markets. He usually drives his stock through the country to market. During the past three years he has engaged extensively in the lumber busi- ness, buying and selling. In 1890 he went to Indian Territory and spent three years in the fur trade with Indians, having dealings with more than twenty-five tribes, and learning considerable of their languages. He found them as honorable as the white men with whom they are associated.
* For further details of the affair see sketch of John Snyder; also General Imboden's report of his expedition, page 253 of this book.
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Speaking of the portion of Randolph in which he lives, Mr. Bennett said: "When I first knew Dry Fork it took all the men from Gandy to Red Creek to raise a house or roll the logs on a clearing. I went to school parts of three winters, about eight months in all, in the old-fashioned pay-school; the house of logs, open fireplace, no floor, no loft, no window-glass, but paper instead; the roof of clapboards held down by poles; the door of boards pinned together. We made our own ink and wrote with quill pens, which we made as we needed them; our boots were of country-tanned leather and made by traveling shoemakers; our clothes were entirely homespun and home made. Nearly all the old settlers have died since then."
AMOS JUDY BENNETT, born in Pendleton County, 1848; son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Bennett) Bennett; English and Irish parentage; married near Circleville, 1870, to Elizabeth, daughter of Reuben and Margaret (Mc- Gloughlin) Teter; children, Lottie, Evvie E., Annie T., Martin S., Izerna J., Mary E., Benjamin H., Gordon D., Mamie, Macie, Oda, Nettie. Mr. Bennett moved to Randolph in 1870; is a farmer, stockraiser and merchant, dealing extensively at Harman and Job. He owns 1500 acres, 1000 im- proved, and owns houses and lots in Harman and Job; was constable two terms in Dry Fork District. On his lands he can graze from 250 to 350 head of cattle a year. His father was also a large stock dealer and farmer and lived on North Fork in Pendleton County.
ELEMUEL JEFFERSON BENNETT, born in Pendleton County, 1848; son of Martin and Sidney Dean (Arbogast) Bennett; Irish ancestry; in 1868 he married Mary Jane, daughter of John W. and Mary Catharine (Judy) Mul- lenix, of Pendleton County; children, John Adam, Cora Ellen, Ida Florence, Florny Deane, Mattie, Azora M., Osceola, Willie, Katie, Zenia, Edward J., Thomas J .; farmer; has lived in Randolph 13 years.
E. M. BENNETT, born in 1847 in Upshur County; son of William and Elizabeth (Hanney) Bennett; in 1870 married Dorcas, daughter of John and Eva (Wamsley) Maher; children, Bessie A. and David F .; was County Clerk 1862; teacher 1868; carpenter 1875; merchant and hotel keeper at Wom- elsdorff.
ALBERT BENNETT, born 1874, married 1897 to Hattie Hansford.
JOHN BENNETT, born 1839; son of Joseph Bennett; German; married 1865 Mary J., daughter of Morris McDaniel; second marriage 1887 to Vir- ginia Pritt; children, Joseph B., Mary E., William R., Moses C., Lorenzo V., Minerva E., Melvina F.
JOHN F. BING, born 1846 in Ohio, died 1897; son of John Bing; mar- ried 1888 to Effie M. Swecker; children, Andrew E., Ashley E., Arena E. He was a merchant at Valley Head.
RICHARD BOOTH, born 1828 in Barbour County; son of David and Arma Booth; in 1863 he married Ruth, daughter of William Lantz; children, Re-
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becca A., George H., Sophia, Lee and Jerry; farmer and stonemason.
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