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JACOB L. GODDIN, born 1870, son of Judson C. Goddin. Married, 1893, Margaret M., daughter of D. C. Woodford. Children, Eva May, Thomas Omar, Baby.
MATTHEW LUTHER GAINER, born 1854, son of Daniel G. and Rachel (Matthew) Gainer, was married in 1883 to Lydia Ann, daughter of Jacob and Jemima (Wilmoth) Phares, and their children are Howard J., Dellas C. Dora B., Emma May, Summa, Lura, Glenn W. and Stella Pearl. He is a farmer on the old home place, near Montrose. His brothers are Sturms and Robert E. L., the former a prosperous farmer in Idaho and the latter a gold miner in Alaska; Amos L., who is dead; William C., who lives in Lewis County, and Silas W., who lives in Randolph, Their father was born on Leading Creek in 1822, and in 1894 he went to Idaho, where he now lives. Their grandfather, George W. Gainer, was born in Barbour County, and was in the Confederate army. Their great-grandfather was Bryan Gainer.
SAMUEL W. GAINER, born 1841, son of G. W. and Phoebe (Schoonover) Gainer; Irish descent. He married in Barbour County, 1860, Elizabeth, daughter of Jonah and Sallie (Pride) Stansberry. Children, Stansberry J., Sarah A., Alcinda L., Elam E., Delila B., Alice Bird, Mary E. and Vinnie Olive. He is a farmer, near Montrose, owning 175 acres, largely improved, and is a successful business man; was lecturer for the Randolph Furmers' Alliance one year. He is a local minister in the M. P. Church, and fre- quently lectures on temperance subjects. For several terms he was mem- ber of the Board of Education. His father was born near Meadowville in 1800; was a farmer and teamster, and was for many years fife major in the
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Randolph militia, and was in the Confederate army. In 1830 he settled at Montrose, where he owned 1300 acres. His father was Bryan Gainer.
J. J. W. GAWTHROP, born 1842 in Taylor County, son of James and Hulda (Waldo) Gawthrop. In 1861 he married Clarissa A. Corbett; in 1867 he married Anna Mathews, and in 1886 Verdilla L. Luder. Children, Wado, Willie, Hulda, Leona, Hattie, Myrtie, Eddie, Florence, Minnie, Olive, Naomi. He owns a house and lot at Womelsdorff, and alsoa photograph gallery at the same place; was in the Confederate army, belonging to Co. A, 20 Virginia Cavalry, and saw much fighting and hard service. He belongs to one of the pioneer families in West Virginia.
J. E. GAWTHROP, born in Taylor County, 1842, son of A. B. and Eliza- beth (Corder) Gawthrop, English parentage. He married Samaria, daughter of Abraham Reger, and after her death married R. P. daughter of John A. Hutton. Child, Ola. He was a Confederate soldier; is now a farmer, and merchant at Huttonsville, and is one of the progressive business men of that prosperous section of Randolph County.
DAVID W. GIBSON, M. D., born in Pocahontas County 1829, son of David and Mary Gibson. He was married, 1861 to Martha E., daughter of Jacob W. and Ellen Stalnaker. Children, Wm. W., Charles, Florence B. He studied medicine in Richmond, practiced in Buckhannon a few years, then located near Elkwater, where he still lives.
JASPER NEWTON GIBSON, born in Upshur County, 1848, son of Alex- ander and Margaret (Currence) Gibson, Dutch parentage. In 1872, at Mingo, he married Rosa, daughter of Jerome B. and Susie McCloud. Chil- dren, Francis Dold, Kent, Jerome, Alonzo, Mazora Daisy, Wick, Harlan, Emerson Gordon, Lenora Belle. He was a teamster in the Union army; came to Elkins in 1890, and is workman in the carpenter department of W. Va. C. R. R. Co., at Elkins. His father was born in Richmond, died 1887; his grandfather, James Gibson, died 1863.
JOHN ALONZO GIBSON, born 1854, near Beverly, son of Alexander and Margaret (Currence) Gibson. In 1877, in Pendleton County, he married Virginia Susan, daughter of John W. and Mary C. (Judy) Mullennix; Eng- lish parentage. Children, William Dold, Effie Viola, John, Ethel Victoria, Eddie Oliver, Flossie Margaret, Mary Catherine. He is a farmer and teacher, taught 13 years; was a lumberman 15 years, and has lived at Elkins 8 years.
GEORGE E. GREYNOLDS, son of Joseph Greynolds, born in Harrison County, 1851. His mother's maiden name, Rowana H. Blair. He was mar- ried in 1876 to Verna M., daughter of John D. Romine; maiden name of wife's mother, Rachel Dawson. Children, L. Delbert, Joseph, Mary C., John D. and Robert Lee.
L. D. GREYNOLDS, son of Joseph Greynolds, was born in Harrison
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County, October 3, 1844; English ancestry. He was married in 1870, at Beverly, to Martha E., daughter of Jacob Westfall. Children, Lew, Nellie, Flora, Anna, Stella, Clyde and Wilford.
LEW GREYNOLDS, son of Lewis D. Greynolds, born 1871; mother's maiden name was Martha Westfall. He was admitted to practice law at the Beverly bar; and later was elected Mayor of Beverly. He was educated in the public schools and subsequently took a course in the West Virginia University.
PATRICK GILLOOLY, born 1821, died 1885; son of John and Mary Gil- looly; Irish. In 1857 married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Durkin. Chil- dren, Owen W., Patrick, Bridget, Mary E., John J. Farmer, 200 acres; was a teamster in the Union army. .
OWEN GILLOOLY, born 1858, son of Patrick; married Anna Moyle. Child, Mary. Mrs. Gillooly died 1893 and he married Teresa Cain. His parents came from County Mayo, Ireland.
WILLIAM F. GRIFFITH, born in Barbour County, 1870; son of Richard T. and Macedonia (Morrison) Griffith. Married in Tucker County 1890, to Eva, daughter of Jackson and Jane (Kellar) Ramsey. Children, Howard Butcher, Wallace B., Minnie Lee. By trade a carpenter; worked in Tucker County; moved to Clarksburg 1897 and engaged in the hotel business; came to Elkins in 1897, and is now the proprietor of the Diamond saloon.
JOHN R. GOODMAN, born in Virginia 1869; son of James and Nancy (Blankenship) Goodman; married, 1889, to Cora, daughter of Davis and Catherine (Lindsey) Gordon. Children, Jesse Alfred, Pearl Beatrice. Farmer.
JAMES MOSES GILLIS, born 1853 in Harrison County, son of James E. and Sarah Jane Gillis; was married in 1876 to Amelia C., daughter of John G. and Nancy Howell. Children, Lee Ann, George B., James Sylvester, Peter Daniel, Eugene M., William, John and Martha C. He is a farmer . and railroader.
REV. C. B. GILKESON, born 1863, son of John A. and Isabella (Hum- phreys) Gilkeson; Scotch-Irish; married 1891 to Margaret, daughter of Ed- ward J. and Margaret (Kerr) Leyburn. He is pastor of the Beverly Pres- byterian Church.
ISAAC M. GROVES, born 1863, son of Solomon H. Groves. In 1896 he married in Grant County, Cora, daughter of Jacob Parsons; merchant and assistant postmaster of Harman.
MARION FRANKLIN GROSE, son of Henry Grose, of Dutch descent, born in Bath County, 1857; mother's maiden name Mary J. Hively; was married 1880, near Beverly, to Alice C., daughter of G. W. Caplinger; one child, Eva Lee. His father was in the Confederate Army and was killed near Orange Court-House.
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DAVID GOFF, for more than half a century prominent, not only in the affairs of Randolph County, but also of the State, came from a family dis- tinguished for talent, industry, perseverance and success, and he developed all of those characteristics. His people were of New England stock, his immediate ancestors being natives of Rhode Island, and they took a promi- nent part in shaping the history of that State. Job Goff, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Rhode Island in 1760, and his father and grandfather before him were natives, or at least, citizens of that State. He married Miss Waldo, who belonged to a talented and influential family. Job Goff served three years in the American Army during the Revolution- ary War. After the restoration of peace he removed to Vermont, subse- quently to New York, and finally, in 1804, to Harrison County, then Vir ginia, now West Virginia. That was his home till his death, which occurred in 1845, in his eighty-fifth year. His life was long and useful, and for sixty years he was a member of the Baptist Church. His children were, J. W., Abigail, Jemima, Polly, Waldo P., John and David. The last named was born in Harrison County, September 3, 1804. In 1829 he married Christina M., daughter of Peter Buckey, of Randolph County, and their children were Cecilia, Claude and Vernon. Scarcely had David Goff become a citi- zen of Randolph, and while yet a very young man, when he was called upon to assume the responsibilities of public office, and from that time until the end of his life he nearly always held some position of honor and trust. He was early admitted to the bar as a lawyer, and in 1830 he was appointed by the Governor of Virginia to the office of Justice of the Peace for Randolph. At that time the justice held office without pay. It was strictly a position of honor, without hope of reward except that the justice with the oldest commission might be appointed sheriff. Five years later, 1835, David Goff became Prosecuting Attorney of Randolph County, an office which he filled with exceptional success and vigor. He was early interested in school affairs. At that time the public schools scarcely deserved the name, but the idea was growing in the western part of Virginia, and the small begin- ning needed a man of ability and in thorough sympathy, to lead it to the great developement which it has since attained. David Goff became the first Superintendent of Schools of Randolph County, having been elected in 1853, soon after the new constitution went into effect. With much public sentiment against popular education, and the laws of the State only half- hearted in their support of it, Mr. Goff had no easy duty to perform when he entered upon the work of his office. But with that perseverance which always distinguished him, he laid the foundation on which a splendid super- structure has since been erected. His conspicuous success soon attracted the attention of the people and he was elected by a large majority to repre- sent Randolph in the Legislature of Virginia. He had natural ability for that work, and he gained such popularity that when the State of Virginia
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was divided and West Virginia was formed, he was elected by his people to represent them in the Senate of the new State.
Mr. Goff, from 1844 till the close of the Civil War, took an active part in military affairs. In 1844 he became Colonel of Virginia militia and filled the office several years. He was not in the office at the commencement of the Civil War, but he was looked upon as a leader. His sympathies were with the South, and he actively espoused that cause. In 1861, when the conflict came, and the authorities at Richmond were pushing troops across the Alleghanies to occupy Grafton and other towns along the railroad, David Goff was the medium through which, in many instances, the Govern- ment at Richmond communicated with its officers in the northwestern part of the State. Colonel Porterfield at Grafton was directed to communicate with Colonel Goff at Beverly in the matter of arms, and one consignment of 1000 muskets was sent to Beverly to be distributed by him. The official Confederate correspondence at Richmond, now published by the United States Government, shows the important part performed by Mr. Goff at that early stage of the war. On the day of the Battle of Rich Mountain Colonel Goff, together with many of the citizens of Beverly, left the town and set out upon their journey to the South. Colonel Goff left at about two o'clock in the afternoon, while the noise of the battle was distinctly heard. He feared that his life would be in danger if he remained, for his sympa- thies for the South were well known. He took with him his family, includ- ing Claude Goff, wife and child (David Goff, jr.,) and remained till the close of the war. David Goff, jr., died at Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Va., in 1863, of scarlet fever, being two years and six months old. The last barrel of flour Colonel Goff purchased for his family in his Southern home cost him $200; and a French cambric dress pattern bought by one of the ladies of his family cost $111.
When peace was declared Colonel Goff returned to Beverly only to find that his property had been much abused and damaged. His house had been taken possession of by the Federals and had been used as a hospital. Soldiers had carved their names on the woodwork, so badly defacing it that new woodwork was necessary. The yard and garden had been used as a burying ground for the amputated limbs of soldiers. In addition to this, Colonel Goff was disfranchised and for some years was not permitted to vote. He stood high as a Mason, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church, always ready to help, and doing more than his share in all church work. He was an elder in the church for a great many years. He was in- strumental in building the second Presbyterian Church in Beverly after the close of the war, the first church having been destroyed by the Federal troops .*
* Efforts have been made at various times by our Congressmen to get some compen- sation from the Government for the destruction of this church, but without success. "Too many Rebels in it," is usually assigned as the reason for the failure to obtain com- pensation.
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The Goff men have all been good husbands, good fathers and good citi- zens, upright and honest in all their dealings, always liberal in giving to persons in distress or to suffering humanity. Major Goff's death occurred in 1878, and he left valuable property, the accumulation of a long life of industry and careful business. General Nathan Goff, formerly Secretary of the Navy, and now Judge on the United States Supreme Bench, is a nephew of the subject of this sketch, and studied law in his office in Beverly.
David Goff's daughter, Cecilia, on June 4, 1859, was married to Charles Frederick William Kunst, an influential and well known business man of Grafton, W. Va. Their children are Hattie, George Henry Augustus, David Goff, William H., Charles Albert and Fred V. Mrs. Kunst was a lady highly respected by all who knew her, very kind in giving to the poor and needy, and she was sadly missed at her death, which occurred September 17, 1894. She was the only daughter of Colonel Goff.
CLAUDE GOFF, son of David Goff, was born in 1832, and was given the best education to be had at Clarksburg, and was then entered as a student at Lexington, Va. Having chosen the law as his profession he prepared himself for its practice by a course in the law school at Lexington. In 1856, when he was twenty-four years of age, he began the practice, and at once took his place among the successful practitioners of Randolph and adjoining counties. Two years later, that is, 1858, he was married to Miss Anna A. daughter of Franklin and Lucinda Leonard, of Randolph County. During the Civil War his residence at Beverly was seized by the Federal troops and was used as a hospital; and his sympathies being for the South, he took his family and moved within the Confederate lines. When he returned to Beverly after the war he found great changes. Those who had upheld the cause of the South found themslves shut out from many professions by test oaths and otherwise. It was especially difficult to successfully carry on the practice of law, and this had its weight in influencing Mr. Goff to turn his attention elsewhere. In 1867 he accepted a position with a com- mercial house, and traveled for it seven years, being pre-eminently success- ful. He subsequently was in the mercantile business in Beverly on his own account, and was thus engaged a few years when he again took up the profession of law, and was also employed in looking after the extensive in- terests which he inherited from his father.
He was a man of high standing, a Royal Arch Mason, and was treas- urer of the Beverly Lodge for a number of years. He was greatly respected . by all of his friends, and at his death he was missed by the community in which he had lived. His death was a sad affliction to his family. His chil- dren were Charles P., David, Ralph Waldo, and one unnamed. Charles P. Goff and his mother reside in the old homestead at Beverly, which they have remodeled into a beautiful and comfortable home. Ralph Waldo Goff, who was born at Grafton, W. Va., died at Beverly in his twenty-first year,
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and the loss of this brilliant boy, who was a born lawyer, so shattered the nerves of his father and mother that they were never able to overcome the blow caused by his death. Charlas P. Goff, after a three years course at the West Virginia University, was compelled to give up his studies without graduation because of failure of eyesight. The records of the family have been carefully kept, and Charles Goff can extend the family tree to include thirty-two ancestors, among them being not only the Goffs, but also the families of the Earles, the Buckeys, the Waldos and the Leonards, each having an extensive history of its own. A German Bible belonging to Mrs. Goff was printed in 1545, and a badge that was worn at the inauguration of President Washington is among the family souvenirs.
FRENCH W. GEAR, born 1862; son of John and Catherine Gear; mar- ried 1886 to Cora A., daughter of R. J. Wees. Children, Charles E., George Walter, Maudie M., William W.
JOHN GOWER, born at Philippi, son of Moses and Hannah (Moats) Gower. In 1869 he married Marcy J., daughter of John Murphy. Chil- dren, Isaac C., Patsy C., John D., Waitman, William R., Alice M., An- toinette M., Oscar L. He is a farmer and was in the Union Army.
PATRICK GLANNON, born in Ireland in 1842, son of Thomas and Sarah Glannon. In 1870 married Mary A., daughter of Thomas and Mary Fallon. Children, M. I., Mary C., Sarah E., Catherine F., Thomas J., John P .; farmer and blacksmith; owns 105 acres. Mrs. Glannon died 1888. He was a Federal soldier and has traveled extensively.
C. L. GRAHAM, born 1875, son of James. He is a farmer and miller, living in Dry Fork District.
JOHN WILLIAM GRAHAM, born 1853 in Pendleton County, son of James and Mary Ann (Davis) Graham; German parentage. In 1873, at Reed's Creek, Pendleton County, he married Delila Jane, daughter of Anthony and Rachel (Mowrey) Mowrey. Children, Maudella Frances, Rachel Ann, Da- vid Seymour, William Webster, Irene, Louetta, Clara Susan, Denver Lee, Minnie Pearl, Owen Chloe. He removed to Randolph 1892; farmer and carpenter; owns a house and lot near Harman.
JONATHAN HUTTON was of Welch descent. His father was Abraham Hutton who left Wales when sixteen years of age and landed at Phila- delphia, where he remained several years, and about 1765, as is believed, he went to the South Branch in the present county of Hardy. In a short time he returned to Philadelphia, married Miss Evans and returned to South Branch where the following children were born: Moses, Peter and Jona- than, the last named being the subject of this sketch. Jonathan alone came to Randolph County and no further mention of his brothers is necessary,
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nor is it possible to give much information concerning them, as but little is known. When Abraham Hutton left Wales he possessed what few boys of that time could boast of-a shot gun. It was six feet long and by no means graceful in its outline, but he brought it to America, kept it many years, than gave it to his son Jonathan who brought it to Randolph where it remained in the family as a relic of old times, and its last lawful owner was Warwick Hutton who had it at the beginning of the war. But the Yankees concluded that a gun was a dangerous thing in the hands of a Hutton, and they took it, carried it to Beverly, where they exhibited it as a curiosity, and it finally disappeared. .
Jonathan Hutton was born in Hampshire County, now Hardy, June 3, 1769. In May, 1790, he married Mary Troutwine, a German lady. Her father was body-physician to Frederick the Great, of Prussia, but becoming weary with the formality of court life, and being unable longer to endure the over- bearing beheavior of his kingly master, he ran away and came to America which then, as now, offered a refuge to those who wished to escape tyranny in Europe. The following named children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Hutton: Elizabeth, Sarah, Moses, Nancy, Catherine, John Adams, Fannie, Abraham, Mary. All, or nearly all, of these were born in Randolph County. Jonathon Hutton came to this county about 1795 and purchased and took up land on the west side of the river near the present village of Huttonsville. He was a surveyor as well as a farmer, and did his survey- ing with a compass which he made with his own hands. One of the early enterprises which he undertook was the drilling of a salt well above Hut- tonsville, but his efforts were not successful. The lands in that part of the valley when he came were covered with forests of oak and walnut. The Haddans, the Riffles, the Currences, the Crouches, and others had made considerable improvement before he came. He became a Justice of the Peace in 1808; and it does not appear that he ever aspired to office, prefer- ing to devote his time to his private affairs. His daughter Elizabeth mar- ried Andrew Crouch; Sarah, Fannie and Nancy died young; Catherine married Charles C. See; Mary married W. J. Long.
MOSES HUTTON, son of Jonathan, married Mary Haigler. Children, Mary Ann, Alfred, Elihu, Elizabeth, Eugene, Virginia and Mozella. He was a farmer and stockdealer, and he cleared much of the land about Hut- tonsville, particularly the farm belonging to his son Elihu Hutton. He was a Whig in politics; he died about 1860 of typhoid fever, at the age of 66.
JOHN A. HUTTON, son of Jonathan, married Dorothy See in 1834. Chil- dren, Margaret, Catherine E., Rachel P., Lucy, Warwick and Caroline. John A. Hutton was a member of the West Virginia Legislature, and in 1880 he re-assessed the lands of Randolph County. He was Justice of the Peace in 1841, and held other county offices.
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ABRAHAM HUTTON, son of Jonathan, married Phoebe Ann Wilson in 1836, and for a second wife married Jane Eliza Harris. Children, Jane L., Mary Martha, Catherine, Phoebe Ann, Amelia, Albert E., James S., De- catur B. and John.
ALFRED HUTTON, son of Moses, born 1833, married Caroline, daughter of William L. Ward. Children, Ersella Lee, Virena D., Eugene E., Charles S., Alice W., Napoleon B., Amy G. and Durbin W. Of these children Eugene E. married Flora Osbern of Barbour County; Napoleon B. married Mary Crouch. Alfred Hutton was Justice of the Peace in 1877.
COLONEL ELIHU HUTTON, son of Moses and grandson of Jonathan Hutton, was born 1837, on the John Haddan farm near the mouth of Riffle's Creek. It was near this spot that Indians murdered and burned David Haddan and his wife, together with their cabin, before the formation of Randolph County. Elihu Hutton began his education in the country schools; then attended an academy at Hillsboro, Pocahontas County, for two months, and went to Weston, where he was taught by Ed. Bland, now of Braxton County. After three months at Weston he came home sick of pneumonia. He next entered the academy at Huttonsville, taught by Jacob I. Hill, and remained there from 1857 to 1861. The academy, which stood on the hill back of Moore's hotel, was built by Moses, John and Abraham Hutton and E. B. Butcher. It was burned by Federal soldiers in 1862 and the bell was carried to Beverly, where it is said to be still in service at one of the tav- erns. Before the academy was burned, the majority of the students had joined the Southern Army, and Prof. Hill had been elected lieutenant. But before that time the subject of this sketch had commenced his military career. Early in July, 1861, when Mcclellan invaded West Virginia, the Randolph Militia was called out by Col. Melvin Currence to oppose the Union Army,* and Mr. Hutton mustered with the militia. After the fight at Rich Mountain there was great excitement at Huttonsville, where the militia was stationed, but no authentic news. Citizens came fleeing up the pike with all kinds of reports. Mr. Hutton was sent to Beverly to obtain news. He met Col. Scott, with a regiment of Confederates, in full retreat. Scott burned the Huttonsville bridge and retreated over Cheat Mountain. Hutton went with him. The militia scattered in every direction and never assembled afterwards.
Col. Hutton did not become a Confederate soldier until the spring of 1863. Prior to that time he had been on scouting duty, and had spent much time with Company F, from Randolph. In September, 1861, he came into Randolph with Gen. Lee, and was at Elkwater during the skirmishing there and in the rear of Cheat Mountain. Gen. Lee asked him to pilot a battery to the top of the mountain east of Elkwater, from which it
* See sketch of Col. Currence.
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could command the Federal position; but before the battery was placed, Lee ordered a retreat. At Camp Northwest, in Pocahontas County, Hutton joined Co. C, 20th Va. Cavalry, and was elected captain. This was in W. L. Jackson's brigade, and was the spring of 1863. For some time he and Capt. J. W. Marshall did outpost duty along the border from Kentucky to Randolph County. About that time he was sent against the Home Guards on Dry Fork, under Capt. Snyder. He was given 27 men for the service and started from Elk Mountain in Pocahontas County. Great secrecy was necessary, and he broke up his command, ordering each man to make his way alone to Hightown, where they assembled aud left their horses. They proceeded through the woods, traveling at night. They first campcd on Laurel Fork of North Fork. The next night they reached the head of Gandy, and the next night at 2 o'clock they surrounded Capt. Sampson Snyder in his house and toook him prisoner, together with a deserter named Mecks, who was shot, a man named Cunningham who in trying to escape was shot in the elbow and died of the wound, and Daniel Anvil. Amos Bennett was in the house at the time, but escaped. With the prison- ers, and with seven horses and eighty cattle picked up on Dry Fork, they retreated. Capt. Snyder's men collected, followed them and had a skirmish in Highland County, but failed to rescue the prisoners or retake the stock. However, Capt. Snyder made his escape .*
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