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JACOB SEE WAMSLEY, born 1824, died 1898, son of Samuel and Eliza- beth (Crouch) Wamsley; English parentage; was married in 1850 to Minerva, daughter of Col. William L. and Amelia (Brockmire) Hamilton. Children, Celeste, Salina Amelia, Jared Lee, Edgar Donaldson, Stuart McClung and Jacob Emerson. He owned 2300 acres, 800 improved. Captain Wamsley was a sympathizer with the South in the Civil War. In 1861 he took his family to Virginia and left them near Lexington while he joined the army, soon becoming captain of Company D, 19th Va. Cavalry. He saw much ac- tive service. His company was mostly made up of men from Randolph and Pocahontas Counties. In civil life he was largely identified with public affairs; was six years president of the county court, and was a man of wide influence and of sterling worth, who was a leader among men and whose influence lives after him.
JACOB EMERSON WAMSLEY, son of Captain Jacob S. Wamsley, born 1860, graduated at the University of Virginia, also at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1884. He located in Beverly, but in 1888 he moved to Montana, where he married Mary J. Ferrall. He died in 1897. As a physician he stood very high in the profession.
STUART M. WAMSLEY, of Oklahoma, born 1858 in Randolph, son of Captain Jacob S. Wamsley; was married 1881 at Huttonsville to Mary E., daughter of Patrick Crickard. Children, Lorna M., J. G. Cleveland, Lina A., John Elmer T., Agnes, Tresa and Hope. He left Randolph in 1894.
EDGAR D. WAMSLEY, born 1856, son of Jacob and Minerva (Hamilton) Wamsley. In 1879 at Beverly he married Mary H., daughter of Baxter and Mary (Hutton) Butcher. Children, Wilfred D., Helen J., Warren B., J. E. Kenneth and Robert H. He is a farmer and stockraiser, owns 1000 acres, half improved; has traveled extensively in the West.
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JARED L. WAMSLEY, the present Prosecuting Attorney of Randolph, was born in 1854; son of Captain Jacob S. Wamsley, who was an officer in the Confederate army; of English ancestry. He was married in 1880 at Beverly to Florence M. ,daughter of Eli B. Butcher. The maiden name of Mrs. Butcher was Elizabeth Hutton. Mr. Wamsley graduated from the Fairmont Normal School in 1875, and attended the Roanoke College two years. He studied law without an instructor, reading alone, and in 1882 was admitted to practice and six years later was elected Prosecuting At- torney and has held the office, by election, ever since, the people of his county having chosen him for three consecutive terms.
WALTER LEE WILLHIDE, born in Taylor County, 1871, son of J. W. Willhide; married Gretta Viola, daughter of Andrew Taylor, and they have one child, Catherine. He is a druggist at Elkins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WHETSELL, born 1863 in Preston, son of Buck- ner and Charlotte Whetsell, was married in 1890, near Elkins to Bettie, daughter of Jessie W. Goddin. Children, Charles Vernon, Garland Lynn and Dama Charlotta; came to Elkins in 1889 and went into the livery business; was proprietor of the Central Hotel three years. His father settled in Preston; his grandfather, Peter Whetsell, came from Germany and settled in Maryland.
WILLIS H. WOODLEY, born at Charlottsville, Va., in 1845; son of Willis H. and Averilla (Day) Woodley; natives of Isle of Wight County, Va. His ancestors came from England in the 17th century. In 1876 he married Martha Dickenson. Children, Thomas O., Harry E., Archie A. His father was ten years Proctor of the University of Virginia, and was a fine Latin and Greek scholar. He served several terms in the Virginia Legislature. He moved to Buckhannon in 1847. The subject of this sketch was attend- ing school in Washington when the Civil War began. He returned to Buckhannon, joined the Upshur Greys (Confederate). He fought through the war, and after its close taught school; did work as a contractor on rail- roads; engaged in the lumber business, and in 1898 boughta farm in Valley Bend District. His wide reading has given him an exceptionally good education. His family is traced in England back to the year 1440.
LEWIS WOOLWINE, born 1840, son of Orlando and Sallie (Clark) Wool- wine; was married in 1865 to Columbia, daughter of John B. and Mary White .. Children, Charles Lee, Nora, Icy, Tucker, Dorpha, John, Howard, Burr, Guy, Kent and Morlie; farmer; owns 106 acres, partly within the corporate limits of Elkins; owns the Round Barn which was bult by Jesse W. Goddin for George Ward; owned the land on which the Graham Ad- dition of Elkins is built; also owns land on Valley Mountain; was in the Confederate army and was with Imboden's raid in 1863. Both he and his father were born in Randolph. 32
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ANDREW MARCELLUS WAMSLEY, born 1812, died 1876, son of Samuel Wamsley; Scotch ancestry; married, 1837, to Mary, daughter of Adam Har- per. Children, Adam H., Samuel B., Margaret E., George F., Zackary T., Virginia A., Mary A. and Jacob W.
WM. M. WAMSLEY, born 1831, died 1881; son of Jesse and Sarah (Mace) Wamsley; married Hannah, daughter of Levi S. and Martha Ward. Chil- dren, Floyd, Martin L., Lee J., John S., William M. His father was born 1795, and was a soldier in the War of 1812.
SQUIRE B. WAMSLEY, son of John N. Wamsley, born near Beverly, 1851. His mother's maiden name was Eliza Yokum. He was married in 1872 to Martha Jane, daughter of James A. Vaughn, whose mother was Deborah Jeffries. Children, Idelia Harriett, Minnie Myrtle, Ida Burton and John Stanley. He is a farmer in Beverly District.
CYRUS C. WAMSLEY, son of Adam H. Wamsley of Tucker County, was born in 1864. His mother's maiden name was Christina Crouch; English ancestry; was married in 1888 to Laura B., daughter of Solomon W. Daniels; her mother's maiden name was Mary J. Gum. Children, Mary Chloe, Nannie Hazel, Menter S. and Baby. His father was a Confederate soldier, and now lives in Tucker County. Cyrus Wamsley is a successful farmer near Beverly.
ZACHARY TAYLOR WAMSLEY, son of Andrew M. and Mary (Harper) Wamsley, born in, 1848, was married in 1875 to Melisse, daughter of Thomas B. and Mary A. Scott; children, Ruth, Edith Scott, Jessie Harper and Rus- sie Hutton. He owns 265 acres, 100 improved, in Valley Bend.
JACOB WEBSTER WAMSLEY, born 1852, son of Andrew M. and Mary (Harper) Wamsley; was married in 1873 to Virginia, daughter of Thomas B. and Mary Ann (Hutton) Scott. ยท Children, Bertie, Mabel, Harold, Josie, Basil, Waite, Evangeline, Agnes, Porter Maxwell, Thomas Andrew and Alice. He owns the Wamsley homestead in Valley Bend.
J. LAFAYETTE WAMSLEY, born 1847, son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Stalnaker)-Wamsley; was married in 1867 to Georgiana, daughter of Ham- ilton and Mary (Arbogast) Stalnaker. Children, Nora L., Floyd J., S. Burn, Bryan, G. L. Burton, E. E., Plumber, W. and Mary E. He is a farmer, owning 200 acres. Floyd J. is a portrait painter; S. Burn is a teacher and photographer.
JASPER NEWTON WAMSLEY, born 1873 in. Indiana, son of George and Margaret (Talbott) Wamsley; was married in 1893 in Tucker County to Anna, daughter of Henry and Rosella (Lipscomb) Hovatter. Children, Ola Dayton, Howard and Dewey. He came to West Virginia in 1878 and located at Huttonsville; worked for years as brakeman of W. Va. C. & P. R. R., and two years on the B. & O .; came to Elkins in 1898 and opened a bicycle
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shop and agency for the Singer Manufacturing Co. His father was a blacksmith and farmer, and was born in Randolph County.
WILLIAM L. WAMSLEY, born 1860, son of Peter and Elazan Wamsley. In 1880, near Gladesville, he married Sarah A., daughter of Jacob W. and Evaline H. Martin. Children, Walter L., Earl R., Lena L., Maudie G. and Laura D. He is a farmer, owning 75 acres near Kerens. His grandfather, Daniel Wamsley, born 1796, lived first in Randolph, then went to the West and died in Iowa. Mrs. Wamsley's father lived in Preston County; her grandfather, John Martin, lived in Monongalia and was killed in a coal mine.
JONAS WARE, born 1861, son of Allen B. and Mary E. (Daft) Ware; was married in 1882 to Salina, daughter of George W. and Sarah E. Painter. Children, Elihu, Lulu B., Wilson; farmer, owning 162 acres, 50 cleared. The first Ware who came to Randolph was Richard, who settled on Ware's Ridge, in Mingo District.
W. M. WARE, born 1830; married in 1855 to Lucinda, daughter of Wm. and Prudence (Wilmoth) Wamsley. Children, Prudence, Matilda, Phillip, Anna, Hannah, Boone, Samuel, Gordon, Hulda, William.
SYLVESTER WARD, the first of the name in Randolph County, so far as known, came at an early date from the South Branch, and nearly all of the Wards in the county are descended from him.
JACOB WARD, son of Sylvester, was born in Randolph very early in its history. He married a sister of John Scott for his first wife, and after her death he married Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew Whitman. By these two marriages he had twelve children, seven by the first as follows: Scott who fell on a pitchfork and was killed; Adonijah who married Miss Hull; Jacob who married Miss Dyre, daughter of James Dyre who was spared by the Indians at the time of the Fort Seybert massacre in Pendleton County; Levi who married Miss Stalnaker; Katie who married William Parsons; Polly who married Solomon Parsons; Jemima who married Job Parsons. The children by the second marriage were, Whitman, William L., Washington G., Jesse and Phoebe.
JOB WARD, son of Whitman M. and Mary(Wees)Ward, was married in -1866 to Catherine, daughter of John K. and Sallie(Stalnaker)Chenoweth; children, Clay, Wade, Flora, Ray, Err, Berna, Luna, Pearl; farmer, resid- ing on the old homestead two miles from Elkins; owns 215 acres, 160 im- proved. His father, Whitman M. Ward, was born April 9, 1803 above Hut- tonsville; was shot in the head at New Interest by Rebel guerrilas under William Harper, while attending an election, June 14, 1862. He had been Justice of the Peace. His wife, Mary, was a daughter of John Wees. Their children were: Washington G., born October 28, 1831; Squire B., born October 10, 1833; John W., born February 28, 1836; Mary E., born
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August 17, 1838; Phoebe C., born July 8, 1840; Job, born January 28, 1843; Winfield S., born May 10, 1848; Mathew W., born December 28, 1850; Wil- liam K., born November 13, 1853.
SQUIRE BOSWORTH WARD, born 1833, son of Whitman; was married in 1856 to Mary Jane, daughter of Daniel and Catherine Dinkle; child, Iddo. He owns 431 acres, 375 improved. His second marriage was to Ida Huffman.
IDDO WARD, born 1856, son of Squire B. Ward, married 1884 to Mary, daughter of Adam C. and Sabina (Salisbury) Caplinger. Children, Stark, Carrie, Russey, Adam D., Vatie. He owns 1080, 230 improved; farmer and stockman. His grandfather, Daniel Dinkle, came from Augusta County.
JOHN BAYLIS WARD, son of George W. and Maria (Earle) Ward, born 1852; married, 1882 to Angelina, daughter of Andrew and Susan Scott. Children, George A., William M., Wilson P., John Baylis, Edgar Foggy, and Mary Genevieve.
JAMES A. WARD, son of Levi D. and Rebecca (Wamsley) Ward; was born near the site of Elkins in 1860. He was afterwards a scout among the Black Hills, and finally became a gold miner of Idaho. His father died from harsh treatment while a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. He was a descendant of James Dyer who was carried away from Fort Seybert, Pendle- ton County, by Indians in 1758. Dyer was taken over the Seneca trail which passed near Elkins, then a wilderness. His descendants afterwards set- tled there.
ELIHU B. WARD, born 1838, son of Jesse C., and Elizabeth Ward. In 1865 he married Eliza A. Crouch, and at his second marriage, Eugenia Crouch. Children, Mittie L., Kent C., Jubal E., Mary, Emma, Nora, Lenna, Bessie, Randall, Bruce. He is a farmer, owns 1965 acres, and was in the Confederate army. His son Kent married Ora M. Ward. Children, Wini- fred E., Blain E. and Gladys.
LEE M. WARD, born 1846, son of Wm. L. and Eliza (Myers) Ward; Irish and German descent. In 1867 he married Virginia, daughter of Moses and Polly (Haigler) Hutton. Children, Tucker H., Russie L. and Lucy. He is a farmer and stockdealer, owns 3000 acres near Huttonsville, largely im- proved. He entered the Confederate army in 1862 and fought till the close of the war, being paroled at Staunton. He is the possessor of furniture which once belonged to his grandfather, Jonathan Hutton. His son Tucker married Aneath, daughter of Edwin Butcher. Children, Whitman L. and Brownie B.
LEVI SCOTT WARD, son of Adonijah and Hannah (Hull) Ward, great- grandson of one of the original surveyors of Beverly, born 1819. He was married in 1841 to Martha, daughter of John and Mary (Hornbeck) Wood. Children, Hannah, John, Luther, Asa Paul, Sabina. He owns 140 acres in Valley Bend.
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HULL ADAM WARD, born 1825 in what is now Tucker County; son of Adonijah and Hannah (Hull) Ward; Irish ancestry; was married in 1878 to Melvina Wees. Children, Lee, Luella, Adonijah, Elvin, Jacob, William, Harrison, Leonora, Alston Dayton, Hannah. He owns 200 acres, 150 im- proved; has lived 42 years in Randolph; was lieutenant of militia before the war; has been school trustee. The children of Adonijah Ward were: Peter, who married Polly Parsons; Jacob, Levi S., Hester, who married Wm. W. Parsons; Jemima, who married Job Parsons; Susan, who married James Wilson; and the subject of this sketch, who lives at Mingo.
STERLING P. WARD, born 1866, son of George and Margaret (Wamsley) Ward; was married at Valley Bend in 1890 to Mary M., daughter of Charles and Virginia (Wilmoth) Crouch. Child, Margaret Virginia. He is a farmer and stock dealer near Crickard; was educated at the Bingham Military School in North Carolina; owns 300 acre farm and a house and several lots in Crickard.
JACOB WEES, the first of the name in West Virginia, was an early settler in Hardy County; was born 1733, died 1826; his ancestors were citi- zens of Germany. The date of their coming to America is not known. The name at present is spelled both Wees and Weese. The original spell- ing conformed to neither of these, but was Waas, as is shown by the signa- tures on the old records of Randolph County .* It is said that in German Waas is pronounced the same as Wees in English, consequently the name has always been pronounced the same, although the orthography has changed. Jacob Wees moved from Hardy County to North Carolina, where he remained a short time, and then made his home in Randolph County. The date of his coming is not definitely known, but it was during the Indian troubles, for the family frequently took refuge in Wilson's fort in time of danger. He was a man of influence in the community, and acquired consid- erable property. He had four sons and several daughters. The latter married and moved away from Randolph. The sons were Jacob, George, Daniel and John. Of these, Jacob's sons were Absalom, Jacob, John and Eli. George's sons were Zirus, Zaiba and Jacob, and his daughters, Rebecca, Catherine, Dorcas and Martha. Daniel's sons were Judson, Hay- mond and Duncan, and he had several daughters. John's sons were Elijah, John and Job. All the Weeses of Randolph are descended from these.
ZIRUS WEES, born 1804 on Isner's Creek, son of George and Ruth (Mor- gan) Wees, was married in 1828 to Alba, daughter of John L, and Deborah Hart; children, Harriet, Deborah, Ruth, Perry H. and Ziba. He was a car- penter until forty years of age, and then began farming near where Elkins now stands, on 200 acres, nearly all improved; had also 700 acres of mount- ain land. His son Ziba was born in 1844 and he married Rebecca Camden,
* See signatures on page 224.
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daughter of Archibald and Caroline Wilmoth; child, Harley D .; is a farmer and stockraiser on the old homestead.
LEVI WEES, born 1876, son of Taylor and Christina Wees; German parentage. He has taught schoool four years.
PERRY HART WEES, born 1840, son of Zirus and Alba (Hart) Wees; was married in 1865 to Mary Alice Jewell, daughter of Joseph and Alice (Elliot) Harding; children, Boyd, Clyde, Glenn, Kirk, Hope. He is a farmer and merchant.
HENRY HARPER WEESE, born 1856, son of Jesse and Mahala(Stalna- ker)Weese. In 1878 he married Celia, daughter of Robert Lloyd, who dying in 1891, he married Mrs. Hannah Davis, daughter of Sampson Shif- lett. She died in 1896, and he married Luceba, daughter of Elam Daniels. They have one child. Mr. Weese, on his mother's side, is a great grandson of Adam Stalnaker who was killed by Indians below Beverly.
ELIAS WEES, born 1836, son of Absalom and Eunice(Marstiller) Wees; was married in 1867 to Helen, daughter of Caleb and Mary Griffith; chil- dren, Elihu, Bruce, Arthur, Dora, Sterling, Bernard L., Norvell. He was a carpenter, and later farmed on King's Run; was a prisoner at Camp Chase; died 1887.
ALBA C. WESS, son of Andrew C. Wees, born 1860. His mother's maiden name was Amy J. Hart; was married in 1881, to Marietta, daughter of John M. Stalnaker; maiden name of wife's mother was Bethany Kittle. Children, William H. and Thomas J.
EMMET WEES, born 1863; was married in 1891 to Eddie, daughter of Edward and Minnie (Stalnaker) Pritt. Children, Charles Edward, Ora May, Willis Lee. He is a farmer in Valley Bend.
JOSEPH A. WILFONG, born 1874, son of H. A. and Catherine (Huffman) Wilfong In 1895 he married Alden Machia, daughter of Samuel B. and Mary M. Long. Child, Zeni .. He is a farmer and railroader in Dry Fork.
DE WITT CLINTON WOODFORD, born 1837 in Barbour County, son of John H. and Nancy (Minear) Woodford; English parentage. In 1867, in Indiana, he married Matilda Weirick. Children, DeWitt Clinton, Jacob Weirick, Emmeline, Mary, Hattie, Florence, Catherine Harvey; farmer and fruit grower; owns 1000 acres, 300 improved
ANDREW WORKMAN, born 1833 in Shenandoah County; son of Jona- than and Elizabeth Workman. On Leading Creek, in 1864, he married Herriet, daughter of Asbury Stalnaker. Children, Andrew J., Oliver H., Susan A., Archibald W. He owned a farm in the Wilson settlement, was a member of the M. E. Church, and died in 1892.
ANDREW JACKSON WORKMAN, born 1865; son of Andrew and Harriet (Stalnaker) Workman; German ancestry; was married in 1888 to Emmeline (Kittle) Findley. There child is Thaddeus R. He is a farmer near Laurel,
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with 123 acres and is one of the owners of the Riverside Stone Quary. His wife's great-grandfather, on her mother's side, was John Waldo who was carried away by Indians when two years old and remained with them seven- teen years, then returned and found his people. He subsequently went back to the Indians and became a noted doctor, then returning and practic- ing among the white people. He was also a Baptist preacher, and died about 1857.
WILLIAM WEBLEY, born on Cheat River 1822, son of William B. and Margaret (Schoonover) Webley; was married in 1842 to Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Morrison. Children, Arnold, Elias, Harmon, Enoch, William F., Parkison C. and Perry T.
ENOCH WEBLEY; born on Cheat River 1851, son of William; was mar- ried in 1877 to Emmeline, daughter of John K. Wilmoth. William Webley was a farmer, owned 210 acres five miles from Elkins. John K. Wilmoth lived on Cheat, but now lives in Barbour County. He was in the Union army. His children are Alba H., Henry C .. Almeda and Emmeline.
PARKISON C. WEBLEY, born on Cheat River 1856, son of William; was married in 1889 to Rachel Melvina (Corley) Goddin. Children, Lena May, Ola G., Avery Fleet. He is a farmer, owns 334 acres, 100 improved, five miles from Elkins; was educated in the common schools; taught nine terms. His father was a farmer.
THOMAS EPPERSON WOOD, the famous scout who became widely known for his services in behalf of the Confederacy, was a resident of Mingo. He was born in 1805 in Prince Edward County, Va., son of Carless and Glafery Wood, of Irish parentage; was married in 1829 in Botetourt County, to Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Martha Moore; children, Davis M., Andrew Jack- son, James B. and Clarinda. The year of his marriage he moved to Mingo Flats, and from that time till the Civil War he was engaged in home work and was successful. He was in his fifty-sixth year when the war came, and although exempt from military duty, he was among the first to take arms. Shouldering his hunting rifle, he left his home, and encouraged younger men to do the same. He joined General Garnett at Laurel Hill. Being intimately acquainted with all the pasess through the mountains leading south and east, and being a man who could be relied on, he was chosen as a scout and guide and was commissioned by Governor Letcher. He operated through Randolph, Pocahontas, Webster, Greenbrier and elsewhere, and endured many hardships. For weeks at a time he was in the woods guiding different parties through the mountains; and they often had to depend upon his unerring rifle and practiced eye for things to eat, and they seldom went hungry. One of his many daring deeds is worthy of note. He was one of a company of twenty-five volunteers who hastened to the Little Levels to intercept a squad that had been destroying property. After traveling on
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foot all night through the woods, they came to a log house in which the Federals were encamped, and they demanded a surrender. But the demand was answered by a fire from every window and crevice in the walls. The fight lasted half an hour and resulted in the death or capture of the whole Federal force. In the fight, Mr Wood was shot through the body, the ball coming out above the hip. The surgeon, Dr. M. Wallace, examined the wound and told him it would prove fatal. The scout declared that he would recover, and in a few months he was again scouting through the mountains. The wound, however, at times gave him trouble, and may have been the cause of his death which occured in his 82d year. He was a warm friend, or, if a foe, his noble nature moderated his enmity.
A. J. WOOD, born 1850, son of Thomas E. and Sally Wood; was married in 1871 to Miss S. Ware. Children, Sallie, Joseph, Jacob, John, Ann, Rob- ert, Houston, Bruce, Maggie and N. He lives at Mingo.
FRANCIS M. WOOD, born 1855, son of John C. and Elizabeth (Wilson) Wood; married 1882 to Mollie Armentrout. Children, Charlie C. and Roland K.
SAMUEL WOOD, born 1857, son of John C .; married in 1886 to Fannie M. Beatty. Children, Herbert H. and Lucy E.
CHARLES NOAH WOOD, born 1861, son of John C. and Mary W. (Chan- nel) Wood; English ancestry; married 1885 in Kansas to Florence, daugh- ter Daniel and Martha Kellison. Children, Arnett Clyde, Arva Earle, Iva Merte. He has been a merchant at Mingo and deputy postmaster, and is an excellent carpenter.
DAVIS E. WOOD, born 1873, son of James and Millard (Hall) Wood; married 1895 to Birdelia, daughter J. F. and Melissa (Havener) Tolly.
NICHOLAS WILMOTH. The oldest of the family of Wilmoths in Ran- dolph County was Nicholas. He was the eldest of four brothers and two sisters who settled on Shaver's Fork of Cheat near what was afterwards known as the Stone House; viz: Thomas, Jonathan, James, Deborah and Susan. They were an English family, but of their parentage, and where they lived before coming to Randolph, nothing is now known. The exact date of their settling on Cheat is also unknown, but they were living there at the beginning of the Revolution. The place was known as "the Wil- moth Settlement" in the earliest court records of Randolph. Nicholas Wilmoth built the largest house in Randolph County. It was made of logs, two stories high, and very long and wide. The postoffice in that locality is now called Corcoran. He married Sidney Currence and had eight children, John W., Sarah, Thomas, William, Eli, Samuel, Currence and James.
THOMAS WILMOTH, brother of Nicholas, married Nannie Schoonover, and owned the land where the Stone House now stands. The house was built by his son Levi with rocks taken from the river, and uncut. The
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building proved strong and substantial and is one of the old landmarks. The children of Thomas Wilmoth were Absalom, John, Edmund, Levi, and three daughters.
JONATHAN WILMOTH, brother of Nicholas; married a woman of Irish parentage, but her name and the names of their children are now forgotten, except that her son was named Ellis.
JAMES WILMOTH, brother of Nicholas, left no family. He fell a vic- tim to Indian ferocity early in the Revolutionary War. The tragedy oc- curred in the vicinity of the Stone House, but no record remains of the date nor of the particulars of the event.
ELI WILMOTH, son of Nicholas, was married to Rebecca Vanscoy, daughter of Aaron Vanscoy, who was a soldier in the War of 1812. Their children were, Archibald, Emily, Currence, James, Arnold, Louisa, Isbern, Oliver and Elizabeth. In 1858 Currence, who was then a married man, fell in the fire, during a fainting spell, and was burned so that he died after forty days.
ARCHIBALD WILMOTH, son of Eli and Rebecca Wilmoth, born 1824, was married in 1847 to Caroline, daughter of Isaac Taylor. Children, Lu- ceba Elizabeth, Alonzo Frances, Rebecca Camdena, Ella May. He now resides in Elkins, and is one of the oldest representatives of the Wilmoth family now living, and he furnished much of the data used in this History concerning the old families that settled on Cheat River and Leading Creek. He is a man of extensive and correct general information. His brother Arnold, now dead, was a man of great prominence in the county and was widly known and was always popular. He was a member of the county court in 1867.
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