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Mr. Carper is one of the scholarly and cultured professional men of Buck- hannon. Is widely read, was an eloquent and forcible pleader at the Bar, has a mind pregnant with facts and incidents and relationships of all the first families living in the county and is kind and considerate in his home.
His life has been well spent in the acquisition of that fund of knowledge, which now makes his retirement quiet, instructive and enjoyable.
He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
EDGAR P. CARPENTER, a farmer of Washington District, his home is on the hill above the postoffice of Hemlock. His nativity is Barbour County. The date of his birth is fixed as June 4, 1870. His parents were Daniel and Almira (Weaver) Carpenter. His grandparents were Coonrod and Elizabeth (Harper) Carpenter. His paternal ancestors settled in Upshur County, near Hemlock, in 1875, and raised the following family there: Polly, dead; Minerva, dead; Lucy, Eli, E. P., Martha, Adeline Virginia Rachel, Ira, dead; and Ida, twins; Cynda, Benjamin.
Mr. Carpenter owns a farm of 281 acres, which is given to the growing of nutritious grasses and nourishing cereals for the raising of live stock.
Mr. Carpenter married Susan Zickefoose, a daughter of Sampson and Marietta (Queen) Zickerfoose.
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Children : Jonas, born September 7, 1891, dead; Simon W., born September 25, 1892 ; Jessie H., born May 4, 1896; Stella M., born September 3, 1899; and Worthy, born December 8, 1902, dead.
He is a representative citizen, belongs to the I. O. O. F., and the Republican party.
AMOS F. CARR, a farmer of Union District, lives two miles east of Buck- hannon. Son of James Madison and Elizabeth (Cost) Carr, natives of Loudin County, Virginia. Born in 1840 and moved with his parents to Harrison County in 1848, was a soldier in the war between the states and enlisted on the 4th day of July, 1862, in Company E, 3d West Virginia Cavalry, and served therein until the war closed. Was with General Averill in all of his raids, was flag bearer for his squadron for two years, was slightly injured several times and seriously in- jured the 3d day prior to Lee's surrender and would have been killed had it not been for a day-book and testament in his pocket, the latter of which his mother gave him. These prevented the ball from entering his body deep enough to seriously wound him. From this injuury he rallied sufficiently in a few hours to be with his regiment at the time of the surrender. His regiment was a part of the body guard of General Grant at the time that Lee and Grant signed the terms of surrender.
He was discharged with his company at Wheeling July 30, 1865, returned home and there on January 6, 1868, married Harriet V. Stone of Loudin County, Virginia.
To this union have been born seven children: John W. M., Edna R., Albert O., Charles W., Susan E., Daisey (dead) and Mattie B.
His father was a son of James and Mary (Brown) Carr. The Carrs are of Irish descent. His mother was the daughter of Jacob and Mary (Grows) Cost of German descent.
His wife was the daughter of John Stone of German descent.
Mr. Carr is a leading Republican, farmer and gardener of Upshur County. He is a member of the New School Baptist Church.
WILLIAM H. CATELL, more often known as Kittle, born in 1858, in Barbour County, on June 18,. The son of Smith Catell or Kittle, who was the son of William C. Catell. He has been twice married, his first wife was Allie Lantz, the daughter of Isaac Lantz and Lettie Montgomery, the daughter of Moses Hornbeck and Betsy Montgomery, a widow.
Mr. Catell has thirty-two acres of land on the headwaters of Little Sand Run. He is a farmer, a stone mason, a carpenter and coal miner. His second wife was Miss Emma Ryan, the daughter of Wm. and Nancy Ann ( Mostiller) Ryan. Children by first wife : Madison, Elijah W., Nola, James Alfred, William Goff. By second wife : Edward.
He is a Methodist in Religion and a Republican in politics.
GEORGE HENRY CLARK, born December 16, 1832, in Fall River, Mass. Moved to a farm near Sago, 1839, and lived there with his parents twelve years, when he came to Buckhannon and served an apprenticeship as saddler under John L. Smith. He set up for himself in 1859, and has been making saddles and harness ever since. His parents were George and Ellen E. (Barnaby) Clark. Their children were: George H., the subject of this sketch ; Ellen E., wife of John L. Smith, Adeline E., wife of Elonzo Bunten, and A. Shutterly and Albert Smith, and A. B.
He married Susan E. Woods and to them were born, Joseph S., Nellie, Isora and Margaret, now all dead.
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THOMAS E. CLARK, was the only son of Isaac Worth Clark. He married Martha A· Romine, a daughter of Levi and Jemima (Dennison) Romine, of Vir- ginia, and to whom were born Arnett R., Lectie, Ophie H. and Latie.
Mr. Clark was a soldier in Company M, Third West Virginia Cavalry under Captain J. W. Heavner. During his service in the army his eye sight was affected materially by powder, from which he never recovered fully. For many years after the war his monthly stipend from the government was seventy-two dollars, which was reduced to thirty dollars upon examination by an expert sent out by the government to examine and treat his eyes.
MOSES KINCAID COLERIDER, is a farmer of Meade District, born, April 25, 1866, the son of William L. Colerider and Cebra Kincaid, the daughter of Moses Kincaid of Monongalia. Is the grandson of Henry Colerider of Mon- ongalia. His grandmother was Winnie Love, the sister of the mother of M. J. Jackson. His father was a soldier in Company E., Ist West Virginia Light Artillery, served throughout the war, returned home and lived to February 14, 1891. His children by his second wife were: Rebecca K., wife of I. G. Waldo; Wm. A., Clark, Mollie, Guy, Belle, Frank and Moses K.
Wm. L. Colerider's first wife was Cassie Ann McWhorter and their children were: Henry Colerider, John Colerider, Amy J., widow of A. J. Hosaflook and Ellen, wife of Stewart Hyre.
M. K. married Lilly J. Hamner, the daughter of Edward Bruce Hamner, and Martha E. Thomas, the daughter of John S. Thomas and Eliza White, on April 10, 1888, and their children are Myrna, born January 31, 1890, Cornelia, born September 16, 1893.
Mr. Colerider has always taken a lively interest in politics, his political affilia- tions being Republican.
WILLIAM PERRY CORE. The traditional account of John Core, the great, great grandfather of the subject, is that he was killed at the Doll's Run slaughter by the Indians, in Clay District, Monongahalia County, West Virginia, about the middle of August 1780. He had a son Christopher, as well as Michael, the great grandfather of the subject, to whom was born Christopher, the grand- father, who married Hannah, daughter of Rudolph Snider( after whom Doll's Run was named), and who settled in Clay District in 1770, near Dunkard Creek, about the mouth of Doll's Run, and near where his children lived. To this union were born four sons and six daughters. Michael, oldest son, who according to the law of those days, heired his father's estate, and who married Tenie Shriver, to whom were born six sons and one daughter, Asa, who married Betty Myers; Christie married Katie Barrickman; Abe married Moore ; Isaac married Amanda Tennant ; William married Dora Rice; Benjamin married Kate Johnson ; Catherine married Abram Brown.
John married Abbie Inghrin, to whom were born one son and five daughters ; Hannah, who married John Johnson; Mary married Greenberry Barrickman, who served as Sheriff of Monongalia County ; Betty Anne married Sanford Fetty ; Martha married James Clark; Rebecca married Joseph Barrickman; David Clark married Etta Morris; all of whom lived near the old home place most of their lives.
Moses married Elizabeth Pyles, to whom were born four sons and one daughter; Drusilla married Alpheus Henderson; Barton was never married; David married Rebecca Layton ; Christopher married Mary Lawlis ; John married Violetta Norton.
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Elizabeth married Ben Lyming, to whom were born three sons; Margaret married Jaks Shriver ; to whom were born three sons; Catherine, married Wm. Pyles, to whom were born one son and three daughters.
Rebecca married Ben Shriver to whom were born three sons and three daugh- ters ; Mary married David Lough, to whom were born four sons and three daugh- ters ; Sarah married Washington Tennant, to whom were born two sons and two daughters ;
Barton Core, father of the subject, married Nancy Fleming Dec. 23, 1841; and who was a descendant of the old Scottish family of Flemings, whose Great- Grandfather, William Fleming of Scotch-Irish ancestry, was born in Scotland in 1717, removed to the north of Ireland prior to 1741, where, suffering religious persecution, he came to Kent County, Deleware, that year, and settled in Penn's Colony, on the Deleware, with his brothers, Robert and Archibald, taking up lands in Mispillion Hundred, Del.
But in 1789, John, their brother, with three of William's sons, Nathan, Great- Grandfather of the subject, Boaz, and Benoni, removed to western Virginia, and settled on lands along the Monongahela River, at Fairmont, and elsewhere. William Fleming was twice married, first to Jean Frame, and after her death to Ann Hudson. By his first marriage he had seven children, and to his second union was born one son. Of children of the first marriage, Mary married Mat- thew Fleming ; Andrew, no record; Nathan, Great-Grandfather, married Lydia Russom; William, died unmarried; Boaz married Elizabeth Hutchinson, and after her death married Eliza Laidley; Beniah married Elizabeth Turner ; Benoni married Mary Stephenson.
Of the second marriage. Thomas married Ann Wood;
Of the children of Nathan Fleming, Mary married Alexander, son of Mat- thew Fleming; William married Ann, daughter of Matthew Fleming; Rachel married Joshua Hart; Elizabeth married Henry Hayes; Jane married Andrew, son of Matthew Fleming; Lydia married Matthew, son of Matthew Fleming ; Nathan married Mary Wood ; Leven, grandfather of subject, married Mary Wil- ley; Thomas married Ann Martin, and after her death married Mary Lothan ; Beniah, drowned in 1813; Joseph married Sarah, daughter of Boaz Fleming ; and Archibald married Eliza Gamble.
To Leven Fleming and wife were born three sons and four daughters; Wait- man married Nancy Lough ; William W., married Sarah Neely; Elizabeth, mar- ried John Lawlis; Lydia, married William Clayton; Nancy, mother of subject, born October 7. 1821, at Cassville. W. Va., married Barton Core; Mary, married Jas. Miller ; and John T. married Willimpe Smyth.
To Barton and Nancy Core were born five sons and six daughters. Martha, who married O. P. Wade; Mary Willey, who married J. S. Lough; Hannah, who married Corbin M. Alexander ; Moses Leven, who married Martha S. Smith ; Christopher Columbus, who married Ella Schults; William Perry, subject, mar- ried Sarah Smith, daughter of John Smith, who lived near Jollytown, Pa., and who is a sister of Martha Smith Core; Salina Jane, died October 30, 1856; Rebecca Arvelley, who married Wm. A. Loar, died Februray 8, 1900; Lydia Elmira, who married Calvin Cordray; Lewis A., who married Mary Kennedy ; Charles Elliott, who married Laura V. Price.
All the brothers and brothers-in-law are, or have been farmers, except Lewis who is a Missionary of the M. E. Church, Presiding Elder of the Moradobad District, India. William P. Core, subject, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his wife and mother, and all his brothers and sisters, except
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Mrs. Alexander, who is a member of the Baptist Church, and Mrs. Wade, who is a member of the Presbyterian Church. His father, Barton Core, was a member of the Zoar Baptist Church until his death, September 29, 1905.
W. P. Core was born September 17, 1853, in Monongalia County, and his wife, Sarah Smith Core, was born March 27, 1853, in Greene County, Pa. She was the daughter of John Smith and Eliza M. Fordyce, the daughter of Corbly Fordyce and Jane Bailey of Whitely, Pa. They moved from Monongalia to Har- rison County in 1891, where they settled on a farm and raised stock. They came to Upshur County and settled in Buckhannon in 1901.
Their children are: Edison Barton, a farmer of Harrison, born November 4, 1876, in Monongalia County, married August 26, 1897 to May Lanham, daughter of Cephus Lanham of Taylor County, and their children are: Merle Smith, born March 27, 1899; Velma Loieta, born September 24, 1903; Wm. Perry, Jr., born December 6; John Eskey F., born February 13, 1881, married Erma Ash- craft, daughter of Joseph Ashcraft of Harrison County, and is a farmer ; Emmer Fleming, born January 24, 1887 ; married Edna Levings, daughter of Reuben R. Levings of Delaware, Ohio, he is a graduate of West Virginia Conference Semi- nary, Class of 1905. Lives in Columbus, Ohio, is an optician with White Haines Optical Company of Columbus, Ohio.
MRS. J. F. COURTNEY, born in Farquier County, Va., May 18, 1853. Is a daughter of John and Mary Courtney. She came to Upshur County in 1886. Was married to John I. Courtney, now deceased, son of Jack and Anna (Butler) Courtney of Rappahannock County, Va.
Children : Robert Lee, Bessie Ellen, Albert James, Ruth McGee, Grover Henry and Myrle Lena, twins.
JOHN W. COURTNEY, butcher for 33 years. Born in Ohio County, W. Va., October 5, 1868. Son of John T. and Mary F. (Clatterback) Courtney. His father, native of Fayette County, his mother a native of Ohio, emigrated here 1874. On May 1, 1877, John W. married Mary L. Gibson, daughter of Thomas S. and Margaret (Archer) Gibson.
Children : Homus Annie, born December 2, 1888; Hattie Roscoe, born Sep- tember 10, 1890; William Goff, born February 22, 1892; Myrtle Dove, born October 18, 1893; Mary Marie, born October 20, 1895; Vernie Gay, born July 29, 1898; Vergie May, born July 29 1898; John Wm. Richard, born September 2, 1902.
ELIZABETH SUSAN COURTNEY, born March 20, 1864. Married Gor- don E. Courtney, a tanner in William Flaccus Oak and Leather Tannery at Buckhannon, December 12, 1882.
Children ; Birdie Maud, Willie Ellsworth, Oswell Douglas, Silvia May, Annie Laurie, Maggie Glenn, Harry Raymond and Edna Pearle.
EDGAR LAMAR COBURN, a native of Barbour County, light first shone upon him 1847, his parents were James Coburn and Ann Mariah White, natives of Harrison County, and his grandfather was Jonathan Coburn, Sr., who was a German. One generation removed from Pennsylvania emigrant of the 18th century.
The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm attended school during winter months, and at the age of eighteen began a career of teaching which lasted for seven years, his first school was taught on Truby's Run, Upshur County, his other schools were taught in Barbour County, on No. I certificate. For six or eight years after leaving the school room his energy was applied to farming and he quit this occupation to enter the mercantile business at Peel Tree, where he
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lived four years. In 1882 he moved to French Creek, Upshur County, where he farmed. In 1884, he was elected assessor of personal property of the 2d district of Upshur County. In 1889, he moved to Buckhannon and was appointed in the same year, assessor of the real estate for Upshur County by his Excellency, Governor G. W. Atkinson. In the fall of 1869, he took for a wife Miss Emma Young, daughter of William Young, and their children are: Clara Edna, wife of F. H. Knabenshue ; Grace, wife of F. E. Brooks ; Nellie R., wife of A. B. Brooks; Cecil L .; Houston B., and Fern.
ISAAC R. COCHRAN, of Lost Creek, W. Va., is the son of Solomon Coch- ran and Elizabeth McNiel of Pocohontas County. Hs is of Irish descent, during the war he was a private soldier in the 108th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was captured at the battle of Chicamauga and afterwards released in exchange for a southern soldier. In October 1865 he married Nancy J. Corell of Green- brier County, and soon after settled in Harrison County.
Children : Henry H., married Ellen McNiel; John R., married Ellen Conley ; Sarah E., H. B., Maud, Golf.
JAMES WILLIAM CONLEY, son of Benjamin Conley, whose grandfather was James Conley of Ireland. His father's first wife was a Miss Dix and their children were: Virginia, wife of Enoch Westfall; Annie, wife of William Rohr- bough; Rachel, wife of Granville Post; Eliza, wife of David Teets, and J. C., who married Columbia Loudin. His fathers' second wife was Lydia Westfall, daughter of George Westfall and their children were: Verna, wife of Daniel M. Teets ; Florence and J. W., the subject of this sketch.
He is a farmer and stock dealer of Warren District and has been school com- missioner of that district.
WALTER BOLTON CONAWAY, born March 4, 1878, son of Dr. J. B. Conaway and Elizabeth Amos and grandson of John Conaway of Marion County, whose father came direct from Ireland. He was raised at Bristol, W. Va., his father being a graduate of Jefferson Medical College and a practitioner since 1860. he began the study of dentistry under Dr. M. T. Hall of Parkersburg, after which apprenticeship he took a course in the Western University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburg, graduating therefrom April 30, 1902. He immediately came to Buck- hannon and associated himself with Dr. L. H. Lindsey whose assistant he has been since August 12, 1902. He married Stella V. Holden, daughter of M. J. Holden, a merchant of Bristol, December 25, 1902. Child: Lillian Irene, born October 1903.
JAMES D. COPLIN, a lumberman of Pickens, Randolph County. Has been in Upshur and Randolph Counties since 1891, when he came from Wood County, the seat of his parental roof and went to work for A. G. Giffin. After working several years for him and learning the lumber business from Alpha to Omega, he embarked into the same business for himself and has been pursuing it with but one intermission ever since.
Mr. Coplin's genealogy is : Father, Andrew Coplin ; grandfather, David Cop- lin. His mother was Martha Cowell and his grandmother was a Miss Corbett. He is the third son of his father's family, was raised on a farm, educated in the common schools of Wood County, and years after his advent to Upshur County, married Rosa B. Zumbauch of Randolph County, and their children are: Martha Anna, James, Jr., Dallas, Willa Franklin, Hilda May and Hilbert, dead.
Mr. Coplin resides at Pickens and his politics are Democratic.
FRANCES VIRGINIA COYNER, born October 4. 1906, the daughter of Eric Christian Coyner, son of A. T. Coyner and Sarah Pence. Eric C., is a
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grandson of David E., son of Christian, son of Michael, the first Coyner to settle in America in 1740. In that part of Pennsylvania included in Augusta County, Va. Michael Coyner's wife was Margaret Diller of Pennsylvania, and his birth is dated 1720. Michael was son of Conrad, son of Jacob, Jr., son of Michael, Sr., son of Jacob, Sr., of Germany, the first Coyner known in history. This gives a lineal descent for ten generations back.
Christian Coyner and his wife Jane (Ervin) Coyner, moved from Augusta County, Va., to Upshur in 1846. He died November 25, 1857, their children were: Joseph, Nancy E., Jacob, Margaret, Catherine, Elizabeth, Annie, Michael, Robert, David E., Mary B., and Jane L.
David E., born June 6, 1818, in Augusta County, Va., with his wife, whose maiden name was Mariah F. Long of Virginia, came and settled in Upshur, at the same time his father did. 1876 he moved with his family to Tennessee where he died, April 11, 1872. His widow returned to Upshur with her family, where she died March 21, 1890.
Children : A. T. Coyner, whose children are Eric C., Russell David, and Henry Augustus, David F., married Bettie Lee Stephens, daughter of Richard Stephens of Virginia and their children are Mary M., born November 8, 1895; Martha Virginia, born January 23, 1897, and Mark E., born June 22, 1900.
David F., is a farmer and live stockman.
The second living child of David E., is Frances Elizabeth, widow of Dr. J. R. Blair.
A. T. and David F., have been draymen for the U. S. Express Company and mail carriers of the R. R. for twenty-five years in Buckhannon. Eric Christian married Martha Jenette Tallman, daughter of Richard Tallman and Virginia Totten, December 26, 1905. The Coyners are all Democrats.
A TRIBUTE.
Written, after receiving a circular, showing the formation of "The Michael Koiner Memorial Association," in Augusta County, Virginia, by Luther, the Seventh child of Addison, the Ninth child of Martin, the ninth child of Michael Koiner, the American Progenitor, May 10, 1892. Inscribed to his one thousand or more cousins in America.
1720
Near the flow of the Danube river, not far from the noble Rhine,
Where the golden harvests quiver, came a son of a Koiner line. Under the sun and the sky, he frolicked in harmless play,
Under a watchful eye, the boy grew day by day.
1725
There too, was a noble mother, gentle, kind and sweet,
There a sister and a brother, in that grand old country seat ; In that far off German land, lived this earnest country boy, Guided by a father's hand, his hope, his pride, his joy.
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1730
This boy grew up a healthy lad, in this far off German land, Sought the good and shunned the bad, true in heart and strong in hand, Listening to his father state, of a land beyond the sea,
There he'd go and cast his fate, in that country grand and free.
1740
At last he grew to manhoods' age, sturdy, strong and full of life, Bought a ship the sea to rage, daring danger, facing strife, He left his darling mother, his country and his home, His sister and his brother, in America to roam.
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From Wurtenburg our hero came, and settled in the land of Penn, And America had no grander name, no greater had since then ; His ship then sunk into the sea, his fortune scattered far and wide, Yet Providence had made him free, and strong to weather every tide.
1750
At Millerstown he cleared the ground, and built a happy home,
At New Holland, it is said, he found the mate that capped his married dome, Children blessed this noble pair, the daughters three, the sons were ten, The daughters grew to women fair, the sons all brave and gallant men.
1770
Then came a sound of war, from far across the sea,
The mother country claimed, the right, to put a tax on tea ; And in this land of Penn, were the sons of Michael K.
With noble blood within their veins, were ready for the fray.
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The bugle sounded, "Men to horse," was the cry o'er all the land, And the sons of Michael K., went out to join that gallant band ; They followed the noble Washington, and shared a soldier's fate, And Margaret Koiner's sons came home, of battles to relate.
1780
There was Adam, Conrad, Michael, sons of worthy sire, Fought for freedom and for honor, not for glory or for hire ; And when the smile of Providence, brought peace upon the land, The soldiers of the Koiner name, retired to till the land.
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1785
Then came another, the sound to them, from Virginia's Mountain land, That caused a great commotion, among this Koiner band; This land was cheap and fertile, had water cold and clear, They could move into this promised land, and never feel a fear.
1790
The first that moved was Casper, then Adam followed too, Then Martin, Philip, Frederic, and Michael so must do; Then Christian, John and Jacob, from the land of Penn did roam, And only Conrad there remained, to keep the Penn-land home.
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Also with his noble band of sturdy sons there came The father of them all, so great, the first one of the name ; It was seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, he came into the state, And bought a home in Virginia, and with her cast his fate.
1800
He lived and died in Augusta, and lies beneath her sod, A noble, peaceful citizen, his spirit with His God; He had lived an honest, useful life, more than three score years and ten. He was loved by all his neighbors, and honored by all men.
1805
To recount all his virtues here, is more than I can do, He was friendly to his neighbors, to his State was always true; He was gentle without weakness, brave without being rash, Sowed the purest seeds of wisdom, separate from the tares and trash.
1810
He loved the "Old Dominion" his last adopted State. He loved the name of Washington, so wise, so good, so great ; He loved America, his home, her hills and mountains grand. And these he loved so faithfully, are loved by all his band.
1820
Some say we know but little of this grand old patriot brave, But that he lived in old Augusta, and lies buried in a grave ; Stand back; shortsighted stranger, what about this mighty host, Scattered over this broad nation, ever ready at their post.
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1830
From the great Atlantic ocean, to the smooth Pacific's shore, From the Mountains of old Virginia to the Rio Grande's roar ; On the banks of the Ohio, on the plains of Illinois,
In sight of the great Pike's Peak, where the American eaglets poise.
1840
Take alone dear old Virginia, leaving all the balance out,
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