The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time, Part 56

Author: Cutright, William Bernard. [from old catalog]; Maxwell, Hu, 1860- [from old catalog]; Brooks, Earle Amos. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: [Buckhannon? W. Va., pref
Number of Pages: 668


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Mr. Gooden is an energetic farmer of Washington District, and very influen- tial in his community. He is now serving a second term as Justice of the Peace of his Magisterial District. His postoffice address is Queens.


SANFORD GRAHAM the subject of this sketch is of Scotch-Irich extrac- tion. He was born in Preston County, where most of his life was spent until the year 1885, when he went to what was then Montana Territory. After spending about two years there he returned to his native state, married and located in Grafton, Taylor County, and in 1889 moved to Buckhannon where he accepted work with the West Virginia Academy as teacher in the Commercial Department. Three years later he gave up his work in the Academy and accepted the posi- tion of teller in the Traders National Bank where he is still employed and of which he is now cashier.


He was recorder for South Buckhannon for three and a half years, and has been a member of the Board of Education of Buckhannon, Independent District, for nearly eight years.


JOB EDWIN GREEN, a native of Harrison County, born June 18, 1848. Son of Lewis Green, a native of Pennsylvania. The Greens are of Irish descent. His mother's maiden name was Betsy Henderson, daughter of Dr. Henderson, who moved from Harrison County to Boston, Mass., when his daughter was very young. He left the daughter with her uncle, William Bell, who raised her, as a member of his own family. His grandfather was John Green, always a resident of Pennsylvania. His father moved to Upshur County, in 1862, settling on Turkey Run, on the farm now owned by John Shoemaker.


He was married three times, his first wife was Julia Jackson and their child- ren were William, Marcellia and Mary Martha. His second wife was Betsy Hen-


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derson and their children were, Job E., Adam H., Simeon, and Louisa Jane. His third wife was Mariah Loudin.


Job E. married Ella Cockerill, October 20, 1881, and their child was Ray W. His second wife, Mary Virginia Cockerill and their children are, Guy Wilson, Lucy Ella, Even M., James T., and Merrill.


He is a farmer, owning one hundred and one acres on Brushy Fork.


WYATT RUFUS GREGORY, was born December 28, 1870, and was married May 28, 1890, to Minnie Eliza Sines, who was born April 9, 1875, daughter of David Sines.


Children: Ezra Clarence, born April 3, 1891; Bessie Ethel, born January 25, 1893; George Washington, born July 27, 1895, died April 9, 1896; Fannie Idona, born April 18, 1897 ; Carrie Permelia, born August 7, 1899; Hetty Naomi Maze, born September 22, 1901 ; Minnie Agnes, born October 1, 1903; Amy Adeline, born January 5, 1906.


Mr. Gregory is a member of the German Baptist Church. Is a Democrat in politics.


DR. WILSON OSBORNE GRIM, born March 17, 1862, on the waters of the Middle Fork River, son of Edward and Julianne (Osborne) Grim and the grandson of Wilson Osborne. Raised on a farm and worked there until he was 16 years of age. Owing to the fact that his mother died when he was three years of age his father was remarried. Began teaching school in the public schools of Upshur County and continued this profession until he was 25 years of age, when he concluded to specialize for life work and thus took himself to a Medical College at Cincinnati, the Electric Medical Institute of that city, from which he gradu- ated June 1, 1886. He returned home immediately and began the practice of his profession at Rock Cave after remaining there for a few months he moved to Tallmansville, where he practiced two years and then moved to Ten Mile. In 1897, he moved to Buckhannon and practiced medicine there four years.


In 1901 he returned to Ten Mile and went into the lumber business, which he has been following closely and energetically since.


On the 14th day of July, 1887, he married Minnie J. Wingfield, daughter of Nelson and Salina (Harlan) Wingfield, and to this marriage have been born five children ; four sons and one daughter, of whom three sons and one daughter are living, whose names are Fred, Wilson, Toad, Ina Lee.


CLARA GROSE, daughter of David M. and Sousanna May Jackson, born June 27. 1870, Braxton County. Married Grose.


Children : Lora L., born February 6, 1887; Allie May, born August 12, 1896; Luther W., born January 19, 1889; Olive Mary, born July 12, 1899; Lafayette, born December 18, 1890; Geneva Bell, born August 3, 1901 ; Lloyd, born August 10, 1893 : Wilma Lee, born March 11, 1904.


GEORGE WASHINGTON GROSE, a farmer of Buckhannon District, owns 791/2 acres of land on Bridge Run, near Lorentz, is a Republican in politics and the son of Samuel Grose and Polly Hoover, both natives of Bath County, Va. His parents immigrated to Harrison County before the war and a little later on in the fifties, settled in Upshur. In his father's family were nine children, whose names are: John, William, dead; Catherine, wife of J. Brake: Ann, wife of J. L. Loudin; Joseph and Susanna, both dead; Paulina, wife of C. M. B. Thorpe; Sallie, wife of John Potts and the subject of this sketch, who married Phoebe Allman, the daughter of Abram Allman and Barbara Cutright, the daughter of Peter Cutright and Mary Helmick. Mr. Grose has two children, Roberta May, born April 7, 1881, wife of W. J. Allman ; Charley Columbus.


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JOHN A. GROSE, a farmer. Son of Samuel and Mary (Hoover) Grose of Bath County, Va., moved to West Virginia in 1848, and at the outbreak of the war enlisted in Company B, Ioth West Virginia Infantry under Captains Morgan and Gould. Married Nancy J. Allman, daughter of Abram and Barbara (Cutright) Allman, December 17, 1876. Children : Edward Rutherford, Silvester Carson, Arthur Garfield, Willie Wilbur, Annie Maud.


SILVESTER CARSON GROSE, is the second son of John A. Grose of Sago, West Virginia. In boyhood and young manhood, he gave all his spare moments that could be spared from farm duties to reading and studying, thus he was enabled to complete his public school course and prepare himself for the. West Virginia Conference Seminary, which institution he entered and from which he graduated a few years ago. He was immediately appointed First Assistant of the Cairo Public Schools and one year afterwards was promoted to the superintendency of the same, which position he still holds.


CHARLES MORGAN GROVES, is a farmer of Union District, was born June 14, 1833. The son of John and Elizabeth Grant Groves. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a soldier in Company F, 15th West Virginia Infan- try, and was made First Lieutenant of his company soon after his enlistment at Philippi in 1862. He served throughout the war with distinction and received an honorable discharge at Richmond after the surrender of Lee.


He returned home and married Margaret Teter, daughter of Jacob Teter. Children: Elizabeth, wife of Henry Keyser; Philadelphia, wife of Lewis H. Spearman, and Mary.


The last two are dead.


Mr. Groves has held one political office, namely, Justice of the Peace.


GROVER CLEVELAND GUINN, son of L. V. and Victoria (Cummins) Guinn. Born March 24, 1887. His father was a confederate soldier from South Carolina and married his mother September 28, 1875, to whom were born, Armelia, August 24, 1876; Alberta, January 31, 1878; Marshall Albert, October 25, 1881 ; Averill, April 5, 1883, and Grover C.


ANDREW SHERMAN GUM, born December 18, 1866, the son of Andrew W. Gum, of Highland County, Virginia, who came to Upshur County in the year of 1840. His father and mother were parents of eight children: Aaron Gilbert, Minerva Jane, Cassie Ann, Marietta, Hulda Ann, Avarill Grant, Rachel E. and the subject of this sketch, who is one of the best farmers of the Northern end of the County, having inherited the homestead where he now lives and follows his favorite pursuit.


WILLIAM H. GUM, born December 24, 1868, the eldest son of George W. Gum and Catherine Depoy and the grandson of William S. Gum and Martha Rymer of Hyland County, Va. The Gums are of German descent.


Catherine Depoy was a daughter of Philip H. Depoy and Lydia A. Bowman, of Rockingham County, Va., who were also of German descent.


The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools, the Normal and Classical Academy at Buckhannon and the West Virginia Conference Semi- nary. He taught several years and then took a course in Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Md., graduating therefrom April 17, 1897. He has been practising his profession at Pecks Run, Upshur County, the scenes of his boyhood, ever since.


September 7, 1898, he married Allie S. Calhoun, the daughter of Jackson Calhoun and Mary Rohrbough.


GEORGE GUTHERIE, married daughter of James and Mariah (Tillman)


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Loudin, December 8, 1890. His wife on the mother's side was a direct descendant of the Eastern Virginia Tillmans who came here and located on the waters of Brushy Fork, near the Reger Chapel Church. She was born April 21, 1876.


Children : Willie T., John S., Clifford C., Laura L., Annie P., and Mabel B. J. G. HALL was born on the headwaters of Elk Creek, Barbour County, Virginia, November 3, 1853. The son of Enoch and Mary (O'Brien) Hall, the former born in the year 1810, and the latter in 1818. His maternal grand- mother, Hannah (Norris) O'Brien, was born in the year 1787, in Virginia, and was a third cousin of George Washington, connected through the "Ball family." His maternal grandfather, Daniel O'Brien, was born in Ireland in the eighteenth century, and was of the famous O'Brien family of Ireland, noted in history and connected with Robert Emmet. The O'Brien family can trace their genealogy for 25 generations. Daniel O'Brien and Hannah Norris were married in the year 1812, and made their first home in Beverly, Virginia, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and died in 1844, and was buried in Barbour County, Virginia. Mrs. Hannah O'Brien died in Upshur County, in 1880.


Enoch Hall's great grandfather came, with his wife, to America, he being from 5ngland, and she from Scotland, settling on the waters of Duck Creek, now Maryland. They raised a large family of children, who were scattered throughout the country.


Enoch Hall's grandfather, Samuel, and wife, lived in Maryland, and their children were: Thomas and Joseph. Samuel Hall and his son, Thomas, served in Washington's Command and lived to enjoy the Independence of America. Thomas and Joseph, after the death of their parents, made their home with their uncle, Joseph Hall. Thomas married Miss Barbra Dickinson, and their chil- dren were: David, John, Thomas and Nancy. Thomas Hall, after the close of the Revolution, was a farmer and mechanic, and for a while worked in a shipyard. After the death of his wife, Mr. Hall came to what is now West Virginia and married Mrs. Eliza (Reger) Talbott, daughter of Jacob Reger, about the year 1805. Her first husband, Cotterill Talbott, was drowned in the Buckhannon river. Their son was David Talbott, Sr. Mr. Hall's children by his second marriage were: Catherine, Jacob, Enoch, Philip and Phoebe. Thomas Hall died May 7, 1823. His widow married a Mr. Wambsley, and died in 1837.


Enoch Hall and Mary O'Brien were married December 10, 1839, and to this union were born: Lucinda A., born November 26, 1840, died April 27, 1876; Thomas A. J., born May 23, 1843, died April 17, 1845; Virginia B., born April 15, 1846; Hannah Norris, born February 14, 1848, died June 7, 1866; Nancy J. born February 8, 1850, died January, 1896; Jacob G., born November 3, 1853; Enoch B., born March 3, 1856, died November 2, 1869; Philip Emmet, born May 30, 1858, died September 11, 1872. The subject of this sketch and D. O'B. Hall are the only children now living.


Near Peel Tree, W. Va., October 16, 1879, J. G. Hall and Amy Chidester were married. Children of this union have been born as follows: Archie C. M., born April 11, 1881 ; Bertie Gay, born August 2, 1883, died August 28, 1891 ; Maida V., born July 9, 1888; Jay G., born August 28, 1891, died July 19, 1892; Enoch W., born August 12, 1893; Ralph W. E., born December 30, 1895 ; Jesse G., born July 28, 1899. Mrs. Amy (Chidester) Hall was born October II, 1859, ·daughter of James J. and Rebecca (Hoff) Chidester of Harrison County. Mrs. Hall's brother and sisters are : Mrs. Victoria (Chidester) Williams, Mrs. Hattie (Chidester) Williams and J. J. Chidester.


WILLIAM E. HAMNER.


CHARLES E. HINER.


GRANVILLE DEXTER MARPLE.


MINTER J. JACKLON.


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J. G. Hall was raised on a farm and in a mill, attended the common county schools and the West Virginia College at Flemington. Taught his first school in the years 1876 and 1877, holding a No. I certificate. Was member of Board of Examiners, Upshur County for examination of school teachers, in the fall of 1877, and taught school the following winter. Then again took up the milling business in Barbour County ; then followed merchandising for two years. In the year 1890 he moved to Buckhannon, and there bought P. M| Boggess' hard- ware store. He was then with J. A. Crislip in the Wholesale Grocery Company, and later a member of Crislip, Hall & Co. In 1895 he sold his interest in the Grocery Company, and in April, 1896, went to Pueblo, Col., where he was engaged with C. W. Hart in the grocery business. He then returned to the east and for a year was in the flour and feed business in Buckhannon; then joined his brother and nephew in the Retail Hardware Company in Buckhannon for eight years.


Mr. Hall was Secretary of the Board of Education for some years in Valley District, Barbour County. After coming to Buckhannon he was elected a mem- ber of the City Council. Was one of the city Board of Trade, one of the charter members of the Peoples' Bank, and has been one of its directors ever since. He has been successful in business, and at present owns property in seevral states. He and his family are all members of the Methodist Church. He is a firm believer in God and the immortality of the soul, and that all things are for the best to those who put their trust in the Lord.


DANIEL O'BRIEN HALL, son of Enoch and Mary M. (O'Brien) Hall, was born in Barbour County April 15, 1846. His great grandfather was Samuel Hall and his grandfather was Thomas Hall. Samuel Hall a shipbuilder, emi- grated from England and both great grandfather and grandfather were Revo- lutionary soldiers under the immortal Washington. Samuel serving as a non- commissioned officer and Thomas as a Captain. He married Margaret Campbell daughter of Peachy B. and Margaret (Decker) Campbell. Children : Leonidas A., born December 16, 1871.


LEONIDAS A. HALL, eldest son of D. O. B. Hall and Margaret (Camp- bell) Hall, was born December 16, 1871, near Swamp Run. Reared on a farm, educated in public school and the West Virginia Conference Seminary. He began business life as bookkeeper for Chrislip Hall & Company, Wholesale Grocers, and served them in that capacity from 1894 to 1896. In 1898 he became the junior member of the partnership known as the Hall Hardware Company, which position he still occupies.


He married Ora A. Smith, daughter of Jefferson J. and Annie F. Smith of Harrison County, September 15, 1898.


Children : Winnie C., was born July 15, 1899; Edward J., was born March 5, 1902.


WILLIAM N. W. HARRIS, born July 22, 1854, son of Abner J. Harris and Mary F. Sharp, and the grandson of David N. Harris, who came from Hanover County, Va., in 1840. He married Talitha Cuni Murphy, September 19, 1875. His wife was the daughter of John T. Murphy and Patsy Snyder of Taylor County and the granddaughter of William Murphy and Leaner Poe, emigrants from Fauquier County, Va., about the year 1800, and settled in what is now Taylor County. Leaner Poe was a daughter of Samuel Poe, a soldier of the Revolutionary Army.


Mr. Harris is a farmer and lumberman in Union District. In politics he is a Democrat, in religion he is a Methodist Protestant.


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W. E. HAMNER, lumberman, was born in Scottsville, Va., June 30, 1868, son of E. B. Hamner and Martha E. Thomas, the grandson on his father's side of Walter W. Hamner and the great, great grandson of Nicholas Hamner, early settler of Albermarle County. His grandfather's mother was a Eubank and his father's mother was Ida Prear, emigrant from Scotland to Virginia. On his mother's side he is the grandson of John Snyder, whose middle name is the same as the maiden name of his mother. John S. Thomas was a native of Nelson County, Va., born in 1810, and his mother was a native of Buckingham County, Va., born in 1784, and Eliza (White) Thomas's mother was a Dawson from Ire- land, and her father was a White from Scotland. Edward Bruce Hamner and Mary E. Thomas, who were married in Upshur County in 1865, had seven child- ren whose names are: Ida Lillie Hamner, W. E. Hamner, Walter Lee Hamner, Allen T. Hamner, Clara Hamner, Charles Hamner, one dead, and Lloyd Hamner. John S. Thomas moved to Upshur in 1840, settling on French Creek, and died there in 1895, and his wife Eliza White Thomas, died in the year of 1891, at the age of seventy seven.


The subject of the sketch was educated in the common schools until 17 years old when he went West and worked on a cattle ranch two years in Dakota and on a farm in Missouri and Illinois, three years. He came back to West Virginia and entered the lumber and timber business in 1890. This being the year that railroad was being completed through Upshur County into a wilderness of timber in Randolph and Webster Counties, and also the year in which the first band saw mill was erected on the Buckhannon waters. He saw great possibilities in the specialty of fine logs of walnut, poplar and oak wood for foreign markets and to this particular branch of work and the study of forestry in general, he has devoted himself for the past seventeen years; he is now located at Buckhannon. On November 25, 1892, he married Cora L. Phillips, the daughter of Simeon Phillips and Rebecca Loudin, and the granddaughter of Horace Phillips, who was the sixth son of David Phillips of Massachusetts. Horace Phillips married Susan Cutright, the daughter of Jacob Cutright, who was the son of John Cutright of Pioneer days and Sycamore Tree notoriety. His wife was born October 3, 1872, and their living children are: Frank, born April 21, 1894;Xenna, born Septem- ber 24, 1897, and Paul, born October 26, 1898.


WILLIAM F. HANEY, a farmer of Marion County, W. Va., postoffice Hammond, was born in Harrison County, June 9, 1833, on the waters of the Tygarts Valley river, the son of John M. Haney and Ann Poling of Booths Creek, having moved there from Augusta County, Va. His father was in the war of 1812, and his grandfather was killed in the battle of Brandywine during the Revolutionary War. In the month of April, 1842, his father moved from near Fairmont, into Randolph County, on the waters of the Middle Fork, near what is now known as Kedron, Upshur County, about eleven miles from Buckhannon. His father seemed very anxious about the formation of Upshur County and the subject of this sketch began paying taxes into the County Treasurer when he was seventeen years of age, one year after he had voted. Some time later he was passing up Peck's Run in hunt of work, and night overtook him at the home of Jonas Crites and there he met his wife, Barbara J. Crites, whom he married Sep- tember 2, 1852. He was a soldier in Company E, West Virginia Light Artillery, was in the Buckhannon battle, 1862, and with ten other comrades was captured and taken to Camp Chase. Mustered out at Wheeling, 1865. Children : Six sons and four daughters.


DR. PHILIP DEPOY HANNAH, is a resident physician near Peck's Run, Warren District. Was born March 9, 1852, son of Mafford and Margaret


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(Flick) Hannah, natives of Rockingham County, Va., who moved to Peck's Run in 1850, and grandson of Thomas Hannah of Virginia.


The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm. The dread disease known as White Swelling attacked him at the age of eleven and left him an invalid limb, which he has carried throughout life and compelled him to devote his energy to the acquisition of such knowledge as would fit him for a profession.


He taught nine years in the public schools of Upshur County, at the end of which time he was fitted for entrance to a medical school. He was clerk in stores at Peck's Run and Johnstown during a part of the five years prior to his entrance upon his medical course.


In 1885, he graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Balti- more, Md., and immediately located at Peck's Run, his home, where he has successfully practiced until the lame limb forced him to retire.


In 1887, he married Josephine Virginia Arbogast, daughter of James and Alcinda (Colow) Arbogast, of Highland County, Va.


Dr. Hanna owns a farm of 52 acres on upper Peck's Run. Is a U. B. in C. Church in Religion and a Republican in politics.


JAMES H. HANSON, son of William and Johanna (Hicks) Hanson, born in Morgan County, Ohio, May 24, 1842. Was educated in Quakers School, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and at the age of eighteen, enlisted in the 125th Ohio Infantry, of which compnay he was a member until the close of the war. Was taken prisoner and lay five months in Libby Prison and Bell Isle. His company was a part of that regiment known as the Opedykes Tigers. He was honorably dis- charged. And at the time of his death, April 11, 1901, was drawing a pension.


Mr. Hanson came to West Virginia in 1872, locating first at Clarksburg ; in 1881 he moved to Buckhannon and went into the hardware business ; in 1883 he was elected Mayor of the town of Buckhannon and so successful was his adminis- tration, that the honor of Mayor was conferred upon him two more terms. He was very instrumental in having located at Buckhannon the West Virginia Conference Seminary now known as the W. Va. Wesleyan College.


Married Mary S. Work of Athens, Ohio. There are two living children to this union. Namely : Bertha, the wife of George H. Balsley of Wheeling, W. Va., and Mary Mabel at home.


CHARLES WILLIAM HARLIN, owns one hundred and ten acres of land, the old Harlin Homestead on the waters of Glady Fork, Buckhannon District, where he lives. He was born May, 5, 1853, son of William G. Harlin and Adeline Turner of Albermarle County, Va. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and immigrated to Upshur in 1843. Was ninety years old when he died and was the father of nine children, whose names are: John M., soldier in the Upshur Grays; Guston, dead; William K., killed by a tree; Sarah Jane, wife of R. C. Wingfield; Eugene K., married Matilda Flint : Salina, wife of Nelson Wingfield; Frances, wife of Wm. T. Mayo; Charles W., the subject of this sketch.


He married Sana Virginia Lewis, daughter of Jacob Lewis, son of Andrew and Florence Amilia Hinkle, whose mother was a Barrett and related to the Daytons of Barbour County.


Children of Charles W. Harlin are: Virgie, Mary, Edna Leonia and Alice. .Mr. Harlin is a Democrat and well remembers his father's slaves, who remained with him until years after the war.


MRS. VICTORIA HART, granddaughter of General Henry F. Westfall, born January 1, 1799, and Mary, daughter of Leonard and Christina Simon. Her great grandfather, Joel Westfall married Elizabeth White, daughter of William


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White, who was killed by the Indians near the Buckhannon Fort, 1782. Joel Westfall was born at Beverly, Randolph County, January 23, 1779, and was raised by his stepfather, John Wilson, Circuit Clerk of that County.


Children of Henry Westfall were Harrison, Simon and Elizabeth, the mother of this sketch, who married James Mooney in 1841. Henry F. Westfall ran the gauntlet of military promotion in the militia under the laws of Virginia, from Corporal to Brigadier General, serving in these various capacities from 1817 to 1865. He was also deputy sheriff, clerk of the circuit and county courts, and postmaster at Buckhannon from 1832 to 1852.


He was married January 21, 1821.


Mrs. Hart married Creed W. Hart, son of Montgomery Hart of Randolph County, August 10, 1869. He was the grandson of Elijah and Margaret Hart, the former being a son of Edward and the latter a daughter of Daniel Hart, both sons of John Hart, who signed the Declaration of Independence. Creed W. Hart was a soldier in the Upshur Battery, serving with that Company during the Civil War. After the cessation of hostilities he engaged in business at Buckhannon and lived in this place except the years he was a resident of Texas and Colorado. He died September 22, 1897.


Children : Henry Westfall, merchant at Leadville, born April 10, 1876, married Mary Doyle of Leadville, Colorado, August 30, 1905.


Frances M., born October 25, 1879, finished her education in music in 1904, and under good teachers at Florence, Italy and Dresden, Germany.


JAMES LEE HARDWAY was born September 7, 1861, and was married to Ella Nora Lake a native of Rockingham County, Va., who was born April 29, 1860, and their children were Arthur Walidore, Bessie Elizabeth, Grover Austin, Harry Byrne, Leafy Bell.




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