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On January 10, 1907, he married Mary Burner.
Mr. Osborne descends from one of the oldest families on the waters of the Middle Fork River. All of his ancestors for generations back have been farmers and so is he. He owns 224 acres of land and keeps it in a good state of cultivation.
MANDEVILLE J. OSBORNE. was born in 1857, his father, Acquilla Os- borne, soldier in Company M, 3d West Virginia Cavalry, was a farmer. His mother was Margaret McCauley. He was raised on a farm and is a farmer. Married Sarah E. Cutright, daughter of Isaac and Barbara (Lanham) Cutright.
Children : Jennie, Lanie L., Charles Ray, Wilbert Arthur and Ethel Meryl.
VAN BUREN OSBURN, born September 5, 1870. Son of Elmore and Eliza (Wingfield) Osburn, daughter of Robt. Wingfield. Grandparents of Mr. Osburn were Wilson Osburn and Susan Starcher.
The subject of this sketch is the eldest child of a family of eight. Is a farmer of Union District, owns 215 acres of land.
Married Jessie G. Talbot, daughter of Elisha Talbot and they have one child, Berta Dove, born August 22, 1905.
Mrs. Osburn is connected with the Talbot family of Barbour County, can trace her ancestry back to Wm. Talbot of England.
Mr. Osburn is a Democrat in politics.
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ANDREW GRANVILLE OURS. Deputy Sheriff and Jailer of Upshur County. Born March 3, 1861. Son of Mearbeck and Martha J. (Bryan) Ours. Was educated in the public schools and the French Creek Institute at French Creek. Taught for a year or two and went to farming near Sago, where he still owns a farm of 75 acres and gives it somewhat of his time and attention, as he can spare from the duties of his offices.
November 24, 1881, he married Rowena C., the daughter of Abner and Ellen ( Bean) Norvell and the granddaughter of Andrew Bean. Their children are : Parley Winfred, born August 13, 1883, was educated in the public schools and the Mountain State Business College at Parkersburg ; Frank Maerbeck, born August 14, 1887, took his preliminary course in education in the public schools of Buck- hannon and is now completing his course in Telegraphy and Bookkeeping at the West Virginia Wesleyan College; Georgia, born July 30, 1893, died January 3, 1907, aged 13 years, 5 months and 3 days.
HENRY FRANKLIN OURS, Sheriff of Upshur County, 1905-1909, was born November 29, 1864, near Sago unto Maerbeck and Martha J. (Bryan) Ours. Being the youngest son, some considerable attention was given to his education in the public schools and the Normal and Classical Academy at Buckhannon. He began the teaching of school, which profession he followed without cessation for 15 years. All of his schools gave such satisfaction from the first that he had to pay but one board bill in all these years. He always taught near home. For two years was a member of the board of examiners of Upshur County.
Upon ceasing his profession of teaching, he became clerk for J. N. Berthy & Co., A. G. Giffin, Isherwood & Cody, Phillips, Snyder & Co., and A. W. Tenny & Son, and agent for the B. & O. Railroad Company, the last of whom was serv- ing when elected sheriff of Upshur.
He has been very active in politics from young manhood, was a member of the Republican Executive Committee of Upshur County for 12 years and chair- inan of the same for one term. September 23, he married Anna L. Norvell, daughter of Abner Norvell and their children are: Ora L., William Mckinley, Henry, Maurice and Mary, He owns a farm of 53 acres on the Buckhannon River and real estate in the town of Buckhannon.
HENRY OURS, SR., married Sarah Strader and their children were: Mary, the wife of Lynch and Anthony Reger ; John, who married Druzilla Hess, daughter of Peter Hess; Jacob, whose wives were, Rebecca Casto and Malinda Radabaugh. Abraham, whose wife was Rebecca Radabaugh, daughter of Benjamin Radabaugh ; Isaac, who married Rhoda Casto: Elizabeth, the wife of David Little ; Simon, who married a daughter of Samuel Carr, by the name of Mariah Rebecca : George W., who married Sarah, daughter of Ralph H. Field, Barbara, wife of John Miller and Henry Jr., who married, R. H. Field and Mildred Wood's daughter Almira.
JAMES HOWARD OURS, born May 18, 1860, son of Henry Ours, Jr., and Almira Field. He was the only son in the family of four, his sisters being, Ida B., wife of D. L. Caynor, and Maggie and Josephine C., the eldest, (died in infancy ).
He was raised on a farm a short distance east of Buckhannon, was educated in the public school and private normal, conducted in the county, and at the age of twenty began the profession of teaching, which he pursued continuously for twenty years or until 1898, when he retired to the farm of his father to make his parents' old age pleasant and comfortable. His father was a wagoner during the Civil War.
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His great grandfather was Cichman Ours, a revolutinary soldier, who moved to the Buckhannon settlement about the time of the murder of the Bozarth family, near Lorentz and his sons John Ours, Nicholas Ours, Sr., and Henry Ours, Sr., were among the first residents and settlers in the Buckhannon Valley. His grand- father was a soldier in the war of 1812.
MARTIN MONROE OURS, born September 11, 1854. Son of Jacob Ours and Malinda Radabaugh, daughter of Jacob Radabaugh. He is a farmer of Buckhannon District, owning forty acres of land on the waters of Stone Coal. He is a lumber dealer. His wife was the daughter of Elijah Hyre and Peggy Loudin and their children are: Ora Grace, Hugh. Harrison Doyle, William and Glenn.
THADDEUS OURS, son of Nicholas Ours and Mary Strader, daughter of John Strader, Jr., and Rebecca Radabaugh. John Strader, Jr., was son of John Strader, Sr., whose wife's maiden name was Post. Nicholas Ours, Jr., was son of Nicholas Ours, Sr., and Avis Tenney, the daughter of James Tenney, and Nicholas Ours, Sr., was son of Nicholas and Nancy Ours.
The subject of this sketch was raised a farmer, a miller and lumberman, and follows any or all of them. He owns fifty acres of land on the Buckhannon River, near the Postoffice of Nixon, which he founded and named and has been its Post- master ever since.
He was born November 24, 1863.
ASA D. PAGE is a farmer and lumberman of Meade District. Was born November 22, 1863. Son of Frank and Martha (Young) Page and the grandson of Joel Page of Virginia. His mother was the daughter of Gilbert Young and Amaryllis Barrett.
The subject of this sketch owns a farm of 200 acres of improved land on the Buckhannon and Walkersville Turn Pike, near French Creek.
He is a Presbyterian in religion and a Prohibition Republican in politics. His business success has been above the average.
CHARLES C. PAGE was born April II, 1865, son of Frank Page and grandson of Joel Page. His mother, who was formerly Martha Young, the daughter of Gilbert Young, was related to the Barretts, who moved to this County from Massachusetts.
The subject of this sketch began life for himself at the youthful age of twelve and soon thereafter served as an apprentice of Bodkin and Fidler, black- smiths at Burnsville, Braxton County. When he was seventeen years old he opened up a shop for himself at French Creek, where he still does work. His business was successful and encouraged him to undertake additional work. He is also an undertaker and dealer in furniture at French Creek and the property which he owns indicates that he has succeeded in every enterprise of life.
On March 10, 1886, he married Ella G. Armstrong. born January 6. 1863. To this union have been born two sons. John Frank and Charles Loy, both of whom are at home assisting their father in business.
CHARLES L. PERRY comes from New England stock, his grandfather, Elias Perry, having emigrated from Massachusetts, to what is now Upshur County in 1816. His parents were Edwin Perry and Mariah Thomas, daughter of John S. Thomas and his birth occurred March 3. 1861. He was raised on a farm, received his education at the winter schools conducted in his neighborhood, and went to farming in young manhood. He owns fifty-seven acres of land near Gould. He married Mary B. Riggleman, daughter of John Riggleman. Child- ren : Lucy, wife of Arthur Brake, Lora, wife of Pearl Snyder, Frank, Marvin, Ray, Fanny and Leslie.
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JESSE H. PHARES of Carrington, N. D., was born in Webster County, on Elk River, February 13, 1861. His parents, John and Cynthia Wood Phares, moved to Upshur County in 1873. where Jessie lived until he went to North Dakota in 1890. He owns a farm of one hundred and sixty acres of valuable grain land. Is a Dunkard in religion and a Democrat in politics.
His first wife, was Celia McCann, daughter of Squire B. McCann and their children were William Wesley and Celia Frances. His second wife was Etta Hollen, daughter of Zebediah Hollen.
ERNEST PHILLIPS, lumberman, was born November 5, 1872, on Laurel Fork of French Creek, son of Burton Phillips, who was the son of Horace, who was the son of David, who came from Massachusetts in 1815. His father was a soldier in Company E. First Regiment Light Artillery, Captain A. C. Moore, he was crippled at the battle of Snicks Gap, July 18, 1863, which disability had much to do with his death which occurred September 19, 1893. The subject of the sketch being the oldest child, in a family of six, much responsibility fell upon him, after his father's death which he met and discharged with efficiency and joy. For thirteen years he has been in the lumber business and has taken time to look after the Sons of Veteran Camp. C. B. See No. 38 at French Creek, was made Lieu- tenant of that camp and promoted to Adjutant of the West Virginia division. He married Hattie E. McCoy, daughter of Chapman McCoy and Mariah Douglass, July 2, 1903.
JOHN P. PHILLIPS, son of Richard Phillips, lived near French Creek until 1889. when he moved to Oklahoma and there died on March 20, 1891. His first wife was Mary Hutchinson, who died in 1861. Their children were: Eliza F., wife of I. Cutright ; Columbia B., wife of Dr. P. Rogers of Oklahoma City and Victoria F., the wife of George Rodahouser, and now the wife of M. L. Crane of Terra Alta, W. Va. His second wife, was Ellen Rvan. and their children were: Lou V., the first wife of C. L. Mearns, and Porter who now lives with his mother in Oklahoma City.
LOTHROP PHILLIPS, born October 19, 1836. The first white child born on the waters of Laurel Fork of French Creek, son of William Phillips, the oldest son of David Phillips. His mother was Mehitable, a daughter of Aaron Gould, Sr., and she gave birth to sixteen children, ten sons and six daughters, of which two sons and one daughter are now living. William Phillip's children were: Franklin, who married Fanny Shurtliff, the widow of Amandus Young ; David, who married Esther Gould, daughter of Nathan Gould, Jr .; Clara Ann, wife of Jason Loomis; Lafayette, soldier in Company E, 3d West Virginia Infantry, married Elizabeth Cogar of Braxton County ; Lyda Jane, wife of Samuel Knisley, a soldier in Company F. Ioth West Virginia Infantry : Mortimer, soldier in Illi- nois Company ; Moselle, wife of Mr. Lowe of Braxton County ; Herbert, soldier in Company E. died at Bell Island, married Mary Carter, wife of Mirandus Rexroad, soldier in Company A, 10th West Virginia Infantry ; Goodman G., soldier, who died at home with fever, September 6, 1861 : James S., soldier in Company E, 3d West Virginia Infantry, killed at Cross Keys, Va. : Lothrop, who enlisted at Buck- hannon, 1862, in Company 3, Ist West Virginia Light Artillery, was in the Buckhannon fight and was discharged soon afterwards for a disability. He re- enlisted in the Ist West Virginia Cavalry under Captain Hagans. He was never wounded and was mustered out at Wheeling.
His first wife was Charlotte Bean, daughter of Andrew and Nellie ( Roberts) Bean of Hampshire County, and their children were : James, dead ; Florence May, wife of W. P. Newcome : Cornelia. single; Rosetta, wife of John B. Lemmons;
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Ida Bell, wife of Charles McFallin; William Sherman, married Mary Loudin ; Ellen, wife of William H. Ochiltree; Scott, married Cynda Cogar.
His second wife was Susan A. Krise, daughter of Jacob Krise of Albermarle County, Va.
Mr. Phillips until 1904, lived in Meade District. Is now a resident of Buck- hannon. Draws a good pension for palsy.
NANCY R. PHILLIPS, daughter of George and Barbara (Miller) Bodkins, born in Bath County, Va., August 28, 1844. Her parents moved to Upshur County in 1854, where she has lived since. Married Simeon Phillips, a soldier in Company E, Infantry 3d West Virginia, under Captain S. B. Phillips, and to them was born one child, Celia. the wife of Arthur Reese.
Mr. Phillips's first wife was Bebecca Loudin and their children were: Ord, Henry, U. Kester, Clark W .. Cora, wife of W. E. Hammer and Minta, wife of Hugh Farnsworth.
SPENCER PHILLIPS, born July 30, 1842, on the waters of French Creek, son of Ebenezer and Catherine Loudin Phillips. His mother was a daughter of William Loudin, whose wife was a Miss Davis of Loudin County, Va. His father was the fifth son of David Phillips, Sr., who moved from Massachusetts here in an ox cart in 1815, and was overseer of the poor for 20 years prior to his death. Ebenezer had a family of seven children: George, soldier in Company E, 3d West Virginia Infantry and 5th and 6th U. S. Cavalry, had two wives, Olive Reed and Estelle Young : Martha, wife of Caswell E. Brady; Melissa, wife of John Calvin Brady ; Elijah, married Margaret Bond, he was a soldier in Company C, 6th West Virginia Cavalry and died at Grafton : Sally Ann, wife of Leonard Rexroad, soldier in Company E, 3d West Virginia Infantry, and 5th and 6th West Virginia Cavalry, died at sea, after release from prison; Louise, wife of Elias Perry ; Spencer enlisted May 1, 1861. at French Creek, was one of the first volunteers enlisted in Company E. as drummer. Mustered in at Clarksburg. June 27. 1861. Was wounded at Beverly. Served with Company E till February 29, 1864, when he re-enlisted as a veteran in the U. S. Army Volunteers. His com- pany was detailed to assist in hunting and capturing John W. Booth, the assassin of Lincoln ; June 1865, was ordered to Wheeling to be mustered out and went from there to Fort Leavenworth. Kan., thence to Fort Kearney, Neb .. to protect frontiers from Indians. Was discharged October 15, 1865, and has been drawing a pension ever since.
Otcober 8. 1869, he married Virginia M. Fidler, a daughter of William Fidler. Has been a resident of Salem, Harrison County, eight years, now a resi- dent of Buckhannon. Was Major of Nat. G. A. R. Musicians, member of G. A. R. at Garfield Post, Rock Cave, C. B. C. Post, French Creek and the Buckhannon Post, No. 49. Is a member of the the State Musicians of G. A. R. and is proud of the fact that his grandfather sent 20 sons and grandsons for the Union Army.
WALTER PHILLIPS, son of Richard and Eliza (Perry) Phillips, grandson of David Phillips, emigrant from Massachusetts. Born September 16, 1834. at French Creek. Raised on a farm to which vocation he was greatly devoted and pursued more or less throughout his life. Was educated in the schools of his community, where his parents lived, and in young manhood took up Cabinet making and house building for a livelihood, which pursuit he followed until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted with Company E. Third West Virginia Infantry under Captain S. B. Phillips, and remained with that Company until 1863, when on account of bad health he resigned and returned home. Soon his health became better and he raised the Company of State Militia, and was
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Captain of the same. For twenty-five years after the ending of the war, he was energetically engaged in the mercantile business at French Creek, he succeeded eminently and amassed a fortune, which served him well in his last days. In 1888 he was elected sheriff of Upshur County, in 1893 he moved to Buckhannon where he lived until his death, December 19, 1905.
He was married to Hannah V. Shobe, daughter of John and Nancy (Douglas) Shobe, December 25, 1861, by Rev. John W. Carter.
John W. Shobe, his wife's father, was born 1808, and died in 1869, being killed accidently while filing a saw in his mill at French Creek.
Children : Parley V., Dr. of Medicine, married Minnie Carper, one child, Walter; Lelah, wife of Dr. G. O. Brown; Hazen W., single; Virgie, wife of Horace Withers.
ROBERT PICKENS, a farmer and native of Lewis County, was born November 23, 1856, the son of John Pickens and Mary Magdaline Stone, the daughter of Moses Stone and Elizabeth Siron, who was the daughter of John Siron and Easter Hiner of Highland County, Va. Moses Stone settled on French Creek in the year 1828. Moses was the son of Peter Stone, emigrant from Germany to Pennsylvania, and Peter was deserter of the Royal Army, to join the Army of Washington.
His grandparents were James Pickens and Rachel Talbot of Barbour County. James Pickens was the son of Alexander Pickens of Harrison County, and Rachel Talbot was the daughter of David, the son of Richard, the son of James, an emi- grant from England.
His father's family consisted of eleven children. He was the seventh son. His father was a soldier in the Civil War.
He married Emma V. Bennett, June 1, 1887, the daughter of Abram Bennett and Elizabeth Mick, and their children are: Denver C., a senior in the Wesleyan University of West Virginia, born May 25, 1888; Maud Victoria, born April 19, 1890, and Robert Hoy, born May 19, 1891.
The subject of this sketch is a farmer, but left his farms of which he has two, one in Lewis County of 250 acres, and one in Upshur of 165, to move to Buck- hannon for the purpose of educating his children.
DOLLY B. PETSINGER, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Stuart) Carson. Born November I, 1877, in Marion County. Married Clarence Allen Petsinger, who has been working for the William Flaccus Oak and Leather Co. for ten years, July 14, 1901. Petsinger is a Massachusetts family.
CHARLES M. PINNELL, Travelling Salesman. Son of John M. and grandson of David S. Pinnell.
Married Genevieve Montgomery of St. Louis, Mo., daughter of Captain Thomas and Florence (Boswell) Montgomery. They have four children : Madge F., John M., Dorathy L., and Catherine L.
David S. Pinnell married Catherine Elizabeth Wolfenbarger of Berlin, Germany. Their children were: Phillip F., John M., Norvel E., David S., Jr .. James H., and George M.
D. S. Pinnell was a member of the Legislature from 1865-69. Was speaker of the House during the fourth and fifth Legislatures. Was Consul to Australia under Grant.
DAVID POE, born September 20, 1836, in what is now Taylor County, near Grafton. Son of James Poe and Jane (Norris) Poe, his father was the son of Stephen and Margaret (Clendening) Poe. Stephen Poe was the father of thir- teen children, by Miss Clendening, and ten children by his second wife. He emigrated from Farquier County, Va., about the year 1800, settling near Grafton
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on the now Joseph Carter farm and his parents were Samuel Poe and Margaret ( King) Poe of Farquier County, Va. While only a boy, the father of Stephen joined the Continental Army and served throughout the war. The Poes are of English extraction, the first of this family to come to America was David, who settled near the border line of Delaware and Pennsylvania and he was the paternal ancestor of three sons, all of whom went South to Virginia at an early date, one of these going perhaps later to North Carolina, thence drifting westward, and we here lose trace of the connection of his descendants. The two sons remaining in Virginia are the foreparents of the Poes of Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and Ohio. In the last named state the Poes are descended from Adam and Andrew Poe of Indian fame, who were also descended from the two Virginia Poes.
Margaret Clendening Poe is a direct descendant from Charles or Archibald Clendening, a pioneer settler at the eastern foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, then the border of English settlements in Virginia. These settlements had to be protected from the incursions of the Indians, and Clendening was among the first to take up arms and protect his home and the pioneer settlements from the natives of America, as the settlements proceeded westward, the Clendenings fol- lowed and were ever defenders and protectors of these border settlements, on the Greenbrier, New and Kanawha rivers and were conspicuous at the battle of Point Pleasant against Cornstalk. The capital of West Virginia, situated on land owned by Charles Clendening, who gave the town its name and his son George was Delegate of Greenbrier County to the Virginia Assembly which ratified the Constitution of the United States. About 1805, another branch of this family
settled in what is now Taylor County. George W. Clendening and two sisters, one the wife of Aaron Luzader, and the other the wife of Abraham Johnson, settled near Grafton and they raised large families. Their sister Margaret Clendening Poe, having preceded them a few years. From the Virginia Clenden- ings can be traced back a line of descent as far as 1150, when William of Glen- dolin Clendening, son of second Lord Douglas lived.
Robert Glendonyn was rewarded for his bravery and courage in the Battle of Large, 1261, by large grants of land in Ayrshire and Simon Clendening was Knighted by King James Second, and invested with almost regal power within his own land of Glendening. In Scotland they espoused the cause of the Stuarts and in 1644 received their downfall for loyalty to this cause. Sir John Clendening, for his conspicuous part in the Montrose Rebellion, had his property confiscated and was compelled to flee to France. The mother of this sketch was the daugh- ter of David Norris and Susanna Lake, and the granddaughter of William and Mollie Asbury Lake, who were married in 1768 and emigrated from Virginia about the year 1800, settling in what is now Taylor County. William Lake, son of Stephen Lake, who came from England with four sons, Richard, Redmond, William and John. Richard and Redmnd went back to England and never returned to America. The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm and remained thereon with his parents until twenty-one years of age. In 1858, he went west as far as Indiana and returned after spending one summer there. When Governor Letcher of Virginia, May, 1861, called the volunteer militia of the state to rendezvous at various camps, he responded to that call and went into camp at Fetterman, Taylor County with the Letcher Guards, the name of the local volunteer militia, and was made First Lieutenant of that organization on May 13. On May 22, 1861, he was officer of the day and was nearby when the killing of Bailey Brown by Daniel Knight, a State Militia picket occurred. Bailey Brown and Daniel Wilson were walking down from Grafton on the B. & O.
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tracks toward the State Militia camp and encountered the picket, who demanded that they halt, Brown and Wilson refused and went on and approaching nearer Knight, Brown drew his pistol and fired at the sentinel, shooting him through the ear, who in turn, discharged his musket into Brown's breast, killing him instantly, and thus he, Brown, was the first enlisted soldier killed in the war, Col. Gerge R. Latham, then a Captain, recruiting a company at Grafton for the United States, having enlisted him on the 20th day of May, two days prior to his death.
He served one year as Lieutenant of the Taylor County, Co. Company A of the 25th Volunteer Virginia Infantry, at which time the regiment was ie- organized and mustered into the Confederate service, he declined re-election, pre- ferring and obtaining permission to go down into Northwestern Virginia and recruit men for the cavalry service of the Confederate Army with the help of others he succeeded in recruiting and piloting through the line, Companies A and B of the 20th Virginia Cavalry, and was elected lieutenant of the former com- pany, and served as such until after General Lee's surrender here. He was here the 25th Virginia in the battle of Philippi and was in command of the company in the Greenbrier River fight and the Allegheny Mountain fight, December 13, 1861. After the organization of the 20th Virginia Cavalry, served in that regiment dur- ing the remainder of the war, participating in the battles with General Averill, was with Imbodens Raid through West Virginia, with Jackson's Raid through the Randolph Mountains, Earley's Raid into Maryland and in most of the battles and skirmishes in the Valley of Virginia in which Jackson's brigade was engaged in the years of 1863-4, was in the skirmishes at Little Washington, Liberty Mill and Gordonsville, Dec., 1864, and was with Lomax Div. of Cav. below Lynchburg and near enough to Appomatox to hear the last gun fired before surrender of Lee. Then went with Lomax's division of Cavalry across Va. to the North Carolina line for disbandonment. Some days before their arrival at Staunton, Jackson's brigade was disbanded at Botetourt County and ordered to rendezvous at Staunton before May first, the order was changed and Jackson's brigade rendezvoused at Lexington, Va., May 3, 1865, and was there disbanded forever as soldiers of the Confederacy.
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