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The subject of this sketch was educated in the rural school near his home, and the Normal and Classical Academy. Was converted February, 1891, and immediately joined the U. B. Church. Was licensed to preach in 1892, and has been a minister ever since, at Avon, Doddridge County, Marion County, Har- risville, Tannersville, Barbour and Freemansburg.
He married Laura M. Ward, daughter of Grafton Ward, who married a daughter of Rev. B. Brooks, Sr., and granddaughter of Solomon Ward of Harrison County. Rev. Strader's sisters are : Mary Jane, wife of Allen Napier ; Matilda E., wife of Wellington Strader; Parmelia, wife of Abel Clark; Ellen, wife of Opha Fretwell, and Maggie at home.
SIMON J. STRADER, son of Abram Strader, who was the son of Isaac Strader, who was the son of John Strader, who settled one mile above Buck- hannon, in the eighteenth century, coming from the South Branch. His mother was Catherine Ward, daughter of James Ward. His father's brothers and sisters were: Adam, Benjamin, Asa, Polly, Lizzie. His brothers and sisters were: Mary Magdaline, Philena, Mary Jane and James Worthington. He was born in 1845, June 21, and married Mary Susan Hamner, daughter of Thomas Hamner and Mariah Garland of Albermarle County, Virginia, who came here in 1844, and had seven children: William J., Charles, Sarah, Catherine, Jane, Mary and John. He is a farmer, owns 600 acres of land in Upshur and Webster Counties, was a member of the board of education of Buckhannon District for eight years, was the chief promoter of the Upshur County Fair. Has retired from farming and now lives in Buckhannon.
WASHINGTON SUMMERS, born July 16, 1814, was the oldest of 13 children. Had but few opportunities for education, but appreciated them and used them to the fullest. Was a great reader and the owner of a good library for his time, at his death. Was ever active in politics, and was Sheriff at the outbreak of the civil war. Was a strong believer in state rights, and went south after the secession of Virginia and cast his fortune with the Con- federacy. Pursuant to an order of Colonel Harris, commandant of a regiment of Union soldiers located at Buckhannon, his family was sent across the line to Eastern Virginia, in farm wagons impressed for that purpose. His property was seized by the soldiers and citizens and destroyed. On returning home after the war he was face to face with a financial loss from which he never recovered. He engaged in the live stock business till his death, December 9, 1883. Mr. Summers was noted for his southern hospitality, entertaining stranger and friend alike, and never turned the beggar from his door. His wife was Samantha Crites. daughter of Jacob Crites.
Children : Virginia, wife of Jackson Sexton ; Lupina, wife of J. W. Harris.
John D., practicing physician, graduate of College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Baltimore, married Catherine Mckinley.
Susan E., wife of Jacob Whitsel !.
George Jacob, married Jessie Brown and lives in Missouri.
Phoebe L., wife of John W. Calhoun.
M. Davis Summers, known as Jeff, born April 11, 1861, the youngest child, lives on the old farm, west of Buckhannon.
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TALBOT FAMILY.
H. O. TALBOT, the founder of this family on English soil, emigrated from Normandy at the time of William the Conquerer. This branch, which had set led in England, multiplied, and early in the history of Virginia, William Talbot, the seventh in line of ascent from the subject of this sketch. came to America and settled in Fairfax County, Virginia. His children were : Richard, Cottrell and Charity. Cottrell married Elizabeth Reger, the daughter of Jacob Reger, in 1788. Richard, the younger son, was born November 16. 1764. and emigrated to what is now Barbour County, in 1780, escaping from his master. In 1788 he married Margaret Dowden, who was born December 25, 1776, and to this union 13 children were born: Samuel, born December 13, 1790; Mary Ann, born November 7, 1792; Jacob, born September 3, 1794; Abraham, born October 16, 1796; Isaac, born September 2, 1798; Robert, born February 3, 1801; Elisha, born January 7. 1804; Silas, born June 11, 1806; Absalom, born September 22, 1807 ; Elam, born July 6, 1810; Zachariah, born April 13, 1813; Margaret, born October 27, 1815; Elizabeth, born December 15, 1819.
Elisha married a Miss Stevens and their oldest son, born September 12, 1821, was Edward S. Talbot. He married Margaret E. Capito, January 20, 1842, and their oldest son, born April 1, 1843, was Lewis Creed Talbot, who married Margaret S. Johnson, February 21, 1867. Their son, Homer O. Talbot, was born May 24. 1868, and he married Edna Shipman, August 29, 1899.
Lewis Creed Talbot was a Confederate soldier, enlisting in the year 1862, in Captain Hill's Company, 62nd Mounted Infantry, in General Imboden's bri- gade. He served until the war closed.
Margaret S. Johnson, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of John N. Johnson and Margaret Alexander of Albemarle County, Virginia, who emigrated to what is now Upshur County, in 1844, and the grand- daughter of Elijah Johnson and Martha Carter. Elijah Johnson was a soldier in the war of 1812.
Children of Lewis Creed Talbot: Jerusha, born January 30, 1874 (dead) ; John E .. born August 8. 1870, and Homer O.
Children of Homer O. Talbot : Freda, born June 14. 1900 (dead) : Guy N, born March 22, 1902, and Lois, born March 9. 1904, and Samuel Creed, born Sep- tember 25. 1906.
Edna Shipman Talbot, the wife of the subject of this sketch, is the daughter of Samuel W. Shipman and Cora A. Tallman and the granddaughter of John B. Shipman, and the great granddaughter of Nathaniel Shipman, of New London county, Conn., on her father's side, and the granddaughter of James C. Tallman and the great granddaughter of Benjamin Tallman, a nephew of Daniel Boone, and a soldier in the War of 1812.
PERRY TALBOT, son of George McKenna and Sarah L .. (Wilson) Talbot, and grandson of Samuel T. Talbot. the paternal ancestor of all the Talbots on the waters of French Creek, was born August 4, 1845. and was the oldest child of a family of eight children, his brothers and sisters being: Charles W .. Dr. William E., Lloyd, Gordon B .. George Page and Emily Melvenia.
He married Charlotte Shobe, daughter of John and Nancy (Douglas) Shobe, and to them were born Walter Gay. Okie S .. George and Iva Retta and Spencer S.
Mr. Talbot was a member of the Upshur militia, and was doing active service on September 12, 1863, at Centerville, when he and his comrades were captured
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by the Confederates, taken to Richmond and imprisoned at Castle Thunder. from which they were released March 21. 1864.
WILLIAM DAMRON TALBOT: William Damron Talbot was born in what is now Banks district. Upshur county, West Virginia, on the 5th of Sep- tember. 1850. a son of David and Mary Reger (Hall) Talbot. Choosing the law for a profession he studied at the University of Michigan, and graduated at that famous school in 1878. with the degree of L. L. B., and was at once admitted to practice in his native state. He first located at Webster Springs, but in 1883 he returned to Upshur county, where he practiced continually with distinguished success until his death. He found his profession congenial to his tastes and profitable from a business standpoint, and it was an open door to numerous official positions and political honors. From 1884 until his death he was Secre- tary of the Board of Education, which brought him at all times in touch with the public schools. the teachers. the pupils and their parents: from 1899 to 1901, in- clusive. he was Prosecuting Attorney. and was an able but fair and just prose- cutor of the pleas of the State: he represented his county in the Legislature in 1901 and 1902. and in 1904 he was elected to the Senate from the Thirteenth district. and served during the sessions of 1905-1907. until during his attendance at the late session of that body at Charleston. he was stricken with typhoid pneu- monia, and after a short illness died on the 21st of February. 1907. His services as a lawmaker for the State rounded out and perfected the work of a well-nigh perfect life. He regarded first what was right. then the interests of his constitu- ents, and he enforced these principles with ability and forensic power-
Mr. Talbot held numerous other positions of honor and trust of a less im- portant character. He was several times a member of the Town Council. attor- ney for the municipal corporation. Commissioner of Accounts, an officer in the National Guard, a director in the Traders' National Bank. etc., etc.
On the 23rd of December. 1891, Mr. Talbot was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Dean. daughter of Solomon and Ruth Dean. His married life was most felicitous. and those who knew him at his home and in the family circle knew him at his best. His wife survives him, and has lived to enjoy with him his career of honor, and to learn from the lips of others the esteem in which he was held. In February, 1903. he entered into partnership for the practice of the law with his cousin and nearest friend. William S. O'Brien, an association which was at all times mutually agreeable.
During all the years of his mature life, Mr. Talbot was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was prominent in its councils. He was an ardent Free Mason, and for several years was Master of his lodge. He was a Republican in politics, and held straight to his party's tenets from principles. In the private as well as the public walks of life he was true to what he believed to be right. and there was never any doubt as to where he was to be found on moral questions and business propositions. He did the right as God gave him to know the right.
MARY C. TALKINGTON, daughter of William Price and Susanna (Lyons) Price, born in Wetzel county, October 10. 1850. Married E. A. Talk- ington, a carpenter and surveyor. at Palatine, W. Va.
Children : Willlam R., Lambert, David L., Lorenzo D., Athalia M., Howard, Andrew L .. Ferdinand and Ivy Dale.
ADDISON MONROE TENNEY, born August 18. 1856. in Washington district. Son of Marshall, who was the son of Samuel, who was the son of
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James Tenney. On his mother's side he was a son of Elmira, who was a daughter of Samuel Tenney, who was the son of James Tenney, Sr. Samuel Tenney married Dorcas Rohrbough and James Tenney, Sr., married Abigial Packard, of New York.
The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm and as a farmer, but spent his winter months in the schools near his home, where he acquired the rudiments of a practical education, which soon elevated him to a clerkship in the store of James Hanson, at Ten Mile. He held the same position with Smooth. Berthy & Co. at the same point, and billed out for James Hanson the first freight shipped from Ten Mile, W. Va.
Mr. Tenney has always been a Republican, and has won many good positions by marching under this political banner. He was postmaster at Ten Mile under President Harrison; constable of Washington district 'four years; assessor of the First district of Upshur county four years, and sheriff four years. Since his term of office as sheriff expired he has followed the mercantile and lumbering business, having sold his farm of 180 acres prior to his going out of office.
His first wife was Sarah Welch, a daughter of John and Amanda (Watson) (Duros) Welch, of Barbour county, and the granddaughter of Samuel and Martha (Ratliff) Welch, whom he married in 1878, and their children are: Okey Blaine, Ora Dell, wife of Stanley R. Snyder, of Oklahoma; Pearl, Sidney Harrison and Ira Glenn.
His second wife was Lelia Westfall, daughter of Lafayette and Anna (Rol- lins) Westfall and the graddaughter of Martin and Rebecca (Warner) Westfall and the greatigranddaughter of George Westfall, whom he married in 1896, in the month of May, and their children are : Carl, Ralph, Cecil, Paul and Ruth.
His residence is Buckhannon, W. Va.
ANTHONY LINCOLN TENNEY, born April 9. 1883, son of Benjamin Allen and Delia (Casto) Tenney, grandson of Philo Tenney, Jr., who was a son of Philo, Sr., son of Peter, son of James Tenney.
His mother was a daughter of William Casto, a son of David, who married Ann Cutright, the only daughter of John Cutright, of Sycamore Tree fame.
William Casto, grandfather of the subject, married Rebecca Westfall, a daughter of George, son of Zachariah, son of Jacob, son of James Westfall.
Anthony is a farmer, and owns seventy acres of land near Nixon P. O. His wife's maiden name was Bertha Ours, a daughter of Nicholas Ours, Jr.
Children are: Delos, Emmons, Bernice and Goff.
BENJAMIN ALLEN TENNEY, born March 10, 1862, in Barbour county. Son of Philo Tenney, Jr. His mother was Olive Black, daughter of James and Sally (Reger) Black, of Eastern Virginia. Was raised on a farm and is now a farmer. Married Ardelia Casto, daughter of William and Rebecca (West- fall) Casto.
Children : Anthony Lincoln, Olive, Lamen, Loman, and Marley Clyde.
JONATHAN TENNEY was a soldier in the Upshur Battery. His father, Peter Tenney, was the son of James Tenney. He is a farmer and merchant on Truby's Run, of Washington district. Republican in politics. His wife was Anna Cutright, daughter of Christopher Cutright and Sinai Pringle.
Children : Milroy, Sinai, Cora, Belle, Alice, Lumma, Ord and Willie.
He is a pensioner.
JOSIAH TENNEY, a native of Lewis county. Born on the waters of Truby Run, in 1843. He enlisted in the Union army August 12, 1862, in Com- pany C, Third West Virginia Light Artillery, and was discharged at Wheeling
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June 28, 1865. He was the son of Peter Tenney, who was a son of James Tenney, of Massachusetts.
He married Miss Woods January 21, 1862. She was the daughter of Andrew Woods and Elizabeth Rowan, and the granddaughter of Joseph Rowan and Polly, his wife, and the great granddaughter of John Rowan, who was a doctor and preacher in the State of Maryland.
Children : B. J., born January 23, 1863; James A., born September 8, 1866; Madaline, born August 14, 1868; Emma, born November 13, 1870; Austin, born March 12, 1875; Louisa, born March 7, 1878; Agnes, born August 24, 1880; R. E., born July 8, 1881 ; Martha B., born June 5, 1884, and two infants.
Mr. Tenney owns sixty acres of land on the waters of Grassy Run, in Washington district, and devotes himself exclusively to the cultivation of the same.
JAMES HOMER TENNEY, son of Philo Tenney, Jr., the son of Philo Tenney, Sr., the son of Peter Tenney, the son of James Tenney, who emigrated to this country in 1811. His mother's name was Olive Black, daughter of James Black. He was born December 26, 1864, raised on a farm, and owns forty acres of land. Has been postmaster, miller and merchant at Alton. Is now engaged in the lumber business. He married Mary E. Pringle, December 26, 1886. His wife was the daughter of Walker Pringle, who was the son of Chaney, who was the son of William, who was the son of Samuel, of Sycamore notoriety. His wife's mother was Martha Cutright, daughter of David, who was the son of John Cutright, Jr., who was the son of John Cutright, Sr., of Indian fame.
Children : Stanford, Hillery, Keifer, Tiecy, Bradford, Sterling and Stanley.
JAMES TENNEY, the paternal ancestor of the large and numerous family of that name in Upshur county. Was a native of Massachusetts, and lived at Cold Rain, in that state at the time he immigrated to West Virginia. Little is known of his ancestors or his life prior to his coming to Buckhannon Settlement, except that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was drawing a pension for his services in the war of Independence up till his death, December 30, 1841. Some dispute exists as to the time of his emigration to the Middle Fork river. His daughter, Avis Tenney, afterward the wife of Nicholas Ours, born in 1803, claims that she was three years old when her parents moved here, which would make the date of their immigration 1806. James Tenney, Sr.'s, wife was Thankless Shippy, of Rhode Island, who was 93 years, 10 months and 20 days old at the time of her death.
Their children were: James Tenney, who married Abigail Packard, of New York; Samuel, Josiah, Peter, Elisha, John, Philo. Reuben, died young; Clara, Mary, wife of Joseph Rowan; Avis, wife of Nicholas Ours, Sr., who died March 22, 1875, being 72 years, 2 months and 17 days old, and whose husband died April 15, 1874, age 87 years and 8 months, and Thankful, wife of John Rowan.
JAMES V. TENNEY, son of Marshall Tenney, and grandson of Joshua Tenney, was born April 14, 1855. Married Mary C. (Adeline) Gooden.
Children : Colemon, Artie, Bertha, Annie, Orestes, Leefa, Tersy Mabel and Ranson R.
MILROY TENNEY is a farmer of Meade district, owning 149 acres of land. Was born May 16, 1863. He is the son of Jonathan Tennev and Ann Cutright. On his father's side is a direct descendant from the James Tenney who immigrated to this country from New England in the early years of the last century. On his mother's side there is a direct line of descent from the John
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Cutright who came here with the Pringle Brothers about the year 1770. He was educated in the common schools, raised on a farm, and is a farmer.
H's first wife was Annie Tenney, daughter of John S. Tenney and Elizabeth Allman. Children: Ivy, Frederick, Elias and Ernest. His second wife was Louvernia Bond, daughter of Thomas E. Bond, Jr. Children: Mertie, Lida Ray and Herbert.
SIMON TENNEY, born August 18, 1850, a native of Upshur county ; son of Anthony R. Tenney and grandson of Samuel Tenney, the son of James Tenney. His mother. Rebecca, was the daughter of John Strader.
The subject of this sketch owns sixty acres of land on the headwaters of Big Sand Run. Is a farmer by occupation and a carpenter by trade. He has always voted the Republican ticket.
He married Emerly A. Hart, the daughter of Elijah H. Hart, the son of John Hart, who was the son of John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, on March 12, 1874. His wife's mother's maiden name was Saran Briggs, of German descent.
Children : Isabella, born January 20, 1875; W. M. Troy, born December 22, 1875; Robert A., born February 8, 1877; Nora Lee, born January 6, 1879; Bertha M., born March 10, 1881 ; Jasper, born August 13, 1883 ; Emerson Porter, born October 4, 1884; Anna B., born February 9, 1892.
G. W. TENNEY, born April 6, 1866, at Tallmansville. Is a farmer and merchant. Owns 94 acres of land in Washington district, and is the son of Anthony, the son of Samuel. the son of James. He was married November 18, 1886. to Sarah J. Osborne, the daughter of Elmore Osborne, the son of Wilson Osborne. Her mother was Eliza E. Wingfield, and her grandmother was Eliza C. Elsom.
Children : Freeman J., born April 15, 1888; Marellus C., born September 11, 1889; Susan Malinda, born October 7, 1891 ; James A., born September 13, 1893; Cora V., born September 7, 1895; Albert Law, born October 29, 1897; Odis Dewey, born April 17. 1900; Dolly B., born August 10, 1902; Rosa M., born June 26, 1905.
He is a Methodist in religion and a Republican in politics.
The subject of this sketch can trace his ancestry back to James Tenney, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, who came to Upshur and raised a large family, who were the ancestors of all the Tenneys in Washington district and Upshur county.
SANDUSKY TENNEY. born January 13, 1854, on Truby Run. Was married in 1873 to Mary Strader, the daughter of Simon Strader and Parmelia E. Strader. Mr. Tenney's parents were Peter Tenny and Labary Rowan, of Maryland.
Children : Martha Jane, Elizabeth Catharine, Peter and Simon, twins; Rowena Rebecca, Tabitha Matilda, Delpha Ellen, Mary Ruth. Elizabeth is the wife of Asbury Tenney. Martha is the wife of James Bell. Peter married Dolly Catherine Eskew.
Mr. Tenney owns 101 acres of land on Grassy Run, of Washington district. He is a Methodist Protestant in religion and a Republican in politics.
JAMES TETER was born in Pendleton County, December 15, 1797. Died January, 1848. Was a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Holden) Teter, grandson of Philip Teter, of Pennsylvania, and was of German descent. Just when the Teters emigrated to America is not known, but we find in history that in the
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forts erected in the Valley of the Kanawha that families resided in them in 1774, and among them was a family by the name of Teter. The Teters are said to have come from Pennsylvania to the Valley of Virginia, whence they entered Pendleton county, crossed into Randolph, Lewis, Harrison, now Barbour and Upshur. The Virginia land books show that Tetters owned land in 1783 in Barbour county. James Teter's sister, Mary, was the first white child born in the Valley district of Barbour county. His brothers were Jacob and Joseph, and his sister was Nancy. This family name is oftimes Tetter, Tretter and Teeter. his sister was Nancy.
James Teter in 1820 married Barbara Reager, who was born August II, 1801, and who died August 22, 1885. She was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (West) Reager.
An old sheepskin patent granted by Patrick Henry, October 25, 1786, now in possession of L. A. Teter, shows a settlement made in 1777 on the Buck- hannon river, and he secured a title for 286 acres, being in the County of Harrison, on Peck's Run, including the settlement made in the year of the Bloody Seven, for which he paid 30 shillings sterling.
His father, Jacob Reager, and three brothers emigrated from Germany to America in 1735 to the Sheandoah Valley, Va.
James Teter and Abram Reager, son of John, came in possession of a part of the land owned by John Reager. James Teter moved from the farm now owned by Wellington Strader to the land later owned by Alva Teter, and at present by B. I. Teter, this farm being a part of the land first settled by John Reager, as shown by a record made on the back of said patent by Alva Teter.
To the union of James and Barbara (Reager) Tetter were born five sons : Alva, born October 18, 1822; John, born March 19, 1825; Jacob, born January 20, 1827; Isaac, born May 10, 1829; Granville, born July 21, 1835.
John Teter married Lucinda McCoy, and their children were: James W., Washington, Barbara, Virginia, Mary, Martha, Cordelia and Louisa.
Rev. Isaac Teter married Rebecca Jackson.
Granville died in early life.
Alva Teter was born on the land now owned by Wellington Strader, in 1822, and died on the farm now owned by his son B. I. Teter, January 21, 1893. He was recruiting officer during the Civil war.
Through perseverance, industry and economy he accumulated considerable wealth. He was a man of great sympathy, and often made sacrifices for the comforts of those who were not so fortunately situated as he. He was a magis- trate for fifteen years, a member of the board of education many terms, was deputy sheriff of Barbour county, sheriff of Upshur county, and a member of the State legislature two sessions, 1863 and 1866, and he and his wife were members of the Reger M. E. Church.
In 1846 he married Mary (Sharp) Hartman, who died January 31, 1847. One child, Mary C., was born January 21. 1847, to this union. She became the wife of Perry Talbot. On October 4, 1849, Alva Teter married for his sec- ond wife, Catherine Strader, the daughter of Michael and Sarah (Bennett) Strader, and the granddaughter of John Strader, who married Miss Post. Her brothers and sisters were: Mary, the wife of Ithiel Hinkle; Christianna, the wife of Edward Davis; Betsy, wife of Joseph Ward; Granville, who married Sarah Ann Hinkle, and Michael, who married Lyda Lamb.
The Straders came from Holland and settled in New Jersey before the
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Revolutionary War, and some of them, moved to the South Branch in the present County of Hardy about 1740.
Children of Alva and Catherine Teter were: Sarah Ellen, born July 7, 1850, wife of Seymour House, after May 23, 1867; James Lee, born December 2, 1851, and married Nancy Ward, January 2, 1873; Elizabeth, born November 15, 1853, wife of John Karickhoff after December 21, 1873; Granville, whose his- tory is given elsewhere; John, born January 22, 1858, and married Florence Rohr; Cosbi, born January 21, 1860, and died July 8, 1862; Barbara Ann, born August 11, 1862, wife of Daniel Post after May 1, 1881 ; Virginia Florence, born June 8, 1865, died in 1894, wife of Ira Euritt ; Sherman T., born December 7, 1867, died in infancy ; Lloyd Alva, born August 9, 1874; Burton Isaac, born January 1, 1877.
Lloyd Alva married Floda Foster Hinkle, of Cherry Hill, Upshur County, the daughter of Foster and Melvina (Ward) Hinkle, the granddaughter of Job and Margaret (Jackson) Hinkle, the great granddaughter of Jonas and Tobitha (Cooper) Hinkle, and the great, great granddaughter of Leonard Hinkle, a Hessian German emigrant. Mrs. Teter's grand parents were: Mackinzy and Phoebe (Heavener) Ward ; her great grandparents were Job and Tabitha (Cum- mins) Ward, German and Irish, and her great, great grandparents were Edward Haddon and Rebecca (Love) Jackson, who were the children of John and Mar- garet Hadden Jackson, who was son of John and Elizabeth (Cummins) Jackson. Mrs. Teter was educated in the public schools; early joined the Methodist Epis- copal Church under the ministry of Rev. C. Warmen, and has been an earnest and loyal member of the church ever since.
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