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His second wife was Sarah M. Horner, widow of John Horner, and daugh- ter of James and Elizabeth Freel, to whom he was married August 20, 1905. Child: Martha Elizabeth, born October, 1906.
Was a private in Ist West Virginia Light Artillery under Capt. A. C. Moore, enlisting August 12, 1862, and being mustered out June 28, 1865.
Mr. Waugh after the close of the war was a farmer near the postoffice of Arlington on the Little Kanawha River, until his removal to Vandalia in the fall of 1905.
JACOB WAUGH, born March 8, 1812, in Pocahontas County, Va. Son of James and Rebecca (McGuire) Waugh. Moved to Upshur County in 1843. Was assessor two terms, sixteen years circut clerk and justice of the peace for many years prior to his death.
His first wife was Mary Brown, daughter of Josiah and Jane Brown. Chil- dren : Brown M., married Emma R. Harris; Leah, wife of John Fultz, and Dr.
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P. A. Smith of Pocahontas County ; Enoch L. M. married Mary S. Teets, John W. W. married Mary Smith, and Homer M., married Malissa Morrison.
Jacob Waugh's second wife was the widow Skinner, maiden name, Margaret Romine.
WARDER W. WATSON, agent of the Singer Sewing Machine Company for Upshur County. Came to Upshur in 1894, settling near Newlon, and was in the lumber business there for several years. He is a native of Gilmer County. His parents were Enoch G. Watson and Ellen Boyers, the daughter of Leonard Boyers, of Highland County, Va., who came to Gilmer County before the war, and was a 107 years old at his death in 1900.
He married Emma Crites, daughter of Abram and Rebecca Ann Crites, and the granddaughter of Abram Crites, Sr., and Wealthy Pringle. Her parents lived at Selbyville.
He owns a residence on the Island in Buckhannon. Is a Democrat, a mem- ber of the U. B. Church and prides himself on his English blood.
HOMER ROY WAUGH, born January 4, 1879, near Kanawha Head, in Upshur County, W. Va. Is the son of Homer M. Waugh and Malissa J. (Mor- rison) Waugh; grandson of Jacob Waugh, a man well known in church and public life in Upshur County, and Mary (Brown) Waugh, whose grandparents were, respectively, Scotch and Irish. Malissa J. Morrison, the mother of the subject of this sketch, is of Virginia parentage.
Homer Roy Waugh was educated in the public schools of his native dis- trict, Banks, and at the age of fifteen years entered upon the profession of teacher, and soon thereafter entered the West Virginia Conference Seminary at Buck- hannon, as a student, where he graduated with the Reger class of 1901 ; of this class he was president and class orator. In 1901 he was elected superintendent and principal of the Sutton high schools, which position he held successfully for two years. In 1904 he completed the law course at the State University, and later in the same year was elected prosecuting attorney of Upshur County, which office he now holds. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity of the A. F. and A. M., and is a Republican in politics ; was married on the 17th day of October, 1905 to Eliza Poole Newlon, daughter of Dr. W. P. Newlon, a well known physician of Braxton County, and to this union there was born, October 3, 1906, a daughter, Mary Newlon Waugh.
WILLIAM L. WELLS, a farmer of Webster County, was born November 13, 1856, in Marion County, the son of Dudley C. Wells and Louvernia Boor. His father was a Union soldier and was killed Sept 19, 1864.
He settled in Webster County, twenty years ago, near the postoffice of Replete.
He married Martha Crane of Wetzel County, daughter of Josiah Crane. Children : Dora Blanche, wife of John Springle ; Grace, at home.
JULIAN R. WEST, eldest son of T. M. West and Mary Newlon, of Tay- lor County.
Born October 12, 1857. His grandfather came to Taylor County from Vir- ginia in 1796. He is a farmer, and Democrat in politics, and after his marriage to Alice Smith, in 1885, he moved to Upshur County. Children: Freda, Edna, Jean, Mary, Grace, Elsie, Oran, Madge.
REV. G. G. WESTFALL. Among the pioneers of Randolph, Upshur, Barbour and Harrison Counties is found the German name of Westfall (West- pha.). their ancestors came to America from Germany, that portion known as
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the Westfallen, and later known as the District of Westphalia, and settled in the German settlements of Pennsylvania and then to the country to the south branch of the Potomac.
In 1772, James Westfall and a large family of children and grandchildren, came from the south branch of the Potomac and settled in Tygarts Valley, select- ing the site of the town of Beverly, and the sons settling in different portions of the country. This was at the time when Virginia was making the offer of exemption from taxation for fifteen years and 400 acres of land and a pre-emp- tion to 1,000 acres more adjoining, if the settler built a log cabin on the land and raised a crop of corn.
Here the Westfalls found and buried the bones of the Files (Foyles) family. whom the Indians had killed nineteen years before, (1753).
Here also on the lands of Jacob Westfall was built the Westfall fort in 1774.
Family tradition has it that Jacob Westfall, prominent in the early history of Randolph County as a member of the first county court, first sheriff, first county lieutenant of the militia and second county clerk, was a son of James Westfall, the hardy German pioneer, who settled at Beverly.
The subject of this sketch was informed by his grandfather, the late Col. Watson Westfall, that Jacob was the father of Zachariah Westfall, who was a boy of seven when his father and grandfather came to the valley. But he does not know who Jacob Westfall's wife was before her marriage.
In 1788 Zachariah Westfall married Hanna Wolfe, an English girl, the daughter of the widow Wolfe. Later, after his father had moved to Kentucky, he left the valley and moved to Hackers Creek, Va., where he located a home- stead.
The children of Zachariah and Hannah (Wolfe) Westfall, were George, Clark, Owen, Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Cutright; one daughter, the wife of Mr. Casto, one, the wife of Mr. Queen, and Ruth, the wife of John Warner, and Han- nah, wife of Robert Love.
George, the oldest son, was born in Randolph County, at the old Westfall homestead, on the 12th day of April, 1796, and at the age of twenty years, (1816), he was united in marriage to Ruhama Cutright, daughter of Abram and Susan (Bush) Cutright.
The children of this union were: Watson, Martin, Eli, Oliver, Enoch, George, Fanny, Lydia, Rebecca and Celia.
He was united in a second marriage to Ruhama Cutright, daughter of Isaac and Cutright. To this union one son was born, Perry. Watson, the eldest son, was born in Lewis County, Va .. in the year 1818. and at the age of twent-one years was united in marriage to Rachel Tenney, daugh- ter of Samuel and Dorcas (Rohrbough) Tenney.
The children of this union were: Jasper Newton, Samuel Tenney, George W., Elizabeth, Granville Dayton, Oliver, Alvin B., Rebecca Ann and Catherine.
Jasper Newton, the eldest son, was born in Lewis County, Va., on Turkey Run, at the Westfall homestead (now known as the Lewis Karrichoff farm), May 22. 1840. and in his twenty-first year was united in marriage with Jane Reese, daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Dooms) Reese, the pioneer Reeses who came to this county from Augusta County, Va., where Jane was born, Or tober 31, 1838. This marriage was solemnized at the home of Solomon Rer on Hickory flats, by the late Rev. Alford Lister, of the M. P. Church, o. third day of Janury, 1861. Gen. Henry F. Westfall, of Buckhannon
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witness of this marriage. To this union were born eleven children: Cora Alice, born November 12, 1861 ; Mary Elizabeth, born April 22, 1863; George Gideon, born August 4, 1864; Alonzo A., born December 6, 1865; Claudius LeRoy, born July 22, 1867; Lily Virginia, born March 27, 1869; Flora, born February 4, 1870; Charles Henry, born January 30, 1872; Ernest Jasper, born March 22, 1876; Ira Newton, born October 28, 1880; Mamie Jane, born May 10, 1884.
George Gideon, eldest son of Jasper Newton Westfall, was born in Upshur County, W. Va., on the east side of the Buckhannon River, on lands then owned by the Rev. George Gideon Westfall, now of Beaver Falls, Pa., after whom he was named. He received his education in the free schools of the county, the old Academy of Buckhannon and the Spencerian Business College of Cleveland, O., at which place he also taught in the penmanship department. He began teaching in the public schools at the age of twenty-one, and taught for fourteen years. In 1894, on August 16, at the age of thirty, he was married by the Rev. E. R. Powers, of the M. E. Church, South, to Emma Alice Hamrick, daughter of Levi and Claranda P. (Wamsley) Hamrick, of Blue Springs, Randolph County, W. Va., where Emma Alice was born, March 17, 1874.
The children of this union are five: Georgia Gresham, born July 14, 1895; Mary Maurine, born January 18, 1899; Watson Wesley, born April 17, 1901 ; Benton Bosworth, born June 9, 1904; Lillian Lucile, born April 8, 1906.
In 1898 George Gideon became converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Mt. Rupert. In the same year was granted a license to preach and entered the local ministry, doing supply work on the following charges : Cowen, Winifrede, Montrose, Junior and Newlon.
From Jacob, the first sheriff of Randolph County, down to the present gen- eration, the Westfalls have been held in high esteem by their fellow countrymen, and have repeatedly been elected to positions of honor and trust.
REV. DANIEL WESTFALL, son of Rev. Samuel T. Westfall, born in Upshur County, W. Va., September 18, 1871. His grandfather, Watson West- fall was a preacher and son of George Westfall, son of Zachariah, son of Jacob, son of James Westfall, of Randolph County.
His mother's name was Clarrissa Debar, daughter of William. His grand- mother was Nancy Reed.
Daniel Westfall was a student, as a boy in common schools of Upshur County, and later attended the West Virginia Normal and Classical Academy of Buckhannon, and still later he entered the West Virginia Conference Seminary at the same place. He taught school for seven years, beginning at the age of seventeen years. Yet he never taught on any other grade than a number one certificate. He was converted at the age of fifteen, licensed as a local preacher at eighteen years and joined the West Virginia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1895. Since that time he has sevred two charges, and the Thomas M. E. Church, being there seven years. Was sent to Sistersville, W. Va., pastor of the M. E. Church. No minister of the M. E. conference of his age has filled a greater number of more responsible offices han he. Among others he has been treasurer, a member of the educational mmittee, and for the last two years has been a member of the board of ex- iners.
1895 he was married to Miss Hope Webb Thatcher, a daughter of a prom-
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inent minister of the West Virginia conference, her father being J. P. Thatcher and her mother Sarah A.
Hope W. Thatcher was born July 16, 1873, in Oakland, Md. Children : Evangaline C., S. Marie., Charles T. Winifred G., D. Fowler, Richard Ward.
Rev. Daniel Westfall is descended from a direct line of ministers from the time of the Wesleys.
DORPHA STARK WESTFALL, section boss on the B. & O. Railroad, at Hampton, W. Va., was born September 17, 1873, the son of Eli W. Westfall and Olive Conley, and the grandson of Martin Westfall and Rebecca Warner. Great grandson of George Westfall, who was the son of Zachariah Westfall, who was the son of Jacob Westfall, who was the son of James Westfall. The subject of this sketch is a native of the county, was raiser on a farm until fifteen years of age, when he began sawmilling ; followed that trade for three years and then went at railroading. For several years he worked for the West Virginia and Pittsburg Railroad as a common laborer and was promoted to foreman August 5, 1896, with his residence at Hampton.
He married Hettie Rollins, daughter of Albert Rollins, July 2, 1894.
Children : Eli Benjamin, born January 24, 1895: Emerson, born July 20, 1901; Eula May, born March 27, 1906.
HOMER H. WESTFALL, a farmer and teacher of Washington District, Upshur County. Was born April 2, 1875. Son of Samuel T. and Clarrissa (DeBarr) Westfall, grandson of Watson Westfall, who was a son of George, who was a son of Zachariah, who was a son of Jacob, who was a son of James, of Randolph County.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools and at the West Virginia Conference Seminary. Has taught school six years in Randolph and Upshur Counties.
August 30, 1905, he married Esther L. Strader, daughter of Abel and Mary (Ours) Strader, and a granddaughter of Nicholas Ours. One child has been born to this union, Ocie Blanche.
Mr. Westfall is a Republican in politics, a member of the M. E. Church, and his daughter is eight generations removed from the Westfall, who built West- fall fort at Beverly.
To Mr. Westfall the author is indebted for the many valuable favors done him in his task of compiling the History of Upshur County.
IRA BURTON WESTFALL, born August 17, 1872. Son of G. D. West- fall and Martha Ellen Day, daughter of Solomon Day and Hannah Harper. Grandson of Watson Westfall.
The subject of this sketch was married to Ida Catherine Lowe, daughter of William R. Lowe and Martha Mowery, and their childrei are: Lotta, born September 29. 1898; Veda, born July 12, 1899; William Dayton, born Septtem- ber 5, 1901 ; Burton J., born July 23, 1903; Winnie Wilma, born February 9, 1906.
Mr. Westfall is a building contractor and an architect. His brother and sisters are: Ida, died in Illinois, in 1892; Leonora, wife of T. W. Hinkle; Iva wife of A. M. Hughes ; W. E., who married Mattie Bennett, daughter of Capta- Bennett, and Icy, typewriter for the Burnsville Grocery Company, Braxt County.
MARY E. WESTFALL, daughter of Henry and Catherine (Scott ) Ba- man. Born June 4, 1849, in Harrison County. Married Thomas We
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soldier in the Civil War. To this union have been born ten children, six now living.
Mrs. Westfall's ancestors on the Scott side emigrated from Monongalia County and were noted Indian fighters, and are the Scotts now living in Ran- dolphi County.
OPHA MARSHALL WESTFALL, son of Eli Westfall, Jr. His mother was Samantha, the daughter of Andrew Lewis. His father the son of Martin Westfall, who was the son of George, who was the son of Zachariah, who was the son of Jacob, who was the son of James. Was born February 15, 1878.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools, and on leav- ing the same became an employe of the B. & O. Railroad Company. Has been on the section for several years. He has good knowledge of machinery and has been employed as head sawyer for many portable mills.
He married Elva Hinkle, daughter of Gay Hinkle, who was the son of An- drew, who was the son of Abijah, who was the son of Jonas.
The subject of this sketch lives at Hampton and owns property there.
His children are: Audry, Otis and Gail.
WILLIAM M. WESTFALL, born May 27, 1873, son of Samuel T. West- fall and Clarissa DeBarr, and grandson of Watson Westfall, (for further in- formation see biography of Rev. G. G. Westfall).
He is a mechanic, owns property in Buckhannon and married Lizzie Dam- aschky, February 23, 1896, the daughter of Gustave Damaschky and Emma Elizabeth Batz. Her father was a soldier in the Franco-Prussian War, and came to Upshur in 1885. He now lives at Pittsburg. Her mother is dead.
John W. Damaschky was a soldier in Troop C., 5th Cavalry, in the Spanish- American War, enlisting in Chicago, and died July 1, 1902, in the Philippine Islands, the body being brought back to California for interment.
Children : Lulu A., born February 2, 1897; Mary E., born January 6, 1899; John William Russell, born May 9, 1902 ; Wilbert Samuel, born September 1, 1904.
SAMUEL WESTFALL was born February 18, 1832, son of John H. West- fall and the grandson of Cornelius Westfall, who was one of the first settlers in the County of Randolph. His mother was Elizabeth Allman, daughter of George Allman. He married Almira Casto in 1855, and has been farming since his marriage, on Sand Run.
Children : Millard Fillmore, David M., Warren D., Julia Frances, Samuel S., Minerva, Austin C.
ZEBADEE WESTFALL, brickmaker and bricklayer, born August 30, 1863, on Grass Run. Son of Samuel Tenney and Clarissa (DeBarr) Westtall, oldest child in the family of eleven, all living. Farmed until twenty-two years of age, since followed his occupation as brickmaker in Buckhannon.
Married Mary Catherine Simon, born June 26, 1863, in Barbour County, and daughter of Moses and Mary (Thompson) Simon.
Children : Claude, born January 22, 1884; Frederick, born August 18, 1885; Bessie, born July 30, 1888; Audree, born October 23, 1890.
JOHN WORTHINGTON WHEELER, merchant and farmer, Malta, W. Ta. Born October 25, 1851. Citizen of Barbour County, son of Abram Wheeler, Idier in Union army, and Elizabeth (White) Wheeler. Grandfather, John celer, was a Presbyterian preacher of England and emigrated to this country re the Revolutionary War, in which he was a soldier under Washington, s present at the surrender at Yorktown. Grandfather was the owner of
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twenty slaves, whom he liberated early in the nineteenth century for conscience sake.
John W. Wheeler married Nannie Ours of Virginia, April 14, 1881.
Children : F. E., R. O., N. E., J. A., S. F. and B. F.
DR. CUMMINS EDWARD WHITE, born January 9, 1869, on Freeman's Creek, Lewis County. Son of A. P. White and Mary C. Fetty ; grandson of John White, for many years justice of the peace, and Katie Jackson, an own aunt of Stonewall Jackson.
He was raised on a farm and attended the winter terms of school, after com- pleting the course in the public schools, he took a teacher's course at the Glen- ville State Normal, and in 1892 completed his course in medicine at the Balti- more University. Upon his graduation he went to North Carolina, located at Fall Creek of that State and practiced his profession three years. In 1894-5 he was a student at Johns Hopkin University; returned home and located at Vandalia, where he practiced until 1902, when he came to Buckhannon. He is director of the Peoples Bank of West Virginia ; was a promoter and is an officer of the City Hospital.
His first wife was Daisy Bond, daughter of M. L. Bond, of Lewis County, whom he married May 20, 1896. Child: Ross B.
His second wife was Minnie Carper Phillips, daughter of D. J. and Cathe- rine Heavener Carper, who he married August 31, 1905.
IRA T. WHITE lives near Hope, Braxton County. Owns 183 acres of land, on which he lives and farms very successfully. He is a native of Upshur County. Born January 22, 1867, son of James Newton and Matilda (Ward) White, of Warren District. His mother was a daughter of Aquilla Ward. His father was one of the most progressive farmers of Upshur County, during his life time.
The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm, educated in the public schools and about the year 1891, moved to Braxton County. Previous to this however, he had been a music teacher in Gilmer and Braxton Counties and had learned to know and love these people and had availed himself of purchasing a farm.
He married Ada F. Karickhoff, daughter of Samuel W. and Violetta A. (Casto) Karickhoff. His wife's mother was a daughter of Job Casto.
Children : Frederick, French, Bulah, Rosa, Frena, Roy, Samuel, Pearl.
GEORGE H. WHITESCARVER, son of John T. and S. E. (Sinclair) Whitescarver, born in Taylor County, West Virginia, May 31, 1868. The name Whitescarver is German, and is spelled in that country as Weisgerber, this be- ing a name as old as the Roman empire. For history records that this family be- long to the German tribes, who opposed the mailclad legions of Julius Caesar.
Prior to the Revolutionary War and six generations back from the subjejct of this sketch, Frederick Weisgerber, or Whitescarver, left his German home, crossed the blue sea and settled in Rappahanock County, Virginia, being a man of means in Germany and bringing those means with him, who soon bought a large body of land on the Rappahanock River and maintained it in a manner befitting his position and means.
His son, Frederick W. Whitescarver, was born in America, and spent the lar- ger part of his life on the parental plantation, and there married a Miss Browning, a cousin of Zachariah Taylor. and of their children, one, John S. Whitescarver, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He was born in Culpepper
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County, Va., October 12, 1804, and married a Virginia lady by the name of Eliza- beth Griffin, and to them were given eight children, two of them still living, George M. Whitescarver, of Grafton, W. Va., and John T. Whitescarver, of Pruntytown, W. Va. John S. came to Harrison County in 1850, settled on a farm in the northern part of the county, and there lived till his death in 1896.
The mother of the subject of this sketch is the daughter of James Sinclair and Rebecca Yates Sinclair, both members of well known families of Taylor County.
The subject of this sketch was born and raised on a farm until twenty-two years of age; was a graduate of the public schools, and had taught one term in the public schools of this county.
In 1892 he came to Buckhannon and went into the mercantile business, run- ning a hardware store, and in May of that year was married to Ella Brake, the daughter of Hyre Brake and . Narcissus Bailey Brake. (See history of Brake family). To this union one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was given. She is now seven years old.
In the fall of 1894, his store was entirely destroyed by fire, that swept the business section of Buckhannon.
He engaged in shipping live stock for six years after this, and then went into the coal and timber business, and in this last enterprise has been associated with some of the largest transactions in Upshur and adjoining counties. He is a partner of his brother, B. F., in the Whitescarver Furniture Company of Buck- hannon.
He is a Baptist in religion and a Democrat in politics.
ASHLEW WESLEY WILFONG, a farmer of Union District, was born December 1, 1847, son of Henry Wilfong and Martha Pritt; grandson of Henry Wilfong and the great grandson of John Wilfong. Legend has it that John Wil- fong, the great grandfather of the Wilfong family, when very young, was taken, raised and started into life by a German of Bath County, Va., and through grati- fication of an eccentricity of this German, who raised the boy, he was named, or rather, re-named, Wilfong, and what his original family name was, his descend- ants here do not know.
The Wilfongs came to Upshur County in 1830, and settled on Big Sand Run; on which is known as the Day farm. The subjejct of this sketch was born in Meade District ; was raised in Washington District and educated there. He was raised a farmer and is now owner of 112 acres of land on Little Sand Run. He de- votes his time and attention to the handling and raising of livestock.
He married Elizabeth Napier, daughter of Richard A. Napier and Nancy El- leton, natives of Albermarle County, June 13, 1871.
Children : Maggie Bird, James A. Garfield, John Day, and Rebecca, wife of Bud Simon.
Mr. Wilfong was a soldier of Company F, 17th West Virginia Infantry, en- listing September 7, 1864, and being mustered out in 1865. During his services he captured Lieutenant Long on Birch River alone. His duty as a soldier made him a scout in Nicholas, Webster and Braxton Counties. He is a pensioner of the United States.
JOHN J. WILFONG was born in 1845; enlisted in the Union army in 1863, on February 17, and served until June 13, 1865. He was discharged at Wheeling. W. Va.
He is the son of Henry Wilfong, Jr., who was the son of Henry Wilfong,
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Sr., of Augusta County, Va. In his father's family were twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. The subject of this sketch owns a farm of 721/2 acres of land on Little Sand Run, in Washington District, Upshur County.
He was married on New Year day, 1866, to Celia Eunice Wilfong, daughter of Frederick Wilfong and Magdaline Cutright, whose family consisted of seven sons and three daughters. He is a Republican in politics and a United Brethren in Christ.
ROBERT E. WILFONG, son of Henry and Martha (Pritt) Wilfong. Born at Ten Mile July 16, 1855. Father was a soldier in the Mexican War. Mother rode an elephant in the John Robinson circus, exhibited at Buckhannon in 1876. Married Clementina Williams, of Gilmer County, March 8, 1881.
Children : Martha Catherine, Celia Ann, William Ashley, Henry Burton, John Sherman, Robert Roy, Opie Glenn, Mongolia, Olive, Violia, Jesse Herbert and Frances.
WILLIAM ALONZO WILFONG, son of Henry Wilfong and Martha Pritt, born January 9, 1853. Raised on a farm and is a farmer of Washington District.
In 1877 he married Samantha A. McClelland, daughter of Ezekial McClel- land, of Harrison County, and their children are: Walter W., Hulda B., Annie, William S., Matilda B., Belva Gay, Charles H., and Creed Wilson.
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