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on staff duty with Crook, Sigel, and Hunter. Near the close of the war, he resigned his commission. Long afterward, he met Governor Letcher again, and he assured Dr. Rucker that it was never intended to deprive him of his life, but that, for military reasons, it had been purposed to keep him in jail as long as possible.
Upon leaving the army he settled on his Nicholas county plantation ; here he dealt in horses, cattle, and sheep, and bought and sold timber, oil, and coal lands. Having read law before his medical course, he now en- gaged in its practice. He was a thorough lawyer and a fine orator, and had an extensive and diversified legal practice. In 1870, he removed to Lewisburg. For two years he was prosecuting attorney in Greenbrier county, and for another term of two years in Pocahontas county. In 1889 he was made postmaster at Lewisburg. At various times since the war he was questioned by the United States War Department in regard to important historical events in which he took part.
Major Rucker married, October 28, 1852, Margaret Ann, daughter of Thomas Hazelwood and Margaret Parks (Burks) Scott. She was of Highland Scotch descent; her grandfather, Captain William Scott, served in the revolution. She was a great-granddaughter of Captain William Parks, from whom Dr. Rucker also was descended ; he was sent by Wash- ington, in the revolution, to drive out the Indians in North Carolina. The Roys and McGregors, of the Highlands of Scotland, were also among Mrs. Rucker's ancestors. Children : 1. Hedly Scott, of whom further. 2. William Waller, married Fanny Applegate; he is a member of the United States house of representatives, from Missouri. 3. James Thom- as, married Ida Gertrude Riffe. 4. Edgar Parks, died April 21, 1908: he was at one time attorney-general of West Virginia ; his death occurred at the Episcopal Hospital, Washington, D. C., and he was buried at the Rucker homestead, Lewisburg, West Virginia, two days later; he mar- ried Maud Applegate.
(VII) Hedly Scott, son of Major William Parks and Margaret Ann (Scott) Rucker, was born at Lynchburg, September 13, 1853. His fath- er was then residing at the old Scott homestead. He attended Marietta Academy, and studicd law with his father. In 1873 he was admitted to the bar at Keytesville, Missouri, where he practiced for six years. Com- ing then to Huntersville, West Virginia, to conduct a case for "assault to kill," and securing the acquittal of his client, he was urged to remain, and decided to do this. Thus, in 1879, he opened an office at Huntersville, which was then the county seat. When the court house of Pocahontas county was in 1892 removed to Marlinton, Mr. Rucker also removed to that place. He has had a very active practice, both civil and criminal, and has been engaged in many notable cases He is a member of the County and State Bar Associations, also of the American Bar Associa- tion. In Masonry, he is a member of the chapter. Mr. Rucker has al- ways been active in politics. Until 1884 he was a Democrat. From that year he has been a Republican, and he is now an advanced Progressive. He has been considered for several offices, and was at one time within one vote of the nomination for judge of the circuit court ; on this occa - sion, he withdrew his name, to preserve harmony between the counties in the district.
He married Lizzie Camm, daughter of Dr. Samuel B. and Sallie Don- ald (Patterson) Scott, who was born in Bedford county, Virginia. Her father was the son of Roy and Elizabeth Jane ( Burks ) Scott ; her mother the daughter of David and Elizabeth (Camm) Patteson. Bishop Camm. of Virginia, and Judge Burks, of the supreme court of Virginia, were relatives. Children : 1. Willie Parks, married John M. Standifer, of Thornwood, West Virginia ; she is a graduate of the Lewisburg Fe-
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male Institute and of Marshall College, Huntington, West Virginia; child : John Scott. 2. Margaret Donald, married Henry W. Payne, of Academy, West Virginia ; she is a graduate of the Lewisburg Female In- stitute and of Marshall College. 3. Jessie Waller, married Paris D. Yeager ; he lives at Marlinton, where he is in the insurance business, and is business manager of the Independent ; she is a graduate of the Lewis- burg Female Institute and of Marshall College ; child : William Beard.
McCLINTIC The tradition of this family is that their ancestors were formerly settled in Scotland and removed from that country to Ireland, from which latter country they came to America. In this instance, the weight of accessible evidence tends to confirm the family belief; in Burke's "Dictionary of the Landed Gen- try" a similar statement is made with regard to one of the Irish families of this name. This family and its branches are found in Carlow and other counties of Ireland, and Burke states that their ancestors came from Argyleshire about 1597. Another work speaks of a McClintock ancestor originally of Scotland, who settled in Ireland in the time of Elizabeth. Curiously, in O'Hart's "Irish Pedigrees" almost the only mention of this name is in a list of Huguenot families; in this instance, the name was probably adopted in their new country. Apparently the name in Great Britain and Ireland is always spelled McClintock, and that is also the prevailing spelling in the United States.
There must have been many immigrants to America bearing this name. It is not possible at present to trace relations among them, if such existed. Between the present family and the McClintocks of Chillicothe, Ohio, there is said to be a decided physical resemblance. The vowel of the last syllable was changed to "i" for a time in the Chillicothe family, but without dropping the final "k;" they have returned however to the former spelling. About 1800 the name was too common in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, to allow of the drawing of genealogical inferences from Christian names. The name is also found in the records of Mas- sachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine; in Medford, Massachusetts, there was a William McClintock by 1757. Confining attention now to the family under immediate consideration, it must be said that our informa- tion rests largely on tradition, and that some things are uncertain, or even matters of variance among the descendants. Further investigations may, it is therefore possible, in time bring facts to light which will correct this account in some points.
(I) Alexander McClintock, the founder of this family, came from Ireland to America in 1725. After living a while in Pennsylvania the family began to scatter, and descendants are now to be found in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, and Cali- fornia, as well as in the Virginias. Among the children of the immigrant was William, of whom further; it is also probable that Joseph, born in Ireland, 1701, died 1793, married Elizabeth Lawrence, from whom Pro- fessor W. D. McClintock, of the University of Chicago, is descended, and Samuel, were among his children.
(II) William McClintic, son of Alexander McClintock, was born in Ireland, in 1717, and died in 1801. Some time between 1766 and 1774 he removed from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and settled in what is now Bath county, then Botetourt county, Virginia. He was probably the one who changed the form of the surname ; his brothers who remained in Pennsylvania preserved the older spelling; and, even in this line, all deeds, marriage licenses, and similar documents show the original form until about 1790. The Virginia McClintics, at least, have been Presby-
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terians, and in all probability the ancestor was of this religion. William McClintic married Nancy Shanklin. Children: William (2), of whom further; Robert, married Jane Mann; Joseph; Alexander, born Febru- ary 12, 1765, married Sarah Mann; Nancy; Margaret; Jane. Three of his sons married daughters of William and ( Hamilton) Mann; these girls were raised on one of the best farms on Jackson's river, only a few miles below the McClintock farm, purchased by their father in 1762 (deed on record in Augusta county, Virginia).
(III) William (2) McClintic, son of William ( I) and Nancy ( Shank- lin) McClintic, was born in 1759, and died in 1786. He served in the revolutionary war, in Captain Andrew Wallace's company, Eighth Vir- ginia Regiment, Colonel James Wood in command. This service was in the years 1778-79, he being discharged February 16, in the latter year. But he was in service again at the battle of Guilford Court House, March 16, 1781, and received wounds which were the cause of his death five years later. He married, in 1782, Alice, daughter of William and (Hamilton) Mann, who was born in 1762, and died in 1858. Children : William, born January 2, 1783, married Nancy Shanklin; Moses, of whom further.
(IV) Moses, son of William (2) and Alice (Mann) McClintic, was born in Bath county, Virginia. He married Ann Daggs. Children: Wil- liam Hunter, of whom further ; - , born about 1827, married McCormick.
(V) William Hunter, son of Moses and Ann (Daggs) McClintic, was born in Bath county, Virginia, August 8, 1825. Settling in Poca- hontas county, (West) Virginia, he was a prominent stock man. He mar- ried Mary A., daughter of Sampson Lockhart and Nancy (Edgar) Mathews, who was born in Pocahontas county, Virginia; she died in 1910. Her father was the first surveyor of the county. Children: Henry Hunter, died in April, 1901 ; Withrow, a stock man and farmer in Poca- hontas county ; George W., a prominent lawyer at Charleston, West Vir- ginia; Edgar; Lockhart Mathews, of whom further.
(IV) Lockhart Mathews, son of William Hunter and Mary A. (Mathews) McClintic, was born at Mill Point, Pocahontas county, Vir- ginia, April 12, 1860. He graduated in 1881 from Roanoke College, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three years later he received from the University of Virginia the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and the same year he was admitted to the bar. From that time he has been engaged in general legal practice at Marlinton. He is counsel for the First National Bank of Marlinton; for the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company ; for the Warn Lumber Company; and for other cor- porations. Also, he is local attorney for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company and for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company. In the First National Bank he is also a director, and he is a director in the Mountain View Orchard Company. The Mountain View Orchard Com- pany is just planting the first commercial orchard in Pocahontas county ; they have seven hundred and forty acres of land, and on this are plant- ing twenty thousand fruit trees. Mr. McClintic has also timber and graz- ing lands. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the chapter at Lewisburg, and the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston; he is also a member of Marlinton Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Grafton, West Virginia. In politics he is a very active Democrat, widely known throughout the state, and has attended every state convention of his party since 1888. In that year he was elected prosecuting attorney of Pocahontas county, and he served three terms in this office; in 1901 he was elected a member of the house of delegates of the state. He is a
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member of the standing committee of the State Bar Association, and was for one term its vice-president. He and his family are Presbyterians.
Mr. McClintic married Allie N., daughter of Randolph and Margaret ( Woodell) Slaven. Her father is a stockman of Pocahontas county. Children: Mary M., a graduate of the Lewisburg Female Institute, and now at home; John H., who graduated in 1912 from Hampden- Sidney College, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and expects to study law at the University of Virginia; Alice J., born in 1904; George L., who at the age of twelve was thrown from a riding horse and died in a few hours.
This family is of English ancestry, dating back to the BRADLEY year 1183. In that year Lord Hugh, Bishop of Durham, at the feast of St. Cuthbert, in Lent, had an inventory of the revenues in his Bishopric. In this inventory mention is made of Roger de Bradley, who held forty acres of land at Bradley. Again in 1437 mention is made of Bradleys of Bradley. In a will, proved March 23, 1437, mention is again made of a Bradley. It appears that this name was given to many localities in England and today towns in several counties of England bear this family name. In 1539 we find that John Bradley was Bishop of Shaftesbury. The Bradley family of Ac- worth was the first to preserve their genealogy, and in the year 1667 were given the right to a coat-of-arms. The first name mentioned in this family record was John Bradley, of county Ebor, ensign in the army of Henry VIII. in his expedition to Bolloigue, France. Thomas Bradley, a great-great-grandson of Ensign John Bradley was the first to immi- grate to America. He was a prosperous merchant in the Virginia colony and the progenitor of many descendants bearing this name in the south- ern state.
(I) Joshua Bradley, a representative of this prominent old Vir- ginia family, was born and reared in the Old Dominion commonwealth, whence he removed to West Virginia as a young man, settling on the Coal river, in Raleigh county. He was a farmer by occupation and died in Raleigh county. He married and had a son George William, mentioned below.
(II) George William, son of Joshua Bradley, was born in Raleigh county, Virginia, and passed his boyhood and youth on his father's farm on Coal river. He lived in the county of his birth until quite aged and then removed with his family to Kanawha county, where his demise occurred, at a venerable age. He, like his father, was an agricultural- ist. Among his children was a son Elijah, mentioned below.
(III) Elijah, son of George William Bradley, was born on the Brad- ley farm, in Raleigh county, Virginia, August 6, 1841. He early became associated with his father in the work and management of the old home- stead and received his educational training in the neighboring district schools. His entire active career was devoted to farming operations and stock raising, but he is now living retired at Launa, in Raleigh county ; a Republican in politics but never aspired to office. He married Miranda A. Wiley, a native of Giles county, Virginia, where she was born Au- gust 12, 1855, daughter of William Wiley, who was born in Ireland. Mrs. Bradley is still living and she and her husband became the par- ents of the following children: Everett B., mentioned below; Belle, born August 30, 1876, died in 1878: James M., born October 23, 1879. is a dentist at Logan Court House, Logan county West Virginia ; Ber- tha E., born March 27. 1882, is a nurse at the Spencer Insane Asylum : Elijah W., born April 4. 1885: is a resident of Launa, West Virginia : Albert S., born May 3. 1889, is a graduate of the Cincinnati College of
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Pharmacy and is a clerk in his brother Everett's drug store at Mount Hope.
(IV) Everett Byron, son of Elijah and Miranda A. ( Wiley) Bradley, was born near Jarrold's Valley, Raleigh county, West Virginia, March 4. 1874. After completing the 'curriculum of the public schools of his na- tive place he entered the Concord State Normal School, at Athens, West Virginia, and subsequently attended the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, in the pharmacy department. He has been a registered pharm- acist in the state of West Virginia since 1901, in which year he came to Fayette county, settling in Glen Jean, where he was engaged in the retail drug business for ten years, during the last six months of which period he also conducted a drugstore at Thurmond. He came to Mount Hope in 1909 and here opened an up-to-date drugstore, which was destroyed by fire at the time of the burning of the city, March 24. 1910. In the follow- ing June he was ready for business in a temporary building at the east end of the Garrett & McNabb block. He remained in the latter place un- til October, 1910, when he settled permanently in his spacious quarters at the corner of Main and Center streets, in the west end of the Garrett & McNabb block. His prescription department is recognized as one of the best in the state. He is a stockholder in the Long Branch Coal Com- pany, and Trapp Hill Telephone Company and the Warner Company.
Politically, Mr. Bradley is an unswerving supporter of the Republi- can party and while he has no time nor aspirations for public office of any description he manifests a keen interest in all matters projected for the good of the general welfare and gives freely of his aid and influence in forwarding progress and prosperity. In a fraternal way he is a Mason and he was reared in the faith of the Missionary Baptist church. Mr. Bradley is unmarried.
(IV) Dr. James Millard Bradley, son of Elijah and Miranda A. (Wiley) Bradley, was born in Launa, Raleigh county. West Virginia, October 23, 1879. He attended the public schools of his native county and completed his preparation for college at Beckley Seminary. In 1901 he entered the dental department of the University of Cincinnati. and graduated with distinction in 1904. In 1907 he worked in Logan. West Virginia, where he has practiced his profession to date; he has built up an extensive practice and is considered the leading dentist of the county. He is a member of the Baptist church : the Masonic Lodge : the Royal Arch Masons: fourteenth degree Scottish Rite; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Knights of Pythias. He married. March 29. 1911. Nevada Marie, daughter of Frederick C. Kellerman. Mrs. Bradley was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1885. Her father was born in Germany, September 10. 1860, and came to America in 1872, first locating in Buffalo, New York. At the age of fourteen years he began working in the coal mines, in which line of work he has continued to date. About 1880 he removed to Shamokin, Pennsyl- vania, where he resided for several years. He later located in Logan. West Virginia. Mr. Kellerman through industry and business ability gained promotion. He is now superintendent of the Gay Coal & Coke Company of Logan county, West Virginia. He was married in 1882 to Catherine Zimmerman, of Pennsylvania, who traces her ancestry to the early Dutch settlers in that state. Six children were born to Frederick C. and Catherine Kellerman : Raymond Elmer, married Gertrude Shade : Franklin Abraham: Ether Susan, married George Miller, and resides at Gay, West Virginia; Frederick Nooman ; Milan Warren ; Nevada Marie, married Dr. James M. Bradley, mentioned above.
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A family which in two successive generations has held a ZEVELY place of prominence in the journalistic realm in Ritchie county, West Virginia, is that of Zevely. The founder of this family, the grandfather of Van A. Zevely, was born in Switzerland, and was a Moravian missionary ; he came to the American colonies and was an officer in the revolutionary war.
(I) Edmund S. Zevely, son of the immigrant, was born at Salem, North Carolina, in 1818, and died at Cairo, Ritchie county, West Vir- ginia in April, 1884. His education was begun in the common schools, and he was a graduate of two universities. In his native state he entered into the journalistic profession with the publication of the Greensboro Beacon, in 1836. His newspaper work was carried on in four states, North Carolina, Maryland, Ohio, and West Virginia. In April, 1877, he founded the Ritchie Democrat and Beacon Light at Cairo, West Virginia, and this paper was published by him until his death, he being then the oldest newspaper man in this state, Mr. Zevely also held positions un- der the government of the United States. The first postage can- celing stamp made in the United States was manufactured by him, and he was engaged in this manufacture at Cumberland, Maryland, for twen- ty-five years. He married Charlotte Hinkle, who was born in 1820, and died in 1886. Children : Van A., of whom further; John H., deceased ; Malvina, married S. H. Soyster ; Zabina, deceased, married Dr. Lee Eld- er ; May, married H. N. Sharp.
(II) Van A., son of Edmund S., and Charlotte (Hinkle) Zevely, was born at Cumberland, Maryland, May 14, 1856. Having attended for a few years the public schools, he began at the age of eleven to learn the business of printing. In 1877 he came with his father to Cairo; but two years later he went to Volcano, Wood county, West Virginia, and started the paper called The Walking Beam. In a short time he was burned out and returned to Cairo. After his father's death his paper passed into the son's hands, and he continued its publication at Cairo till 1889; then he moved it to Pennsboro, and shortened the name to The Beacon Light. He published this paper at Pennsboro for about four years, after which he moved to Lincoln county, West Virginia, publishing a paper in that county for several years. His health then necessitated his temporary abandonment of newspaper work, and he returned to Cairo, where he conducted one of the best job printing offices in West Virginia. In 1909 he became the editor of the Cairo Enterprise, which is now the Republi- can newspaper of Cairo. In all, Mr. Zevely has been interested in news- paper publication in this state for twenty-seven years. Since 1900 he has held the office of justice of the peace.
DICE It is said that this family is of German origin, the name hav- ing formerly been written Deiss, and that three brothers came from York county, Pennsylvania, to the present Pendleton county, West Virginia. Of these, Mathias Dice served in the French and Indian war, and he at least arrived in Pendleton county in 1757.
(I) George Dice, the first member of this line about whom we have definite information, died in 1772. Coming from York county, Penn- sylvania, he settled at Forty Seybert and Friend's run. Child: George (2), of whom further.
(II) George (2), son of George (I) Dice, died in 1798. He married Mary A., daughter of John Dice; she was his cousin. She married ( sec- ond) -, and removed to Ohio. Children of George (2) Dice : John, of whom further ; Reuben, born August 31, 1789, died February 4, 1860,
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married Eveline E. Fisher ; Phoebe, married ( first ) Elias Harper, (sec- ond) - Teter.
(III) John, son of George (2) and Mary A. ( Dice ) Dice, was born near Franklin, Virginia, May 10, 1788. He married Mary Cunningham, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Anglin) Hinkle, who was born near Cir- cleville, Pendleton county, May 17, 1790. Children: Elizabeth A., born December 15, 1810, died February 23, 1835, married Samuel Johnson ; George W., born February 17, 1812, died March 9, 1900, married Frances Beard; Mary A .; Phoebe J., born January 26, 1815, died March 23, 1900, married John M. Jones; Isaac H., born June 20, 1816, died Feb- ruary 8, 1897, married Mary A. Dice ; Catharine J., born May 24. 1818, died August 17, 1861, married Henry M. Masters; Hannah, born August 3. 1819. died June 20, 1864, married John B. Moomau : John Cunning- ham, of whom further ; Reuben B., married Lucy A. Diggs.
( IV) Rev. John Cunningham Dice, son of John and Mary Cunning- ham (Hinkle ) Dice, was born near Franklin, November 8, 1820, and died at U'pperville, Virginia, April 5. 1892. He was a self-educated man. For forty-four years he was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, South and served at Staunton, Virginia, and Salem, Virginia, and Washi- ington, D. C. For two periods of four years each he was presiding elder of the Moorfield, West Virginia district; and for another four years he was presiding elder of the Rockingham, Virginia, district, and for a like period of the Loudoun, Virginia, circuit. He was also for four years presiding elder of the Lewisburg, West Virginia, district. He served pastorates at Hillsboro, Virginia, and Rockville, Maryland. He is buried in Thornrose cemetery, Staunton, Virginia. He married Sallie A. A., daughter of Stephen Calvert and Mary Jane ( Chalmers) Roszell, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 8, 1834, and died at Staun- ton, Virginia. She was granddaughter of two ministers; her father was the son of Rev. Stephen George and Mary (Calvert ) Roszell, and her mother was the daughter of Rev. John and Mary Chalmers, of Washing- ton, D. C., born at Washington, in 1801. Children: John Calvert, of whom further ; Charles Samuel, of whom further : Mary C., deceased. married Judge L. J. Williams, of Lewisburg. now a judge of the West Virginia supreme court of appeals, at Charleston ; Lucy Lee, married John F. Estill, lives at Covington, Virginia : Alice Virginia, married A. Brooke Lawson, lives at Upperville, Virginia; Roszella, married R. M. Peach, lives at Upperville.
(V) Hon. John Calvert Dice, son of Rev. John Cunningham and Sallie A. A. (Roszell) Dice, was born at Hamilton, Virginia, September 27, 1872. His early education was received under a tutor. After gradu- ating from the high school at Staunton he again studied under a tutor for two years. After this he attended Randolph-Macon College at Ash- land, Virginia. For twelve years he taught school in Virginia and West Virginia and for two years was principal at Lewisburg. West Virginia. Then for three years he was private secretary to Hon. Joseph E. Willard. lieutenant-governor of Virginia. He has now ( 1912) been for twelve years engaged in general insurance business at Lewisburg. From 1907 to 1909 he was mayor of Lewisburg. He served for six years as presi- dent of the board of education at Lewisburg, and for four years as a member of the county board of examiners. In 1910 he was elected to the state house of delegates: among his committee assignments was the chairmanship of the fish and game committee; and he was chairman of the Democratic steering committee of the house. He declined to continue in the office of mayor, and is now a candidate for re-election to the legis- lature, being one of those under consideration for the speakership of the house in the event of the Democrats controlling that body. Having 20
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