Vinton County OhArchives Obituaries.....DePue, Archibald  April 15, 1884
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The Vinton Recorder May 1, 1884



Mr. Archibald DePue who has been sick for some time, died Friday evening of 
April 15, 1884.

His father was Henry DePue, a native of New Jersey and  a Revolutionary
soldier at Princeton, Trenton and Valley Forge. After the war for
independence, he crossed the mountains to the wilds of the Greenbriar
Valley, where he married Miss Maze. As newlyweds they crossed over
to Little Kanawha River  and  settled himself at the mouth of the West, where  
he died many years ago.

Archibald, his third son born 1815 in Lewis County, Virginia married, and 
after the marriage settled  on the banks of the Little Kanawha near the mouth 
of the West Fork,  cleared and cultivated a farm, rolled logs, built churches, 
school houses , and making roads etc. 

Many years ago Mr. De Pue became a professor of religion in the Baptist
denomination, in which he remained faithful.


Near the end of the Civil War, he sold his farm on the Little Kanawha and
looked to  Ohio, and settled imself in Vinton County, Ohio.He is buried in the 
Cassill Cemetery.



Additional Comments:
Cassill Cemetery is in Clinton Township, Vinton County Ohio
Archibald DePue was married 3 times.Juliet -last name unknown
2nd wife name is unknown 3rd wife was Lucinda Martin, she was with him when he 
moved to Vinton County, Ohio 

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