TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - NEWSPAPERS - Clinch Valley News, 27 Jun 1902
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"Clinch Valley News"
Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA
J. A. Leslie, Editor
Cost: $1.00 per year-in advance
Friday, June 27, 1902

GENERAL

WARRANT ISSUED 100 YEARS AGO
Lost Cow Causes Trouble to Our Forefathers
Following is verbatim an old warrant recently found among some old
papers in the News ("Clinch Valley News"), issued the third day of
April, 1802, by JOHN PERRY, Justice of the Peace of this county at that
time:

Tazewell County, to wit:
To OLIVER WYNNE, PETER RIFE and GABRIEL RIFE, free holders of this
county greeting:
Whereas DAVID WAGGONER of the said county hath this day given
information to me, JOHN PERRY, a Justice of the Peace for said county
aforesaid, that he hath taken up an estray, namely a cow, upon his own
lands. These are, therefore, in the name of the Commonwealth to command
you, having been first duly sworn for that purpose before me or some
justice of the peace for this county to view and appraise the said
estray and to certify the value thereof under your hands together with a
particular description of the kind, marks, brands, stature, colour, and
age of the said estray: which certificate so made you are forth with to
return to me.
(Signed) JOHN PERRY

Given under my hand this 3rd day of April, in the year 1802.

There follows the description of the cow __?__  opposite side of the
warrant:

Pursuant to the within warrant to us directed, we have this day viewed
the estray, a cow, shown to us by DAVID WAGGONER, of this county, and do
find the same to be a estray cow, marked with a crop, and be under bit
in her right year, and a swallow fork in the left, her sides red mixed
with some white in her forehead, and under her jaw white and her legs
red to her knees a piece of her tail, and we do appraise the said cow to
the sum of three pound, fifteen shillings.

Certified under our hands this 10th day of April, 1802
She has large horns and is about fore years old.

OLIVER WYNN, (Seal)
PETER REIFF,  (Seal)
………….his
GABRIEL X, RIFE (Seal) *
…………mark
*(The two surnames spelled different on the document-Karen)

What a contrast is presented between this ancient warrant, brown and
faded with age with , with the type prepared (?) documents of the
present day. Information concerning the parties named in the warrant is
very scant and at best is hardly more than conjecture. To DR. C. T.
COOLEY we are indebted for the sketches of the parties.
Little can be found about JOHN PERRY accept (sic) that he was one of the
first Justices of the Peace of this county. OLIVER WYNN (sic) is
supposed to be an ancestor of the families of that name now residing in
Burke’s Garden and vicinity.

PETER and GABRIEL RIFE, brothers, at the time of the warrant were living
near what is now Gratton. The farmer was a milwright (sic) by trade and
later, in about 1845, moved to the Southwestern part of the county, in
what is now Wythe Co. At that time Tazewell comprised a number of the
adjoining counties.

DAVID WAGGONER owned a farm of several thousand acres near where FLOYD
GILLESPIE now resides. In later years he (Waggoner) is reported to have
lost his eal estate through some deal to which he was a party.

ANNOTATED:
 (Karen EAGLE Moman)
(I BELIEVE the David Waggoner is the s/o Adam Waggoner, the Immigrant.

Tazewell Co VA 1810 Tax list
WAGGONER, DAVID  1 1 4 =1 White Tithables, 1 Slave over 12 years, 4
horses

1815 Tax List of Tazewell Co VA. (Locating Residences of Tazewell
Settlers) By Nettie Schreiner-Yantis, FHL # 975.5763 R4
Waggoner, David: (adj) Kimberline Fk: land granted Wm. Muncey; John
Border, Tazewell Deed, Bk # 1, Pg-271, Year,  1804

 In "The "Adam Waggoner Family, Tazewell and Montgomery Counties
Virginia 1750-1996", page 111, David Waggoner went to Allen Co., Ky., in
the Spring of 1817 where John and William had gone in 1816.

Perhaps SAME Peter Riff:

"Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769-1800" , Vol 1, page 297, By: Lewis
Preston Summers
Botetourt Co., VA County Court held 11th day of November 1779
Ord. that the road leading from Peter Rieff’s (sic)  on the South Fork
of Roanoke to Brown’s place on the North Fork be discontinued

"Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769-1800" , Vol 1, page 792,, By: Lewis
Preston Summers.
Montgomery Co., VA County Court held July 27, 1785
Peter Rife served as a member of a Jury, in a lawsuit of James McDaniel
, Plaintiff, VS ___?__ Porter, Defendant

No Rife/Rieff/Riff  in 1810 Tazewell Co VA Tax list

i815 Tax List of Tazewell Co VA. (Locating Residences of Tazewell
Settlers) By Nettie Schreiner-Yantis, FHL # 975.5763 R4
Rife, ___?__ (adj) Cl. Fk. of Wol fCr; to Wm Day; adj. Wayne; called
Rife Place, Tazewell Deed, BK 1, Pg 435, Year,  1809

No Rife in 1820  or 1830 Tazewell Co VA Census

OLIVER WYNN , 1770 to 1858, married Sarah Whitley, s/o William Wynn and
Cynthia Harman

"Annals of Tazewell County Virginia" Vol II, page 576-577
DR. John T. COOLEY married Nancy E. Bottimore, d/o William Gordon
Bottimore &  second wife, Elizabeth Witten. W. G. Bottimore b.
Baltimore, MD, Sept 16, 1816, he first married there and moved to
Tazewell Co., VA in 1845 and his wife died in 1853. Wm. G. Bottimore’s
first wife, Ann Elizabeth (Evans) Bottimore,died  25 Jan 1853 at
Jeffersonville , Tazewell Co., VA-Now Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA. Ann
Elizabeth (Evans) Bottimore was the d/o Jeremiah & Susan Evans and was
born in Baltimore. MD. Her death from: "Tazewell County Death Register"
page, 1-2 Line 19.
1880 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS
# 365, Jeffersonville Dist
JOHN T. COOLEY, 40, Dentist, b. NC (b. Dec 1836)*
…..Nannie, 25, wife, k-house, b. VA (.b. Feb 1855)
…..Eva, 2., daughter, b. VA (b. May 1878,m. John W. Laird)
…..Cansus (sic) 2/12, daughter, b. VA (b. Apr 1880, this is the same as
Nellie L.  ‘Dell’  who m. W. E. Easter)
JANE LEEDY, 32, b. VA servant

*birth date month & year ,of the Dr. J. T. Cooley family, from 1900
Tazewell Co., VA Census , Town of Tazewell.
They also had:
Bessie, b. July 1883 (Elizabeth, m. Clarence McClaughtery)
Mary, b. July 1885 (m. Frank J. Sampson)
Mattie, b. June 1887 (m. Walter S. Anderson)
Lucille E., b. Mar 1891 (m. Henry T. Martin)
…………..
SARAH GREEVER was born in Ash County N. C., September 9th, 1843, and
departed this life June the 13th, 1902 age 58 years, 8 months and 23
days. She was converted and joined the M. E. Church South about the age
of 12 years, and lived a life worthy of imitation all these years.

Her last sickness of short duration, but when death came she was ready.
She was conscious to the very last and just before she left the world
she called her husband and children to her exhorted them to live for
Jesus and meet her in heaven, she had the pleasure while living of
seeing them all converted and now she bids them goodbye, with the hope
of meeting them in heaven and living perfectly resigned to the will of
God. She fell asleep and bid farewell to earthly friends and cares to go
over on the other side of the river to live with Jesus  and to meet
loved ones over there………J. F. Jones
(Typed because article gave dates of birth & death and a place of birth)

Marriage On Clear Fork
MR. HARVEY SAUNDERS, of Thompson Valley, and MISS MAMMIE COMPTON, of
Shawver Mills, were married last Wednesday, the 18th, at the home of the
bride, by REV. D. A. LEFFELL. The attendents were MR. FRAZIER MATHEWS
and MISS LENNIE KINZER; MRS BELIE SAUNDERS , sister of the bride;  and
MR. DOAK MATHEWS. A reception was given the party immediately after the
ceremony, Their home will be in Thompson Valley. The News wishes them
happiness.

Mr. Harvey Saunders, I BELIEVE to be the s/o J. H. & Almede F. Saunders
1880 Tazewell Co., VA Census
# 10, 89th Dist, Richard Smoot, enumerator
J. H. SAUNDERS, farmer, b. VA
…..Almede F., 22, wife, keeping house,  b. VA
…..Eliza E., 2, daughter b. W. Va
….HARVEY, 1. Son . b. VA
…..
(Miss Mamie Compton I BELIEVE to be the d/o Grayson S. Compton,
1852-1919 & Harriett K. ‘Hattie’ Kinser. 1853-1944.

Rev. D. A. Leffell, Sept  1864- 1924 ,is Rev. Dexter A. Leffell s/o
William  A. Leffell &  Sarah Adeline Shawver,

Linnie Kinzer ?uncertain.

Mrs. Beli Saunders- (sister of the bride, but uncertain which sister)
uncertain of her husband, Mr. Saunders

Mr. Frazier Matthews . I BELIEVE to be Albert F. Matthews, s/o
Louis/Lewis Matthews & his wife Virginia.

Mr. Doak Matthews- I BELIEVE to be Walter D. Matthews s/o Louis/Lewis
Matthews & Virginia. The Matthews men are descendants of William
Matthews & Nancy Williams who were the parents of Charles Wesley ‘Wes’
Matthews, the Civil War soldier that lived to be 102.


ANNOTATED:
Karen EAGLE Moman
arizonaeagle@qwest.net
April 2002