Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of ABRAHAM ELIAS HUDDLESTON This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 259-262 ABRAHAM ELIAS HUDDLESTON. Abraham E. Huddleston, the subject of this sketch, was born in Alleghany county, Virginia, December 16, 1855. Because of the Civil war and after-the-war conditions, his education was rather limited. His first employment was as timekeeper oil a brick-yard at the age of fourteen. He then clerked in a store for four years, after which he studied telegraphy and -as in the employment of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company from 1873 to 1879 as station agent and telegraph operator. In 1876 he opened a store at Callaghan, Va., and in 1879 he resigned from the railroad to go into the lumber business and has since been continuously in the mercantile and lumber business. In 1906 he organized the White Sulphur Supply Company, one of the largest retail stores in southern West Virginia. In 1908 he organized the Mountain Milling Company, and in 1910 the Electric Plant, all situated at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where he located in 1887. The Huddleston family date back to the twelfth century and were among the English settlers of Virginia in the early part of the seventeenth century, one of that name being an aid-de-camp to Ceneral Washington. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Abraham J. Huddleston, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, in i8oo, came to Alleghany county, Virginia in 1830, and married Leah Bowyer, who died in 1902. He died April 3, 1873. He had seven sons and four daughters: David G. the father of the subject of this sketch, who died in 1878; Daniel Y., who died in 1913; John, who died in 1862; Joseph, who died in 1863; George W., who died in 1915 ; William B., who died in 1905 ; Robert W., who died in 1912; Sarah (Plymale), now living at Boulder, Cob.; Elizabeth (Lock-hart), now living in Covington, Va.; Minerva (Bowley), now liv-ing in Anselmo, Neb; Nancy (Smith), now living in Grand Island, Neb. David G., the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Alleghany county, Virginia, March 2, 1834, and married Agnes Hook, of Alleghany county, March 7, ~ She was the daugh-ter of Elias Hook and was born in Alleghany county, Virginia, February 4, 1834, and died in Covington, Va., October, 1903. The children of David G. Huddleston, besides Abraham E., who was the eldest, were the following: Joseph W., born August 22, 1857, married Emily Moyers, January i8, 1883, who died in Coving-ton, Va., in 1891. He afterwards married Mattie Hippert and now resides at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; George W., born May 11, 1859, and died at Cedar Grove, Neb., September 9, 1880; Rebecca L., born April 6, i86i, and married Samuel B. Johnson, March iS, 1884, and now living in Chattanooga, Tenn; John D., born March 21, 1863, married Mollie B. Vaughan, December 22, 1882, and now resides at Alexandria, La.; Adelia B., born May I, 1865, and married Howard W. Tyree, September, 1887, and now resides in Alleghany county, Virginia; Cora Virginia, born February 27, 1867, married Henry Brown, September, 1889, and now resides in Chattanooga, Teun.; Bettie P., born September 7, 1869, married Robert W. Butler in 1896 and now resides in Memphis, Teun.; Daisy A., born October 21, 1873, married, in 1909, Converse and resides in Chattanooga, Tenn.; David G., Jr., born August 15, 1876, and was killed in a railway accident in Arkansas, March 4, i906. On September 4, 1877, the subject of this sketch was married to Isabella Johnson Richardson, the daughter of John F. and Marguerite Richardson, of Alleghany county, Virginia, and to whom the following children were born: Sarah Blanche, born June 19 1878, married to Harry E. Crickenberger, June 18, 1901, and' lives at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Bessie Lee, born August 1, 1879, married to Edward M. Haynes, December 12, 1906, and resides at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Ada Edith, born May 19, 1881, married to Edward H. Butts on September 15, 1908, died at Logan, W. Va., April 6, 1915; George Dice, born November 12, 1882, died in infancy; David Franklin, born December 12, 1883, married Mabel Kerr, September 22, 1909, and now resides at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Alfred Elliott, born August 2, 1885, died in infancy; John Lester, born February 13, 1887, married Maud M. Wineberger, April, 1912, resides at White Sulphur Springs; Mary Isabella, born February 21, 1889, married Dr. David H. Hill, June 3, 1915, resides in Charleston, W. Va.; Ruth and Rose, twins, were born January 1, 1892, and died in infancy; Agnes Jane, born June 13, 1895, and died December 2, 1914; Beulab, born January 13, 1897, died in infancy; Albert I Elias, born January 7, 1899, died July 4, 1900. Mr. Huddleston and his wife now live in their home (Hillcrest) Overlooking the town of White Sulphur Springs. He is a man of somewhat retiring disposition, but has been kept before the public in various capacities. As a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, he has been Sunday school superintend ent for nearly forty years; was a delegate to the general conference of his church, which met at Dallas, Texas, in 1902, and at Birmingham, Ala., in 1906; has been a member of the joint board.