Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of JAMES HENRY STEPTOE STRATTON 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. 285-286 JAMES HENRY STEPTOE STRATTON. James Henry Steptoe Stratton, born June 12, 1840, at Kanawha Salines, Kanawha county, West Virginia, entered Company H, Twenty-second Infantry, May 8, 1861, and then the cavalry service until the end of the war of the States. On December 9, 1868, he married Mary Anna Nelson Handley (born in Greenbrier county, West Virginia, October 28, 1846, died June 3, 1906). They moved to Lewisburg, October, 1878, taking charge of the Lewisburg Hotel, which he conducted until his death, February 3, 1895. The children of these parents were: Joseph Harvey, born _____ died January 9, 1899. aged thirty years. Mary Theresa (Polly) married H. F. Hunter, November 19, 1895; living in Lewisburg. Carrie Belle, living in Lewisburg. John Handley, married Mary Margaret Erwin. May 3.1917: living in Clarence, Mo. Willie Thomas married George E. Nettleton, June 16, 1910. Henry Nelson died March 4, 1884, aged two years. James Marion enlisted in United States naval reserve fleet, December 7, 1917; called into service March 26, 1918; stationed at United States naval hospital, Hampton Roads, Va., paymaster's office. James Henry S. Stratton, son of Joseph Dickinson Stratton, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, July 16, 1794; died July 6, 1843, in Perryville, md., and buried at Perryville, Tnd.. and Mary Ann (Buster) Stratton, horn in Kanawba county, April 25, 1812, died in Covington, Va., July 21, 1890. Mary Anna Nelson Stratton, daughter of Harvey Handley (see sketch Handley family), and Mary Caroline Lockhart (Bell) Handley, born September 13, 1822; married June 14.1842: (died July 10, 1898.