Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Simeon R. HUFFMAN 

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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SIMEON R. HUFFMAN - has lived over thirty-seven years on his homestead 
farm of 335 acres, in Blue Sulphur district, Greenbrier County, and has 
it nearly all improved and under cultivation. On Snake Run he has 60 or 
70 acres of mountain land, mostly in timber. He was elected treasurer of 
schools for this district, and served from 1867 to 1869. He served eighteen 
months as magistrate, also. His birth was in Blue Sulphur district, 
October 19, 1822, and he married in Monroe County, then Virginia, February
26, 1846 His wife was Bellicent GWINN, born in Monroe County, December 2, 1819, 
and their children were four, of whom two only survive: William, born March 
18, 1847, died October 7. 1862; Mary, born February 13, 1857, died 
August 2, 1859. At home with the parents are: John, born September 
23, 1849, and George, born January 21, 1854. Enos HUFFMAN, father of 
Simeon R., was born in the Shenandoah Valley, August 15, 1793, and was 
quite a boy when his mother brought her family from the valley to 
Greenbrier County. Afterward she moved to Preble County, Ohio, with all 
her family except Enos, who remained in this county, and married Jane 
GEORGE, born in this district, October 25, 1794. She was a daughter of 
Thomas GEORGE, who settled here in 1790, and was a great hunter. He killed 
many bear and deer, and used to capture wolves and pen them in a corn-crib, 
where at one time he had seven. Enos HUFFMAN died in Indiana, April 19, 1856, 
and his widow still lives in Blue Sulphur district. Joseph and Mary 
(TAYLOR) GWINN, the parents of Mrs. HUFFMAN, died in Monroe County, 
the father on the 23d of April, 1862, and the mother June 23, 1872. 
Joseph GWINN was Born in Monroe County, November 6, 1783, and his wife 
was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, May 15, 1786. Simeon R. HUFFMAN's 
postoffice address is Palestine, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.