Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: John O. HANDLY

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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JOHN O. HANDLY - is fourth child and third son of Harvey and Mary C. (BELL) 
HANDLY, whose record has just been given.  His birth was in Greenbrier County,
May 25, 1849, and his marriage was consumated in Lewisburg, September 14, 1882.
His wife is Mattie, daughter of Johnson and Sarah A. (WAYTE) BELL, and she was
born in Lewisburg, January 7, 1846.  Her father's birth was in Rockbridge County,
Virginia, on the 16th of December, 1816, and he made his home in Greenbrier 
County in 1845.  Her mother, born in Augusta County, Virginia, October 9, 1822, 
died in Greenbrier County, January 4, 1869.  John O. HANDLY is one of the 
enterprising business men of Lewisburg, where he successfully conducts a 
livery business.  His residence is in Lewisburg, and his postoffice address 
is Lewisburg, 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.