Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Samuel Cilley LUDINGTON

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Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, <EDEAJ @aol.com>, 1998.
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SAMUEL CILLEY LUDINGTON - has been a cattle merchant for thirty-seven years,
during which time he has bought and sold 120,000 head of cattle.  During
the war he was employed by the Confederate government to buy cattle for
the army.  He was born about midway between Frankford and Lewisburg, this
county, March 21, 1821, and his parents were natives of this county, Andrew
and Elizabeth (WATTS) LUDINGTON.  Both died in this county in 1856.  Esau
LUDINGTON, grandfather of Samuel C., was one of the first settlers in this
county, and he built the first mill west of the Alleghenies, on Greenbrier
River.  In the battle of Point Pleasant he was ordnance master, and some of
the men complaining that he did not serve out the powder fast enough, he
threw down the can, shouldered his gun and went out on the field, where he
remained fighting on his own account until the battle was ended.  April 6,
1852, on Wolf Creek, in Monroe County, (then) Virginia, Samuel C. LUDINGTON
married Elizabeth TRACY, who was born in Monroe County, May 6, 1823.
Jeremiah and Margaret (REYBURN) TRACY were her parents, her father born
I Alexandria, Virginia, in 1790, and her mother in Monroe County in 1792.
Both died in Monroe County, the mother in November, 1852, and the father in
July, 1870.  Samuel C. LUDINGTON continues in the cattle business, with post
office address at Frankford, 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.