Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography: Reuben Harrison PICKERING ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, , 1998. ************************************************************************** REUBEN HARRISON PICKERING - farmer, was a son of James and Mary (LOOKER) PICKERING, who were born near Sparta, Rockingham County, Virginia, and who died in that State and county, the father departing this life October 11, 1864. Reuben H. was born in Rockingham County, near Tenth Legion, March 10, 1836, and served in the Confederate army through the entire war between the States as an assistant in the commissary department. He married in Frederick County, Virginia, near Winchester, May 18, 1875, Hattie A. SWARTZ, who was born in that county, June 13, 1844. They have had two children: George Woodley, born December 30, 1878, died November 8, 1879, and Reuben Layton, born March 27, 1881. The father and mother of Mrs. PICKERING were born in Frederick County, Virginia, there passed their lives, and are now deceased. Her father, George SWARTZ, was born in January, 1792, and died August 28, 1864, and her mother, born March, 1796, died March 11, 1868. After the war Reuben H. PICKERING dealt in cattle until 1876, when he came to Greenbrier County, where he has since been engaged in farming and stock-raising in Falling Spring District, with post office address at the village of Falling Spring. 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.