Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: James Henry RENICK

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Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, <EDEAJ @aol.com>, 1998.
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JAMES HENRY RENICK - lives on the homestead farm of the RENICK family, in
Falling Spring District, Greenbrier County.  The land was entered and
settled upon in the pioneer days of the county, by Major William RENICK,
who came from Augusta County, Virginia, and passed the remainder of his
life on the land he had redeemed from the wilderness and the savages.
The place is known as the "Cave Farm," and embraces nearly 1,000 acres of
valuable land.  Since its first settlement it has remained in the possession
of one of the RENICK name.  Here William RENICK, Esq., was born, April 19,
1792, and here he died July 30, 1867.  He married Rebecca RENICK, who was
born in Muddy Creek, this county, March 25, 1791, and died March 15, 1846.
Their son James HENRY, subject of this sketch, was born June 17, 1818, and
in Pulaski County, Virginia, June 6, 1860, he married Mary Christina
MATHEWS.  She was born in Pocahontas County, (then) Virginia, August 3,
1837, a daughter of Capt. A. G. and Mary Jane (SEE) MATHEWS.  Her father
was born in Greenbrier County, March 23, 1802, and her mother was born in
Randolph County, in Tygarts Valley, then in Virginia, January 9, 1803.
Capt. MATHEWS and his wife moved to Pulaski County in 1852, and there both
died in the year 1880, the former on May 19th, and the latter on January
22nd, Mr. And Mrs. RENICK are the parents of:  Felix Mathews, born April
14, 1861, is in attendance at Roanoke College;  Mary See, July 11, 1863,
is at school at Holland's Institute;  Eliza R., January 6, 1866;  James
Harry, May 19, 1868, are at home;  Charles Lake, May 10, 1862, died August
16, 1875;  Christina Cameron, September 1, 1874, at home.  During the civil
war Mr. RENICK served in the commissary department under Lee, buying cattle
and general supplies for the army.  His post office address is Falling
Spring, 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.