Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Robert William RENICK

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Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, <EDEAJ @aol.com>, 1998.
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ROBERT WILLIAM RENICK - born in Renicks Valley, Greenbrier County, December
5, 1829, and Elizabeth Taylor DUNN, born in Blue Sulphur District, this
county, July 18, 1835, were here joined in wedlock, at Lewisburg, October
30, 1854.  Their nine children were born:  Mary Cornelia, November 2, 1856;
Emma Marie, September 20, 1858;  Edward Lee, July 6, 1860;  Ella Jackson,
July 16, 1862;  Carrie Green, July 26, 1864;  Lena Kate Modisett, September
26, 1866;  John Russell, August 5, 1868;  Herbert Nunez, December 11, 1873;
Henry McCornick, October 12, 1876.  Mary Cornelia married Scipio G.
Armentrout, November 3, 1877, and they live in Mobile, Alabama;  The other
children are at home.  Robert W. RENICK lost much valuable property during
the years of the civil war.  His brother Calvin B., who was a member of the
1st Greenbrier Cavalry, shot the first Federal soldier in Northwestern
Virginia.  He was on picket near Laurel Hill, when the Federal line
advanced into that vicinity, and shot in self-defense.  Benjamin Franklin
RENICK, born at Sinking Creek, this county, august 28, 1800, was the father
of Robert W., and he married Eveline BEARD, born in this county, in Renicks
Valley, June 6, 1806.  She died at falling spring in 1864.  John Webster
DUNN, born in Harrison County, (then) Virginia, in January, 1802, and Maria
(TAYLOR) DUNN, born in Lewisburg, this county, in 1807, were the parents of
Elizabeth, wife of Mr. RENICK.  Her father is living in this county, and her
mother died near Ronceverte, July 18, 1879.  Robert W. RENICK is a farmer,
with address at 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.