Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography: James H. S. STRATTON ************************************************************************** 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 Valerie Crook, , 1998. ************************************************************************** JAMES H. S. STRATTON - was born at Kanawha Salines, Kanawha County, (then) Virginia, June 12, 1840. Joseph Dickenson STRATTON was his father, born in Montgomery County, Virginia, in 1790, and killed by being thrown from a horse, at Perryville, Indiana, on the Wabash River, in July. 1843. The mother of James H. S., who was born in Kanawha County, in April, 1817, and whose maiden name was Mary Ann BUSTER, came to Greenbrier County in 1879, and is still making her home here. The father of James H. S. STRATTON, and his grandfather, served in the American army during the war of 1812. May 8, 1861, James H. S. STRATTON entered the Confederate army, and he served one year in Company H, 22d Virginia Infantry, and from that time to the surrender he was in the cavalry service. He was in battle at Tuckwillers Hill, Gordonsville, Liberry Mills, and others on the soil of the "Old Dominion." A half brother, W. B. ROCK, of Kanawha, served in Jackson's (Confederate) Cavalry. Near Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, December 9, 1868, James H. S. STRATTON was united in marriage with Anna May (NELSON) HANDLY, who was born near Lewisburg, October 28, 1846. She is a daughter of Harvey and Mary Caroline Lockhart (BELL) HANDLY. Her father was born near Lewisburg, October 28, 1817, and her mother, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, September 13, 1823, came to Greenbrier County in 1842. Mr. and Mrs. STRATTON, are the parents of: Joseph Harvey, born October 9, 1869; Mary Theresa, October 26, 1872; Carrie Bell, April 2, 1875; John Handly, April 30, 1878; Henry Nelson, January 31, 1882. All are living with their parents in Lewisburg, where Mr. STRATTON took up his residence in October, 1878. He grew to manhood in Kanawha County, and for twenty-five years followed the river as clerk and captain on the Ohio River and its tributaries. In Lewisburg he owns and manages the Lewisburg Hotel, the best property, it is said, of its kind, in this part of the State, with the exception of that at White Sulphur Springs. In 1879 he was elected trustee of the town of Lewisburg, and by subsequent reelections served two succeeding terms. 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.