Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: C. B. WAID

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Transcribed and submitted by Darla Ruebush, <darbush @wizrealm.com>,
April 1998.
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C. B. WAID - born in Greenbrier county, February 25, 1827, and Elizabeth S.
WHITE, born in this county February 14, 1826, were here united in marriage
December 29, 1846.  Their children are five, all living in Greenbrier
county, born: Ezra, February 21, 1851; Lewis C., June 9, 1853; Samuel
F., January 7, 1855; Elizabeth C., June 8, 1856; William S., July 2, 1869.
C.B. WAID was a son of John and Elizabeth (BEARD) WAID, both of whom were
natives of Bath county, Virginia, his wife's parents were James and Phebe
(WHITMAN) WHITE, her mother was born while her parents were journeying to
America across the ocean.  C.B. WAID entered the service of the Confederacy
in the early part of 1862 as a member of Company E, 60th Virginia Infantry,
but in April, 1863, was transferred to the 26th Virginia Battalion.  He
participated in the seven days fight before Richmond, and the battles of
Handleys Hill, Lewisburg, Droop Mountain, Cold Harbor, Lynchburg, and
others of less note.  He was satisfied then, and is still of opinion,
that the Confederate States might have achieved Independence by wise
management, if not in the field then by strategic movement in cutting
off the Federal supplies.  Mr. WAID has a farm or 425 acres, upon which
he resides in Anthonys Creek district, on "Waid's Draft." about two miles
from Alvon.  His land is well improved, with good orchard and finely
timbered upland, and contains a marble quarry superior in quality and
inexhaustible in quantity, black and variegated marble.  He receives his
mail at the office at Alvon, 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.