Marion County WV Archives Biographies.....Ice, Rawley Ethan March 6, 1837 - August 12, 1912
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Source: Hardesty's Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia
Author: H. H. Hardesty

Hardesty's Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia
H. H. Hardesty & Company Publishers, 1883
Mannington District, Marion County, West Virginia

RAWLEY ETHAN ICE, M.D. - was born May 6, 1837, on the same place, and within two
hundred yards of the house where he now lives, in Mannington district. In
Blacksville, Greene county, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1854, he married Thirza
Pindle Snodgrass, who was born April 21, 1837, in what is now Wetzel county,
about one mile from the line of Marion. Their children were seven, born: Armenia
Arlington, April 12, 1856, died March 7, 1864; Charles Wellington, September 3,
1875; Rachel Arizona, October 3, 1860; George McClellan, August 17, 1865, died
February 25, 1871; Lulu Ann, September 25, 1869; Mollie, November 5, 1873; Nancy
Bessie, September 14, 1877. Charles W. married Melissa Ellen, daughter of Rev.
P. B. Sturm, July 21, 1878, and they have three children: Rachel A., married
George W. Mason, born in 1855 - they were married April 5, 1877, and live near
the old homestead; the unmarried children live at home. The parents of Mrs. Ice
were John D. and Nancy W. (Hays) Snodgrass, her father born in what is now
Marion county, where his father was a pioneer, and her mother born in what is
now Wetzel county. Dr. Ice's great grandfather was from Amsterdam, Holland, and
his son, grandtather of Dr. Ice, was the first white child born west of the
Alleghenies. He established Ice's ferry on Cheat river. Rawley Ice, father of
Rawley E., was born March 6, 1797, and married November 12, 1818, Rachel Hays,
who was born June 18, 1797. Dr. Ice's paternal grandmother was Phebe Bales, who
formerly resided on Cheat river, and died in Marion county. His maternal
grandparents were Henry and Betsey (Fleming) Hays, both of whom died in Marion
county, near Fairmont. In pioneer days Henry Hays was a scout under Capt. Levi
Morgan. Rawley Ice was the second settler on Owens fork, where he located in
1823. He moved to Indiana in 1831, and on his return to what is now West
Virginia he settled on the farm where Dr. Ice now lives. The first Methodist
district camp-meeting was held on this farm in 1820. When he settled on the Ice
farm wild game abounded, panthers, bears, deer, wolves and wild turkeys. One day
in early spring when he was hunting, while he was trying to decoy the turkeys by
imitating their cry on a bone from a turkey leg, he heard in the distance the
howl of a wolf, which he imitated. Presently he found himself surrounded by a
gang of thirteen wolves, apparently thirsting for human blood. His only weapon
of defence was a rifle gun, which for a time he used as a club. When he had held
them at bay with this some time they jumped back and set up a general howl, and
he shot at the largest one, whereupon they all gave a quick howl and disappeared
in the forest. Dr. Ice studied medicine under the eminent Dr. Jesse Flowers,
formerly of Harrison but late of Marion county, and commenced practice in 1870.
In that year and in 1871, he attended Starling (Columbus, Ohio) Medical College,
and has been in practice ever since. His address is Logansport, Marion county,
West Virginia.

Additional Comments:
Death Register, Marion County WV
Rawley E. Ice died 12-Aug-1912 in Mannington WV
at age 75y-3m-5d

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