The Belcher Family.

Isham Belcher married a Miss Hodges, in Franklin County, Virginia, 
and came to what is now Mercer County, then Wythe, in 1796, and 
settled on what is known as the Waldron Farm, about two miles 
Southeast of the present city of Bluefield. He was a nephew of 
Phoebe Clay, the wife of Mitchell Clay, the elder. Isham Belcher 
and wife had a family of thirteen children, eleven sons and two 
daughters; the sons were Obediah, Isham, Jesse, Asa, Henry D., 
John, Micajah, Jonathan, Moses, James, and Robert D.

From Isham Belcher, the elder, descended all the people of that 
name scattered over a number of the counties of Southern West 
Virginia. Captain George W. Belcher, a grandson of the elder 
Isham, Alexander Belcher and many of that name and blood were 
bold, courageous Confederate soldiers in our Civil War.