The Calfee Family.

This family is of German origin, came out of Pennsylvania into 
the Valley of Virginia and settled in the County of Shenandoah, 
and from thence came,shortly after the close of the American 
Revolution, to what was then Montgomery, now Pulaski County. 

The earliest of the Mercer County Calfees was James, who came to 
that county about 1829, and settled at Gladeville,one mile west 
of the present village of Princeton. He subsequently moved
to Harman Branch, and later to Clover Bottom, on the Bluestone. 
He had five sons and five daughters. His sons were Charles W., 
who married Miss Nancy Bailey; Andrew J., who married Mrs. Brown; 
Davis, William, French; the daughters, Polly, Jane, Betsey, 
Virginia, and Cynthia, none of whom ever married.

Charles W. Calfee and his wife, Nancy Bailey Calfee, had six sons 
and two daughters; the sons, Albert B., William McHenry, George, 
Harvey M., John C., and William D. The daughters, Virginia, who 
married Dr. John H.Robinson, and Fannie, who married John Boggess. 
Charles W. Calfee was long Clerk of Mercer County Court. Mr. Davis 
Calfee was a farmer, and lived formany years at New Hope Church, 
where he died in about 1879; he was a large man, weighing about 
450 pounds.

A short time after James Calfee settled in Mercer County, came 
Samuel T., Wilson D., and James Calfee, Jr.; the latter a minister 
in the Church of the Disciples, a man of fine character and good 
ability, representing the County of Mercer in the Constitutional 
Convention of 1872.

Mr. Wilson D. Calfee and his wife, Jane Bailey Calfee, had a 
considerable family of children; the sons are, Augustus B. Calfee, 
Robert M. Calfee, R.Kohler Calfee, and Luther Calfee. Mr. H. 
Sayers Calfee, a brave Confederate Soldier, is a son of Mr. 
Samuel T. Calfee, and Mr. Thompson Calfee, who resides near 
Bluefield, is a son of Elder James Calfee; a
daughter of James Calfee married Alexander W. Bailey; another 
daughter married Captain William A. Cooper.