ANTHONY GARRETT LEWELLYN
The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 630
Monongalia

ANTHONY GARRETT LEWELLYN has lived his life in the
noted Cheat Neck community, on Cheat River, close to the
Pennsylvania-West Virginia state line. His postoffice is
Cheat Haven, Pennsylvania, but his farm and home are in
Union District of Monongalia County, West Virginia. Mr.
Lewellyn is an honored and substantial citizen, honored for
his high character and also for the patriotic service he
rendered as a Union soldier during the Civil war, a war
which enlisted several of his brothers as fighting men.

Mr. Lewellyn was born only a mile distant from his
present home, on December 7, 1843. His parents were Jesse
and Anna (Ryan) Lewellyn. Jesse Lewellyn was born in
the same vicinity, on Morgan's Run, May 2, 1796. The
grandfather was Doctor Lewellyn, who was born in the
United States, of Welsh parentage, and as a young mar-
ried man came to the Cheat Neck locality and lived out his
life here. He was three times married. Jesse Lewellyn, one
of his sons, married in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. His
wife, Anna, was a daughter of John Ryan, who came from
Ireland. Jesse Lewellyn lived all his married life at Cheat
Neck and died at the age of seventy-five, while his wife
passed away at the age of eighty. They reared a family of
eight children, and of these Anthony G. is the only survivor.
Among the other brothers, James 0. was a soldier for three
years in the First Pennsylvania Cavalry, was a carpenter
and steamboat builder in Washington County, Pennsylvania,
and died at the age of eighty-three. John R. was a soldier
in the Seventeenth Iowa Infantry until the close of the war,
and afterward removed to Kansas, where he died at the age
of sixty-five. Stephen O., the third soldier brother, was with
the Third West Virginia Infantry, which became the Sixth
Cavalry, and was all through the war as a sergeant in his
company. Still another brother, Asa, lived in Iowa.

Anthony G. Lewellyn was about eighteen years of age
when the war came on. He had attended the common
schools near home, and soon followed the example of his
brothers, by enlisting in Company C of the Sixty-second
Pennsylvania. A year later he was transferred to the One
Hundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania, and toward the close
of the war was transferred to Company K of the One Hun-
dredth and Ninety-first Pennsylvania Regiment. At the
end of three years service he was mustered out at Washing-
ton, and received his honorable discharge at Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. He was in the Fifth Corps of the Army of
the Potomac. His active service began just after the battle
of Gettysburg, and he was in some of the greatest battles
that followed in Northern Virginia, including the Wilder-
ness, the mine explosion at Petersburg, and at Lee's sur-
render the flag of truce came to the Federal lines where he
was on duty. As a messenger he visited the courthouse at
Appomattox where paroles were being made out.  Mr.
Lewellyn was struck once in the arm with a spent ball, and
another time, while aiming his gun, it was shot out of his
hand. He also had his canteen strap shot off in the battle
of the Wilderness.

After the war Mr. Lewellyn followed charcoal burning for
some years, but in the main has been a farmer, and has
lived at his present place near the Pennsylvania state line
forty-seven years. He has always been a republican, voting
his convictions at every election, though never seeking an
office for himself. He has preferred the peaceful routine of
life, has never had a lawsuit, and for fifty-three years has
been an active member of the Calvary Methodist Protestant
Church. He joined the Grand Army at its inception, when
the ranks of the old soldiers were still well filled, and has
seen most of his comrades drop out of the post at Smith-
field, Pennsylvania, and is now one of the last survivors of
the great war.

A year after the war Mr. Lewellyn married Miss Elizabeth
Jarrett, a neighbor girl, daughter of Thomas C. and Eliza-
beth (Ruble) Jarrett. Their lives were associated in the
work and duties of the home for thirty-seven years, until her
death in 1903. Of their ten children four sons died in
childhood. The six to grow up were: George H., who lives
near his father; Jesse I., of Washington County, Pennsyl-
vania; Alexander dark, who also lives in the home com-
munity; William J., a resident of Orange County, Cali-
fornia; James O., a carpenter at Morgantown; and Lizzie,
Mrs. Frank Ridgeway, who lives with her father and is the
mother of two children, George H. and Carl Floyd.