REZIN W. SINE
The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 606-607
Monongalia

While his home and business activities
nearly all his life have been on his farm two miles south of
Blacksville in Clay District and twenty-two miles west of
Morgantown, Rezin W. Sine has exerted a broad and con-
structive influence in the life and affairs of Monongalia
County. For many years he was one of the vigilant mem-
bers of the County Court, and has always been an influential
factor in his home community.

He was born in Clay District November 23, 1856, son
of Alpheus and Phebe (Tennant) Sine. His father was
born in Monongalia County, January 5, 1827, and died in
1916, at the age of eighty-nine. The mother, a daughter
of Adam Tennant, was born in Monongalia County and
died at the age of eighty. They lived together more than
fifty years. Alpheus Sine was a farmer, a dealer in lumber,
and one of the first oil wells in this section was drilled on
his farm. He and his wife had five children: Prudence,
wife of Minor Tennant, living at Mount Gilead, Ohio;
Rezin W.; Sarah Ann, wife of D. S. Keck, of Waynesburg,
Pennsylvania; Delpha C., wife of William Strosnider, of
Putnam, Illinois; and Louisa F., who became the wife of
Alonzo Lemley and died in middle life.

Rezin W. Sine has lived at his present home since he was
six years of age. He was reared and educated in this. com-
munity, and after reaching his majority acquired eighty-
five acres from the old estate. Since then he has added
other land from time to time until he has about 200 acres,
most of it from the original Sine farm. Mr. Sine as a
youth helped to clear this land from its timber. He is a
stock and grain farmer, and there are five producing oil
wells on his farm, pumping about seventeen barrels per day,
and the gas wells have given an ample domestic supply for
many years.

Mr. Sine has been a member of the Board of Education
for his district. He was twice elected and served six years
as a county commissioner. Later he was three times ap-
pointed to fill vacancies in the County Court, his last term
in the court expiring December 31, 1918. Altogether he
was a member of the County Court for twelve years. In
this capacity he helped buy the present county farm and
made the contract for the present county home. He was
president of the County Court when the Morgantown and
Kingwood Railroad was built, and was influential in pro-
moting that important transportation line for Monongalia
County. He was also president of the court at the building
of the first bridge over Cheat River, a structure subsequently
carried off by ice. He was a member of the court when
the old suspension bridge at Morgantown was purchased.

Mr. Sine has always been a republican, and his father was
of the same political faith and offered his services to the
Union at the time of the Civil war. R. W. Sine has been
a delegate to various conventions, has been a district com-
mitteeman and is a member of the Methodist Church at
Blacksville.

At the age of twenty-five he married Miss Sula M. Sloan.
She died three years later, leaving two children: Ottie W.,
wife of Dr. J. R. Weakley, of Philippi, West Virginia, and
William A., an electrician living at St. Louis. The present
Mrs. Sine was Louie Kent, of Kents Mills, Pennsylvania.
They have three children: H. Kent Sine, now a sophomore
in West Virginia University; Hazeltine M., who has a high
school education and a teacher's training in Normal and
West Virginia University, and is a teacher in the home
district; and Annie Laurie, a student in the Blacksville
High School.