organ County, West Virginia    Biography of Simeon Strother BUZZERD 

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
Page 319


   SIMEON STROTHER BUZZERD  is one of the influential citizens of his
native Town of Berkley Springs, Morgan County, where he was born July
23, 1869.  His father George D. Buzzerd, was born on a farm near Berkley
Springs, October 20, 1835, a son of Henry Buzzerd who was born near
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1799, and who came to Virginia
about 1830 and settled at Berkley Springs, the present judicial center
of Morgan County, West Virginia.  Henry Buzzerd was a wheelwright by
trade, and he established a wagon factory at Berkley Springs, the wagons
which he here manufactured entirely by handwork, having found ready sale
throughout this section.  He continued hid residence at Berkley Springs
until his death in 1881, at the age of eighty-two years.  His political
allegiance was given first to the whig and later to the republican
party.  Henry Buzzerd married Mary Grove, a representative of an old and
honored Virginia family, and she was about eighty years of age at the
time of her death, their children having been seven in number.
   George D. Buzzerd was reared and educated in what is now Morgan
County, and was as a sturdy young man when the Civil War began.  His
loyalty to the Union was shown in his prompt enlistment in 1861, as a
member of Company D, Second Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and at the
expiration of his ninety days' term of enlistment he re-enlisted, his
active service in the Union ranks having continued until the close of
the war.  He was once captured, but his comrades soon effected his
release.  After the war he was variously employed at Berkley Springs,
where he continued his association with business affairs until his
death, October 20, 1892.  He married Miss Mary Elizabeth Tritipoe, who
was born at Berkley Springs, a daughter of Thomas Tritipoe, the family
name of whose wife was Catlett.  Mrs. Buzzerd passed the closing years
of her life at Berkley Springs.
   Simeon S. Buzzerd gained his early education in the public schools of
Berkley Springs, and at the age of sixteen years he here entered upon an
apprenticeship to the printers trade in the office of the Morgan
Mercury.  In 1893 he became associated with Lewis J. Frey in
establishing the Morgan Messenger, of which he became the sole owner
about four years later, and of which he has since continued the editor
and publisher and which he has made an effective exponent of local
interests and of the cause of the republican party.  In 1907, Mr.
Buzzerd was appointed postmaster of Berkley Springs, and of this office
he continued the incumbent until December 31, 1915.  He is one of the
leaders in progressive civic movements in his native county, and is
serving in 1922 as a member of the City Council of Berkley Springs.  He
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife is a
communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
   Mr. Buzzerd has served as junior and senior deacon of DeFord Lodge,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is affiliated also with Lebanon
Chapter No.2, Royal Arch Masons; Good Intent Lodge No. 52, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows; and Berkley Lodge No.4, Knights of Pythias.
   April 26, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mr. Buzzerd and Miss Addie
H. Hedding, who was born at Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania, a daughter of
Noah and Prudence L. (Tabler) Hedding, the former of whom was born in
Fulton County, Pennsylvania, and the latter near Martinsburg, Berkley
Springs, West Virginia.  Noah Hedding was for many years a successful
merchant at Paw Paw, Morgan County, and his death occurred at Berkley
Springs, June 16, 1911.  Mr. and Mrs. Buzzerd have four children:
Florence Louise, Lewis Hedding, Lillian Katheryne, and James E. S.