Roane County, West Virginia         BIO: ARGABRITE Family

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History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927
William H. Bishop, Esq.
p 434-435

ARGABRITE:
Isaac and Betsy (Swope) Argabrite, both Virginians, married in Greenhrier
County, western Virginia, came to these parts and settled on upper Middle
Fork of Reedy about the year 1844; with them or born soon after their arrival
were their three sons and three daughters:
George, Jacob H., Floyd, Amanda, Elvira and Rebecca, all of which children
grew up, married near and raised families, of which read on:
George Argabrite, son of Isaac and Betsy, married Emily (Hardman), then widow
of John Ingraham, with three children: Hugh, Alice and Lycurgus, the last
born December 26, year 1853; the names of the children born to George and
Emily Argabrite are Ella, wife of Thomas Snow; Fannie, wife of E. Swazy Ball;
Rebecca, wife of Dempsy Parsons; Mary J., wife of John Roberts; and two sons,
Romeo and William Argabrite.

Jacob H. Argabrite, son of Isaac and Betsy, married Alice, daughter of John
and Emily (Hardman) Ingraham; the names of the children of Jacob H. and Alice
Argabrite, in order of their ages are Fleetwood, eldest, born April 20, 1865;
Homer Elliott; Ida, wife of Oscar Hunt; Benjamin P. ,a graduate physician now
of Depoy, Kentucky; Merit French, now a merchant and restauranteur of
Spencer, and Emma, wife of Homer Thompson, of Spencer, electric engineer of
the Spencer Water & Ice Company.

Floyd, son of Isaac and Betsy Argabrite, died some years ago leaving two
sons, William and Cola, both now of the City of Spencer.

The three daughters of Isaac and Betsy are, Amanda, wife of Thomas Simmons;
Elvira became the wife of Henry Greathouse, and Rebecca married John Erran
Greathouse.

Martin Argabrite, born in Greenbrier County, came to these parts with his
brother Isaac, in the eighteen-and-forties; he was a pensioner of the war of
1812; he married.

Of the children of Martin Argabrite we can name here Diana, who married
William Burdette; Kellis, who married Jinnie Hardman; they 'have left one
son, Okey Argabrite, who now (1926) lives at the old home place above Peniel
with his wife, a daughter of Miles Board, of Jack-son County; and Wiley W.
Argabrite, who married Mary Showen; this is the Wiley W. Argabrite mentioned
in the history of the City of Spencer, in which he appears to have owned a
tavern about the time of the Civil War.