Roane County, West Virginia         BIO: BATTEN Family

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History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927
William H. Bishop, Esq.
p 444

BATTEN: First of Spring Creek.
The first of this family name "Batten," was William J. Batten, his wife, nine
sons and one daughter came from Hackers Creek, Lewis County, West Virginia,
and settled first on what is now the high school grounds.  William J. Batten
was a blacksmith or day laborer.  His wife who came here with him died, and
soon afterward he married Catherine Runnion, March 12, 1857. Of this marriage
were born six sons and five daughters; of the above twenty-one Battens we
have much general, but little sufficiently specific information to write
here.  All married and settled in Roane County.  The son of the family best
known in the Town of Spencer, was William H. Batten who married Rachel
Harper, daughter of Henderson Harper of Poca.  These were the parents of a
William, Jr.; Joseph; Pery; Lee, and Louis, the youngest.