Roane County, West Virginia         BIO: BELT Family

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History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927
William H. Bishop, Esq.
p 446-447

BELT:   Of Upper Spring Creek.
In a "History of Our Western Border" by Lucius C. McWhorter, which deals
mainly with the early settlements of Madison County, it is stated that the
"Belts" of the pioneer people were descendants of a certain Captain
"Broadbelt" of the Revolution, and one branch of these descendants dropped
the first syllable and called themselves just plain "Belt," and another
branch of the family tree used the name in the form, "Bent,' 'and in those
names conveyed lands, married and signed papers.
Hedgmon Belt and his wife Sarah Ann (Nichols) Belt were the first of the name
to settle in Roane County, and came here from Lewis County, Western Virginia,
where Hedgman was born, March 16, 1833, son of Delana and Hester (Golden)
Belt, natives of Fauquier County, Virginia, who settled in the Monongahela
Valley, Delana having served in the War of 1812.  Sarah Ann, the wife of
Hedgmon, was born in Lewis County, Western Virginia, May 16, 1833, married
Hedgmon there January 15, 1856.  She was a daughter of John and Nancy
(Bailey) Nichols, born in Harrison County (the part later Lewis
County) ; the former, 1807; the latter, 1812.  Both the Belts and
Nieholas were in Roane as early as 1865. The Belts made their home
farm on head of Charles Fork, Spring Creek.
To Hedgmon and Sarah Ann (Nichols), his wife, were born and by them reared
the following named children.
Challenge F., born 1856, married Miss Gay Arnold; D. Scott, 1860; John
Christoy, 1862; Sheridan P., 1866; Emma A., 1867, married John C. Tuttle;
Jacob M., born 1870; Henry W., 1872; Della A., 1874; Hedgman David, September
30, 1876; and Cammie, 1878.  Cammie married Rossel Garrett Thompson, son of
F. Marrion Thompson of upper Spring Creek, 24th April, 1900; her age, 21;
his, 24.  Hedgman D., of above, married Miss Blanche Eva Hinzman, March 1,
1905.