Roane County, West Virginia Biography of ROY L. McCULTY This biography was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 447-448 Roane ROY L. McCULTY is one of the younger group of pro- gressive citizens in Roane County, where he has been a teacher, banker, public official, and had an interesting rec- ord of service during the World war. He is the present County Court clerk. Mr. McCulty was born at Schilling in Roane County September 6, 1889. The McCultys came from Ireland to Virginia in Colonial times. His grandfather, William Mc- Culty, was born in Virginia in 1820, was married in Hardy County, West Virginia, and soon afterward settled in Roane County, where he lived his life as a farmer until his death at Schilling in 1897. His wife was Angeline Cooper, who was born in Hardy County in 1825, and died at Schil- ling in 1907. Henry S. McCulty, father of County Court Clerk McCulty, was born at Arnoldsburg, Calhoun County, West Virginia. September 12, 1864, and as a young man moved to Schilling, where he married and where he lived on a farm for several years. In 1891 he entered the min- istry of the Methodist Protestant Church, and has been an active and prominent worker in that denomination, preach- ing in Roane, Ritchie and Pleasants counties, and is now pastor of the Weston Circuit at Weston in Lewis County. He is a republican, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Rev. Mr. McCulty married Elizabeth Coe, who was born in North Carolina January 19, 1868. Their children are: Homer S., an undertaker at Pennsboro in Ritchie County; Roy L.; Kenna, an attendant in the Ohio Hospital at Athens; William G., a merchant at Spen- cer; Floral Ruth, wife of Alva Locke, a stationary engi- neer at St. Mary's, West Virginia; Harry K., who clerks in a general store at Spencer; Hallie Curtis, a coal miner at Weston; and Clifford, living with his parents at Weston. Roy L. McCulty acquired a rural school education in Roane County, attending school to the age of seventeen, and for seven years taught in the rural districts. He ac- quired his first knowledge of the office with which he is now connected as deputy County Court clerk, and continued so until 1913. In that year he became a clerk in the First National Bank of Spencer and remained until he enlisted February 22, 1918. Mr. McCulty was in Camp Upton, New York, until May 27, 1918, when he went overseas with the Thirty-ninth Engineers, attached to the Seventy-seventh Division. He was with his command on the firing line in the Toul sector for four months, and while there was made a line sergeant. .Following that for six months he was at Beaune, and for four months was at Dijon, and while there was promoted to be a sergeant of the first class. Mr. Mc- Culty after more than a year overseas returned to the United States July 8, 1919, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Lee, Virginia, on the 19th of July. On returning home he resumed work in the First National Bank of Spencer, remaining there until August, 1920. Mr. McCulty was elected County Court clerk of Roane County in November, 1920, and began his six year term on January 1, 1921. He was elected on the republican ticket. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church and is secretary of Maria Lodge No. 38, F. and A. M., at Spen- cer, member of Spencer Chapter No. 42, R. A. M., is a past grand of Campbell Lodge No. 101, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the American Legion.