GRAHAM FAMILY HISTORY, PART II, SUMMERS COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA, CS HINTON, WV SGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Submitted by Glen Gallagher - 71056.1055 @Compuserve.Com, Jan. 4, 1998 ====================================================================== PART II Also at or about the same time Samuel and James Guinn, two brothers settled and made their homes near the Grahams. Before the Lowell settlement, the Grahams and Guinns were neighbors on the Calf Pasture River and had both sailed over the blue waters from Ireland. It was, therefore, but natural that in seeking new homes, that they likewise sought old friends; furthermore they were related, at least by marriage, the wife of Samuel Guinn having been [the] widow Elizabeth Graham, nee Lockridge. The writer was personally acquainted with Samuel Guinn and most of his family. He had five sons, Moses, Samuel, Andrew, John, and Ephraim; and two or three daughters, all of whose names cannot be recalled. One by the name of Ruth married James Jarrett, Sr., of Muddy Creek, and was the mother of the late James and Joseph Jarrett. Samuel Guinn, Sr., moved from the Lowell Settlement to Lick Creek about the year 1800 and died there March 25, 1839, in the 94th year of his [life]. His two grandsons, Honorable Marion and Sheriff Harrison Guinn now own the farm owned by him. He accumulated considerable property and it it is said that at one time he had $12,000.00 in silver which he divided among his sons some years before his death. The writer remembers to have seen his two sons, Samuel and Andrew, carry their part of the silver by his father's house in common grain bags and in bulk there was about one half bushel in each. This they carried over Kenny's Knob to their home near Lowell. Considering the fact that it was generally known that Guinn had this money laid up in his home and that it was also an open secret that his sons were invited on a certain day to receive each his share, it would seem rather a hazardous venture to lay two thousand five hundred dollars on a pack horse and to travel the public highway alone over mountains and through a sparsely settled community a distance of fifteen miles, but such was the case. We cannot but conclude that the people of those days were more honorable than now. The descendants of Samuel Guinn are many and are scattered over parts of the state and over several of the western states. They have always been regarded as people of strict integrity, upright and honest. Some of those who moved West, it is reported, accumulated large property while many of those remaining can boast of [ ] competency and a surplus. Two of his grandsons, Andrew and Samuel, are now living at Lowell on almost the identical spot where their grandfather located one hundred and twenty-five years ago. Andrew is one of the largest land owners in [IS THE FOLLOWING LINE THE TOP LINE OF PAGE 14 ?????] Summers County. While we have occasion to again refer to this branch of the Guinn family during the further progress of these pages. We will now note briefly some account of the descendants of James Guinn, the brother of Samuel, and who located here at the same time. The first cabin of James Guinn, according to tradition, was located one and a half or two miles up Keller's Creek from Lowell at what is now known as the ??laban Guinn place. Our information is that he had four sons: Robert, James, Joseph, and Samuel and possibly there were daughters also of which we have no account. He died many years before his brother, Samuel. The writer remembers to have seen the house in which he lived and the door was constructed with some kind of heavy bolt fastenings so that it could not be broken into by the Indians. His son, James, was appointed Ensign (?) at the first court held in Monroe County. Joseph settled about a mile further up Keller's Creek on what was afterwards the Red Sulphur Turnpike, and brought up a large family among whom were Job, Sylvester, James, Augustus and Joseph. The daughters were Nancy, who married John Meadows; Balissens, who married Robert S. Huffman; Pauline, who married a Mr. Jarrett; Patsey who married Mr. James Graham,son of William Graham, and Marian, who married J.W.P. Stevens. We might here add that Mr. Stevens was a noted man, being as was called in the vocabulary of his day, a "schoolmaster." He was called upon far and near to execute legal writings, such as wills, deeds, bonds, contracts and perhaps did more of such writing than any other man of his locality. His handwriting, much of which is still extant, was perfect and looked more like the cut of a type, rather than the work of hand. He it was who was called upon to count out the $12,000.00 of silver belonging to Samuel Guinn, Sr., and to see that each son got his share thereof. Three of his children, John, Joseph, of Greenbrier County, and Mrs. George Alderson of Alderson, Monroe County, are living. Robert, son of James Guinn, Sr., settled near what is now the Riverview Church, and had several children, among whom were James, Thompson, Salathiel, Betsey, and perhaps others. Robert was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. After his death, his son, James, lived upon the old farm and died there at an advanced age, about the year 1774. Several of James Guinn's children are now living, among whom are Addison R., of Wolf Creek, Monroe County; Oliver, William and Edwin S., of the vicinity of Lowell. Thompson Guinn moved to Roane County several years ago and Salathiel settled on Horseshoe Creek in Fayette County about the year 1835, and his descendants are still to be found in this locality. Samuel, son of James Guinn, Sr., married Magdalene Johnson and to distinguish him from his uncle and his uncle's son of the same name, he was known as Maglen Sam. He settled on what is known as the James Boyd Farm, on Greenbrier River about five miles from its mouth. He moved to the West about 1830. Conrad Keller, one of the early settlers of the Lowell Settlement, and of whom previous mention has been made, had four sons and four daughters, namely: Philip, John, Henry, and David; Elizabeth, who married James Farrill, who lived in the Big Bend of Greenbrier River; Rachel, who married Ephraim Guinn, youngest son of Samuel Guinn, Sr., and who died at her home on Lick Creek on the 8th day of May 1789, in her 86th year. Two other daughters, whose names cannot be recalled, married two brothers by the name of Hanger. [MISSING LINE, PAGE 15] remembers to have seen Philip, David, Elizabeth and [Rachel]. Philip moved to Indiana about (the) year 1840. Two of his sons, David and Madison married two sisters, daughters of Enos Ellis, who [lived] at the mouth of Griffith Creek, on the Greenbrier River and [moved] to Indiana with their father, David Keller, Sr., lived and died near Lowell on part of his father's farm. His children were Henry, who now lives on a portion of the old homestead, and Eliza, who married Andrew Guinn, of Lowell. Eliza died but a few years ago. Henry, the father of George Keller who now lives at the old Keller homestead on a beautiful elevation overlooking the village of Lowell, died about 72 years ago, having dropped dead in the [harvest] field while cradling wheat. Mr. George Keller who is now nearing his [ th] year, but recently informed the writer that he was so small that he can [only] remember the event of his father's death. Among the other early settlers in the vicinity of Lowell, was a [man] by the name of John See, son of Frederick, who was killed by Indians in [1763], who lived on the land afterwards occupied by David Keller, Sr. Like most of his contemporaries the exact date of his settlement there cannot now [be] known, but tradition points out that he was there at a very early day and could be classed with the very early settlers of that locality. See, like Vanbibber, sold his claim to Conrad Keller, and sought a new home farther [ st]. Of his meanderings through the untrodden forest, or how often he [relocated] and then again moved forward nothing definitely is known, save that [later] in life, about 1818, he found a permanent home on the Big Sandy River[in] the State of Kentucky where his descendants are to be found to this day. To this primeval settlement might also be added the name of Notliff [Taylor], who, while he did not live in the immediate bounds of those already [mentioned], he was near enough to be called a neighbor, especially in those days when neighbors were few and far between and sought each other for assistance for miles around. He settled at the Melburn place on Greenbrier River. The names of his children were Anne, who married William Johnson, of Cross [ ds]; Nancy, who married Isaac Milburn; Elizabeth, who married Samuel Guinn, son of Samuel Guinn, Sr., Mary, who married Joseph Guinn, son of James Guinn, Sr., beforementioned, and William, who married Florence Graham, daughter of James Graham, Sr. Early in the settlement of this locality also came William Kincade [ ] owned and occupied the Jessie B(H)eard farm now owned by A.P. Pence, which property has recently become famous as a summer resort by reason of the [medical] qualities of the Buffalo Sulphur Springs. Little did Kincaid dream [of] the medical properties boiling up out of the lick to which he then saw the wild buffalo rushing with madness to slake his thirst. It may be incidentally remarked here that traces of the old buffalo path leading across [ nny's] Knob, from the Buffalo Springs to Green Sulphur Springs are still to be found. Kincaid moved west about the beginning of the present century and so far as we know left no immediate descendants in this country. It is [supposed] on reasonable authority that William Kincaid belonged to the Kincaid family of Augusta and came here about that same time that the Grahams settled [ ] Lowell. A few miles east of Lowell lived a Mr. William Hinchman, an English [man], who settled there possibly during the Revolutionary War and of whom the present Hinchman family are descendants. The first temporary home of Hinchman was on the river below the mouth of Guinn's branch, about one-half mile below Lowell where he settled as a leasor under Samuel Guinn, Sr. His stay there, however, was short, when he moved to a permanent home in what is now known as the Hinchman neighborhood east of Lowell. He had a [son], John, who served as Justice of the Peace for a number of years. He [also] had a son, William, who a great many years ago moved to Logan County. It was the pleasure of the writer to visit him in the year 1844 and he remembers that he told him on that occasion that he was the father of twenty-[four] children by two wives. He also recalls that he told him the year of his birth which was 1770. John Hinchman, as before named, was a son of William, who was the father of the late John Hinchman, whose death occurred in 1896. William Hinchman was a Justice of the Peace and was known as [ Squire"] Hinchman and was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. We will return to the genealogy of the Graham family. James Graham and Florence, his wife, had ten children, six sons and four daughters, whose names are as follows: (Editor's note, 1989. The number ten of above is correctly copied from the earlier edition. It does not correspond to the list of nine children which follows. I assume that the tenth child was the daughter, Rebecca, who is mentioned later in the narrative.) William born December 25, 1765 John " December 22, 1767 Elizabeth " March 29, 1770 David " March 24, 1772 Jane " September 4, 1774 James " 1777 Samuel " 1780 Lanty " January 15, 1786 Florence " May 3, 1789 William, the eldest, married in 1809, Catherine Johnson, daughter of Robert Johnson of Johnson's Cross Roads, and settled on the farm more recently owned by the late D.M. Riffle. This tract of land contains four hundred acres, mostly river bottom, was surveyed and patented by William Graham in 1785. At the first court held for the organization of Monroe County in 1799, William Graham was appointed Military Major of the Sixty-Sixth Regiment of Virginia. He was also appointed Justice of the Peace at the organization of said county, and held the office continuously for thirty-seven years until his death. In the year 1809 he was elected as representative of his county to the General Assembly of Virginia, and served acceptably in that body 1809-1810. He had three children, James, (No. 2), William and Betty. James was born in 1810 and married Patsy Guinn, daughter of Joseph Guinn. William, Jr., was born in 1812, married Rebecca Kincaid, daughter of Lanty Kincaid, and had three children, James, Lanty, and the Nimrod (see sketch of Lanty Kincaid family), Katy and Julia. Both William, Jr. and his brother James moved to Missouri in the year 1841. William died there a few years later. James went from Missouri to California in the great rush for gold in 1849. He again visited his native country in 1866. He died but a few years ago in Missouri. Bettie married Allen Ellis, son of Jacob Ellis and moved to Ohio, where several years later they both died. They had three children, one of whom, Edgar Ellis, lived soon after the Civil War on Wolf Creek, Monroe County, but later moved away. William Graham, Sr., died in June 1836 in his 75th year. John, the second son of Colonel James Graham was killed by the Indians in 1777. To Elizabeth, the eldest daughter, who was captured by the Indians, will also be reserved for further space. David, the third son, married Mary Stodghill, about the year 1795 and first settled at the mouth of Hungarths Creek, on what is now the Woodson farm. The dwelling house now on that farm was built by him. He was a competent land surveyor and held office of Deputy Surveyor of Greenbrier County under Alexander Walch, as principal Surveyor, when he was but a little more than twenty-one years old. He was also made Lieutenant of one of the companies of the 66th Va. Regiment. He had three sons whose names [MISSING LINE PAGE 17] married Jane, a daughter of Archibald Armstrong, a son of the Emerald Isle, and settled on what is known as the Fluke of Bacon(?) farm. It was he who built what is now Bacon's Mills. David Harrison moved to the west unmarried. David Graham, Sr., [died] in the year 1818, aged 46 years. His widow, together with all his children moved to Schugler County, Illinois, in the year 1836. Jane, the second daughter of Colonel James Graham, married David Jarrett about 1792 and first settled near the Buffalo Lick (Pence's Springs) on the farm recently owned by the late Edwin Mays. A few years later they moved to [Kanawha] County and after a brief stay then moved to the falls of Tug River, Kentucky, where their descendants still live. Jane and David Jarrett raised three sons and nine daughters. The sons were James, Ulysses, and David W. The daughters: Florence, Elizabeth, [Jane], Hannah, Nancy, Mary, Margaret, Sarah Ann, Minerva. (See next page). Dr. York, living near Louisa, a prominent physician, is also a descendant, his mother being a Ratcliff. Also might be mentioned the [Wilsons], Chambers, Vincents, Johnson, and other. Ulysses Jarrett, so of David, Sr., died some years after the Civil War and was in his day quite a prominent man, having at one time represented his country in the Kentucky legislature and filled other positions of honor. It may here be observed that the name as claimed by this family is Garred but they being a branch of the family now mostly of Greenbrier County whose names are written [Jarrett]. We have adopted the orthography of this writing. Leaving the further genealogy of the Jarrett branch of the family, we will now take up that of James Graham, Jr., fourth son of James Graham, Sr. James married Leah Jarrett, a sister of James Jarrett, Sr., of Greenbrier County in the year 1800 and located on a portion of the farm recently owned by the late D.M Riffe, he owning and occupying the upper portion and his brother, as before stated, the lower end of said farm. This farm [at] that day, and even for years afterwards, was believed to be the most productive bottom land on Greenbrier River. To James and Leah Graham were born five sons and two daughters. The names of the sons, James, Hiram, John, Exra, and Cyrus, and the daughters [Cynthia] and Betsy. Of these, James married a Miss Burdette of Monroe County; Betsy, a Mr. Heffner of Greenbrier County; and Hiram married Nancy Graham, daughter of Samuel Graham. The remaining children were unmarried prior to their moving to the west. James Graham, Jr., died about 1815. About the year 1827 the widow of James Graham, Jr. moved to Tippacanoe County, Indiana. Her son James [was] a Captain in the Black Hawk War of 1832, since which time little is know of the family. Next in order of the children of James Graham comes his fifth son, Samuel. Samuel married Sallie Jarrett, daughter of David Jarrett (this David Jarrett being the father of the David Jarrett that married Jane Graham) about the year 1808 and settled on the Greenbrier River on the farm [owned] by Joseph Nowlan. This land was entered and patented by James Graham, [ r.] about the year 1785. To Samuel Graham were born five children, James, [Madison], the oldest, Nancy, Betsy, David, and Susan. Nancy married Hiram Graham, her cousin, who was the son of James Graham, a brother of Samuel. [Susan] married Andrew Jarrett, who was a son of James Jarrett, Sr., a brother of the late James and Joseph Jarrett of Greenbrier County. Andrew and his [MISSING LINE PAGE 18] Tennessee about the year 1835. The two remaining children, David and [Betsey], went to Missouri unmarried. The farm owned by Samuel Graham, containing about 400 acres, [des ed] to his son-in-law, Andrew Jarrett, and was by him sold to Madison [ nes] in 1840, and a portion of it, including the Graham home, was purchased by Joseph Nowlan in 1884. Lanty, the sixth son of James Graham, Sr., married Elizabeth [Stodghill] in 1814, and remained on the home place of his father at Lowell. The name of his children were: James Jackson, born 1815; Florence, born 1817; [Mary], born 1819; Emma, born 1821; Jane, born 1823; Sarah, born 1825; also [ ], Erastus and Martha, but we do not know the date of birth. Those who married before the family went to the West were, Florence, who married [ John] Guinn, son of Samuel Guinn, Jr.; Mary, married Thomas B. Guinn, son [of] Andrew Guinn and grandson of Samuel, Sr. Mrs. Mary Guinn is the only member of the Lanty Graham family now living in this county. She lives at [the] home of her late husband, together with her daughter, Mrs. Louisa Coiner [about] a mile southeast of Lowell. She is now in her withtieth (sic) year and [well] preserved both mentally and physically, for one of her age. Emma married James Ballengee, son of Henry Ballengee, who formerly lived at the [mouth] of Greenbrier River, where a part of the town of Hinton is now located. [Lanty] Graham died in 1839. After his death his widow and all the unmarried children moved to Missouri about the year 1840. Those who were married also [moved] away about the same time and their descendants are now scattered over the Western states, with the exception of Mrs. Mary Guinn and her children, grandchildren, etc., who long since returned from their western home and [settled] in the county of her nativity as already stated. There are three of [Lanty] Graham's children living in Davies County, Missouri, namely: John S., [Jane] and Martha. We are indebted to John S. Graham for the following: He [now] living in Patonsburg, Missouri. Married a daughter of John Meadows, a [grand]-daughter of Joseph Guinn of Monroe County, West Virginia. He has two daughters living near him. His sister, Jane and Martha are widows, they [live] near him. Their children are all married and scattered from home. Florence, youngest daughter of James Graham, Sr., married William Taylor, son of Natliff Taylor, one of the early settlers of this locality, [and] settled on Hungart Creek about one mile northwest of what is now [Stock rds] Station on the farm known now as the Bash place. The dwelling house [now] occupied on on this farm by C.E. Mann was built by William Taylor nearly [ninety] years ago. William and Florence Taylor had born to them several children, but as they left this country before they were grown, their names cannot be given. John, James, and Florence are the only names remembered. [They] moved to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and settled on the land where now [extends] a portion of the city of Lafayette. Florence Taylor, her son John and daughter Florence, visited their relations in their native county in [1851], since which time little is known of them. Rebecca Graham, next to the youngest daughter of James Graham, Sr., married Joseph Graham, her cousin, in 1803. Joseph Graham was the son of David Graham, Sr., who lived in Bath County. David Graham, Sr., and James Graham, Sr., the original settlers at Lowell, were brothers. There also was another brother whose name was Robert, who settled at Fort Chiswell in Wythe County, Virginia, shortly before the Revolutionary War. Tradition [has] failed to furnish us with but a meager account of this branch of our progenitors, but the untiring effort on the part of the author of these [annals] had revealed the fact that these three brothers, David, James, Robert, [MISSING LINE PAGE 19?] [were] born in Ireland. Having thus referred to this branch of the family [which] we will take up later, we will return to the subject at hand. After the marriage of Joseph and Rebecca Graham, they settled for a short time in Bath County, Va., but returned to the neighborhood of Lowell [ ? ] about one year and lived to a time on the William Graham place and a portion of that land on Graham Island, now the Riffe Island. The house in which he lived stood not far from the present dwelling of Thomas Riffe. In [1813] they moved to what is now the Clayton neighborhood on Hungart's Creek [and] settled on the place where David Graham Ballengee now lives. At the time [of] their locating in their new home there were but few other settlers in the [same] locality and those who were near enough to be termed neighbors were [ re] squatters and had sought temporary homes near the mountains for the [purpose] of hunting wild game, rather than a permanent abode. Thus, a short [distance] to the west stood the cabin of Bailey Woods. While to the north and a little further distance away was located the cabin of Martin McGraw. The [Wood's] cabin stood on the land now occupied by A.H. Honaker. The McGraw cabin was on the farm now owned by C.H. Graham. These were, so far as we know, the only settlers in the Graham lands at that time. Their stay was [short]. About one mile southeast of the Graham place, on what has since been known as the Eads farm, there lived William Withrow, who moved away in [a] short time. This property was afterwards occupied by Peter Eads and family [who] came from Albemarle County, Virginia, and settled here about 1830. There also lived at the same time of Graham's locating here, a family by the name of [McGraw], about two miles to the south on what has since been known as the [ lan] place. Eastward, about three miles, at the mouth of Griffith's Creek, lived a family by the name Griffith. The head of the family, Thomas Griffith, was killed by the Indians in 1780. He was the last victim of the savages in this section of the Country. This place was afterwards occupied [by] Enos Ellis and is still occupied by his descendants. It is thought that [Ellis] may have lived in this place before the Graham Settlement. On the spot where Joseph Graham first located his house, there had [been] a hunter's cabin, previously occupied by a man named Stevensin or [Stinson]. The hunter had probably not "lived" in his cabin for many years, as [the] survey made twenty-seven years before, and patented in the name of James Graham, Sr., calls to include the Stevenson or Stinson cabin. A spur of [ ney's] Knob overlooking the Graham farm is to this day called "Stinson's [Knob]." Joseph and Rebecca Graham had born to them four sons and five daughters whose names and dates of birth are as follows; Florence born January 31, 1805 Lanty " December 8, 1806 John " February 23, 1809 Jane " April 6, 1811 James " March 31, 1813 Elizabeth " July 19, 1815 Ann " October 16, 1818 David " January 1, 1821 Rebecca " December 13, 1823 Florence, the oldest daughter, married John Nowlan, who was a native of Carrick on Suir, Kilkenney County, Ireland, about 1835. Afterward [ e] married Nowlan settled about two miles south from his father-in-law where [he] lived until his death in 1876. To them were born four children, one daughter and three sons. The oldest, Rebecca, married George W. Hedrick, bro [MISSING LINE PAGE 20] and Patrick, the latter dying unmarried in the winter of 1884, about twenty-three years old. Mary Florence, the only remaining child of G.W. and Rebecca Hedrick, married William Sherwood and is living about two miles from Talcott, this county. Joseph, the oldest son of John and Florence Nowland married Mary Keeney, of Kanawha County, in 1865, [ ] now lives on the farm near Stock Yard, owned eighty years ago by his uncle (great uncle) Samuel Graham. To them were born a large family, among them are John C., who is now a Justice of the Peace in this county; S.J., who lives at Stock Yard; Rebecca Florence, who is now the wife of Rev. C.T. [ rtner], an able Baptist minister; Kallum P., who is a telegraph operator and [agent] for the C.&O. R'y. Co.,; William C., is a practicing physician at lcott], W.Va.; Elmer is a lawyer with his office at Hinton, W.Va.; [ ] is engaged in the lumber business, and those still at home are Lawrence, [George], Anna and Homer. John Nowlan, Jr., second son of John and Florence Nowlan, died in 1862 unmarried, at the age of 22 years. Patrick, the third [son], was drowned January 8, 1877, while crossing Greenbrier River; at Hayne's [Ford] at the exact spot where his Uncle Samuel Graham met the same fate nearly [sixty] years before. Florence Nowlan, died January 21, 1869, aged sixty-four years. John [Nowlan], Sr. died November 5, 1876, having been born June 24, 1793. Lanty Graham, the oldest son of Joseph and Rebecca Graham married [ bina] Ellis, daughter of James Ellis, in 1833, and first settled on Greenbrier River, on a portion of what is now known as the Riffe Farm. In the year 1836, [ ] settled at the foot of Keeney's Knob, a short distance west of his [ ther's] where he lived until his death in 1880. He had a large family [several] of whom died in their youth. Among those living are James L., the oldest [who] now lives at Huntington, W.Va., and is about sixty-four years old, he [being] the oldest grandson of Joseph Graham now living. He is engaged in [keeping] a dairy farm and doing a successful business. The names of his children are Laura, a teacher in the public school of the city of Huntington; Thomas [ ], who lives near Huntington; James Lewis, a soldier in the U.S. Army, who [has] recently seen service in the Spanish-American War, and one of(or?) two others [not] grown. Joseph Allen, the second son of Lanty Graham, lives near his [father's] homestead. He married Susan Dubois in 1859 and has five children, all of whom are still living. Their names are: Susan, the wife of J.L. [Meadows] of Alderson, W.Va., Martha J., wife of M.V. Wheeler; David U. and [Allen] B. who live in this county; and George W., of Fayette County. Rebecca [ ]., oldest daughter of Lanty Graham, married Andrew Honaker May 18, 1865, [and] died January, 1882, leaving four sons: Calvin L., lumber manufacturer;[Oscar] T., merchant; Marion and Charles W., all of whom are living near New [Richmond], W.Va. There were two daughters, Rebecca and Lelia, both of whom are dead. John Shannon Graham, third of the living sons of Lanty, married [Frances] Alderson and now lives near Clayton, this county. They had several children, most of whom are yet small. Their names are: Minnie, Clark L., [ oyd], Homer, Bertha, Hattie, and Elmer. John S. is a blacksmith. Lanty Graham also had a son, Lanty Jackson, who lived to manhood and was a soldier in the Confederate Army and died at Jackson, Mississippi, in 1863. There were two grown daughters, Mary and Eliza, who are dead. Thomas Clay Graham, youngest son of Lanty, married Melsens Bryant in 1871 and now lives at his father's home place and has two daughters by his [first] wife, Laura A., wife of James H. Harrish, and Jenis, wife of Hugh P. [ ller]. For his second wife he married Rosa Taylor in 1895 and by this [MISSING LINE(S) PAGE 21] [lumber] business, but now follows the vocation of farming. John, the second son of Joseph Graham, lived unmarried until he [was] nearly sixty years old and then married Mary J. Crews, daughter of Sedley [Crews]. They had no children. John Graham held many positions of trust and [honor] during his life. He was a surveyor by profession and was long surveyor [of] Greenbrier County, and afterwards held the office of surveyor of Monroe County. He died October 25, 1893, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, [leaving] his lands and property, amounting to several thousand dollars, to his widow who still holds and occupies it. His widow married for here second husband, Elijah Meadows, in March, 1897. Jane, the second daughter of Joseph Graham, died unmarried. James, [the] the third son of Joseph, also lived to an old age unmarried. In the year [1877]? in his sixty-fourth year, he married Rebecca A. Vass, a daughter of [ rtis] Vass. To this union were born one daughter, Mary Jane, who is now [living]. James Graham spent several years of his life in the west, in the states of Ohio,, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kentucky. He and his brother, John, visited their many relations in those states who had previously [moved] from this county. James returned from his last visit at the close of the Civil War and remained in this county until his death in 1889. Elizabeth, the third daughter of Joseph Graham, married Archibald Ballengee and settled on a portion of her father's land. She died January [ ], 1847, leaving her husband and four children. Archibald Ballengee was born November 13, 1819, and died March 14, 1894. The names of their children were: Cynthia Jane, who married J.H. Bowden; Martha Florence, wife of J.H. Harrah; Mary Hicks, wife of Marion Hick; and one son, Herndon Ballengee. All of these live in this county except Martha Harrah, who lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia. All have children whose names are not known. Anna Graham, the fourth daughter of Joseph Graham, died in 1837 at the age of nineteen, unmarried.