Biography of Reverend Charles Hanceford Gilkison - Wayne Co. WV


From Hardesty's History of West Virginia, Wayne Co. p. 230

 
Rev. Charles Hanceford Gilkison - son of Morris and Lucinda (Adkins) Gilkison, was born in Wayne 
county, November 13, 1842. In this county, February 9, 1866, was solemnized his marriage with 
Nancy Adkins, daughter of Millington and Clarissa (Gilkison) Adkins, and born in Wayne county, 
December 24, 1845. Seven children were born to them, and death has taken two; Josephine Alice, 
born February 19, 1867; Valney Braxton, September 9, 1868; Millington, July 26, 1870; Lewis 
Wetzel, September 26, 1873; Sinora, April 27, 1875; died of dropsy December 16, 1877; Ira Henan, 
September 17, 1877; Herman, November 17, 1882, died of dropsy January 4, 1883. Rev. C. H. 
Gilkison volunteered in Company H, 16th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate army, and served under 
General Jenkins, taking part in the battles of Scary, Meadow Bluff, Droop Mountain, Winchester, 
Bunker Hill, Martinsburg, the raid into Pennsylvania and the three days battle of Gettysburg, 
then all the engagements from Pennsylvania back to Culpeper C. H. He was made prisoner in 
December, 1863, and suffered in prison until June 7, 1865, and when released was able to walk 
but a short distance, so much had he endured in his captivity. He owns 350 acres on Lick creek, 
sixty acres cleared, in corn and wheat and grass a specialty. He raised 65 bushels of wheat on 
two and one-half acres, and corn in proportion. The rest of his land is heavily timbered, and 
rich in mineral. He has good buildings, a school-house among them on his farm, and the only 
school taught in Grant district in the winter of 1883-4 was in this school-house. He has 
pastoral charge of the Laurel Circuit (Guyandotte district) Methodist Episcopal Church. 

(As transcribed directly from that source, any errors included)


Submitted by The Miles Family <gideon@blazenet.net> 

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