Biography of Louis Maynard - Wayne Co. WV


From Hardesty's History of West Virginia, Wayne Co. p. 233 


Louis Maynard was born in Pike county, Kentucky, March 2, 1824, a son of Jesse and Sarah (Welch) 
Maynard. His father was born in Tennessee, 1770, and died in Wayne county January 25, 1874, and 
his mother was born in Kentucky in 1793, and is living in Wayne county, ninety years of age. In 
Lawrence county, Kentucky, June 22, 1843, Louis Maynard and Catharine Flooty were united in 
marriage. Their two oldest children are dead; Sarah, born February 25, 1844, died December 21, 
1882; Charles A., born December 4, 1845, died November 2, 1883 - these two left families living 
in this district; five of the younger children are married and with their families live in the 
district, and the other three children are at home; Elizabeth, born December 25, 1847, married 
William Workman; Francis, born May 25, 1850; James, June 27, 1853, married Jane Kirk; Henderson,
August 27, 1855, married Polly A. Moore; Larkin, born November 27, 1857, married Elizabeth 
Marcum; Millie, August 29, 1861, married Henry F. Workman; Delpha, born July 7, 1866; Polly 
Ann, November 4, 1868. Catharine, wife of Mr. Maynard, was born in Kentucky, May 31, 1823, a 
daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Endicot) Flooty. Her parents were born in Kentucky, her 
father in 1793, and her mother in 1791, and her father died in Lawrence county, Kentucky, 
December 26, 1865, her mother in Wayne county, in September, 1858. James Maynard, who was 
killed in this district during the war, in a skirmish with Confederate troops, was a brother of 
Louis Maynard. The settlement of Louis Maynard in what is now Grant district was in its 
earliest days. He helped to roll the first logs and build the first cabin. He now owns 1,100 
acres under cultivation, the balance covered with fine timber, poplar, walnut, oak, hickory, 
ash, sugar, locust, and abounding in cannel and stone coal. He has one coal vein fifteen feet 
thick. He has served Grant district as road surveyor a number of years.


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