West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 9 Today's Topics: #1 KANAWHA COUNTY WEST [Tina Hursh ] #3 HIST: Ancestors and [Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA BIO: FOWLER, Harrison From "History of Gallia County, Ohio" - by H.H. Hardesty 1882 "HARRISON FOWLER- was born in Kanawha county, West Virginia, June 8, 1812, and came to this county with his parents in 1815. His parents were Elijah and Jane (Bogan) Fowler. When they settled in Gallia county it was in a very wild state; no roads, mills, or any conveniences. His father taught school, and was the first justice of the peace elected in Guyan township. Harrison Fowler, by hard work and careful management, has obtained a large farm, located in Guyan township, which is in first-class condition. He was married in this county, October 10, 1840, to Aromenta mart, who was born in Giles county, Virginia, June 16, 1818; her death took place in December, 1863. Her parents were Nathaniel and Lydia Mart, settler of this county in 1825. The children of Mr. Fowler are: Anda L., born October 7, 1841, died in January, 1864; William F., May 13, 1843, died in September, 1863; Mahala J. (Clary), January 5, 1845, resides in Lawernce county, Ohio; Elijah, July 21, 1847, died December 3, 1871; Henry, November 16, 1848, died February 5, 1863; Lydia C., December 9, 1850, died January 1866; Charles M., April 11, 1854, resides in this township; Thomas J., October 18, 1855, died in infancy; James H., November 9, 1860, resides at home; John R., September 9, 1861, resides at home. Mr. Fowler's father was born March 25, 1770. The subject of this sketch has held the office of justice of the peace for many years. Mr. Fowler had two sons who lost their lives in the late war; Anda Lewis served six months, and died of typhoid fever in Tennessee; William served two years and six months, and died from disease brought on by hardships endured in the Lynchburg raid. Mr. Fowler's postoffice address is Crown City, Gallia county, Ohio." ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:18:10 -0400 From: Bridgette Osz Subject: Edward N Fluharty-obit Thursday March 23, 1961 page 12 Barbour Democrat Edward Newton Fluharty 54y of Flemington Rt#2 was found dead in a car at 3:00 am on Sunday morning March 19, near the Pepper Community in Barbour County. Sgt. R. K. Price of the Philippi State Police Department, who was investigating officer, reported that death was due to natural causes. Mr. Fluharty was born December 6, 1906, in Wetzel County, a son of the ate Felix and Annie Byard Fluharty Survivors include his widow, Mrs., Lucy Minear Fluharty; two sisters Mrs. L G. (Rosie) Wyatt of Smithfield and Mrs. Harry E. Guthrie of Morgantown; a brother, Rodney Fluharty of Colliers and a half brother Hugh Byard of Smithfield Rt#1. The body was taken from a local funeral home to one in Pine Grove, and funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday in Higgins Chapel Church of Christ at Big Run with Evangelist Raymond Norris officiating. Burial was in the Willey Cemetery ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:08:53 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: HIST: Ancestors and Descendants - WV SOC. SAR - 1902 YEARBOOK - 1902 Society of Sons of the Revolution In the State of West Virginia. pages 55-58 ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. ADAMS, BENJAMIN. (1735-1817.) Private, Lexington Alarm Roll, Captain Eliphalet Spofford's Company, Col. Samuel Gerrish's Regi- ment, 1775; Captain in Col. Jedediah Huntington's Regiment, 1775-1776; Captain in Col. Johnson's Regiment, 1777. Pub. Rec. Mass., Vol. 13, p. 99; Vol. 17, pp. 19-21; Vol. 28, p. 100; Vol. 43, p. 315. Camden, Rolla. Camden, Richard Pindal. ANTIL, EDWARD, 3d. (1742-1787.) Engineer Gen. Montgomery's Staff, 1775; Lieutenant- Colonel appointed by Congress in 1776; served with American troops in Canada, 1776; under Gen. Sulli- van in 1777; taken prisoner and exchanged Nov. 10, 1780; served in Virginia in 1781, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis; was an original member of the Order of the Cincinnati. See Public Achives. Edwards, William Seymour. ARMISTEAD, WILLIAM. ( ) Ensign llth Virginia; served llth March, 1776, to覧 Heitman Reg. Off. Cont. Army, page 65. McMechen, Birney Kennard. McMechen, William Bushfield. BAIRD, ABSALOM. (1755-1805.) Ensign in a Company attached to one of four Regi- ments anthorized by act of Congress in 1776; Sur- geon's Mate; served in Penn., N. J. and N. Y.; was present at the storming of Stony Point, July 15, 1779, and rendered medical attention to Gen. Anthony Wayne; on duty in Soldiers' hospital at Fishkill, N. Y. August 17, 1779; commissioned Surgeon March 20, 1780, in Col. Jeduthan Baldwin's Regiment of Ar- tillery and Artificers, and served until March 39, 1781. Heitman由eg. Off. Cont. Army, p. 71. Pa. Archives, II. Ser., Vol. 2, pp. 257, 556, 559. N. Y. Col. Doc., Vol. X., p. 902. Baird, Reed M. Baird, George B. Caldwell, Alfred. Caldwell, Wm. G. BEALL, WILLIAM DENT. Officer of the "Maryland Line" during the Revolution, afterward an officer of the U. S. Army; was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Records of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati. Peterkin, William Gardner. BEECHER, BURR. (1757-1823.) Private, 1776, Fifth Company, Captain Jonas Pren- tice, Fifth Battalion, Col. Douglas, Connecticut State Brigade, Gen. Wadsworth; saw service in New York, battles of Long Island and White Plains; term ex- pired December 25, 1776. Rec. Conn. Men Rev. War, pub. 1889. Beach, Albert H. Beach, Austin. BOND, RICHARD. (1728-1819.) Member House of Delegates, State of Maryland, 1777, from Cecil County; was also engaged in the manu- facture of small arms for the use of the Revolutionary army. Jour. Md. Assem., 1777. Md. Hist. Soc. Haymond, Henry. BOWIE, ALLEN, JR. (1737-1803.) Raised a military company in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1776, of which he was commissioned Captain; afterwards, Colonel. He was afterwards reimbursed by the Colony for expenses he incurred in providing for the wants of his regiment. Served as Justice of Montgomery County, 1777. Archives of Maryland, page 424. Bowie, Edward Beatty. BRADY, JOSEPH. (1735-1787.) Captain 7th Company, First Battalion, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Associators, July 31, 1777; Captain 7th Company, First Battalion, Cumberland County Militia, May 34, 1778. Pa. Arch., II Ser., Vol. XIV., pp. 376, 405. Pa. Arch., II. Ser., Vol. XV., p. 595. Brockunier, Sam'l Hugh. BROADUS, JAMES. ( ) Private and Sergeant in the Virginia Line, March, 1776, to September, 1779; Ensign 2d Virginia, 25th September, 1779; retired 2d September, 1780. Pres- ent at the surrender of Cornwallis. Heitman由eg. Off. Cont. Army, p. 100. Martin, Frederick T. BROWN, THOMAS. (1760-1844.) Private, Oct., 1780, Captain John Britt's Company, Virginia Militia, under Col. William. Lucas; joined Gen. Greene's army in South Carolina, and was at the battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781; pensioner under act of Congress in 1832. Comm. Pensions. Va. State Doc. Brown, Samuel B. BURKE, EDWARD DEVENISH. (1758-1808.) Private, Capt. Jacob Gerrish's Company, Col. Moses Little's Regiment, (17th Massachusetts) Gen. Greene'a Brigade. Enlisted April 24, 1775; was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill; served nine months. Pub. Rec. Mass., Vol. 15, p. 8; Vol. 56, p. 86; and Vol. 57, File 9. Burke, William Paxton. [to be continued] ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:10:32 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: HIST: WV SOC. SAR - 1902 - C Surnames YEARBOOK - 1902 Society of Sons of the Revolution In the State of West Virginia. pages 58-61 ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. CARTER, JOHN CHAMPE. Captain of the 1st Reg. of Artillery, Continental Troops, commanded by Col. Charles Harrison, ap- pointed October 30, 1777; name appears on rolls from October, 1777, to March, 1780. See Records of War Department. Wallace, George Selden. CHANCELLOR, THOMAS. (1745- ) Private in the Virginia Line in the Revolutionary War; was paid ｣47 12s 2d on Aug. 15, 1783. Va. State Doc. Chancellor, Jr., Edmund Pendleton. Chancellor, William Nelson. CRAIK, JAMES. (1730-1814.) Surgeon, Col. Fry's Virginia Regiment, 1754; served in provisional army during French and Indian wars; was at Braddock's defeat; 1770, accompanied Wash- inton to the Ohio; in 1751 Ensign in Capt. Joshua Lewis' Company Virginia Troops. In 1777, Assistant Director General in Hospital Department of the Army. Received from Virginia 6,000 acres of land. Member of the Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland. Was Washington's physician, and attended him in his last Illness. "Sketch of the life and Character of Dr. James Craik," by Dr. J. M. Tanet, Transacting, Va. Med. Soc., 1879. App. Cyc. Am. Biog. Hayden's Virginia Genealogies. Hanson's "Old Kent," etc. Carter's Recol. of George Washington. Barton, Daniel Jenifer. CRANMER, JOHN. ( ) As is shown by a letter of Presley Neville's, dated Pittsburgh, Sept. 2, 1814, from which the following is an extract, and the original of which is in my pos- sion: "This is to certify that in the year 1775, or 1776, I was an officer in a company of Virginia troops, sta- tioned in Fort Pitt, where the town of Pittsburgh now stands; that in said company was a solider of the name of John Cranmer; That while there John Cran- mer was married to Nancy Christy, which circum- stance I perfectly recollect; that in the spring of 1777 I marched the company to join General Washington's army at Middlebrook, in New Jersey; that John Cranmer marched with me, leaving his wife in a house of her own. John Cranmer never returned to Pittsburgh; was probably killed at Brandywine or Germantown." Cranmer, Gibson Lamb. COX, ISAAC. (1724-1784.) Administered oath of allegiance and fidelity renounc- ing King George, of Great Britain, in 1777 to the peo- ple of Washington County, Pa. Captain and Colonel, Washington County Militia. Paymaster Penn. Rifle Reg., Col. Samuel Miles, September 18, 1776. Crum- rine's History Washington County, Pa., pages 129, 188 and 744. Colonial Records Vol. X., page 722. Penna. Archives 2nd series, 2nd Edition, pages 200 and 208. Historical Registry Officers of Continnental Army, page 137. Hupp, Frank Lemoyne. Cox, Frank Clay. COX, MICHAEL. (1759-1832.) Private of Rangers on the Frontiers 1778-1783; also private in Capt. Andrew Tourley's Co., Lieut. Elija Miles' Co., and Ensign David Rubel's Washington County Militia. Fifer in 8th Penna. Reg. Continental Line, Penna. Archives, 3rd Series, Vol. XXIII, pages 204, 205, 215 and 218. Penna. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. XIV, pages 739, 744 and 746. Penna. Line July 1, 1776, to November 3, 1783, Crumrine's History Washington County, Pa., page 83. Ellis' History Fayette County, Pa., page 64. Hupp, Frank LeMoyne. Cox, Frank Clay. Myers, Errett Campbell. CULBERTSON, SAMUEL. (1737- ) Col. Sixth Battalion Cumberland County Associators, July 31, 1777; service in and around Philadelphia; Col. Sixth Battalion Cumberland County Associators, May 14, 1778; Lieutenant-Colonel Fourth Battalion Cumberland County Militia, May 10, 1780. Pa. Arch., II. Ser., Vol. XIII., pp. 408, 433, 458. Culbertson, John Dickey. [to be continued] ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:18:31 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: HIST: WV SOC. SAR - 1902 - D-G Surnames YEARBOOK - 1902 Society of Sons of the Revolution In the State of West Virginia. pages 61-64 ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. DAWSON, WILLIAM. ( -1812.) Served as private in Second Maryland Infantry until discharged, Jan. 10th, 1780. In muster Bolls of Soldiers of the Maryland Troops in War of Revolution appears the following entry, to-wit: "William Dawson, Second Regiment, enlist- ed 覧覧; Discharged 10th Jan. '80. Nesbitt, Charles Torrence. DENT, JOHN. (1755-1840.) Private, Captain David Scott's Company, 13th Vir- ginia Regiment, Col. John Gibson, and served April, 1777, to spring of 1778; Lieutenant in Capt. Jacob Sullivan's Company, 1778 to 1780; Captain of a Company of Cavalry, spring 1780 until November, 1780; Pensioner under act of Congress in 1832. Va. State Doc. Annan, William Dent Roberdeau. Dent, William Marmaduke. DUNHAM, JONATHAN. ( ) Private in the Middlesex County, New Jersey Militia, in the War of the Revolution. Rec. Adj. Gen. Off., N. J. Hughes, Henry Welden. EDWARDS, TIMOTHY. (1738-1813.) Member of the Committee of Safety for Western Massachusetts; Member of Continental Congress at Philadelphia; Member of Massachusetts Legislature, Commissary General of Massachusetts, and provi- sioned Gates' army. Pub. Rec. Mass. Pub. Rec. Stockbridge, Mass. Edwards, William Seymour. EVANS, JOHN. (1737-1834.) Colonel, under General Broadhead, in Revolutionary Army; Member of the Convention of 1776; Military Commandant of Monongalia County, Va.; Repre- sentative to General Assembly of Virginia. His. of Monongalia Co., p. 521. Hoffman, Daniel Clark. Hoffman, William Kemp. Annan, William Dent Roberdeau. GARDNER, CALEB. (1739-1806.) Successively, Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel of the First Rhode Island Regiment 1775-6. In 1778, at Newport, he piloted the French Squadron under Comte d'Estaing through the blockading fleet of Ad- miral Howe. Appleton's Ency. of Am. Biog. 11, page 597. "Lee, of Virginia," by Dr. Edw. J. Lee, 1895, page 478. In this volume is given a letter from the French Minister of Marine, dated November 3, 1781, con- veying to Caleb Gardner the thanks of the King of France for his services to the French Army and Squadron at Newport and before Yorktown. Peterkin, William Gardner. GOFF, JOB. (1760-1845.) Private, enlisted 1777, Rhode Island Regiment, Major Isaac Johnson; served for twelve months; his com- pany being commanded respectively by Captain Gal- vin and Captain Green; enlisted 1782 in a New York Regiment, Col. John Abbot; pensioner under act of Congress in 1832. Comm. of Pensions. Goff, Nathan. Goff, Charles J. GOFORTH, WILLIAM. (1731- ) Captain, N. Y. Militia, at "Three Rivers," Canada; April 26, 1775, signs call for Provisional Congress; June 28, 1775, Captain 1st Regiment New York Line; Feb. 28, 1776, Captain in Col. James Clinton's Regi- ment N. Y. Line; June 28, 1776, Major 5th Regiment N. Y. Line; Nov. 21, 1776, Major 2d Battalion N. Y. Line; Jan. 13, 1777, appointed Lieut.-Col. 4th Bat- talion妖eclined. Heitman由eg. Off. Cont. Army, p. 193. N. Y. State Archives, pp. 23, 77, 116, 251, 252 and 257. Heiskel, Andrew Gano Burt. GRIER, THOMAS. ( ) Private, Captain George Crawford's Company, First Battalion, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Asso- ciators, "called out by an order from Council, July ye 28th, 1777," and in service that summer. Pa. Arch., II. Ser., Vol. XV., p. 567. Culbertson, John Dickey. [to be continued] ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:35:01 EDT From: JFlynn1111@aol.com Subject: Land Record, CLARK, 1779, Hampshire (now Hardy) I found the following in the VA State Library's electronic index cards (my comments are in ( )s: "Clark, Abraham 4 Jany 1779 Hampshire County (Hardy Co. formed out of Hampshire) 412a. On the waters of Benjamin Scotts Run of Looneys Creek near the Powder Lick. N.N (northern neck) Grants R, p. 74 2655 star stamp orig (handwritten)" *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. 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