West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 62 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: Andrew Jackson ADAMS, Roane C [SSpradling@aol.com] #2 BIO: James ADKINSON, Roane County [SSpradling@aol.com] #3 BIO: Ezra D. ANDERSON, Roane Count [SSpradling@aol.com] #4 BIO: Ezra Engle ANDERSON, Roane Co [SSpradling@aol.com] #5 BIO: Isaac ARGABRITE, Roane County [SSpradling@aol.com] #6 BIO: James Miller ARMSTEAD [SSpradling@aol.com] #7 BIO: Hon. Matthias Benson ARMSTRON [SSpradling@aol.com] #8 BIO: William ARNOTT, Roane County [SSpradling@aol.com] #9 BIO: Buenos AYERS, Roane County [SSpradling@aol.com] #10 BIO: Aaron BAKER, Roane County [SSpradling@aol.com] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from WV-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to WV-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the WV-FOOTSTEPS-D list administrator, send mail to WV-FOOTSTEPS-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 21:49:08 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <9c54ed3c.2526be94@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Andrew Jackson ADAMS, Roane County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 431-432 ADAMS: Andrew Jackson Adams, later Captain Adams, came with the Bishops and Harpers to Pocatalico, "about the year" 1843; he was one year older than the John Bishop, father of the author of this hook. I can state correctly that Andrew J. Adams was born in Pike County, Kentucky, in the year 1829, son of a highly respected young Virginian and his wife, both of whom died there in Kentucky. We have no information as to the given names of his parents or of the events that left him an orphan, too young to preserve the history of his parents. He was fourteen years of age when he came to this Pocatalico country and made his home ainong the Bishops or Harpers as he choose; always received at the fireside or dining table with the other boys of the family; when the jeans or linen in the loom was having yard after yard added day by day as women of the household worked and sang "Andy's share was always counted among the necessary yards to weave; so with the tanner and the shoemaker of the family." Andy's shoes or boots were counted with the rest. After the breaking up of the Bishop family, elsewhere related, Andy went with the larger Bishop boys to Ripley, in the adjoining county, there be and the Bishop boys worked for a short time carrying brick on the brickyard; next we know to relate is that at the age of twenty-three, Andy has a contract to build a certain section of the Glenville, Ripley and Ohio turnpike, through Cassville (later Spencer); again about the year 1853, he is a construction contractor building parts of the Ravenswood and New California turnpike in Jackson County; here he courted and married his wife, Eliza Pickens, daughter of John and Mary A. (Law-rence) Pickens, of Mason and Jackson Counties; one son was born to Andrew and Liza (Pickens) Adams, his name Phillip Curry Adams; he is the same P. C. Adams so often mentioned in the history of the business of the City of Spencer. On the outbreak of the War of the Secessions "Andy" Adams enlisted as a private November 26, 1862; in Co. H, Third Regiment, W. Va. Volunteer Cavalry. Promoted 2nd lieutenant Feb. 19, 1863; 1st lieutenant Feb.15, 1865; in place of A. W. Adams, who was transferred; promoted to captain April 20, 1865; mustered out June 30, 1865. In this war service he steadily rose from subalteran ranks to that of captain, with which commission he was mustered out of service at the end of the war. He at once went into business of divers kinds, at Ravenswood, West Virginia, the main one of which was that of a hardware store; about the year 1875, he came back to Roane County with his wife and son, Phillip C., transferring also all his business to Spencer, and as shown by reports of committees of the county court, was an active participant in the county's public business for some seven to ten years, during which time he returned to the haunts of his boyhood days and bought some three hundred acres of land, part of the old Bishop-Josiah Hughes place, and there built the bost farm house of the time in the district and tried to become a farmer; cleared many acres of the then still untouched forest, employing more workmen than the natives there had ever seen in one gang; the wife and son liked it all, and settled them-selves, keeping up the farm and raising the best herds of cattle of the district for some fifteen years. Captain Adams' business in town kept him there; from whence he finally went to Minnesota and never returned; died and was buried there about the year 1912. Phillip Curry Adams, son of the Captain A. J. Adams above mentioned, married Mollie J., daughter of Hezekiah and Jemima Miller, of Lower Spring Creek, on the 27th of June, 1886, his age 28. To Phillip C. and Mollie J. Adams were born and by them reared in the Town of Spencer the following named children: Ernest E., Ruth, Harry Rudolph, Hubert S. and Phillip C. junior. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 21:52:09 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <58b7d3bf.2526bf49@aol.com> Subject: BIO: James ADKINSON, Roane County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 433 ADKINSON: Of Reedy. James Adkinson and his wife Margaret (Templeton), whom he had married in Marietta, Ohio, she a daughter of an early settler on the Little Muskingum River, with some of their first children, acquired a large tract of forest land on Colt Run of Left Reedy Creek, about the first of the decade, 1850; made here the average sufficient farm for the times. And here brought up their family of four sons and four daughters, their names, Sarah, Eliza, Nancy, Mary Ann, Charles, Ceorge, James Jr., and Leander Loch. Marriages of some of the above sons and daughters: Sarah married Thomas McGraw, December 12, 1864. Eliza married Bert Dalrymple, see name Dalrymple. Nancy and Mary Ann's marriages we do not find. Charles, son of James and Margaret Adkinson, married Miss Sarah Evilsizer, in Roane County, May 10, 1879. George and James's marriages not found. Leander Loch Adkinson, son of James and Margaret, his wife, was born in the year 1858; on November 12, 1880, married Miss Elizabeth Nester, of Tanners Run of Spring Creek. Leander L., in recent years has become wealthy from petroleum oil income; has acquired the old Roach farm on Middle Reedy, or nearly all of it; where he yet lives, holds stock in the banks of Reedy Town and does his part as a good citizen. To Leander and Elizabeth Jane (Nester) his wife, have been born and by them brought up three sons and three daughters, all or most of them have married and have families. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 21:55:46 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Ezra D. ANDERSON, Roane County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 433-434 ANDERSON: Of Reedy. Ezra D. Anderson, veteran of the Civil War was born on Sandy, Jack-son County, West Virginia, 1847, died at Reedy, year 1926; was one of the family Anderson, pioneers of the middle Ohio River valley; he was a son of John and Betsy Ann (Boice) Anderson; enlisted as a soldier in the Union forces and served through the Civil War. At once on return from the war in the year 1865, he united in marriage with Mary Jane Powers-his blue uniform his wedding suit. Mary Jane was a daughter of Elihu Powers, a noted man of his times in Jackson County. These newlyweds made their home on Sandy not far from Sandyville for the first eight years of their wedded lives; purchased a tract of forest land on Staats Run of Middle Reedy and moved themselves and family on it in the year 1873. There brought up their family of seven sons and two daughters whose names given in order of respective births are as follows: William Hezekiah, born 1866; John D., Remus E., Denzil, Charles B., Edward Hayes, Randolph D., Irene Jane and Ida May. The first wife having died, Ezra married Miss Lummie Starcher, of Spencer, West Virginia; of this marriage one child, the daughter, Icy, was born. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:02:00 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4d8650c1.2526c198@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Ezra Engle ANDERSON, Roane County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 434 ANDERSON: Of Western Reedy District. Ezra Engle Anderson was born and brouht up in Wetzel County, West Virginia; there united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Masters, born in Green County, Pennsylvania. Lived the first eighteen years of their married lives in Wetzel County; came to Roane County in the year 1893, their family, two sons and two daughters, with them; the eldest then about seventeen years of age. They purchased a farm near the head of Longs Run and Buffalo Fork of Mill Creek, and settled there for their permanent home. The names of their sons and daughters are as follows: Daniel Harvey, born in the year 1876; Florence, born in the year 1882, married here, John Tatterson; Cynthia Bell, born 1884, married Albert B. Payne, son of Ebenezer Payne; Richard Ezra Anderson was born in the year 1886. Of this family the son Daniel Harvey, now referred to as the Rev. Dan Anderson, is most widely known. He studied for the ministry and was ordained and admitted a member of The West Virginia M. E. Conference, in the year 1916, and placed in charge of the Mount Union circuit on head waters of Reedy. Has ever since continued in the ministry. He is married and has a family. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:05:22 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <77cc6a41.2526c262@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Isaac ARGABRITE, Roane County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 434-435 ARGABRITE: Isaac and Betsy (Swope) Argabrite, both Virginians, married in Greenhrier County, western Virginia, came to these parts and settled on upper Middle Fork of Reedy about the year 1844; with them or born soon after their arrival were their three sons and three daughters: George, Jacob H., Floyd, Amanda, Elvira and Rebecca, all of which children grew up, married near and raised families, of which read on: George Argabrite, son of Isaac and Betsy, married Emily (Hardman), then widow of John Ingraham, with three children: Hugh, Alice and Lycurgus, the last born December 26, year 1853; the names of the children born to George and Emily Argabrite are Ella, wife of Thomas Snow; Fannie, wife of E. Swazy Ball; Rebecca, wife of Dempsy Parsons; Mary J., wife of John Roberts; and two sons, Romeo and William Argabrite. Jacob H. Argabrite, son of Isaac and Betsy, married Alice, daughter of John and Emily (Hardman) Ingraham; the names of the children of Jacob H. and Alice Argabrite, in order of their ages are Fleetwood, eldest, born April 20, 1865; Homer Elliott; Ida, wife of Oscar Hunt; Benjamin P. ,a graduate physician now of Depoy, Kentucky; Merit French, now a merchant and restauranteur of Spencer, and Emma, wife of Homer Thompson, of Spencer, electric engineer of the Spencer Water & Ice Company. Floyd, son of Isaac and Betsy Argabrite, died some years ago leaving two sons, William and Cola, both now of the City of Spencer. The three daughters of Isaac and Betsy are, Amanda, wife of Thomas Simmons; Elvira became the wife of Henry Greathouse, and Rebecca married John Erran Greathouse. Martin Argabrite, born in Greenbrier County, came to these parts with his brother Isaac, in the eighteen-and-forties; he was a pensioner of the war of 1812; he married. Of the children of Martin Argabrite we can name here Diana, who married William Burdette; Kellis, who married Jinnie Hardman; they 'have left one son, Okey Argabrite, who now (1926) lives at the old home place above Peniel with his wife, a daughter of Miles Board, of Jack-son County; and Wiley W. Argabrite, who married Mary Showen; this is the Wiley W. Argabrite mentioned in the history of the City of Spencer, in which he appears to have owned a tavern about the time of the Civil War. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:10:09 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4f378bc2.2526c381@aol.com> Subject: BIO: James Miller ARMSTEAD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 435 ARMSTEAD: Pioneers of Hurricane Creek. James Miller Armstead and his wife, Jeanette (Davis) Armstead, both of Fluvana County, Virginia, with four first born of their children, came to Hurricane Creek, of Big Sandy waters, about the year 1846, having purchased, or soon acquired a tract of five hundred and fifty acres of forest lands lying on Hurricane; attacked the forest in the way of all other pioneers, had health and good sense, and theirs was the noted place for thirty years; a part of this tract remains the property of a descendant of theirs. The names of the sons and daughters of James Miller Armstead and his wife, Jeanette (Davis), given in order of their births, are as follows: James Alfred, never married, died a bachelor at eighty. Susan, married John H. Campbell; he died leaving one child, a daughter named Irene. Sarah A., married Robert Wright. John, Mathew and Joseph, three sons enlisted as soldiers in the Confederate service, 1862 to 1865, all died leaving no posterity. Thomas J., also served through that Civil War and married Cynthia Prudence Parker, May 13, 1868. Benjamin F., born on Hurricane in the year, 1848, married Miss Frances Ellen Naylor, daughter of John M. Naylor, year 1872; they settled on Hurricane and there reared the following sons and daughters: John R., Benjamin H., the person giving the writer this information; he married a Miss Lola B. Ashley. The daughteers of Benjamin F. and Frances E., his wife, are Nort E., wife of James Carpenter; Jeanette Ellen, wife of Benjamin H. Ashley; Bessie Evans, and Mrs. Ruby Ethel Myers. Elisha Norton was twice married, first to Isabel E. Oxier, 1874; she died leaving some children; Frances A. ("Sis"), wife of Milton I. Oxier, married year 1874. Jeanette married Van Patten. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:14:57 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <70266b42.2526c4a1@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Hon. Matthias Benson ARMSTRONG, Roane County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 436 ARMSTRONG: Hon. Matthias Benson Armstrong, horn in Lewis County, western Vir-ginia, February 10, 1820, a son of John J. P. and Margaret (Jones) Armstrong, who settled in this part of Reedy country in the year 1843. Matthias B. Armstrong's name is seen conected with much of the earlier business of the village later becoming the City of Spencer. He appears to have been a resident of the villages New California and Reedyville; when the County of Roane was formed; the first county court convened in his residence; he was thrice married, the second wife died childless; the names of the children of Matthias B. and first wife, Nancy (Rader), in order of their births, are William H., 1844; next Newton B., John Wesley Chapman, lawyer, mentioned in the chapter of this work: History of the City of Spencer, in list of lawyers of the town; and Florence M. Armstrong. For his third wife Matthias B. married Louisa, daughter of Elijah and Nancy (Lewis) Flesher, formerly of Lewis County, but of Jackson County at time of marriage of Matthias B. and Louisa; he held the office of county surveyor of Roane County, four years, and served one term, year 1872, as State Senator for Fifth Senatorial District, at which time his residence was Reedyville. Newton B., son of Matthias B. Armstrong, married Miss Almeda McCarty, November 2, 1869; Newton B. Armstrong was prominent in the county for some fifteen years, 1875 to 1890; dealt in timber; served as assessor of. the county one term. To Newton B. and Almeda, his wife, were born and reared one son, Chapman and several daughters, whose names we do not know. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #8 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:17:55 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: William ARNOTT, Roane County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 436-437 ARNOTT: Of Spencer and Spencer District. William Arnott and Adaline (Lowe) Arnott, his wife, with a large family of children came here to Roane County in the year 1854, from Monroe County, where both had been born and were married. He was a son of a Henry Arnott, a Scotch settler in eastern Virginia. For ancestry of Adaline see Lowe. The names of their children stated in order of births, "to the best of recollection" of Henry M., a son, are as follows: Elizabeth, William Thomas, Henry Mathew, Ellen, Cornelius Pendle-ton, Virginia, Rebecca, Clark and Eliza. Their marriages and residences at sometime: Elizabeth married William German, lived at Long Bottom, Meigs County, Ohio. William Thomas, married Isabelle Danalson, in Roane County, May 12, 1866; made their home on Spring Creek; reared the following named children: Dr. Ulysses G., of Point Pleasant; Reverend Forest Arnott; Romeo F.; Ess; a daughter, Otie, wife of Ernest West of Spring Creek; John, a business man of Spencer; and Orville, teacher awhile in Roane County, clerk in store Charleston; died there, year 1927. Henry Mathew Arnott, son of William and Adaline, married Matilda McMullen of Spencer, August 28, 1868; they lived many years in Spencer; he was a wagon maker and proprietor of a shop at intersection of Main Street and Ripley turnpike, now Rex Arnott's garage site. To Henry Mathew and Matilda, his wife, were horn and by them reared the following named sons and daughters: Estey Cole, resident of Clay County. Roxie, who is wife of John W. L. Kyer, of Ravenswood. Belle, wife of Nathan Cunningham, Moundsville, W. Va. Hayes E., married Miss Starkey, always residents of Spencer. Melissa, wife of J. Otis Summers, native of Roane County, now resi-dent of Charleston. H. Rex R., married Mida Cleavenger, May 14, 1903; he is prop riettor cf the Arnott "Chevrolet" Garage, Spencer. Jeannette, married Leonard Schnoffer, resides at Marietta, Ohio. Dorothea, married John Hall, their residence Akron, Ohio. The other six children of William and Adeline (Lowe) Arnott, all married and made their homes in Meigs County Ohio; their names as follows: Ellen, married Levi Wagoner of Long Bottom. Cornelius Pendleton, lives at Racine. Virginia, married Benjamin Hamilton, Meigs County, Ohio. Rebecca, married George Allison, of Antiquity, Ohio. Clark, married and made his home at Antiquity, Ohio. Eliza, married a Mr. Jackson Lack, of Antiquity, Ohio. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #9 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:23:48 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.12dad046.2526c6b4@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Buenos AYERS, Roane County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 437-438 AYERS: Buenos Ayers, one time resident of Reedy, grew up on eastern head of Mill Creek, was born in Ritchie County, western Virginia, April 30, 1848, son of Jeremiah and Eleanor (Campbell) Ayers. Jeremiah Ayers was an old time schoolmaster, sagacious, a little impatient with old illiterates of those he met; by this lost much of his due as a citizen; for his son, Buenos, he hoped for high attainments in his ancestral profession and encouraged him in every way. Buenos attended Marshall College at Huntington, came forth to Roane County about the year 1873, and organized a "Subscription School," a kind popular at that time. Professor Nash, author of "Nash's School Grammar," was in Roane at the same time, taught at Walton and at Spencer. Buenos taught several such schools at Reedy Town, and two on Middle Fork; on Middle Fork for a reason that will appear presently; he was an enthusiast and did much to make popular the advantages of good education, even college education. June 18, 1874, at her home on Middle Fork, Buenos Ayers married Minerva Jane, daughter of Andrew B. and Mary (Stewart) Chancey; Andrew B. Chancey owned a big farm of some three hundred acres, in fine condition, well stocked, and his was a popular family; had been deputy sheriff and was an active citizen. On her marriage the father, Andrew B., gave and conveyed to his daughter Minerva Jane the upper end of his farm, with the usual "horse, saddle and bridle," a cow and calves; this land lay near the home of the author of this work, only one small farm between. On his wife's lands Buenos built the first prentenious frame house on the Middle Fork, rivaling that of his father-in-law. Soon was elected superintendent of schools of Roane County, which office he filled with ability and satisfaction years 1875-1877; many of what is now "Roane County's first crop of teachers" trace their inspiration to the work of Buenos Ayers. While in this official school work he studied law at home under direction and tutelage of old lawyers at Spencer and was soon after admitted to practice, but did little of it; about the year 1880, he with his family removed from Reedy and became residents of Ripley, West Virginia, where he practiced law some, was a commissioner in chancery of the circuit court; was elected as a justice of the peace and served that office one or more terms of four years; died there as also-possibly-did Minerva Jane, his wife. Buenos had some brothers and sisters, the names of these we can give from recollection-long years-in order of their recollected ages, are, Jefferson, a Confederate soldier; Elizabeth ("Lizzie"), a school teacher, who became the wife of Robert E. Lee, and resided at Shirtsville, Wirt County, many years; Ballard, of whom we venture no recollection, and Gelia, the youngest, who united in marriage with Rex Roland Rohr, in Spencer, the 28th day of January, 1885; his age 28, her age 23; he was editor and proprietor of the Weekly Bulletin, the county's leading newspaper at that time. This couple resided in Oakland, California, the last we knew of them, to which State they went from Spencer many years ago. Of the marriage of Buenos and Minerva Jane Ayers were born three children: Minnie L., December 10, 1876; Nora F., September 18, 1881; and A. J., July 14, 1875. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #10 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:27:48 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Aaron BAKER, Roane County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 438-439 BAKER: Of Curtis District. Aaron Baker, born in the State of Maine, March 17, 1812, son of Aaron and Hannah (Smith) Baker, both of Maine; in Noble County, Ohio, 7th day of April, 1842, he and Sarah Jennings of that county were married; of this, five children were born: Hanna, David N., Elizabeth Jane, Ruth and Gamaliel. For a second wife Aaron Baker married Emily Jane McMun in Sharon, Noble County, Ohio, February 28, 1858, she being a daughter of Isaac and Maria (Moore) McMun; of this marriage, ten children were born, five sons and five daughters, all in Noble County, Ohio. Their names in order of dates of their births are: Aaron W., Lydia M., Cordelia A., Elmer Ellsworth, James Grant, Isaac A., Martha F., Mary Viola, died at two years, Margaret Luella, and Henry Clarence Baker. H. Clarence yet resides on the old farm just above the post office Clarence in Curtis District. Aaron Baker, the father above mentioned, came to this part of Roane County in the year 1881; he was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; gave of his time and means to building and support of his church, while clearing away the heavy forest and making the farm and home. But for a short mention of the above facts of his life found in Hardesty's History to which he or some member of his family subscribed, name and memory of this good citizen would have been lost to the public; he has been dead so long, only two or three of the oldest citizens remember him. His children seek no public mention. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm