West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 75 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: James Robinson CALDWELL, Gree [SSpradling@aol.com] #2 BIO: Jacob O. McCLUNG, Greenbrier [SSpradling@aol.com] #3 BIO: Maynard P. HANNA, Greenbrier [SSpradling@aol.com] #4 BIO: The SYDENSTRICKER Family, Gre [SSpradling@aol.com] #5 BIO: George A. GILCHRIST, M.D., Gr [SSpradling@aol.com] #6 BIO: Elisha F. BEARD, Greenbrier C [SSpradling@aol.com] #7 BIO: The ERWIN Family, Greenbrier [SSpradling@aol.com] #8 BIO: James Franklin McCLUNG, Green [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: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 04:37:02 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <7882459c.25286fae@aol.com> Subject: BIO: James Robinson CALDWELL, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 235-238 JAMES ROBINSON CALDWELL. A number of Greenbrier's representative citizens have come to this State from Augusta county, Virginia. Among that num-ber, and of good Scotch-Irish stock also, were the Caldwells, who have not only added material prosperity, but good citizenship also. They were not so early on the ground as some others, but the general commonwealth has been benefited by their coming, nevertheless. John North CaIdwell, a successful farmer, Owning and Oper-ating the old Andrew Beard estate of over 1,000 acres east of Lewisburg, is not in lineage with the Virginia ancestry of the Caidwells, hut allied equally with the Norths and the Blains of Colonial times. His wife is a daughter of Withers Wailer and Anne Eliza Stribbling, who are in descent from the Stribblings of Fauquier county, Virginia. Her father owned a large estate, consisting of 1,200 acres, on the Potomac river, forty miles be-low Washington city, and also the largest fishery in the State. Cleveland, Harrison and other presidents often visited them on gala occasions. David Caidwell, son of John Caidwell. grand-father of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Augusta county, Virginia. Arabella (Van Lear) Caidwell, his wife, was also a native of that county. Their son, James R., lost his mother when he was an infant. He was born in 1820 and his father died August 17, 1832, when about eighty-four years old. Thus bereft of both parents, the boy was thrown on his own responsibility very early in life. On November 17, 1851, he married Miss Isabel North, of Lewisburg. She was a daughter of John A. North, long and favorably known in this part of West Virginia. After his marriage, he continued to abide in Augusta county until about 1853, when he moved with his family to Greenbrier county and made his home at the Bridge, where he continued to reside up to the year 1899. He died February I, 1904, in Lewisburg. His wife died in May, '897. Their children were: John North, Margaret, Charlotte, Arabella-the last three named died in 1861of diphtheria-Mattie B. and Mary D., who live in Lewisburg. They are unmarried. James R. Caidwell was an exceptionally good man. Besides farming on a somewhat extensive scale, he owned and operated a mill on Howard's creek, which for many years was largely patronized by the people of the county. During his whole life he had the respect and esteem of all who knew him. His judg-ment was equal to the confidence reposed in him by the business community, and thus he lived above reproach and suspicion. He was patient, uncomplaining, unselfish, i?1dulgent to his children, and very kind to the poor. When quite young he lost his sense of hearing and all through life was deprived of conversational enjoyments. Nevertheless, he faithfully attended to his duties as a professed Christian. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. John North CaIdwell was born July 17, i858. As an only son, duties incident to the farm and the mill largely devolved upon him. The mill was started in 1853, burned during the war, rebuilt in 1872, and in 1898 sold to Mr. Mason. April 27, 1887, John North Caidwell married Caroline Stribbling Wailer, daughter of Withers Waller and Anne Eliza Stribbling, of Clifton, Stafford county, Virginia, just beyow Washington. She was born August '7, 1867. Children born to this union were: Anne Eliza WaIler, Isabel, James Robinson, Robert Dennis, Caroline WaIler, John North, Martha C, Marion and Wailer, twins; Alexander Mathews and Mildred Pickett. The father spent four years in the military academy at Fredricksburg, Va., taking his degree from that institution in 1879, and which well equipped him for his business career in life and as one of the directors of the Lewisburg Bank. John A. North, born December Is, 1794, in Staunton, Va., came to Greenbrier in 1815 or 1816, and in 1818 was appointed clerk of the Greenbrier District Court of Chancery by Chancellor Brown, and upon receiving the appointment, he moved to Lewisburg and thereafter made that place his home. On July 15, 1818, be was married to Miss Charlotte Blain, eldest daughter of the Rev. Daniel Blain, of Lexington, Va. She lived all her married life in Lewisburg and died at her daughter's home at the Bridge, April 22, 1883. They had four daughters, all of whom lived to be grown and married. The third daughter, Isabel, married James R. Caidwell, of Augusta county, and the youngest daughter, Martha J., married Capt. Robert F. Dennis. Mr. North held the appointment of clerk of the District Court of Chancery until the Constitution of 1829 and 1830 changed the entire judicial system of the State. In the year 1831, when the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State was organized in Lewisburg, he was, by that court of five judges, unanimously appointed its clerk, which position, by subsequent appointments, he held until his death, which occurred in the month of September, 1857. Mr. North was no ordinary man, and a very superior clerk and draftsman, with a memory equal to any and every emergency. He never studied law, but his opinions were sought, and always respected, even by the profession. They were those of a safe and judicious counsellor, and so regarded. Mr. North was a very patient and accommodating gentleman. He was kind to the poor, his hand and heart were open to relieve their wants. In politics he was a Whig, and all his influence wasfor that party. During the War of 1812, when not of age, he volunteered in the company that went from Staunton and served until its close. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 04:42:17 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <37f67923.252870e9@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Jacob O. McCLUNG, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 238-239 JACOB O. McCLUNG. J. 0. McClung, memher of our county court, comes in line of descent from John McClung. Andrew Cavendish McClung (Moccasin Andy) was his grandfather, and was horn February 28, 1819, and died about 1900. He married, first, Catherine Odelk She died at ITominy Falls, W. Va. Six children were the fruits of this union, viz.: (1) Thaddeus, who died a prisoner of war. He was unmarried; (2) Sophrona, who went West with her uncle, Mr. Wiseman; (3) Rev. Andrew McClung, a Baptist minister who married Irene Dorsey, and they lived at Levisay, W. Va.; (4) Rev. Grigsby B. He was a Baptist minister, also, and lived at Asbury. He married Fannie McClung, daughter of George Au-gustus McClung. Four children were born to this union, viz.: Andrew Charlton McClung, the father of Jacob 0. He married Miss Etta Deitz, and to them were horn: Walla, Bessie, a child who died in infancy, Mary Belle (who married Frank Parker), William Geeter, and Jacob Odell, who was born February 16, 1851. J. O. Mcclung was reared a farmer. He has also been a stock dealer on a somewhat extensive scale. On December 13, 1869, he married Martha Jane Callison, horn December i8, 1846, died in July, 1904. To this union four children were horn, all married but one and all hountifully provided for. The homestead remains a valuable tract of land. The issue to this union was as follows: Dr. Thaddeus Clayton Mcclung, born September 25, 1870, graduated, March, 1894, at Louisville (Kentucky) Medical College, since which time he has been practicing his profession at Ronce-verte. On October 8, 1894, he married Cora Hunt, horn March 15, 1872. They have four children. James Andrew McClung, the second son, was a school teacher for several years and is now manager of a store in Washington, D. C. Mary Malinda married Robert Hunt (see sketch). Rebecca Catherine, born January 6, i889, married Dr. David Wall, a practicing physician. He was reared on Muddy creek and resides on part of the old McClung homestead. Besides his agricultural interests, Jacob 0. Mcclung has given much of his time to the official needs of the county. He was deputy sheriff four years under Henry Harold. has been county commissioner six years, and has always been a man of political importance to the people of Greenbrier. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 04:48:45 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <1ff0d5a6.2528726d@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Maynard P. HANNA, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 239-240 MAYNARD P. HANNA The Hanna family is of Irish descent. Joseph Hanna was the pioneer of West Virginia, but Albert J. Hanna, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, lived on the farm now owned and occupied by M. W. Walton. He reared a large family, five sons and five daughters, all living now but two of the girls. His son, J. Harvey Hanna, born March 29, 1847, married Elizabeth Agnes Walkup on July 3, 1873. He spent three years farming in Ne-braska and railroading on the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy, but in '895 he came back to Renick. His wife (see sketch of the Walkup family) died March 15, 1916. Five children came of this union, all living but one. They are Maynard P., Iron Lipps, wife of O. P. Kinsley, Sarah Ann, wife of H. L. McCoy, Joseph, Al-bert, and Pinkney M., wife of W. F. Knight, all residents of Renick. Maynard P. Hanna is a meniber of tlic firm of Hanna & Kinsley, doing a large mercantile busine~s in Renick (see sketch of 0. P. Kinsley). He was born April 16. 1874, and spent eight years in Ashland, Neb., working on a farm and on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. In 1894 he cameback to Renick, and after farming two years, he began clerking in the store and continued work in that way until i908, when he became a partner of the firrn. The store has a large trade, and in connection with the farms an extensive business is done by the company. On Virginia, but Albert J. Hanna, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, lived on the farm now owned and occupied by M. W. Walton. He reared a large family, five sons and five daughters, all living now but two of the girls. His son, J. Harvey Hanna, born March 29, 1847, married Elizabeth Agnes Walkup on July 3, 1873. He spent three years farming in Ne-braska and railroading on the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy, but in 1895 he came back to Renick. His wife (see sketch of the Walkup family) died March 15, 1916. Five children came of this union, all living but one. They are Maynard P., Iron Lipps, wife of 0. P. Kinsley, Sarah Ann, wife of H. L. McCoy, Joseph, Albert, and Pinkney M., wife of W. F. Knight, all residents of Renick. Maynard P. Hanna is a meniber of tlic firm of Hanna & Kinsley, doing a large mercantile business in Renick (see sketch of 0. P. Kinsley). He was born April 16. 1874, and spent eight years in Ashland, Neb., working on a farm and on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. In 1894 he cameback to Renick, and after farming two years, he began clerking in the store and continued work in that way until 1908, when he became a partner of the firrn. The store has a large trade, and in connection with the farms an extensive business is done by the company. On January 1, 1902, Maynard P. Hanna married Miss Maggie R. Mann, daughter of J. P. Mann, and from this union came two children, Sydney J. and Gladys. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 04:57:01 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: The SYDENSTRICKER Family, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 240-242 THE SYDENSTRICKER FAMILY. (By Rev. C. Sydenstricker.) So far as my information goes, the ancestors of our family came from Bavaria (Germany) about the middle of the eighteenth century. They first settled in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. It was from that State that Philip Sydenstricker, my great-grandfather enlisted as a soldier for the cause of independence in the American Revolution. He was captured by the British at Fort Washington and held many months as a prisoner. I do not know how many members of the family came to America, but one brother, Boston Sydenstricker, a cripple, settled in Greenbrier county, Virginia. After the independence of the United States was secured, Philip Sydenstricker emigrated to Virginia and settled in Greenbrier county, three miles south of Lewisburg. The old home is now the property of George Davis. Philip Sydenstricker reared a large family at the old homestead. The five sons were Henry, David, John, Philip and Jacob, and there were some daughters. One daughter married Michael Fleshman. Henry, the eldest son, married a Miss Fleshman and settled in the Anthony's Creek section of G?eenbrier. His sons were Michael, Lewis, Samuel, Henry and James. He had one daughter, Katy, who did not marry. He lived to an extreme old age and died at his home on Anthony's creek. David Sydenstricker, my grandfather, married Elizabeth Ar-gabright, the eldest daughter of Jacob and Mary Shatel Argabright. Andrew Sydenstricker, my father, was the only child from this union. David Sydenstricker was called for service in the War of 1812 but the declaration of peace relieved him. Philip Sydenstricker, Jr., founded his home near the road that leads from Lewisburg to Ronceverte, hut later migrated to Saline county, Missouri, when the Western migration spirit seized him. In those days that was "The Far West." John Sydenstricker, known as Major, was married to Isabella Scott. His second wife was Mary Coffman. He was childless. He was by far the most versatile of the family. He was wefl in-formed in ancient and modern history and was a close student of the problems of his day. FFe was a training master for soldiers of the Mexican war. Jacob Sydenstricker, known as Squire Sydenstricker, married Mary Curry and became proprietor of the home of his parents. He was unfortunate in losing six of his ten children. Those who survived were: Jehu, late of Memphis, Tenn.: John; Oliver P., late of Lewisburg; and Philander, of Ohio. My father, Andrew Sydenstricker, married Frances Coffman in 1834. To this union were born nine children: David S., John M., Mary C., Isaac C., Rebecca, Christopher, Hiram M., Absalom and F. Pierce. Andrew Sydenstricker was a man of strong con-victions and was unusually well informed, but lived a quiet life near Ronceverte. He died in 1892 and his wife in 1899. David S. Sydenstricker entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church in his young manhood and spent the whole of his ministry, with the exception of one year in Arkansas. at Hillsboro, Pocahontas county, West Virginia. He was a linguist of note. John M. Sydenstricker lived in Greenbrier county all of his life and engaged in farming. He represented his county several times in the Legislature. He was a candidate for the nomination for Governor on the Democratic ticket in 1892 but was defeated by Hon. A. W. McCorkle, upon whose staff he served. He died in 1901. Mary C. became the wife of William Brackman and lived her entire life in sight of the old homestead. Isaac, after courageous service in the Confederate army, settled in Saline countv Missouri, where he engaged in farming. He died in 1909. Rebecca became the wife of Gabhard Brackman, whom she now survives, living in Osage county, Kansas. Christopher is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and has served charges in Virginia and West Virginia. He now resides at Stephens City, Va. Hiram M. entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church and served in Missouri, Texas, Tennessee and Mississippi. He died at West Point, Miss., in 1913. Absalom has been a missionary to China from the Presbyterian church for more than thirty-five years. He has had a faithful ministry and is now translating the Scriptures into the Chinese in a forrn that simplifies the text for them. His home is at Chinkiang. China. F. Pierce is a minister of the Presbyterian church and has spent his entire ministry in West Virginia. He resides near Ronceverte, W. Va. The general tendency of the Sydenstricker family has been to industry and frugality. Their religious proclivities have been largely toward the Presbyterian faith. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:01:26 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.26f21025.25287566@aol.com> Subject: BIO: George A. GILCHRIST, M.D., Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 242-243 GEORGE A. GILCHRIST, M.D. On the 20th of October, 1917, Lewisburg lost a valuable man and a physician of the first rank. Dr. Gilchrist was of Scotch descent and a native of Monroe county, where he was born in the Gap Mills community on June 15, 1867. His parents both died when he was a mere boy, since which time he and his brother, now Dr. T. L. Gilchrist, educated themselves for teachers, taught school many years, and then together com-pleted a four years' medical course, in three years' time, taking the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the medical college at Rich-mond, Va., in the spring of 1896. George and his wife, Jean McClaggan Gilchrist, the ancestors of Dr. Gilchrist, came from Scotland in 1800, and after living ten years in Rockingham moved to Gap Mills, in Monroe county. Their son, Alexander (1812-1816), married Virginia Powell, and the children by this union were George A., Thomas L. and Maud Virginia. Dr. Gilchrist first opened an office for the practice of his profession in Asbury, this county, but about six years ago he came to Lewisburg, where he had an extensive practice since that tirne. He had a wide circle of devoted friends, ministered tenderly to the sick and was greatly admired for his many fine qualities of head and heart. His large practice was the best proof of the confidence and esteem of these people, and his death was sincerely mourned. He was always polite, courteous, kind, and accommodating. On October 28, 1897, Dr. Gilchrist married Miss Anne Hedrick, daughter of the late William Hedrick, who survives him, with four children: Carl, student at Washington and I,ee University, Willie A., Nellie E., and George A., Jr. The doctor was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, Lewisburg. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:08:28 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <8cbc699e.2528770c@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Elisha F. BEARD, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 243-244 ELISHA F. BEARD. John F. Beard, the ancestor of the Beard family of Greenbrier county, was a large land owner, about five miles above Lewisburg, in early times. He was the father of Moses C. Beard, horn March 8, 1824, who married Sarah S. Walkup, born September 3, 1827. The other children were: Joseph W., born September 9, 1847, died September 28, 1893; Mary A. H., born June 22, 1849, died December 6, 1906; John A., November 16, 1852; Nancy J., December 8, 1854; Nadora K., November 14, 1856; Louisa A., December 27, 1858; Robert E., February 12, 1861; Elisha F., April 20, 1863; Numan C., October 15, 1857, died January 15, 1880. Elisha F. Beard, like his father before him, lives in an unostentious sort of a way, but is, nevertheless, a large, successful farmer, cattle raiser and stock dealer. His father came here in 1856. He sold his farm, intending to go West, but located at this place finally, and later entered the Confederate service, participating in the battles of that conflict until the close of the war. The original homestead consisted of 590 acres, some of which has been sold off, but other lands have been purchased, making the real estate possessions here somewhat extensive, as well as quite valuable. On October 19, 1887, Elisha F. Beard married Marybee T. Harlow, of Rockingham county, Virginia. She was born November 2, 1865. Their children are: Hubert E., born April 8, 1890; Nellie F., August 7, 1892; Sarah V., December 5, 1894; Vivian T., May 1, 1896; M. Chris, August 25, 1898; N. Thelma, March 31, 1900; Lillian H., July 17, 1903; Evelyn M., May 23, 1907. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:14:21 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: The ERWIN Family, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 244-246 THE ERWIN FAMILY. Samuel N. Erwin, present deputy assessor of Greenbrier county, belongs to one of the oldest families in the State. He is of Irish descent and a great-grandson of John Erwin, the first of that name in the county. His son, John Erwin, Jr., was born in a cabin still standing in Irish Corner and now in the possession of the sixth generation, and is now owned by S. N. Erwin. The birth above mentioned occurred in 1785. This place is in Irish Corner district, four miles east of Ronceverte. John Erwin was reared here, and died here after rearing a family of four sons and four daughters. His wife was Miss Jane McClure. The children were: (1)David M., of whom again; (2) John, Jr., who married a daughter of John Robinson, the grandfather of Amos R. Erwin, formerly of this county, but now of Loudoun county, Virginia; (3) Robert, who died young; (4) William, who rode to California on horse-back, crossing the Mississippi river at St. Louis on the ice, and died young; (5) Jane, who married Pleasant Williams, of Giles county, Virginia, and died at the age of seventy-four years; (6) Margaret, who married William Black and moved West; (7) Elizabeth H., who married Lewis Sydenstricker in Irish Corner and died at the age of sixty-six; (8) Mary G., who married William White, of Organ Cave. and dicd in 1906 at the age of seventy-nine years. John Erwin was a noted hunter. He had a rifle having a large bore, with which he killed hundreds of deer. It is said he bequeathed this gun, named "Kate," to his descendants who were named John. It is now in the possession of his great-grandson, John A. Erwin, son of Amos R. Erwin, of Loudoun county, Vir-ginia. At his death John Erwin had over a thousand acres of land that was known as "Little Egypt" on account of so much corn being raised on it. He died in 1873 at the age of eighty-eight years. David M. Erwin was born July 4, 1807. In 1836 he married Mary Dickson, daughter of Richard Dickson, of Second Creek, West Virginia, and to this union were born: (1) Susanna J., in 1838; she married James Honaker and died in '908; (2) Richard D., of whom later; (3) Margaret E., born in 1840 and married William Miller, of Irish Corner. She died in 1908; (4) John A., who died in infancy; (5) Mary V., born in 1845 and died in 1908. She remained single. He died in 876 from the effects of a stroke of lightning several years before. Hon. Richard D. Erwin was born December 27, 1842. In 1865 he was married to Amanda Fleshman, who at the age of seventy- seven years is still enjoying reasonably good health. By this union were born nine children-five sons and four daughters: (1) Austin B., born November 16, 1866, unmarried. He taught school several years, owned a large library. and was a great reader. For years he suffered from rheumatism, and died September 1, 1914; (2) Ida B., born December i6, i868. She married Frank Dever, of Grand Island, Neb.; (3) Nellie V. and (4) Andrew D.,. died in infancy of diphtheria; (5) William H., born October 27, 1875, married Estelle Jackson, daughter of A. R. Jackson, of Organ Cave, and died in 1906, leaving a wife and one child; (6) Samuel N., of whom later; (7) Mary E., who was born September 29, i880, unmarried; (8) Annie S., born February 3, 1882. She married Floyd Handley, of Williamsburg; (9) Charles E., born February 16, 1889, married Ethel Humphreys, daughter of Hon. H. W. Humphreys, member of the County Court. He died January 1, 1913, leaving a wife and one child, a daughter. Richard D. Erwin was considered one of the best farmers in Greenbrier county. He was a Confederate soldier and served in Company D, Edgar's Battalion. In 1890 he was chosen by the Democratic party for the State Legislature and elected to the House of Delegates from this county, and re-elected in 1904. He was an elder in the Salem Presbyterian Church from 1875 till his death in '898. Samuel N. Erwin was born June 27, 1878. In 1900 he was married to Lucille Scott, daughter of Joe H. Scott, formerly of Anthonys Creek, but now living with his son, Humbert J. Scott, near CaIdwell. To this union were horn seven children-five sons and two daughters: Joseph Richard, September 28, 1902; Paul Bryan, January 18, 1904; Olan Kyle, November I, 1905; Anna Madge, January 31,1908; Gerald Clayton, April i8, 1909; Bcnnie Idelle, June 5 1912; Donald Leith, January 25, 1915. Mr. Erwin was reared a farmer and is still in pursuit of that avocation. As one of the representative men of Irish Corner, he is an elder in the Presbyterian church at Salem and represents his county as assessor. To this latter office he was elected as deputy with E. B. Miller as chief on November 7, 1916. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm ______________________________X-Message: #8 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 05:20:53 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: James Franklin McCLUNG, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 246-248 JAMES FRANKLIN McCLUNG. John McClung, who emigrated from Scotland to Ireland about 1690, and from there to Virginia, finally, was the ancestor of James F. McClung. (See sketch of John McClung and family.) C,f the seven sons of John, Samuel McClung (Devil Sam) before mentioned had a son, Stuart, born December 24, 1836, died September 12, 1901. He was the father of James F. McClung. On March 29, 1860, Stuart McClung married Mary George, born at Dawson (see sketch of George family). Their children were Joseph Albert, born March ,5, i86i Sarah Elizabeth, December 4, 1862; Margaret Rebecca, wife of W. B. Hayes (see sketch) James Franklin, June, 1867; Samuel, October 17, 1869; Callie Jane, January 30, 1872, married August 31, 1892, to John Cook; Mary M., May 12, 1874, married June 27, '900, to W. F. Mc-Dowell; Louise Alice, December 22, 1876, married Dexter Spangler; Spencer Hill, September 22, 1879; Lelia Ruth, February 8, 1882, married James H. Jarrett. James Franklin McClung was reared a farmer. He and his brother, Samuel, own and operate a seven-hundred-and-fifty-acre tract of land, on one-half of which stands the old house. It is on the part belonging to James F. Here is the homestead of the Stuart McClung family and the place where the children roamed at will in childhood. After the subject of our sketch had received his education, the best his district school could give him, he became a traveling agent for the next twenty years of his life, first for Abney Barnes & Company, dry goods merchants of Charleston, W. Va., and finally for Hutcheson-Stephenson Hat Co., of the same city. He was with each firm for ten years, and probably no man in the State knows more about the people and country of the twenty-five counties through which he traveled during that time than does James F. McClung. Without an accident or a day of sickness he went to and from the Jackson river back to Big Sandy, on the Kentucky border, and from the Little Kanawha to the Virginia mountains on the north, unarmed, but always welcomed, though his route took him everywhere among the feuds of the McCoys and Hatfields of the State. James F. McClung was married to Miss Ella V. Gunter, of Charleston, Kanaw~a county, West Virginia, October 26. 1911. Her father, John Gunter, was born and reared on a farm in Augusta county, Virginia, near Staunton; came to Kanawha county after the close of the Civil war and settled on a farm and engaged in the coal business at Big Chimney, on the Elk river. At that time there was a lock and dam in Elk river and steamboats plied the river, by which means Mr. Gunter shipped his coal to Charles-ton, where he supplied the leading factories with coal. Miss Ella Gunter was born on Elk river, August 27, 1880, and was educated in the Charleston schools. John Gunter married Miss Kath-erine Seafler, of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Her parents emigrated from Germany about 1834, landing at Baltimore, after which they settled on a farm in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. Three sons and a daughter are living in Pittsburgh. Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com State Contact for WV GenExchange http://www.genexchange.com/wv/index.cfm