West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 77 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: Abraham Elias HUDDLESTON, Gre [SSpradling@aol.com] #2 BIO: Burke Andrew RAPP, Greenbrier [SSpradling@aol.com] #3 BIO: The McCLUNG Family, Greenbrie [SSpradling@aol.com] #4 BIO: James E. WALKUP, Greenbrier C [SSpradling@aol.com] #5 BIO: Rev. Daniel Patrick McGEACHY, [SSpradling@aol.com] #6 BIO: The DUNBAR Family [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 06:10:40 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Abraham Elias HUDDLESTON, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 259-262 ABRAHAM ELIAS HUDDLESTON. Abraham F. Huddleston, the subject of this sketch, was born in Alleghany county, Virginia, December 16, 1855. Because of the Civil war and after-the-war conditions, his education was rather limited. His first employment was as timekeeper oil a brick-yard at the age of fourteen. He then clerked in a store for four years, after which he studied telegraphy and -as in the employment of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company from 1873 to 1879 as station agent and telegraph operator. In 1876 he opened a store at Callaghan, Va., and in 1879 he resigned from the railroad to go into the lumber business and has since been continuously in the mercantile and lumber business. In 1906 he organized the White Sulphur Supply Company, one of the largest retail stores in southern West Virginia. In 1908 he organized the Mountain Milling Company, and in 1910 the Electric Plant, all situated at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where he located in 1887. The Huddleston family date back to the twelfth century and were among the English settlers of Virginia in the early part of the seventeenth century, one of that name being an aid-de-camp to Ceneral Washington. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Abraham J. Huddleston, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, in i8oo, came to Alleghany county, Virginia in 1830, and married Leah Bowyer, who died in 1902. He died April 3, 1873. He had seven sons and four daughters: David G. the father of the subject of this sketch, who died in 1878; Daniel Y., who died in 1913; John, who died in 1862; Joseph, who died in 1863; George W., who died in 1915 ; William B., who died in 1905 ; Robert W., who died in 1912; Sarah (Plymale), now living at Boulder, Cob.; Elizabeth (Lock-hart), now living in Covington, Va.; Minerva (Bowley), now liv-ing in Anselmo, Neb; Nancy (Smith), now living in Grand Island, Neb. David G., the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Alleghany county, Virginia, March 2, 1834, and married Agnes Hook, of Alleghany county, March 7, ~ She was the daugh-ter of Elias Hook and was born in Alleghany county, Virginia, February 4, 1834, and died in Covington, Va., October, 1903. The children of David G. Huddleston, besides Abraham E., who was the eldest, were the following: Joseph W., born August 22, 1857, married Emily Moyers, January i8, 1883, who died in Coving-ton, Va., in 1891. He afterwards married Mattie Hippert and now resides at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; George W., born May 11, 1859, and died at Cedar Grove, Neb., September 9, 1880; Rebecca L., born April 6, i86i, and married Samuel B. Johnson, March iS, 1884, and now living in Chattanooga, Tenn; John D., born March 21, 1863, married Mollie B. Vaughan, December 22, 1882, and now resides at Alexandria, La.; Adelia B., born May I, 1865, and married Howard W. Tyree, September, 1887, and now resides in Alleghany county, Virginia; Cora Virginia, born February 27, 1867, married Henry Brown, September, 1889, and now resides in Chattanooga, Teun.; Bettie P., born September 7, 1869, married Robert W. Butler in 1896 and now resides in Memphis, Teun.; Daisy A., born October 21, 1873, married, in 1909, Converse and resides in Chattanooga, Tenn.; David G., Jr., born August 15, 1876, and was killed in a railway accident in Arkansas, March 4, i906. On September 4, 1877, the subject of this sketch was married to Isabella Johnson Richardson, the daughter of John F. and Marguerite Richardson, of Alleghany county, Virginia, and to whom the following children were born: Sarah Blanche, born June 19 1878, married to Harry E. Crickenberger, June 18, 1901, and' lives at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Bessie Lee, born August 1, 1879, married to Edward M. Haynes, December 12, 1906, and resides at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Ada Edith, born May 19, 1881, married to Edward H. Butts on September 15, 1908, died at Logan, W. Va., April 6, 1915; George Dice, born November 12, 1882, died in infancy; David Franklin, born December 12, 1883, married Mabel Kerr, September 22, 1909, and now resides at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Alfred Elliott, born August 2, 1885, died in infancy; John Lester, born February 13, 1887, married Maud M. Wineberger, April, 1912, resides at White Sulphur Springs; Mary Isabella, born February 21, 1889, married Dr. David H. Hill, June 3, 1915, resides in Charleston, W. Va.; Ruth and Rose, twins, were born January 1, 1892, and died in infancy; Agnes Jane, born June 13, 1895, and died December 2, 1914; Beulab, born January 13, 1897, died in infancy; Albert I Elias, born January 7, 1899, died July 4, 1900. Mr. Huddleston and his wife now live in their home (Hillcrest) Overlooking the town of White Sulphur Springs. He is a man of somewhat retiring disposition, but has been kept before the public in various capacities. As a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, he has been Sunday school superintend ent for nearly forty years; was a delegate to the general conference of his church, which met at Dallas, Texas, in 1902, and at Birmingham, Ala., in 1906; has been a member of the joint board 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 06:22:31 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Burke Andrew RAPP, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 262-264 BURKE ANDREW RAPP. Benjamin C. Rapp, of Pocahontas county, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He distinguished his career in that county as a teacher and also as a farmer. Valentine S. Rapp, his son, was horn in Greenbrier county, October 21, 1830, and died at his home near Renick on March 9, 1917. He lived at 'Little Levels," in Pocahontas county, before the Civil war, but moved back to Greenbrier in i866. He was a soldier in the cavalry commanded by Capt. William L. McNeel and served in the Confederate army as a blacksmith, having enlisted in 1861. About the year 1854 he married Miss Sarah Hayes White, of this county, and from this union came nine children, eight of whom are still living in this county. He and his family were members of the Presbyterian church. Burke Andrew Rapp was born September 7, 1869. As one of the influential citizens of the Upper Greenbrier his career as a teacher, farmer, merchant and progresssive agriculturist has already given him an honorable standing among men of affairs in this part of the State. Inured to hardships, he has worked his way from a country hoy on the farm and from a common school education, supplemented by a term at Lewisburg, under the instruction of the Rev. J. M. Sloan and of James Rucker at Williamsburg, this county, to a self-made man, in lead of agricultural pursuits in particular. From 1888 he taught school in the Falling Spring district and in other places until 1913, his success as a teacher both in the school room and in institute work having been pronounced a success. In the meantime his career as a farmer has kept pace with his educational one. On November 30, 1893, Mr. Rapp celebrated the day as a Thanksgiving one very appropriately by taking unto himself Miss Mary J. Jameson for a wife. She was the daughter of David Jameson, a Confederate soldier in the late war between the States, a farmer and a man of much business ability. Thomas Jameson, the grandfather, was a hatter in Frankford. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Rapp, a girl and a boy. Vera, the daughter, first saw the light of day October 10, 1894, and her young life went out while in pursuit of an education at the Lewisburg Seminary on March 17, 1910, at the bright young age of sixteen. David Stuart, the second child, is at home. The mother died June 2, 1896. On February 9, 1898, Mr. Rapp was married to Ruth Jameson, and life on the old homestead farm was resumed. She was a sister of his first wife and is still living. On July I, 1917, Mr. Rapp went into partnership with his brother, Doke B. Rapp, in commercial pursuits. A store was es-tablished in Renick on borrowed capital, but money was lost in order to satisfy creditors and the business, in time, was abandoned. In February, 1913, Mr. Rapp took the civil service examination and became postmaster of Renick on May 15th, the same year, a position which he still holds. On June 28, 1917, when the United States was forced into the war with Germany, he bought a Liberty bond of $100 to show his patriotism, while his son, David, being twenty-one years of age. registered as a soldier. That was on June 5th and was his bit in the cause of democracy. As an agriculturist Mr. Rapp has been honored with the presi-dency of the Greenbrier Farm Bureau, a position well earned by his having taken the initiative for the establishment of that bureau. He was the first farmer in Upper Greenbrier to build a silo and his bureau was the first to employ a county agent. Mr. Rapp is a member of the Falling Spring Grange. He is also president of the Greenbrier Farm and Loan Association. As a breeder of fine stock he confines his attention to Guernsey cattle, of which he has a number on his Riverside farm. Mr. Rapp belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. He has taken the third degree in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge, and as a Christian is identified by his eldership in the Spring Creek Presbyterian Church 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 06:28:56 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <8aa4c73e.252889e8@aol.com> Subject: BIO: The McCLUNG 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. 264-267 THE McCLUNG FAMILY. (By James W. McClung.) The McClung family is of Scotch descent. Its history begins in the time of Agricola, the Roman emperor who found in them a foe among the Grampian Hills of Scotland, which successfully resisted his further progress in that direction. It was a foe who had won their spurs in the days of Wallace and Bruce at the time they had won their independence from the English crown. In the days of John Knox they did defiance to tyrants and vindicated their belief that king and queen were amenable to law and could not enslave and oppress their subjects with impunity. As a clan belonging to the Scotch race, the McClungs were of a Romanized Britton stock and from whence its Celtic blood. It obtained from occasional intermarriages with other races its Saxon and Teutonic blood. These racial characteristics had strongly blended into a composite whole before emigrations were made by any of them to Ireland, and from that source came the Scotch-Irish Americans of the present day. No blending of the Scotch-Irish races by intermarriage ever occurred to any great extent. The native Irish are zealous Roman Catholics, the Scotch are equally Protestant, and on account of religious intolerance and persecution, the Scotch left their country for Ireland, when, because of unity of faith, they were called Scotch-Irish, there not being a 4rop of Irish blood, however, in their Scotch veins. The race from which the McClungs of Greenbrier county came left for their descendants an immortal legacy in the memory of their heroic faith and deeds. They are preeminently a liberty-loving race, as has been attested by their blood on many a field of battle. The name is found on the muster roll of every war in the history of our Nation; a large list is given in the registry of our higher educational institutions and a greater list still on the reg-istries of our churches. The earliest known record of the McClung family is located in Galloway, Scotland. Tradition says that three McClungs, James, John and Robert, left Scotland on account of religious persecution and settled in Ulster, Ireland. That was in i690. They were Presbyterians of the true blue-blood type. The first of the family to come to America, so far as known, was Thomas. He settled first in Christiana, Pa., in 1729. About the year '731 John McClung landed in Boston with an aunt and settled in Brookfield, Mass. That was in 1734. He moved from there to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, ahout the year 1740. His father, whose name was James, came with his family, the mother and eight children. In the year 1742 they moved to Bor-der Grant, in Augusta county, now Rockbridge county, Virginia. I. John McClung, born in Scotland, emigrated to Ireland in '690, but little is known of his history. (See history of Greenbrier McClungs.) II. John McClung was born in Ireland, came to America and settled in Rockbridge county, Virginia. He married Rebecca Stuart. Died 1788. Captain Samuel McClung was born in 1744, died in April, 1806. He emigrated from Rockbridge county, Virginia, to Greenbrier county at the beginning of the Revolutionary war and served in the quartermaster's department during the war. He lived on Muddy creek near the Blue Sulphur Springs. He was the last man wounded by the Indians in this section of the State. They shot the queue off his wig. One Indian pressed him until they came to a creek, and now it was a case of life or death, as the creek was wide enough it would seem to prevent his escape; but summoning all his strength, and with a desperate bound, he leaped clear over. It was a wonderful leap and it so disheartened the Indian that he abandoned the chase. Capt. Samuel McClung married in Augusta county, Virginia, Rebecca Bourland, born 1749, died October 8, 1825. He and his wife are buried near Smoot, this county. Joseph McClung, born July 12, 1776, married Elizabeth Ellis, October 14, 1800. They lived near Blue Sulphur Springs. He died July 7, 1850. She died December 30, 1861. Madison Mcclung, born June 30, 1809, died June 10, 1874. He married Margaret Lamb Hanna, February 8, 1838. Mrs. Mc-Clung's mother was a McNeel and her grandmother was a Lamb of the Maryland family. Mr. McClung was a farmer and a very popular man. He served as sheriff of the county from i8~ to i848. William Washington McClung was born February 22, 1846. He married Mary Genevieve Putney (born January 31, 1850), October, 1875. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil war, is a farmer and owns a large farm near Hughart, this county. James W. McClung was born near Charleston, W. Va., May 13, 1880. He was educated in the public schools and at the Lewisburg Academy. In 1904 he was elected assessor of the Upper dis-trict and held that position until 1909. He was then in the sheriff's office for four years. In 1912 he was elected assessor of Greenbrier county and filled that position until 1917. In 1913 Mr. McClung married Miss Minnie Pugh, of Hyattsville, Md., and now resides in Lewisburg, W. Va. Two children, Virginia and James W., Jr., came of this union. The origin of the name McClung is a matter of conjecture. Some authorities derive the name from McClau, and if that is correct the lineage is traceable to Gilean, or McGilean, who dwelt in Lorn and who fought in the battle of Lam, and whose name signifies a servant of St. John. Mac, the Celtic prefix meaning son of, Gille meaning servant and a contraction of "iahan" meaning John the Saint. Hence son of the servant of John the Saint is the full meaning of the name. There is a greater probability, however, that the original name was Lung. The Celtic prefix Mac, abbreviated to Mc and a doubling of the "C", resulted in the present form. The name McClung appears in a list of names collected by Lord Stair and published in Patronymic Brittanica under the title of seven hundred specimens of Celtic aristocracy. 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 06:49:26 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: James E. WALKUP, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 267-269 JAMES E. WALKUP. The Walkups and Beards were early settlers in Greenbrier county. They were Scotch-Irish, and of that sturdy old Cove-nanter faith which has always distinguished that race. They immigrated first to Pennsylvania and then went to Virginia and settled in Augusta county, and from there they came to this county. Christopher Walkup and his brother, Robert, visited Greenbrier county before the Revolution. In 1778 Christopher came again and entered a tract of land consisting of one hundred and seventy-five acres, on which the town of Renick now stands. This farm was sold to William Renick. who gave the town its name. Robert settled in Meadow Bluff. Both brothers married and reared families and their descendants to this day are known as men of important affairs. Christopher Walkup was the great-grandfather of James E. Walkup, who is now living on a farm four miles east of Renick which was bought by his grandfather of a Mr. Snodgrass. He married a Miss Rusk, of Augusta, Va., and from this union were born three sons-John, Christopher and Joseph, and three daughters. John was drafted in the War of 1812, but the war closed before he was called into service. Margaret married Samuel Beard, a major in the Continental army. John died about the year 1868, eighty-four years of age, and his wife, Miss Nancy Beard before marriage, died in 1858 in the seventieth year of her age. Their children were: Christopher, a captain of the State militia; Samuel W., a farmer; Joseph Josiah, the father of the subject of this sketch, and McElhenney Walkup. Joseph Josiah Walkup married Ann Eliza Elliott, daughter of James Elliott, who was shot and killed in a deer lick by an acci-dent. He took up his residence on a farm two and one-half miles east of Renick. Their children were: James E.; Elizabeth, who married Harvey J. Hanna, now dead; Margaret, who married C. 0. Huff; Ida, who married William R. Byrd; Lucy, who married Reuben Miles; Samuel B., who married Germina Williams, and Christopher William, who now resides in California. James E. Walkup, a large farmer and stock dealer, owns several farms. He was born October 3, 1844, and was reared on a farm. When eighteen years of age he enlisted in Company A, Fourteenth West Virginia Cavalry, and entered the service for the Confederacy, and served from the time of his enlistment, in 1862, to the close of the war. He participated in several of the battles fought in the Valley of Virginia and around Winchester, was at Chambersburg, and afterwards at Gettysburg, when his regiment did considerable reconnoitering. His regiment was also in that contest which fought General Hunter in a six days' fight from Staunton to Lynchburg, and scouted for Gen. Jubal Early in the Virginia Valley campaign. In 1868 James E. Walkup married Rachel M. Beard, now dead. She was the daughter of Robert Beard and bore him two sons, Robert and Harry, both of whom are dead. Harry also was a soldier, in the war with Spain, and was accidentally killed while in the Philippines, after being honorably discharged. Robert went West and was killed in a cave-in of a silo. He had three children, two girls and a boy. Mr. Walkup married for his second wife Miss Ida Jameson, in 1877. She was the daughter of David Jameson and Martha Walkup Jameson and bore him five children, four daughters and one son: Mabel, born February 26, 1880; Martha J., born October 4, 1881, married Cape Read and lives on the east side of Greenbrier river. Their children are James Hunter, Harry McFerrin, Homer Cletis, Leonard Caperton; Lenna E., unmarried; Lilly Ruth, married Hubert Beard and lives on Anthony's creek. They have one son, Dr. Homer A. Walkup and a granddaughter, Anna M. Walkup, adopted. The only son married Lillie B. Harris, of Morgantown. They have one child, Homer A. Walkup. Jr. The father is a physician, practicing his profession in Fayette county, West Virginia. He graduated from the State Uni-versity at Morgantown and subsequently took his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Washington and Lee University at Richmond, Va. He has been in the pursuit of his chosen profession since the year 1913. He is within the draft age and is in for the war with Germany in 1917, October 1st. The Walkups were all born soldiers and game citizens. Their names are found on the Virginia war rolls in all of her struggles in the history of Virginia. 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 06:54:43 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <345e65c0.25288ff3@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Rev. Daniel Patrick McGEACHY, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 269 REV. DANIEL PATRICK McGEACHY. Daniel Patrick McGeachy was born in Robeson county, North Carolina, January 3, 1872. He graduated from Davidson College in that State in 1896 and from Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va., in 1899. He married, the same year, Lila Peck Eng-lish. His first pastorate was in Pender county, North Carolina, where he also served as superintendent of county schools. In 1904 and 1905 he was field agent in North Carolina for the Twentieth Century Educational Fund. From 1905 to 1911 he was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Lenoir, N. C. In February of 1911 he came to Lewisburg and began his pastorate in the Lewisburg (Old Stone) Presbyterian Church. His seven years' pastorate here has been very satisfactory. 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 07:00:27 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: The DUNBAR Family Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 269-272 THE DUNBAR FAMILY. Mathew Dunbar, the ancestor of the Donbars in Monroe and Greenbrier counties by that name, was a dashing Scotchman, and he was born on the Firth of Forth, Scotland, in 1764. With the dauntless courage of a pioneer, he left his native country and embarked for America, not yet having attained his age. After reaching the American coast, he at once set out for the forests of western Virginia, where settlers were scarce but very bold. He located in Monroe county, a place he reached without the aid of posts or roads and where he built a trading post. In due time he became a wooer, finding his maiden the fair Mary Ellen Herbert, nestled in a little cottage up in the Allegha-nies. She was the daughter of John Herbert, who did not at first consent to the marriage project, but true love alwavs finds a way whether the parents do or not. Mr. Dunbar traded in ginseng and furs, which he hauled to Lewisburg, then a thriving little village. On the return from one of those trips he and his team of horses were drowned at Ronceverte while trying to ford the swollen stream. His driver, how-ever, escaped. Mr. Dunbar left a widow and six children. His widow was kicked by a colt and left an invalid for life. The children were Mathew, William, John, Margaret, Andrew and James. Mathew, the eldest son, was a judge on the cir-cuit bench in Monroe county and had the reputation of being an upright and learned judge. John, the third son, born in 1794, was the immediate ancestor of the Greenbrier Dunbars. John Spade, a Hessian, was the great-grandfather of John Dunbar on his mother's side. He was a brewer of Hesse. He was drafted for the army to aid the English in their war against America, but he was not found with the troops when ready to sail for America. He was drafted the second time, but again hid; but when drafted the third time he saved his life by coming across, but he deserted and fought with the Continentals for American freedom. After the war John Spade married Mary Magdalena Shafer, a German maid he had met in the Valley of Virginia. John Dunbar married their daughter, Eva. She was born in Monroe county in i8oo and died in Summers county, West Virginia, in 1859. John Dunbar, who was left an orphan when five years old, moved to Summers county, where upon arriving at the age of manhood there enriched himself by securing a comfortable home. He was a small, sandy-haired, sandy-complexioned man, very in-dustrious and very strong. He died in i866 at the age of seventy- two years. He left five sons, George, Mathew, William, Hiram and John, and six daughters, Elizabeth, Isabel, Mary, Margaret, Catherine and Ellen. William H. Dunbar, son of John, was born April 24, 1829, in the county of Monroe. Until he was sixteen years of age he remained on the old Dunbar place and taught school when a very young man. In 1857 he married Hannah A. Hedrick, at Asbury, W. Va., who was then a very businesslike young girl of eighteen. The early death of her father had developed many cares on her young shoulders, but she executed them with neatness and dispatch. William H. Dunbar, at the outbreak of the Civil war, was living in Greenbrier county. At that time he was elected captain of a company of militia. His battalion was ordered on a forced march to Little Sewell Mountain. William H. Dunbar and Hannah A. Hedrick were married at Asbury, W. Va., in 1857. There were twelve children. The first born, James Johnson, died in childhood, and Mary Emma in infancy; William Oliver, the eldest living, passed away at sixteen years of age; Henry at nineteen years, one of the victims of the boiler explosion in the Livesay woodlands. The year of 1897 will always be remembered as the saddest time ever experienced in the little town of Frankford, when so many homes were desolated. David Berkely, the youngest of the family, took sick in New Mexico and was brought home by his brothers as far as Ronceverte General Hospital, where he died September 14, 1911. Of the remaining children, Sallie married J. F. VanStavern, of Monroe county. They are now engaged in the mercantile business at Spring Creek, W. Va. They have one child, Lois, who is in Staunton attending school. Jennie S. married W. F. Knapp, of Lewisburg. They moved to Morgantown when Mr. Knapp died. His widow and three children still reside there. Mary Gray married William Reynolds Thatcher and lives in Paxton, Ill. Oliver was graduated from the West Virginia University. He engaged in agriculture and was county agent for Doddridge county last year. Forrest will graduate this year if his country does not take him before the expiration of this school year. Ruth, the youngest, is attending school at Morgantown. C. W. Dunbar married Miss Dollie Ransbarger and lives on his farm at Caldwell. John married Miss Lena Layton, of Virginia. They have seven children living. Three have passed away, the eldest as he was en-tenug young manhood, the other two in infancy. Frank married Miss Ella Grose. They have three children. Frank is practicing law in Columbus, Ohio, where he has made his home for several years. Marion married Miss Minnie Crickenberger. They have six living children. They reside in Lewisburg. Jesse married Miss Almyra Wheeler, of New York State. They have three children and live in Norwalk, Conn. Jesse is a lawyer and was appointed prosecuting attorney for his district last year, but his country needed him, so he gave up his loved work, left his dearly loved home and family to serve his country. He is, or was, lieutenant in the Coast Artillery, Fort Terry, N. Y. We have reason to believe that he is now on his way to France. 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