West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 78 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: Hon. John A. PRESTON, Greenbr [SSpradling@aol.com] #2 BIO: Gen. Charles S. PEYTON, Green [SSpradling@aol.com] #3 BIO: James Henry Steptoe STRATTON, [SSpradling@aol.com] #4 BIO: Jacob ARGABRITE, Greenbrier C [SSpradling@aol.com] #5 BIO: James Madison ARGABRITE, Gree [SSpradling@aol.com] #6 BIO: George Taylor ARGABRITE, Gree [SSpradling@aol.com] #7 BIO: Rev. John McELHENNEY, D.D., G [SSpradling@aol.com] #8 BIO: David TUCKWILLER, Greenbrier [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 07:07:31 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Hon. John A. PRESTON, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 272-275 HON. JOHN A. PRESTON. John A. Preston, son of Rev. David R. and Jeannette Creigh Preston, was born at Tuscawilla, about one mile south of Lewis-burg, March 14, 1847. His father was a Presbyterian minister, who, after serving as pastor in churches in Florida and Virginia, was forced by ill health to retire from the ministry. He then bought and lived on the farm which still bears the name he gave it-"Tuscawilla," the Seminole name for "Two Lakes," and here it was John Alfred was born and reared. On January 2, 1865, at the age of seventeen, he entered the Confederate army as a private in the Fourteenth Virginia Cavalry under General McCausland and saw much of the hard fighting and service in which that command was engaged. One brother, Walter C. Preston, enlisted with the University of Virginia Volunteers and lost an arm in the battle of Spousylvania Court House in 1864. Another brother, Thomas C., was an orderly sergeant of Company B, in the Third Regiment of Wise's Legion, and was killed at Monocacy, July 9, 1864. After the war John A. Preston resumed his interrupted studies at the Lewisburg Academy under Rev. J. C. Barr, and later at-tended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) at Lexington, Va., during the years Gen. Robert E. Lee was president. In 1873he was made trustee of this university and served as such until his death. He returned to Lewisburg, taking up the study of law under the Hon. Samuel Price, and after his admittance to the bar, in 1873, he continued as a partner of Governor Price's until the latter's death. Mr. Preston was much interested in the history of Virginia and West Virginia and was one of the best informed men on the political history of southern West Virginia in this part of the State. In politics Mr. Preston was a Democrat and his services on the stump were called for in each campaign, he being ever ready to fill any appointment. As a speaker he was logical, forceful and eloquent. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Greenbrier county six terms and was sent to the Legislature for two terms and elected to the State senate for four years. Mr. Preston was a great student of the war between the States, nothing giving him so much pleasure as a discussion of the military operations of this war. Long an elder in the Presbyterian church, in which he was most interested, he also spent much time in the building up and continuance of the two Presbyterian schools in Lewisburg. As a lawyer, he was clear and earnest; as an advocate, forceful and eloquent, and as a man, frank, conscientious and sincere, without ostentation, yet with the courage of his convictions, never being swayed where principle was involved. His kindness, gentleness and generosity endeared him to all people. His high sense of honor and integrity of character gave him a reputation seldom attained and his influence for truth and right have been and will continue to be felt throughout this section for many years. Mr. Preston was twice married, first in June, 1877, to Miss Sallie Lewis Price, daughter of ex-Governor Samuel Price, who died in 1882, leaving him two sons, Samuel Price Prestoa and James Montgomery Preston, both of whom are married and living in iewisburg. in February, 1892, he married Miss Lillie Da-vis, daughter of Hon. John J. Davis, Clarksburg, W Va. To this union two sons were born, John J. Davis Preston and Walter Creigh Preston. "In speaking of John A. Preston, however, the highest tribute that language can express," says Colonel J. H. Crozier, "is 'yerie4 to the last degree." He was a tower of strength to the cause of honor, truthfulness, sobriety, morality and genuine Christiaiitv. "Just a few hours after the writer of these lines had congratulated Senator Preston upon his vigorous appearance and every evidence of splendid health the summons came, without a moment's warning; quickly, painlessly, without fear, with sublime confidence in Him 'who doeth all things well,' an earthly career was ended that had made an impress for good in a wide circle of associates whom he had honored with his friendship. "The writer knew Mr. Preston from his young manhood days. For forty years he knew him intimately. From his youth he ex-hibited an intellect of exceptional strength, a mind of rare logical bent, a devotion to principle, and loyalty to his own convictions that marked him, even in early life, as one of adamantine courage. Knowing him thoroughly, I feel confident to testify that he was always all that he pretended to be, all that his friends and admirers thought him to he-a high-born, honest man; strong, brave, reliable, learned, conscientious, sincere, friendly, unostentatious, and a man whose knee bent to no being except his God. "His genial manner and his uniform courtesy, his innumerable ads of kindness, his generous consideration of the opinion and rights of others, his purity of life, and his unswerving belief in an overruling Providence guiding the destiny of men and nations-these are the (qualities that endeared him to the people and will long perpetuate his memory. The writer has often thought that much of the beautiful tribute which Senator Ben Hill paid to Robert E. Lee might fittingly be applied to the beautiful life of John A. Preston. 'He was a foe without hate, a soldier without cruelty, a public officer without vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor without reproach, a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was as gentle as a woman in life and as pure and modest as a virgin in thought." Our dear friend has passed behind the veil that shuts the great beyond from mortal view. To him the mysteries have been revealed. 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 07:29:24 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Gen. Charles S. PEYTON, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 284-285 GEN. CHARLES S. PEYTON. Gen. Charles S. Peyton, commanding First Brigade, West Virginia Division, United Confederate Veterans, was born January 21, 1841, in Albemarle county, Virginia. He entered the Confederate service as captain of Company E, Nineteenth Regiment, Virginia Infantry. He lost an arm, August 30, 1862, in the second Manassas battle; was promoted for gallantry to major of the Nineteenth Regiment, Virginia Infantry; was wounded again while leading his regiment with only one arm in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. In this charge every field officer of his (Garnett's) brigade except himself was killed or most desperately wounded. Though wounded, and the youngest field officer in age and rank, he was assigned to the command of his brigade. By order of General Pickett he made the only brigade report of that desperate engagement. It is published in the war history authorized by the Government. Promoted again for gallantry to lieutenant-colonel, he served until the close of the war. He is a member of Mike Foster camp, Union, and of David S. Creigh camp, United Confederate Veterans, Lewisburg, W. Va. He resides at Ronceverte, W. Va. 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 07:34:54 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <40c70f44.2528995e@aol.com> Subject: BIO: James Henry Steptoe STRATTON, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 285-286 JAMES HENRY STEPTOE STRATTON. James Henry Steptoe Stratton, born June 12, 1840, at Kanawha Salines, Kanawha county, West Virginia, entered Company H, Twenty-second Infantry, May 8, 1861, and then the cavalry service until the end of the war of the States. On December 9, 1868, he married Mary Anna Nelson Handley (born in Greenbrier county, West Virginia, October 28, 1846, died June 3, 1906). They moved to Lewisburg, October, 1878, taking charge of the Lewisburg Hotel, which he conducted until his death, February 3, 1895. The children of these parents were: Joseph Harvey, born _____ died January 9, 1899. aged thirty years. Mary Theresa (Polly) married H. F. Hunter, November 19, 1895; living in Lewisburg. Carrie Belle, living in Lewisburg. John Handley, married Mary Margaret Erwin. May 3.1917: living in Clarence, Mo. Willie Thomas married George E. Nettleton, June 16, 1910. Henry Nelson died March 4, 1884, aged two years. James Marion enlisted in United States naval reserve fleet, December 7, 1917; called into service March 26, 1918; stationed at United States naval hospital, Hampton Roads, Va., paymaster's office. James Henry S. Stratton, son of Joseph Dickinson Stratton, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, July 16, 1794; died July 6, 1843, in Perryville, md., and buried at Perryville, Ind., and Mary Ann (Buster) Stratton, horn in Kanawba county, April 25, 1812, died in Covington, Va., July 21, 1890. Mary Anna Nelson Stratton, daughter of Harvey Handley (see sketch Handley family), and Mary Caroline Lockhart (Bell) Handley, born September 13, 1822; married June 14, 1842: (died July 10, 1898). 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 07:49:08 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <5bfe7845.25289cb4@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Jacob ARGABRITE, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 286-290 JACOB ARGABRITE. Jacob Argabrite was born in 1760, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, came to Rockingham county, Virginia, in boyhood. Vol-unteered, May, 1778, for six months in the militia company of Captain Craven and served at the forts in Tyggart's Vallev. Reenlisted and served in the same company three months longer. Marched to Fort Pitt and Tuscarara river, serving under General McIntosh and helping to build Fort Lawrence in Ohio. Between Fort McIntosh and Fort Lawrence he saw the corpse of Lici-tenant Parks, who had been killed by the Indians. In retaliation, Colonel Crawford wished to kill nine or ten Indians who had come for a peace parley, but was prevented by other officers. About September, 1780, he enlisted for twelve months in the cavalry company of Captain Sullivan, of Berkeley county. Campaigned in the Carolinas and was in the battle of the Cowpens. His term expired at Bowling Green, Va. He then joined a rifle company under Captain Coker, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. He was discharged for illness late in October, while conveying the British prisoners from Yorktown. Caine to Monroe some years after the war. Declaration, 1882.-Proof of alleged focts required in Pension Office. He subsequently removed to Greenbrier coui.tv. ard his will, made April 1, 1844, and recorded in the clerk's office of Greenbrier county, is as follows, which we give because it is the only source at our disposal to give the names of his children: "In the name of God-Amen. I, Jacob Argabrite, of the county of Greenbrier and the State of Virginia, being weak in body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, and considering the uncertainty of life, do make and establish this my last will and testament (revoking all former wills and testaments by me made), in manner and form following, to-wit: "First, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife so much of my household furniture of every description as she choses to keep and so much of the proceeds of my estate as will be necessary for her comfortable support during her natural life: 'I give and bequeath to my daughter, Detsy Sy denst ncke r, one hundred and forty dollars. "I give and bequeath to my son, Martin, one hundred and forty dollars. "I give and bequeath to my daughter, Mary Ann Lewis, one hundred and forty dollars. "I give and bequeath to the heirs of my deceased daughter, Catherine Dunbar, one hundred and forty dollars. "I give and bequeath to my son, John, one hundred and forty dollars. "I give and bequeath to the heirs of my deceased son, WHliain, one hundred and forty dollars. "I give and bequeath to my son. Abram, one hundred and forty dollars. "I give and bequeath to my daughter, Rebecca Rodgers, one hundred and forty dollars. "My sons, Isaac and Samuel, have been heretofore provided for and received their full share for which I have taken their receipts as acquittal. "After my decease I wish the several legacies to be paid over as soon as collected in the order in which they are named, beginning with the oldest, except the heirs of the two deceased children, which are to be paid last. Whatever remainder there may be after the decease of my beloved wife, I wish to be equally divided between all my heirs. "I appoint my son, John Argabrite, executor of this my last Will and testament. "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal. "This first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and forty-four. JACOB ARGABRITE (Seal). "J. W. P. STEvENS, "SAMUEL A. MCCLUNG, "AUSTIN EADS. Mr. Argabrite died soon after making the above will, and was buried in the Hockman family graveyard just below their old home on Muddy creek. The old gentleman was an ardent Democrat while Greenbrier county was overwhelmingly Whig. In the "Hard Cider" cam-aign of "Tippecance and Tyler, too," the Whigs came in procession from Frankfort to Lewisburg, a distance of about ten miles, headed by a wagon drawn by three teams of fine Greenbrier horses. On the wagon sat a log cabin, with some coon skins tacked on the walls, and a barrel of hard cider just inside the door, which an attendant was serving out to the public. Mr. Argabrite was standing on the streets of Lewisburg, an indignant spectator. Somebody asked him what he thought of it; he vehemently re-plied: "What dam foolishness, what damn foolishness, and so agra-provoking!" Colonel John Argabrite, a son of Jacob Argabrite, the Revolutionary soldier mentioned above, was born February 17, 1797, and died December 10, 1884. He married Mary, daughter of Jacob Hockman, who lived in the old stone house that stands on Muddy creek, which he had built as a home. It is now owned by a descendant, Mrs. Mary Gwinn. Colonel Argabrite was not in favor of secession, so he became eligible to sit on the Board of Supervisors of Blue Sulphur district. A story is told of him about this time. It was true, he said, that he was a Union man, opposed to secession, and always had been, but was always glad when our boys whipped. He was a prominent man in the county, and took part in its politics, serving in several positions of public trust, and having the name of filling such offices to the perfect satisfaction of the people. He was colonel of the Virginia militia. The children of John Argabrite were as follows: Jacob Hockman Argabrite, born March 20, 1821, and died November 30, 1899. He never married and lived with his brother, James M., in the old home, of which he was part owner. He was a Confederate soldier, serving in the Greenbrier Cavalry. and fought in the battle of Droop Mountain. Susan Argabrite. born February 8. 1824: died May 21. 1906. She married James Johnson, and lived at Johnson's Cross Roads, Monroe county. Phares G. Argabrite. born April 26,1826; died in 1861. He married Rosanah Jarrett. daughter of James Jarrett, of Greenbrier County. and lived in his home on Muddy creek, Greenbrier county. Mr. Argabrite was a soldier in the Confederate army and his command was stationed at Greenbrier river bridge. Here he contracted the measles and was compelled to return home, only to find his family down with diphtheria. This he also contracted. and the combined diseases caused his death, in the first year of the Civil war. His wife and three sons survived him. Harvey Argabrite. born 1826. and died 1836. Abrilla Argabrite, born 1830. lived three months. John F. Argabrite, born March 16, 1831-lived with his father until he entered the medical college at Cincinnati. where he died on December 14, 1852. George B. Argabrite and Mary M. Argabrite, twins, born July 11, 1834. George lived with his father until his death, January 15, 1854 Marv married Caleb Johnson and lived at Johnson's Cross Roads, Monroe countv. James H. Argabrite, born in 1836, died in 1838. Julia A. C. Argabrite. born August 31, 1838, married Joseph H. Bunger. Five daughters were born to this union. Since her husband's death Mrs. Bunger has lived with three of her daughters at Bunger's Mills, Greenbrier county. James Madison Argabrite, born May 17, 184o. (A sketch of whom is given below.) Salome B. Argabrite, born January 23, 1842, married Harri-son H. Gwinn; lives on Lick creek, Summers county. Fletcher D. Argabrite, born December 21, 1844, lived with his father until his death, April 23, 1862. Alice M. Argabrite, born March 2, 1847, married Andrew Jarrett, grandson of James Jarrett, of Greenbrier county, and went to reside in Wisconsin, where she died, June 23, 1917. Druilla Argabrite lived but a few months. 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 07:55:13 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: James Madison ARGABRITE, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 290-291 JAMES MADISON ARGABRITE. James Madison Argabrite, a son of Colonel John Argabrite above mentioned, was born May 17, 1840, and lives where he was born, in his home on Muddy creek, in Blue Sulphur district, fonnerly a part of the ancestral estate. In his youth (about eighteen years ago) he attended the Alleghany College, which stood at Blue Sulphur Springs. On February I, 1864, he joined the Confederate army in Company K, Fourteenth Virginia Cavalry. He was captured on May 6th at Meadow Bluff by Captain Blazer's cavalry and taken prisoner to Charleston, where he was kept a month. He was then taken to Camp Chase Ohio, where he remained nine months. After this he was sent on exchange to Richmond, where he was given a furlough for thirty days. At the expiration of this leave of absence the war was over. In November, 1867, he married Annie C. Anderson, daughter of Alexander H. Anderson, his neighbor, also a member of one of the oldest families in Greenbrier county. To this union were born: Jo, October 5, i869; John Alexander, September 13, 1875; he died February 12, 1902; Mary Catherine, August 23, 1877; R. B, June 17, 1881; he died February 25, 1903; Otho Paul (the well known physician at Alderson), May 13, 1884, who married Mary Johnson Feamster, October 15, 1907; she died January 4, 1910. Two children were horn to this union: Mary Catherine, November 25, 1908. and Lula Virginia, who died in infancy. Dr. Otho Argabrite married on November 6.1911. Miss Clella Mottesheaca, of Charleston, W. Va. J. M. Argabrite has devoted most of his time on his land to grain and stock raising. He was the first to introduce into Greenbrier county the pure bred Polled Angus cattle. He served six years as commissioner of Greenbrier county. 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 08:02:16 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: George Taylor ARGABRITE, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 291-293 GEORGE TAYLOR ARGABRITE George Taylor Argabrite, son of Phares G. Argabrite, was born in Greenbrier county, February 28, i85o. His youth was spent on the ancestral farm, which lies near Cline's Bridge, in Bhie Sulphur district, where he lived with his widowed mother and his brothers, John Riley and Jacob L. He came of sturdy, virile and brainy stock. In his veins courses the blood of Argabrites, Jarretts, Hockmans and Gwinns. In 1869 he went to Missouri and was brought in contact with the spirit of the West. When he returned from the West he attended Roanoke College and the West Virginia University. In 1871 he went into the newspaper business as a partner with B. F. Harlow, and they published the Greenbrier Independent for many years until in 1880, B. F. Harlow sold his interest to Thomas H. Deimis and the newspaper and publishing business was conducted by Dennis and Argabrite until 1910, when Mr. Argabrite sold his interest to his partner and went to live on his farm, about our 'nile west of the court house. During the time Mr. Argabrite was engaged as joint editor and publisher of the Independent, his community, together with the entire State and country, went through great changes. Railroads, telephones, phonographs and automobiles, aeroplanes, wire-less telegraphy, new methods of reducing metals, the replacing of wood by iron and steel and concrete, the introduction of machinery on the farm and many other new things came on the stage, and into common use. The patriotic situation in his State and the country changed and varied. New ideas, new philosophies, new legislation came on the scene and were adopted or rejected as the growth of the people required. His natural sense and strong mentality served to steer him safe through all these trying times. He was never carried away with "Issues," yet at the same time his mind stayed young and was always open to listen to new ideas and he had a fine factulty of distinguishing the truth from error. His newspaper established a reputation for sound morality and political stability that made it a power for good. He under-stood his business thoroughly, could set type, write leaders, man-age the financial end and do anything needed to make a good, readable sheet, and made the business prosperous. His affiliation was with the Democratic party and he was ever staunch in his allegiance to the principles of that party as he saw them, but was never an unreasoning partisan and often by word and pen pointed out rocks ahead. In 1880he married Mollie M. Miller, a daughter of William G. Miller. To this union three children were born, William Graeme, George Phares and Rose Miller. Since 1910 he has lived on his farm, which is of great fertility, near the town of Lewis-burg. Wherever a public question arose, he has been heard from, and, in my humble opinion, he has seen a light many of his neighbors did mot see. He believes in making this world a better place for men and women to live in. He realizes we must live for our children and has backed by earnest effort every step to advance with the growth of the world. He has a vast fund of useful knowledge, well digested. 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 08:07:28 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Rev. John McELHENNEY, D.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. 293-294 REV. JOHN McELHENNEY, D. D. Rev. John McElhenney, D. D., was born in the Waxhaus (Waxhia) Lancaster district, South Carolina; March 22, 1781. In 1800 he went to Spartansburg district to an academy taught by Rev. James Gilleland. In 1802 he entered Washington College Virginia, and graduated in 1804. In 1808 he was licensed to' preach by Lexington Presbytery and was sent at once to the churches at Lewisburg and Union. He was installed as pastor of the Old Stone Church in the summer of 1809 and continued his relations with it down to his death, January 2, 1871, in his ninetieth year. In 1807 Dr. McElhenney married Rebecca Walkup, of Lexington, Va. Six children were born to this union. She survived her husband five years and died at about the same age. The graves of these two remarkable people are seen under the shadow of the Old Stone Church, and many have been the pilgrim who have journeyed there to stand in reverence and lowered heads. Dr. McElhenney preached the Gospel of the Lord Jesus from the top of the Alleghanies to the banks of the Ohio and established Presbyterianism throughout this trans-Alleghany region. He was a great man and a great teacher, and his name is so linked with the history of this region it can never be forgotten. 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 08:11:33 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <702bd347.2528a1f5@aol.com> Subject: BIO: David TUCKWILLER, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 294-295 DAVID TUCKWILLER. The late David Tuckwiller departed this life very suddenly on May 24, 1917. He belonged to one of Greenbrier's oldest families, was a scientific farmer, and known as an honorable upright citizen of the general commonwealth. It was with unfeigned sorrow the people generally heard of his death. The Tuckwiller family is of Bavarian descent. John Tuck-wilIer, the pioneer, immigrated to America in Colonial times and settled upon a large tract of land in Greenbrier county, with the homestead in Rich Hollow. He raised a large family. There were three sons, David, Daniel and John, and the daughter, who married Frederick Hedrick, Joseph Hedrick, Abram Coffman, Moses Dwyer, John Fleshman, John Matics, John Wilson and Samuel Perkins. David Tuckwiller, son of John, married Sallie Linson, who was born November 21, 1793. Their children were Rebecca, wife of Alex. Rader, born March, 1812; Samuel, born June 12, 1815; Caroline, wife of John T. Johnson, born May 28, 1817; Evaline, wife of J. J. Livesay, born October 28, 1819; Catherine, wife of Wallace Rader, born November 26, 1821; Nancy, married Mr. Hedrick, and Eliza Jane and Martha, who died in girlhood. He was able to give each of his daughters a farm. From this source can be traced the financial wealth of several old and important families in this part of the State. He built the residence now occupied by Mrs. A. J. Wilson, in 1828. Not long afterward he built the house owned and occupied by her brother David. Samuel Tuckwiller, the only son of David, married Elizabeth Jane Slater, and from that union were born two children, David, the subject of this sketch, born August 15, 1857, and Sarah Bettie, born April 10, i860. David Tuckwiller was married October 6, 1880. His wife, Lucy Rachel, the daughter of James Franklin Watts, was born October 6, 1861. She is the mother of the present family of nine children. Samuel Slater, born September 14, 1881; Frank Watts, born April 5, 1884; Jesse Ray, December '7, i886; Edward Hill, Sep-tember 16, 1890; Eugene Anthony, December 14, 1891; Ross Homan, March 6, 1895; Rachel, March 30, '898; Elizabeth, October 24, 1900, died December 12, 1902; Pat Alexander, April 13, 1905. Of these children, four are married, viz: Slater married Ada Knapp, daughter of Bernard Knapp, of Lewisburg; Frank mar-ried Mary Dotson, daughter of W. R. Dotson, of Lewisburg; Ray married Lucy Boggs, daughter of Rev. Boggs, of New Martins-ville, W. Va.; Eugene married Margaret Phillips, daughter of F. W. Phillips, of Des Moines, Iowa. The late Mr. Tuckwiller owned an extensive tract of land, which he kept intensively cultivated. He was not only a successful farmer, orderly and methodical in all his work, but as a Christian gentleman he bore a reputable official relationship with the Methodist Episcopal church, South, to which he gave regular and liberal support. With that parental care due to the family hearthstone, and to influences afterwards eminating from future firesides, for which he became responsible, Mr. Tuckwiller gave his children a good education, the seven oldest having graduated from the State University at Morgantown. 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