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Today's Topics:
  #1 BIO: William G. MILLER, Greenbrier   [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #2 BIO: George Lynn CLARK, Greenbrier   [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #3 BIO: The MILLER Family, Greenbrier   [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #4 BIO: John LEWIS, Greenbrier County   [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #5 BIO: James M. RODGERS, Greenbrier    [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #6 BIO: William E. NELSON, Greenbrier   [SSpradling@aol.com]

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History of Greenbrier County
J. R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV 1917
p. 94-96

WILLIAM G. MILLER.

The first of the name of Miller, so far as the records go, was Daniel Miller.
He was a native of Lancaster, Pa.- and moved to the Mossy creek section of
Augusta county about 1730. He built the first iron foundry in the Valley of
Virginia, and died in 1796, one of the wealthiest men in the county. He was
an uncle of Daniel Boone, and Boone was named for him and apprenticed to him
to learn the trade of iron founder. He was of German descent and an elder of
Augusta county in 1790.
His wife was originally Mary Craig, and was married three times. Her first
husband was John Groves, by whom she had three children: John, Martha and
Elizabeth. Her second husband was Daniel Miller, by whom she also had three
children: William, James and Margaret. Her third husband was Robert Martin,
by whom she had four children: Robert, Samuel, Polly and Susan. Robert
Martin, who came with his family from Augusta county, Virginia, settled on
Camp creek, Nicholas county (?) near T. Bails'. He cleaned off a piece of
land and built a mill, about the year i805. He remained here for some years,
then went away and was never heard from again. His wife was an industrious
woman and a good manager and successfully reared her family and accu-mulated
some means, eventually buying a farm. After her children all married and left
home she kept a boarding house, where the circuit judge and lawyers all
stopped during court times until ac-commodations were prepared at
Summersyille.
The will of Daniel Miller is given in full in Chockley's Annals of Augusta,
also a complete list of his children. After bequeathing practically all of
his estate to his wife, who was Mary Craig, and their three children,
William, James and Margaret, he later in the will leaves five shillings each
to "My sons, Michael, Jacob, Daniel, and Samuel Miller," and "To my daughter,
Catherine Miller," all "in lieu of" birthright. These five children were
probably by a former wife.
William Miller, son of Daniel Miller, died in 1877, aged 86 years. His wife,
Susan, died in 1871. He had one brother, James, in Augusta, and one sister,
Margaret Foster, in Nicholas. He bought land from Joseph McNutt and in all
owned over 300 acres.
He married Susanna Fitzwater, and three sons were born of their union: Isaac,
William G. and James, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Judah and Susan.
In 1807, Thomas Fitzwater, who was reared in Buckingham county, Virginia,
came to Nicholas county from Greenbrier county with his family of nine
children.  He bought land of Captain George Fitzwater, cleared out a large
farm and made a comfortable living. His wife was Mary Cuhan, of Irish
descent, her mother being of English descent.
Thomas and Mary Fitzwater were the grandparents of William G. Miller on his
mother's side, and Daniel and Mary Miller on his father's side. He was born
April 20, 1827, and was married twice, his first wife being Isabel McVeigh
(1831-1866). were born to this union: Alex. McVeigh, who married Mrs. Mittie
(Point) Davis, who developed a decided literary talent and has written
seventy-five novels.  She lives in Alderson, but spends most of her winters
in Washington, D.C.; Dr. Charles W.; Mollie, who married George T. Argabrite,
and Nancy.  He moved to Greenbrier in 1870, after his marriage to Mrs.
Malinda (Patton) Alderson, and remained there until his death, October 10,
1908. One child, Nora (widow of Rev. C. H. Peck), was given them. He lived a
quiet, contented, unostentatious life on the farm, where the latch-string
always hung on the outside, where the stranger was always welcomed to share
the generous and unstinted hos-pitality of a well ordered, happy home.
Greenbrier had no better citizen than William G. Miller. In-dependent,
pronounced in his views, with well formed opinions on all questions touching
the welfare of State, county, community, be was at the same time modest,
unassuming, was respected and honored by all as a man of high character and
sterling integrity in all his dealings. He had a kind heart, a willing hand;
the poor of his community know his goodness and charity were sure and
unfailing.  His wife, Mrs. Malinda Miller, died November 14, 1911, at the old
home where she had lived for nearly fifty-five years. She united with the
Sinks Grove Baptist church when she was seventeen years old. She transferred
her membership to the Greenbrier Baptist church when she was first married
and came to Alderson to live. For sixty years she walked with the Lord with
unswerving fidelity. She was a woman of the clearest con-victions, of
strongest faith, and of great firmness of character. Her devotion to the
church of Christ was most marked, and the old records of Greenbrier Baptist
church, in which she spent more than half a century of service, hear their
testimony to her great worth.

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History of Greenbrier County
J. R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV 1917
p. 96-98

GEORGE LYNN CLARK.

Neola is one of the active centers of Greenbrier county  It took its start
after the Civil war and became a place of conseotience in the time of Jacob
Dysard and James Clark. both of this placc, and men of character. Mr. Dysard
owned some five or six hundred acres of land in this vicinity, with dwelling
house on the other side of Anthony's creek, about opposite the place where
George Lynn Clark now lives.  His daughter, Mary, was married to James Clark.
Her father was a native of Pocahontas county.
George Lynn Clark, son of James Clark and grandson of Jacob Dysard, added
several improvements to the old homestead. He owns and operates a general
store and a saw mill, and besides cultivating a large farm, manufactures six
or seven hundred thousand feet of lumber every year for the general market.
He is a woodsman of experience, having rafted logs on the Greenbrier for
nearly a score of years. As a merchant of fifteen years' experience, he has
been successful in building up an extensive trade for the people of that part
of the county, and as a genial man and good citizen, he has many warm
friends. He built his house in 1908.  On April 18, 1900, Mr. Clark married
Miss Bertie McHenry Beard, daughter of J. 0. Beard. They are the parents of
one daughter, Marie Clark. Mr. Clark has long been identified as a member of
the Board of Education.
Joseph B. Clark, grandfather of George Lynn Clark, was a native of Virginia.
He was born May I. 1800, and died July 18, 1856. He married Christena
Dressler, December 27, 1827. She was born January 14, 1808, and died January
31, 1869. To that union was born James F. Clark, May 15, 1843, one of the
heroes of the Civil war.
James F. Clark, father of George L., became a distinguished soldier in the
Confederate army, and subsequently a member of the State Legislature, where
he served his country and his constituency faithfully. By many he was
regarded as the ablest and best representative the county ever had and was
talked of as a suitable representative in Congress for the Third district.
He was a representative of Greenbrier county in 1889 and again in 1891,
serving two terms with sufficient ability to cope with the best legal talent
in committee rooms or on the floors of the house, He was a man of great
courage and of marked convictions, and had a reputation of never having
swerved from a strict sense of duty.
James F. Clark was born in Covington, Va., and was one of the few men who
passed through the war without having a stain left on his character. His
father having died when he was in his teens, a responsibility rested upon him
while in youth which did much to mould his life in the right way afterward.
On May 1, 1862, he joined Bryan's Battery and stood at his post a brave
soldier in twenty-one engagements, never shirking duty in camp or on the
battlefield. Three days after the surrender of Lee's armv his company was
disbanded and he returned to Covington. During that same spring he was
offered a collegiate course with all expenses paid if he would take the
iron-clad oath, but he preferred a clear conscience, and worked his way to an
education by his own efforts. Five years of his life were spent in the
Methodist Episcopal church as a minister of the Gospel, and a number of years
in teaching in private and public schools, and he never failed to give
perfect satisfaction. As a preacher and teacher his services were of a great
value, as they were also when serving his country as a lawmaker.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. James F. Clark George Lynn, before
mentioned; Emma Grace Clark, and Ida Sue Clark, the wife of Lawrence Perry
Wolfe. They were married August 21, 1907.

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History of Greenbrier County
J. R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV 1917
p. 98-100

THE MILLER FAMILY.

The Miller family is of Scotch-Irish descent and is one of the most numerous
and important in the State of West Virginia.
Patrick Miller, the ancestor of the Miller- of Greenbrier county, was born on
the Atlantic ocean while his parents were emigrating to America. They settled
where the city of Staunton, Augusta county, Virginia, was built afterwards.
John Miller, the eldest son of Patrick, came to Lick creek, Greenbrier
county, bringing three slaves with him, more than a hundred year ago. He
married a Miss Jane Hodges, and they two, with the three slaves, Abe, Sarah
and Minta, given by his father, set out over the Patterson mountain, finally
reaching the forks of Slater
creek, Flag Fork and Lick creek, and there he built the house afterwards
owned by William Shumate, who purchased it from J. W. Alderson.
John Miller was a carpenter by trade and built what was known in those days
as a fine house, double story hewed logs, with a dressed stone chimney.
John H. Miller, born September 3, 1804, and his wife, Nancy (Crist) Miller,
born March 11, 1809, were the pa?ents of the Irish Corner district Millers.
Their children were: William Henry, born January 1, 1828, died March 29,
'809; Michael Crist, born May 3, 1831, killed by an explosion of a boiler on
the steamer "Eclipse" at Johnsonville, Tenn. He was drafted in the army on
November 26, 1864, and died January 27, 1865; David Harvey Miller, born May
12, 1834, and died July 19,1834.
William Henry Miller, father of the present sheriff of Green-brier county,
was a successful farmer, a staunch Republican. and at one time deputy sheriff
of Greenbrier county.  He married Sarah A. Hall March 1, 1855  She was born
January 9,1837, and died November 5, 1859.  He then married Miss Elizabeth
Margaret Erwin January 1, 1866; born August 5, 1840.  She died November 17,
1908. His children were: John Alexander, born April 22, 1855, and died August
24, 1859, in Laclede county, Missouri; James Michael, December 19, 1856;
Nancy Susan, December '13, 1858; died November 5, 1859; Amanda Caroline, July
29, 1869; Robert Allen (now living at St. Joseph, Mo.), October
2, 1862; David Hunter (owner and occupant of the homestead), March 28, 1868;
Amy Gertrude, July 27, 1875.
James Michael Miller, sheriff of Greenbrier county, and di-rector in the
First National Bank at Ronceverte, remained on the farm until twenty-two
years old and then after a retail merchandise business in Organ Cave for nine
years, came to Ron-ceverte and went into business for himself. That was in
1892, since which time he has made a large number of very influential
ac-quaintances throughout Greenbrier county, in the merchandise business,
selling agricultural implements, flour and feed.  His popularity won him, in
the last election for sheriff. a Repubilcan majority of 299 over a vote of
482 belonging to the Republican ticket, and his opponent was one of the most
highly esteemed citizens of the county. He served six years on the city
council of Ronceverte and two years as recorder, and then as mayor two terms.
James Michael Miller married Miss Della Ann, daughter of Hugh Hogsett, in
October, 1893. To this union were born four sons and one daughter, namely:
John William, Nannie Viola, Joseph Franklin, James Robert and Jasper Olen
Miller, who died at the age of five years, August 13, 1908.
David Hunter Miller, the well known farmer and stock raiser in Irish
district, married Miss Eliza Jane McDowell January 3, 1894. To this union
were born Mary Christine, January 27, 1896; Julian Hunter, January 8, 1898;
Henry Alexander, October 16, 1899; Edward Lee, June 29, 1902.
Mrs. Eliza J. Miller died February 13, 1909. D. H. Miller married his second
wife, Miss Mary Susan Carlisle, October 12, 1911, and to this union was born
Margaret Ruth, January 2, 1914.  Margaret Ruth died January 3, 1914; Mary S.
January  9, 1914.
The Miller homestead is delightfully situated and is in a beautiful part of
Irish Corner. The land here was once of the huckleberry class, but by
fertilization and cultivation in the proper way, it has attained a richness
in soil equal to any in the county.

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History of Greenbrier County
J. R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV 1917
p. 100-103

JOHN LEWIS, PIONEER.

After the settlement at Jamestown, in 1607, it was over one hundred years
before the white people got as far west as the eastern slope of the Blue
Ridge, and it was still later that a settlement was made in the Valley of
Virginia. The Blue Ridge, near the Potomac, offered less of a barrier than
the mountain farther south, and the oldest town in the valley, Winchester,
was founded in the first part of the eighteenth century. The country was soon
settled by the Pennsylvania Germans, who retained their native language
and customs. The lands of the Shenandoah Valley attracted the Germans in
great quantities and the settlements moved south, but through the
instrumentality of John Lewis, who had settled near what is now Staunton,
this steady immigration was met by the Scotch-Irish from the northern part of
Ireland, who came to this part of Virginia in great numbers in the thirties
and forties of that century. John Lewis landed in Portugal about the year
1728, and thence to America, and he was the pioneer of the settlers of
Au-gusta county, which county was formed in 1745. John Lewis probably
established himself in the valley in 1732, and it is certain that his ability
to colonize was so great that in 1738 there was enough living people in the
vicinity of Staunton to require churches and schools. He was a man of
education, force and power, and he transferred the people who were fleeing
from the north of Ire-land by the shipload to Augusta county. It is to this
highly effective man that the people of Augusta, Rockbridge, Highland, Bath,
Alleghany and the Greenbrier valley owe their distinctive citizenship, and
full credit ought to be given him for his enterprise by our people. If there
is anything in monuments he ought to have one as enduring as the pyramids of
Egypt. Some histories have it that John Lewis came to the valley by the way
of Pennsylvania, but this is probably a mistake. John Lewis came by way of
Jamestown, to Williamburg, the capital of the colony.
At this place he got his first information of the southern part of the valley
from a man by the name of John Salling. John Mar-lin and John Salling had
some years before gone from Winchester as far south as the Roanoke river,
where Salling was captured by the Cherokee Indians, and remained in captivity
for several years. With Lewis, at that time, was a man by the name of McKey.
The three men- John Lewis, John McKey and John Salling-came to the valley.
Lewis settled at Staunton, McKey at Buffalo Gap, and SaIling at the forks of
the James river, near Clifton Forge. Lewis. set to work to bring his friends
to the new country. McKey and Salling lived and died without taking any part
in the colonization of the valley.
Benjamin Burden was agent for Lord Fairfax. Lewis met him in Williamsburg, in
1736. Burden went back with him to the valley. They hunted together, with
Sampel and Andrew Lewis, sons of John Lewis.
They captured a buffalo calf and took it as a present to Governor Gooch.
Gooch entered an order allowing Burden to locate 500,000 acres on the waters
of the James and the Shenandoah, on the condition that '00 families he
settled on the located lands within ten years.
It must be presumed that Lewis kept in touch with his home people in Ireland
during these years. Any way, 100 families, all from the north of Ireland,
were settled within one year, and this is the reason that by 1738 churches
and schools were needed in the vicinity of what is now Staunton. In '745
enough people had set-tled to form the county of Augusta, and the town of
Staunton was founded the same year. Frederick county was formed in 1738, and
the town of Winchester something earlier. As late as 1852 Winchester was the
largest town west of the Blue Ridge, in Virginia, with the exception of
Wheeling. The Lewis settlement of Scotch-Irish had cut across the path of the
German settlers from Pennsylvania. Rockingham was the farthest south of the
German counties. Washington in his desperation turned to the fighting
Scotch-Irish of Augusta, and not to the peaceful, Quaker-like Germans.
John Lewis included in his plans the occupation of the Greenbrier valley,
which, with its rich limestone lands, was like the country around Staunton.
His Scotch-Irish settlements expanded to the south and west for various
reasons.
A great deal of his 100,000-acre grant taken in the name of the Greenbrier
colony, was located in the Big Levels around Lewisburg. This was a treeless
plateau country. It had all the appear-ance of a prairie. The land was rich,
and by 1763 the country was pretty well settled. Dates are hard to get, but
we mark this date well because this was the year that the Indians put them
all out of their summer hunting grounds, killing a number and raiding as far
east as Staunton. About 1765 the settlers commenced to come back.
Lewisburg was probably named from Gen. Andrew Lewis, who assembled his forces
there, which he took to Point Pleasant and fought the battle at that place.
It was first called the Savannah, because of its being a prairie, and later
Camp Union.
In 1751, John Lewis was, with his son, Andrew Lewis, surveying the 470 acres
at Marlinton. Andrew Lewis was thirty-one years of age.  John Lewis was
seventy-three years old.  They found a trapper here by the name of Jacob
Marlin, from whom this town takes its name, it being first called Marlin's
Bottom. Jacob Marlin trapped out of Winchester, as did John Marlin, and we
have often wondered if they were not really the same man.
John Lewis was born in Donegal, the extreme northwestern county of Ireland,
in the Province of Ulster, in the year 1678. In '729 he killed a man and fled
the country. He went to Portugal, and thence to Williamsburg, in the Virginia
colony. He made it possible for the Scotch-Irish to settle in Virginia, and
he is the forerunner of the Scotch-Irishmen of this part of the county. He
filled the country with Macs. He died in Staunton, February I, 1762. We, the
people of these Scotch-Irish counties, owe more to him than to any other man
connected with the early history of America.    -Pocahontas Times.

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History of Greenbrier County
J. R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV 1917
p. 92-94

JAMES M. RODGERS.

The Rodgers family in Greenbrier county is a very old one. Michael Rodgers
and his wife, Catherine, emigrated from Ireland and settled in Irish Corner
on about 1,000 acres of wood-land before the Revolution.  It is almost
certain that Michael Rodgers was a soldier in that war. The family located
where J. Harrison Burdette now lives and the old house stood until just a few
years ago. The orchard served the family well and faithfully; some of the
trees, true to life, are still bearing fruit. A record of this entry can
probably be found in Richmond, Va.  In the general index of deeds, in the
Greenbrier records, is found a grant of land by Samuel Carrell to Michael
Rodgers of 123 acres on Second Creek. Deed made in the year 1797.
Children born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rodgers were: Sally, Michael, James,
John, Ibbie, Ida, Eli, Daniel, most of whom settled in the West and all now
dead.
Daniel Rodgers married Elizabeth Coffman. Children born to this union were:
(1) Sarah Ann, now Mrs. Robert McDowell; (2)    Christopher M., deceased; (3)
Catherine, Mrs. J. Harrison Burdette, residents of the old home place; (4)
James Madison; (5)Mrs. Mary Humphries; (6) Samuel Eli, his wife was Emma
Williams, now dead; (7) Mrs. Susan J., wife of Nelson White.
Daniel Rodgers, son of Michael, was born August 16, 1813, and died May 7,
1882. He was a farmer and stock raiser, and lived where Samuel Rodgers lives
now. Farming and stock raising has been, and is yet, the business of all of
the Rodgers family.
Eli Rodgers married Charlotte Hoke, and to this union were born six children:
Nathan, now in Missouri; Nannie, married John Crawford and is dead; Michael,
of Covington, Va., married twice, Miss Nickell and Mrs. McCormic; Sarah C.,
married twice, first to Samuel Coffman, second to John McCoy, now living in
Ohio.
James Madison Rodgers is known as one of Greenbrier's substantial farmers and
stock raisers.  His farm, consisting of 800 acres of land, is well adapted
for agricultural purposes and fruit culture, and with its annual income
proportionate to its area, is valuable property. The place was bought of Eli
Rodgers in April, 1883. October 24, 1902, a destructive fire burned three
barns, two granaries and other outbuildings, making a loss of about $7,000,
but during the year following they were all rebuilt.
James Madison Rodgers was born January 15. 1850.  On November 29, 1877, he
married Miss Emma Dunsmore, born January 2, 1858, and for six years following
a residence was maintained in the Ft. Spring vicinity before moving to their
pres-ent one. Mrs. Rodgers was a native of Monroe county.  Her grandfather,
James Dunsmore, died there about fifty years ago~ His son, Andrew Lewis
Dunsmore, born in 1826, married Miss Martha Evens. He diedNovmeber 22, 1896.
She died December i6, 1907. While a young man he spent some years in the
West, but at the request of his parents returned finally to the old homestead.
Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. James Madison Rodgers:  Emory Earl,
August 1, 1879; Sidney Burton, May 21, 1881; Ethel Gray, November 28, 1882,
died October 28, 1886; Homer Dale, October 31, 1884; Cecil Carl, August 25,
1886; Martha Estelle, December 5, 1889; Dessie Alma, November 3, 1891; James
Lester, January 14, 1894; Mary Leon, December 13, 1898.
Emory Earl Rodgers was married to Miss Lelia Ethel Bowles, September 24,
1904. They have three children, two now living: Lillian Ethel and Jessie
Leona.
Sidney Burton Rodgers was married to Miss Lelia Christie June 2, 1908, and
they are the parents of three children: Lucile, Edith and Frank.
Homer D. Rodgers married Miss Bertha Byrd December 22, 1908, and they have
two children: Fred and Ethel.
Martha Estelle Rodgers married Rev. R. M. Millard, of Chattanooga. They are
now living at Athens, Tenn. No children. Rev. Mr. Millard is dean of the
college at Athens.

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History of Greenbrier County
J. R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV 1917
p. 80-81

WILLIAM E. NELSON

Lewisburg has two banks and each does a thriving business. The Bank of
Lewisburg and its cashier, William E. Nelson, have been nseparably connected
for almost thirty years.
After his school course in the old Lewisburg Academy, in i88i, Mr. Nelson has
been behind the counter practically ever since.  His business acquaintance
first began as a clerk in the store.  In 1889 he was made teller in the Bank
of Ronceverte. In 189' he became bookkeeper in the Bank of Lewisb'irg. a
p0-sition he held six years.  He was then elected to his present position of
cashier and vice-president of the bank in 1897.
Mr. Nelson was bom on January 19, 1865, and was the son of Elizabeth Edgar
and G. K. Nelson. His mother was born June 25, 1833, near Liberty, Va.  She
was married to Mr. Nelson, who was born on February 15, 1828, near Union, W.
Va.. on September I, 1859. William E. Nelson was their onlv child.
Mr. Nelson, our subject. was married on January 29.1890, to Susie J. Lipps, a
daughter of John and Mary Lipps. They have four children: Mary Elizabeth,
Susie Lynn, Margaret Edgar and Dorothy Ogan.
Mr. Nelson is actively engaged in church and civic life.


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