WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 88 Today's Topics: #1 Court Papers: Lincoln, Cabell, and [Lucy13bell@aol.com] #2 Bio-Oscar Lee Stanard- Nicholas Co [Joan Wyatt ] ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 07:52:21 EST From: Lucy13bell@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Court Papers: Lincoln, Cabell, and Putnam Counties Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit IN THE District Court of the United States For the Southern District of West Virginia ____________ George L. Estabrook and Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Trustees, ect, Plaintiffs vs. Charles Honaker, et als, Defendants. ______________________________ SUMMONS AND DECLARATION IN EJECTMENT _______________________ J.S. Clark. H.A. McCarthy Vinson & Thompson, Campbell, Brown & Davis, Attorneys for Plaintiffs to appear before the Judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of West Virginia, at the City of Huntington, at Rules to be held in the Clerk's Office of said Court, on the first Monday in December next, to answer unto GEORGE L. ESTABROOK AND SABIN W. COLTON, JR. Trustees of the Lincoln County land Association, of a pleas in Ejectment to-wit: IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, For the Southern District of West Virginia. __________________ At Huntington, 1912 ________________ George L. Estabrook and Sabin W. Colton, Jr, Citizens and residents of the State of Pennsylvania, and Trustees of the Lincoln County Land Association, complain of Charles Honaker, William Honaker, W.S. McCallister, Talmage Bias, Ollie Hoskinson, Monroe Brumfield, Ambrose Adkins, Wilson Morrison, Eliza J. Lucas, Allen nelson, Avril Elkins, Bettie Elkins, Randolph Sias, Ulysses Nelson, W.M. Spears, Burley Spears, Edward Adkins, Reed Adkins, Benton Skeins, Mark Hodge, James Carper, Isaac Adkins, Ira Adkins, Delmont Peyton, Gordon Plumley, J.C. Vickers, Richard Harber, William Lewis, N.M. Hager, Joseph Stump, Giles Linkous, W.L. Tudor, James Willis, Sybbie Nelson (wife of Allen Nelson), Grover Smith, Mack Smith, and Lewis Cooper UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA, SS __________________________ Summons in Ejectment ____________________- The President of the United States of America, To the Marshal of the Southern District of West Virginia. GREETING: You are hereby commanded to summon Charles Honaker, William Honaker, W.S. McCallister, Talmage Bias, Ollie Hoskinson, Monroe Brumfield, Ambrose Adkins, Wilson Morrison, Eliza J. Lucas, Allen nelson, Avril Elkins, Bettie Elkins, Randolph Sias, Ulysses nelson, W.M. Spears, Burley Spears, Edward Adkins, Reed Adkins, Benton Skeins, mark Hodge, James Carper, Isaac Adkins, Ira Adkins, Delmont Peyton, Gordon Plumley, J.C. Vickers, Richard Harber, William Lewis, N.M. Hager, Joseph Stump, Giles Linkous, W.L. Tudor, James Willis, Sybbie Nelson (wife of Allen Nelson), Grover Smith, Mack Smith, and Lewis Cooper defendants, all citizens and residents of the State of West Virginia and of the Southern District thereof, of a plea of trespass on the case, for that hereto fore, to wit, on the first day of July A.D., 1912 the said George L. Estabrook and Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Trustees as aforesaid were seized and possessed in fee simple of a certain tract of land, lying and being in the Counties of Lincoln, Putnam, and Cabell, State of West Virginia, in the said Southern District, containing 110,000 acres, be the same ever so much more or less, being the northeasterly portion of the tract which comprises four contiguous surveys made for General Samuel Smith, on which four several patents were granted by the State of Virginia to the said Smith, one dated on the 16th day of June, 1796 and the others on the 29th day of June 1797, and bounded as follows: BEGINNING at a state on the east side of the Guyandotte River just above the mouth of Big Creek near the abutment of the C. & C. Railway bridge at the call of 2 Sycamores; thence north twenty-one degrees twenty-eight minutes East, seven hundred and seventy seven feet to a stone monument near Big Creek in a meadow behind Wm. Lucas' store, thence North fifty-three degrees east fifteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-six feet to a stone monument on the ridge between Broad Branch and Big Ugly Creek at the call of 3 Black oaks on a ridge; thence North seven degrees thirty minutes East ninety-two thousand three hundred and fifteen feet to a stake on Turkey Creek near Burnside's store at the call of a poplar; thence North twenty-six degrees fifty three minutes West forty-nine thousand six hundred and seventy-one feet to a stone monument on Charley's Creek near Dick McAllister's house at or near the intersection of said Charley's Creek and the Cabell-Putnam County line; thence South sixty-two degrees fourteen minutes West forty-eight thousand four hundred and sixty-one feet to a stone monument on Trace Creek of Guyandotte; thence South thirty-eight degrees fifty-four minutes West eleven thousand six hundred and twenty-seven feet to a stone monument on the East Bank of the Guyandotte River about one hundreds below the mouth of Madison Branch; thence up the Guyandotte River about one hundred yards below the mouth of Madison Branch; thence up the Guyandotte River with its meanders to the BEGINNING. Containing 110,000 acres, be the same ever so much more or less And being so possessed thereof the said defendants afterwards, to wit, on the second day of July, A.D. 1912, entered into said premises and unlawfully withhold from the plaintiffs the possession thereof, to the damage of the plaintiffs, $5000. COUNT No. 2 And also for that heretofore, to wit, on the first day of July 1912 in the District aforesaid, the said GEORGE ESTABROOK and SABIN W. COLTON, JR. simple of a certain other tract or parcel of land, situate in the Counties, State and District aforesaid, and bounded as follows: BEGINNING at the most northerly corner of said tract at a beech and buckeye near Charley's Creek so called, a branch of Mud River, which trees were marked as an original corner to one of the four Smith Surveys, viz., the Mud Rover survey, thence south thirty-three degrees east two thousand nine hundred and eighty poles by the easterly line of said Mud River survey to a stake near Turkey Creek, so called, another branch of Mud River, and near the house of the late Richard McCallister and standing in the place where a large poplar stood, which was marked as an original corner of said Mud River survey, also as the beginning of said Smith's upper or large survey, to a point from which a line extended due west until it strikes the Guyandotte River, shall embrace within the lines before described and that portion of said Smith's northerly lines which lie east of the Guyandotte River, and the Guyandotte River, 100,000 acres, thence due west from said point to the Guyandotte River, thence northerly down the said river to the northerly line of said Smith's Survey, thence northeasterly along said last-mentioned line to the place of beginning. And being so possessed thereof, the said defendants, to wit, on the second day of July 1912, entered into the said premises, and unlawfully withhold from the plaintiffs the possession thereof to the damage of the said plaintiffs, $5000. Count 3 And also for that heretofore, to wit, on the first day of July, 1912, in the District aforesaid, the said GEORGE ESTABROOK and SABIN W. COLTON, JR. Trustees as aforesaid, were possessed in fee simple of a certain tract or parcel of land, situate in the said Counties, State and District, and bounded as follows: BEGINNING at the most northerly corner of said tract at a beech and buckeye near Charley's Creek so-called, a branch of Mud River, which trees were marked as an original corner to one of the four Smith surveys, viz. the Mud River survey, thence South thrity-three degrees East two thousand nine hundred and eighty poles by the Easterly line of said Mud River survey to a stake near Turkey Creek, so called, another branch of Mud River, and near the house of the late Richard McCallister and standing in the place where a large poplar stood, which was marked as an original corner of said corner of a survey of 100,000 acres made for Elijah Wood, thence Southerly by the Westerly line of six thousand three hundred thirty poles crossing small branches of Mud River to three black oaks on a ridge corner of said Wood, and also corner to the survey of 58,000 acres made for Richard Stockton; thence leaving said Woods and with said Stockton survey South forty-seven degrees West nine hundred and sixty poles to two gums and poplar, South twenty degrees West forty-six poles to two sycamores on the bank of the Guyandotte River at the mouth of a large creek, thence northerly with the meanders of said Guyandotte River to where lines of a survey of 33000 acres for said Smith crosses the river near Madison Creek, thence partly with one line of said Smith's survey North thirty two degrees thirty minutes east to where a white oak and 2 poplars are called for seven degrees East two thousand nine hundred and eight poles to the beginning. And being so possessed thereof, the said defendants, to with, on the second day of July 1912, entered into he said premises, and unlawfully withhold from the he plaintiffs the possession thereof, to the damage of the said plaintiffs, $5,000. Plaintiffs say that this is an action of a civil nature, and that the value of the matter in dispute in each count hereof exceeds the sum or value of Three thousand dollars, exclusive of interest and costs. Therefore plaintiffs bring their suit. GEORGE L. ESTABROOK SABIN W. COLTON, JR. Trustees. By Douglas W. Brown Of Counsel J.S. Clark H.A. McCarthy Vinson & Thompson Campbell, Brown & Davis Attorneys for the Plaintiffs To: Charles Honaker, William Honaker, W.S. McCallister, Talmage Bias, Ollie Hoskinson, Monroe Brumfield, Ambrose Adkins, Wilson Morrison, Eliza J. Lucas, Allen nelson, Avril Elkins, Bettie Elkins, Randolph Sias, Ulysses nelson, W.M. Spears, Burley Spears, Edward Adkins, Reed Adkins, Benton Skeins, mark Hodge, James Carper, Isaac Adkins, Ira Adkins, Delmont Peyton, Gordon Plumley, J.C. Vickers, Richard Harber, William Lewis, N.M. Hager, Joseph Stump, Giles Linkous, W.L. Tudor, James Willis, Sybbie Nelson (wife of Allen Nelson), Grover Smith, Mack Smith, and Lewis Cooper You and each of you are hereby notified that the foregoing declaration in ejectment will be filed in the office of the Clerk of the said District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Huntington, in the County of Cabell and State of West Virginia, on the first Monday of December A.D. 1912; and if you fail to appear and plead ti said declaration within the time required by law, judgment will be given against you. GEORGE ESTABROOK SABIN W. COLTON, JR Trustees By: Douglas W. Brown Of Counsel J.B. Clark H.A. McCarthy Attorneys for Plaintiffs Vinson & Thompson Campbell, Brown & Davis Hereof fail not and of this writ make legal service and due return. Witness the Honorable Benjamin F. Keller, Judge of the District Court of the United States, and seal of the said Court, this 14th day of November A.D. 1912, and in the 137 year of the Independence of the United States of America Teste: Edwin M. Keathley Clerk D.C.U.S.S.D.W. Va. A copy attest: Edwin M. Keathley, Clerk ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:39:26 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38E4AA86.4B6DDC76@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio-Oscar Lee Stanard- Nicholas Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of West Virginia Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume 111 Page 373 Oscar Lee Stanard- Nicholas Co. Oscar Lee Stanard is one of the fortunate men of his time. President of the O.L. Stanard Dry Goods Company, a Huntington wholesale house, and head of a large number of retail stores, his business success has been on a substantial plane for a number of years. But his good fortune is not solely on the score of commercial achievement. He has the kindly attitude of a man of affairs and an unselfish interest and leadership in objects and movements outside the scope of his driving business power. More over, he has the heritage of Old Virginia families of the greatest social and historical prominence of the greatest social and historical prominence. While the reader may first be gratified with a brief account of his individual career, it will also be appropriate to add, consistent with space permitted, some notes on his ancestry and some of the charming personalities in both the direct and collateral branches of his family. Mr. Stanard was born at Enon in Nicholas Co., West Virginia, February 13, 1878. He acquired a good education attending public schools and the Summerville Normal School, and began his career as a school teacher in the winter of 1897-98. In the following spring he went to work in the store of his uncle, J.D. Carden, at Clay, West Virginia, and the next step in his rapid ascent of the commercial ladder was as traveling salesman for the wholesale dry goods house of Abney- Barnes Company of Charleston. He began with that firm in 1900, and after a short experience was ranked as one of the largest individual contributors to the annual volume of business of the firm. He becomes a stockholder in the company and also went into partnership with individuals establishing a string of retail stores that would add to the permanent value of the wholesale house. For several years he was secretary-treasurer of the Abney-Barnes Company. In the latter part of 1913 Mr. Stanard moved to Huntington. He established here the Coft-Stanard Company, of which he is still director and stockholder. Several years later he founded the O.L. Stanard Dry Goods Company as a wholesale dry goods and merchant house, and in four years that business grew from a volume of $500,000 to more than $1,500.000, and it now does an annual business of over $1,500,000. Mr. Stanard is president of this company, and he is financially interested and is president of some thirty odd retail stores located in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, with an annual business of four and one-half million dollars. He is also a director and the first vice president of the Hunt Bank & Trust Company. An interested associate and a sharer in his business success and his career has been Mrs. Stanard. Her maiden name was Mary Marjorie Odgen, daughter of Hon. Howard N. Ogden, of Fairmont. Mr. and Mrs. Stanard were married June 18, 1912. Their children are Ella Jean and Shirley Josephine Stanard. Mr. Stanard has served as director of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Rotary Club, the Arkwright Club of New York, the Country Club at Huntington, and is a Royal Arch Knights Templar and Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. His business affairs have engrossed his attention to the exclusion of politics, but he was elected by his party as delegate to the National Democratic Convention in San Francisco, June, 1920. Mr. Stanard is still a comparatively young man, has won success with many years of activity still in promise, and he has been exceedingly generous in his association with still younger men and has helped a number to get a real start. One of the early principals of his life's conduct, faithfully adhered to, was the habit of systematic giving, and he practiced it when his income was modest and has kept it up on a proportional scale in the years of his affluence. Mr. Stanard represents the eighth generation of this family, beginning with his first American ancestor. Long before the family came to America it was well known in Norfolk and other sections of England. The earlier form of spelling was Stannard. Many members of the old English family were the followers of such skilled trades as weaving, painting and gliding, and the artistic parents came to fine flower in such notable artists as Joseph Stanard (1796-1830), Alfred Stanard (1806-1889) and others. The first settler of the family in Virginia was William Stanard, who was a prominent citizen of Middlesex County during the latter part of the seventeenth century. About 1677 he married Eltonhead Conway, widow of Henry Thacker and daughter of Edwin Conway, of Lancaster County, representing a family of high rank. She was the niece of the wives of three Council members, and also of the wife of Governor Sir Henry Chicheley. William Stanard was a vestryman of Christ Church Parish. He and his wife, Eltonhead, had three children. The youngest of them, named William, was born February 16, 1682, and died in 1732. For seventeen years prior to his death he was clerk of Middlesex County, and, like his father, was a vestryman in Christ Church parish. His first wife was Anne Hazelwood, who left him a daughter, Ann. In 1717, he married Elizabeth Beverly, daughter of Capt. Harry Beverly and maternal granddaughter of Maj. Gen. Robert Smith. Her paternal grandfather, Robert Beverly, came to the colonies in the seventeenth century. The Beverly family was one of much prominence in that section of Virginia. The only son of William and Elizabeth Stanard was named Beverly, and that name became increasingly popular in this family. The Stanard family was well to do, and the home was comfortably furnished, statements that were attested by some of the inventories of household property found in the wills of that generation. Beverly Stanard, representing the third generation, inherited most of his mother's property. He was twenty-six years of age when he died. He had already served as justice and sheriff of Middlesex County, and in 1750 he moved to Spottsylvania County. His residence at Roxbury in that county was one of the first built, and is still standing. His estate of about 16,000 acres passed out of the possession of his descendants about twenty years ago. The wife of Beverly Stanard was Elizabeth Chew, daughter of Larkin Chew. Beverly Stanard died in 1765, and his tombstone still stands at Roxbury. Of his two sons and one daughter the older son was named William, and he was the direct ancestor of the Huntington businessman. William and his brother Larkin were soldiers in the war of the Revolution, William with the rank of captain. Both brothers became prominent in local politics, William serving as sheriff of Spottsylvania County in 1882-84. The name Roxbury was changed to Stanardsville in his honor, and is now the county seat of Greene County. Both William and Larkin Sranard had sons named Beverly, and the two cousins married daughters of Judge William Fleming. These marriages connected the Stanards with some of the distinguished Colonial families of Virginia. The Flemings were lineal descendants from Sir John Fleming, first Earl of Wigton, Scotland. A great-grandson of Sir John was Col. John Fleming, who married Mary Bolling, great-granddaughter of John Rolfe and the famous Indian maiden Pocahontas. The Stard- Fleming branch of the family has produced many conspicuous members, including the great Virginia jurist, Judge Robert Stanard, who married the Virginia beauty, Jane Craig, who was the inspiration for some of Edgar Allen Poe's poems. Judge Robert Standard had one of the most beautiful homes in the old City of Richmond. However, the direct line of descent to O.L. Stanard from William Stanard of Stanardsville is not through the son Beverly, but through the son William Jr. This William married Elizabeth Branch, of Powhatan County. He was the fourth Stanard in direct succession to take a bride of the name Elizabeth. This couple were the parents of seven children, all of whom reached mature years and married, their alliances being made with such notable families as Taliaferro, Hume, Taylor, Woolfork, Eddins and LeBarrow. The third child in this generation was Lawrence Stanford, grandfather of the Huntington merchant. Lawrence Stanard was born at Stanardsville, Spottsylvania County, Virginia, and was the first of his line to move out of the old state. In 1830 he settled at Enon, Nicholas County, West Virginia, where he developed extensive agricultural interests. He married Mary E. Taylor, of Charleston. South Carolina. Lawrence Stanard died at Enon in 1890, and his wife, in the same place in 1907. Their oldest son was William Taylor Stanard, who followed in his father's footsteps, became the owner of a farm at Enon, and was prominent in the agricultural circles of that section of West Virginia. William Taylor Stanard, father of O.L. Stanard married Mary Ella Carden, and thus became allied with another family of distinction. She was of Virginian and English ancestry, and her father, David R. Carden, was a farmer of Buckingham County, Virginia, but died at Enon in West Virginia in 1864. The Carden family is an old English name, represented primarily in Cheshire County and also in County Kent, and after about 1650 in County Tipperary, Ireland. The Irish family of Cardens have been of the landed gentry of that country for over two centuries, and a number of their distinctions rest upon services as soldiers, diplomats and other high positions.