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  #1 BIO: William BURDETT, Monroe Count   [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #2 BIO: Thomas BURNS, Monroe County     [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #3 BIO: Zachariah CALLAWAY, Monroe Co   [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #4 BIO: Robert CAMPBELL, Monroe Count   [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #5 BIO: John CAPERTON, Monroe County    [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #6 BIO: Robert CARLISLE, Monroe Count   [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #7 BIO: Henly CHAPMAN, Monroe County    [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #8 BIO: Thomas CHARLTON, Monroe Count   [SSpradling@aol.com]
  #9 BIO: Benjamin CLARK, Monroe County   [SSpradling@aol.com]
 #10 BIO: Augustus COMER, Monroe County   [SSpradling@aol.com]
 #11 BIO: John CONNOR, Sr., Monroe Coun   [SSpradling@aol.com]

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 317-318

WILLIAM BURDETT

William (d. 1836) was a son of James of Culpeper county.  He settled on Flat
Top about 1800, as a neighbor to Andrew Miller, with whom he was on close
terms of friendship. After his second marriage he moved to Wolf Creek. He was
resourceful and ingenious. He m. (1) Sarah Cornwell of Edward, (2)
Scott.
C: Isham (Nancy Shumate, 1805)-Elizabeth (Tolison Shumate)-Margaret (William
Walker, 1808)
-Miles (    Legg)-Willis (Nancy Boon of John, 1807)-Rachel( Aymick)-William
(Clay Co.)-Archibald (Rhoda Shumate)-John ( Swope)-Alexander (Mary L.
Hill)-Ruth (John Robersen, 1816c)-Eliza; by 2d w.-Harvey (dy)-Lewis (
Hedrick)-Clarkson ( Burns).
The wife of Isham, while working as a girl in the sugar orchard, carried a
bucket of sap in each hand and another on her head. The first of her 12
children were twins, and when the third was a baby she would ride to her
father's home, 35 miles away, carrying the baby in front and the twins behind
her. The return would be made the next day. She lived to the age of 98, at
which time there were 89 descendants of her children.
C. of Isham: Sarah, Mary, Abner (Tex.), Granville, Nancy 3., Julia A., James
H., Andrew 3., Elizabeth S., Joseph H., Lewis A.
C. of Alexander: Lucy 3. (Samuel Gwinn), Elizabeth A. (James E. Miller),
Sarah (James Y. Miller). Emmeline (Harry Shanklin), Eliza, James, William,
Lee, Powell. William was a Confederate scout who did not think he could get
lost in West Virginia. His captain said he fired the first shot in the war in
West Virginia and the last in Virginia.
A number of the above connection entered the ministry.
Another early Burdette was Giles (d. before 1829) (Sarah Dunbar).
C:  John (1795-1882) (Lydia Curry, 1816). C. of John: Sarah A. (1817-1895)
(James M. Nickell, 1833)-Mary (1824-1894)  (James Crawford, 1840)-Elizabeth
3. (Andrew F. Young, 1855)-Rebecca M. (E. F. Patton)-Lydia S. (A. F.
Wickline, 1864)-Robert C. (1819-1893) (Elizabeth B. Curry)-James H.
(1821-1890) (Rachel M. Christian, 1847)-John C. (Mary C. Lynch, 1851)-Calvin
H. (Barbara A. Curry, 1849)-Franklin C. (b. 1832) (Elizabeth A. Ford, 1858,
Arlie Smithwick, 1870)
C.  of Archibald (Margaret) (d. 1834): Archibald, James, Polly, Margaret,
Elizabeth ( Holmes), Sam~el (has James and Archibald).

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 318

THOMAS BURNS

Thomas (d. 1849) (Martha Miller, b. 1769, d. 18+4) was a resident of Union,
where he had a brewery. There was a contemporary Thomas.

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 319

ZACHARIAH CALLAWAY

Zachariah (d. 1816)  (Ellender) had a blockhouse on Trigger Run near
Peterstown.
C: Andrew, Margaret, Nancy, Patty, Polly (?James Ellison, 1796c), Sarah,
Joshua (Rebecca Campbell, 1808, ?Nancy Roads, 1813), James, Priscilla
(Delaney Swinney, 1806), Elizabeth (Ephraim Simmons, 1802), Charles (Ellen
Garten, 1812). Richard may have been in this locality in 1775. He was a
resident of Fincastle, which then included the southern extremity of Monroe.

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 319-322

ROBERT CAMPBELL

Robert (1760-1847) was born at Armagh, county Antrim, Ireland, his parents,
Archibald and his wife Jean Meathers, being of Scottish blood. In 1781 he
came to Philadelphia, and thence by way of Fincastle to Pickaway, where he at
length owned 1500 acres of the best land in that locality and from 30 to 40
slaves. Owing to an unpleasant experience in his early life he never
afterward incurred a debt. He was a heavy owner of livestock and a great
lender of money. He was a hard trader yet charitable. He was a justice and
otherwise prominent in the social and political life of the county. In
religion he was a Presbyterian and in politics a Democrat Since there was no
local bank in his time he kept large sums of money in his home. In Noveniber,
1846, he had $13,000 in his possession, a heavy payment having been made a
few days before a visit by five robbers. One of them broke into his sleeping
room, tore the money drawer from the table and tossed it through the window
to his companions. The aged man grappled with the robber, and two others came
through the window to his relief. But his son Andrew Campbell, a very large,
powerful man, heard the noise, rushed into the room, pitched two of the
would-be thieves out of the entrance they had used, and pursued the third.
The negro men came to the rescue and the robbers fled, nothing more being
heard of them. They secured no booty, the money being in another room. During
the affray the old gentleman was severely cut on the head with a club and the
son received several slight bruises. The wife of Robert was Lydia Jeifries, a
native of Wales, whom he was married to in 1791.
C: Archibald (Susan Jones)-Robert (1801-1880) (Sarah McDowell, 1830)-Matthew
(Virginia Brown)-Andrew (Ann Hawkins)
-Isaac (Mary A. Jenness, 1831)-Lewis (Mary Brown)-Caperton (Re-becca
Jennings)-Sarah (John Skaggs, 1817)-Jean (John Holsapple)-Mary (William
Patton).
C.  of Archibald: Robert, Dr. William, John, Allen, Wentworth, Margaret,
Mary.  All these left the county.
C.  of Robert: James (d. 1899)-Mary J. (Clark Johnson)-Ann (Cal-vin
Young)-John (d. 1903)  (Alcesta Black)-Dr. Robert (d. 1862)-Marga ret S.
(Kenneth Williams) -Isabella (Thomas Williams) -Alcesta
-Sarah C. (Henry Dunn)-Burnett-Thompson (d. 1906)-Zerilda E. (Joseph
Brown)-Dr. Clark R.-Everett L.
C. of John of Robert: Edwin (   Frap)-Gertrud~Burnett-Catharine (James B.
Mason).
C. of Matthew: Elizabeth, Jane, Amanda (    Smith), Nannie, Henry, William.
C.  of Andrew: Mary J. (N. H. Roberts)-Frances A. (William Boyd)
-Archibald-Andrew N. (Eliza 3. Leach)-James P. (Fannie Crews)-Lewis E.-Isaac
N. (Mrs. Elizabeth Parker)-Nathaniel B. (Bettie Davis).
C.  of Andrew N.-Nannie E., Nettie G., Andrew A., Kenna C., Wal-ter R., Crete
H.
C.  of James P.-Gertrude, Nannie M., Hattie, James, Carey.
C.  of Isaac N.-Georgia.
C.  of Nathaniel B.-Frank, Annie (  Shanklin).
C.  of Isaac: Dr. Christopher C., John E., William H. H., Virginia 3. (Robert
Humphreys, 1841).
C.  of Lewis: Charles R., Henry B., Isaac, Andrew L., John, Mary A.
C.  of Caperton: Elizabeth (James Parker), Ella D., John H., Lewis C.
Andrew N. Campbell served throughout the war of 1861 and was graduated from
the law school of Washington College during the presidency of General Robert
E. Lee, with whom he was personally acquainted. By reason of the test oath
restriction he was not admitted to the bar until 1870. As an attorney he
acquired a statewide reputation. He has represented his county in the state
legislature and has been a member of the Board of Regents of the West
Virginia University. In 1888-1896 he was judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit,
and was unanimously inominated by his party. In 1912 he retired from the
active practice of his profession. Judge Campbell enjoys the esteem and
respect of those who know him by reason of his kindly social qualities and
his abundant Store of anecdote and reminiscence.
Of the 29 grandsons of Robert Campbell all but one were in the Confederate
army. The sole exception was a resident of Illinois and a Southern
sympathizer. Two great grandsons, David Skaggs and Cephalus Black were also
in the same service.
Samuel (Margaret) died, 1814. C: Sarah (George Steele, 1800)-Samuel
(Elizabeth M. Steele, 1805)-Mary A. (Matthew Ellison, 1806)-Jane (Michael
Smith, 1808)-William-Rebecca-Isaac (1786-1860) (M     )
-John.
The above John was the father of Jesse (1813-1909) and Anderson; Isaac, of
Clement, Calvin, Emily (        Vass), Elizabeth (Robert llumphreys, 1841).
Samuel (Elizabeth M. Steele) lived on Indian a mile and a half above Red
Sulphur. C: Robert D. (b. 1818) (Mary K. Johnson, 1850) Isaac-
(   Vass) -Thomas-Will iam-Eliza    (Wilson  Shumate,  1841) -
Agnes (     Wheeler)-Polly (    Dunbar)-Amanda (Morgan
Barger, 1847)-Adaline (Christopher Handley). Thomas and Isaac were
proprietors of Red Sulphur Springs. They died before the war, William in 1879.
C.  of Robert D.-Elizabeth M. (J. Oscar Neel)-Margaret E. (John
D.  Beard-Charles W. (Jennie E. Ratliff of Wayne Co.)-George C.
(Susan Wylie, Eliza VanBuren)-Ann R. (Clark 0. Neel)-Lewis M.-Robert E.
(Annie McClaugherty)-Eldridge H. (Elizabeth Spessard)-Walter (Mary
Bowner)-Roxie (James Miller). L. M. and E. H. are physicians. W. M., an
attorney, lives in Cal. and G. C. in Arizona.
Charles W., an attorney of Huntington, is a circuit judge.  C: Nannie
M., Ruth R., Rolla D., Jennie E., Charles W.
C.  of R. E.-Catharine K., Robert M., Walter M., Mary E., Agnes M., William L.
C.  of E. H.-Eldridge H., Elizabeth.
C.  of Isaac: James A. (Margaret Rutherford)-William (k.
'61)-Thomas-Henry-Lewis-Robert-Erastus (0)-Mary (       Ballard).
C.  of William of Samuel: Walter I., Edgar H., William, Emma.
Still another Campbell was William (d. 1827). C: James (Sarah
Young, 1806) -William-Thomas-Sarah (Alexander Hutchinson, 1807) -Polly (
  Caldwell)-Mattie E. (William Chanley, 1811)-Rebecca (Joshua Callaway, 1808).

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 322-324

JOHN CAPERTON

The Capertons are derived from a French ancestor who went from the south of
France to the British Isles. The progenitor of the Monroe connection was John
who crossed the Atlantic about 1725 and at length found his way from
Philadelphia to the Valley of Virginia. His wife was Mary Thompson, whom he
met on the ship that conveyed him to America. In 1759 we find mention on
Christian Creek of John Caperton, a yeoman, whose wife was Mary. The
following year John "Capbritton" is spoken of as in the vicinity of Peaked
Mountain. His final location was on the east side of New River, below the
mouth of Rich Creek and very near the line of Summers county. His children
were Hugh, William, Adam, and Elizabeth. Hugh and Adam were in the Dunmore
war and the Revolution. The former, whose wife was Rhoda, lived on the
homestead. His children were Hugh, John, Thompson H., Elizabeth, Polly,
Augustus W. J., Green, Washington and Overton.  Some of their descendants are
to be found in Mercer county. William, who married Lucy Woods in 1790, went
to Kentucky. Elizabeth married James Gibson and went with him to Tennessee.
Gibson county of that state is named for John H., one of their sons.  Adam
was a deputy sheriff of Greenbrier in 1780. His wife, who was of German
parentage, was Elizabeth, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Fudge) Miller.
He went to Kentucky, where he was killed in 1782 in the battle with the
Indians known as Estill's defeaL His widow married a minister named Smith.
The children of Adam were Mary, Elizabeth, John, George, and Hugh. "Mary, who
married George Swope, went to Louisiana. Elizabeth and John went with their
consorts to Tennessee, and George to Alabama.  Soon after the death of his
father Hugh returned to his uncle's home on New River, but after the
organization of this county he established himself at Union.  As a merchant,
even in the face of the formidable competition of the Beirnes, he was very
successful, and became wealthy in land, slaves, and other forms of property.
In physique he was large, and he is spoken of by Mrs Royall as handsome. He
built "Elmwood," near Union, and bequeathed it to his son Allen T. It was
here that he is said to have entertained Henry Clay about 1845. Mr. Caperton
died in 1847 at the age of 66 years. His first wife was Jane Erskine, to whom
he was married in 1806. The second, married in
1834, was Delilah Alexander, widow of George Beirne.  His children, and their
consorts in marriage, were as follows:  Elizabeth, married (1) William
Steenbergen, (2) Anders R. Rude; Lewis E., married Frances C. Alexander;
Allen T., married Harriette Echols; Margaret M., married Oliver Beirne;
William G., married Harriette B. Alexander in 1843, John A. married Mary E.
Coke Guthrie; Hugh, married Eliza J. Mosher; Mary J., married John Echols;
Sarah A., married James F. Preston; George H., married Mary E. Henderson.
The children of Lewis B. are Hugh, Elizabeth, Bettie, Henry, and Lewis.  Hugh
married Catharine A. King, Bettie, Andrew P. Beirne, and Lewis, Mary W Carr.
The children of Allen T. are Eliza J., Mary, wife of Tomlin Braxton,
Harriette E., wife of William A. Gordon, Melinda, wife of James Patton, and
later of B. F. Bingham, Allen, who married Elizabeth V. Rowan, Ella, and
Lelia, wife of Robert Stiles.  William G. had John, Alice B., wife of Frank
Hereford, Jaae E., James A., Will-iam G., who married Rosa A. Stiles
Christian, and Isabel, wife of John
B.  Hereford, brother to Frank. John A.'s children are John H., Mary E.,
Sarah J., and Hugh S., the first of whom wedded Virginia Standiford. Hugh had
James M., Jane, Hugh, Imogen, and Mary.  Of these, James married Emma S.
Ratchife and Hugh married Mattie Booth Kyle.  The children of George H. are
Eliza H., Walter, Allen T., George H. (mar-ried Anna P. Chambliss), Jane B.
(wife of William M. Warrick), Sarah P.  (wife of Isaac P. Wailes), Florence,
and William G. (married Mary A. Austin).
At an earlier day the Capertons were very wealthy and possessed great social
and political prestige. Among their best known rural seats are Elmwood,
Walnut Grove, and Idlewilde.
Allen Taylor Caperton was born at Elmwood Nov. 21, 1810, and died at
Washington, D. C., July 26, 1877. When a boy of fourteen he rode horseback to
Huntsville, Ala., to attend school.  In 1832 he was graduated from Yale
College, standing seventh in a class of fifty-three.  He studied law at
Staunton and took up the practice of that profession in his native county. In
1841 and again in 1859-1861 he represented Monroe in the Virginia Assembly.
In 1844-8 he was state senator, and in 1850 he was a member of the
constitutional convention, representing Monroe, Giles, Mercer, and Tazewell.
In the controversy which divided that body he stood with the western counties
in advocating the white basis of represensation. In the secession convention
of 1861 he was present as a delegate. When the crisis came he voted for
secession. At the close of hostilities he counseled his constituents that it
was the part of wisdom and patriotism to accept the logic of events. In 1876
he was elected to the Federal Senate, thus enjoying the unique distinction of
sitting in both the Federal and Confederate senates as the choice of two
different state governments. His term of service at Washington was brief, a
sudden illness cutting short his career. In person Mr. Caperton was of rather
more than medium size and he wore a long beard without a mustache. He was
well groomed and was regarded as handsome. He delighted in horseback riding
and in natural scenery, and was fond of agricultural pursuits. Socially he
was aristocratic and exclusive, yet was courteous and affable. He was a close
student of political science, a good talker, a ready debater, and a
promi-nent lawyer. Like his father before him he was a Whig, adhering to that
creed until political lines were modified by the war. After that event he
adhered to the Democratic party.

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 324

ROBERT CARLISLE

Robert (Polly) came from Bullpasture river and was of the group-family to
which John G. of Kentucky belonged. He died in 1823, an old man.
C: John, Jane (         Graham), Joseph, Elizabeth (
Ham), Samuel, Nancy (   Glenn), Mary (       Mims?), Margaret (
Alford), James.
In 1782 Joseph and David had military claims on Indian. The latter was
appraised, 1786, by John Hutchinson, Hugh Caperton, Roger Kilpatrick,
Valentine Cook.
William (1815-1895) was a native of New York City and came here in 1835.

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 324-325

HENLY CHAPMAN

Henly married Mary Alexander. Their children were: Augustus A.
(1803-1876)  (Mary B. Beirne, 1830)-Manilius (Susan Beirne)-Mrs.
French-Mrs. Albert G. Pendleton-Mrs. P. Cecil. C. of A. A.-Henley
C-William C.-George B-Christopher 3. (Ark. )-Ann (Col. John 3.
Wade)-Frances F. (Michael A. Steele, Mo.)-Susan (s)-Ella J. ( Orr).
Augustus A. Chapman was a gentleman of fine presence, cultivated manners, and
ripe scholarship. He was an able lawyer, a finished orator, and almost
invincible in courts or in political debates. His memory is held in great
respect, largely because of the fact that in criminal cases he was always the
defender and never the prosecutor. He served his county in the Virginia
Assembly and his State in the 28th Congress (1843-45). At the outbreak of the
American war he was a brigadier general of militia.  As such he took the
field with his command in 1861 and performed good service during the campaign
of that season in the Kanawha valley. He died of apoplexy on his way to
Charleston to nominate for the governorship his friend, H. B. Mathews.  His
oldest son died in 1858 iust after his graduation. The second died in
boyhood. The third, best known as Beirne, was a young man of great promise, a
natural orator, and looking forward to the profession of law.  At the opening
of hostilities he quit his studies to become first lieutenant of Lowry's
Battery. After some months he resigued in order to organize the artillery
company ever since known as Chapman's Battery. This command did gallant
service until almost annihilated and its beloved captain mortally wounded at
Winchester, Sept. 19,1864.

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 325

THOMAS CHARLTON

The Charltons crossed the ocean to Philadelphia about 1750. One of them was
Thomas, who died in that city in 1791, leaving to his cousin Thomas 30 pounds
and all his wearing apparel. His benevolence is illustrated by his legacy of
60 pounds to the poor among the communicants of his church. The second Thomas
(1741-1819) (Alice Perry, 1763) came here about 1792 and settled on a large
tract between Hillsdale and New Lebanon. It is said he was the first pioneer
to arrive in a wagon. It was a four-horse conveyance with a canoe-shaped bed,
and it held himself and wife, their eight children, and their household goods
He is also credited with bringing the eglantine to Monroe. The two roomed log
house he built stood by the spring near the home of S. R. H. Irons. The only
one of his children with descendants in the county was his youngest son,
Joseph (b. 1784, m. Janet Ewing, 1807)-C: Frances -Oliver-Thomas
-JennieLettiJoseph P. E.-James E.  Like three of the sisters of their father,
the three daughters of Thomas, Sr., never married, but lived most of their
lives in a home of their own. The door of John's house was made like a slat
curtain or a stave hammock, and in the day time was rolled up and fastened by
pins above the door.

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 326

BENJAMIN CLARK

Benjamin, born in King and Queen, 1730, settled in Augusta. He was a son of
Jonathan and his wife Elizabeth Wilson, the father being the fourth in
descent from John, who came from England to the James River about 1635. The
wife of Benjamin was Elizabeth Lee. Their son Samuel (1764-1857) settled near
Union in 1783. He was a veteran of the Revolution, later an officer in the
militia, and carried a somewhat prominent part in the public affairs of the
county. He married Margaret Handley.
C: Jamc, H. (1792-1864) (Cinderella Davis)-William (Nelly Benson,
1808)-Alexander (Elizabeth Dickey, 1819)-John (Mary E. Johnson, 1814)
-Cynthia (John Peters, 1813).
C.  of James H.~amuel (Anna Lewis)-Lewis F. (Cynthia A. Byrnside)-George W.
(Mary C. Johnston, Mary M. Wickline).
C. of William: Jackson (    Walter)~ynthia A. (Samuel A. Wallace)-Paulina
(John A. Wallace)-Mary 3. (s)-Ellen (William 0. Johnson)-Grace (Dr. Walter
Douglas).
C.  of Samuel of 3. H.-James H., George W., Walter D., Samuel W., Rella F.,
Verdie, Alice.
C. of Lewis F-James H. (    Spangler), Lydia B. (Dr. Kelley), Julia, Rosel,
Annie R., Luther H., Minnie, Nora (L. E. Tierney), Bertha.
C.  of George W.-James, Cinderella, Charles L. By 2d w.-Elizabeth A., Robert
L., George H., Rose E., Walter D., John D., Alexander H., Anne S., James F.,
Daisy 3., Edward M.
C.  of John: Thomas 3. (1818-1885) (Mary Johnson)-Samuel M. (Mar-tha
Ballard)-Cynthia P. (1821-1900) (James M. Christy, 1839)-Mary R. (David
Pence)-Caroline A. (1829-1900) (Granville Smith) -Marga-ret (Thomas Eddy).
C.  of T. 3.-Maria C. (E. L. Shanklin), Ella C. (Augustus M. Shank-lin),
Susan (Augustus M. Shanklin), Preston (Julia Ballard).
C.  of S. M.-Araminta C. (D. C. Elmore), Shelton (Johnetta Mor-
gan)-Edgar (Susan Brawford), Etta (C. E, Lynch), Annie S. (JQhn P. Parker).
But Clark is by no means a rare name and there have been others in Monroe.
Alexander (Sarah), mentioned as an old man, seems to have lived on Indian. He
helped to appraise the Estill estate in 1792 and died in 1794. Samuel Clark
was a testator to his will. In 1809 the widow owned five slaves and
personalty valued at $1389.03.   C: James, Rebecca (       Cantly), William,
Ralph, Martha (John Campbell, 1804), Alexander, John, Samuel. James died
1801, leaving Sarah (       Lafferty), Alexander, John. Ralph (Iaabella) died
1828, leaving Owen, Elizabeth (        Neel), Julia, John, Joseph, William
H., Clara (John Patton). Margaret (John Johnson), Thomas, Abner.

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 327-328

AUGUSTUS COMER

Augustus, of German parentage, was horn on the Rapidan river and was an
artilleryman in Washington's army. One night while the Americans were in camp
on Assanpink creek, at Trenton, N.J., Comer was placed on guard duty with
orders to hail any strange person three times and then to fire unless
answered. An officer who thought he would have some fun with Comer and
stampede him got down to the brink of the creek and threw up firebrands. The
sentinel was alarmed but obeyed his orders and fired, wounding the officer.
Comer was placed under arrest, but exonerated by Washington, who complimented
him for his faithfulness. After the war he married Catharine Rush and located
at St Lawrence ford on the Greenbrier, where his son Frederick was horn in
1787. Some 10 years later he started for Tennessee, but while lodging with
Isaac Miller on Indian, this same boy was accidentally hurt and the journey
was terminated. He became very corpulent in his later years and spent much of
his time in an armchair that was made for him. D. 1822. C: Elizabeth (Daniel
Miller, 1801~-Frederick (1787-1848)  (Polly Mitchell, 1814)-Jacob (Anna
Meadows(-Michael (Lucy Willis)-John (Mary 3. Mitchell, 1824)
-Catharine (Joseph Ball, 1812)-Barbara (s)-Augustus (Sarah Fore)
-Sarah (John Peters).
Frederick with no resources except his wife, their two pairs of willing
hands, and the 60 acres given them by the father-in-law, at once built a
cabin, added at length 281 acres to his possessions, reared 12 children who
grew to maturity, and died without owing a penny. He was methodical as well
as industrious, and whenever he was done with his tools he put them under
cover. He was one of the most hospitable of men, and liked to have his
neighbors serenade him before daybreak on Christmas morning, after which the
visitors shared his breakfast. All his children were taught to work. The
daughters could hoe corn and pile and burn brush as well as spin and weave.
C: Mitchell (1815-1892) (Ann Cummings, 1837)-Sarah-Catharine (?Jacob W.
Harvey, 1838)-Elizabeth (Isaac M.   Harvey, 1838) -Ann-William (dy)
-Delilah-Martha (Adam Miller, 1845)-Jan~Amanda-Mary J.-Amanda-Samuel (b.
1835) (Mary Hutchinson, 1857)-Rachel-Rebecca. The example of Frederick Comer
is offered in contrast to those persons of the present time who think they
must begin where their parents leave off, and also think they cannot afford
to have families even then.
The experience of his son Samuel is also of interest He was left an orphan at
13 along with four sisters. They and their mother had a hard time to get on.
It took two good calves to pay the tax of $9 on the large farm. Early in his
married life the war came, in which he served four years and was in several
heavy battles. When he returned from the military prison at Elmira he found
his mother, wife, and two little girls all well. He went to work at once to
put the farm in order, and at length added merchandising and sawanilling to
his agricultural interests. His children are three sons and four daughters.

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 328

JOHN CONNOR, Sr.

John, Sr. (b. 1764) (Mary Carraway) built on an extensive farm near Blue
Sulphur Springs a large brick house of six rooms. This was about 1789. The
walls are two feet thick, and the interior, including doors, floors, and
paneling, is in solid black walnut. The house is yet standing, the walls both
inside and out being in perfect condition, and it is occupied by Henry
George, a great-grandson of the builder. To John and Mary were born 11
children, one of whom was William (b. 1792c) (Mary Rader of Anthony). While
still a young man he was Sent by his father by way of Cincinnati to sell some
slaves, and as nothing was ever seen of him after he had received his money,
there is strong suspicion of foul play. The oldest of his five children was
Perry, Sr. (1810-1877) (Evaline Jar-rett, Sarah Ellis of Joseph). Henry and
Margaret, the children of the first wife, are not now living. After the
second marriage, Perry settled on Wolf Creek. C: James A. (Emma
Ellis)-Fletcher (s)-Evaline (C. Lon Johnson)-Elizabeth (s)-Amanda (Dr. 0. 5.
Baker)-Martha (Allen Bowles, John H. Burgess)-Perry E. (Mae Woodson)-Luella
(Dr. C. E. Copeland).


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