The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-02-03

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was The personal friend Of Wash.
ington and with many other old
comrades in arms was often the
guest Of the first President. II Is
said tina. he was the only visitor
whose profanity in her presence,
Mrs. Washington would excuse.
Some time before he purchased
his Valley farm he married Miss
Mary Chapman, a Virginia lady,
by whom he had issue.
1, Nancy, born ia 1867, probably
within the walls Of old Fort Pleas.
ant; married Peter Casey, one Of the
irst circuit Judges Of Kentucky,
and brother Of the tnOther Of Gen.
oral Peter H. steenbstgen, late Of
MERGERS Bottom, this county
Caseyyille in that State derives It's
name from him.
2, John, who was born in 1863;
he went to Kentucky where he in.
herited a portion oflands patented
by his father. These lands we're
located rer ca.eyyille and are
known to this day as "Waggener's
Grant,
3, Thomas, born in III; married
a Miss Anderson of Berkeley coun.
~ and removed to Kentucky, but
soon atisrfeturnsd to the Valley Of
Virginia, where he resided until
his death. He had three sons
Andrew, who died unmarried, in
Mason county; William, who mar
ried Miss Eliza Prior of this county,
and John, who married Miss Em
lily Hieskel, Of Clarksburg.
4, Fannie, born 1873; married
John sehon, grand father Of Colun.
bus Sehnn, present U. S. Marshal
of West Virginia, of Hon. Edmund
sehOu, of Point Pleasant, and Of
A. L. sehon, of Hartford City.
5, Mary, born l775; married Gen.
eral Elisha Boyd, of Berkeley couu
ty, the father in law Of Hon. Charles
J. Faulkner, late of Martinsburg.
6, Rebecca, born It'll; married
zebulon Dyer, Esq, Of PendlOton
county,
Z, Andrew, born October %, l77O;
married in 1903 Attarah Bell,
whose father, Charles Bell, resided
at Aqua Greek Ford, on the road
leading from fredericksburg to Al
exandria. He held a Majors com.
mission during the war Of lS12-14,
and was principally engaged on
the Virginia coast defenses; he com.
manded the Americans at the battle
of Crauey Island, in Chesapeake
Bay, where he won distinguished
honOrs. He removed to Mason
county 10 1917, and settled on the
lands patented by his father, where
he lived long, honored for his mil.
itary services and respected by all
who knew him, because of his no
bleness of character. lie was shot
and Killed IN the 84Lh year Of his
age BY a Confederate soldier, at
Point Pleasant, March 80, 1863, at
the time Of the attack on that
place. By his marriage with At
tarah Bell, he had issue, Charles,
who died in infancy; Andrew, who
died unmarried at Point Pleasant,
iu 1899; Charles B., born in 1909,
was deputy sheriff Of Mason county
in 1928, a member of the General
Assembly of Virginia in 1916; was
Census Enumeration of the county
in 1850, elected clerk Of the Circuit
Court, in which capacity be served
for thirty,one years, and a member
Of the first Wheeling Convention,
in May, 1861, which restored the
Government of Virginia; Henson,
who married Kittie Mcdaniel, of
Mason county, and died in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, in 1888; Mary,
who married V. B. Donnally, once
a prominent salt manufacturer and
merchant of the Kanawha Salines;
John B., who married a Miss Mary
Wilson, Of Kanawha county; Susan,
who died in infancy; Thomas, who
married Miss Harriet Cobb, of Kan.
awha county, and resides in Cal.
ifornia; Ellen, who died in infancy;
Helen, who became the wife Of
Hon. James H. Couch, ST., and
Lewis, who removed to California
in 1852, where he still resides un
married.
s, James, born 1881, married a
Miss Lucy Bell, of Berkeley county.
The following Mason county bus.
mess was transacted in the Supreme
Court Of Appeals, sitting at Char.