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

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guest Of The tifst President. It is
said that he was the only visitor
whose profanity in her presence,
Mrs Washington would excuse.
Some time before be purchased
his Valley farm he married Miss
Mary Chapman, a Virginia lady,
BY whom be had issue.
/, Nancy, born in 1867. probably
within the walls Of old Fort Pleas.
ant married Peter Casey, one Of the
FIRST circuit judges Of Kentucky,
and brother Of the m9lher Of Gen.
oral Peter H, steenbergen, late Of
MERGERS Bottom, this county
Caseyyille in that Slate derives its
name from him.
2, John, who was born in 1863;
he ntto Kentucky where he in.
herited q portion of LANDS patented
by his father. These lands we're
located near ca.eyyille and are
known to this day as "wuggener's
Grant"
3, Thomas, bornin I'LL; married
a Miss Anderson Of Berkeley coua.
" aud removed to Kentucky, but
soon aslert returned 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 a Miss Em
lily Hieskel, Of Clarksburg.
4, Fannie, born 1878; married
John sehon, grand father Of Colum.
bus sehon, present U. S. Marshal
Of West Virginia, of Hon. Edmund
Sehon, Of Point Pleasant, and Of
A, L. sehon, of Hartford City.
5, Mary, born ITS; married Gen.
eral Elisha Boyd, of Berkeley Cuun
ty, the father in law Of Hon. Charles
J. Faulkner, late of Martinsburg.
6, Rebecca, born 1777; married
zebulon Dyer, Esq, Of PendletOn
county,
Z, Andrew, born October %, l779;
married in 1903 Attarah Bell,
whose father, Charles Bell, resided
at Aqua Creek 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 Crauoy Island, in Chesapeake
Bay, where he won distinguished
honors, He removed to Mason
county in 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. He was shot
and killed in the S4th year Of his
age BY a Confederate soldier, at
Point Pleasant, March 80, 1868, 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,
in 1889; Charles B., born in 1909,
was deputy sheriff uf 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 ,hirty-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.
iforpia; 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.
iness was transacted in the Supreme