The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-02-10

near Six Mile Island, shefe Ne
died 10 1888 He had Issue one
son George Ray, bofnai Union
Town, P'nnsylyunia, MRy,the 4ib,
1901. In 1872 be married Eliza
beth Kirk, born on .calswba Creek
Bbieloprte county. (now craig)
Virginia, in 1904 died 1873. He
resided at Six Mile Ilsnd until
1928, when hetemoysd 70 the farm
ncs owned By john someryills,
Egg, Of the Flats, where be re
manned until 1885, when he pur /.
chased Of Harry Windon, q farm Oh
the Ohio Ten Mile, upon which be
died in 1858. He had issue. ssey.
eral children, viz Aqpila Leigh.
ton, (twelfth Of the name) born De.
cembsr 18th, 1923. Having re.
ceiyed common school education,
he engaged in teaching al the age
ofsixteen; his education was com.
Pleted under the tutorsbipof Alex.
andef II. Porter, By whom Ne was
thoroughly drilled 10 applied naih,
ematics. In 1S47 he engaged in
the study Of medicine in The Office
Of DR.. Daniel Couch, at Point Pleas
ant, and graduated ia 1850, al the
Western Reserve College, Clese,
land, Ohio. BE al once engaged in
the practice Of his profession at
West Columbia, and December 4lh,
1856 was united in matrige With
Susan Frances Willis. siIn 1851 he
entered the Confederate army ,'sefv
ing in a company attached 10 the
Ssth Virginia Regiment command.
ed by Colonel (afterward GentraD
John A, McCausland. He served
as detailed Surgeon in Gteenbrier
county until the disbanding Of the
company. Before re.enlisting be
made an effort to convey bis slaves
through the lines, but was capturd
by a body of Federal soldiers com
manded by Captain Brinker Of the
Fourth West Virginia Infantry,
and incarcerated in Wheeling Jail
for three months upon an indict.
ment for treason, when he was re.
leased upon parole bond, aud at
the close of the war was discharged
upon the payment Of costs. His
reputation rs medical practition.
er extends far beyond the limits of
his own State.
OF the remaining issue of George
R. knight, James Lynn, one of the
most successful farmers Of ,hecoun.
ty, resides in the Flats. He mar.
ried Louisa Swami aud has issue.
He was the nominee of his political
party in 1884 for the House Of Del.
egates. Calharine, (deceased) who
married John Brown; Susan, who
married James A, Hogg, and be-
came the mother of Hon. Charles E.
Hogg; Sarah Louisa, IA kindly re.
membered teacher of the writer
who married James r, Meeks, M,
D., and resides in Dallas, TexaT;
George W, and Samuel n, who re.
side at Clifton, and Rebecca, who
became the wife Of Captain Manly
Brown.
II, John, the second son of The
emiGrant ancestor, bornin Scotland
in ITO, Before attaining his ma
jority he left the paternal home at
Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and
making his way over the NOM.
tains reached Fort Pitt, from which
place he descended the Ohio and
landed at Fort Washington, (now
GincinnsI) where be soon after
married. s3 ~
The village around Fort Wash.
ington at the time Of his arrival,
bore the name of Losanttyille.
Perhaps there never was a more
remarkable compound derivalive
term than this. Situated opposite
the month Of Tie Licking river. the
name was made expressive of the
locality. Composed Of the French
L, (the abbreviation Of the French
article Ley, theI.atin os (lhe MOUTH
che Greek anti against or oppositel,
and the French vile "a tovn)-the
whole siguifylng 1.-THE town oppo
site the mouth of a river"
III, supan, the last child, and
only daughter Of George, CHE en-.
igrant anceslor) was born in Scot.
land in 1772 and in 1892 married
Joseph Leighton, a Scotch barriSter,
then lint recently come from over.
sea. They removed to Ohio. aud
settled at Springfield in that State,
where he was for many years a
Judge Of the Circuit conrtt Tie
descendants now spell the name
Layton"