The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-03-17


she became the mother Of Ida, the
vile Of W. II. Howard, the present
County Surveyor. Secondly, Eliza
G. born May %, 1884, and united
cd in marriage with Emma C. a
daughter Of Michel and Lucinda
(Knopp) Ro.eberry, February ~.
1851. They have issue several
children, one Of whom Ernest E.
was born in January 20, 1858; he
was graduated from the College Of
Physicians and Surgeons, Balll
more, Md, March /, 1883, aud is
nov engaged in the practice of his
chosen profession in Pleasant Flats,
West Virginia. March q, 1884, he
married Maggie L. Love.
III, Hulda, born in Hardy coun.
ty in 1906, went with her parents
to Indiana in 1926, and then mar.
ried gentleman named Richard
Pitman.
", Eliza, born in Hardy county
in 1906; came with his father to
Mason in 1872, where he remained
until he was nineteen years of age,
when b0 went to Coshocton county,
Ohio, where he som after married
lady named Annie Roberts. He
died in Indiana leaving issue three
children.
A, Asa, Jr., born in Coshocton
county, Ohio, December 10, 1926.
Coming to Mason early in life, he
was united in marriage, April !,
1852 with Priscilla A., a daughter
of Colonel Rein Van Matro. She
is descended from an old knickef.
booker family seated on the banks
Of the Hudson, during the Dutch
occupancy of the then province of
New York. Representatives of the
family were among the earliestset
tiers within the present limits of
West Virginia, they having oh.
tanned patents as early as 1872 for
10000 acres Of land located in the
counties Of Berkeley, Frederick and
Others adjacent. The issue of this
marriage is Charles E., born An.
gust IL, 1856, died August n, 1857;
John T., born October n, 1858, was
for several years student in the
West Virginia University, f,om
which institution he received the
degree of A. B., June ii, 1888, and
graduated NJ. D. at Startling Med.
ical College, Columbus, Ohio, March
4, 1886; Mary T., born August /,
1860; Annie L., born June 80, 1862;
Eliza c., born April 81, 1864; vii.
liam T., born September %, 1866;
and Darius E., born June IL, 1869.
B, Elizabeth, sister of Asa, Jr.,
was born in 1880 and married Da.
rius Maston, u successful farmer in
CoshoCton county, Ohio.
G, John, the only brother Of Asa,
Jr., was born in 1884, in Coshocton
county, Ohio, and at the age of
twenty went to California, but soon
returned and died unmarried in
Indiana.
V, James, fifth of the issue of
John the Mason county ancestor,
was born in CoshocLon county,
Ohio, in 1908; he went with his
father to Indiana in 1926, where he
married and reared a family.
VI, Hiram, born in CoshOclon
county, Ohio in 1910.
VII, Comfort, born in Mason
county in 1914, married John
Maynes and resides in Indiana.
VIII, Ellen, born in Mason coun.
ty in 1916, resides in Indiana.
IN, Martha, born in Mason in
1878, married Mr.. Hardy, and is
now deceased.
y, Elizabeth, born in Mason in
1920, married Thomas Cox, and re.
sides in Warren county, Indiana.
Among the representatives Of the
collateral branches of the family,
are Rev, Asa Musgrave, of Phila.
delphia; zebidee Masgrave, long a
clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion
county, West Virginia, and his son
a Methodist minister, who will be
remembered as the Secretary Of the
NJ. L. Conference, which convened
at Point Pleasant in 1875.
---=-aa-,..s----
A Big Job.
Putnam Democrat.
The Salvation Army has struck
Charleston and Point Pleasant