The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-03-10
THE WINDOWS
Pioneer Families or Mason
COunty-Tleir Ancestors and
Descendants.
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The emigrant ancestor Of the
Windon family was James, bofnin.
Ireland abont the year l746. The
American Revolution terminated
lisaslrously for Great Britain, aud
America became the refuge for the
oppressed ofeyery land and cline.
Ireland sent many Of her best rep
resentaliyes to our shores aud with
them camo James Windon. After
a short sojourn in Tide Water, Viz.
ginia, he pushed westward oyerthe
Blue Ridge, across the Shenandoah
Valley, and sought and found a
home amid the lofty eminences Of
the Alleghanies, and near the pres.
ent site Of Warm Springs, the seat
OfJustice, Of Bath county, Virginia.
Soon after bis arrival here he mar.
ried an English lady and contin-
ued his residence in Bath until the
year 1900, when with his family he
removed westward to the Ohio riv.
er and settled on Crooked Greek,
then in Kanawha county, but now
in Mason, There he remained IN.
til about the year 1910. when be
purchased, and removed to the
lands pince known as the knight
Farm on the Ohio Ten Mile. He
here died in 1925, aged about eigh.
ty years. He had issue
l, John, born in Bath county
about tho year 1772; where be mar
tied, lived and died, leaving issue;
James, born in Bath county in
1894, where he married, lived and
died; John, born 1895, married a
German lady and settled on Green.
brier River, in Greenbrier county,
where he resided until his death;
William, born in Bath l796, mar.
ried a Miss Glover, and settled in
Kanawha county, where hedied in
1881, leaving issneseyeral children,
one of whom John, served in the
Federal army during the late war;
Catharine, born 1893, married and
removed to Kentucky; Abigail,
born 1902; Rachel, born 1904; 10
seph B., born in Bath county,
March 81, 1906, and came to Mason
county in 1925. November 20,
1928, be was united in marriage
with Susan, (born December "a,
1904 a daughter Of James Mitchell,
and at once settled on the Ohio Ten
Mile, on lands now owned by Jam.
ison somerville, Esq., where he re
sided until March, 1880, when be
removed to lands near Clifton, and
there remained until 1854, when
be purchased from John Hall, Esq,
a farm in Pleasant Flats, upon
which he resided until his death,
October %, 1884. At the time Of
his decease, he was a Deacon in
the Pleasant Flats Presbyterian
Church, a position which he had
occupied for twelve consecutive
years. He had issue, James H.,
horn August IS, 1929, died April
"a, 1884; Mary j., born October Is,
1881, married Maxwell Rayburn,
Esq, in 1851, and became the
mother Of Fannie, wife Of Robert
S. Hawkins, Esq, Of the Flats;
John W., born December II, 1888,
married first, Mary L., (in 1850 a
daughter of Thomas G: Hogg; she
died in 1865; and November Is,
1859 he welded Jane clsndenin,
who died September q, 1878, and
be now resides in Jackson county,
West Virginia; Nancy NJ, born
May 20, 1886, married Henry Chase
in 1866, and died February 70,
1856; Thomas NJ, born May s, 1889,
married in 1861, Martha j., a
daughter Of Thomas G. Hogg; 10
seph H., born September %, lS4l,
married first, in 1866, RhOda j., a
daughter Of Francis H. Windon;
fle died March 5, 1875, and be
married secondly. December 80,
1882, Della s, Lewis; James W.,
born December IA, 1874, married,
january, 1869, Martha ], /, a daugh.
ter Of Samuel Windon, be was
elected Commissioner Of the Reve.
nue. in 1875 and served four years.
II, James, tho second Of theissue
Of the emigrant ancestor, was born
in Bath county, about liza. He
married and had issue, Joseph,
born in 1908, married and removed
to the sonth, where several Of his
sons served in the Confederate
army during the late war, Jane,
born 1910, and hobart, born in
1Slli both Of whom died Of typhoid