The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-03-24

spring up around him, a commu.
nifty Of like faith with himself.
But alas for human expectations.
He returned 10 Richmond 10 1898
on business and while there sick.
ened and died Of a fever; he was
buried in the churchyard Of the
venerable St. Johns in that city
His colonists when they heard of
The death Of their leader-botb
temporal and spiritual, became
discouraged and II is believed that
with the exception Of the Mitchells
every family returned whence it
came.
Tho emigrant ancestor Of the
family was james. He was born
in county Downs, Ireland, in 1772,
and in 1857, in The land Of his
birth, vas united in marriage with
Mary Anderson of the same county.
The legal religion Of the Emerald
Isle, was then as now, that Of the
Church Of England, but James
Mitchell together viii ope.pixth Of
the population ofthe entire Island
had imbibed the teachings Of John
Knox, and were known, as indie.
pendent, or Irish Presbyterians.-
Ireland for Two hundred years has
been the scene Of tyranny and per.
seculion, and a fierce storm of the
latter in the closing years Of the
last century drove many, thousand
immigrants oversee in quest Of a
home in America, where they
might worship God according to the
dictates of conscience. Such one
was james Mitchell. In thespring
Of 1898, with his young wife he
went on shipboard in q little har
Dor of the Irish sea, and weeks after
having seen the blue hills of his
native land fade away in the dis.
lance, reached the port Of PIiladel
phia. Vending his way westward
over the mountains, he settled for
two or three months in Pittsburgh;
but Graham's Colony was gather.
ing on the banks of the Ohio, and
James Mitchell boarded a fat. boat,
Cit was thirteen years before the
first steamboat was ahoat on the
Ohio aud in the autumn Of 1898,
landed at GNham's Station. With
the next year came the dispersion
Of the little colony and the first
year Of tho present century found
the Mitchells only, remaining.
James Mitchell continued his
residence at Graham's Station IN.
til 1905, when he purchased from
Henry Puryiance, land located at
the mouth of the Ohio Ten Mile, to
which he removed the same year
and upon which he confined to re.
side until his death in 1853 at the
age Of 81 years. During The war of
1872 he hired as q substitute John
Berry, and sent him with the Ma
son County Ritlcmen to the Man.
NEE. His wife survived him
twelve years, and died in 1865,
aged 80 years, They had issue:
l, Robert, born September 10,
1898, while his parents sojourned
in Pittsburgh. In 1880 he welded
Maria N, only daughter of Dr..
Jesse Bennett and relict of Dr.
Enos Thomas. He was for thirty
years one Of the foremost business
men of Point Pleasant and died at
thai place in 1868. HC had issue,
one son, James, born in 1882; he
served in the Confederate Army
during the civil war and now re.
sides in Kentucky,
II, Margaret, born at Graham's
Station, June II, 1900, and married
Harry Windon; she died August
q, 1881, and is buried on the Swan
farm at Six Mile Island.
III, Mary, born at Graham's
Station, January q, 1902; she mar.
ried Thomas somerville, ESQ.,, and
had several children among whom
are, Samuel, late a Deputy Sheriff
of the county; Mary a., the wife of
Robert Ball; Wesley, an ex. Deputy
Sheriff of the county; James, who
married Frances Mcdaniel, nee Ball,
widow Of Captain Van Mcdaniel,
of the 18th W. Va. Infantry, and
Rebecca, wife Of Robert o. Boggess,
Of Robinson District.
Nv, susanna, born at Graham's
Station, December "a, 1904 (the
same in which Mason county was
organiaod) and married Joseph B.
Window, November 20, 1928. (soe
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