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

utterly failed, and it Is said that
the Doctor, fearing an attem pt on
1.-THE part Of Burr TO take Csc arms
1by force, boxed and buried them
until after BaTs arrest. la 1912,
be went to the Maumes, assafeson
Of che End Virginia Regiment, col.
Dudley Evans, commanding but
because Of i'll health was coon com.
PEELED TO return home. Hefepre
sented the county in the General
Assembly Of Virginia in 1859.
About the year 1880, his wife died
and he married, secondly, Harriet
Fowler, by whom he had no issue.
He died July 10, 1912; his wife sur.
vived him many years and after
bis death became the wife Of Jo.
seph s. Machir, long prominent in
the business interests Of the county.
Dr.. Thomas, who's as wehayeseen,
married DR.. Bsnnett's only daugh.
ter, continued the practice of his
profession at Point Pleasant, until
his death, which occurred March
%, 1897. His wife long survived
him and married, secondly Robert
Mitchell, by whom she hadiiisssue, a
son, James, born in 1882, now q
resident Of Kentucky. Dr.. Thorn.
as, with Charles Clendenin, was
elected to the General Assembly in
1915; reelected with William A.
Hereford in 1922; re elected with
Isaac Newman in 1923, and with
John McCulloch reelected in 1924.
He had issue:
A, Elizabeth, N. B., born March
"a, 1915, died 1851. She married
DR.. S. G. Shaw, a prominent physi.
clan Of Point Pleasant for more
than fifty years, He was post.
master at Point Pleasant for TWEEN.
ty.four years, but was then far
from equaling his father who filed
The same position at Buckingham
Court House, Virginia, for the long
period Of fifty one gears. By her
marriage with DR.. Shaw she had
issue, Maria S., who married Capt.
VIM. L. Maddy; Mary B., who mar.
ried George W. Cargill, a lawyer Of
Winfield, West Virginia; Rebecca
T., who married DR.. T. P. Carpen.
ter, Of Raymond City, West Virgin.
a;Judith, who married WmL L. Rutf.
ner, Of Meadeyille, Pennsylvania;
and Matilda, who married Joseph
S. Miller, Of Point Pleasant
B, Rebecca S., born June27, 1917,
died September 8, 1917.
G, Susan R., born February l,
1919, died unmarried July5, 1871.
D, Griffith B., born April II,
1921, married Layinia N. Teller,
October 10, 1912, and has issue;
Maria L., born October %, 1S4S,
and is the wife of Col. j. P. r. B.
Smith, Clerk Of the County Court;
Elizabeth S., born September 3,
IS45, married Dr.. Robert Hender.
son and resides at Utbanna, Ohio;
Enos B., born March 81, 1S4S, is
unmarried; Lavinia T., and Jesse
B. Griffith B. Thomas was made
Colonel on the State Militia estab.
lishment during the administra.
ton of Governor John B. Floyd,
and re'commissioned by Henry A.
Wise. He was in commanded the
militia at the time of the hanging
Of John Mcmahon, November 25,
1853, the only execution that has
ever occurred in the county. He
was elected a member Of the Gen.
eral Assembly in 1858 and re.elect.
cd in 1856; served as Justice Of the
Peace in Robinson District, and as
a member Of the town Council Of
Point Pleasant. His wife Layinis
N, is descended from an old New
England family. Her father was
LOREN L. fuller, who was born at
Darlington, Berkshire county, Mas.
sachusetts, April 16, 1891, and died
at Cleveland, Ohio, Augustus, 1884.
February %, 1912, at Genoa, Cay.
uga county, New York, he was
united in marriage with Maria
Minturn, who was born at Goshen,
Orange county, New York. Febru,
airy 4, 1903, and died in 1874
They had issue: Valencourt, born
April s, 1918, at West Bloomfield,
Ontario county, New York; died at
St. Joseph, Missouri, April 1860;
William orvin, born March 5, 1916,
a. cipio, cayuga county, New
York; died at New Orleans, May
do, 1899; Henry, born January Z,
1877, at Geneva, Cayuga county,
New York; resides at Johnstown,
Licking county, Ohio; Morlimore
IN. born Novernher 90 1910 a,