The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-02-17
Alexander, married and rearsd I

Alexandet, married and reared 4
son, Benjamin who III turn mar.
ried and had issue Robert Alex.
anderi John, Bathsheba, DSling and
Hannah.
From one Of these descended Az.
thur, born 10 Pennsylvania, Al
gust 10, l744, and in l776 ID YEA.
Eded Jane, born .inl75l, daughter
Iof Robert Withrow, familiatly
known as eHonest Bob. Withrow,
residing near Philadslphla. Soon
after his marriage he removed to
the Shenandoah Valley and pur.
chased d farm Of 160acfss lying on
Lick Run, a branch Of the North
river Of the Shenandoah, and two
years later, February 10, 1855, pat.
ented a tract Of 1856 acres On the
same stream.
About the year 1888 BIZ sold his
lands and babe adieu tothe Valley;
pushing westward into the wilder.
ness he reached Cooks Fort,on In.
dian Creek, then in Gresnbrier
county, but now in Monroe. His
wife was one we'll adapted 10 pre-.
side over a pioneetbome. she.sas
acquainted with wars dread alarm;
as achild she had becoms ianilisr
With the story dfsayage warfate on
the frontiers Of PennsylSania and
a grown up woman the hSd heard
the booming ofattillsty Brandy.
wine and Germantown.
Arthur Edwards met with con-
genial spirits at Cooks Fort. Here
were. Valentine Cook, james Smith
Gust come from the Valley Of the
Yadkin river, Adam Mann, Jacob
Mann, (the two latter The ances
tors Of the now numerous family Of
that name in the counties Of Green.
brier and Monroe, Charles Meeks,
Capt. Estill, John Miller and 9th.
ers; and he determined to here take
up his abode, He didso, residing
near the fort in which be and his
family found refuge whenever a
band Of savages threatened them.
Meeks settled too far from the fort
and he, his wife and infant, were
murdered by the Indians and two
children carried into captivity.
These daring old pioneers collected
and pursued them to the mouth Of
the Guyandotte river, were several
of the sayages were killed and the
children rescued and carriad hack
to the fort
Here Arthur Edwards remained
urtil 1901, when he once more re.
moved west and this time settled
and reared his cabin on lands now
known as the Thomas Fowler
Farm, eight miles above Point
Pleasant. Here he continued to
reside until his death in 1920, in
the 10Th year ofhis age, He was
buried on the Barnett Farm on
Three Mile creek Of the Kanawha.
His wife survived him ten years,
died in 1880 land was buried By his
side. They had issue, viz:
l, Sarah, born March II, 1776, in
Augusta county; married John Jar.
rett, Of Kanawha county, and re.
moved to Indiana Chen Indiana
Territory where she died leaving
FIVE children, the youngest Of whom
Isaac, returned to Virginia, mar.
ried and reared a family, one Of
whom is the wife Of Capt. c..
Shrewsbury Of this county.
II, Isaac, born April %, 1918, in
Augusta county; married January,
Is, 1893, Della Smith, Of Monroe
county, and in 1902 came to Mason
then Kanawha, and resided in the
Flats until 1911, when he purchas.
ed the farm now owned by the
heirs of Charles Fowler, upon
which he resided until his death,
April 10, 1853.
In 1912 upon the breaking ont of
the war, he hired a substitute,
T.aac johnson, who went with the
Mason County RiAemen to the
Maumee. To get money to pay
him he made maple sugar which he
sold to the keel.boats then nayiga
ting the Ohio. He had issue,
James, born 1901, married Phebe
Dushneri died October 10, 1874; Ma.
ny A., born 1904, married James
Minturn, long a surveyor Of the
county, and died 1861; Sarah, born
1906, married John Clendenin Of
the Flats and died in 1868; Rebec
ca, born 1907, married George
Lewis; Elizabeth, born 1910, mar.