The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-01-27

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bull. within Tie limlisloi ihe pres
ont eanitalof west yifgiaiA. Il
was j twoslofs dpUbie.lcgbdildin
and vas bullet and arrow proof
II sletd iar nearly 4 century and
was long known il pioneer Annals
as clendeuiuls Fort Within II.
Charles clendenin died abolt the
year 100 and was buried near by.
Kapa9hae county was organized in
hlTS9i at which time George Glen.
denim furnished the books for the
county, for which the court allowed
himnineteen hundred and twenty
ponndsof tobacco. Here he con.
tinued TO reside until 1T96, when
he removed to Marietta, Ohio.
where he died in 1897. his wife
died at Point Pleasant 10 1915.
he had issue, Mary, who had
married Major John oanttell and
became The mother ofEleanpr, who
matfied &C. Miller, ESQ. Of Point
Pleasant, and died in 1854; ParLhe
ina who married first Governor
.Meigs II Ohio, and secondly Major
Andrew Bryan Of Point Pleasant,
West Virginia BY the first mar.
mage she had issue, q son, iona
than.who became a prominentlaw
yer cf Nashville, and a daughter
whosmarIleda minis;erof Knox
vile Tenn and by the sec6ailmar;
rage became the tnogher u Mary
(bofn Feb 9th 1870 whomarfisd
John Mcenlloch, Esl. Of Mason.
county; she Parthena, died at the
residence Of John McMullen, of
this county in 1888. Cynthia mar
ried a Nj. Lamb Of Kentucky, and
died al Nashville without issue.
2, William (the second sou Of
charles) was born about the year
Il748, he too, was a soldie: in Gen.
Lewis army, and was severely
Wounded AZ the battle of Point
Pleasant, He came with his broth.
er George to the Kanawha Valley
in 1885, was appointed a Justice of
Ihe Peace when Kanawha county
was formed in 1889, aud was high
sheriff Of that county from July
1902 to August 1893, and was made
trustee of Charleston upon its in.
cooperation in 1874. About 1897
he removed to the banks Of the
Ohio, and settled nine miles above
Point Pleasant. In 1902 he again
removed four miles below the
mouth Of the Kanawha, where be
reared the first cabin aud cleared
the first acre Of land in what is now
Clendenin District In 1903 he
carried the petition to Richmond
asking for the formation Of Mason
county, and upon its organization
in 1904 was appointed one Of the
Justices, and the same year was
elected It's first representative in
the General Assembly of Virginia.
He bad issue, Charles, born July
18th, 1889, died June 3OIh, 1872; be
was high shetifuf MasOn county in
1884; married Sophia Neale and be.
came The father Of James 3. Glen
denim, Senior, now Of Clendenin
District, who in turn was high
sheriff ofthe county in 1853. So
phia, married john Miller, the
father Of G. c. Miller, Esq. and died
in Teay's Valley in 1921. Annie,
married Henry Miller, of Gal
lipolis, Ohio, and died at that
place 10 1881. Another daughter
married John Bing, of Cheshire, o
8, Robert, the third son of
Charles Clendenin, was born about
1850; he accompanied his father and
brothers to the mouth of Elk river
in 1856, and was appointed one Of
the first Justices of the Peace for
Kanawha county in 1880. The
representatives Of the family In
Mason county know nothing Of his
descendants.
a, Ellen Mary, the fourth Of the
issue Of Charles Clendenin was born
about 1852, probably within tho
limits of Burdens grant She mar.
ried Captain George Stephenson
and becane the mother Of james
Stephenson, Esq who died in
Point Pleasant u few years since,
the last survivor of the Mason
Comfy Ridemen of 1872, the father
nf Janhs Glarhonenn E,o az pnjrt