The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1906-12-13
Tablet VIII Commemorate FIRST
Meeting in State That Resulted
in Foundation ofThis stase
coM,aTTEE IS APPoNTED
To ascertain Cost Of the Same and
Select a Location in Court
House For 1t.

appointed Nathan Gof. John J.
Davis and Henry Raymond a COM
mittee to report on the advisability
and cost of a tablet. as well as its
location. intended to commemorate
the initial meeting that resulted in
the formation of the State of West
virginia. as shown by the following
petition presented to the court:
To the Honorable. The ounty Court
of Harrison County:
Your petitioners respectfully rep
resent to your honorable body that
on the END day Of April. 1861,
there was held in the court house
that formerly stood on the ground
occupied by the present building, a
large meeting of the citizens of Har-
rison county which was presided
over by John Hursey, With. John Wes-
ley Harris as secretary. and that at
said meeting the following resolu-
tons were adopted:
Resolved. That it be and is here
by recommended to the people in
each and all of the counties compos-
ing North Western Virginia, to ap-
point delegates not less than FIVE In
number. of their wisest, best and dis
creetist men, to meet in convention
in Wheeling on the 18th day of May
next to consult and determine upon
such action as the people of North
Western Virginia should take in
this fearful emergency.
Resolved, That Hon John S. Car
lie. waldo P. Con. John j. Davis.
Thomas L. Moore. Solomon S. Flem-
ing. Lot Mowen, William E. Lyon.
Felix sturm, Benjamin F. Shuttle
worth and James Lynch, be and are
hereby appointed delegates, to rep
resent this county in said conven-
ton.
The above resolution, calling on
the people of North Western vir-
sinia to assemble in Wheeling was
promptly responded to by nearly all
of the counties comprising the State
of West Virginia by the appointment
of delegates as therein requested.
and these delegates assembled in
Wheeling on the 18th day of May.
1861. the convention holding it's
meetings in Washington hall in that
city. and the action taken by that
body finally resulted in the forma-
ton of the new State, on June &c.
1859.
Your petitioners. all of whom were
present at the meeting held in the
court house aforesaid, further repre-
sent that this interesting and historic
event occurring as it did at trying
and stormy period in our Nations
history, and showing a courage
worthy OF emulation, and resulting
in changing the destinies and govern
ment of the people OF Virginia. west
of the mountains. is fast passing
from the minds of men, and suggest
that for the benefit of coming gem
erations should be commemorated by
suitable tablet placed in the pres
ent court house building in some
conspicuous place.
Your petitioners for the purpose
of carrying out the object set forth
above request that the court appoint
committee to ascertain and report
as follows:
First, To recommend suitable
tablet for the purpose suggested and
ascertain its cost.
Second, To select and recommend
the place where the tablet should be
located in the court house building.
and report its action to the court for
its future consideration.
All of which is respectfully sub
mitted, December II, 1905.
JOHN ]. DAVIS.
B.F. sHULLTEwoRTH.
ALEXANDER C. MOORE.
HENRY RAYMOND,
/. P. R. ASH,
! JASPER Y. MOORE.
E. B. HURsEY,
B. BROWN STOUT.
But two of the delegates sent to
the Wheeling convention from the
clarksburg meeting are now living
They are John J. Davis and Ben
Jan1in F. shuttleworth.
Such tablet ought by all means
to be placed in the court house here
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