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• Occupation: truck driver (40 yrs), bartender at Elks Lodge (11 yrs)
• Residence: ORIGINALLY, Cornwallis, Ritchie Co, WV
• Residence: From About 1974, Severna Park, Anne Arundel Co, MD

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• Military: SF3, U.S. Navy
• Census: 1910, Grant District, Ritchie Co, WV
• Residence: 1934, 1938, Cornwallis, Ritchie Co, WV

Harry married Amy Erma JOHNSON 5 Feb 1934, Cairo, Ritchie Co, WV. Amy (daughter of Charles Wesley JOHNSON and Arminta SCOTT) was born 9 Mar 1913, Glendale (Pike), Ritchie Co, WV; died 12 Oct 2002, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV; was buried , Pine Grove Cemetery, Glendale, near Pike at Twin Oaks (Co Rd 50-13), Ritchie Co, WV. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Education: Painter Run School (near Glendale/Pike, Ritchie Co)
• Residence: Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV
• Residence: 1934, Cornwallis, Ritchie Co, WV

Other Events:

• Residence: Cornwallis, Ritchie Co, WV
• Census: 1870, 1880, 1910, Grant District, Ritchie Co, WV

Notes:

Birth:
Birth date given in death record as Mar 4 1857, but WV Birth Index shows it as Mar 4 1859.

John married Onia Elizabeth BRUMMAGE 4 Apr 1882, Ritchie Co, WV. Onia (daughter of Levi BRUMMAGE and Elizabeth TEBAUGH) was born CA 1865; died 9 Mar 1938, Cornwallis, Ritchie Co, WV; was buried , Waterbury Cemetery, Rt 8, north of Cornwallis, Ritchie Co, WV. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: Cornwallis, Ritchie Co, WV
• Census: 1910, Grant District, Ritchie Co, WV

Notes:

Buried:
death record states only Cornwallis

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• Residence: 1902, Goose Creek, Ritchie Co, WV

Charles married Arminta SCOTT 13 Apr 1902, Goose Creek, Ritchie Co, WV. Arminta was born CA 1886, Ritchie Co, WV. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1902, Goose Creek, Ritchie Co, WV

Notes:

Married:
at the residence of John Johnson

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Ritchie Co, (W)VA
• Census: 1870, 1880, Grant District, Ritchie Co, WV

Notes:

Birth:
Age 49 in 1870 Census would put birth in about 1821, but date on headstone is Jan 14 1827. A birth date of 1822 has also been reported. Name on headstone: Louden Richards.

Loudin married Elizabeth ROLLINS 3 Jan 1847, Ritchie Co, (W)VA. Elizabeth (daughter of Moses ROLLINS and Nancy CAVE) was born 6 Jan 1832; died 5 Feb 1902; was buried , Victory Ridge Cemetery, CR 16/8, north of Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, 1880, Grant District, Ritchie Co, WV

Other Events:

• Residence: 1865, Marion Co, WV

Levi married Elizabeth TEBAUGH 16 Mar 1865, Fairmont, Marion Co, WV. Elizabeth (daughter of S. TEBAUGH and R. ___) was born CA 1844, Marion Co, (W)VA; died 18 Jan 1919; was buried , Crooksville Cemetery, Crooksville, Perry Co, OH. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1865, Marion Co, WV
• Residence: 1882, 1886, Ritchie Co, WV
• Census: 1900, 1910, Center District, Calhoun Co, WV

Notes:

Birth:
Birth date on headstone is Jan 20 1841, while age 41 in 1886 marriage record puts birth in about 1845, and age 37 in 1882 marriage record also puts it in about 1845. But age 22 in 1865 marrige record puts it in about 1843.

Other Events:

• Occupation: farmer
• Census: 1850, 1860, Ritchie Co, (W)VA
• Census: 1870, Grant District, Ritchie Co, WV
• Medical Condition: 1880; blind
• Census: 1880, Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV

Notes:

Died:
No death record has been found for William Richards. In her account of his parents and siblings, Minnie Kendall Lowther says only that "William Richards settled on the Rev. E. J. Taylor farm, where he passed from earth."
["History of Ritchie County," p. 362]

William married Sarah WOODRIDGE. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married:
She is identified by some researchers as Sarah Leggett, but by others as Sarah Woodridge.

Other Events:

• Military: (ENLISTED Oct 1780); Revolutionary War (wounded in action, both legs later amputated)
• Census: 1850, Ritchie Co, (W)VA

Notes:

Military:
Information from his pension application in Harrison County, Virginia, dated 15 Jun 1818 ... Moses Rollins enlisted in 1780 in Culpeper, Virginia, under the command of Captain Smith, attached to the regiment commanded by Col. Buford of the regular service. He remained in service until the end of the Revolutionary War. He was wounded at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina on March 15, 1781. Both legs, below the knees, were amputated as a result of disease incurred during the war. His second wife, Nancy, was 25 years old in 1820. In addition to sons Henry, Jeremiah and Edward, his children in 1820 included daughters Sally (age 5), and Rebecca (age 1 year).

Census:
In household of son Henry Rollins and his family.

Moses married Nancy CAVE 5 Dec 1814, Harrison Co, (W)VA. Nancy was born 4 Apr 1795, Virginia; died 17 Jun 1858, Ritchie Co, (W)VA. [Group Sheet]

I. married R. ___. [Group Sheet]

S. married R. ___. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Military: Indian Spy, Continental Army, Revolutionary War (Indian scout along Ohio River)

Notes:

Lynn Camp Settled.-- This stream, which is a small tributary of the North fork of Hughes river, took its name from a camp of lynn wood that was constructed by a party of hunters, in 1776, not far from the present site of the Wheeler Broadwater residence.

These hunters came in the autumn-time, leaving orders for thier pack-horses to follow in six weeks; but, finding game so plentiful, they sent the fruits of their first six weeks labor home, and remained another six weeks, at the end of which time they had slain eighteen bears. During this entire time they had no change of clothing.

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The Richardses were the Pioneers of this creek. George Richards and his wife, Mrs. Kathrine Bush Richards, with their large family, having come from Harrison county very early in the century, and settled at the mouth of Lynn Camp, on the land that afterwards became the home of Edmund Taylor. They came as early as 1800, and it is claimed by some that they were here in 1795, but this cannot be verified, however; and John Bunnell still holds the distinction as being the first settler, within the bounds of the county.

The Richardses are said to have come and to have gone back to their home in Harrison county a number of times, before settling down here permantently. George Richards removed from the mouth of this stream to the late L. P. Wilson farm, where his life came to a close.

His sons, who were as follows, were nearly all pioneers here: Isaac, George, Benjamin, William, John, Michael, Jacob, Elias, James, Nelson, and one daughter, Mrs. George Six, of Athens, Ohio.

Isaac Richards died (unmarried) of wounds received in the war of 1812.

George Richards, junior, settled on Rock Camp, where he reared a family.

Benjamin Richards married Miss Priscilla Jones, who was of Dutch descent, and was the first settler on Lynn Camp, he having reared his dwelling near the present site of the school-house. He was the father of Dr. Benjamin Richards, of Pullman.

William Richards settled on the Rev. E. J. Taylor farm where he passed from earth.

John Richards married Miss Nancy Taylor, sister of James Taylor, and went to Calhoun county, where he died at the age of one hundred four years, and near Big Springs he sleeps. He was the grandfather of Joseph Richards, of Goff's, Joseph being the son of Edward Richards.

Other brothers.--Michael married Miss Caroline Wilson, daughter of John Wilson, of Calhoun county; and Benjamin, Miss Ruth Jones, and these brothers were the first setlers on the Syelus Hall farm, on Lynn Camp. But Michael went

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to Calhoun county, where he died, and where his descendants live; and Jacob removed to Beeson, where he died in 1899, at the age of ninety-four one-half years, and in the Wilson burying ground, near the mouth of the stream, he lies buried.

He (Jacob) was twice married, his second wife, and widow, being Mrs. Drusilla Jackson, mother of C. S. Jackson, who still survives.

Jacob Richards was the father of Mrs. James Elder, of Hardman chapel; of Mrs. Harrison Lamb, of Beeson; the late Mrs. Pricilla (John) Elder, of Leatherbarke; the late Mrs. Eli R. Cunningham, of Eva (who first married Asa Manear, and was the mother of Jacob Manear), and the late William Richards, of Beeson. Mrs John B. Baker, of Lamb's run; and Mrs. Jennie Bailey, of Smithville, are among his grandchildren.

Elias Richards was the first citizen of the late "Bail" Wilson homestead (now the property of John Jobes), on Lynn Camp.

James Richards went to Ohio, and Nelson, to Calhoun county.

The Richareses were of German Descent, and were noted Indian-fighters and hunters, and their descendants in this and sister counties are a multitude.

Syelus Hall succeeded the Richareses on Lynn Camp, he having purchased the improvement of both Jacob and Michael Richards, near the year 1849, and founded his home where his son, Elza C. Hall, now lives.

SOURCE: "History of Ritchie County," by Minnie Kendall Lowther, 1910
http://www.wvgenweb.org/ritchie/MKL_HRC9.htm#1

George married Catherine BUSH 30 Jul 1788, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, (W)VA. Catherine was born CA 1765, Hardy Co, (W)VA; died 1814, Lewis Co, (W)VA; was buried (UNMARKED), Richards Survey Cemetery, Bunnells Run, near Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV. [Group Sheet]