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BECKLEY POST-HERALD. BECKLEY, W. VA•tWEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1930.mwamD. A. R. Chapter Hears LifeStory of Capt. James Allen* *dr s. Charles‘st Chilson, s. J. Merrill igland, Mr tiain Janies, Mrs. GeorgeGiniiis, Mrs.. P. Nowlin,i.Mrs. S. M. Bledsoe Presents Paper on History ofjond wife of Franklin MeCue; about the year 1775, determined Mary, wife of Dr. Moorman, and to establish Augusta Academy andRebecca, wife of Stuart McClung, it was at first proposed to locateof Greenbrier. George Crawford, this institution at Staunton. At aMajor John Crawford’s older ; meeting of the Presbytery in April j brother, married Nancy Winter. 1775, persons were appointed tothe first and last battles of the American Revolution were fought on West Virginia soil, the last at Fort Henry, on September 11, 1782. The fort was located onthe present site of Wheeling and IHer parents were William and solicit subscriptions in behalf of was so named for Patrick Henry.\cademy, among whom were: Captain James Allen saw hisAnne Boone Winter, the latter an (theaunt of Daniel Boone. Elizabeth j William McPheeters, John Trim- brother Hugh killed in battle andNoted Pioneer Ancestors of Many Peoplee3R«Offof West Virginia and VirginiaAn interesting historical paper on the life and works of CaptainJames Allen, Virginiaginia pioneers,the IndiLong Knives,* *Winter, a sister of Mrs. George bell, at North Mountain, Thomas Crawford, married Abraham Stuart and Walter Davis at Tink-,Lincoln, the grandfather of Presi- ling Spring, Sampson Mathews at jdent Lincoln. Hannah Winter, Staunton, and Jomcs Allen, George Stone (another sister of Mrs. George Mathews and George Moffet in |years,Heplaced a stone at his grave, died at the age of ninety-four, having been an Elder of Augusta jChurch for six tv-fourVthe oldest Presbvferianpioneer, [boonwas written by Mrs. S. M. Bledsoe and read yesterday at the meeting of the Captain Janies Allen Chapter, 1. A. R., at the Black Knight Country Club.iidians called them, followed In’arr‘/lt;' Miller. I Aujw.li. congregation. In Mayc's Trace through Cumber-I !c ,founrtoL nf ,MllI,crs. 'M1? ,h.p ’resbylery determinedland Gap in settling Kentucky.Captain James Allen and wife.Works, on Mossy Creek, Augusta fto locate the school on TimberCounty. At Ilenry Miller’s death.Hdge. as there was no one m, his property was supposed to Margaret Allen, had ten children: have been the most valuable ofRidgtChurch west of the BlueMountains.For reference see:Waddell's Annals of AugustaE:ntionis visitingthis week, i y.■..The historical data was obtained from a number of books of reference by Mrs. Bledsoe, and there are a number of descendants of Captain Allen in Berkley and this section of Southern Westtwo sons and eight daughters, the kind in Virginia! Jane Allen, the oldest child, married Captain James Trimbell. HeStaunton to take the management County, Virginia, Second Revis-md it was uncertain whether !ed Edition; Annals of South Westa businessweek.is a visit-week.irginia that are tnerested in the jjjle 18th da\ paper.The entire document, as pi_ sen ted by Mrs. Bledsoe, is as follows :This included the furnace and forge with, . . . j eight thousand acres of land,was bom in Augusta County, Vir- j This was in 1811.ginia, in 1756. When a boy of » may be mentioned that theeight years of age his father was grandfather of President Lincoln, killed and he and others were[carried off by the Indians. Onthere would ever he. At the same I Virginia, By Lewis Preston; time, the Reverend William Gra-!Withers’ Chronicles of Border* »ham was elected rector voung man named Johnand aMont-Warfare; Nelson Wiley Evans and Archie Hurlburt, Historians,gomerv his assistant. Mr. GrahamMarietta, Ohio; Collins’ Historyof March,was born in Pennsylvania in 1746 «nd educated at what was thenAs far as known, the countryof Mount id the fun-eck Clay.now embraced in Augusta Coun-ty, Virginia, was never entered I Mathews* Company; at thlt;Tbatt‘iethen living in the part of AugustaCounty which is now Rocking- Princeton College. Mr. Mont-. .... . . * /lt;C’* {ham, attended a court martial at goraery was born in Augusta andGeorge Moffet qualified m theistnunton March 13, 1776, as cap- graduated at Princeton in 177,5..ounty Court as guardian of tajn 0f a niilitia comnanv. His! He spent the last years of his James rrijmbell, orphan of JohnTrimbell, When eighteen yearsof age, 1774, James Trimbell wasa member of Captain Georgeof Kentucky.*Xname was Linkhorn.”by white man until the year 1716. 0f p0inf pleasant. Duringof BIuc-er parents, * Johnston.Six years earlier, however, soirn portion of the Valley of Virginia [had been seen from the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains bvacompany. His [He spent written “Abraham fife as pastor of the Rocky Spring'hurch, in Augusta County Vir-Margaret Allen, fifth daughter ginia. Trustees were also ap~of Captain James Allen, married pointed: Reverend John Brown,[Major William Bell, son of Joseph Reverend James Waddell, Thoni-the iRoii „r af:—_ .... amj Andrew Lewis, WilliamPax, W. Va*„ , ... , L [Bell, of Augusta County. Virginia. ■ as .Revolutionary war he was Cap-[Major Bell was County Surveyor Preston, Sampson Mathews, Sam-tain of Rifle Rangers. Jane Allen 0f Augusta County for many! net McDowell, George Moffet, andwas his second wife. In l'lt;5J[vearscompany of European adventur-CaptainTrimbelTs family, with [many others, moved to Kentucky,travelingers, so wrote Governori . _ Spotts- Ujjjg party traveling horseback,on, Wilbur vlot ‘ (Tln*Hr j’N 1710, to the ,jane Allen Trimbell carrying herfrom a (Council of I rade, in London, Eng- jw0 smallest children with her,j land.t he Shawnee Indians had a jn 1820 became Governor of Ohio,settlement in the lower valley, atves at Poland William Allen Trimbell, the , who has nfa! is now Winchester, |)aj)v s]le carried in her lap, be-xtio/ii,., ! irginia, the oldest settlementGoloncl Nicholas Lewis. Of this family very little seems to be known, except that they remcv-Allen Trimbell behind her, who jetj |c KentuckyNancy, the•others. In 1770 the school wasMary Allen, sixth daughter of [removed to Lexington and calledCaptain .Tames Allen, married [‘‘Liberty Hall.’* An act of incor-j poraflon by the Legislature wasobtained in 1782 and the institution has now become Washington and Lee University.oral weeks ital, isly.Mauck re-ii ten davs livesNancy.Thomas andseventh child ofCaptain James Allen, marriedCaptain Samuel Frame, of Augus-i . . . . icame a member of the united rvnmfv Virgin i« Timi, „u;i Irc. jnxlt;*st °f the Blue Ridge Mountains, states Senate. Captain Trimbell fdrcn Nu.n. j0ilnand parties of that tribe frequent- | jia(j liberated his slaves and wasl\ traversed this section on hunt- j about to remove to Hillsboro, mg expeditions or on warlike i Ohio when he died in 1804#expeditions against the southern! * „ Ug - T tlive, and (tfihts. hut tl.cr,. was no Indian ' A?n. C’ in daugh,er.°( ° rT,,YWaS .’T, T‘tbc•ginia. village or wigivan, wilhin the JamM A1,en marrM''1 ]of (.olonel William A. Bell.present limits of Augusta County,Captain James Allen lived near the place now called Willow’ Spout, on the macadam road aboutdebt miles north of Staunton.Sarah, the eighth child of Captain James Allen, the first wife, son andliss Geral-Bailev, ofColonel George Poage, son of William Allen, ninth child ofAslate as the year 1754 theywere still having Indian raids as poage settled two miles north ofCulpepper County, .Staunton and, as soon as he ar-farr*east asGeneral John Poage and grand-I Captain James Allen, married a son of Robert .Poage. Robert j young lady from Kentucky, Susanin 1783 they went to{ v * :CJ\s we have seen, he was a Captain of militia in 1756 and participated in the battle of PointPleasant, the first battle of the American Revolution, in themonth of October.I would like to mention thatsome historians claim that bothBell, andKentuckywere Sun-[5 irginia. Stephen Hoislon, in the . r|ved in the Valley, on land that j Lexington. They Urs. A. \\.j\eai 1/uL was captured in the jie purchased from William Rev- idren. Thair aUa*y Hawley. {Indians aftei[pepper fromreturning the ValievtoofCul-Vir- I.erley, from what was then known ried Mathew Jouett, the famousto live, and settled athad six chil-Fheir oldest daughter mar-LYRICTo-day and Thursday„„ „ , rr t , , ias Beverley Manor,” of whichrtiorne, J. IKinia. Ilo Inter csraped ami scrv- lherr %verc scven hun(lreUid Mrs .0. f‘lt;l m the battle of Point Pleasant [seventy-two acresunday mo- m 1774. 'Flic Holston Rivei Sulphur [named for this man.Union.wasabout the vear 1755.employed in Beck-iving beenath of hisandThis was He, a short_ [time later, purchased a thousandBefore the year 1738 the wholeregion west of the Blue Ridge Jcrnmenf. General John Poage ac-constitutedji }art of Orange. In eompanicd Colonel George Wash-mo vear 1733. however. Novem- jington on the Braddock her 1st, the General Assembly of-pajftn. After the Braddock expe-artist of Kentucky, and her oldest j daughter married Richard Mene- ! fee, the celebrated Kentucky ora- J tor. Another daughter married Dr. Alexander Mitchell, of Frank-acres in Augusta from the Gov- ford, and one of her other daughters married Oliver artist.Frazier, theCam-the Colony of \ irginia passed an jdition. Colonel George Washing-act establishing the counties ofj{on visitcd the home of Generalollege,about the first days of October.One of Captain William Allen’s sons was Colonel William II. Allen, formerly of Augusta County, and another one w?as Colonel James Allen, of Missouri. James Allen, the tenth child of Captaini. horn !l' Si.'r!v nni* Augusta. 1 he new jj0}ln Roage in Augusta Counhnas Deen counties were so named in honoift in vncnti f,f ^ 11 1 ! ‘l ('c °f Wales, son j 1778. (Record, Williamsburg, Vir-{James Allen, married Elizabethd to spend of King George II, and father of gillifU Tate. Their children were: Wil-George IH, and his wife, Princess i u, n. r, .Augusta. The act separateit all ge’ i,n 'lt;* nf' f r t! nr\n I * .nunefr% I *[the territory west of the P’ith his paB. Walls, eel.MissesBruster[*rier were . and Mrs.eston..olonel George Poage, andNidge mountains and extending ! Am,c. ,oa«f- fYf1 t. in other direelions to the utmost C?' U lnllI tuck y. William Poage was hera Mr. McGinty was her fourth and last. Anne, [Poage’s first two husbands wereI he business of the people of j killed bv the Indi ans. WilliamI limits of Virginia, from Orange |If.ounty, and created it into the I* ,hlU'a”d- ‘counties named.children,Jumpingto theirweek here!Augusta was transacted at Orange 'Court House ’till December, 1745.when the court of Augusta wasorganized. In the meantime, allpersons in the Valley of Virginia having suits to prosecute or pleasand Anne Poage were among the first people to settle atHerrod. This was in the year1775 and is now Harrodsburg, the1 ate.liam, who married a Miss Poage, }jjs(and John, who married, first the Polly Crawford, and, second Ann Barry widow of Dr. William Mc-Cue and, removing to Michigan was the founder of Ann Arbor, so named for his wife; Mary, wife of Captain John Welsh; Margaret, or Peggy. Allen, v as the second wife of Major William Fort [Poage, of Augusta County, Virginia. They raised a large family.Miss Louise Turner and Mr. Janse Lively were married June i 6. Mrs. Lively is the daughter ofC. A. Turner, of Weirwood.Homer Glenn Hunter, son of Dr. A. L. Hunter, has returned !from his studies at VV. V. U. j Mr. and Mrs. French Davis and j children, of Beckley, Mrs. H. B. Davis and children, Misses Violetand Carrie Mayuor and Master James Maynor called on Mrs. Rhoda Davis Sunday.Mrs. Milord Kofer ami son, David, of Waverly, Ohio, arrivedin town Sunday to spend a few days with Mrs. Rhoda Davis.Miss Elva Canterbury has returned from her studies at New Ri\er State.Aubrey Canterbury and I lolly Tyree motored to Princeton Sunday, stopping at Lake Shawnee for a swim.Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Judv and Z. H. Legg motored to Huntington over the week end.J. U. Canterbury was the dinner guest Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. John Gore. Mr. Gore’s daughter, Mrs. Thomas, is visiting here a! few days.Clarence ShufTlebarger, of It-1 maim, was a caller in town on j Saturday night. jH. B. Davis and B. H. AlifT have j dissolved partnership in the Pax ! Garage company, Mr. AlitV sellingout to Mr. Davis. The services ofMr. AJifUs nephew, Elmer McMil- [ lian have been retained. iThe long Branch Methodist I church gave a Sunday school pro-%1Ac*grain on June 8, that was very attractive. Mrs. Ray Humphreyhad charge of the program. Besides the children’s performancesFriday and SaturdayRIN-TIN-TININiiOn the Border”a quintette was sung by MissI Virginiiia Williams, Miss PaulineSowders, Miss Rossettious Blake, Claude Sowders and Hubert Ellison. A duct was sung by Miss ! Williams and Miss Blake and a isoio bv Mr. A1 Linder.iEntry BlankThomas, a lawfer, in SouthwestVirginia, wasColonel of theoldest settlement in Kentucky.Colonel George Poage, husband ! Fiftieth Virginia regiment, whenof North ip fnll;r , 1 10 li;ke the tons trip 0f _\nne Ajlen i»oaU(,_ bjs brother, he was killed on Bliickwaler inthrough he gaps In the mountains Rober, PoaRe together with Colo-and by bridle paths fo Orange, fGood For 5000 Vote*I wish to place In nomination for prize awards in the Beckley MercIrs. W. JL l have re-after a at Ilin-ss)f Hinton,liter, Mrs.., . .neI John Poage, afterwards Gen-Moreover us there was no mm- Crnt John Poage, of (ireenup, Ken-ister of the Established Church. ,, ,, ,, . tucky, in the year 1786 came toin the \ alley III 1/1!) all couples |Kenlllcky lo|)UV ]an(I. Thevliving here ami wishing to be bought all the laml Iving betweenmiirri,.,! I,a,Mo ravel across the Crepk Russp, Kpnlupkv,Blue R.ilge to Orange in search |.ln(| Ca|t|p|s C,,cpk n|nn|. 1):iekof a minister authorized by law 1Hawley,the Hal- l*° Perform the service.The Colonial Governmentcouraged the settlement oft Whitcs-nd at hisSV. M. S.,Episcopalet Thurs-vith Mrs.; to the River Hills.the land into en-Jcast lotstheFebruary, 1863,One of Peggy Allen Poage’s daughters married General James A. Walker, late Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.Nancy Allen, fifth child of James Allen II, married Charles Lewis; Sarah, wife of GeorgeThey divided Maw*, of Bath County, and JamesP. Allen married Miss Maynard,Campaign.N a m eAildress -This blank may be filled out and mailed to Beckley Newspapers (several parcels andfor a division, Colonel Michigan.s, at the [Scottish ancestry. Must of those.... i George Poage getting one tract\alley of \ irginia as a means of above Ashland, where he and his Protecting the lower country sons John and Allen Poage made from Indian incursions. I he set- ; sonic improvements. Colonel flei s were almost exclusively of George Roage received one otherI lie Scotch-Irish race, natives of tract of land where he and histhe north of Ireland, but of Ison, John, built a handsome homeAllen Tnmbell, Governor (Ohio from 1826 to 1830, and Wii-liam Allen, Governor of Ohio from 1874 until 1876, were both descendents of Captain James Allen. Governor Allen married the daughter of Governor McAr-desiring to enter the campaign, or by any friend of a young lady who s candidate. Nomination carries with it 5000 votes to give the candidateThe first nomination only counts for any one candidate.HIM..Frank M. (whowho has ves here eturn to-larleston.I by Mrs.II be herf brick in 1700.came in the first twenty j jng their home Colonel George years were Dissenters from the j R0age returned to Virginia and'Church of England, of the Pres-j thought out the remainder of his 1Poage andColonel George\ffer complef- Biur.The Presbvtervf Hanover,byterian faith, and victims of re- I family. Anne Allenligious persecution in their native [herFOUND AT LAST!!land. They were, generally,profoundly religious people,bringing the Bible with them,whatever they had to leave behind. V;William Allen was one lt;f theventuckv early settlers in Augusta County,* *has not [Virginia, and Captain James Allen(was William Allen's oldest son.husband,a [Poage, are buried in the old I The famous Q-623 GuaranteeBelliesda Cemetery, Ashland. Ken- j relief for Neuritis, Kheumatitucky. The Poage home is still ! Sciatica, Lumbago is now availstanding and is owned and oc-1 to ail sutterers trom tlu*^cupied of some of Anne Allen Poage’s descendants. Colonel George Poage was a Revolutionary soldierFIRST FRIZhis vearUTYWilliam Allen was a manmeans and brought his family to America at his own expense. William Allen came from Ireland tocommanding a regiment under General Washington, I at the surrender of Lord Corn-I wallis, at Yorktown,' vaniu.Pennsyl-Q-623 is a prescription of a famous specialist that has done wonders for thousands of people when many other remedies have failed.We ask you to try’ this famousprescription# A few doses usually stop the pain and many peoplesav: “It is worth its weight inIn Merchants Trade Extension Campaigi4 OTHER BIG PRIZESrold.Recommended and soId i. f „ ... . , Llteabeth Allen, third daughterAmerica, hut was of Scottish an- 0f Captain James Allen married 1 by The Pemberton Drug Go.; Mor-I he brother of William jtJie Reverend John McCue. Dr i ton Drug Co.; Crottv MA^nnH!**owingil fur-eestry.Allen was the grandfather of Dr. |Allen, who long resided and (practiced medicine in the Stone[Church neighborhood neaiIon, Augusta County, Virginia, itVd IneRuffncr, in his history of W’ash-('o., Lester, W. \’a,; Watkins* Drugis believed that Captain JanieneAllen was ’seven years old at the date of his emigration t» AmericaHugh andt$8.00.50.50.75$1.00.50iteedntington College, alluding to Mi I Me Cue, says IfC was a good man 1 si.mu- j when he chose, which was not!often.” He could tell comic tstories in a manner irresistubh * tludicrous. In the year 1818 the, Reverend John McCue was thrownilis brothers, Hugh and John, jfrojn his horse Jin(| klj,ed Qne |were born in Augusta County. Sunday morning on his way to Janies and Hugh married sisters. Tinkling Spring Church, daughters of John Anderson, of | Rebecca Allen, fourth daughterAugusta. John Allen, it is said. [0f Captain James Allen, married was a lieutenant at Braddock s j Major John Crawford, who was defeat and was lost m that uis- jborn in Augusta Countv, March aster. Hugh Allen was a lieuten- 2‘Jth, 1764. He was the secondant in Colonel Lewis regiment son 0f patrilt;*k and Sally Craw-at Point Pleasant in 17lt;4, He j ford. Rebecca Allen Crawford’sh;s children were: Elizabeth, wife of of) William Ingles; Sally, wife of John Hyde; Margaret, first wife had of Cyrus Hyde; James, known as and Major James Crawford, married ed to Cynthia McClung, of Greenbrier;Store, and the Stonecoal Drug CoInMM.Ask1WHEN YOU,was killed in the battle am jbodv buried bv the side Colonel Lewi*’ remains.I Lieutenant Hugh Allenthree sons: John, WilliamHugh, all of whom remo*.DUY IND ECKLEYTHERE’S AN ENTRY BLANK IN TODAY’S ISSUE VYOUR SIGNATURE—SIGN IT AND GET IN THE RAVote Them ForYour chance of winning does not depend on an early ston how you run after you get started. Remember thethe “HARE AND THE TORTOISE”?LET’S GET GOING TODAY!Your FavoriteSimty merchant* are cooperatingOver Three Thousin Berkley Trade ExtensionKentucky withfew years later.ithe Trimbeltst would liken I John, married Harriet McClung. I Campaign and award of vatutto for Greenbrier; George W., died hie prizes.»Dollars4mrizeii•mention here that all of the Vir- unmarried; Ann, or Nancy, see-mmmm
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