West Virginia Genealogy

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Comment by Phillip H. Pitzer on July 15, 2009 at 8:12am

Hi, my ancestors, both sides came from West Virginia. I have lots of relatives, cousins, etc. in WV. The fellow who started this group John Boggess, might be a cousin. My cousin Sarah Pitzer (1800-1875) married Henry Boggess, Jr. (1798-????) April 4, 1822, in Christian Co., KY.

Comment by Cheryle Hoover Davis on July 15, 2009 at 5:08am

Researching the Sebastian Huber/Hoover line in WVA

Comment by patsy adkins on July 13, 2009 at 9:18pm

Also any body in this gorup that would be interested in joining the NSDAR just let me know and I can put you in contact with our state register.

Comment by patsy adkins on July 13, 2009 at 9:16pm

Hi there
I was born and raised in Marmet, WV located about 10 minutes from Charleston, WV.
My father families came from VA and settled in Lincoln Co. West Virginia.
Archibald Egnor 1811-1893
married Lahoma Massey, Polly Bryant, Susan Carpenter. Susan parents were Joseph Carpenter and Ann Miller of Monroe Co. WV and then came to the Kanawha Valley area after 1850.
I come off Archibald marriage to Susan Carpenter. They had one son named Samuel Alexander Egnor who married Martha Jane Whitten. They had 14 kids.
Some of the surnames that married into the Egnor families were linville, mccallister, whitten, mays, estep,stowers,hill thats just to name a few of them.



I can help with anybody needing help in research in WV.

Comment by Janice Treadwell Burzlaff on July 13, 2009 at 3:17pm

No I don't belong to any genealogy sites except for the Genealogy Wise sites that I've just joined in the last couple of days. I did lots of searching on Ancestry.com and Rootsweb a couple of years ago when I had a knee injury - and then got busy with other things and have neglected my genealogy. MyFamily sounds good. I'll have to look into it. Just off the top of my head I know my grandfather was born in Harrison County and my grandmother in Putnam County - I remember seeing other counties mentioned in my searches but don't remember what they are without looking them up.

Comment by Kay Dilley Nichols on July 13, 2009 at 2:47pm

YEAH!! I just love it when I have a good hit. Do you belong to any of the MyFamily sites? I belong to a host of them and have found some really helpful folks there. Don't know what counties would be most helpful to you so can't check. There are West Virginia Pioneers and West Virginia Connected that cover everything.

Comment by Janice Treadwell Burzlaff on July 13, 2009 at 12:49pm

Very exciting! I haven't taken time to delve into family history for several months but I just did some more searching and found the West Virginia Cemetery Association and the Atkeson Cemetery which was at my great-grandparents' farm, Lawnvale (I don't know if the house is still there are not, my mom thought probably not.) It's been updated very recently and there are photos of my great-grandparents tombstone and great-great-grandparents and tombstones of many siblings of my great-grandfather. Yes, very exciting indeed! I would love to go there.

Comment by Janice Treadwell Burzlaff on July 13, 2009 at 12:26pm

Yes, a good sense of humor and an open mind. Some of what I've read about my great-grandfather in the book was admirable and some was not! Also some of what I've read when I googled his name was kind of shocking. I might rather remember him as my mother told me, her kindly grandfather who lived on the third floor of her house in Washington, D.C. in the winter months, and spending summers on his farm north of Buffalo, WV.

Comment by Kay Dilley Nichols on July 13, 2009 at 12:17pm

Janice, I hope you can figure out how you are related to Govern Atkinson. I don't think my husbands family is connected to him. Here is what I have found written about his Adkins/Atkins/Atkinson family. You need a good sense of humor to look into your family history. The last paragraph is my husband's favorite.
History of Summers county from the earliest settlement to the present time Written by: James H. Miller. Publisher: Hinton, W. Va., 1908. Page 474
One of the oldest families of people in all this region of the New River Valley was that of Adkins or Atkins. They are said to have come into this region during the time of the Revolutionary War, and were first discovered living under cliffs on the Summers side of the river from New Richmond Falls, supposed to be the magnificent cliffs in the canyon at the mouth of Laurel Creek which empties into the New River half a mile from Lick Creek at New Richmond Post Office. They were hunters and trappers in the earliest days, and have continued so as long as there was game in this region, and their descendants are scattered one place and another throughout this region and other counties.
Once in awhile you will find a member of the generation rising above the common level, but no great advancements have been made in this race. There was a Parker Adkins, a man noted for his nose, the of it being half the size of a man's fist; Riley Adkins, known as the "Chestnut Mountain Lawyer"; Leonard Adkins living in the Chestnut Mountain area; Albert Adkins, one of the most intelligent, lives near Hinton. Hen Adkins, one of the race, was drowned in Laurel Creek with L.M. Alderson's wedding suit on. Mr. Alderson was married twice and this was the suite he had purchased for his first marriage. He said that he sold a steer to secure the broadcloth suit.
Sometimes the name is spelled Atkins and sometimes Adkins. The Gills are said to have come into the country about the same time and to have lived about the same way. The Gills and the Adkins have intermarried. There is an intelligent family by the name of Atkins, now residing in the Little Bluestone country of a different generation.
A thriftless, harmless, indolent, unambitious race of people as a race, but without malicious cunning or dangerous. Possibly the ancestors were Tories who emigrated into this then fastness to escape military Service

Comment by Janice Treadwell Burzlaff on July 13, 2009 at 12:06pm

In the book Pioneering in Agriculture, written by my great-grandfather, Thomas Clark Atkeson with my great-aunt Mary Meek Atkeson, he says former governor George W. Atkinson was his cousin "with whom I'm generally in accord except about the spelling of our surname"! How they are related I have no idea - I'll have to keep digging. Thanks again for the encouragement and information.

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