Harts Creek Area Justices of the Peace (1879-1910)

16 Wednesday Dec 2015

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Sand Creek, Warren

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Between 1879 and 1910, the following men served as justices of the peace in the Harts Creek community. The primary source for this material is “Commissioner’s Record of Destroyed Title Papers 2,” which is located at the Lincoln County Clerk’s Office in Hamlin, WV. Material is arranged based on the person’s name as given in the deed, the date of the deed, and the date of the deed’s acknowledgment by a JP. I have also found JPs listed in Deed Book 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, and 60. Deed Book “S” at the Logan County Clerk’s Office as well as numerous records in the Logan County Circuit Clerk’s Office have also provided information. Many thanks to the county clerks and their employees who have always been so helpful to my research these past twenty-five years.

Stephen Lambert (Logan County) 1879, 1885-1886

State v. John Mullins (1879-1880)

NOTE: Moses Dalton stated that he was a “magistrate” in c.1885.

Deed: W.T. Butcher to Birl Farley 11 September 1885 11 September 1885

Deed: William and Emily Dingess to Polly C. Bryant 25 January 1886

Hall v. Baker 30 September 1886, 16 October 1886

NOTE: Stephen Lambert died, according to court docket files, on 21 October 1886 or 23 October 1886

A.B. Lowe was appointed justice in place of Stephen Lambert, deceased 8 November 1886

Andrew D. Robinson (Lincoln County) 1879

State v. John Mullins (1879-1880)

John McCloud (Logan County) 1881-1884, 1890-1892

Deed: Margaret Browning 01 October 1879 29 January 1881

Deed: A.A. Low to Stephen Lambert 1 June 1881 25 March 1882

Deed: Weddington Mullins 14 March 1881 18 July 1882

Deed: Charles Browning 1 June 1881 22 July 1882

Deed: Francis Vance 1 July 1882 10 March 1883

Deed: John Messer 15 September 1882 12 February 1884

Deed: Henry Workman v. Melvin Butcher 24 March 1884

Deed: Henry Workman v. Melvin Butcher 28 March 1884

Deed: Ezekiel K. Johnson 1 July 1882 30 December 1884

Workman v. Butcher 24 March 1884, 28 March 1884, 9 June 1884

Deed: Robert Mullins to Sarah E. Gore 25 November 1890 3 December 1890

Deed: Sophia Kinser 1 June 1881 12 November 1891

Deed: Farabell and John Vance to Salena Vance 11 October 1892

Jeremiah Lambert (Lincoln County) 1881-1884

Deed: John Henry Adkins 10 May 188? 3 June 1881

Deed: Archibald B. Harrison 1 July 1882 7 July 1882

Deed: John H. Fry 1 July 1882 16 August 1882

Deed: Sampson S. Brumfield 1 July 1882 17 August 1882

Deed: Minnis W. Perry 1 June 1881 13 April 1883

Deed: Enos Adkins 1 July 1882 3 June 1883

Deed: Sarah E. Thompson 23 March 1883 23 June 1883

Deed: Miles B. Browning 14 April 1881 10 August 1883

Deed: Elisha Vance 15 September 1882 10 August 1883

Deed: Moses B. Toney 21 August 1882 21 August 1883

Deed: Jeremiah and Ballard Lambert 1 July 1882 12 September 1883

Deed: Van D. Lambert 15 September 1882 30 January 1884

Deed: Albert G. Abbott 23 March 1883 14 February 1884

James H. Marcum (Lincoln County) 1881

Deed: Harmon and Susan Stroud to Louisa A. Wiley 18 November 1881

Canaan Adkins (Lincoln County) 1885-1888

Deed: Mitchell Browning and Charles Kinser 23 March 1883 5 March 1885

Deed: John and Chloe Ann Messer to Floyd Caldwell 16 March 1885 16 March 1885

Deed: Aaron and Nancy Jane Adkins to B.W. Walker 12 June 1885

Deed: John M.P. and Victory Thompson 1 July 1882 18 July 1885

Deed: Sarah E. Vance, Mary L. Nelson, and Peter M. Mullins 25 April 1883 8 August 1885

Deed: Aaron and Nancy Jane Adkins to B.W. Walker 12 June 1885 12 June 1885

Deed: Abner Vance 21 August 1882 6 October 1885

Deed: Telitha Spears to Blackburn Lucas 26 July 1886 26 July 1886

Deed: Charles Lucas to Blackburn Lucas 18 September 1886 18 September 1886

Deed: Charles Lucas to William Bird Brumfield 18 September 1886 18 September 1886

Deed: Sarah A. Perry 14 April 1881 14 February 1887

Deed: William and Jane Manns to Josephine Robinson 19 February 1887 19 February 1887

Deed: Andrew Jackson Browning 23 March 1883 17 June 1887

Deed: Elvira Baisden 1 July 1882 19 November 1887

Deed: Aaron and Nancy Jane Adkins 24 August 1887 24 August 1887/14 February 1888

Deed: Jeremiah Lambert to Van D. Lambert 30 April 1888

Deed: Floyd and Martha Caldwell to Melvin Kirk 7 July 1888 7 July 1888

A.B. Lowe (Logan County) 1886

A.B. Lowe was appointed justice in place of Stephen Lambert, deceased 8 November 1886

Hall v. Baker 18 November 1886

John B. Pullen (Lincoln County) 1888

Robert Fry to Wilford Fry, Martha J. Fry, and Rosa A. Fry 3 January 1888

Elias Vance (Lincoln County) 1889-1896

Aaron and Nancy J. Adkins to Malissia Adkins 14 August 1889 14 August 1889

Marine and Polly Spurlock to Laura Fry 6 November 1889

Polly C. Bryant to children 15 July 1891

Minerva McCloud 15 September 1882 7 November 1891

2 June 1893

Andrew and Elizabeth Elkins to Thomas J. Adkins 27 March 1894

George A. and Julia Alderson, Floyd and Emily Rakes, and C.D. and Vietta T. Haverty to J.L. Caldwell 7 December 1894

Enos Adkins et ux to Allen Brumfield 28 December 1894 14 May 1895

Charles Lucas to Sarah Brumfield 6 July 1895 6 July 1895

Samuel Workman to Melvin Kirk 29 September 1896 29 September 1896

On 26 August 1898, JP Vance was sentenced to serve two years in the state penitentiary for embezzlement.

David F. Smith (Lincoln County) 1892-1907

Richard and Olive F. Adkins to Sarah M. Adkins 18 June 1892

Peter Mullins to Jerry Lambert 12 January 1901

Lewis and Malinda Nelson to A.E. Wagner 4 December 1906

Anderson Fry to A. Gill 7 January 1907

Jefferson and Nancy E. Lucas to Cumberland Adkins 11 April 1907 12 April 1907

Hiram “Hi” Lambert (Lincoln County) 1893-1894

Deed: Farabel and John Vance to John H. Adkins 6 December 1893

Deed: Salena Vance 25 December 1893 25 December 1893

Deed: Peter M. and Mary A. Mullins et al to J.L. Caldwell 24 November 1894 29 November 1894

J.S. Payne (Lincoln County?) 1894

I.N. and Elizabeth Mullins to J.L. Caldwell 1 September 1894 7 September 1894

Sol Adams (Logan County) 1895-1897, 1899, 1907-1908

Between September and October of 1895, the Logan County Banner referenced him as Squire Sol.

Between February and September 1896, the Logan County Banner referenced him as Squire Sol.

Deed: Allen and Sarah Tomblin to William Conley 07 July 1894 09 April 1897

Cynthia Ann Mullins deposition 21 October 1899

Deed: Charles Washington Mullins to Jerry Lambert 18 June 1907

Deed: Clementine and Ed Dingess et al to Catherine Adkins 1 October 1908 16 October 1908

Deed: Clementine and Ed Dingess et al to Ann F. Davis 1 October 1908 16 October 1908

Isaac Fry (Lincoln County) 1897-1904

Richard and Spencer Adkins to D.P. Lambert 17 July 1897

Charles Adkins to Malinda Adkins 25 April 1898

Russell S. Stollings et ux to William D. Farley 24 March 1900

25 June 1900

Susan and Levi Rakes et al to J.L. Caldwell 28 July 1900 30 July 1900

28 July 1904

Jefferson Lucas (Lincoln County) 1899-1907

Isaac G. Gartin to William Manns 3 January 1899 3 January 1899

William Manns to William H. Manns 3 January 1899 3 January 1899

John P. Lucas to A.B. Staley 12 March 1907

William Bird Brumfield (Lincoln County) 1899-1904

J.H. and Amanda McComas to Blackburn Lucas 30 August 1899 30 August 1899

William and Rebecca Bell et al to Thomas H. Harvey and George F. Miller 12 January 1900

Malinda J. Vance to Emma Vance 21 July 1904 21 July 1904

George F. Frye (Lincoln County) 1901-1902

Farabell Vance to Salena Vance 7 May 1901

Enos Adkins to A.G. Adkins and F.E. Adkins 15 February 1902 15 February 1902

Rufus Pack (Lincoln County) 1903-1909

Isaac and Nancy M. Workman to Abijah Workman, Jr. 2 February 1903

Henry C. and Martha Sias to Isaac F. Nelson 17 February 1909

Charles Adkins (Lincoln County) 1905-1910

02 November 1905

Charles and Caroline Brumfield to J.M. Brammer and B.F. Scearcy 7 November 1906

Blackie Lucas to Elizabeth Lucas 15 July 1907

Asa and Rebecca Williamson to Hugh Evans 18 February 1908

William Workman to Joseph Browning 15 July 1908

Malinda Adkins to Isaiah Adkins 20 July 1908

02 January 1909

Joseph and Rosey Browning to Lace Marcum and T.R. Shepherd 1 April 1910

William Toppins (Wayne County) 1907

Deed: L.C. and Pinkston Queen to Sarah B. Maynard 18 December 1907

Hugh Evans (Lincoln County) 1908

Deed: John W. and Evaline Sartin to George Shepherd 29 July 1908

A.E. Wagner (Lincoln County) 1910

Deed: Anderson Fry to Rush and Mary Slate 14 January 1910

J.M. Brammer et ux to David Farley 11 April 1910 19 April 1910

Harts Creek District structures, 1903

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek, Big Ugly Creek, Fourteen, Green Shoal, Harts, Little Harts Creek, Queens Ridge, Toney

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Based on land books available at the Lincoln County Clerk’s office, the following persons owned property with buildings in Harts Creek District in 1903. Many of the persons listed below were business owners. The value of their structures are provided:

Hollena Brumfield, $750

Catharine Adkins, $300

George Hill, $250

Blackburn Lucas, $250

Bradford Toney, $250

Floyd E. Adkins, $150

L.H. Burks of Cabell County, $150

George and Emma Duty, $150

John H. Fry, $150

Wirt Toney, $150

George Staley, $75

$100

D.K. and M.B. Adkins

John C. Farley

Arena Ferrell

Patterson Ferrell

Levinie Hager

Malinda Johnson

Charles Lucas

Wade S. Lambert

Irvin Lucas

William R. Lucas et als

Greenville Perry

Patterson Toney

$50

Charley Adkins

Hezekiah Adkins

Malissa Adkins

George Alderson

Nancy A. Alford

William Bell

J.W. and Sarah Berry

Sarah A. Brumfield

L.H. Burks of Cabell County

America Dalton

John F. Duty

Andrew Elkins

Overton Elkins

Floyd Fry

Isaac G. Gartin

Blackburn B. Lucas

Benjamin W. Walker

Source: Land Book (1901-1904), Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV.

Archibald Harrison 3

27 Monday Jan 2014

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Ugly Creek, Civil War, Timber

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In 1865, Harrison married Martha E. Fry, the 21-year-old divorced wife of Lewis “Jupiter” Fry, a Confederate veteran and well-known fiddler in the Big Ugly Creek area of what was then Cabell County. Martha had been born on September 8, 1844 in Logan County. She was the daughter of Daniel H. and Nancy P. (Bailey) Fry, who lived at Big Creek in Logan County and later at the mouth of Big Ugly. One of her brothers, William A. Fry, died as a POW in a Delaware prison camp during the Civil War.

Archibald and Martha had seven children: William T., born April 18, 1867 in Kentucky; Daniel H., born September 29, 1869 in Kentucky; John M., born October 18, 1871; Mary L., born February 19, 1875, died August 7, 1875; George W., born October 10, 1874; Guy French, born June 18, 1876 in Virginia; and Louisa J., born February 1, 1879.

The first 23 years of Harrison’s second marriage are somewhat of a mystery. During the late 1860s, based on the birthplace of his two oldest children, he and his wife lived somewhere in Kentucky and, based on the birthplace of another child, they were in Virginia in the mid-1870s.

In 1878 Harrison settled near the Bend of the River or the mouth of Big Ugly Creek in the Harts Creek District of Lincoln County. His neighbors, based on the 1880 census, were Levi Rakes and Francis Brumfield, as well as brothers-in-law John H. Fry and Sampson S. Brumfield. Samp was a timber boss with a log boom at the mouth of the creek. George Marshall Fry, another brother-in-law, lived up Big Ugly where he worked as a farmer, timberman, and general store clerk.

On July 1, 1882, Harrison bought 360 acres of land on the west side of the Guyandotte River (near the Bend) in the Harts District from James I. Kuhn, a land agent for Abiel A. Low and William H. Aspinwall. It was worth $1.50 per acre and contained a $50 building, presumably a house or business.

“All that certain piece and parcel of land containing 260 acres more or less, granted by the commonwealth of Virginia to Wm. C. Miller & John H. Brumfield, assignees of Richard Elkins and Richard Elkins, May 1, 1850, lying on the Guyandotte above the mouth of Buck Lick branch,” the deed began. “Also all that part of a survey of 700 acres made for John H. Brumfield, Sept. 11th, 1854, on the east fork of Fourteen Mile Creek. The above described tract 100 acres of land is not to conflict with the lands conveyed to James Marcum.”

(The Kuhn deeds are interesting. In most cases, Kuhn, the grantor, was merely “selling” the surface rights to property already owned by the grantee. Kuhn’s employers claimed the mineral rights.)

In 1883, Harrison bought a 120-acre tract of land worth $2.50 per acre at Nine Mile Creek and a 230-acre tract of land worth $1.50 per acre on Phernatt’s Creek (at what would later be known as Brady) from W.T. Thompson. Harrison and his family soon settled on this latter property.

“Archibald B. Harrison is extensively engaged in farming, in Laurel Hill district, owning 380 acres of land on Guyan river, at the mouth of Phernats Creek,” Henry H. Hardesty chronicled in his history of Lincoln County, with “good improvements upon the farm, large orchard, heavily timbered, coal and iron ore in abundance.”

While Harrison referred to himself as a farmer in Hardesty’s history, there is also some indication that he was a timberman.

“The fact Archibald Harrison owned so much land at the mouth of Phernatt’s Creek is a clue that he was in the timber business,” said Harold R. Smith, Lincoln County genealogist and historian, in a c.2003 interview. “That was during the timber boom and land at the mouth of these creeks was heavily sought by people in that line of work. You could build a boom there and charge people a fee to get their logs out of the creek.”

At the time Harrison was profiled in Hardesty’s history, he and his wife were members of the Christian Church and received their mail at Hamlin.

“I don’t think he stayed at Phernatt’s Creek too long,” said Smith. “I think I read or heard somewhere that he moved to Big Ugly or Green Shoal and did a lot of timbering.”

Brandon Ray Kirk

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Harts Creek Area Justices of the Peace (1879-1910)

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