Old News 4

 

Here is a summary of 30 events from the sources:

• Colonel John Baxter of Stony Creek was a prominent figure in the formation of Pocahontas County in 1821.
• The first court in Pocahontas County was held on March 5, 1822.
• John Jordan was the High Sheriff of the first Pocahontas County court. His son, Jonathan, was appointed Deputy Sheriff.
• James Callison, William Edminson, John Hill, John Cochran, Alexander Waddell, John McNeill (“Little John”), Robert Moore, Martin Dilley, and Benjamin Tallman served on the first grand jury of the first court held in Pocahontas County.
• Andrew Burns and William McNeel were the first lawyers to practice law in the new county.
• The population of Pocahontas County in 1830 was 2,542. The population grew to 8,572 by 1900.
• **From 1830 to 1860 the population of the county increased by 35 percent. From 1860 to 1900 the population increased by about 70 percent. **
• Moses Moore, a veteran of the Battle of Point Pleasant, had his leg amputated in 1840, 46 years after being injured.
• **Moses Moore was living on Swago Creek when the Drennan raid occurred. His youngest daughter, Phebe, remembered the family fleeing to the fort at Mill Point. **
• William Hill, an early settler of Pocahontas County, was interrupted one morning while reading from the bible by Native Americans aiming their rifles at him.
• John Hill was the first clerk of the Pocahontas County court.
• **Richard Gillilan married Mary Handley and moved to Missouri. **
• **Thomas Hill lived for a time in Greenbrier County, but moved to Indiana after an epidemic swept through the community and his wife’s sister and her husband died. **
• **Allen Hill was living in Missouri when the Civil War broke out. He served in the Confederate Army until the close of the war. **
• **John Hill Jr., a teacher and preacher, moved to Missouri where he died. **
• John McNeel and his wife served in the Revolutionary War.
• John McNeel fought at the battle of Point Pleasant and, according to tradition, one of his children was born and died while he was away at battle.
• **Jacob Slaven, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, operated a tavern and stage stand on the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike. **
• **The Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike was an important road for travelers. People from both the eastern and western portions of Virginia used this route. **
• **The home of Jacob Slaven, known as Traveler’s Repose, was prosperous until it was destroyed during the Civil War. **
• Jeremiah Friel came to the area near Mill Point around 1765 after visiting the area with a friend who was captivated by the hunting grounds.
• **Charles Kinnison’s wife and mother-in-law were captured by Native Americans. His mother-in-law told her friends she believed she would be killed. She was never heard from again. **
• Jacob Warwick, an early settler in the area, moved from Dunmore to Clover Lick. He later moved to Jackson River before returning to Clover Lick.
• **Jacob Warwick and twenty other men ambushed a group of Native Americans returning from a raid. It is believed every man in the ambush killed a Native American. **
• Jacob Warwick, James McClain, Thomas Cartmill, and Andrew Sitlington, who were on horseback, escaped a Native American attack. John Crouch, John Hulder, and Thomas Lacky escaped on foot. John McClain, James Ralston, and John Nelson were killed.
• Jacob Warwick participated in the Battle of Point Pleasant.
• It took Jacob Warwick nineteen days to march from Lewisburg to Point Pleasant. The journey was one hundred and sixty miles long.
• **Jacob Warwick, an obscure private, was credited with bringing about the lull in the battle that gave the Virginians an advantage over the Native Americans in the Battle of Point Pleasant. **
• John Bradshaw, a Revolutionary War veteran, was the first sheriff of Pocahontas County.
• **John Bradshaw was given a special dispensation by the Pocahontas County Court to keep a tavern without giving bond. This dispensation was given because of Bradshaw’s service and injuries suffered in the war. **