Eleanor R. (Jackson) Cowgill (Nancy Jackson’s Sister) WESTON – Eleanor R. (Jackson) Cowgill, 92, of 226 Brown Avenue, Weston, formerly of 411 Duncan Avenue, Clarksburg, went home to the Lord at 12:40 a.m. on Wednesday, February 21, 2007, at home, following an extended illness. She was born in Pensacola, FL, on February 1, […]
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Don Harold Peterson, 83, of Horner passed away on Saturday, April 24, 2021 at his residence with his loving family by his side. He was born in Horner, WV on August 16, 1937 to the late Ancil Peterson and Nell (Taylor) Peterson. Don was married to his loving wife of 62 years Mida (Bailey) Peterson […]
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October 5, 2020 Reference: Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8427899/john-jay-jackson Judge John Jay Jackson Jr. was an American lawyer, Whig politician, United States District Judge and, later, the first judge of the United States District Court for the District of West Virginia. He ended his career as the first judge of the United States District […]
Continue reading → October 5, 2020 General John Jay Jackson Sr. was son of John George Jackson and Frances Emelia Triplett. Reference: Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8427911/john-jay-jackson “Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. ” by George Washington Cullum, published 1891. Born in Virginia, John […]
Continue reading → October 5, 2020 Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details JAMES MONROE JACKSON, ([son of General John Jay Jackson, Sr.,] cousin of William Thomas Bland), a Representative from West Virginia; born in Parkersburg, Wood County, Va. (now West Virginia), December 3, 1825; pursued an academic course and was graduated […]
Continue reading → October 5, 2020 Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details EDWARD BRAKE JACKSON, (son of George Jackson and brother of John George Jackson), a Representative from Virginia; born in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now West Virginia), January 25, 1793; attended Randolph Academy at Clarksburg; studied medicine and commenced practice […]
Continue reading → October 5, 2020 Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details JOHN GEORGE JACKSON, (son of George Jackson, brother of Edward Brake Jackson, and grandfather of William Thomas Bland), a Representative from Virginia; born in Buckhannon, Va. (now West Virginia), September 22, 1777; moved with his parents to Clarksburg in […]
Continue reading → October 5, 2020 Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details “Colonel George JACKSON, (father of John George Jackson and Edward Brake Jackson), a Representative from Virginia; born in Cecil County, Md., January 9, 1757; moved with his parents to Moorefield, Va. (now West Virginia), and in 1769 to Jacksons […]
Continue reading → October 5, 2020 Reference: “History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia” by John Davison Sutton, Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919, Pages 395-396. “John Jackson, the pioneer of the Jackson family in West Virginia, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, about the year 1719, his father removed to London when John was quite young […]
Continue reading → John Sylvanus Rohrbough Round Valley’s prominent and pioneer citizen, passed away Thursday night in San Francisco Hospital. Mr. Rohrbough was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia, February 12,1859. He came to Round valley when 17 years old and was affiliated with the late George White. He is well known throughout the northern part of the […]
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