Elijah STAATS was born 12 Oct 1793 in Hampshire Co., VA. He married Ann EVENS.
Other marriages:BURDETT, Sarah
Ann EVENS married Elijah STAATS.
They had the following children:
Christopher PIPER [Parents] was born 1695. He died 1744. Christopher married Rachel NUTTER.
Rachel NUTTER [Parents] married Christopher PIPER.
Mary "Polly" married Stephen HART.
They had the following children:
F i Martha C. HART was born 1835. F ii Mary HART. F iii Nancy HART was born 1845.
Uriah DOBBINS married Martha C. HART on 8 Mar 1857.
Martha C. HART [Parents] was born 1835 in Russel Co., VA. She married Uriah DOBBINS on 8 Mar 1857.
AYERS [Parents].
He had the following children:
M i James Madison AYERS was born 1843. M ii William A. AYERS died 1864 in Winchester, WV.
He had the following children:
M i AYERS.
James Madison AYERS [Parents] was born 1843 in Greenbrier Co., VA. He married Belle INGLES on 1870 in Summers, Co. WV.
Confederate Military History, Extended Edition, Vol. III, West Virginia,
by. Col. Robert White et al, copyright 1899 by Confederate Publishing Company,
reprinted 1987 by Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, pg. 147-148James Madison Ayres, of Hinton, W. Va., a gallant
Confederate soldier identified with the record of Echol's
brigade, was born in Greenbrier county in 1843. He is
the grandson of John Ayres, a native of Rockbridge
county, Va., who served with the Virginia troops in the
war of 1812. Mr. Ayres was among the first to prepare
for defense of the Old Dominion, enlisting April 11, 1861,
in the Rock Point Grays, a company organized in Green-
brier county, and assigned as Company G, and later as
Company F, to that distinctively western Virginia regi-
ment, the Twenty-second infantry. He was promoted
corporal in the winter of 1861, orderly-sergeant in the
summer of 1862, and sergeant-major on the battlefield of
New Market. He subsequently served as sergeant-
major and acting adjutant of the regiment until the close
of the war. In July, 1861, he participated in the fight at
Scary, W. Va., and subsequently took part in the prin-
cipal engagements in that region and southwest Virginia,
including Tyler Mountain, Cross Lanes, Cotton Hill,
Lewisburg, Montgomery's Ferry, Big Sewell Mountain,
Dry Creek, and Droop Mountain. He took part in the
defeat of Sigel's Federal command at New Market in
May, 1864, and soon afterward, being called to eastern
Virginia, was at the artillery fight of Totopotamoy, and
was eight days under fire at Cold Harbor, also participa-
ting in the bloody repulse of Grant's army. He fought in
the defense of Lynchburg against Hunter, and then
marching down the valley, was engaged at Salem and
Martinsburg, and, crossing the Potomac, fought at Sharps-
burg; was under fire two days and nights at Maryland
Heights, and was slightly wounded in the defeat of Wal-
lace at Monocacy, but remained with his command and
participated in the demonstration made by Early's army
against the defenses of Washington, D. C. Returning
to Virginia he fought at Leesburg, Snicker's Gap, Snick-
er's Ford, Kernstown, Winchester, September 19, 1864;
Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, and Rude's Hill, December,
1864. At the battle of Winchester his brother, William
A. Ayres, color-guard of the Twenty-sixth battalion, was
among the killed. After the close of hostilities Adju-
tant Ayres resided in Greenbrier county until 1882,with
the exception of two years or more in Craig county, and
then made his home in Summers county. Here he soon
attained a prominent position in the community, and in
1890 began an honorable official career as deputy clerk of
the county court. In 1893 and 1894 he was chosen city re-
corder of Hinton, and in 1896 he was elected county clerk
for a term of six years. Mr. Ayres was married in 1870
to Belle W. Ingles, who died in 1881, leaving one son, J.
William Ayres. In July, 1892, he was married at Hin-
ton, to Priscilla F. Young.
Belle INGLES married James Madison AYERS on 1870 in Summers, Co. WV.
Charles F. EAGLE was born in Clay County, VA. He married Elizabeth ANDERSON on 1866.
His parents, Charles F. and
Elizabeth Anderson Eagle, are now eighty-four years of
age, and have been married since 1866, a period of fifty-six
years. The father was born in Clay County, West Virginia,
and has devoted his life to farming. The mother is a
native of Greenbrier County. Charles F. Eagle was a Con-
federate soldier in the Twenty-second Virginia Infantry,
Elizabeth ANDERSON was born in Greenbrier Co., VA. She married Charles F. EAGLE on 1866.
They had the following children:
James GRAHAM [Parents] died 1839 in IN. He married Sarah BURDETT.
To James and Leah Graham were born five sons and two daughters. The names of the sons, James, Hiram, John, Exra, and Cyrus, and the daughters [Cynthia] and Betsy. Of these, James married a Miss Burdette of Monroe County; Betsy, a Mr. Heffner of Greenbrier County; and Hiram married Nancy Graham, daughter of Samuel Graham. The remaining children were unmarried prior to their moving to the west.
James Graham, Jr., died about 1815. About the year 1827 the widow of James Graham, Jr. moved to Tippacanoe County, Indiana. Her son James [was] a Captain in the Black Hawk War of 1832, since which time little is know of the family.
Source: GRAHAM FAMILY HISTORY, INTRO., SUMMERS COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA, CS HINTON,WVJames Graham died in 1839 in Indiana.(10)
He was married to Sarah Burdett. (10)
John House, p 70, says they moved to Ft Wayne, IN, where he died in 1839. His family then came back to a house built for them by their neighbors, across from where Luke Parsons now lives.
A Sarah Graham married Elias Parsons 9/4/1845 [JCMR p 9]1850, the 3 boys are living with Sarah, Florence is next door and Martin is living with Mary Jane. Although there is a 2 year differnce in the age of the two Martins, I think it is more likely that it is the same person. The 1850 Jackson Co census, annotated by the JCHS, states that Mary Jane is the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Graham, but the ages of the children don't match up. Children were: Washington Graham, Florence Leah Graham, Mary Jane Graham, Israel Graham, Martin Van Buren Graham.
Source: House
Sarah BURDETT married James GRAHAM.
Other marriages:PARSONS, Elias
STAATS, Elijah
They had the following children:
F i Florence Leah GRAHAM was born 30 Nov 1830 and died 9 Nov 1911.
James GRAHAM [Parents] was born 1777. He married Leah JARRETT.
Leaving the further genealogy of the Jarrett branch of the family, we will now take up that of James Graham, Jr., fourth son of James Graham, Sr. James married Leah Jarrett, a sister of James Jarrett, Sr., of Greenbrier County in the year 1800 and located on a portion of the farm recently owned by the late D.M Riffe, he owning and occupying the upper portion and his brother, as before stated, the lower end of said farm. This farm [at] that day, and even for years afterwards, was believed to be the most productive bottom land on Greenbrier River.
Source: GRAHAM FAMILY HISTORY, INTRO., SUMMERS COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA, CS HINTON,WV
Leah JARRETT married James GRAHAM.
They had the following children:
M i James GRAHAM died 1839. M ii Hiram GRAHAM. M iii John GRAHAM. M iv Exra GRAHAM. M v Cyrusa GRAHAM. F vi Cythia GRAHAM. F vii Betsy GRAHAM.