Elizabeth AMICK [Parents] "Betty" was born 1819. She married PECK.
John Fielding Bays BAYS Sr. was born 1796 in Baltimore Co., MD. He died 1866. John married Margaret HALL on 21 Nov 1816 in Kanawha Co., VA.
Margaret HALL "Peggy" was born 7 Jun 1799 in Rich Creek, Kanawha Co., VA. She died 24 Jun 1873. Peggy married John Fielding Bays BAYS Sr. on 21 Nov 1816 in Kanawha Co., VA.
They had the following children:
M i William BAYS was born 1819. M ii John BAYS Jr. was born 1822 and died after 1880. M iii Lewis BAYS was born 1823. F iv Mary BAYS was born 1826. F v Isabel BAYS was born 1826 and died 30 Jun 1888. M vi Moses BAYS was born about 1829. F vii Elizabeth BAYS "Betsy" was born before 1830. M viii Samuel BAYS was born 1832. He died about 1863 in Camp Chase.
Amick's Independent Scouts
Hounshell's Batt'n Virginia Cav. (Partisan Rangers.)
Bays, Samuel
Bays, Samuel Private Private
Company A
Enlisted 1862 in Greenbrier, Paroled 4/25/65 at Lewisburg, age 26;
Source: National Archives Film Number M382 roll 4
On list of prisoners held by Confederate forces in 3/62
Resident of Nallen post war.
Source: Weaver
Born 1839
Samuel Bays. -Born in Fayette County, Va. Lived some time in Boone County, and returned to Fayette last spring. Offered to vote for secession in May last, but his vote was rejected because he had not been in the country twelve months. Has always been a Southern rights man. Was probably arrested because there was a general removel of the citizensin the rear of General Floyd's army. Bays' brother-in-law was in the army. He is a man of good character, and of a family sound in the Confederate cause. I recommend his discharge on taking the oath of allegiance. Witnesses, Colonel Coleman, W. Atchison.
Source: OR Series 2, Vol. II, Part 1, page 1441
CSAM ix Thomas BAYS was born 8 Sep 1833. He died 22 Aug 1905 in Nallen, Nicholas Co. WV. and was buried in Cemetery Hill. F x Margaret BAYS was born 20 Aug 1835. She died 5 Mar 1900 and was buried in Gilgal Methodist Ch Cem, Mt. Nebo, Nicholas Co., WV. M xi George W. BAYS was born about 1839. He died 1908.
CSAF xii Rebecca H. BAYS was born about 1843. F xiii Jemina E. BAYS was born about 1845. F xiv Lucy J. BAYS.
William PITTSENBARGER [Parents] was born 1 1829 in Pendleton Co. Va. He died 1901 in Runa, Nicholas County, Va.. William married Mary AMICK on 2 Nov 1854 in Nicholas County, Virginia.
Mary AMICK [Parents] "Polly" was born 1 3 Mar 1833 in Nicholas County, Virginia. She died Jan 1926 in Runa, Nicholas County, West Virginia and was buried 6 Jan in Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery, Runa, Nicholas County, WV. Polly married William PITTSENBARGER on 2 Nov 1854 in Nicholas County, Virginia.
Mary Polly Amick, a twin and daughter of Jacob and Rachael (Shroyer) AMICK, son of Henry and Barbara (Niemand) AMICK. She was William's cousin.
Source: John Amick "The Miller" His Ancestors and Some Descendants by Barbara Nichols (not dated; about 2001)
They had the following children:
M i James Newton PITZENBERGER was born 8 Jun 1855 in Nicholas County, VA. He died 8 May 1944 in Nicholas County, WV. F ii Elizabeth C. PITZENBERGER was born 19 Aug 1858 and died before 1944. F iii Anna PITZENBERGER was born 1860. F iv Sarah Emeline PITZENBERGER was born 1864 and died after 1944. F v Mary Alice PITZENBERGER was born 1865 and died 16 Oct 1941. M vi Grigsby Sandford PITZENBERGER was born 1866 in Nicholas County, WV. He died 1883. M vii Jacob D. PITZENBERGER was born Jul 1868 and died 1952. F viii Rebecca Jane PITZENBERGER was born 28 Jan 1870 and died 10 May 1904.
Mathew Nathen NUTTER Sr. [Parents] was born 26 Nov 1737 in Maryland. He died 1811 in Harrison County, VA. Mathew married Hannah MILLER on 1769.
Other marriages:GOODWIN, Elizabeth
He was buried in Trinity Methodist Church Cem., Brushy Fork of Elk Creek, Harrison Co. WV. According to Wirt Co. History, "In 1766 Matthew, together with Christopher, John, Thomas, and Thomas' son, Christopher, moved to Augusta County, Va., where they lived until l769, then removed to Fayette Co., Pa.
Matthew was in the Revolutionary War, a defender of Fort Nutter. Matthew married Elizabeth and lived about the mouth of Simpson Creek area. Matthew had 500 acres on Elk Creek, Harrison County joining John Radcliff's land, 1781 a certificate for 300 acres on the east side of Elk creek was included in his settlement made in 1772.
In this Nutter's lifetime, the Thirteen Colonies would become a nation based on the three principles of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He lived during the Indian Wars, the American Revolution and the Louisiana Purchase! Matthew Nutter was a second cousin of Thomas and John Nutter. Thomas was married to Susan (Sarah) Goodwin and Elizabeth Goodwin (Susan's sister) was the wife of Matthew.
The British government was offering land patents for 400 acres for 7.5 pounds for taxes and the additional costs of surveying the land. In Matthew's land patent, the words 'Improvement of 1772' is used. In 1772, they moved to West Augusta, now Harrison County, WV.
The Indian method of warfare at that time was the indiscriminate slaughter of all ages and sexes. It was therefore necessary to create a defense mechanism. This was generally accomplished by banding together in structures called forts. on the banks of Elk Creek , two miles from what is now Clarksburg on Buckhannon Road on land belonging to Thomas Nutter . Thomas, Matthew's brother-in-law , began Nutter's Fort near the town of Clarksburg, West Virginia. Matthew, Thomas, and John were the three Nutter's who established the Nutter's in the interior of Colonial Virginia. Nutter's Fort, in the modern day world is part of the Roosevelt-Wilson campus in Clarksburg, West Virginia. In 1763, the British government had established the Proclamation of 1763. The proclamation forbade any settlement west of the Alleghenies. The government thought this might prevent the growing problem of Indian hostilities. The proclamation was ineffective and by 1772, the Proclamation had been repealed. According to the Nicholas County History book of 1985 (WV); Christpher Nutter, who was the son of Thomas, page 133, "That the family stopped over at Redstone Fort for a season before moving up the Monongahela to the West Fort." Matthew Nutter was the third generation of the pioneer family. Thus, that covers the fourth generation of the Nutter family and its mark in West Virginia history.
Matthew, Thomas and John Nutter are listed as voters at the Court House in Clarksburg for the County of Harrison on Wednesday, the 7th day of January 1789 for an elector acceptable to an act of the General Assembly passed at Richmond in October 1788. At this election, George Washington was elected President.
Hannah MILLER was born 1772. She died 1838. Hannah married Mathew Nathen NUTTER Sr. on 1769.
They had the following children:
M i David NUTTER was born 1769 and died 1851.
John B. NUTTER [Parents] was born 2 Aug 1826 in Poe, Nicholas Co. VA. He died 18 Jun 1896 in Nicholas County, WV and was buried in Sugar Grove. John married Elizabeth PITZENBERGER on 1847 in Nicholas county, VA.
Elizabeth PITZENBERGER [Parents] was born 1830 in Va.. She died 1894 and was buried in Sugar Grove Methodist Church Cemetery, Nicholas County, WV. Elizabeth married John B. NUTTER on 1847 in Nicholas county, VA.
They had the following children:
M i Alfred NUTTER was born 7 Aug 1848 in Kesslers Cross Lanes, Nicholas County, VA. He died 14 Jun 1867 in Meadow River, Nicholas County, WV. M ii Andrew Scott NUTTER was born 19 Feb 1850 in Kesslers Cross Lanes, Nicholas Co. VA. He died 1927 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. WV. F iii Prescilla NUTTER was born 27 Apr 1852 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. VA. She died 2 Jan 1913 in Greenbrier Co. WV. M iv Isaac Dowtain NUTTER "Ike" was born 11 Aug 1856 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. VA. He died 1936 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. WV.
Surveyor for Gauley Coal CompanyF v Malinda J. NUTTER was born 1860 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. VA. She died 8 Jun 1862 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. WV. M vi Johnson Floyd NUTTER was born 7 Apr 1862 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. WV. He died 30 Apr 1921 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. WV. M vii Jeremiah NUTTER was born Jan 1867 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. WV. He died 2 Jul 1876 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. WV. M viii Joseph J. NUTTER was born Mar 1868 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. WV. He died 1945 in Nutterville, Greenbrier Co. WV. F ix Matilda Ann NUTTER was born 1866 and died 30 Aug 1933.
Eli AMICK [Parents] was born about 1820 in Dahmer, Pendleton County, Virginia (Now West Virginia). He died Jul 1863 in Gettysburg, Adams, Penn.. Eli married Mary NUANCE on 1836/1837 in Wilderness District, Nicholas County, Virginia.
Eli was a veteran of the Mexican War, a steamboat captain and a saw mill worker. He was a confederate who served in Co. D, 14th Virginia Cavalry as a private. Eli died in a cavalry charge at Gettysburg. He was bur. on, or near, the battlefield, but his remains were later moved to Richmond, Va. [according to John Emick in John Emich Pioneer..]
Source: John Amick "The Miller" His Ancestors and Some Descendants by Barbara Nichols (not dated; about 2001)BIRTH: born 1816 Dahmer, Pendleton County, Virginia per Greenbrier Historical Society notes, no reference given.
Geneva Amick Dyer writes about Eli's family:
The children of Eli Amick were: John, Matilda, Mahulda, Lorenzo, Andy and Jane. Jane died at a very early age, and Andy did in his hatter teens, I believe.
Aunt Pernecia married Bill Thomas, and became the mother of Alfred and Sally.
Aunt Hulda married Alfred Brown. I believe she was the mother of two sons, and one daughter, the daughters called Della or Dillie, or a name similar to that. I have forgotten the names of the boys.
Uncle Lorenzo was married late in life. He married Fannie Jones, but I can't remember the names of any of his children.
Source: Geneva Amick Dyer, Fourteen Children, The Family of John Amick of West Virginia. (Typed and publ. by author, undated) written in the 1940's
Mary NUANCE [Parents] was born in Virginia. She died in Virginia. Mary married Eli AMICK on 1836/1837 in Wilderness District, Nicholas County, Virginia.
They had the following children:
F i Pernecia AMICK was born calculated 1840. M ii John A. AMICK was born 1844. F iii Matilda AMICK. F iv Mahulda AMICK. M v Lorenzo Dow AMICK. M vi Andrew AMICK died in childhood. F vii Jane AMICK died in infancy. F viii Sarah AMICK was born 1849.
Jesse AMICK [Parents] was born about 1822. He died in Nicholas County. Jesse married Lucy J. BAYS in Nicholas County.
After the death of his father, John AMICK, Jesse assumed much of the responsibility of the home helping his mother rear the younger children. He later established a home near where Nallen, West Virginia is now located. He built a grist mill on Meadow River and while operating it he fell, severely injuring himself. Jesse died shortly thereafter. He is buried in the cemetery at Sugar Grove.
Source: John Amick "The Miller" His Ancestors and Some Descendants by Barbara Nichols (not dated; about 2001)Geneva Dyer writes about Jesse Amick:
While operating this mill he fell and received injuries from which he never recovered. He was buried in the cemetery at Sugar Grove.
George, his oldest son, married Kate Zerkle, lived near Belva, and have two sons, Fred and Ada.
Fred married Miss Lizzie Marin. They had six children: Clinton, Anna, Beulah, Bertha, Evelyn and one child who did in infancy. Ada married James Nuckols, lived in Charleston, W. Va., and operated a hotel. They had one son.
Robert Amick married a Miss Crew. They lived at Beaver Mills, W. Va. They had two children. Cordia, the daughter, did in infancy and the son, Ernest, is now living in Fayetteville, W. Va.
Robert Amick was a millwright and a farmer. He is now living at Dempsey, W. Va., being married the second time to Emma Carter.
Source: Geneva Amick Dyer, Fourteen Children, The Family of John Amick of West Virginia. (Typed and publ. by author, undated) written in the 1940's
Lucy J. BAYS [Parents] married Jesse AMICK in Nicholas County.
They had the following children:
M i George W. AMICK was born 1855. M ii Robert E. AMICK was born 1869.
Gideon AMICK [Parents] 1 was born 31 Mar 1819 in Dahmer, Pendleton County, Virginia (Now West Virginia) and was christened 2 20 May 1819 in Propst Church, Pendleton County, Virginia. He died 6 Oct 1873 in Shellrock, Butler, Iowa. Gideon married 3 Emily Jane STUART on 1843 in Fayette County, Virginia.
Other marriages:SUDRETH, Martha
Gideon AMICK migrated to Goshen, Indiana soon after 1850, where he remained briefly before moving to Western College near Cedar Rapids, Lynn County Iowa, where he bought land in 1856, then next to Waterloo, and finally to Shellrock, all in Iowa.
Source: John Amick "The Miller" His Ancestors and Some Descendants by Barbara Nichols (not dated; about 2001)Geneva Dyer writes about Gideon:
While Uncle Gid. Lived in a town in Iowa named Western, he helped build a college by the same name. Both college and the town "faded out" because the railroad failed to come their way, and Cedar Rapids instead, became the city the westerners had hoped for.
William, the oldest son of Gideon Amick, west from Iowa to California, and was living there at the time of the San Francisco earthquake and fire. He was thrifty and accumulated quite a good sized fortune. He had learned the stone-mason's trade, at which he worked for a while. It was in the hotel business in San Francisco that he accumulated his wealth.
After Aunt Emily's death, he (Uncle Gid.) came back to W. Va. And married Martha Sudreath. Two daughters were born to them, Lee Ana, and Nancy. After Uncle Gid's death, aunt Martha returned to her native state and lived at Sewell, Fayette County, W. Va. Lee Anna married a Mr. Saunders.
Nancy married a Mr. Herbert; and lived in or near Wheeling. They had a daughter, Ruby, who was a graduate nurse and practiced her profession in Huntington.
At one time Uncle Gid was working for Mathew McClung, a wealthy farmer who had built and owned the "White House." This year Mr. McClung had raised a considerable crop of buckwheat and having a part of it ground into flour, took it to Kanawha Falls for sale. Having received a higher price than he expected, he decided to speculate a little, whereupon he asked Uncle Gid if he know of any one who had raised buckwheat that season. Uncle Gid replied: Arnold has a hundred bushel of the finest I have ever seen."
McClung ground and sold the remainder of his crop, then went to father; to buy his. Father told him he had not raised more that year than he wanted for his own use. When McClung returned he said: :Gid, I thought you said Arnold had raised a hundred bushel of buckwheat:, Uncle Gid replied: "He did, straw and all."
Source: Geneva Amick Dyer, Fourteen Children, The Family of John Amick of West Virginia. (Typed and publ. by author, undated) written in the 1940'sUncle Gid, too, was a stone-mason and brick maker, and builder.
Source: Geneva Amick Dyer, Fourteen Children, The Family of John Amick of West Virginia. (Typed and publ. by author, undated) written in the 1940's
Emily Jane STUART [Parents] was born 14 Jan 1823 in Russellville, Fayette, Virginia. She died 19 Sep 1861 in Blackhawk Iowa (unmarked grave). Emily married 1 Gideon AMICK on 1843 in Fayette County, Virginia.
Emily Jane was a sister William A. Stuart, husband of Mary Ann AMICK.
Source: John Amick "The Miller" His Ancestors and Some Descendants by Barbara Nichols (not dated; about 2001)
They had the following children:
F i Rebecca Ann AMICK was born 4 May 1845 and died 3 Aug 1879. F ii Minerva Catherine AMICK was born 28 Apr 1846 and died 27 Nov 1873. M iii William Prottsman AMICK was born 10 Dec 1847 and died 28 Nov 1926. M iv Ira Stuart AMICK was born 17 Oct 1849 and died 29 Dec 1919. M v James Hayzelet AMICK was born 21 Mar 1851 and died 3 Nov 1918. F vi Sarah Isabella AMICK was born 16 Jan 1852 and died 27 Oct 1931. F vii Mary Elizabeth AMICK was born 1 Aug 1855 in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana. She died 11 May 1857 in Putnam, Linn, Iowa. M viii John Henry AMICK was born 10 Aug 1857 and died 28 Nov 1932. M ix Perry Henderson AMICK was born 13 Aug 1859 in Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa. He died 17 Oct 1861 in Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa. F x Emily Jane AMICK was born 4 Sep 1861 in Waterloo, Black hawk, Iowa. She died 2 Jan 1862 in Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa.
Gideon AMICK [Parents] 1 was born 31 Mar 1819 in Dahmer, Pendleton County, Virginia (Now West Virginia) and was christened 2 20 May 1819 in Propst Church, Pendleton County, Virginia. He died 6 Oct 1873 in Shellrock, Butler, Iowa. Gideon married Martha SUDRETH.
Other marriages:STUART, Emily Jane
Gideon AMICK migrated to Goshen, Indiana soon after 1850, where he remained briefly before moving to Western College near Cedar Rapids, Lynn County Iowa, where he bought land in 1856, then next to Waterloo, and finally to Shellrock, all in Iowa.
Source: John Amick "The Miller" His Ancestors and Some Descendants by Barbara Nichols (not dated; about 2001)Geneva Dyer writes about Gideon:
While Uncle Gid. Lived in a town in Iowa named Western, he helped build a college by the same name. Both college and the town "faded out" because the railroad failed to come their way, and Cedar Rapids instead, became the city the westerners had hoped for.
William, the oldest son of Gideon Amick, west from Iowa to California, and was living there at the time of the San Francisco earthquake and fire. He was thrifty and accumulated quite a good sized fortune. He had learned the stone-mason's trade, at which he worked for a while. It was in the hotel business in San Francisco that he accumulated his wealth.
After Aunt Emily's death, he (Uncle Gid.) came back to W. Va. And married Martha Sudreath. Two daughters were born to them, Lee Ana, and Nancy. After Uncle Gid's death, aunt Martha returned to her native state and lived at Sewell, Fayette County, W. Va. Lee Anna married a Mr. Saunders.
Nancy married a Mr. Herbert; and lived in or near Wheeling. They had a daughter, Ruby, who was a graduate nurse and practiced her profession in Huntington.
At one time Uncle Gid was working for Mathew McClung, a wealthy farmer who had built and owned the "White House." This year Mr. McClung had raised a considerable crop of buckwheat and having a part of it ground into flour, took it to Kanawha Falls for sale. Having received a higher price than he expected, he decided to speculate a little, whereupon he asked Uncle Gid if he know of any one who had raised buckwheat that season. Uncle Gid replied: Arnold has a hundred bushel of the finest I have ever seen."
McClung ground and sold the remainder of his crop, then went to father; to buy his. Father told him he had not raised more that year than he wanted for his own use. When McClung returned he said: :Gid, I thought you said Arnold had raised a hundred bushel of buckwheat:, Uncle Gid replied: "He did, straw and all."
Source: Geneva Amick Dyer, Fourteen Children, The Family of John Amick of West Virginia. (Typed and publ. by author, undated) written in the 1940'sUncle Gid, too, was a stone-mason and brick maker, and builder.
Source: Geneva Amick Dyer, Fourteen Children, The Family of John Amick of West Virginia. (Typed and publ. by author, undated) written in the 1940's
Martha SUDRETH [Parents] married Gideon AMICK.
They had the following children:
F i Leeanna AMICK was born 29 Dec 1861. F ii Nancy AMICK was born 2 Feb 1871 in Shellrock, Butler, Iowa. She died 1958 in W. Va..
William A. STUART [Parents] was born 13 Jun 1815 in Virginia. He died 1862 in Luka, Tishimingo County, Mississippi. William married Mary Ann AMICK on 20 Dec 1844 in Nicholas County, Va..
After his marriage to Mary Jane, the couple and their first two Children moved to Elkhart, Goshen, Ind. in 1851, where their third son was born 25 Dec of that year. Gideon and Emily Jane (Stuart) Amick followed the Stuarts to Goshen sometime later during that same year of 1851. Gideon and Emily Jane moved a few years later to Iowa, while William and Mary Ann (Amick) Stuart remained briefly in Indiana before moving on to Illinois.
William A. Stuart enlisted to fight in the Civil War on 15 Jan 1862, as a private from Menard County, Ill. in Company G, 18th Regiment, commanded by A. M. Pollard. He died of typhoid fever at a Union hospital at Iuka, Tishimingo County, Mississippi, 22 Aug 1862, just six months after enlisting. [Union Army Civil War Widow's Pension File #34998].
Source: John Amick "The Miller" His Ancestors and Some Descendants by Barbara Nichols (not dated; about 2001)William took his wife Mary Ann, their son Jesse B. in 1848 and founded and moved to Sweetwater, Illinois (now part of Springfield, IL).
Source: http://www.suhler-thompson.com/paf_9/pafg05.htm#71
Mary Ann AMICK [Parents] "Polly" was born 27 Feb 1821 in Dahmer, Pendleton County, Virginia (Now West Virginia). She died 2 Jan 1896 in Drexel, Case, Mo.. Polly married William A. STUART on 20 Dec 1844 in Nicholas County, Va..
Her husband William was a brother of Emily Stuart, wife of Gideon.
Source: John Amick "The Miller" His Ancestors and Some Descendants by Barbara Nichols (not dated; about 2001)died 25 Sep 1890 Springfield, Sangamon, IL per Greenbrier Historical Source: Society notes; no reference given.
Mary Ann Amick applied for a pension from her husband's Civil War service and subsequent death. The pension application was No. 34998 dated 26 September 1863. The Claim was admitted 17 May 1886 to a pension of $8.00 per month, commencing 29 Aug 1862. Widows declaration for increase dated 3 September 1866. The pension certificate was No. 74300. Since this pension was retroactive she had abit of money by the time the claim was admitted - somewhere around $2,200. However, we do not know how much she had to suffer during the close to 23 years she waited for the pension.
Source: http://www.suhler-thompson.com/paf_9/pafg05.htm#71
They had the following children:
M i Jesse Bowers STUART was born 15 Aug 1847 and died 5 Jun 1936. M ii John William STUART was born 2 Jul 1848. M iii James Edward STUART was born 25 Dec 1851. M iv Joseph Franklin STUART was born 23 Aug 1855 and died 9 Mar 1934. M v Jacob Howard STUART was born 1857 in Sweetwater, Menard County, Illinois. M vi Charles Henry STUART was born 1860 in Sweetwater, Menard County, Illinois. M vii Jerome McLemore STUART was born 1862 in Sweetwater, Menard County, Illinois.