James MCCLUNG [Parents] "Jim Slick" was born 1825. He died 1911 in Spruce Grove Methodist Church Cemetary.. Jim Slick married Sarah J. EYE.
Source McClung:
6-5 JAMES McCLUNG (Jim Slick)
G1229
The sixth child of Alexander and Rebecca Cavendish McClung was b. 10 Sep 1825. He was still with his parents in 1850 (1850c Gr, 84). He md Sarah J. (JG) Eye. They resided at Eye, WV where they farmed. They had four children. James died 8 May 1911 (as per Al Zopp) and she in 1893. They were buried at Spruce Grove Methodist Church Cem. (He is listed in 1900 & 1910 Census, Wilderness Dist., #295 Gr)
Sarah J. EYE [Parents] was born 22 Feb 1845. She died 1893. Sarah married James MCCLUNG.
They had the following children:
M i Cornelius Novel MCCLUNG was born 1878.
Conrad HESS married Anna Dorothea FRANKENFIELD.
Anna Dorothea FRANKENFIELD married Conrad HESS.
They had the following children:
F i Barbara HESS was born 14 Feb 1772. F ii Margaret HESS was born 21 Oct 1783.
Daniel STRUCK was born 22 Aug 1795. He died 11 Nov 1893. Daniel married Elisabeth EMIG.
Elisabeth EMIG [Parents] was born 2 Mar 1798 in Bedminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She died 4 Jun 1891. Elisabeth married Daniel STRUCK.
Henry EMIG [Parents] was born 28 Mar 1796 in Bedminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He died 13 Aug 1863 in Pennsylvania. Henry married Margaret STRAUP.
Margaret STRAUP married Henry EMIG.
They had the following children:
F i Susanna AMEY. M ii Simon AMEY. M iii Gideon AMEY. M iv George AMEY. F v Margaret AMEY.
She had the following children:
M i Jacob TRUAX. M ii Marian TRUAX.
Cornelius Novel MCCLUNG [Parents] was born 1878. He married Annie AMICK.
Source McClung:
2-6 CORNELIUS NOVEL McCLUNG
G1232
The second child of James and Sarah J. Eye McClung was b. 1878. He married Annie Amick. He cared for his father in his declining years. (See 1910c Gr)
Annie AMICK married Cornelius Novel MCCLUNG.
Rev. John ALDERSON Jr. [Parents] was born 1737.
Rev. John Alderson came from England before the Revolutionary War and settled on the Greenbrier River at what would become the town of Alderson in 1777. He organized the first Baptist church west of the Alleghenies in 1781. His sons were George, Joseph and John. George moved to the Kanawha valley on George Creek, named for him. George's son was Colonel George Alderson the owner of DeKalb Inn on the Turnpike. He was married twice and the father of 28 children. His son Joseph A. Alderson was a lawyer and member of the Virginia Senate.
Source: History of Nicholas County, West Virginia, Pioneer Families, Copyright 1954, W. C. Brown; Available from Higginson Book Company page: 282, 283
He had the following children:
F i Alice ALDERSON was born 1760. M ii George ALDERSON was born 1762 and died 1805. F iii Mary ALDERSON was born 1765. M iv John Marcus ALDERSON was born 1771. M v Joseph ALDERSON was born 1771 and died 1845. M vi ALDERSON was born 1773. He died 1773.
From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY," Vol. I, pages 205-209.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.
THE ALDERSON FAMILY
The family of Alderson, which in more ways than one has been
conspicuous in the early history of West Virginia, and of which Major
J. C. Alderson, of Wheeling, is a descendant, originated in
Yorkshire, England. During the sixteenth century John Alderson was a
Baptist minister at Yorkshire, and his son John, then a young man,
became enamored of a young lady who for some reason was not
acceptable to his parents, and in order to break off the relations
not acceptable to his parents, and in order to break off the
relations of the young couple, the son was given L200 with which to
travel on the continent. He did not leave England, however, on his
contemplated travels, but in the course of time found himself on the
coast at Liverpool without money and friends. Falling in with a man
by the name of Curtise, who was preparing to sail to America, the
young and penniless Alderson was induced to embark with his new found
friend. This man Curtise was the first settler of the territory which
now comprises the state of New Jersey. Nine years after coming to
America young Alderson married a daughter of Curtise, and later
followed in the foot-steps of his father and became a minister of the
Baptist church. He then, for the first time in ten years, wrote
home, much to the delight of his parents, who thought him dead. His
father at once wrote him a congratulatory letter upon his being alive
and well, and being a Baptist minister, sending him three large
volumes of ecclesiastical works of great value which had been in the
family for many years, and which were to be handed down from
generation to generation of his descendants who became clergymen of
the Baptist faith, which books are now in the possession of J. C.
Alderson, who, while not a minister, is the surviving son of his
father, Rev. L. A. Alderson. Rev. John Alderson, the great
grandfather of Major Alderson, built the first church in the valley
of Virginia, at Lynnville, just above Harrisburg, which is called the
Lynnville Baptist church. In the same neighborhood settled the
grandfather of President Lincoln, who was then known as Lonkhorn.
Rev. Alderson was imprisoned some time about 1750 or 1760 in the old
Faircastle jail, Bortetourt county, Va., for preaching the gospel and
uniting people in marriage contrary to the laws of the church of
England. He was the first of the Alderson family to come west of the
Allegheny mountains, and brought the first wagon across the mountains
in 1770, making the journey from Faircastle to Alderson's Ferry,
opposite what is now the town of Alderson, on Green Brier river,
Green Brier county, Va., in that year. This journey consumed
eighteen months. In 1772 he built the first church west of the
Alleghenies, which was known as the Green Brier Baptist church, and
the beautiful white chapel which stands on the above site is the
third erected on the old foundation. The settlement of that portion
of what is now West Virginia was sparse indeed, and the Indians were
very hostile. In planting corn the old minister was compelled to
carry his musket for protection, and he preached the gospel
throughout that country on Sundays, often taking two or three members
of his church and going from twenty-five to thirty miles to preach to
half a dozen people. His son Joseph, grandfather of J. C. Alderson,
was a leading character in Green Brier county, being known as 'Squire
Joseph Alderson, and while he was not a minister he was a zealous
Christian worker, and for over forty years he was moderator and
presiding officer of every Baptist association held in that county.
He gave freely of his means for the erection of churches and the
support of the same, and it was often said of him, "That as long as
'Squire Alderson would build the churches, pay the preachers and feed
the congregations we will have preaching." He represented Green
Brier county in the Virginia legislature several consecutive
sessions, and sunk the first salt well in the Kanawha valley, above
Charleston. His death occurred in 1845, and he left a handsome
estate to his son, Rev. L. A. Alderson, father of Major Alderson, who
was born in Green Brier county in 1812. He graduated from the Ohio
university at Athens in 1832, in a class of forty-five, with first
honors.
After leaving college he fitted himself for the ministry, studying
with Rev. Dr. Jones, at Williamburg, Va., preaching his first sermon
in the old Powder Horn church, the historical building in which Gen.
Washington placed his powder to keep it dry during the revolution.
Subsequently he was the pastor of the Grace Street Baptist church, in
Richmond, Va., removing from that city to the Alderson plantation in
Green Brier county, taking charge of the same and filling the pulpits
of four different churches on alternate Sabbaths. As a farmer, he was
successful, tilling 1,500 acres of land, and he was the first to
introduce the wheat drill into that section of the country. In 1853-
54 he organized the Green Brier Agricultural society, and was
president of the same until 1858, when he removed to Atchison City,
Kas., and built almost entirely out of his own purse the first
Baptist church erected in the territory of Kansas, and also aided in
building half a dozen others in northeastern Kansas. He gave fifty
good years of his life and a large portion of his fortune to the
Baptist church and its work, both at home and in foreign lands. He
rarely ever accepted a salary for his services as pastor, and when he
did it was devoted to foreign missions. In 1838 he was married to
Eliza Floyd, daughter of Capt. John Coleman, of Amherst county, Va.
The ceremony was performed at "Locust Grove," the Coleman plantation,
in July of that year, and it was on this plantation that Maj. J. C.
Alderson was born, October 29, 1839. Rev. L. A. Alderson died at
Atchison, Kas., May 19, 1882. His widow survives. Maj. Atchison was
reared on the Alderson plantation, and until his sixteenth year, was
educated by private teachers in his father's family, subsequently he
attended the Lewisburg academy, then caught by Prof. Custer. In 1858
he went with family to Kansas, returning to Virginia in the spring of
1859, having spent several months in Kansas and Missouri. He then
entered Allegheny college, where he was in the graduating class at
the beginning of the late war. He was the first one of the 150
students and the third citizen in the county to volunteer in the
Confederate army. He became a member of the Green Brier cavalry, one
of the finest bodies of men and horses in the army, so pronounced by
Gov. Litcher, of Virginia. This company was disbanded in the winter
of 1861-1862, and immediately nearly every member of the same
organized individual companies of their own. Maj. Alderson organized
a company, and was offered its captaincy, but declined and accepted
the first lieutenancy, being attached, with his company, first to the
Eighth, and then the Fourteenth Virginia cavalry, commanded by Maj.
Gen. J. W. Sweeney, of Wheeling, until June 12, 1863, when that
officer was terribly wounded at the battle of Opaqua, he receiving
thirteen shots in his body, three of which passed entirely through
him, his wounds rendering him unfit for further service the balance
of the war. Maj. Alderson was after this given command of Company A,
as captain. His captain succeeding to command of battalion. During
the winter of 1863-4 Maj. Alderson had command of the battalion,
though he was not commissioned major. He participated in many fierce
engagements, in three of which he lost over half of his command in
each, and in two of which his command fought hand to hand with the
enemy with sabers for almost half an hour. Maj. Alderson carried the
order which opened the battle of Gettysburg on the Confederate side,
on July 1, 1864, having on that day been detached on Gen. Rhodes'
staff, whose division opened that celebrated battle. On the raids
into Pennsylvania preceding and following the battle of Gettysburg,
Maj. Alderson commnded and led the advance, and covered the retreat
of the army. His battalion was in Tennessee when they were ordered
to join the army of the Potomac prior to the battle of Gettysburg,
and while en route reached Lexington, Va., the same night the body of
Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson arrived there for burial, and was requested
by Col. Smith, in command of the military institute, at Lexington, to
delay his march long enough to attend the funeral of Jackson the
following day, and his command was the only body of soldiers who
fired over the grave of the dead hero. On the Pennsylvania raids
Maj. Alderson was in the saddle for twenty-eight days and nights
without over two or three hours rest at any one time, fighting every
day and often at night. On Hunter's Raid, at Lynchburg, Va., in
June, 1864, he lost his general, William E. Jones, at the battle of
Piedmont. He fought Du Fay for ten days at Waynesboro, just below
below Stanton, and that general slipped away on the second night and
crossed the Blue Ridge into Amherst county, Va., but the confederates
crossed at another gap and got ahead of Du Fay on Sunday morning,
June 12th. Gen. Imboden took command, in connection with his own and
the command of Gen. W. L. Jackson, and the following morning, before
daylight, Maj. Alderson asked permission to lead the advance, as he
was acquainted with the county, which request Gen. Imboden granted
with pleasure, at the same time giving instructions to the effect
that when he met the enemy to select a good position to bring on a
general engagement. About 8 o'clock that morning the major met Du
Fay's advance, commanded by Maj. Ringold of the first New York
cavalry, and capturing the avance, he selected a commanding position
for a general engagement, which he held unsupported until surrounded
and compelled to surrender, all of which occurred in sight of his
superior officer, Gen. Imboden, who made no attempt to prevent the
catastrophe, but instead retreated, when had he advanced as he
agreed, the enemy's command would have been captured. The last of
June, 1864, Maj. Alderson was brought to Wheeling as a prisoner, and
on July 3d, following, was taken to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he
remained until February 28, 1865.
In October, 1864, he, with others, were placed under retaliation for
the treatment of Federal officers confined at Andersonville prison,
they being placed on one-third rations, and not permitted to buy or
receive anything from outside. The major was offered, but declined,
a parole at the hands of President Lincoln, but in February, 1865,
his father, through friends in congress, secured a special exchange,
and he again started for the Confederate front to join his command,
and with his command was within a few miles of Gen. Lee when he
surrendered. The major and his command cut their way out on the
morning of Lee's surrender. The major was paroled by Gen. Ohley at
Lewisburg about one month after Lee's surrender, and the following
fall he went to Kansas. He was express messenger on one of the first
coaches sent out from Atchison to Denver over the Smoky Hill route,
and the following winter he was placed in charge of the middle
division of the road, extending from Fort Ellsworth, Kas., to Fort
Wallace, Col., a distance of 250 miles through the heat of the Indian
and buffalo country. The Cheyennes and Rapahoes made almost weekly
raids upon the road, killing men and passengers, burning stations and
wagon trains and coaches, carrying off goods and driving off the
stock. They absolutely destroyed 175 miles of the major's division
three different times during one winter. A carpenter in the major's
employ resembled him so closely that the Indians killed him, taking
him for the major, and placed a board over his grave with his name
upon it. So fierce were the attacks of the Indians that the major
and his men were forced to corrall the wagons and coaches and fight
them for days at a time. Altogether he was in charge of the road for
two years, during which time he had many encounters with the Indians;
he and a party were caught in a northwestern storm when the
thermometer fell to thirty-five degrees below zero, and the party was
in the snow storm for about five days, the last four days and nights
being spent without food. The major then settled near Atchison on
Alderson Grove, which he had purchased from his father, on this there
were planted 4,000 cottonwood trees, and it was the finest grove and
plantation in Kansas. At the Centennial in 1876, one of these
cottonwood trees was exhibited which measured twenty-four inches in
diameter. This magnificent grove could be seen for fifty miles in
almost any direction, and the example set by the major was followed
by almost every farmer in Kansas. Rev. Alderson planted about 2,000
walnut trees on his plantation, and they measured from 8 to 12 inches
in diameter. For two years Major Alderson operated this plantation,
and then engaged in the insurance business at Atchison, and in
December, 1869, he located in Wheeling, where he has since resided,
and has been engaged in the insurance and real estate business ever
since. In 1882, in connection with Rev. C. P. Masden and Rev Ed. W.
Ryan, he founded Mountain Lake Park, a religious and literary retreat
in Garret county, Md., on the B. & O. railroad. The major also owns
large quantities of land in the southern part of West Virginia in
connection with J. F. Paull, of Wheeling. Major Alderson has always
been in politics, but only in the interests of his friends, as he has
never sought an office. Gen. Mathew appointed him a director of the
West Virginia penitentiary, which position he held for eight or nine
years, having been reappointed by Gov. Jackson. Gov. Wilson
appointed him commissioner to the centennial in 1876 for West
Virginia, and also to the centennial of the Ohio valley in 1888, and
as such secured Judge G. L. Cranmer to deliver the lecture on West
Virginia. He was appointed a commissioner from West Virginia to the
centennial of the inauguration of Washington in New York, and was
honored with the appointment as a member of the staff of the
commanding officer of that occasion to represent West Virginia.
Major Alderson was married February 26, 1874, to Miss May Price,
daughter of ex-Governor and ex-United States Senator Price, of
Lewisburg, W.Va.
Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwags/bioald.txtM vii Thomas ALDERSON was born 1775. F viii Margaret ALDERSON was born 1778. M ix John ALDERSON "River Jack" was born 1783. F x Jane ALDERSON was born 1780.
Russel MCCLUNG Sr. [Parents] was born 1813. He died 1849. Russel married Sarah MCCLINTOCK on 1833.
Source McClung:
8-5 RUSSELL McCLUNG, Sr.
G1326
The eighth child of William and Margaret Bollar McClung was b. abt 1813. He md 6 Sep 1838 Sarah McClintock (Gr Mg,42). She was b. 1820 and d. Oct 1865. Russell had died abt 1849. They resided at Williamsburg, WV
Sarah MCCLINTOCK was born 1820. She died 1865. Sarah married Russel MCCLUNG Sr. on 1833.
They had the following children:
William Hinton MCCLUNG [Parents] was born 1814. He died 1879. William married Parmelia JONES on 1832.
Source McClung:
5-5 WILLIAM HINTON McCLUNG
G0991
The fifth child of Samuel and Sarah Hinton McClung was b. abt 1814 in Greenbrier Co., VA. He md 1) 29 Mar 1826 to Mary McCutcheon. One child. He md 2) 3 May 1832 to Parmelia Jones (Gr Mg,42) She was b. abt 1820. They had eight children. He died 1879 (Gr D,1853-97) He resided in Green- brier Co. and had his mother-in-law, Sarah Jones with them in 1850.
Parmelia JONES was born 1820. She married William Hinton MCCLUNG on 1832.
They had the following children:
Samuel MCCLUNG [Parents] was born 1784. He died 1828. Samuel married Sarah HINTON on 1804.
Source McClung
G0986
The eighth child of William and Abigail Dickinson McClung was b. 27 Apr 1784 on Meadow River in what became Nicholas County, WV. He md 10 Apr 1804 to Sarah Hinton (Gr Mg, 42). She was b. abt 1786 in Greenbrier Co. VA. Samuel died 1828. (Tracy Ginger, descendant)
Sarah HINTON was born 1786. She died 1828. Sarah married Samuel MCCLUNG on 1804.
They had the following children:
M i John Duffy MCCLUNG was born 1814. M ii William Hinton MCCLUNG was born 1814 and died 1879.