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The Family of Pioneer Settler Joseph Hicks/Hix
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The Greenbrier settlement began on April 25, 1745 with two land grants totaling one hundred and fifty thousand acres. The Greenbrier Company was formed by John Lewis and sons William And Charles and they received one hundred thousand acres . The stipulation was that they were to settle one family for each one thousand acres received and to seat them within 5 years. Greenbrier County was settled and twice the Indians massacred the settlers forcing them to flee their homes. In 1769 the first permanent settlement was made at the Big Levels reaching from Lewisburg to Renick. The Little Levels ran from Hillsboro to Marlinton the present county seat of Pocahontas County named for Jacob Marlin who along with Stephen Sewell who both spent the winter of 1750.
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Joseph Hicks/Hix - (William -Joseph) -Born 1735-1737 Hanover County Virginia - S/O William Hicks & Sarah Hanes/Haynes - He along with a presumed brother Christopher Hicks came to the Drapers Meadow settlement of Virginia 1755 - 1756 - Married Lavina/Melvina Cole the believed daughter of Richard & Lydia Cole.
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Before we get into the family it's helps to understand them if one gets into their religion and the minister who married most of the children and several of the grandchildren.
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November 14, 1781 - Greenbrier Baptist Church was was formed at the present site of Alderson. It was founded by the Rev. John Alderson Jr. son of a Baptist Preacher, John the 1st. The Sr. Alderson having came from England to New Jersey then on to Virginia. In 1775 John Jr. came to Greenbrier territory to search for a site to build his church. In 1777 He moved from Rockingham County Virginia and built a cabin where the present church sits at Alderson. Resentment for the Rev. John Jr. was so strong in the early days that he traveled with a bodyguard due to serious threats on his life.
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1. William Hicks - Born about 1557-59 Drapers Meadow Va. - Near Christiansburg Augusta/Montgomery/Botetourt - Died Kanawha County W.Va. 1812-1814 - Married Hannah Jarrett June 18, 1783 Greenbrier County Va./W.Va By he Rev. John Alderson Jr. - Hannah was the daughter of David Jarrett and his first wife The Widow Jane (Graham) Griffith - David's second wife was Susannah Hicks sister of Hannah's husband William Hicks-- See Family of William Hicks & Hannah Jarrett
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2.Mordecai Hicks - (Pos. named after neighbor Mordecai Buckner) Born about 1758 -60 - Died Illinois Territory Rev. War with Gen.George Rogers Clark.
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3.Catherine (Kitty) Hicks - Born about 1765-69 - Died after 1835 - Married John Henry Skaggs/Scaggs February 14, 1786 Greenbrier County By Rev. John Alderson JR.
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----1.James Skaggs -(S/O Catherine) Born October 14, 1787 Greenbrier Co Va./W.Va. - Died March 6, 1875 Monroe County W.Va. - Buried Ballard Church Cemetery, Monroe County W.Va. - Married Elizabeth (Betsy) Miller - Married Rachel
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------+1.Christopher Skaggs -(S/O James) Born 1837Cross Roads Monroe County - Died March 13, 1865 ar Fort Delaware of pneumonia Single
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-----2.Richard Skaggs (S/O Catherine) Born about 1788 - Died 1844 Fayette Co. Va./W.Va. Married Susan
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-----+1.Lucretia Skaggs --(Daughter of Richard) Married George Mcgraw March 9, 1829 Nicholas Co. Va./W.Va.
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------+1.Susan Skaggs (Daughter of Richard) -- Married James Likens Jan. 19, 1822 in Nicholas County Va./W.Va.
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------+1.Jessey Skaggs (S/O Richard) - Born 1803 Monroe County - Died January 20, 1866 Fayette County Va. - Age 62years 6 months 23 days at Mt. Cove of consumption - Married Mary
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----3.Mary (Polly) Skaggs (D/O Catherine) - Born May 8, 1789 Monroe Co. Va./W.Va. - Married John Foster
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----4.Joseph Skaggs (S/O Catherine) - Born Monroe County - Married Mary (Polly) Lewis December 18, 1823 Nicholas County Va./W.Va.
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-----5.John Skaggs (S/O Catherine)
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-----6.David Skaggs (S/O Catherine)
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-----7.Jane Skaggs (D/O Catherine) - Married Peter Miller April 15, 1815 Monroe County - Peter Died June 12, 1856 of diabetis at Wolf Creek Monroe County, Age 67 years 3 months 6 days S/O V. & S. Miller
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4.Susannah (Susan- Susy) Hicks - Born about 1765 -68 - Died after 1835 married David Jarrett/Garred - April 24, 1785 Greenbrier Co. By Rev. John Alderson Jr. she was his second wife. David Born about 1740 Bucks Co. Pennsylvania Died Oct. 8, 1811 Kanawha Co. W.Va./Va. - (note David Jarrett was seated on the Grand Jury of Kanawha Co. several times.)
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Children of David Jarret and 1st wife widow Jane(Graham) Griffith some of which were Jane's children who took David's last name of Jarrett.
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----1/Hannah Jarrett (Stepdaughter) Married William Hicks
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------2.Margaret Jarrett - Married John See
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-----3.David Jarrett Born Oct. 30, 1771 - Died Lawrence Co. Kentucky Dec. 13, 1839 - Married Jane Graham Born Sept. 14, 1774 - Died Jan. 2, 1853 Lawrence Co. Kentucky Marriage date from courthouse June 6, 1792 Botetourt Co. Va. Mar. date from tombstone states June 9, 1792 - D/O James Graham & wife 1st cousin Florence Graham. - Children 1.James Graham Jarrett - 2.Florence - 3.Mary (Polly) - 4.Elizabeth - 5.Margaret - 6. Hannah - 7.Nancy - 8.Jane - 9.Ulysses - 10. Rebecca - 11.Sarah Ann - 12.Minerva - 13. David William Jarrett --- David & Jane (Graham) Jarrett Buried Garred Cemetery Lawrence Co. Kentucky on their farm in a stone vault above ground. Shipped in large shipments by riverboat up the Mississippi from New Orleans. Note the engraver mistakenly spelled the last name as Garred instead of Jarrett. Due to the trouble and expense of the stone it was not changed. All his Kentucky records it's spelled Jarrett.
(Source Lawrence County, Ky Cemeteries Vol. 2)
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-----4.Elizabeth Jarrett - Married Archellis Morris who went as Capt. to the Mexican War and died. He was the son of Benjamin Morris & Nancy Jarrett (Source for Archellis Morris - Genealogies of West Virginia Families From the West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly, 1901 - 1905)
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----5.John Jarrett - Married 1st Sarah Edwards -2. Elizabeth Haney/Hanes.
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-----6.Jonathon Jarrett
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------7.Squire Jarrett -Born 1782 Greenbrier Co. Died Kanawha Co. March 26, 1860 Married Martha (Patsy- Matty) Groves Feb. 4, 1804 in Kanawha Co. By Edward Hughes D/O John & Mary Groves . Martha Born 1784 Died Sept. 15, 1855 Kanwha Co. Squire & Patsy Jarrett Buried Rummell cemetery, Pinch, Kanawha County. Notes -- Marth(Patsy) Groves was the daughter of Mary (Craig) Groves Miller Martin who had 3 husbands and was a pioneer settler of Nicholas County. To her 1st husband John Groves. 1.John Groves who married Jane MClung Born to 1st hus. John Groves - 2. Robert Martin who married Parthenia Williams Born to 3rd hus. Robert Martin - My mother Cleo Sebert Hicks desc. from the 2 sons of Mary Craig mentioned. These 2 sons are brothers of Martha (Patsey Groves) Jarrett.
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Children born to David & 2nd wife Susannah Hicks
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------8.Sarah (Sallie) Jarrett - Born 1788 - Married Samuel Graham August 3, 1809 Monroe Co. S/O James & Florence Graham. (Note Samuel Graham signed his nephew Joseph Stephen Hicks marriage bond.)
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-----9.Thomas Jarrett Born about 1792- Married Mary (Polly) Wilson
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--10.Pos. daughter of David & Susan
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(Note of interest David Jarretts brother Owen Jarrett's son Clark Morrison Jarrett married Ruth Johnson several of Clark and Ruth's children have birth records in Nicholas Co. Courthouse.)
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5.Richard Hicks Born 1760-65 - Married Jane Skaggs March 9, 1786 Greenbrier County By the Rev. John Alderson Jr. They had 11 children.
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-----1.Joseph Hicks
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----2.Sophia Hicks
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----3.Rachel Hicks
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-----4.Richard Hicks Jr. (Dickison) - (Has a land grant in Nicholas Co.)
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6.Nancy Hicks -Pos. Married John Ellis
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7.Elizabeth Hicks - Born about 1769 - Died after 1835 Married William Johnson March 8, 1787 Greenbrier Co. By Rev John Alderson Jr.
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1.Elizabeth Johnson - Born about 1807 - Married 1st cousin's son Allen Woods - Elizabeth died at Sewell Fayette County Feb. 7, 1881 age 74 has death rec. in courthouse.
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8.Sarah Hicks - Married Stephen Woods/Wood Sr. - Both died Nicholas County 1820-1830
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1.Stephen Woods Jr. (Son of Sarah) - Killed War of 1812 at time of enlistment he was living in Augusta Co. Va.
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2.Isaac Woods (Son of Sarah) - Killed War of 1812
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3. William Woods/Wood(Son of Sarah) - Married Mary Ann McGraw Sept. 8, 1800 Monroe County
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---+1/ 1.Enoch Wood - S/O William & Mary - Born 1802 Monroe Co. Lived for some time in the state of Ohio. Later return to Fayette Co. twice married.
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4.Bailey Woods(Son of Sarah) - Married Nancy - Child Bailey Woods/Wood Jr.
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5.John Woods Sr. (Son of Sarah) Married 1st wife Mary Keen March 14, 1793 Greenbrier County -- Married 2nd wife Rebecca Hannah 1819. - John Woods came in a party of 5 to present day Webster County(Then Kanawha Co.) in 1815 to dig sang. He settled on Beaver in 1815.
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----+1/1.William J. Woods (Son of John) Born 1825 Married Jane McElwain March 25, 1851 Nicholas Co. Jane died 1908 and William died in 1914. (Eight children were born to them.)
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-----+1 / 2.John Woods Jr. (Son of John)
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-----+1/ 3. Martha R. Woods(Daughter of John) Born 1829/1830 At age 29 she married James Collison May 5, 1860 in Nicholas Co.
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-----+1. / 4. Margaret S. Woods (Daughter of John) - Married Richard Jones Jan. 2, 1846 Nicholas Co. Consent by her brother John Woods Jr.
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-----+1 / 5. Samuel Woods (Son of John)
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----+1/ 6. Shadrac Chaney Woods (Son of John) -- Married 1st wife ? -- Married 2nd wife Phebe A. Heaster Dec. 20, 1855 in Nicholas Co.
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6.Richard Woods(Son of Sarah)
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7.Wiley Woods (Son of Sarah)
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Notes sources for Stephen Woods family. ---- 1. Moccasin Tracks and Other Imprints by William Christian Dodrill 1915. - 2. 1954 History of Nicholas County W.Va. by William Brown - 3. Early Nicholas County (West) Virginia Marriage Bonds (& Records) 1818 -1864, Compiled by James S. & Evelyn E. Blake.
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