History of Ritchie County: With Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Their Ancestors, and with Interesting Reminiscences of Revolutionary and Indian Times

Wheeling News Litho Company, 1911 - Ritchie County (W. Va.) - 681 pages

Chapter Page I Discovery of Ritchie County	1

First Settlers in Ritchie County	23

South Fork Settled____	46

Thomas and Phebe Cunningham_	65

South Fork SettlersContinued___	83

South Fork SettlersContinued	107

North Fork Settled____	120

North Fork SettlersContinued_	141

Schools and Teachers_	394

Churches	406

Mills	418

Chapter Page XXXIII Postoffices	428

Ritchie County Formed	430

Developments	435

Physicians	442

Newspapers	452

First Settlers in the Cairo Vicinity	160

Scotch Settlers___	172

Bonds Creek Settled__	188

Hushers Run____	209

Goose Creek Settled	220

Middle Fork Settled___	225

Bone Creek Settled___	240

Otterslide Settled	256

Spruce Creek Settled	261

Grass Run Settled___	276

Leatherbarke Settled	295

Indian Creek Settled__	303

Chevauxdefrise Settled_	316

Slab Creek Settled____	330

White Oak Settled_	347

Beeson Settled	357

Macfarlan and Dutchman_	367

XXVIIDevil Hole Creek Settled	377

Ritchie Mines___	382

Pioneer Life and Character	390

XXXVIIIHarrisville	463

Prominent Harrisville Families	474

Cairo	499

Pennsboro	512

Ellenboro	532

XLIIISmithville	541

Burnt House Goffs Fonsoville	553

Auburn	560

Berea	573

Pullman Oxford Holbrook	579

Petroleum Highland Cornwallis Glendale Mole Hill Rusk	592

Tollgate	594

Other Prominent Families_	599

The Younger Mens Calendar_	618

The Poets Corner	636

The Blue and the Gray	642

Some Additional Ancestries	653

Natural Resources	666

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Title	History of Ritchie County: With Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Their Ancestors, and with Interesting Reminiscences of Revolutionary and Indian Times
Author	Minnie Kendall Lowther
Publisher	Wheeling News Litho Company, 1911
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	24 Sep 2008
Length	681 pages

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