. The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time .. . FAMILY HISTORY. 457 children, John Wesley, Mary Margaret, Ellen, Indabo, Sylvanus Markwood, MaryCatherine and Jerome Osborne, George, James Thomas and the subject of thissketch. I was born in Highland County, Va. September 12, 1844. Came to Upshurwith father in 1858, learned the blacksmith trade and worked at it, until May June 22, 1861, I enlisted as a private in Company E, 3d W. Va., Vols., underCaptain S. B. Phillips, to serve three years or during the war. In 1862, I
. The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time .. . FAMILY HISTORY. 457 children, John Wesley, Mary Margaret, Ellen, Indabo, Sylvanus Markwood, MaryCatherine and Jerome Osborne, George, James Thomas and the subject of thissketch. I was born in Highland County, Va. September 12, 1844. Came to Upshurwith father in 1858, learned the blacksmith trade and worked at it, until May June 22, 1861, I enlisted as a private in Company E, 3d W. Va., Vols., underCaptain S. B. Phillips, to serve three years or during the war. In 1862, I receiveda disability and was sent to the hospital at Davids Island, N. Y., and remainedthere till January 7, 1863, when W. B. Smallridge and I were discharged (Small-ridge is the man that was shot in the heart and carried the ball for thirty-sevenyears, until the doctor found it by a post mortem examination). Ater returninghome I was compelled to hide in the woods and under rocks and drag out a lifethat was obliged to force me back into the army. So I enlistted under a manby the name of Metheney and was ordere
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