. West Virginia and its people. ch. New Jersey; afterwardsmoved to Germantown, Pennsylvania, and in 1755 settled on Linnvillecreek, nine miles below Harrisonburg, in the valley of Virginia, and pur-chased a farm adjoining Mr. Linkhorn, the father or grandfather ofAbraham Lincoln. Here he preached many years, and afterwards movedto Fincastle, Botetourt county, Virginia, in 1780, where he died. (I) Squire Joseph Alderson, the first of the line here under consider-ation, died in 1845. He married and among his children was Lewis A.,of whom further. (II) Rev. Lewis A. Alderson, son of Squire Joseph
. West Virginia and its people. ch. New Jersey; afterwardsmoved to Germantown, Pennsylvania, and in 1755 settled on Linnvillecreek, nine miles below Harrisonburg, in the valley of Virginia, and pur-chased a farm adjoining Mr. Linkhorn, the father or grandfather ofAbraham Lincoln. Here he preached many years, and afterwards movedto Fincastle, Botetourt county, Virginia, in 1780, where he died. (I) Squire Joseph Alderson, the first of the line here under consider-ation, died in 1845. He married and among his children was Lewis A.,of whom further. (II) Rev. Lewis A. Alderson, son of Squire Joseph Alderson, mar-ried Eliza Floyd Coleman, daughter of Captain John Coleman, of LocustGrove, Amherst county, Virginia, the old ancestral homestead of theColemans, which has been in possession of the Coleman family over twohundred years. After the death of his father, in 1845, Rev. Lewis , fell heir to an extensive plantation on the north side of Green-brier river in Greenbrier county, Virginia, in which part the town of. ^^y&yn^CLv^ iMdv ^i^yt-Ptr WEST VIRGINIA 53 North Alderson is now situated. Among the children of Rev. Lewis was Joseph Coleman, of whom further. (Ill) Major Joseph Coleman Alderson, eldest son of Rev. Lewis , was born in Amherst county, Virginia, October 29, 1839. Thereyoung Alderson was taught by private instructors until about seventeenyears of age, when he entered the old Lewisburg Academy, and duringthe school years of 1859-60 and the fore part of 1861, he attended Alle-gheny College at Blue Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. He was in thegraduating class on April 17, 1861, the day that Virginia passed the ordi-nance of secession and seceded from the Union. Mr. Alderson being ani-mated with the doctrine of states rights, and believing as he did in pro-tecting the rights of his native soil, he left school and tendered his ser-vices to the Confederate army, as a member of the Greenbrier Cavalry,the finest body of men and horses in t
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