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Record of the Colonial Forebears -Decendants-Kinsmen and Childhood Friends and

Schoolmates of the late

LUCINDA EARLE PATTON HIGHLAND

West Milford, West Virginia

Lucinda Earle Patton Highland, widow of the late Captain John Edgar Highland, was .born in the hamlet of West Milford, Harrison county, then Virginia, now West Vir¬ ginia,*April 3. 1851,’ at 7.30 o'clock a. m., and died at the Highland homestead there on Wednesday, May 29. 1929, at 9 o'clock a. m., aged 78 years, one month, twenty-six days and one and one-half hours.

\ This sweet and gentle mother always plucked a thistle and planted a flower in

its place wherever a flower would grow.

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Tfiree of Mrs. Highland’s forebears who sleep today in Harrison county soil were born 199, 189, and 168 years ago, respectively. These were Alexander Lewis (1730-1814), the Rev. Isaac Morris (1740-1830), and William Patton (1761-1826), the first and last named settling in Plarrison county, then Virginia, now West Virginia, circa 1800, and the Rev. Isaac Morris a little prior to February 20, 1778, on which latter date the sixth of his twelve (12) children, Daniel Morris, was born on soil later included in Harrison county, then Virginia.

By

SCOTLAND G. HIGHLAND

Clarksburg, West Virginia

1929

United States senators, members of congress, supreme and circuit court judges, bankers, lawyers, sol¬ diers, ministers, authors, inventors, and sweethearts and playmates of long ago pass in honored review.

(Reprinted from the Clarksburg Exponent, Clarksburg, West Virginia, Thursday morning, May 30, 1929)

(Copyright, 1929, by Scotland G. Highland) ■ * t

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West Milford’s Oldest Native Born Citizen Closes Active Career

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Former Childhood Playmates, Schoolmates, Friends and Sweethearts Pass in

Honored Review

A Sweet and Gentle Mother Answers Call

LUCINDA EARLE PATTON HIGHLAND West Milford, West Virginia

Poems That Live “Beheve me, if all those endearing young charms

Which I gaze on so fondly today. Were to change by tomorrow, and flee in my arms

Like fairy gifts faded away; Thou would’st still be adored, as this moment thou art,

Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart

Would entwine itself verdantly still.

“It is not while beauty and youth are thine own, And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear

That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known

xt W,hlch time wil1 but make thee more dear; ’ No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets

But as truly loves on to the close, As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets

The same look which she turned when he rose.”

—THOMAS MOORE.

. Lucinda Earle Patton Highland, widow of the late Cap¬ tain John Edgar Highland, died Wednesday, May 29, 1929,

WPQt0M?&nrH* hel h°me in the Placid, peaceful town of Vvest Milford, vnere her mother died November 12 1854 three-quarters of a century ago. ’ ’ /rri1 S(:17lce? will be held Friday afternoon, May 31,

at 2 o clock, at her late home in West Milford, and interment o,1 be mada at oclock in the Elk View cemetery where the body will be placed in a crypt in the mausoleum there following services by the Rev. Kelvin McCray and the Rev J. u. n,ngJe.

,• cause of mother Highland’s passing was the realiza¬ tion that she could render her friends no further active service. c

tP!?* ®urv*ving relatives are very numerous and fill posi- the1Uniori'USt ^ responsibiIity in practically every state in

.. A* fi^teeuI? thJs sweet and Sentle mother came as a bride into the Highland family bearing bright roses; her presence ever promoted peace and contentment; her depar- ture is for many the end of dreamland.

Blessed Name of Mother

The noblest thoughts my soul can claim, The holiest words my tongue can frame, Unworthy are to praise the name

More sacred than all other. An infant, when her love first came— A man, I find it just the same; Reverently I breathe her name,

The blessed name of mother.”

GVer again? Ten thousand times ten thousand this question has been asked. It cannot be that the earth is man s only abiding place.

“The scientists truthfully tell us that nature has set us floating in space, on an airship, the earth. ,It’s a wonderful airship that we inhabit, heavier than if made of solid steel, whirling round and round, its slowest speed 1,000 miles an iznn non ^ axis’, its speed around the sun more than 1,500,000 miles a day, 60,000 miles an hour, 1,000 miles a minute. The earth is a real airship, going off through space, somewhere, with the sun. The sun flies at terrific speed on some errand that we cannot comprehend, and we go with it. Where we do not know. But we do know that the universe is managed well and with justice.

Without science there could be no material progress.

Divine Power Exists

Great is science and we profitably worship at its shrine, but there is more comfort for the human soul, more consola- tion in the hour of despair in six simple words than in all scientific knowledge:

“I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH.”

T_be blackest hour that makes life worthless and hope- less is lightened for millions by those words.

ix- u x ^ou,d arn°unt to less than nothing but for the faith which tells us that we live on, that the conciousness which sees, understands and rebels against the thought of anni-

w0111’ we call our soul, goes forever. We know that Divine Power exists, we believe with belief

that cannot be shaken, that we shall continue to live after

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Ipjivp this earth. Faith tells us so. And the faith that religion inspires alone makes life endurable, and death bear¬ able.”—Arthur Brisbane.

Colonial Pioneers

Three of Mrs. Highland’s forebears who sleep today m Harrison county soil "ore born 199, 189, and 168 years ago resnectively. These were Alexander Lewis (i7o0-1814), the Rev Isaac/ Morris (1740-1830), and William Patton (1761- 1826) the first and last named settling TrTHarnson c°unty. then Virginia, circa 1800, and the Rev. Isaac Morris a little nrior to February 20, 1778, on which latter date the sixth of his twelve (12) children, Daniel Morns, was born on so.l later included in Harrison county, then Virginia.

Descendants Own Original Cabins

The original cabin built by William Patton on the waters of Duck creek in 1800 is still owned and occupied by two of 0hLDdeCscenda„ts, while the second h«». log: cabin erec ed by the Rev. Isaac Morris on Booth s creek in 1812 is now owned and occupied by one of his descendants.

The Rev. IsJac Morris and William Patton were revolu¬

tionary soldiers.

Authority on Local History

Mrs Highland was an authority on local history and per¬ sonally knew numerous persons who were born prior^to vear 1800 among whom were her grandfather. Col. Alexan der Lewis Patton, born in Colerain township, Lancaster "ountv Pennsylvania, July 23, 1789, and Richard Perine of West Milford. ' She was a keeper of records and the historian of the Highland and allied families, and in matters of gen¬ eral policy the court of last resort. Endowed with capacity for leadership she early developed business foresight. T success which her late husband attained was largely du !

her boundless energy, thrift and manageme , „.ratitude husband’s latter days he so expressed his^debtof_gratitude to her. Theirs was a strong union in which each periormeu nobly his respective allotment of labor.

The Long and Patient Vigil

It is a cruel mortification in searching for what is instructive in the history of the past times to find that the exnloits of conquerors who have desolated the ear , the freaks of tyrants who have rendered nations unhappy , are recorded with minute accuracy—while the achievemen , the loving labor and the long and patient vigil of the moth¬ ers of the earth are passed over in silence and suffered to

sink mto oblivion. to be I owe to my angel

mother,'^said Lincoln when he had become a world character.

The Race of the Immortals

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b“S Higtedl“n «3U"Swf SI' Patton, bom on back Creek, Harrison County, thenVu*uu».

May 12, 1822, married (second) July J.’^^’Jander Lewis Ann Carder, and ^anddaughter of^.lford> West

1866. married at Clarksburg then Virginia. t ’iqh Pnth Smith born in Clermont County, Oh > SJ; si’ 1798’did nea?We’st Milford, Harrison County then

pSnsvWaS May 27.1771. and died July 28,1854, in Brown

r„„nfv Ohio a sister of Hon. Thomas Morris, born Berks County! Pennsylvania, Jan. 3, 1776, died in Clermont County,

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aSSSSKSSBSf?? Creek Harrison County, then Virginia, circa 180 . ,

Lucinda Earle Patton Highland was a great greatgra d-

daughter of Major Samuel Eaile (1692-117 ), ™ t_ tVie Virginia House of Burgesses (1742-1/4/), attorn y law, graduate of William and Mary College, high she , 1-

War (1744-1748), and in the early part of the rrenc Indian War, which closed in 1763.

John Earle (1614-1660)

Mrs. Highland was eSth in descent Iron, Johr. Earle

CounntyNvlrgUilia!rwhere he war; |^d(<Jra”bdri^“tS,^y-

Ll5? li\fU-fnlrth^lTot Virlnif. *He died

in T, Highland was a

Hoffma^Card’erf^mith; Morris amflewds families of Vir-

locie’ty *of Snfa'iTales^ West Virginia Society.

Pupil of Belle Davisson

Lucinda Earle Patton Highland spent

beare, bom OcL 28, 1789 « County, Virginia, May

frigid an eariy Clarksburg editor and distinguished 1*7-

sfc'ian who lived from 1838

SicSKtlnSe! Clarksburg, where

his widow wa3«sidinginl^9 nd attended the private Lucinda Earle Patton g conducted by the Misses

school in Clarksburg in • northeast corner of Main Carrie and Belle Davisson, on the northeast corner u

and Second streets. , , . f} t wjfe Eunice Estburn Mart-

riage with Miss Nancy derk of the Ran-

folph County Court from 1810 to 1840, and sister of Luanda Earle Carder, Mrs. Highland’s grandmother.

Clarksburg Schoolmates in 1859

A list of Mrs. Highland’s schoolmates at the Belle Davis-

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son school in Clarksburg in 1859 follows:

Lettie Carlisle, Mary Carlisle and Dorsey Carlisle, daugh¬ ters and son, respectively, of John S. Carlisle; Nora Steele daughter of Samuel R. Steele, who married Col. Thomas T \Valhs; Anna Belle Stealey, daughter of Ned Stealey; Anna

Fletcher, who married Jacob Swartz; Catherine' (Kate) Leach, who married Thomas W. Tinsman; Dora Powell - Iso- phene (Icie Powell, who married Jacob Koblegard of Wes¬ ton; Anna Irwin, daughter of John Irwin, merchant- India Lowther, daughter of Dr. John C. I.owther; Agnes’ Criss daughter of Aaron Criss, merchant; George Criss son of George Criss; Ella Hursey, daughter of Elmore Hursey who married the Rev. T. S. Wade- Ella FnnR-« Jl j Ri^^pU Pn=t. a„ * c-j ’ Tt d 1 oulks> who married Kussell lost, Agnes Ridenour; Dora Ridenour; Margaret (Maggie) Smith, daughter of Alf (Alfred) Smith, who ran

CaSefe^?ehtereo7!\hhCf1f?SbHrfir and Weston; Columbia Larder, daughter ot Abbott Carder, merchant in Clarksburg in 1848, and granddaughter of James and Lucinda Earle Carder, proprietors of the old Northwestern Hotel in the early forties, later known as the Walker House - Maria Lida daughter of the Reverend Andrew J. Lida; Bertha Spa es’

daughter of Col. Thomas W. Spates, who married Oliver P Boughner; Kate Spates, daughter of Col. Thomas W. Spates •'

MwHornor- daughter of James Y. Hornor,-who mar¬ ried Lee Haymond; James Hornor, son of James Y. Hornor- Emaline Link, daughter of Peter Link, who married Luther Haymond, son of Col. Luther Haymond, and brother of Col

Fherty Sayw+d; SaIa-h (?allie) Ebert, daughter of Walter Ebert, the ha Her and inn-keeper, who married Col Fred A

L-a^^rirrenC^Ebert’ dau^hter cf Walter Ebert, who mar- ned Wdlmm Dawson; Myra Haymond, daughter of Col. Luther Haymond,, who married Mordecai Lewis- Alcinda Davisson, and Hugh Callaghan, who was later Captain Hugh Callaghan, superintendent of the Clarksburg City Water Works for nearly a quarter of a century.

Message of Good Will

TTithese chlldhood friends and schoolmates of Mrs. Highland have passed over the great divide. Peace be to their tender memories! To those now living an affectionate message of esteem and good will is conveyed by Mrs High¬ land s descendants through the medium of this story.'

Hickman, later a civil war veteran; John Racey and Charles

Racey, sons of John and Milla Minerva Maxwell Racey, the

latter a daughter of Armstrong and Sudna Alcinda Lowther

Maxwell; Amelia Lowther, daughter of Jesse and Mary

Emily Maxwell Lowther, who married John Grow; Nancy

Martin; Elizabeth Morrison; Lucy Rider; James L High¬

land, who married Sarah Lynch, daughter of Hiram J.

Lynch; Lloyd Lowndes Highland; Mary Frances Highland;

Virginia Waldeck, daughter of Henry Waldeck, and sister

of E. W. P. Waldeck, who married Eliza Rector; Lillian

Belle Patton, who married Charles Louis Dunnington, son

of Noah Dunnington; Martha Jane Patton, who married

Attorney Marshall B. Gooding, of Greenfield, Indiana, Sep¬

tember 16, 1878; Daisy Ellen Patton, who married Frank

R. Johnson, publisher, Washington, D. C.; Benjamin Patton

Sin mrfrhanTt; Ebenezer Wi,son Patton> Jr- editor, Wash- rngton, D C., Lorenzo DowPatton, born at West Milford Virginia, May 27, 1861, married'Miss Ida May Pearson, in Chicago June 27 883; Lulu Ruth Patton, youngest daugh-

,,f ihi Ebfnezer Wdson Patton< though not a schoolmate of those above mentioned, was born April 7, 1873, married Julian Dart, of Jacksonville, Florida, and their son Leroy Dart is man led and has one son, Leroy Dart, Jr.

Court Reporter

Lorenzo Dow Patton held for a long number of years the

record f?r rapid and accurate stenographic report- iag ’ , learned stenogi-aphy in the early years of his life at Clarksburg, and became official court reporter at the age

of twenty-two years; he served continuously in this capacity tor forty years, and until his death, December 29 19?3 he

New Castle! S2JF*" ^ H“ry Court,

Additional Schoolmates

•- West Milford School Teachers, 1857-1866

, The following is a roster of West Milford school teachers from 18o7 to 18o8, and from 1860 to 1866, whose schools Lucinda Earle Patton (Highland) attended: spools

James Hardway ; John Edgar Highland, whom she later married; Julia Austin, daughter of Dr. Alexander M Austin who married Abraham Smith, of Clarksburg; Sarah Aust n’ who married John Highland, son of Thomas Highland; Henry Millei Isaiah Bennett; James Thornberry, father of Jacob Thornberry; Olive Bartlett, and Thomas'Rider.

Schoolmates of Long Ago

lord ftomlss? to 1866 foltowsf'S schoolmate at 'Vest Mil-

_ Virginia Holden, who married E. D. S. Revnolds- Almira Dew, wife cf Dr. Rush H. Dew, and son of Dr. W H H Dew-

Benjamin Holden, and Hale Holden, sons of Smith Holden:

SmHheltMeufar’eWn-° married Jacob Thornberry; Mary Smith, daughter of Chapman Smith, who married Charles Davisson; Elizabeth Medskar; Dora Bartlett, and Charles Bartlett, children of Mrs. Olive Bartlett; Martin Ward who rmirric Jeannette Ramage; Ebenezer Ward, who married Fanme Thornberry; Mary Grow; Rebecca Grow; Wdliam

tlr nf married Jane Wilcox; Mary Virginia Fox, daugh¬ ter of Jacob Fox; James Allen Fox, son of Jacob Fox whn married Sarah Wilcox; John W. Fox, son of Jacob Fox’ who married Laura Price, daughter of William Price; Lurenna M. Fox, daughter of Jacob Fox, who married Samuel B

The above mentioned Patton children were brothers and sisters of Lucinda Earle Patton Highland and were born in -he Village of West Milford, W. Virginia. Other schoolmates

Yoeinmh?aenrJamu 5ufl[’ Floreed Huff, Margaret Huff, and Columbm Jane Huff, children of Benjamin and Mttilda Stout

Hof 3 t yT?Chmda^hTtei' °f Hiram J- L^ch- who mar- ned James I. Highland; John R. Lynch, son of Hiram J. Lynch, who married Edith SommerviJle, daughter of James Sommerville; Charles Wesley Lynch, son of Hiram J. Lynch, who married Mollie A. Hefner, daughter of Harvev and Eliza Highland Hetner; Enoch Lynch; Almira Dav'is, daugh¬ ter ot John Davis, who married Jacob Post; Estelle Davis, daughter of John Davis; James D. Hoff, son of Sam¬ uel Hoff, and grandson of Major John Hoff, who married Dr. Susan Dew; Jeannette Mick, daughter of Mathias and Jemima Mick, who married Frederick M. Sturm; Sarah Lou- ise Mick daughter of Mathias and Jemima Mick, who mar¬ ried William West, son of Jefferson West; Ruth Patton daughter of Luther Morris Patton; Philander Austin High-

r„°fTTJobn HiSlllancl> who married Lulie Lorentz; Mollie Belle Highland, daughter of John Highland, who mar¬ ried Zachanah McChesney; Lulie Lorentz; Hester Lynch, daughtei of Hiram J. and Jemima McConk^v Lvnch who married Marshall Bartlett, brother of John Calvin Bartlett • Ida Lynch, daughter of Hiram J. Lynch, who married Gran¬ ville Bartlett; Virginia Sheets, daughter of Washington Sheets who married Elmore Stout; Mary Crawford, daugh¬ ter of Ambrose Crawford, a tailor, who married J. Otis Stout- Jeannette Ramage; and Amy Minerva Hoff, daughter of Samuel Hoff, and granddaughter of Major John Hoff, who married Thomas Marion Smith, to which union were born Edward Grandison Smith and Harvey Faris Smith prom¬ inent Clarksburg attorneys, and Ella Earle Smith, who mar¬ ried Floyd Morrison, and resides in Philadelphia

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West Milford Merchants, 1851 to 1928

The followmg iS believed to be a fairly complete roster of West Milford merchants, each of whom Mrs. Highland knew personally, from 1851 to 1928, a span of seventy-seven years: .Richard Perine, John Racey, Mr. Dent, Ebenezer Wilson Pat¬ ton, Jacob Highland, John Edgar Highland, John Highland, James Carder, William Marteny Carder, Jasper Stires, Henry Miller, Frank Norris, Blackmore (Black) Jackson, Lemuel

i°,hn Fulkineer, Isaac Cox, James W. Young, Jacob M. Lib, Coleman Williams, Joseph Parrill, Jesse Rector, W. T. Mernman, C. A. Lawson, Charles Slusser, George Bartlett, Upton Dayton, Bennett Rider, William Lee, C. B. Morrison, Jacob Worthy Highland, E. Thaddeus Post, Calvin Burnside, Homer N. Wolfe, George W. Sturm, Blaine Sturm, Harry P. Sturm, James B. Clark, John Calvin Medskar, Ambrose C. Holden, R. C. Helmick, John Gaston, Howard B. Post, Sam¬ uel S. Floyd, Benjamin Ward, Whitfield B. Reed, Dorsey I,. Reed, George Morrison, George W. Morrison, Madison S. Blair, Edward Farris, Homer McKinley, Clyde Bartlett, Wil¬ liam Kenna West and Nancy Teets Sinclair, and William Lee, the latter a son of Mrs. Lina Lee, who taught hundreds of children the right from the wrong way.

the wilds of America, as well as through Europe. His books, now very rare, were printed in 1804 and his complete works were published in 1854, twenty years after his demise. Rev.

Fow 1 ?ined the Masonic Lodge December 25, 1824, and the Masonic medal which he then purchased and which

^ "ls name engraved upon it was given by his widow in 1860 to Ebenezer Wilson Patton of Clarksburg, Mrs. High¬ land s father.

Scion of Democracy

Village Grist Mill

The owners of the West Milford grist mill which was established circa 1817 and abandoned as a mill May 1, 1912, follow: Samuel Clemans, Jacob Romine,- Jacob Coplin! Joseph Johnson, Holdridge Chidister, Warner W. Chapman! Orphrey L. Medsker, Austin Shinn, George W. Golden, Ben¬ nett D. Rider, John A. Williams, Joseph Pritchard, Wesley Post, Thomas Marion Smith, William C. Burnside, Raymond C. Helmick, West Fork Milling and Lumber Company, Mil¬ lard F. Snider, Trustee, Leeman Maxwell, Attorney Louis A. Henderson, and the Clarksburg Water Board. Among the operators were John R. Lynch, E. Thaddeus Post, John W. Gaston, Dorsey L. Reed, and Edwin D. Steel, the latter being the last operator of the flour mill.

Wesley Post and Thomas Marion Smith, above named, purchased the mill and site February 24, 1885, and were joint owners of the property at the time of the flood of July 9-10, 1888, when the mill was lifted from its foundation and carried away on the crest of the rise of 25 feet above normal low water stage. The rise in the West Fork river then exceeded in height the flood of April 5, 1852, and a previous flood stage recorded in 1807.

Mrs. Highland’s eldest brother, William Wirt Patton, born in West Milford, then Virginia, March 31, 1848, died February 21, 1849, as a result of a fall from its nurse’s arms in the old West Milford grist mill.

Dr. Benjamin Dolbeare removed to Clarksburg from Beverly, Randolph County, Virginia, circa 1838, one of the foremost editors, writers and physicians of his time. He was owner and editor from May 30, 1840, to the date of his death June 7, 1854, of the Clarksburg Virginian, the Clarks¬ burg Democrat, the Scion of Democracy and the Independent Democrat.

Doctor Dolbeare performed a surgical operation in the early part of 1854 upon the then youthful Thomas W. Tins- man, born December 23, 1846, and who is now (1929) resid¬ ing in Clarksburg, and is active and vigorous.

Doctor Dolbeare graduated from Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1812. His daughter, Martha Jane Dolbeare (born September 21, 1826, died April 22, 1887), became on February 1, 1855, the third wife of Mrs. Lucinda Earle Patton Highland’s father, Ebenezer Wilson Patton, attorney, merchant, civil engineer; Doctor Dolbeare's son, Lorenzo Dow Dolbeare (bom March 21, 1825, died Oc¬ tober 8, 1885), was a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, 1861. He married and left descendants.

Hon. Granville Davisson Hall, author of Daughter of the Elm, in his sketch book published in 1907, called Old Gold, refers to Lorenzo Dow Dolbeare in part as follows:

“He (Lorenzo Dow Dolbeare) was a nephew of the cele¬ brated pioneer preacher of a former generation, Lorenzo Dow, for whom he had been named. He was short and stout of figure and the best groomed man I had ever known; looked always as just out of a bath; in summer dressed in spotless linen, with polished shoes, and was as dapper and exquisite as any city dandy. He had beautiful teeth, which were his especial pride. His father had been editor of a county paper, and the son had grown up in an intellectual atmosphere. Through this gentleman, I was led into a small literary adventure. He has been dead many years. We never met after I left his village; and when I recall him as he was then—gay, clean-minded, high-souled, gentle but proud—I am sorry life’s currents did not bring us together in later years.”

A Fine Tribute Married at Age Fifteen

It will ever be a constant source of pride and gratifica¬ tion to those comprising these rosters of playmates, school¬ mates and childhood friends and sweethearts, and their numerous descendants, to be able to truthfully affirm that each and all of these little tots of long ago attained to the highest type of manhood and womanhood. May there be more men and women like them in the years to come.

Dr. Benjamin Dolbeare, Early Editor

Mrs. Lucinda Earle Patton Highland visited the printing establishment of William Cooper, Clarksburg, then editor of Cooper’s Register, seventy years ago. Her step-grand¬ father, Dr. Benjamin Dolbeare, was an early Clarksburg editor, and a member of the Virginia Legislature from Ran¬ dolph County, 1828-1829, and a brilliant writer and public speaker. Dr. Benjamin Dolbeare’s sister, Lucy Dolbeare (bora January 8, 1786, died October 26, 1863), became on April 1, 1820, the second wife of Rev. Lorenzo Dow (born October 16, 1777, died February 2, 1834), the great Meth¬ odist missionary, who in the pioneer days traveled through

Lucinda Earle Patton Highland was united in marriage January 25, 1867, with Captain John Edgar Highland, born October 19, 1832, school teacher, merchant and farmer, son of Jacob Highland, farmer and county court justice, prior to the formation of West Virginia, who was born near Clarks¬ burg, Virginia, September 4, 1808, and grandson of John Highland, the pioneer who was born at Newport, Christiana Hundred, Newcastle County, Delaware, August 21, 1770, and who died in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia, De¬ cember 1, 1814, where he and his family settled October 1, 1806.

John Highland Married in 1799

John Highland, 1770-1814< was united in marriage with Miss Telitha Batten, born July 4, 1776, died August 8, 1854, of Salem County, New Jersey, at the First Baptist Church, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thursday evening, December 28, 1799, Rev. William Rogers officiating. The bride was a •laughter of Francis and Deborah Hoffman Batten, who were married in Gloucester County, New Jersey, December 22, 1762, and was a grand-daughter of Francis and Anne Cheese-

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Colonial Massachusetts Pioneers

Orphan at Age Three

John Highland,1770-1814, before mentioned, was a

tStzafLfS“„‘ of Jhomaa Highland, who was born April 23, 1604, in \\ aldron, County Sussex, England, a great-

°f Waldron- the testafor of • iv iJh°maS ^lfi:hIand was baptized in All Saints Church in Waldron, in April, 1604; married in 1626; lived and was

Kent’ England- to 1633, emigrated, with his wife, Deborah Highland and

chuifhf R* Chpd,ren t0 s«tuate, Plymouth Countv, Massa¬ chusetts Bay Colony, in New England, America, where he was a proprietor of Scituate in 1637; he took the oath of allegiance and was a freeman in Scituate, February 1 1638-

Sa«a t0Wn °*Cer in 1638: died in Scituate, ^ i^eoth C°nnty, America, between February 14 and May 3, 1682, on which latter date his will was probated.

Mrs. Highland’s mother, Sarah Ann Cardor Pa+e^v. , V"

heMittl WfSt wllford’ Yirsinia, November 12, 1854, leaving her little daughter, Lucinda Earle, without a mother’s tender care, at the age of three years, was born at the beautiful and picturesque Village of Beverly, Randolph County Viririnii July 12, 1826 daughter of James and Lucinda EariecSSir ohe was unitea in marriage July 6, 1847, at the North’ western Hotel, Clarksburg, then conducted by her father James Carder, with Ebenezer Wilson Patton, of West Mil’ lord, son of Col. Alexander Lewis Patton, justice of the Harrison County, Virginia, Court, 1834-1835 and 1846 1847 and grandson of William Patton, Harrison County pioneer

12h90ySeearieag°on DUCk Creek’ Harrison County> then Virginia,’

Colonel of Eleventh Regiment

John Edgar Highland, Student at Northwestern Academy

at th?Nor+wI ? gh A d^ above mentioned, attended school ai“eaNOr,thlWeStJerJn Academy, Clarksburg, in 1858-1859. He

<?+anid boarded at the Pleasant homestead of Mrs. Mary Ann Stealey Baker, wife of Isaac Baker, merchant and

Andn°W<;+f Edl?ond K- Stealey, and daughter of James and Anna Steele, in the old brick house which is still standing

A vp^,? n°rihM-e? i Sldo °f Mllford Street, between Baker fhe Fhpff1 wNlCh° fi! Streefc> Clarksburg. He later stayed at the Ebert House, then owned by Walter Ebert, the hatter a?d innkeeper, on the northwest corner of Pike and Third

K DeUoSTnd otters” the DeiS°" HoUse' °WIKd by Ed",rd

Among his schoolmates were: Richard T. Lowndes Gon^Sfflhf8 f?r^most citizen; Nathan Goff; Solomon d! Gore, father of former Governor Howard Mason Gore and

in nf wl brotbers'of Clarksburg, and the elder Stealey boys, &J1 of whom he esteemed highly. y

nf ?xa"dei‘Lewis Patton was promoted to the rank whiVh he E1?venth Regiment of Virginia Militia, of ^,h£h be. had long been a major, by Governor John Tyler

ci JZIT*’ AA.PnI 18’ *826’ in the room of Jonathan Jackson deceased. At an earlier period, in the year 1815, James Pmdall was lieutenant colonel of this regiment, and George I

ClaSuVTawyerTr' TlM3e Pi°n6erS Were promineilt

Honored by Governor Johnson

Ebenezer Wilson Patton was an attorney-at-law pre¬ siding justice of the Harrison County Court, 1857-1858 mer¬ chant and civil engineer. A theodolite (transit-compass) was presented to him by Governor Joseph JohSot?Vir¬ ginia in 1852 in recognition by the State of Virginia of meritorious services rendered by him to the state as a civil engineer on pioneer highway projects in Harrison County

Presiding Court Justice

Mother of Six Children

Six children were born to Capt. John Edgar Hie-hland

fdnentmeTwPharle PattonKHi?hland, all of whom are aftivJly with 1?umerous business interests of the state and

iue e*ceptlon °f the demise of Capt. John Edgar High- la"d’,May i1903’ there has not been a death in the family

bnmph T’lf S1X^:tW0 years- “Should y°u be last returning home, 111 greet thee, mate o’ mine.” b

The children are:

montf13^68 BrUCe Hl^hland, merchant and investments, Fair-

Bank^rLpth Highltndl president of The Empire National ? i? ?sburg’ which he was instrumental in organizing Wpi9v3’ -mer RePubIlcaa National Committeeman for West Virginia; owner of the Clarksburg Telegram - and Ions- associated with the development of the natural resources of the upper Monongahela Valley;

—head °f thc High,and Br°thers

Fairmonf6-116 Highland Tetrick’ wife of Emory Ellis Tetrick,

0.1 andHigh,and’ i"VC3l”e"ta' “d,

watopK aGndH|sS’ *e"eral manaSrer °f the Clarksbar*

/u-JS Eicie Elle? Wa?ner, a member of one of Harrison r?hipty- ifi£G °Ld pi0"eer families, and a capable and depen-

een Mrs; Hyland’s faithful companion for the last thirty years and they loved each other dearly. Miss Wagner came to the Highland home when a mere child and was ever regarded as a daughter and sister.

Fhp^p/wTing-DiS^the °fficial record of the election of County Co^rtS-°n &S presiding ->ustice of the Harrison

At a court held for the County of Harrison at the court- house on the 10th day of August, 1857, and in the 82nd year ot the commonwealth. Present:

“Jacob M. Eib, president; Benjamin F. Shuttleworth, L?SOn,vSr' Jobn C- Lowther, Elijah Watkins,

Wilkfnif°Tkp’ )^lliiaT Stewart, J- B. Wright, William S. Wilkinson, A. Radcliff, Jefferson B. West, David Bassell, S.

Fhp 1 W ,iramoJULynch’ John W- Swiger’ A- A- Shaw. Ebe .ezer Wilson Patton, and J. J. Young, gentlemen, asso-

“Court Order: “Jacob M. Eib, Esquire, having at the last term tendered

his resignation as presiding justice of this court, and all of the justices of this county, having been summoned to fill said vacancy, and a majority being present, the court pro¬ ceeded to elect a presiding justice.

“Whereupon, a vote being had, Ebenezer Wilson Patton was duly declared elected presiding justice of this court.”

Democratic Leader

Ebenezer Wilson Patton was one of Harrison County’s active Democratic leaders for a quarter of a century prior

os il-o dd^n death ,n hls law offices in Clarksburg, October S.-f l'r /.e was a ci0se personal friend, kinsman and political advisor of Attorney Charles S. Lewis, born Feb- ruary *.6, 1821, who was elected judge of the Circuit Court

nLu^1S<!in ?uUnTty m 1872’ abIy serving in that capacity h\3 danuary ,22’ 1878. He was succeeded by

Judge A. Brooks Fleming in the same year. Judge Fleming afterward became governor of West Virginia, serving from February 6, 1890, to March 4, 1893, with notable distinction.

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Those named below are descended from the same com¬

mon ancestors as the late LUCINDA EARLE PATTON

HIGHLAND, of West Milford, W. Va., and are as follows:

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10. 11.

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United States Senators

Thomas Morris (1776-1844), United States senator.

Joseph Haynsworth Earle (1847-1897), United States

• senator.

John Laurens Manning Irby (1854-1900), United

States senator.

Matthew Mansfield Neely (born November 9, 1874),

a former United States senator. i - . v *■ '

Members of Congress

Elias Earle (1762-1823), member of Congress.

John Baylis Earle (1766-1863), member of Congress.

•Samuel Earle (1760-1833), member of Congress.

Isaac Sniith (1740-1807), member of Congress.

Lewis Maxwell (1790-1862), member of Congress.

Isaac Newton Morris (1812-1879), member of Congress.

Jonathan David Morris (1804-1875), member of Con¬

gress.

William Lowndes Yancey (1814-1863), member of Con-

gross, the latter the chairman of the Commission sent

-- to Europe in 1861 to present the Confederate cause

to the governments of England and France; elected

to the first Confederate senate February 21, 1862;

died at his plantation home near Montgomery, Ala.,

July 28, 1863. : tC '.'l V,

Soldier-Minister

Rev. Isaac Morris, born in Berks County, Pa., in 1740.

and died in Harrison County, then Virginia, now

West Virginia, July 10, 1830, where he and his family

had settled prior to February 20, 1778; a Revolu¬

tionary soldier (1777-1783); chaplain of his regi-

j.'flienl; £nd a Baptist minister for 60 years; and who

married in Pennsylvania, April 11, 1766, Miss Ruth

Henton, of Virginia, born, 1750, and died in Harrison

• ; -County, then Virginia, now West Virginia,, in 1839:

- the parefits of twelve (12) children. v, - - . • i -.-J, .... •> ■

'"k ' Supreme Court Judges J

Judge Joseph M. Beck, born April 21, 1823, Clermont

County, 0., and died May 30, 1893. Judge Supreme

Court of Iowa 1867 to 1891, 24 years.

Judge Thomas Morris, born Berks County, Pa.', January

3, 1776,-and died in Clermont County, Ohio, Decem-

.ber. 7, 1844. Judge Ohio Supreme Court 1809.

Judge Edwin Maxwell, born July 16, 1825, died February

. 5, 1903. Judge West Virginia Supreme Court, 1867-

• 1873'.

Judge Haymond Maxwell, born Harrison County, West

Virginia, October 24, 1879. Judge West Virginia

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Supreme Court from August 18, 1928, to December

31, 1928. Elected November 6, 1928, for a twelve

year term from January 1, 1929. The term from

August 18 to December 31, 1928, was by appointment

to fill a vacancy.

Judge Isaac Smith, born 1740, and died at Trenton,

N. J., August 20, 1807. Judge New Jersey Supreme

Court 1777-1804, 28 years.

Circuit Court Judges

Joseph Haynsworth Earle, (1847-1897), of South

Carolina. Judge from 1894 to 1897.

Birk S. Stathers, born July 13, 1884, and Judge of the

counties comprising Harrison and Lewis.

John Morris, born April 14, 1767, died October 5, 1855.

Judge in Clermont County, Ohio. Appointed Feb¬ ruary 14, 1809.

Bankers

Robert Morris McKinney, born at Nauvoo, Illinois,

February 2, 1862. Vice-President, The National Bank

of the Republic, Chicago, Illinois, with resources

of $136,763,538.79, at close of business February 28,

1928. There are 700 employes in this banking house.

Charles M. Van Kleeck, Vice President of the Fulton

Trust Co., of New York.

Attorneys—Ministers—Authors—Inventors

Attorney Isaac Morris, born July 26, 1773, died Sep¬

tember 5, 1864, at Parkersburg.

Attorney James Morris, born December 11, 1790. Pros¬

ecuting attorney of Tyler County, then Virginia,

1846-1849.

Rev. Benjamin Franklin Morris, born 1810, died June

28, 1867. Author, and noted minister.

Rev. Joseph Morris, born January 18, 1784, died July

29, 1863. Pioneer Baptist minister.

Rev. Robert Fulton Crary, famous minister.

Col. Robert Smith, born 1720, died December, 1803.

Colonel in the American Revolution from March l9 1777.

.Joseph Smith Harris, born April 29, 1836, died June 2,

1910. President of the Reading Railroad Co., May 1,

1893, to April 3, 1901, and continued as a director

until his death. . ..

Robert Fulton, born November 14, 1765, died February

24, 1815. Inventor of the steamboat.

Albert Flandreau Dean, born July 30, 1842, living.

Author; originator of the famous Dean schedule of

fire insurance rates.

Franklin Maxwell, born 1814, died July 4, 1892. State

senator 1872, and father of W. Brent Maxwell.

Captain Melvin Greene Sperry, born January 26, 1866,'

prominent Clarksburg lawyer and business man and

a first cousin of Di\ Elmer Ambrose Sperry, noted in¬

ventor of .Brooklyn, New York.

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35. A little while ago I stood at the grave of Alexander Lewis

Great-great-great grandfather of Virgil Lee Highland

President of The Empire National Bank Clarksburg, West Virginia

Great-great grandfather of William Brent Maxwell

President of The Union National Bank Clarksburg, West Virginia

Great-great grandfather of Lucinda Earle Patton Highland

of West Milford Harrison County, West Virginia

Great-great-great grandfather of Scotland G. Highland

Author of this genealogical and historical story

* A little more than 114 years have made vivid Ameri¬ can history since a simple marker was erected at the grave of Alexander Lewis, who was born in Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania, in 1730, and who died at Lost Creek, Harrison County, in the state then called Virginia and now West Virginia, December 13, 1814, aged eighty-four years.

BURIED IN HARRISON COUNTY CEMETERY

The cemetery in which he sleeps is often called “The Old Frame Church Cemetery” and was established by the Seventh Day Baptist Church. It is situated on the county road within a few hundred yards of the Balti¬ more & Ohio Railway station, at Lost Creek, Harrison County, West Virginia.

The tombstone was photographed on Friday, August 27, 1926. The inscription reads

“Ii Memory of Alexander Lewis; Departed this life December 13, 1814, aged 84 years.”

Alexander Lewis married, in 1760, Miss Mary Smith, 1735-1799, daughter of John Smith, 1686-1765, of Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania, and Susanna Smith, 1691-1767. She was the granddaughter of Jrhn Smith, born in County Monaghan, Province of Ulster, Ireland, in 1655, who was the maternal great¬ grandfather of Robert Fulton, 1765-1815, of Lancas¬ ter County, Pennsylvania, American inventor, engineer and artist. He launched the first steamboat on the Hudson River, August 17, 1807, and the first steamboat on the Seine, August 9, 1803. He left descendants who have attained distinction as authors and bankers.

Just a Prayer at Twilight

Fervently do we hope there may ever be religiously taught in each of the hundreds of homes of the descendants of the revered pioneers named in this story, a practical ob¬ servance of the true spirit of Van Dyke’s “Inscription for a Friend’s House”:

A Friend’s House

The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; ine threshold high enough to turn deceit aside;

lhe doorband strong enough from robbers to defend: Ihis door will open at the touch of every friend.”

Conclusion

This concludes an authentic story of the late Lucinda

Larle Patton Highland, one of the earth’s eighteen hundred

milhon faithful human beings, who always “plucked a thistle

and planted a flower in its place wherever a flower would grow.” UUIU

Bibliography

D“mbCT 25' 1915: "viscd

Ear!C Fami'y Hist0ry> 1924- ^ Isaac Newton Earle, pages 145-146d.

Reprints of newspaper narratives by Scotland G. Highland dated ecember 20, 1925; April 3, 1926; December 25, 1926; and July i, 1928

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V'rsi",a- I928’ *

RevaiSt0r^ °J »el*war*rPa5t and Present, 1929, edited by Wilson Lloyd

415 and 4nifi T mH mS’ aSSOciate editor- volu™ IV, pages 414. 415 and 416. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. New York.

The Clermont Sun, Batavia, Ohio, August 9, 1928.

Roster of Union Civil war veterans in the office of the Clerk of the Harrison County court, Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1928.

bv Sld^dg:dvCTPendiUm °f American Genealogy, volume 3, 1928. by Frederick A. Virkus, pages 244-246

The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America records.

(Copyright, 1929, By Scotland G. Highland)

Tributes of Praise

fo!,owfnr“ter *”d.“hie™"«*» of the late source of inspiration e^e^T**"*

other^he™ of° y?unrdemrorhe,-wrmnv6yin ^ a",d through *>» *> ^ have sustained in the Z k ly ln, ,the surpassing loss that you and they

lovely face and not appr« ate Lmewha^ th ^ N° °7 C?U,d b<hold her children by her passing Her cm,S°7°w that has “me to her all who were fortunate enoueh L u ncf mu3t bave lik<“ a benediction to vice-president, the National Bank of the RTp^bli^Chifa°M,rtIlL,0rnS McKinney-

the otehlW^ s^rtoam/athWeIteMZrdrifn moWM*'^67' Snd

yearsf T/e S your^r^enT^a" The springs of memory are flowing ovoj a fCW y-ara older, my early childhood when I came to West Milford fn h,?Ve ln,te'7u''ned from time. J. Howard Holt, attorney! Moundsville 65 d°W" the present

very impressive''throughout ■to‘. Tlle funeral exercises were affected, all feeling thf great iSftoXT” fnen,d3 f the family keenly a C1.A

wS&SSSSffi-SMia h- wonderf ul^aim—Jh0 A.C Helm," civil engrn^

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