Rev. H.M. McLaughlin /Laughlin

Rev. H.M. McLaughlin /Laughlin officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1898 -
Thomas Tyler & Malinda Smith, 1/11/1898 at the Colored Baptist Church at Alderson
(on this entry his name appeared to be McLaughlin)

& he officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1900 -
am Taylor & Bettie Wilson, 4/27/1900
(on this entry his name appeared to be Laughlin)

There were McLaughlin families in the area. I don't have any Laughlin families so I am guessing that his name is McLaughlin.

Rev. Frederick F. Sawyer (Black Minister)

Rev. Frederick F. Sawyer officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1879 - Thomas Christmas & Mittie Edgar, 10/2/1879

He was the husband of Hester Sawyer.
He appeared on the 1880 Census in Monroe County at Union as a Black Male, age 39, preacher, with his wife Hester (age 54) and with Thomas W. Boothe (age 45). (enumerated as Frederic Sawyers in this census).
He was the "preacher in charge of the Methodist Church" at which he performed the Christmas-Edgar marriage.

Rev. Irving Hosea Carpenter (Black Minister)

Rev. Irving Hosea Carpenter officiated at the following (Black) Greenbrier County marriages:

1918 -
Griffin Davis Johnson and Dorothy Perkins, 5/29/1918

He can be found on a WORLD WAR I DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD where he is shown as Irvin Hosea Carpenter, born 7/4/1879. He lived at Ronceverte, Greenbrier County. He was a Minister at the M.E. Church at Ronceverte. His nearest relative was Annie Wray Carpenter of Ronceverte. He was medium height and build.

Rev. Charles Williams/Rev. Charles (Creigh) (Black Minister)

See A COMPREHENSIVE NAME INDEX FOR THE AMERICAN SLAVE compiled b Howard E. Potts, p. 76. Mr. Potts indicates that this man (Rev. Charles Willaims) had been enslaved by Mrs. Frances Cree in Greenbrier County, W.V. This would be Mrs. Frances Creigh (Creigh was/is pronounced "Cree").

The Creigh surname (for Black individuals) does not appear to have survived after emancipation. Individuals who were enslaved by the Creigh family may have once been enslaved by the Withrow family as Dr. Creigh's first wife, Mary James Withrow, enslaved a number of individuals.

For information about enslaved Creigh's see African American Records by Mary Frances Bodemuller and Shuck's Greenbrier County Death & Birth Records.
Also see Greigh.

Other individuals enslaved by the Creigh family were:
Betty (Creigh) - See Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society, Vol. 7, #4, 2002, pages 25 & 35.
Lucinda (Creigh) - (same Journal of the GHS article)
Martha (Creigh) - (same Journal of the GHS article)
Sally/Aunt Sally (Creigh) - (same Journal of the GHS article) & History of Greenbrier County by Otis K. Rice, p. 295, & Greenbrier County Pioneers, p. 325. This writer believes that following emancipation "Aunt Sally" became Sallie Woods. See Black Residents of Greenbrier, Monroe, Pocahontas, & Summers Counties by C. Haynes (available at the Greenbrier Historical Society at Lewisburg, WV, and the W.V. Division of Culture and History in Charleston, W.V.)

Rev. Daniel Collins (Black Minister)

Rev. Daniel Collins appears in the 1870 Census for Greenbrier County, Lewisburg District as a Black Male, age 34, Clergyman, M.E., born in Maryland, with Abigail & with Fay Sinkwood. He can also be found in Shuck's Greenbrier County Marriage Records, page 90, & the History of Greenbrier County, page 321 - "Black speakers included ... Daniel Collins ..."

Rev. R.H. Clark

Rev. R.H. Clark officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1903 -
James W. Huffman & ?XXX Gray, 4/1903

Rev. G.W. Clark

Rev. G.W. Clark officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1875 -
Andrew Jackson Collins & Mary Ann Lee, 12/28/1875
1880 -
Albert Campbell & Rella Jackson Sears, 4/6/1880

Rev. William M. Perkins (Black Minister)

For information regarding Rev. William M. Perkins see SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH by Marion Gore & Edna G. Price, where it indicates that he was the 8th Pastor of Second Baptist Church in Summers County, W.V. and that he served for three years.

Rev. J.W. Bownell

Rev. J.W. Bownell officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1877 - James W. Davison & Angeline Gore, 4/19/1877

(I'm not sure of Rev. Bownell's racial designation)

Rev. W.L. Booze

Rev. W.L. Booze officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1897 - Sidney Perkins & Balm Lewis, 9/18/1897

(I'm not sure of Rev. Booze's racial designation)

Rev. William Madison Boggs (Black Minister)

Information regarding Reverend William Madison Boggs can be found at:
Goldenseal Magazine, Vol. 22, # 4, Winter, p. 196 (this magazine is published by the W.V. Division of Culture and History) - the article is entitled Getting Along Together - Black Life in Pocahontas County by Maureen Crockett

Rev. Sanford Boggs (Black Minister)

Reverend Sanford Boggs was the husband of Lutica Boggs & the son of William M. Boggs
Information regarding Reverend Sanford Boggs may be found at:
African-American Residents of Pocahontas County by William O. Lindsay;
1910 Census, Pocahontas County, Edray, Mulatto Male, infant, son of William M. Boggs;
Goldenseal Magazine, Vol 22, #4, Winter, p. 196, (this magazine is published by the W.V. Division of Culture and History) - the article is entitled Getting Along Together - Black Life in Pocahontas County by Maureen Crockett (article contains a photo)

Rev. Carl Edward Boggs (Black Minister)

Information regarding Reverend Carl Edward Boggs can be found at:

AA Residents of Pocahontas County by William O. Lindsay
Goldenseal Magazine, Vol. 22, # 4, Winter, p. 196 (magazine published by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History) - the article is entitled "Getting Along Together - Black Life in Pocahontas County by Maureen Crockett".

Josephine Bealle Wilson Bruce

I'm almost finishing reading the book "The Senator and the Socialite" by Lawrence Otis Graham.
On page 299 Mr. Graham indicates that (the Senator's widow) Josephine Bruce died in West Virginia.
Of course, I had to check into this. My research revealed a death certificate for
Josephine Bealle Bruce who died in McDowell County.
West Virginia Death Certificate # 2521 indicates that she died on 2/15/1923 in Kimball. She is listed as a Black Female, Widowed, born 10/29/1853 in Philadelphia, Pa. She died at age 69years3months16days. She was the daughter of Joseph Willson (born in Georgia) & Elizabeth Harnett (born in Georgia). The cause of death was hypertension & decompensation. The informant for her death was Clara B. Bruce of Kimball, W.V.
She was living in W.V. as her son was a high school principal in the area (see "The Senator and the Socialite")
I highly recommend the book.
(West Virginia death certificates can be found on the West Virginia Division of Culture and History website)

Rev. William Moorman (Black Minister)

Rev. William Moorman officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1892 -
James Davis & Rosa Eggleston, 7/28/1892
&
he officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1891 -
Henry Miller & Arvella Stuart, 11/4/1891

He was a Pastor at the John Wesley United Methodist Church in GC.
He is listed in Shuck's Greenbrier County Birth Records at page 400

Rev. Thomas Brooks

Rev. Thomas Brooks officiated at the following (Black) Greenbrier County marriages:

1926 -

Andrew Miller & Mary Frances Seams

Rev. S.H. Brown

Rev. S.H. Brown officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1889 -

George Carter & Emilene Long, 12/24/1889 at Gap Mills

John Wesley United Methodist Church - Lewisburg, Greenbrier County

In early 2000 a cousin from Lewisburg sent me an old program from this church which listed the Pastors of John Wesley United Methodist Church in Lewisburg, West Virginia:

Rev. John Barnett (he officiated at marriages around 1875 - 1891)
Rev. E.A. Bolling (born in 1860)
Rev. J.L. Brown (he officiated at marriages around 1894-1895 - see previous post)
Rev. Michael Casongo
Rev. Henry K. James
Rev/ David E. Jasper
Rev. Abraham Jenkins
Rev. Moses Lake
Rev. J.W. Langford
Rev. R.P. Lawson
Rev. Julius C. Love
Rev. William Moorman (he officiated at marriages around 1891-92 - see 1/3/07 post)
Rev. Julius Williams
Rev. Roscoe Williams
(more names to be added)

Rev. J.L. Brown

Rev. J.L. Brown officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1894 -
Isaac Tucker Armstead & Bell Roles, 7/31/1894

1895 -
John Howard & Maggid Barrett, 1/3/1895

Rev. H.A. Brown

Rev. H.A. Brown officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1897 -
John H. Cash & Lavenia Toler, 12/25/1897

Rev. John H. Simpson

Rev. John H. Simpson officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1881 -
Robert Ellis & Francis Charlton, 3/14/1881
Cephalus "Fall" Moore & Sally Dunsmore, 7/3/1881

1883 -
William Moor & Bettie Nickell, 1/11/1883

1885 -
William Hubbard & Sallie Gilbreath, 12/29/1885
Lewis Nickell & Lucy Jane Dunsmore, 12/30/1885

1888 -
William Henry Brown & Relda Dunsmore, 10/10/1888

1889 -
Smith Albert Freeman & Mossie Peck

Rev. R.H. Mason

Rev. R.H. Mason officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1880 -

Isaac Tucker Armstead & Ellen Bailey, 3/15/1880

Rev. T.R. Morris

Rev. T.R. Morris officiated at the following (Black) SC Marriages:

1896 - George Carter & Minnie Murrell, 9/30/1896

Anderson Jones

Anderson Jones is a notable Greenbrier County resident as he was involved in the only case in which "a ghost" helped to send a man to jail for murder.

Anderson was the son of one of the aforementioned "Martha Jones" (see previous post)
& Reuben Jones. He was the brother of Reuben Jones.
He may be the William A. Jones who appears on the 1880 Census, Greenbrier County (GC), Lewisburg District (LD), BM, 3, with Reuben Jones.
(although he appears in later censuses as being about two years younger - but then in 1930 he gives an age which squares with this entry).
He appears on the 1900 Census, Greenbrier County (GC), Williamsburg District (WD) as a Black male, age 20, b. 1879, son of Martha, brother of Reuben.
He appears on the 1910 Census, GC, LD, BM, 31, b. 1879, single, servant.
He appears on the 1930 Census, GC, LD, BM, 55, b. ?1875, servant in a private family, son of Martha Jones.
He appears in the book THE GREENBRIER GHOST AND OTHER STRANGE STORIES by Dennis Deitz, on pages 12, 15, & 16. Mr. Deitz indicates that Anderson was a witness to the events following the death of Zona Heaster Shue (1896) (It appears that in testimony Anderson thought he was about 11 years old where the censuses would put him at 17-20 years old)
He appears on a WORLD WAR I DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD at age 40 & indicates that he was born 8/1888, that he was a laborer at Ronceverte & that his nearest relative was his mother, Martha Jones of Lewisburg. The card also indicates that he was medium height & stout build with brown eyes & black hair.
He appears on WV DEATH CERTIFICATE # 8537 which indicates that he died on 6/17/1953 at Lewisburg & that he was a single black male, the son of Reuben & Martha Robinson Jones. At the time of his death he was thought to be about 76 years old. He is buried at the Clintonville Cemetery.

Martha Jones

There may have been as many as 7 -12 women named Martha Jones in Greenbrier, Monroe, Summers, Fayette and Pocahontas Counties.

(1) Martha Jones who was the first wife of Peter Jones
She appears on the 1870 Census in Monroe County (MC), Second Creek (2nd Creek), as a Black Female, age 40, keeping house, with Peter Jones.

(2) Martha Ann Payne Haynes Jones who was the second wife of Peter Jones (who she married in 1885)
Her first husband was Solomon Haynes & she & Solomon had been the neighbors of Peter & his first wife, Martha. In the compilation "Black Residents of Greenbrier ..." by C. Haynes she is listed under Martha Ann Payne Haynes. She & Solomon Haynes married in Fayette County shortly after emancipation, on July 4, 1865. At that time she had five children (Socrates, Albert, Elizabeth, Dudley, & Catherine). She & Solomon would later have James & Percy/Purcy. During slavery she was Martha Payne & one of her children (Albert) would always retain the surname Payne even while his other siblings became known as Haynes.

(3) Martha/Catherine Robinson Jones who was the wife of Reuben Jones & the mother of Anderson Jones

1870 Census where she appears in GC, Big Levels District as a 20 y.o., Black Female, b. in Va., keeping house, with Reuben Jones
1880 Census where she apepars in GC, Lewisburg, as a 35 y.o., Black Female, b. in Va., wife of Reuben Jones (33) & the mother of Mary E. (9), Margaret A. (7), & William A. (3).
1900 Census where she appears in GC, Williamsburg District, unknown age & date of birth, widowed, b. in Virginia, had 8 children, 3 still living. (check this, the 8 could be due to poor penmanship or a blurry/hard to decipher document)
1910 Census where she appears in GC, Lewisburg, as a 54 y.o., b. ? 1856, widowed, had one child, one still living, servant/cook for the James M. Rader Family, with Ricky (14). (Note that William A. is probably Anderson)
1930 Census where she appears in GC, LD, BF, 74, with Anderson (55)
Mentioned in THE GREENBRIER GHOST AND OTHER STRANGE STORIES by Dennis Deitz, onpages 12 & 15, "Aunt Martha Jones", mother of Anderson Jones.
Shuck's Greenbrier County Birth Records, page 172
Shuck's Greenbrier County Death Records, page 145
WV Death Certificate # 4117, as the mother of the decedent, Mary Ellen Lewis, who died in Summers County in 1953.

(4) Martha Jones who married Samuel Robinson

(5) Martha Jones who was the wife of Charles Jones
On WV Death Certificate # 16059 she appears as the wife of the decedent, Charles Jones who died in GC in 1944

(6) Martha Jones who was the wife of Irving Jones
She appears on the 1880 Census in Fayette, Mountain Cove as a 16 year old married to Irving Jones.

(7) Martha Jones who was the mother of Jefferson Christian & who was the mother in law of Emma Haynes
Her son, Jefferson Christian, married Emma Haynes on 7/4/1882

(8) Then, there were another 6 Martha Jones who can not yet be positively identified as being the same person as one of the above.

--- Martha Jones who appears in the article "Lewisburg's Dr. Graybill", Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society, Volume 7, #2, 2000, p. 17
--- Martha Jones who appears on the 1920 Census in Greenbrier County (GC), Lewisburg District (LD) as a Black female, age 70, widowed, servant for Conrad Skaggs
--- Martha Jones who is listed in the Greenbrier Cemetery Book for the LD, & who died on Jan/11/197X.
--- Martha Jones who was the mother of William Gibson Jones who married Mary Preston on 8/29/1893 in Summers County
--- Martha Jones who appears as the mother of the decedent, Martha M. Cousins on WV Death Certificate #11665
--- Martha Jones who appeared on the 1910 Census in Fayette County, Sewell Mountain as a Black Female, age 32, born in Va, servant, divorced (& who does not appear to have any children).

Rev. (? first name) Brooks

Rev. (? first name) Brooks officiated at the following (Black) Greenbrier County marriages:

1951 -
Edna Mae Parks & Charles Junior Lee, 8/20/1951

Rev. Thomas Brooks

Rev. Thomas Brooks officiated at the following (Black) Greenbrier County marriages:

1926 -
Andrew Miller & Mary Frances Seams

Rev. Bosley Boyce

Rev. Bosley Boyce officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1883
Edward Lewis & Alice Pack, 5/11/1883
Alexander Hughes & Carrie Barnett, 12/27/1883
Samuel Morris & Amanda Hoke, 12/31/1883

(I'm not sure of Rev. Boyce's racial designation)
(On 2/9/1887 he married Johana Dickenson in Upshur, WV)

Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society, Vol 8, # 2, 2006

This issue of the Journal of the GHS contains an article by Mr. Layton in which he summarizes certain old courthouse documents including documents regarding free persons of color and enslaved individuals who lived in Greenbrier County. The journal is available through the GHS at Lewisburg, W.V. He indicates that he will summarize more courthouse documents in the next issue of the journal.

Rev. Charles Lewis (Black minister)

Rev. Charles Lewis officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1882 -
Charles Paxton Bradley & Georgia Williams, 5/24/1882

Note that Rev. Charles Lewis was the husband of Mary E. Lewis. He can be found on the 1900 Census, Greenbrier County, Fort Spring District where he is listed as a Black male, age 55, born May 1845 at Virginia. He was a Clergyman & had been married for 24 years to Mary E. (age 44). Also in the household were Willie (14), Lillie L. (11), Malan M. (9), Roland O. (7) & Cornelious R. (5)

There was another Rev. Charles Lewis in Summers County. He appears on the 1880 Census for Summers County at the Pipe Stem District, Black Male, 58, preacher of the gospel, with his wife, Ann (35).

Rev. Floyd Meadows

Rev. Floyd Meadows officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1876 -
Meshack Pack & Tessia (Letitia) Landcraft, 9/3/1876

Rev. J.J. Meadon

Rev. J.J. Meadon officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1894 -
Mat R. Price & Ella Cheatwood, 1/13/1894

Rev. F.A./J.A. Meade

Rev. F.A./J.A. Meade officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1895 -
Phil Williams & Aggie Preston, 4/2/1895
Willie W. Davis & Ellen Tinsley, 5/24/1895
1897 -
James Doran & Bettie Fletcher, 10/5/1897
J.E. Rhodes & Ida Wheeler, 10/6/1897
1901 -
P. Mann & Harriet Jackson, 8/29/1901

Rev. J.D. Noll

Rev. J.D. Noll officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1874 -
Charles Crump & Mary Johnson, 12/9/1874
William Banks & Gracey Jefferson, 12/9/1874

He officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1874 -
John Woodson & Cynthia A. Pack, 5/1874

Rev. William N. Nickell

Rev. William N. Nickell officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1875 -
James Nickell & Eliza Susan Dunsmore, 12/29/1875
Samuel Kilbreath & Dora Nickell, 12/30/1875
1876
George Williams & Maggie Dunsmore, 12/21/1876

Rev. B.P. Pennington

Rev. B.P. Pennington officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1905 -
William White & Alice Spotts, 7/30/1905

Rev. W.F. Patterson - Minister of the Gospel M.E. Church

Rev. W.F. Patterson officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1888 -
James W. Hill & Susan Brown, 12/26/1888
1890 -
Andrew Mann & Mary Emma White, 10/4/1890
&
He officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1886 -
George Haynes & Louisa Shinall, 4/22/1886
James Jackson & Lizzie Marshall, 5/23/1886
Charles Kimbro & Ann Johnson, 5/?28/1886
Joseph M. Marshall & Robinett Wright, 7/2/1886
Moses Hunter & Mary Phillips, 11/20/1886
Charles W. Haynes & Sallie Johnson, 12/29/1886
1887 -
Jacob Wright & Fannie Cosby, 12/1/1887
Henderson Kent & Lora Wesley, 12/1887
1888 -
Houston Nickell & Mary E. Brown, 2/16/1888
Toge Loggins & Rose Johnson, 7/?20/1888
Benjamin W. Pride & Charlotte Brown, 8/25/1888
John H. Morris & Bettie Llewelyn, 10/5/1888
George Woodley & Minerva J. Harris, 10/25/1888
1889
Henry R. Ross & Eliza J. Herskins, 4/10/1889
William L. Anderson & Martha Clark, 6/10/1889
1890
William A. Smith & Amanda J. Fortner, April or May
Robert Daniel & Ida Pack, 12/25/1890
1891
John Thomas & Cynthia McGee, Jan/8/1891
Andrew W. Williams & Lelia Ross, 2/26/1891
John H. Johnson & Priscilla Trice, 4/31/1891
Allen Muse & Amanda L. Peyton, 12/24/1891

Rev. Matthew Lyle Lacy (Caucasian minister officiated at Black Marriages)

Rev. Matthew Lyle Lacy officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1889 -
Albert Payne & Ida Bell Dunsmore, 10/15/1889
1892 -
John Lewis Dunsmore & Lydia Erskine

Note: In the Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society, Volume 7, # 6, 2004, page 64 in an article relative to the HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MAXWELLTON it states that Lee Military Academy "was bought by the citizens of Lewisburg and given to the Greenbrier Presbytery and the school was run by Rev. M.L. Lacy, DD until it was taken over by the Col. H.B. Moore ..." .
Because of the above information I believe that Rev. Lacy was Caucasian.

Note also that the Albert Payne above was the son of Martha Ann Payne Haynes Jones & the stepson of Solomon (Saul/Sam) Haynes & Peter Jones.

On 11/27/06, a comment was received by this writer relative to this entry & the writer of the comment advised that "M.L. Lacy" was Rev. Matthew Lyle Lacy & offered these important facts: "Rev. Matthew Lyle Lacy.... (was) co-pastor of the Presbyterian church ... (1869) ... until 1882 ... & "from 1887 until 1902 he was pastor of two churches in Monroe County, the Union Presbyterian Church and Mt. Pleasant Church at Sinks Grove". This comment is very much appreciated for many reasons including the fact that it places the minister in the exact community where the bride and groom Albert & Ida Payne lived (at Sinks Grove).

Rev. Grandison

Rev. Grandison officiated at the following (Black) Greenbrier County marriages:

1951 -
James Homer Early & Henrietta Lee Williams

Rev. L. Baxter Goodall

Rev. L. Baxter Goodall was a Baptist minister at Alderson, Greenbrier County. He was a minister at the Second Baptist Church in Summers County.
He was the officiant at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1902 -
Sachel McKeener & Mary Smith, 12/6/1902 (note - this may actually have been a Summers County marriage)
1904 - Erastus S. Pack & Annetta Frances Trice, 11/15/1904
He was the officiant at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1903 -
Lacy Robinson & Maggie Wingfield
1904 -
George W. Scott & Ros B. Qualls, 2/7/1904
1905 -
James Morris & Fannie Taylor, 11/2/1905

Rev. A.C. Gearhart

Rev. A.C. Gearhart officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

? year -
Cary Lewis & Lucy Green

Rev. Henry C. Gregory

Rev. Henry C. Gregory officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1901 -
A.L. Lipscomb & F.J. Watson, 6/6/1901
1902 -
Joseph Mosley & Effie Allen, 8/10/1902

Rev. Robert Gray

Rev. Robert Gray officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1917 -
William L. Smith & Faust Nickell, 6/20/1917

Landcraft

In an earlier post I indicated that I "intermingle" names when two names sound alike or when indiviudals are listed under two different spellings of a name. One such name is Landcraft, which I originally read as Sandcraft because of enumerator penmanship.
One of the early Landcraft's was "Noris/Morris Landcraft" who appears on the 1870 Census in Greenbrier County (GC), Blue Sulphur Township (BST), as a mulatto male, age 38, farm hand, born in Virginia, with Charles (17), Victory (15), Stuart (12), Ennis (10), & (an 8 year old named Elizabeth who is listed as a white female - but there is a question mark next to the racial designation). In 1900, (Noris) appears again in GC, BST as a Black male, age 68, born January, 1832, a farmer, widowed, with his sons, Willie (17), Hotry (15), John N. (12), his daughter, Helen L. (10) & with a servant/housekeeper named Mary A. Johnson (45). Mary's children are also in the household and they are Laura & Lucy. Another person in the household is a boarder, Morris Thompson. In 1910, (Moris Landcraft) appears in GC, BST, as a black male, age 76, farmer, widowed, with Boatswain S. (25) (*note: Boatswain is Hotry), John (23), & Ellen A. (21). Moris/Noris Landcraft can also be found in African American Records by Mary Frances Bodemuller, Larry Shuck's Greenbrier County Death Records, page 157, & Shuck's Greenbrier County Birth Records, pages 187 & 221.
Other Landcraft entries in BLACK RESIDENTS OF GREENBRIER, MONROE, POCAHONTAS & SUMMERS COUNTIES, WEST VIRGINIA by C. Haynes are:
Amminta (1870 Census), C. (1920 Census), Calloway (husband of Emily Pack), Coney (1920 Census), Craig (1920 Census), D. Thompson (Shuck's Marriage Records), Dorinda (See Lucinda Landcraft), Eliza (1880 Census), Ementha (1930 Census & graduate of Bolling High School 1936), Emma (1920 Census), Henderson (1870 Census), James E. (1920 Census), John (in addition to the above listings with Noris/Morris, John can be found in AA Records by Bodemuller & Shuck's Birth Records), Kenneth (1910 Census), L. (Shuck's Birth Records), Letitia (See Letitia "Tessia" Landcraft Pack, wife of Meshack Pack), Lurinda/Larinda/Thennda Thompson Landcraft (Wife of Noris/Moris, died 8/17/1889 - GC Register of Deaths, also see AA Records by Bodemuller & Shuck's birth records), M. (Shuck's birth records), Mary (See Mary Landcraft Pack, wife of Harris Pack), Mollie (1920 Census), Neteria (See Neteria Allen), Oran (1880 Census with his wife Eliza), Pidgie (1910 Census), Samuel (1870 & 1880 Census), Sarah Eddie Swope Lancraft (Wife of William H. Landcraft who she married in 1905 in Monroe County (MC), 1910 Census), Stuart (1870 Census), Theodore (1920 Census), Tina (1920 Census), Vater (AA Records & Shuck's Birth Records), Victory (1870 Census), Walter (1920 Census), William H. (Husband of Sarah, 1905 marriage in MC, 1920 Census).

Rev. W.H. Wiley/Rev. Wyley

Rev. W.H. Wiley officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1879 -
John H. Bailey & Laurena Erskine, 6/4/1879 at Union

and he officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1882 -
John H. Wood & Julia Clay, 11/22/1882
1884 -
Archibald Briggs & Mary Kelly, Jan/22/1884

& another Rev. Wyley officiated at the following (Black) Greenbrier County marriages:

1952 - Albert Leroy Harris & Ethel Lewrella Carpenter

Rev. I.W. Wightman

Rev. I.W. Wightman officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1885 -
James M. Callaway & Alice L. Robinson, 10/20/1885

1886 -
Charles P. Wagoner & Emma Franklin, 6/7/1886

Rev. Wheeler

Rev. Wheeler officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1878 -
Charles Kenney & Elizabeth Brown, 12/28/1878

Rev. W.N. Wagner

Rev. W.N. Wagner officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1883 -
Willis Richard Hopkins & Sarah Lybrook, 7/12/1883

Rev. William R. Williams

Rev. William R. Williams officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1875 -
Andrew Hill & Malinda (?Bird)

Rev. S.E. Williams

Rev. S.E. Williams officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1899 -
Napoleon B. Gardner & Flora M. Chapman, 10/24/1899
Charles I. Parker & Rosa Lee Pack, 10/25/1899

&

he officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1896 -
Thomas Nelson & Minnie Branham, 11/19/1896
1897 -
Willaim Meadley, Jr. & Katie Lee, 3/3/1897
Thomas Nelson & Lucy Mitchell, 3/17/1897
John L. Abbett & Clara Peters Nelson, 3/24/1897

Rev. H.W. Williams

Rev. H.W. Williams officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1893 -
David W. Callaway & Salina F. Peters, 12/5/1893

1894 -
Charles W. Harris & Ella Crockett, 1/3/1894

Note that Rev. H.W. Williams was the father of Avie Williams who married Lou Nelson in Summers County on 6/10/1893.

Rev. James Sweeney

Rev. James Sweeney officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1888 -
William R. Edwards & Gracie E. Thompson, 3/21/1888
1894 -
John D. Jones & Hannah Bradley, 5/31/1894

Rev. D. Stratton (Black minister)

Rev. D. Stratton officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1888 - Maurice Compton & Lydia Thompson, 9/6/1888

Note that "Mr. Stratton" can be found on the 1880 Census for Putnam County in Buffalo as a Black male, Preacher, age 40, b. in Va., with Louisa Payne (54)

Rev. George N. Spencer

Rev. George N. Spencer officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1900 -
John Williams & Callie Lee, 5/3/1900
W.J. Conner & Rose L. Manns, 9/1900

Rev. William L. Smith

Rev. William L. Smith officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1899 -
Frank Pack & Edna Stith, 2/9/1899

Rev. William L. Smith was the Pastor of the Greenville Circuit Baptist Conference.

Rev. George W. Smith

Rev. George Smith officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1892 -
Napoleon Johnson & Mattie Winston at Meadow Creek, 9/24/1892

Stuart, Stewart, Steward, Stuard, & Sterit

In my compilation I "intermingle" names. This means that, for instance, I put all names that sound alike together as opposed to listing folks under the individual & diverse spellings.
I make a notation following an entry of how the name was spelled in the document cited (if there are different spelling patterns).
There are many names that call for this treatment in the studied area. Some are Brackenridge/Breckenridge, Smith/Smythe, Haynes/Hanes/Hains/Heyns/Hayns, Strother/Strothers, Boone/Boon, Swope/Swopes, Gillbreath/Killbreath, Littleton/Lyttleton, Payne/Pain/Pane, and Sweeney/Swinney/Swiney/Swiney, Straughter/Strawder .
Since I'm not a "genealogist" and have merely been collecting and transcribing the names of folks, in a small geographical area, for over a decade, I don't follow anyone else's rules. I have tried to make my compilation user friendly. I've tried to compile information in a manner in which I would have wanted to find the information or in a manner in which I would have thought would have been helpful. Finding family members can be difficult and I wanted to discard any rules in favor of helping the searcher to be successful.
I've noticed that folks names can vary (in terms of spelling) from document to document. My family, for instance, shows up as Hughes/Hues/Huse in different documents.
To complicate matters, in the area that I study, folks are often known by their middle names or their nicknames. (This often happens when they are named after a family member who lives in the same househhold - So the grandmother is Martha & the granddaughter is Mattie, for instance. Or Christopher Columbus will be the patriarch & the offspring are Columbus or "C.C.") I list each individual with their proper names but I make a notation at their "known" names which refers the user to the proper name.
As for the Stewarts:
There were Stuarts who enslaved individuals in Greenbrier County. Lewis Stuart, son of Col. John Stuart & Elizabeth Stuart enslaved individuals. See the book GREENBRIER COUNTY PIONEERS. My ancestors (following emancipation) worked as domestic servants for a Stuart who married Lt. Gov. Samuel Price. They may have been formerly enslaved by Stuarts but this connection has yet to be made.
Most of the Stewarts in my compilation lived in Greenbrier or Pocahontas counties.
See the magazine GOLDENSEAL, Vol 22, #4, Winter, 1996, which is published by the WV Division of Culture and History and which contains an article entitled "Getting Along Together - Black Life in Pocahontas County", by Maureen Crockett which talks about the Stewarts in PC.
The Stewart spelling is "all over the place" in the WV records so it is important to check all possibilities.
For Stewart also see:
African American Records by Mary Frances Bodemuller (available from the Greenbrier Historical Society in Lewisburg, WV)
Larry Shuck's Records (available from the GHS)
Helen Stinson's court records (book out of print but available at the GHS)
WV Death Certificates (see WV Division of Culture and History death certificate cite - d.c.'s on line from 1914 -1955)
Greenbrier County Cemetery Books
Marsh's 1880 WV Census Records
http://www.greenbrierhistorical.org/1811.html - Will of Elizabeth Stuart (divesting Maria)
BLACK RESIDENTS OF GREENBRIER, MONROE, POCAHONTAS & SUMMERS COUNTIES, WEST VIRGINIA by Haynes (newer editions available at the GHS & the WV Division of Culture and History) (older editions available at the Amistad Research Center & WV State University at Institute)

ADA SMITH - "BRICKTOP"

Ada Smith, known as the entertainer "Bricktop" was born on 8/14/1894 in Alderson, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
I have been told that the Greenbrier Historical Society in Lewisburg, W.V. has a lot of information about "Bricktop".
See:
BRICKTOP by Bricktop with James Hoskins, Altheneum Press
http://www.wvculture.org/istory/notewv/bricktop
See Moore-Boone Family History by B. Dickerson Murapas

Rev. John Edmonds

Rev. John Edmonds officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1890 -
William Chapman & Emma Ramsey at Union, 11/11/1890

Rev. J. Lattimer Kibler

Rev. J. Lattimer Kibler officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1882 -
George Lewis Clear & Katie Brown, 5/16/1882
John Henry Jefferson & Louisa Simpson, 7/17/1882

Rev. Lewis Kincaid

Rev. Lewis Kincaid officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1879 -
John Willard & Christina Thompson, 9/25/1879
1883 -
Edward Wilson & Shady Pack, 3/18/1883

Rev. D.C. Hunter

Rev. D.C. Hunter officiated at the following (Black) Summers county marriages:
1896 -
William M. Coleman & Charlotte Davidson, 4/29/1896
1899 -
James Moore & Anna Ellis Biggins, 5/13/1899

Rev. A.C. Hubbard

Rev. A.C. Hubbard officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1874 -
Joseph Branham & Milley Lee, Jan/14/1874
1875 -
Henry Thomas & Adaline Henderson, 12/23/1875
James H. Smithers & Rachel Ellison, 12/1/1875
1882 -
Sylvester Terrell & Almina Lee, 2/16/1882
1887 -
Frank Gore & Cora Mitchell, Jan/10/1887
1888 -
George Pack & Mary Lee, 4/5/1888
1894 -
John R. Gore & Amanda Jones, 9/21/1894
1895 -
Everett W. Spangler & Virginia H. Keatley, 11/16/1895
Alexander Kelly & Lydia Lewis, 12/24/1895

Rev. A. Hogsett (Caucasian officiant at Black marriages)

Rev. A. Hogsett officated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1893 -
Ed McCormich & Maggie Mitchell, 4/26/1893
Sylvester Terrell & Lizzie Henderson, 12/18/1893
1894 -
Satchel/Satabel Kelly & Emma Shinalt
1895 -
John W. Essex, Jr. & Hallie R. Wesley, Jan/9/1895

* I have not been able to find Rev. A. Hogsett on the census for Summers County. I assume he was Caucasian, however, as there were no Black Hogsetts on the two censuses that I reviewed. Also, there are no Black Hogsett entries in my compilation.

Rev. Charles Hodges

Rev. Charles Hodges officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1896 -
Edward Smith Seams & Hester Angeline Peck, 11/25/1896
David Cousins & Laura Robinson, 4/14/1896
1897 -
Albert Mann & Sarah Taylor, 10/3/1897
1898 -
Samuel Skipper Ragland & Harriet Whitlock, Jan. 12, 1898

Rev. A.J. Cummins

Rev. A.J. Cummins officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County weddings:

1874 -
Jordan Smith & Malinda Hargrow, 3/23/1874
Andrew Newsum & Mary Hargrow, 12/4/1874
1875 -
John W. Pack & Hester Musum, 11/19/1875

Rev. J.A. Cowgill

Rev. J.A. Cowgill officiated at the following (Black) SC Marriages:

1878 -
William ?Birchett & Laura F. Johnston

Rev. H.C. Conner

Rev. H.C. Conner officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1901 -
Rush Simpson & Cora Williams, 12/11/1901
Charles Crockett & Minnie Bush, 12/26/1901
Otis A. Bailey & Nannie E. Mitchell, 10/23/1901
1902 -
M.A. Pack & Sarah Payton, 7/30/1902
Charles W. Simpson & Emma Peyton, 11/26/1901
1903 -
Ferdinand Gore & Alice Kent, 3/16/1903

Rev. H.S. Coe

Rev. H.S. Coe officiated at the following (Black) SC Marriages:

1878 -
William Rollins & Malinda Black, 5/23/1878
Robert Thomas & ?A. Brooks, 7/27/1878
Charles F. Ward & Jennie Love, 9/10/1878

Rev. J.W. Keith

Rev. J.W. Keith was the informant for the 12/25/1889 marriage of Peter Lewis Morton & Annie Johnon in Monroe County in 1889.

Rev. M.H. Bittinger

Rev. M.H. Bittinger officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1887 -
Jacob Miller and Delilah Black, 9/6/1887

Rev. Abraham Beaks

Rev. Abraham Beaks officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1903 -
Walter Rose & Lillie Haynes, 9/23/1903

Rev. John A. Anderson

Rev. John A. Anderson officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriage:

1882 -
George W. Davis & Annie Nickell

Rev. E.P. Jeffries

Rev. E.P. Jeffries officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriage:

1899 -
Charles Henry Clay Hoover & Lula Bell Pack, 6/13/1899

At this point in time, I'm not sure if Rev. Jeffries was Caucasian or Black.

Rev. Joseph W. Jackson

Rev. Joseph W. Jackson officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1900 -
Eugene Leonard Conner & Eliza Baker, Jan/10/1900

Rev. William Jackson

Rev. William Jackson officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1895 -
James David Triplet & Martha Etta Bailey at Gap Mills, 6/26/1895
1898 -
George W. Triplett & Alice Johnson, 6/5/1898
1899 -
Christopher Columbus Banks & Julia Ann Gross at Gap Mills, 12/27/1899
1900 -
Eugene "Leonard" Conner & Eliza Baker, Jan/9/1900
1912-
Horace Brown & Gussie Johnson, 2/3/1912

Rev. Jackson was a Minister of the Gospel. (At this time, it is not clear if he was Caucasian or Black)

Lynching - Lewisburg, Greenbrier County

One of southeastern West Virginia's darkest nights was on November 22, 1931 when two men, Tom Jackson & George Banks were forcibly removed from the Lewisburg jail and lynched.
For more information on this event see:
-- The Negro Citizen of West Virginia by Thomas E. Posey, pages 78-80
-- The Greenbrier Independent, 12/11/1931
-- The Greenbrier Independent, 12/18/1931
-- The Greenbrier Independent, 12/25/1931
-- The Greenbrier Independent, Jan/8/1932
WV Death Certificate # 16202 - for Tom Jackson
WV Death Certificate # 16203 - for George Banks
(Relatives of Jackson were: his widow, Margaret Jackson; his sister, Lucinda Upshaw of Washington, D.C.: his brothers, Mertie Jackson & Fred Jackson; & his mother, Lucy Jackson of Trevilion, Virginia)
(Relatives of Banks were: his sisters, Thelma Mullins of Leslie & Helen Banks Terry of Detroit; his brothers, Homer, Curtis, Woodrow & Harold)

Rev. R.J. Perkins (Black Minister)

Rev. R.J. Perkins officiated at the following (Black) Summers County Marriages:
1887 -
Simon Collins & Rosa Clark, 7/12/1887
1889 -
John C. Adams & Rosa L. Bird, 12/20/1889
1890 -
Richard Hogans & Laura Lee, 5/25/1890
1891 -
Huston N. Nickell & Sarah J. Lewis, 11/19/1891
1892 -
Archy Briggs & Lucy Peters, Jan/27/1892
David Jones & Artie Law, 7/27/1892
Joseph R. Dickinson & Lula Loggin, 12/25/1892
1893 -
Thomas Nelson & Clara Peters, 7/27/1893
William M. Morris & Mary A.A. Smith, 10/23/1893
1894 -
John William Ross & Martha Peyton, 5/24/1894
Robert H. Trent & Mattie A. Payne, 12/26/1894
1895 -
Blicher Fipps & Martha Easter, 7/26/1895
John Stith & Mary Waddy, 8/25/1895
Thomas Mims & Mattie Graham, 10/26/1895
Charles Johnson & Izetta Young, 12/22/1895
1896 -
Charles J. Jones & Virginia Lee Pack, 6/29/1896
Luther Payne & Mary Jackson, 8/2/1896
1897 -
Jack Daniel & Jane Gardner, 5/1/1897
1898 -
Oliver B. Lee & Lula Blake, Jan/26/1898
John Williams & Artie M. Law, 3/13/1898
1899 -
Rucker Simpson & Ida Swinney, 5/11/1899
Wilbert Steel & Lelia Strange
1900 -
George Miller & Nannie E.B. Smith, 6/1900
1901 -
Benjamin Teal & Arminthia Hill, 10/14/1901

He officiated at the following (Black) marriages in Monroe County:
1893 -
W. Anderson Wells & Ada Randolph, 5/17/1893

For more information on Rev. Perkins see
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wv/fayette/schools/colored.txt
which is relative to the "History of Education in WV 1904 - Colored Schools in Fayette
See the article about Second Baptist Church by Marion Gore & Edna G. Price, p. 199 in the book (?History of Summers County) where they indicate that Rev. Perkins was the 3rd Pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Hinton, Summers County.

Rev. J.C. Killion

Rev. J.C. Killion was the officiant at the following (Black) marriages:

1901 -
Henderson Everett Freeman & Cora Luvenia Swope

Note: Rev. Killion was the Pastor of the Green Pines Baptist Church

Rev. C.P. Kelley

Rev. C.P. Kelley was the officiant at the following (Black) Summers County Marriages:
1881 -
Oscar Clay & Alice Jarrett, 2/10/1881
James Kelly & Kata Bank, 11/5/1881

Rev. Edward P. Jackson

Rev. Edward P. Jackson officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1886 -
Marshall Lewis & Lucy Kinny, 2/7/1886
1887 -
William Johnson & Emma Josephine Howard, 5/27/1887
William Coleman & Mary Smith, 12/25/1887
Sterling Price Renick & Josephine Walden, 12/29/1887
1888 -
Jesse Smith & Ellen Pack, 10/10/1888
1889 -
Henry Roles Clear & Mary Jane Brown, 3/14/1889
Benjamin F. Anderson & Annie Gray Twist, 12/5/1889
1891 -
Henry Franklin Miner & Octava Crawford, 4/30/1891

Rev. Edward P. Jackson appears on the 1880 Census for Greenbrier County, Fort Spring District, as a Black Male, 24, Minister, other relationship to John Scott (30).

Rev. Samuel R. Houston (Caucasian officiated at Black marriages)

Rev. Samuel R. Houston was a Caucasian Presbyterian Minister. He officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1874 -
Franklin Cousins & Jennie Kilbreath, 11/5/1874
Calvin Curry & Jennie Barber, 12/3/1874
William Peter Dunsmore & Barbara Curry, 12/17/1874
1880 -
George "Washington" Moore & Martha Jackson, 3/25/1880
1881 -
George Washington Haynes* & Elizabeth Haynes **, 4/28/1881
Dudley Y. Haynes ** & Harriet Honaker

* See previous post re: George Washington Haynes
** See previous posts re: Elizabeth Payne Haynes & Dudley Payne Haynes (Why Being a Haynes ...)

Note: For more information regarding Rev. Houston (and for his picture) see History of Monroe County.

Rev. Jefferson Gillmore

Rev. Jefferson Gillmore officated at the following Monroe County Marriage*:
1875 -
John Keltser & Fanny Shelton

*He signed his name with an X

Quick Index for June, July, Aug & Sept 2006

QUICK INDEX FOR JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, & SEPTEMBER 2006 -

June -
20th - Blogger's Note - "About ten years ago I started to look for the identity of my grandparents in Greenbrier County." (Explanation for blog)
21st - Early WV Census Records; Resources; Mildred Carter Bess
22nd - Franklin Winfield Page, Nancy Gardner, Sarah Freeman, Julia Truss, Perkins Family, Harriet Olive Kelly Miller Williams, James & Malinda Freeman; Richard "Dick" Pointer; Resources/Tips (including "Black Residents of Greenbrier, Monroe, Pocahontas, & Summers Counties, WV - Notes of Carol L. Haynes", by Carol L. Haynes); Charles Anderson (Free Inhabitant); Housekeeping (Matthews, Anne Sidney Jackson Matthews Wade; Housekeeping (Resources)
23rd - Resources; Dora Littleton, Eliza Ann Littleton (Ellis) Davis, Mary Ann Littleton Hughes, James Littleton, Abram Ellis, John "Jack" Davis, Mary Ellis, Luther Ellis
24th - Annie Matthews Perkins, Samuel "Oscar" Johnson
25th - George Washington Haynes
27th - Why Being a Haynes Can Mean You Are a Payne; Spotts; Albert Payne, Martha Ann Payne Haynes Jones; Socrates Payne Haynes, Elizabeth Payne Haynes, Dudley Y. Payne Haynes, Charlotte Payne Haynes, James Haynes, Purcey/Percy Haynes, Solomon Haynes, Peter Jones, William Henry Brown, Relda Dunsmore; Richard "Dick" Pointer, Jonathan Pointer; Phyllis Preston Jarrett; Community Based Genealogical Projects
28th - Resources
29th - "Aunt Sally" (Creigh)/Sallie Woods; Resources; Jenny & Barsheba Ellison, Thomas Payne, Rev. Christopher Harrison Payne

July -
1st - Bishop Matthew W. Clair
2nd - Greenbrier Historical Society Marriage Bonds; "The Darkies" (a Nickell Family compilation); Samuel Moore, Emily Peck Patton Moore, John Moore, Dora Nickell, Samuel Killbreath
5th - 45th United States Colored Troops
6th - Annie Matthews Perkins, Josephine Cooley Jackson, Charles Walter Jackson, Tearance B. Jackson, Howard Cooley, Rose Emma Johnson Cooley, Juanita Jackson
12th - "Bricktop"; John Henry; James Presly Ball, Thomas Corbin Woodson, Frank W. Page & "Traveller"
16th - John Henry (famous worker who was engaged in a contest with a steam drill); Mary Ann Littleton Hughes
24th - James P.D. Gardner
30th - James Presly Ball

August -
1st - Marriages by Rev. Martin Bibb (Summers County)
3rd - Marriages by Rev. J. Ford Baggs; Marriages by Rev. P.B. Baber (Monroe County)
6th - Marriages by Rev. Charles L. Campbell (Monroe County)
9th - Marriages by Rev. Rufus Pack
12th - Resource - Note on NEW RIVER HERITAGE by William Sanders - a book about Summers County
21st - Marriages by Rev. Stewart Aiken Lewis (Monroe County marriages); Note on Agnes M. Lewis; Marriages by Rev. H.R. Laird
31st - Byrd Prillerman

September -
2nd - Marriages by Rev. Elijah P. Fleshman (Monroe County)
3rd - Marriages by Rev. Thomas W. Boothe
5th - Marriages by Rev. Elijah A. Ayers (Monroe County)
6th - Marriages by Rev. Christopher Columbus Logan (Greenbrier County)
7th - Marriages by Rev. J.P. Campbell (Monroe County & Summers County)
8th - Marriages by Rev. A.J. Thompson (Summers County)
9th - Marriages by Rev. J.E. Thorne (Monroe County); Note on Martha Thorne; Marriages by Rev. Jefferson Gillmore (Monroe County); Marriages by Rev. Samuel R. Houston (Monroe County); Marriages by Rev. Edward P. Jackson (Monroe County)
13th - Rev. R.J. Perkins; Rev. J.C. Killion, Rev. C.P. Kelley
16th - Lynching - Lewisburg, Greenbrier County
17th - Rev. E.P. Jeffries, Rev. Joseph Jackson, Rev. William Jackson
26th - Rev. John A. Anderson
30th - Rev. J.W. Keith, Rev. M.H. Bittinger, Rev. Abraham Beaks

Rev. J.E. Thorne

Rev. J.E. Thorne* was a "Minister of the Gospel" and the officiant at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1903 -
William Harrison Pack & Burkey Elizabeth Pack, 5/31/1903
1904 -
C.W. wilson & Florence Symns, 7/20/1904

*Not sure if he was Caucasian or Black

Note that the only other "Thorne" entry that I have in my Notes (Black Residents of Greenbrier, Monroe, Pocahontas, & Summers Counties by Carol Haynes) is
Martha Thorne who appears on the 1900 Census, Greenbrier County, Falling Springs District, Black Female, age 40, servant, born in Virginia & on the 1900 Census, GC, FlngSD, BF, 50, single, Cook, b. in Va., & on the 1930 Census, GC, FlngSD, BF, 61, servant, b. in Va.

Rev. A.J. Thompson

Rev. A.J. Thompson* officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1885 -
John Henry Gore & Mary Hale, 9/19/1885
Henry Woodson & Sally Hargrove, 10/20/1885
1886 -
William Harmon & Emily Davidson, 6/10/1886
George Davidson & Minerva Anderson, 6/10/1886
1892 -
Thomas Mann & Elisabeth Walker, 6/30/1892

*Not sure if he is Black or Caucasian

Rev. J.P. Campbell

Rev. J.P. Campbell (probably Caucasian b/c he officiated over Caucasian & Black weddings) officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1878 -
Charles Branch & Mary "Jane" Curry, 7/7/1878
1882 -
John Kelly & Arzetta Symns, 8/1/1882

and he officiated at the following (Black) Summers County Marriages:

1898 -
William Lewis & Mary A. Davidson, 9/1/1898
1899 -
J.E. Moss & Evangeline M. Lomax, 8/5/1899
1900 -
Robert Pleasants & M.J. Smith, 7/3/1900
George Claybourn & Anna (Williams) Kelly, 7/3/1900
Henry Hayden & Ella Goodwine, 7/26/1900
1901 -
Anderson Medley & Fannie Smith, 9/1901
John ?Mangnum & Alice Moseby, Jan, 20/1901
J.D. Price & Lelia Braxton, 2/28/1901
Andrew Banks & Eva Nelson, 5/19/1901
James R. L. Diggs, & Alberta M. Pack, 6/8/1901
Carter Saunders & Clara Givens, 6/5/1901
Lewis Anderson & Ella Nelson, 6/20/1901
Charles Smith & Mattie Moore, 7/1901
William Tinsley & Martha Pleasant, 9/2/1901
E.G. Pack & Mary B. Pack, 9/25/1901
Charlie Jones & Eliza Jackson, 9/30/1901
W.E. Smith & Elizabeth Johnston, 11/2/1901
Joseph Scott & Sarah Ware, November or December, 1901
1902 -
Harry Loggins & Anna Coles, 1/13/1902
W.H. Pack & Mattie Jackson, 3/1902
Wheeler Stovall & Eunice Rotan, 4/10/1902
Henry Clair, Jr. & Annette E. Perkins
James R. Smith & Martha Hale, 8/4/1902
Dan Brown & Martha Johnson, 8/11/1902
D.J. Faulkner & Emma Martin, 10/1902
Richard Toney & Mary J. Jackson, 12/22/1902
1903 -
R. (?Reabus) Bazley & Rosie Bush, 11/1903
W. ? Holdran & Mullie Barrett, 12/1903
1904 -
Harry Jones & Anna Hill Gaines/Goines, 2/2/1904
W.W. Woods & Julia Lewis, 2/22/1904
1905 -
Lewis Williams & Mary Burk, 10/19/1905

Rev. Christopher Columbus Logan (Black minister)

Rev. Christopher Columbus Logan (Sr.) officiated at the following (Black) Greenbrier County marriages:
1950 -
William Mark Bryson & Doretta Logan Clark
Cassie Eliza Faye Brown & Christopher Columbus Logan, Jr.
1952 -
Laura Jean Strawbridge & James Lewis Johnson, 9/26/1952
Jack Johnson Williams & Carrie Elizabeth Walker

Also see the Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society, Vol 7, # 5, p. 88, 2003 - "Rome Baptist Church"

Rev. Elijah Ayers

Rev. Elijah Ayers was the husband of Marcie J. Young Ayers. He was the Pastor of the John Wesley United Methodist Church - Lewisburg, Greenbrier County. He officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County Marriages:
1885 -
William Thomas Smalls & Ollie Green, 10/28/1885
1886 -
Benjamin Tolliver & Mariah A. Triplett at Gap Mills, 12/30/1886
Joseph Lewis & Mary Springfield White at Sinks Grove, 12/30/1886

Rev. Thomas W. Boothe

Rev. Thomas W. Boothe officiated at the folllowing marriages:

1881 -
John A. Parker & Susan Thomas - 3/10/1881

He can be found on the 1880 Census, Monroe County at Union as a Black Male, age 45, with Nancy Chambers (MuF 30)

Rev. Elijah P. Fleshman

Rev. Elijah P. Fleshman was a Caucasian male who appears in the 1880 Census for Monroe County, Red Sulphur Springs District as a farmer. He officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County Marriages:
1878 -
John Easter & Clementine Dickason - 1/17/1878
1881 -
William Moore & Alice Jane Swopes - 3/6/1881
1884 -
Cyrus Hopkins & Georgia "Ellen" Carter - 2/18/1884
1885 -
Hugh Swope & Mary Ann Law - 3/10/1885
Shadrack Dickason & Katie A. Graty - 3/19/1885
1886 -
Edward Swope & Rosie L. Syms, 10/12/1886
1889 -
William Chapman & Skippie L. Dickson - 4/4/1889

Byrd Prillerman

PROFILE -
BYRD PRILLERMAN -
Byrd Prillerman was the son of John Franklyn Prillerman & Charlotte Prillerman. He was the husband of Mattie Eugenia Brown. He was born on 10/19/1859 in Shady Grove Va. (Franklin). He can be found on the 1880 Census in Kanawha County, Poca, as a 21 year old mulatto man, single, b. in 1859, School Teacher. Brother of Harvey Prilliman. (Bird) He can be found on the 1910 Census in Kanawha, Union, as a Black male, 50, b. about 1860 in Virginia.
He became the President of W.V. Colored Institute (WV State). He was a friend of Amanda (the sister of Booker T. Washington & references to him can be found in the BTW papers) & his name appears in her obituary.
For more information on Byrd Prillerman see:
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm9712/@Generic_BookTextView/3796:pt+27
http://www.wvculture.org/histor/histamne/prillerm.html
http://www.wvculture.org/history/histamne/fergusod/html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~maudenna/f519.htm
www.prillamanfamily.com/ancestorsaa.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvraleigh/black/br.htm
http://genforum.genealogy.com/prillaman
Celebrating Our Roots - Origins of Black Families in West Virginia - by Elsie Mae Davis (McKnight's Inc., 102 Willow Drive, Dunbar, WV 25064) (& a copy is maintained by the WV Division of Culture & History at Charleston)
History of WV State College 1891 - 1965 by John C. Harlan
http://www.wvculture.org/history/education/wvstatecollege01.html
West Virginia Death Certificate 6094 - which states that he died on 4/25/1929 at 69y5m6d at Kanawha, BM, Wd, husband of Mrs. Mattie E. Brown Prillerman, b. 10/19/1959 at Shady Grove, Va. Occupation - Director of Religious Education/President Emeritus WV (State). Son of Franklyn Prillerman & Charlotte Prillerman. Buried at Fran Cemetery on 4/28/1929.

Rev. Stewart Aiken Lewis

Rev. Stewart Aiken Lewis appears on the 1880 Census for Greenbrier County (GC) at the Fort Spring District as a 22 year old, b. in Virginia, teacher, & brother in law of Peyton Lewis. On this census his name appears as "Stuart Akins Lewis".
Rev. Lewis officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages (where he usually signed his name "S.A.Lewis" or "S.J.A. Lewis"):
1880 -
Samuel Young & Ellen Burks at Red Sulphur Springs, 9/23/1880
1883 -
Allen Roles & Jennie Allen at Gap Mills, 2/4/1883
Floyd Smith Walker & Winnie Peyton, 4/18/1883
Thomas Triplet & Francis Bailey, 1/17/1883
John Porter & Charlott Crump, 12/25/1883
1884 -
William Henry Bailey Martha Triplett, 2/5/1884

In 1920, GC, FtSD, there was an entry for a man surnamed Lewis. His first name was hard to read but appeared to end with the letters "art". He was a Black male, 52 years old. I believe this was also Reverend Lewis.
Rev. Lewis was the informant for the death of Agnes M. Lewis (Greenbrier County, 1921, WV Death Certificate # 245)
In Dr. Montgomery's papers (housed at the Greenbrier Historical Society) he notes that Rev. Lewis was a Preacher. Also see The Negro Historical Sketch of Lewisburg, WV by M.J. Cabell - Through the Looking Glass - in the Journal of the GHS, Vol VII, No. 5, 2003, p. 92 (Aiken Lewis)

Agnes M. Lewis was the daughter of Charles Lewis & Martha Crawford Lewis. She died on 4/27/1921 at 68 years old at GC. The informant (for her death certificate) was "Stewart Aiken Lewis of Baltimore, Maryland". She is buried at the Lewisburg Cemetery.

Rev. H.R. Laird

Caucasian minister, Rev. H.R. Laird officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1878 -
Thomas Lee & Lucy L. Johnson, 11/7/1878
1882 -
Robert J. Taylor & Anna Yancy, 12/21/1882
1883 -
Marshall Trice & Mary Ludington, 4/3/1883

(Note that in the 1880 census, Henry L. Laird appears in Monroe County, Wolf Creek as a White Male Clergyman, age 38, b. in Va., with his wife, Sarah (WF-35, keeping house) & his children John H. (7) Lilla P. (5), and Henry R. (3)).

RESOURCE for Mercer County -
A genealogy buddy loaned me four volumes of a wonderful book - A NEW RIVER HERITAGE by William Sanders, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV 1991 relative to Mercer County. Some surnames (Black) mentioned are: Harris, Goins, Gray, Murphy, Davidson, Medley, Pace, Gore, Adams, Hye, Terrell, Saunders, Rucker, Stevens, Walker & Jones.

Rev. Rufus Pack (Caucasian officiated at Black marriages)

There were a number of instances where Caucasian clergymen officiated over the weddings of Black residents. For instance, Reverend Rufus Pack officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1874 -
XXX Nickell * & Phoebe Mastin; Lewis Eddleton & Julia Jane Johnston;
1875 -
John Smith & Nancy J. Fortner, 7/?/1875; William Henry Smith & Nancy Ann Stafford, 7/17/1875; Lewis P. Fortner & Isabell Smith, 12/5/1875
1881 -
Overton Walker & Louisa ? Mikens, 8/13/1881; Satchel/Satabel Kelly & Phillis Williams.
* (XXX = I was unable to understand the writing on the marriage register)
--- Also see PACK SLAVES by Dr. Vallentine, p. 3

Rev. Charles L. Campbell (Black minister)

Reverend Charles L. Campbell was born around 1840 in WV. In the book, HISTORY OF MONROE COUNTY, on page 190, the author tells us that Reverend Campbell was born a slave near Pickaway on the plantation of Robert Campbell. He worked in Ohio but returned to Union (Monroe County, W.V.) and became active in the "improvement of his people". He taught for several years. He was ordained an elder by a board of white preachers. In 1870 he organized the colored Baptist congregation at Union where he was the pastor for several years. He died in 1912 at the age of 72. At the time of his death he was the oldest minister in the Valley Baptist Association (colored).
My own research reveals the following:
He can be found in the 1910 Census, Monroe County, as a Black Male, b. ?1839 (he is listed as Rev. C.L. Campbell).
He officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County Marriages:
1875 -
Washington Sanders & Harriet M. Banks, 5/12/1875; Albert Erskine & Ann Burton, 6/10/1875; Madison "Mack" Jordan & Sarah C. Goodwine, 12/28/1875; Willis Smalls & Harriet Brown, 12/30/1875
1876 -
Isaiah Cornelious Bailey & Alice Williams, 4/12/1876; William Erskine & Clara Brown, 10/17/1876
1877 -
Christopher Chambers & Mary Ellen Edgar, 7/25/1877 at the Baptist Church of Union, WV.; Elias Triplett & Harriet Whitlock, 7/26/1877; Phillip Roy & Luvenia Gibson, 10/17/1877 at the Baptist Church at Union
1878-
Alexander Wardy & Mary Ellen Branch, 2/12/1878, at his house in Union
1879 -
John H. Bailey & Laurena Erskine, 6/4/1879; Lee Bartley & Lucinda Banks, 12/15/1879; Robert Daniel Riddle & Mattie Ellen Williams, 12/31/1879, at the Lewis place in Gap Mills
1880 -
Charles Edward Seagans & Francis Evaline Banks, 12/28/1880
1881 -
George Lewis & Isabell Anderson, 5/26/1881; Clark G. Campbell & Martha Jane Forts, 11/17/1881
1882 -
John Henry Randolph & Sarah Nelson Smalls, 5/3/1882; Socrates Haynes & Ella French, 12/21/1882; Beauregard Smalls & Lucy Emma Erskine, 12/28/1882; Alexander Baldwin & Grace Triplett, 12/28/1882
1883 -
Guy R. Dickason & Mary Fannie A. Ross, 12/15/1883; Elijah Dunlap & Maria Jane Ross, 12/26/1883; Wesley W. Ross & Mary S.C. Banks, 12/27/1883
1884 -
Robert Allen French & Sally Johnson, 9/24/1884; Achilles Johnson & Mary Alice French, 10/22/1884
1889 -
Harvey Baker & Eliza Lewis, 1/4/1889; William Burness & Susan Rella Hamilton
1891 -
William Lee & Ora Williams
1892 -
William Henry Twist & Nannie Kent, 1/6/1892 at the Baptist Church of Union
1894 -
Charles William Bane & Lizzie Newsum
1897 -
John Black & Lucy J. Edmonds, 10/27/1897
1898 -
Charles Henry French & Emma Jane Chambers, 12/26/1898
1899 -
Edward Newton Spotts & Alice Francis Hamilton, 2/22/1899; Daniel Webster Armstead & Louisa Pearis, 12/26/1899
1903 -
William Rucker & Julia Carter, 10/22/1903
1905 -
Rosa May Campbell & William T. Jamison 9/26/1903

Rev. J. Ford Baggs

Rev. J. Ford Baggs officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County (MC) Marriages:
1892 -
Lucian Gordon Dixon & Alice Cosby - 9/8/1892; Charles H. Harris & Annie C. Hale - 10/20/1892
1893 -
John Richardson & Carrie Williams - 9/21/1893 at the Baptist Church in Alderson

Rev. P.B. Baber

MARRIAGES:
Rev. P.B. Baber officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County Marriages:
1874-
Charles Robert Whiting & Rachel Chapman - 11/12/1874
1875 -
William King & Elizabeth Roles - Jan 23, 1875; Goin Shovler & Mary J. Burk - 9/9/1875
1876 -
Caroline Johnson & Lewis Johnson - 2/18/1876; William Pack & Mary Smith - 12/21/1876
1899 -
John Campbell & Flora St. Clair - 2/9/1899; George Goen Shoveler & Caroline Bishop - 6/14/1899

Rev. Martin Bibb

MARRIAGES:
Reverend Martin Bibb was a Caucasian minister who appears on the 1880 census in Summers County as a white male, age 55. He officiated at the following (Black/African American) Summers County marriages:
1878 -
William Green & Lucy Payne, 12/23/1878; Albert M. Miles & Angeline Harris, 12/23/1878
1879 -
George W. Hunt & Clara Fortner, 9/29/1879; Ruben J. Mickens & Lizzie Derico, 12/22/1879
1880 -
Lawrence Harman & Rhoda Allen, 9/8/1880
1881 -
Monroe E. Wilson & Emma Bailey, 8/27/1881; Benjamin Harris & Maggie Preston, 9/13/1881;
Samuel Anderson & Lizzie Bird, 10/8/1881
1882 -
Thomas Ervin & Annie Vaughan, 3/27/1882; Albert Harmon & Charlotte Derico, 2/1/1882
1883 -
Richard Wingfield & Margaret Hunter, 6/20/1883; Dennis Pettiford & Mattie Christmas, 7/29/1883
1884 -
William T. Woods & Nannie Clay, 3/20/1884; Patrick Pryor & Anna Scott, 7/7/1884
1885 -
Allen Matthews & Nettie J. Nalley, Jan. 27, 1885; Primus Cheatwood & Ella Brooks, 2/14/1885
1887 -
Joseph N. Robinson & Emma Simpson, 4/25/1887
1888 -
Lewis Rhodes & Minta Pack, 3/22/1888; William J. Johnston & Maggie A. Waller, 8/16/1888