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Wesley and Betty had no children. | Family: Wesley Zopp / Elizabeth Beitz (F117)
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Widowed | Family: Robert Frederick Suttle / Jeuan Fink Osborne (F1445)
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William McClung first came to the Rupert area in 1766, but he made no attempt to settle down at that time. Twelve years later, he returned - this was in 1778. He took up a “Tommy Hawk Entry”, as it was then called, to about 100,000 acres of wilderness forest. He simply walked through the mountains and valleys and notched out his patent on the trees. Later, with Andrew Welch, he took another grant of 43,000 acres along Meadow River and Gauley. He erected a log cabin in the center of his grant. In 1778 there was no a mill within a hundred miles. In this cabin Joseph McClung a son of William and his wife, Abigail Dickson was born.
Captain Billie McClung and his family were soon joined by his brothers John and Edward. The first school was taught about the year 1793 by Colonel Arbuckle who came from Augusta County, Virginia. Fifteen young men (no girls) formed a class to obtain an education and then obtained the services of the Colonel as a teacher. School was taught in an old blockhouse near the mouth of Big Clear Creek on the land of William McClung. The first school building erected exclusively for education purposes was in the year 1800. It was a log structure 20x20 and stood on the banks of Page’s Run a brand of Otter Creek.
During the first few of the McClung’s residence, the Indians were very troublesome. William had to plow his fields with his rifle tied to his shoulder while his wife took the children and sought refuge in one of the dense swamps in this area, during the day. She returned to their cabin at night when William was at home to defend them.
When the Shawnee Indians raided this area on their second attack on Fort Donnally (20 miles east), two white spies got thru the lines and warned William McClung’s family of the impeding raid. He just barely was able to get across the mountain and inside the fort when the Indians attacked. This was in July 1778 and the Revolutionary War was in progress. There were over 200 Indians in this raid who were on the war-path to avenge the death of Chief Cornstalk, who was born in Greenbrier County. This was the last Indian outrage in Greenbrier County. After this raid, William McClung and his family returned to the Big Clear Creek, as Rupert was known then.
Captain Billie McClung’s descendents were very numerous. He used to say that he could stand in his doorway and blow his bugle and call two hundred of his descendents to breakfast.
In his old age, William McClung used to give 100 acre tracts of land to his grandchildren for their birthday presents. He gave 2 acres of land just east of the Rupert town limits to the Presbyterians for a church. This land came, later on, in the hands of the Baptist and the present Anwell Baptist Church is its outgrowth.
One of Captain Billie’s sons was named John. He started a blacksmith shop, so they nick-named him “Black John”. Another son was Andrew Hutchinson McClung. He was the first man to wear a broad-cloth suit in Western Greenbrier, so they called him “Cloth Andy”.
William McClung is buried at Otter Creed Cemetery-Old Amwell Cem, one mile west of Meadow Bluff, WV.
| Dickson, Abigail Carpenter (I1168)
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William Ruloff Kip, a Supporter and Life Member of the New York
Genealogical and Biographical Society died at his country home at
Greenport, L. I. on April 6, 1935. Funeral Services were held at the
Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City. The interment took place
at Rhinebeck, N. Y.
William Ruloff Kip was born in New York City, March 18, 1876, son of
William Berg Kip and his wife Sarah Ann Spies. He was descended from
Hendrick Hendrciksen Kip who married Tryntie Lubberts in Amsterdam,
April 20, 1624, arrived in New Amsterdam in 1637, and was prominent in
the affairs of that settlement. The line of descent is as follows:
Hendrick Hendricksen1, Isaac2, Jacob3, Roeloff4, John Baptist5,
Gerrit6, Henry James7, William Berg8, William Ruloff9 Kip.
He graduated from Westminster School in 1894. He studied for one term
at the Yale Scientific School, and then entered the Art School
conducted in the Metropolitan Museum. He became interested in
Egyptology and archeology and spent ten winters on the Nile. He was
also an authority on the Kip family genealogy.
Mr. Kip was a life member of the New York Historical Society, the
Dutchess County Society, the Dutchess County Historical Society and a
member of the American Museum of natural history, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the New York Botanical Gardens, the New York Zoological
Society, the New York Yacht, Racquet and Tennis, Piping Rock,
Explorers and Yale Clubs.
He married January 21, 1914, Mildred Corwin, daughter of George H.
Corwin and Elizabeth Edson Smith. She was a descendant of Matthias
Corwin who settled in Southold, L. I. in 1639.
Mr. Kip is survived by his widow and his daughter Miss Elizabeth C.
Kip. | Kip, William Ruloff (I6474)
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William Starr Myers, son of John Norris Myers and Laura Virginia Starr...was born in Baltimore, Md., June 17, 1877. He graduated in 1897 from the University of North Carolina and in 1900 received the degree of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University; a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and a Professor at Princeton. He married June 8, 1910 Margaret Barr (b. Aug. 1, 1886) daughter of Lester Arlington Barr (b. Jan, 12, 1854 - m. Mar. 1, 1882) and Ida Lee Stewart...(b. Jan 31, 1863 - d. Nov. 1893) of Washington, D.C. | Myers, William Starr (I1714)
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William was raised by his paternal uncle, Benjamin Haight Kip, in
Sherman, NY. [IT:Kip & Hawley, page 190:IT] | Kip, William (I8042)
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| 857 |
William's father, E. E. Crane provided the information on William's birth for inculsion in the County Birth Register. | Crane, William Starr (I9)
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| 858 |
William's parents were never married. Charles was a Civil War soldier
who obtained lodging at Lydia's home during the war. Lydia decided to
pass the surname Heaster onto her children that she had with Charles. | Heaster, William Sylvanus (I1162)
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Woodrow attended McComas High School and was employed by the Thomas
Coal Company. He later worked as the chief electrician at the Wilson
Coal Company and the Pitston Coal Company in Logan, WV. | Sigmon, James Woodrow (I6659)
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[IT:Comment by Audrey Simms::IT]
"Glenna was called "Louella." | Simms, Llewellyn Glenna (I805)
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[IT:Donna Callison Hall, Ed's daughter reminisces:
"My dad's name was Earl Edward, but he never went by junior. When I
got a copy of his birth certificate, "Jr." was handwritten in. I
guess they didn't want him to be "junior", but if you have the same
name you are a junior. He always signed as E. Edward and went by Ed,
whereas his father was called Earl.
"The county birth record had December 24 instead of the 27th we had
always celebrated. Makes you wonder about "original records", doesn't
it?":IT] | Callison, Jr. Earl Edward (I1754)
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| 862 |
At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I6599)
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| 863 |
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