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- History of West Virginia and the People (The Menager Line).
[This Sketch was prepared by the late Ella S. Neale]
William Brandebury, son of Henry and Mary (Blagg) Brandyberry, was born in Gallia county, Ohio, in 1825, died in 1907. He was a carpenter by trade and was likewise engaged in farming in his native place, where he grew to manhood and passed practically his entire life. He was class leader in the Methodist Episcopal church, in Gallia county, for more than fifty years. He married Rose Ann Noel, born in Gallia county, Ohio, in 1835, daughter of Edmund and Mary (Godfry) Noel, her father having been born in Virginia, whence he and his wife journeyed to Ohio in a covered wagon. Mr. Noel purchased a tract of eighty acres of government land in Gallia county, paying a dollar and a quarter an acre for the same. His wife was a daughter of John and Irene (Foley) Godfry. Mr. Godfry was English by birth, a Tory in political conviction, and a soldier in Lord Cornwallis' army at the time of the latter's surrender. He was a noted sword fencer and after the revolutionary war settled in Virginia, whence he later removed with Edward and Mary Noel to Ohio. William and Rose Ann (Noel) Brandebury became the parents of eleven children, nine of whom were living in 1912: 1. Sylvester M. 2. William W. 3. Henry Andrew, of whom further. 4. Martha Wymer, who died in 1866. 5. Charles Eddy. 6. George Franklin. 7. Amantha. 8. James Robert. 9. Rome, who died aged seventeen years, about 1885. 10. Minnie Dell. 11. Thomas. Mrs. Brandebury died in 1896, aged sixty-one years.
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