FETTY:

Henry Middleton Fetty, born year 1840, one of five sons of Isias and Margaret (Carmac) Fetty, residents of Lewis County, western Virginia, in which county both of these families, Fetty and Carmac, had lived many years, farmers about Polk Creek on the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike. These Carmacs were of a Maryland family of Carmacs. Mrs. Lucy Dodson of Spencer, IV. Va., being a sister of Henry M.

In his thirty-seventh year, October, 1881, Henry Middleton Fetty came to Curtis District and married his boyhood acquaintance, Arminta P. Ruhl, daughter of David Ruhl, then residents of Curtis District. Arminta P. being then the widow of Christian H. Steinbeck, having three sons. Of these, see further on in these pages, name "Steinbeck." To these boys he was a good father.

Of this marriage of Henry M. and Arminta P. Fetty two daughters were born at the farm home in Curtis, near Clearence Postofflce, whose names are Maggie D., wife of Paul F. Cottle, now of City of Spencer, married September 14, 1899, and Virginia Myrtle, unmarried daughter yet with her father, their home being in Spencer, and she being a stenographer and deputy of the County Clerk Roy L. McCulty. Henry Middleton Fetty, now in his eighty-sixth year, my nearest neighbor, is yet of clear and considerate mind. In his prime of life was an active attendant and financial supporter of his church, the Methodist Episcopal, and was proud of his part in the building of the meeting house and parsonage at Clearence, near his home. At one time took much interest in the political affairs of the county, was elected and served one term as a member of the County Court, 1904-1908, and was instrumental in getting the first iron and concrete highway bridges in that district.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 518-519
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999