HILDRETH First of the name in Roane.
Two brothers, Harrison Hildreth and Robert Hildreth came to Roane County about the year 1866, from one of the counties of the lower Monoflgahela Valley, where they were born Sons of William and Mary Louise (Wadsworth) Hildreth of families of those names, early settlers in New Jersey.
Harrison Hildreth married in what is now Roane County, Miss Sallie Hickman, daughter of Lewis Hickman. To them were born four daughters and two Sons; their names in order of births: Ophelia, Martha Ellen, wife of Giles Burdett; Mary Jane, and Sallie; the sons names: Charles P. and Floyd. The first wife of Harrison Hildreth having died ~ married Miss Nancy Louise Gough, daughter of Thomas Gough, of Reedy, May 25, 1873, and of this marriage were born two Sons and a daughter; their names, Rufus, William H. of Reedy, and Ivy, who became the wife of Harry Clark, about the year 1910.
Charles P. Hildreth, of the above family, married Miss Emma May Tyson, December 10, 1885, his age 20 years, her age 22 years. The bride was the daughter of Calvin Tyson, a then prominent man in the affairs of the county, a land surveyor, had served as a justice of the peace and one term as a member of the county court. Charles P. Hildreth has served a term as member of the county court, and his name as president of the court is seen to many of the proceedings of the court when it was building bridges and pressing for a system of permanent highways. Charles and Emma May have reared some children, one of whom is Roy Hildreth, at this time (1926) prominent in the automobile business of Spencer.
Floyd Hildreth, son of Harrison and Sallie (Hickman) Hildreth, of Little Spring Creek, married, first, Melissa J. Taylor, daughter of a Taylor family of his own neighborhood, on the 22nd day of September, 1888, his age 21, her age 21. There appears a second marriage June 1, 1899. Floyd Hildreth to Virena Walker, his age 31, her age 27.
Robert Hildreth, the other of the two brothers, first coming to Roane, married Virginia Depue, daughter of Jonathan Depue (the name once "dePue") of the Little Kanawha country near the Calhoun-Wirt line. Robert and Virginia, his wife, later moved to their 250 acres of forest lands on Little Creek in Spencer District, where they made a prosperous home. To them were here born five sons and one daughter, their names: Marshall D., Luther C., Jonathan E. and Curtis Hildreth.
Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 549-55-
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999
