CUTRIGHT: Of Upper Spring Creek.
Elmore Cutright, with some of the younger members of his family, were the first of this family name here.
He was born in Upshur County, or on Hackers Creek of the Monongahela, within the years 1815 to 1820.
In a book entitled "Our Border Settlers," or words of that import, by L. C. McWorther, its material based on excrepts from "Border Warfare" and pioneer traditions gathered for him by Judges Henry C. and Marcellus McWorther, and largely the story of Hackers Creek and vicinity, they say this name, now "Cutright," is the pioneer "Cartright," scribes catering to pronunciation suppressed the "r."
Elmore Cutright married Miss Nancy Wolfe on Hackers Creek, she a daughter of a brother of James R. Wolfe. See name Wolfe.
Elrnore and his wife made their home for the first twenty-odd years after marriage in Upshur County, where their family of eight sons and three daughters were born. Leaving there and coming to Roane County about the year 1870, most of the older Sons of the family having married in Harrison, Lewis or Upshur Counties, never came here. Elmore was soon known as a breeder and raiser of large cattle. He enjoyed this distinction for some fifteen or twenty years.
The names of all the sons and daughters of Elmore and Nancy (Wolfe), his wife, are as follows: Nicholas, Granville, Jacob, Asa, Lemuel, Alonzo, Columbus C., James Andrew and Jane, Ellen and Indiana.
Of these the following ones married or made homes here: Indiana married Jonathan T. Wolfe in Roane, June 3, 1878. Ellen had married George P. Lawson and came here. See name Lawson. Jane, married in Roane, Charles Lewis Cox, see his name in its alphebetical place. Columbus C. married Miss Cynthia Carpenter here, February 19, 1880, they brought up one son and three daughters. Their names: Herbert E. Cutright. The daughters by marriage are Mrs. Howard West and Mrs. Rosco Lawrence. See family name, and Mrs. Albert Stephens. See family West, Nancy Lawrence.
James Andrew Cutright, son of Elmore and his wife, came beer with his father and the fathers family, likely a married man at the time. His wife was Mary Izabelle Wolfe. They were farmers and made their home in this upper Spring Creek neighborhood. They brought up only one son and one daughter, Elliott D. and Minnie, she married David Dixon.
Elliott Downtain, only son of James A. and Mary Isabelle (Wolfe) Cutright, was born April 10, 1881, on Spring Creek; married, May 9,1904, Miss Lora Hersman. He then 23, she 21, and a daughter of Jacob and Elton (Camp) Hersman.
Elliott D. Cutright is a stock raiser and farmer.
Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 497-498
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999
