DEARMAN: Of Harper and Curtis Districts.

The paternal ancestors of the Dearman families of Roane County, were for one generation residents of Loudon County, Virginia (there known as deArman). A more immediate ancestor, Peter Dearman, settled in Harrison County, western Virginia, and died thereat Hackers Creek about the year 1840; he was twice married. Of his first marriage were born Andrew and Nancy; of the second marriage were Alfred, Elliott, killed in war; Allen, died unmarried; Hannah, and Matilda Jane. These all came to Roane County, the first of them as early as the year 1841. Their marriages and descendants:

Andrew married ___________; of their children we can name two, Romeo Dearman and Gibson Dearman, the latter long a respected farmer of the head of lower Flat Fork of Poca.

Nancy became the wife of Samuel Romine, of Harper District. Hannah married, first, Win. H. Raines; second, James Lowe, of Harper, 1857.

Alfred Dearman, son of Peter Dearman of Harrison County, was twice married. We have no names of any children of his first marriage; for a second wife he married Rebecca, daughter of James Riddle of the chapter of this work: The County. Rebecca was at the time of her marriage with Alfred Dearman, the widow of Jonathan, son of Leonard Simmons, having two children named Margaret ("Polly"), later the wife of L. S. Goff, of Spencer, and Joseph Simmons.

To Alfred Dearman and Rebecca (Riddle-Simmons) were born two sons, named Ulysses Lincoln Dearman, now (1926) a practicing graduate physician, with his home and principal office, a hospital, at Town of Reedy; his wife being Jerushia, a daughter of the Mount family of near Reedyville. See name "Mount."

Lonzo Dearman, of this family, is a plumber in the City of Spencer, not married at this time, 1926.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 502-503
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999