DALRYNIPLE:

This name is a compound Celt-Scotch word meaning a rimpled or uneven plain or valley.

The first of this name in Roane County was Jeremiah Dalryniple and his wife, Elizabeth Jane (Snow), both born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, descendant of one of those numerous Scotchmen granted lands for services in the French and Indian War, 1755.

They came here from Pennsylvania, where their five children were born, by way of Ohio, where they lived for a few years, thence by way of Jackson County, and to Reedy, in the years 1875; at that time they were poor, not landowners, but honest, industrious, intelligent to highest degree possible in persons uneducated and without book larnen, all of quiet and unobtrusive manners. The names of the three sons and two daughters of Jeremiah and Elizabth Dalrymple are, Andrew J., William, Herbert C., Jane, who married John Stutler of Reedy, son of Christopher Stutler; and Alice, died unmarried.

Andrew J. and William Dalrymple went to Jackson County while young men and we have nothing of their future thereafter.

Herbert Clarence (Bert) Dalrymple married Eliza Ellen Atkinson, daughter of James Atkinson of Reedy, year 1877, settled first on Left Reedy; and about the year 1883, bought the 100 acres of forest lands on head of a branch of Left Hand, in Walton District; there he worked twenty years paying for this tract of land in small installments, by labor, having agreed to clear for cultivation five acres of land, at twenty dollars per acre, each year until his debt was paid; he paid all. The names of the children of Bert and Eliza, are George, Sherman H., Robert Lawrence, Margaret, and Ethel. Bert was born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1851; now seventy-five years old, in business in Spencer, 1926, erect, hale and strong; the type of the tall Scotchman, lean, his once red hair now gray, his skin florid and freckled.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 498
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999