JARVIS: Of Lower Harper District.
John Jarvis, born some year of the 1840s in the Little Kanawha or Monongahela Valley, son of a family of early settlers of the Monongahela Valley, is first noticed in Poca Valley, March 11, 1870, on which date he married Sarah Jane Paxton, daughter of Lyle Paxton, Sr.
John and Sarah Jane Jarvis, husband and wife, acquired lands about the head of Rock Creek and there made their home farm and raised their family of three sons and four daughters, whose names are:
William, born 1871, married, first Eva Whitney, and after her death he married Ethel Elmore.
John Christopher, 1873, married Mary Paxton.
Benjamin Franklin, born 1884, married Myrtle Beard, of Charleston, W. Va., 1907. Made their home first on the ancestral lands. Being a young school teacher at the time of his marriage, he continued to teach for some years; was elected County Superintendent of Schools and served the term, 1919 to 1923, during which service he purchased a residence and made his home in the City of Spencer, where be and his family reside at this time, he being assistant United States postmaster here -- 1926.
Benjamin F. and Myrtle Jarvis have one son, Lakin, a lad of about fifteen years, and a daughter, Virgie, who is younger than Lakin.
Margaret Bell Jarvis, of the above family, married William Marshall Jones, son of Manuel Jones, of Poca, in year 1893; his age 23, her age 20.
Laura D. married Silas Phillips, 1894, his age 19, her age 18, "at Green Creek school house."
Virgie married John Wesley Price, of Poca, October 12, 1899, his age 21, her age 21. Virgie died within two or three years. To John Wesley Price (Junior is to be remembered) one son was born whose name is Earl, married Ruth Adams.
Bethel May Jarvis, youngest of this John and Sarah J. (Paxton) Jarvis family, married Fred Jones, June 26, 1907, her age 21, his age 23. He died some time after their marriage and she married Blonda Ray.
Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 564
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999
