Graham, Joseph
Date 2008/11/17 12:10:09 | Topic: Family Histories
| GRAHAM: Of Reedy.
Joseph Graham and Elizabeth Jane, his wife, arrived on Middle Fork of Reedy, purchased five hundred acres of land and commenced a home on it some time prior to the Civil War. He was a real Scotchman of the thin-faced, slender, straight-limbed, erect type. Elizabeth Jane was of a rather rugged broad featured form. They had been married in Baltimore, Maryland, and one or more of their oldest children were born in Baltimore. They were devout Wesleyan Methodists in religious faith and practice. Their sons and daughters were: Melissa, who married T. M. Frunner, in 1866; Mary A., who married Richard “Dick” Dulin; David. William, Sarah Alcinda, and Joseph, Jr.
David and William went “West” about the year 1875; Sarah Alcinda, a young girl of winning charm, married Jacob Tichnell Chancey, son of Roswell R. Chancsy, Septembnr 8, 1874. See “Chancey.”
Joseph R. Graham, youngest of this family, married Miss Margaret (Maggie) E. Davis, of Wirt County. They made their home for some twenty years on the Middle Fork of Reedy. and there reared one son and two daughters; their names: Clarence, who married Alma Fields, in Wood County; Elizabeth married a Mr. Givens, and Orlie was not married at time we last knew of her. The family moved to and
made their home at Rockland in Ohio, just over from Parkersburg, where they have lived for the last fifteen years.
Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 534-535
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@aol.com
November 28, 1999
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