Post by daveseibert on Aug 24, 2008 19:41:12 GMT -5
Hardesty West Virginia Counties, Volume 3, page 125
Braxton Co., WV.
Harding Rugless Friend was a son of Jonathan Caldwell and Eliza Jane Rugless Friend, and their record is partly given in the sketch following this one. His mother is still living with him, hale and hearty and with good memory at the age of four score and five years. She married Jonathan C. Friend December 15, 1822 and they came to what is now Braxton county May 24, 1823. Their children were: Mary Jane, born October 4, 1823, died March 16, 1849; Priscilla Sophia, July 08, 1825; Matilda Ann, March 05, 1827; Harding Rugless, subject of this sketch, June 17, 1829; Catherine Adelaide, March 11, 1831; Margaret Minerva, May 12,1832--the living daughters all now residents in Braxton county, this state, except Priscilla, who lives in Greenbrier county, and Jonathan Caldwell, whose records is given below. Her grandfather, James Rugless, came from England to Baltimore county, Md. and married Mary Winfield, whose parents came from Ireland. He moved to Cheat River when it was all wilderness, and was drowned in that river, while returning from Baltimore with al load of goods. James Rugless, his son, married Elizabeth, daughter of Saville and Elizabeth Ramsey Harding, who was born in Maryland. They were married in that state, and accompanied her parents, in 1796, to Maysville, Kentucky, where Eliza Jane, mother of Harding R. Friend, was born December 04, 1798. Harding Rugless Friend married Mary Skidmore, February 06, 1868, at her father's residence on Little Birch, Braxton county. She was a daughter of Allen abd Sarah Shaver Skidmore, her father is still a resident in this county. She was born January 20, 1848 and died March 25, 1870. She left only one daughter, Lilly Jane, born November 05, 1868, now living with her father. Mr Friend was clerk and bookkeeper in a store at Sutton for over three years, beginning March 01, 1858. After the breaking out of the civil war, he engaged in lumbering until he was married, and then for five years he resided in Sutton, keeping books, farming, lumbering and carpentering. October 27, 1873, he removed to his present location on Raccoon creek, where he cultivates a farm of 60 acres. His postoffice address is Braxton C.H. Braxton county, WV.
Braxton Co., WV.
Harding Rugless Friend was a son of Jonathan Caldwell and Eliza Jane Rugless Friend, and their record is partly given in the sketch following this one. His mother is still living with him, hale and hearty and with good memory at the age of four score and five years. She married Jonathan C. Friend December 15, 1822 and they came to what is now Braxton county May 24, 1823. Their children were: Mary Jane, born October 4, 1823, died March 16, 1849; Priscilla Sophia, July 08, 1825; Matilda Ann, March 05, 1827; Harding Rugless, subject of this sketch, June 17, 1829; Catherine Adelaide, March 11, 1831; Margaret Minerva, May 12,1832--the living daughters all now residents in Braxton county, this state, except Priscilla, who lives in Greenbrier county, and Jonathan Caldwell, whose records is given below. Her grandfather, James Rugless, came from England to Baltimore county, Md. and married Mary Winfield, whose parents came from Ireland. He moved to Cheat River when it was all wilderness, and was drowned in that river, while returning from Baltimore with al load of goods. James Rugless, his son, married Elizabeth, daughter of Saville and Elizabeth Ramsey Harding, who was born in Maryland. They were married in that state, and accompanied her parents, in 1796, to Maysville, Kentucky, where Eliza Jane, mother of Harding R. Friend, was born December 04, 1798. Harding Rugless Friend married Mary Skidmore, February 06, 1868, at her father's residence on Little Birch, Braxton county. She was a daughter of Allen abd Sarah Shaver Skidmore, her father is still a resident in this county. She was born January 20, 1848 and died March 25, 1870. She left only one daughter, Lilly Jane, born November 05, 1868, now living with her father. Mr Friend was clerk and bookkeeper in a store at Sutton for over three years, beginning March 01, 1858. After the breaking out of the civil war, he engaged in lumbering until he was married, and then for five years he resided in Sutton, keeping books, farming, lumbering and carpentering. October 27, 1873, he removed to his present location on Raccoon creek, where he cultivates a farm of 60 acres. His postoffice address is Braxton C.H. Braxton county, WV.