J. E. Wood thought it would be great to call the community Woodsville. But since there was already a Post Office with that name in Ohio, everyone decided to go with Rockwood instead, a name...
Cabell County
Isaac Frampton’s Scheme to Free the Burlington 37
1850 Isaac Frampton Buys and Sells Property for Burlington 37 You can read the deed from Isaac Frampton, naming James Twyman's slaves here. While not directly related to Chesapeake’s History, this...
Captain Morgan’s Marriage
May and December Wheeling Sunday Register, 21 May 1893, page 1 John Morgan's Brother Want the Money He Left to His Pretty Young Wife Special Telegram to the Sunday Register - Huntington, WV, May 20...
Pancake Family
Three sons and two daughters were originally from Germany and settled in Eastern Virginia. The exact location is unknown in Virginia. Abraham PANCAKE, the eldest of the three sons, was married to Lucinda DUNN in Virginia in the early Spring of 1759. Upon their journey west, the three brothers crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains into what is now known as West Virginia.
William G. Waller
William G. Waller and Eliza I. Mace were married in Lawrence County, Ohio, on April 15, 1871. He was born in Charlotte County, East Virginia, on July 28, 1825. She was born in this county, on December 29, 1848.
Francis Russell
Francis Russell was born in Cabell County, West Virginia, on December 5, 1814. His parents were John and Patience Russell, the former who died in 1817. Francis Russel was married in this township, on February 28, 1836, to Lois Morrison,
Allen C. Hutchison
Allen C. Hutchison was a physician, residing in Marion, Aid township. He came to Lawrence County in 1867. He was born in Monroe County, West Virginia, on June 24, 1836.
James M. Deering
James M. Deering was born in the county of Wayne, West Virginia, on December 27, 1814. His father, John Deering, senior, was born in 1769 in Stokes County, North Carolina; from there he removed to Cabell County, West Virginia; from there to Greenup County, Kentucky, and then to Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1830, where he died in 1843.
George W. Collins
George W. Collins and Anna Kelley were married in Lawrence County, Ohio, on September 8, 1842. He is a native of Cabell county, West Virginia, born September 3, 1814. His wife was born in this...
Charles Butcher
Charles Butcher is the son of Mathew and Lucinda (Peyton) Butcher, settlers of this county in 1862, while Charles did not come until 1865. He was born in Barboursville, Cabell County, West...
Allen Davis and Rachel Nash
Digital copy made from Original Document in the Clerk of Courts, Cabell County, WV Courthouse and was donated to‘The Lawrence Register' Transcribed by Martha J. Martin, but the writing is sometimes...
William S. Higgins and Elizabeth Payton
Marriage of William S. Higgins and Elizabeth Peyton
Samuel Roach and Lucretia Adkins
Digital copy made from Original Document in the Clerk of Courts, Cabell County, WV Courthouse and was donated to‘The Lawrence Register' Transcribed by Martha J. Martin, but the writing is sometimes...
Jeremiah Suiter and Juliann Graham
Digital copy made from Original Document in the Clerk of Courts, Cabell County, WV Courthouse and was donated to ‘The Lawrence Register’ Transcribed by Martha J. Martin, but the writing is sometimes...
William Burks and Catherine Simmons
Date of Marriage: 28 Dec. 1854
Place of Marriage: Cabelle [sic] county
Full Names of Parties Married: William Burks & Catherine Simmons
Age of Husband: 21
Age of Wife: 23