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  • Category: Memoir
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  • Publisher: 1895
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Page: 77
  • Page Range: 77-78
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    LANSELOTT JOHN, a scion of an old and worthy family of Monongalia county, and a citizen of prominence and usefulness in the community in which he lives, is a son of Lemuel and Susanna (Fretwell) John, and was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, on September 7, 1813.

    From the principality of Wales to the United States in 1745, came Thomas and Sibiela John, the great-grandparents of the subject of this sketch. They settled in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, in the county of Chester. They were the parents of eight children, as follows: William; Catharine, who married Jeremiah Stillwell, and died in Bedford, Pennsylvania; David; Thomas, who remained in Chester county; one who died in crossing the Atlantic ocean; John, James and Lemuel.

    In 1771 or 1772, four of these sons, John, William, James and Lemuel, shortly afterward followed by the fifth, David, came to Monongalia county, Virginia, now West Virginia. John took up one thousand acres of land, and entered the Revolutionary war, and was never heard of afterwards. He was unmarried, and, under the old English law, William, being the next in age, inherited the land. James, the seventh son, purchased or took up one hundred and sixty acres of land on the head of Camp run, in what is now Union district, the farm now owned by Lanselott John. Upon that farm he lived until 1788, when he built a boat and descended the Monongahela and the Ohio rivers to the Miami, and up the Miami to near Dayton, Ohio, where he settled, and where many of his descendants are still living. Lemuel took up four hundred acres of land near Cheat river; in 1772, married Rhehama Kerkhart, and lived there until his death. William, John, the eldest son of Thomas and Sibiela John, and the grandfather of Lanselott John, married Mary Davies, a Welsh lady who came to this country on the same ship that brought her future husband, both of them being then mere children. He fell heir to his brother John's estate, and settled on the head waters of Kane's run, in Union district, where he died October 4, 1814, at the age of about seventy-six years. Their children were: Thomas, who went to Missouri at an early day; Jane married a gentleman by the name of Miller, and removed to Ohio; Mary, who married Enoch Evans, who came from Greene county, Pennsylvania, to Monongalia, in 1805; Lewis, who married a Miss Weltner; Lemuel; Owen; Rebecca, who married Reuben Brown, and William, who married Mary McVicker, and died in this county. William, the grandfather, was one of the founders and a deacon of the old Forks Cheat Baptist church.

    Lemuel John, father of Lanselott, was born on the old John homestead in 1786, and died in the same locality in 1851. He became the owner of the four-hundred acre farm of his uncle Lemuel, on Cheat river, and other landed interests in Union district, to the extent of about four hundred acres more, and about one thousand acres in Gilmer county, this State, and was a very extensive farmer, and had the first store in Stewarttown. He married Susanna, a daughter of Thomas Fretwell, who was a native of Fauquier, Virginia, but who came to this county an early period. This marriage union resulted in the birth of nine children &151; William F., who went to the state of Indiana, and in early manhood; Thomas J., deceased, a farmer on a part of the old homestead; Lanselott, subject; Lemuel N., deceased, was resident of near New Salem, Fayette county, Pennsylvania; Chapman, deceased, was a farmer of Monongalia county; Agnes, deceased unmarried; Pascal, died young, unmarried; Ashby went to California, where he died unmarried; and Christy Ann, deceased married Eugenius Jenkins, of Clinton district.

    Lanselott John received his mental training and education in the subscription schools, and then took up and has always pursued the arts of husbandry as farmer, stock-raiser and stock-dealer. He owns two hundred and twenty-five acres of good land in Union district, which, by careful tilling and the exercise of frugality, coupled with unusual tact and skill in his investments, has realized him a very handsome fortune. He has not confined his operations exclusively to agricultural pursuits, but has taken a prominent part in other matters in the county of a financial nature. He was one of the organizers of the Second National Bank of Morgantown. He is now a stockholder in both the Morgantown banks, the Bank of Monongalia Valley and the Second National. He is a member of the old Forks Cheat Baptist Church, of which he has been church clerk and deacon for forty years.

    On September 7, 1837, he married Sarah, a daughter of Rezin Holland, formerly of Maryland, and a prominent man of Clinton district. To this union was born one child, a son, James W., born April, 1838, and died November 5, 1865. He was a young man of good business capacity and with bright prospects for a business career, but his "Sun set while it was yet noon" and he wrapped his mantle about him and

    "With the silent boatman,
    Crossed to the other shore."
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  • Pages: 85-86
  • Text: Alpheus Dilliner ... On October 27, 1853, he wedded Sarah Virginia, a daughter of Owen John, a farmer and justice of the pease in Union district, and a member of an old family of that name whose genealogical record appears elsewhere under the heading of Lanselott John. ... Sarah V. (John) Dilliner died May 16, 1863 ...
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David JohnNameDavid John [S1283:14] [S2628] [S2694] [S2695] [S2697] [S2699:673] [S2701] [S2704:77]
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Sibilla _____NameSibiela _____ [S2704:77]
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Ens. Thomas JohnNameEns. Thomas John [S2698:6] [S2699:669] [S2699:673] [S2700:72] [S2700:80] [S2702] [S2704:77]
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David JohnFatherEns. Thomas John (~1720-<1800) [S1283:14] [S2698:7] [S2699:673] [S2704:77]
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David JohnMotherSibilla _____ (e1721-) [S2699:673] [S2704:77]
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Events & Attributes
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David JohnImmigrationabt 1745Chester, Pennsylvania, United States [S2699:673] [S2704:77]
The source say that they came about 1745, but his eldest sibling was born about 1743. David was the 3rd child, and the 5th child died in crossing the Atlantic.
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Ens. Thomas JohnImmigrationabt 1745Chester, Pennsylvania, United States [S2699:673] [S2704:77]
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Ens. Thomas JohnResidence1786Stewarttown, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States [S2704:77]
Their son Lemuel John was born
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