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Mason countyTax Rolls
Thomas Carney, 1813-14
1810 Harrison Co census:
Thomas Carney
3 males under 10 John, Charles, Spencer
2 males 10-16 Jesse, William
1 male 26-46 Thomas
2 females under 10 Melinda & Delilah?
1 female 10-16 Mercy
1 female 16-26 Anna
1 female 26-45 Polly
1820 Mason Co, VA
Thomas Carney
0-2-1-1-0-1--4-0-0-1-0-0-4
1830 Wood co census:
Carney, Thomas - 1j, 2q, 2r, 1v
1m 60-70
2f 10-15 Mahala, Margaret
2f 15-20 Hannah, Dorcas
1f 50-60
1840 JC
1 m 70-80
female
0-5 -1
5-10 - 1
20-30 - 1
70-80 -1
1850 Wirt Co 88-88
John Staats, 32, VA (Half brother of Cornelius)
Margaret, 30, VA
5 kids
Mary Carney, 75
1860 Jackson Co, WV census:
Stout, Mercy, 62
Mazilla, 22
Wilson, 20
Henry, 15
Carney, Mary, 85 . . . .all born VA
1860 JC also counted with Charles on Page 49.
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MT. CALVARY CEMETERY (Harpold) (Jackson Co. WV. near Ripley)
At the top of the hill on the left, about a quarter mile from the bridge over Mill Creek, coming from Ripley on Ceder Lakes Drive.
A quaint inscription on an old fashion flag headstone by a neglected grave in the Mount Calvary Mount Calvary Cemetery, half way between the site of where the cabin of John Harpold and Thomas Carney's were. It reads in memory of Thomas Carney born Oct. 15, 1768 and departed this life Oct. 19, 1846 78 years 4 days old. M. Carney lays beside him.
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"Pioneers of Jackson Co" John House:
pp 111-120
About a half mile above the Harpold ford, or a little more, a small run comes into Mill Creek from the right. It comes down out of the hills and flows across a sort of second borrom or table land for about the same distance that it extends back into the hills, at something like half way between the base of the hill and the creek, it is joined by a branch from the left, which heads up in the side of the Salt Lick mountain, and up this branch runs the Charleston Pike, as probably did the old pack trail.
On this run, out a short distance from the creek, it is said, in the spring of 1811, Thomas Carney accompanied by his family and his father, John Carney, built his cabin home. He owned at one time a large tract of the Mill Creek bottoms, reaching nearly or quite up to the mouth of Tug Fork.
When Carney came to Mill Creek, he is said to have owned to bottom lands from the Bonnet farm to and including the eenan farm, a mile and a half above.
He may have moved to Reedy about 1830, or a little earlier. Deed dated April 30, 1830, Henry Clark and wife convey to Thomas Carney of Wood County, 200 acres, being a part of a tract of land purchased of William Tucker and sold to William B Reynolds, apparently not paid for by Reynolds.
Carney's land was at the mouth of Staats Run.
Just thirty years after the Pringle brothers began their pioneer life in the hollow of the sycamore tree standing on the south bank, near the mouth of Turkey run, Mr Haddox, in a primitive log cabin, near the mouth of Radcliff's Run, taught the first school in the bounds of the present county of Upshur. [This would make the date 1794 or 1784 (probably the latter).
Thomas Carney, David Casto were among the students.
Thomas was probably born in the Shenandoah Valley and moved to the Buckhannon. Of Irish stock.
8 years a 'spy' or Indian scout for the state of VA.
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"Pioneers in Roane County": John House
John Staats was given the farm on Staats Run for keeping the old lady by her son, Charles Carney, who had been obligated for his parents' maintenance. Staats returned from Indiana, whither he had gone to this place, about 1854 or 1855. Mrs Carney stayed with him until his death, which occurred in 1859, when he was only 42 years old.
The old lady may have stayed with his widow a while longer, but was with her son Charles on Mill Creek at the time of her death in 1863.
One would probably be reasonably safe in hazarding the guess that Thomas Carney came to the mouth of Staats Run not later than April 1834, when he bought the land of Clark. Carney was then a resident of Wood County.
"Jackson County in the Wars"
Revolutionay Soldiers
Thomas Carney. Application for a pension files, July 1834, in Lewis county; refused due to applicant's inability to prove that he was old enough for such service. John Reger, John Mitchell, Henry Flesher and Samuel Bonnett testified in his behalf. He was born October 15, 1768, in the Shenandoad Valley and came to Jackson (then Mason) county about 1813 with his father, John, and his wife, Mary (Polly) Parsons, a daughter of Charles Parsons, Sr. They settled on the Mill Creek bottoms about a half-mile above the Harpold Ford. He died October 19, 1846, age 78. His wife was born January 1, 1773 and died December 4, 1863.
Their children were Mary; Jemima, Jesse (1797-1879) married Sarah (Sally) Greene (1806-1867); Charles, married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Greene, Sept 4, 1823; William, married Elizabeth, daughter of William and Barbara (Harpold) Bonnett; John, married Earty Jividen, Oct 20, 1825; Delila, married William Roach, Dec 2, 1819; Malinda, married Peter P Thomas, Nov 11, 1830; Anna, married three times, lastly to Enoch Thomas; Spencer, married Sally Hyde, Margaret (Peggy) married John Staats, Nov 28, 1837; Dorcas, married James Brown, Jan 16, 1833; Mercy, married Joseph Stout, Jan 5, 1826; Mahala, married Adam Given, March 15, 1835; Phoebe, married Calvin West, Oct 4, 1838; Hannah, married Levi Casto, Feb 14, 1833; Enoch (1811-1833) did not marry.
As Thomas was only 15 when the Revolution ended, he likely served only in the local militia. He did serve as a scout in the later Indian Wars, ending in 1795.
Indian Wars
The following were scouts in the Indian Wars following the Revolution:
Thomas Carney. Randolph County. Sept 19, 1792 to Dec 1, 1792.
Source: Virginia State Papers, Vol 7, page 469
From John House's "Some Early City, Village, and Country Burying Grounds":
The Harpold Graveyard
"In Memory of Thomas Carney, born October 15, 1768 and departed this Life October 19, 1846, aged seventy-eight years and four days.
A humble flagstone, lost in weeds and briers and leaning forward at an angle, whose degree I will not venture to guess, bears the inscription of which the above is a facsimile. And here, in this little neglected country graveyard, overlooking the picturesque cliff and swift rolling swirl of the rushing waters in easy view of the wide sweep of bottom lands, once his own, the last lines of one of the most eventful lives with which the history of Jackson County ever had to do, were wirtten in by the pen of time and the volume closed. A poor lad walking to the first old field school recorded on the Buckhannon River. Once a scout in company with Jesse Hughes and otehr hardy frontiersmen, standing as a solid bulwark, a mighty dike of flesh and blood. . . . .
By the side of Thomas Carney's grave is another mound, equally lowly and equally weed grown and neglected and at its head another flagstone marker equally humble and just as quaintly marked and leaning at such an angle I had to get down on the ground to see its face and read the inscription, which told me that was the resting place of M. Carney, who died December 4, 1863, aged ninety years eleven months and four days. Truly, a ripe old age. Her birth date would be the first day of the year 1773."
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