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Marriage Record
Date: 4/5/1805
Place: Randolph, West Virginia, United States
John Helmick
Joan Ryan dau of Solomon Ryan
John Helmick born in 1784 married 1st Joanna Ryan 4-5-1805, she died in 1810. John Helmick and Mary Joanna Ryan had 2 children-Daniel Ryan Helmick, and James Helmick. He then married 2nd Mary Ann Hacker in Lewis County, Virginia 8-28-1811. She was the daughter of John and Margaret (Sleeth) Hacker (1747-1842).
John Wesley Helmick (son of Jacob Helmick and Barbara (Helmick or Borer) was born May 06, 1784 in Hardy County, Va., and died 1862 in Georgetown, Lewis Co., Virginia. He married 1st Joanna Ryan on April 05, 1805 in Randolph County, Va., daughter of Soloman Ryan and Unknown. John lived near Beverly, Randolph Co., until the birth of his son, Daniel Ryan, and death of his wife. He then moved to Lewis Co. First married to Joanna Ryan and second wife was Mary Ann Hacker whom he married in 1811. John and Joanna had two sons: Daniel Ryan Helmick who became a Methodist minister and James Helmick who died. John and second wife, Mary Ann Hacker whom he married 28 Aug 1811 in Harrison Co. (W)WV had the following children: James Helmick (who never married); Joanna Helmick 07 Sept. 1812 and died 24 Nov. 1894, married Samuel Bonnett in 1840; Hannah Helmick born 1814, married John Simons in 1849; Jacob B. Helmick born 1816, married Delila Hinkle in 1846; John Helmick born Dec. 1819, married Cassie Allen in 1842; Alexander S. Helmick, married Ella Davis; Ira Ellis Helmick born 1824. died 29 Apr 1915, married Cristine Wymer in 1849; David S. Helmick born Apr. 1826, married Elizabeth Kelley in 1865; Margaret H. Helmick born 1828, married John Smith in 1855; Barbara Helmick born 1830, married an Armisted; Elizabeth Helmick never married. Mary Ann Hacker was born 18 July 1793 in the John Hacker Blockhouse on Hacker's Creek in Lewis Co., WV. Her parents, John and Margaret Sleeth Hacker had lost their eldest daughter, also named Mary, to the Indians in 1787 and decided to name their new baby in her elder sister's honor and for Margaret's mother, Mary Ann Wallace Sleeth. (Above information is from the Hacker's Creek Journal Vol. I, II and III published by the Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants, Inc. of Jane Lew, WV.)
John Helmick is identified in the Hampshire County 1784 census of Michael Stump, but not in the 1782 census of Abel Randall, suggesting he lived with his father at that time. Indications are his property was on the west side of the South Branch Potomac between Mooresfield and Durgon. He later moved west to the Georgetown area. In 1808 John and Joan deed 111 acres to Edward Whitefor $900. In 1811 John and Mary Ann deed land on Dodson Run to Aiken Lewis. In 1844 deeded 22 1/2 acres to Felix Albert, Little Skin Creek. In 1817 he was appointed constable at the first court session held in Weston. In 1853 John purchased 220 acres on Skin Creek, 100 acres on Little Skin Creek and 16 acres on Little Skin Creek. (Lewis Co. Land and Property Book, 1853-1871) - (The Helmicks and Mount Gilead Methodist Protestant Church (excerpted from 'Lewis County West Virginia: A Pictoral History of Old Lewis County The Crossroads of Central West Virginia by Joy Gregoire Gilchrist and Charles H. Gilchrist. 1993) - John Helmick and his first wife, Joanna Ryan, had two sons, Daniel and (disputed), before Joanna died. John then married Mary Ann Hacker, the youngest daughter of John and Margaret (Sleeth) Hacker. Mary Ann was born two years after the massacre of her oldest sister of the same name. When John and Mary Ann died, they were buried in a community cemetery on thier farm. The cemetery has since been destroyed except for a pile of rocks that marks the Helmick graves. John and Mary Ann had eleven children.
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