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- VA Marriages before 1800
Barnes, Nancy
Greenleaves, George
1 Jan 1793 Virginia Fauquier County
1840 Lewis Co, VA
George Greenleaves
1m 70-80
1f 70-80
1850 Gilmer, VA #334
George Greenleaves 89 Va
Nancy 76 Va
John House:
GREENLEAF FAMILY
George Greenleaf lived in Harrison Count, Virginia, twelve miles from Clarksburg. His father's name is thought to have been Peter.
He married Nancy Barnes, a daughter of Daniel Barnes. In 1832, he moved to Gilmer County, near Normantown.
George Greenleaf's children were:
Noah, married a Townsend.
James, married a Farence.
Rev. John, married first Sarah Norman, and later a Cox.
Mary, married Felix Norman.
Rebecca, married John, son of Thomas Marks.
Lucretia, never married.
John Greenleaf, his son, was born on the third day of August, 1816, and was sixteen years old at the time of the migration to Gilmer County (then Lewis County), and lived at Normantown nine years.
He married Sarah Norman, a daughter of James Norman, for whom the village of Normantown is said to have derived its name. She was a sister of "Sis" Ludwick's mother.
In May, 1843, John Greenleaf moved to a farm of over one hundred acres he had bought at Gay, on Elk Fork of Mill Creek. There was some improvement on the land when Greenleaf moved to it, but he did not tell me at the interview I had with him one day in July, 1904, of whom he bought. Being nearly eighty eight years old, and very frail, the old man's memory was bad, and having lost his land recently and been left in his old age without a home, his mind was affected, or, as he expressed it, 'he was "shook up" in his head'.
The first summer he lived on Elk, he made a light crop of corn on account of the lateness in the year of his arrival.
He worked for some of the neighbors to get grain for bread. David Litton, John Bord, and John Tolley were among his neighbors when he came. He helped John Bord, who lived on Frozen Camp, where Miles Bord now lives, to reap his wheat crop that summer.
When Greenleaf came to Elk Fork, he moved on pack horses. There was at that time an abundance of game in Gilmer County, but in Jackson County, it was already becoming scarce. There were some deers and a few wild turkeys yet.
While moving, he passed a night with William R. Goff, long one of the leading citizens of Spencer. He was then for five years a resident of the Goff homestead, had a small improvement, and a family of four children. Uncle Hi Goff, of Tanner's Run, was then a babe of two months of age.
It is said there were then only two other families living at Spencer, those of Samuel Tanner and Samuel Miller.
John Greenleaf was a minister of the Gospel, Southern Methodist Church.
He was Justice of the Peace for twenty two years, by appointment of the Governor, and four years President of the County Court, elected by the people. He retired late in the 80's.
John Greenleaf and Henderson Harper were about the same age. They died about the same time, and were buried the same day.
Elliot (C.E.) Greenleaf, of Elk Fork, one time assessor of Jackson County, was a son of John. He was born in Gilmer County a year before his parents moved to Elk Fork.
Beulah Greenleaf, who married U.S. detective, Dan Cunningham, was a daughter of Elliott.
Other children of John Greenleaf were:
J. W. Greenleaf, died unmarried.
S. E. Greenleaf, of near Red Knob, Roane County.
"Rua" Greenleaf, married Charles L. Bradley.
Caroline Greenleaf married John M. Bradley.
Riley Greenleaf was the oldest son, lived near Red Knob on Wolf Camp.
Ben T. Greenleaf was John's youngest son, died in the asylum, November 7th, 1910.
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