West Virginia Pioneers

Charles Carney

Male 1805 - 1880  (75 years)


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  • Name Charles Carney 
    Born 11 Jul 1805  Harrison County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 30 Sep 1880  Putnam County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 

    • Sheriff of Jackson about 1850
      Buried Humphries Mem. Cem., Sissonville, WV

      1880 Union, Putnam, West Virginia Page 110C
      Charles CARNEY Self M M W 74 VA.
      Occ: Farmer Fa: VA. Mo: VA.
      Emily CARNEY Wife F M W 62 VA.
      Occ: Keeping House Fa: VA. Mo: VA.
      Mary PARSONS Other F W 25 VA.
      Occ: Servant Fa: VA. Mo: VA.

      Charles Carney
      Birth: Jul. 11, 1805
      Harrison County
      West Virginia, USA
      Death: Sep. 28, 1880
      Sissonville
      Kanawha County
      West Virginia, USA
      Charles was the son of Thomas Carney & Mary PARSONS. He was first married Elizabeth GREEN in Mason Co. W(VA)1823. A second marriage to Elizabeth BEANE in 1868, in Kanawha County WV. I have no children listed for him.
      Burial:
      Humphries Memorial-Sissonville Cemetery
      Kanawha County
      West Virginia, USA
      Created by: Marieda Mae DERRICK Eden...
      Record added: Sep 10, 2000
      Find A Grave Memorial# 5055046
    Person ID I118  WVPioneers
    Last Modified 12 Jul 2017 

    Father Thomas CARNEY,   b. 15 Oct 1768, Hampshire County, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Oct 1846, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Mother Mary PARSONS,   b. 1 Jan 1773, Buchannon Settlement, Harrison County, (West) Virginia , USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Dec 1863, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Married 3 Jan 1788 
    Notes 

    • 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.
      ~~~

      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.
      ~~~
      "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.
      ~~~
      "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."
    Family ID F146  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth 'Betsy' Green,   b. 6 Feb 1806, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Nov 1867, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 4 Sep 1823  Mason, Mason County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 

    • Marriage Record
      Date: 4 Sept 1823
      Place: Mason, West Virginia, United States
      Charles Carney
      Elizabeth Green
      By Jonathan Wright

      1830 Mason Co:
      Charles Carney
      1m 15-20
      1m 20-30
      f 5-10
      1f 10-15
      1f 20-30

      1840 Jackson County, VA
      males
      5-10 --1
      10-15 --1
      20-30 -- 1
      30-40 --2
      females
      0-5 --1
      15-20 --1
      30-40 --1
      60-70 --1

      1850 Jackson County, VA page 57, # 413-417
      Carney Charles 46 M Farmer Va
      Carney Elizabeth 45 F Va
      Parsons Starcher 18 M Farmer VA
      Casto Elizabeth 15 F Va
      Egne Mahala 6 F Va
      Green Jemima 12 F Va
      [Should Jemima's age be 72 and this Eliz's mother???]

      1860 Jackson County, VA pg 49 # 41-408
      Carney, Charles, 56
      Elizabeth, 55
      Parsons, Strother, 30
      Fetzer, Mary, 16
      Carney, Mary, 85, VA
      Jemima, 82
      Vandine, N A (f), 7
      John S, 4

      1870 Mill Creek, Jackson County, WV # 408
      Charles 64
      Elizabeth 53
      Parsons, Strother, 43, VA

      Kanawha County, WV GenWeb:
      Carney,Charles 50
      Jac. Elizabeth Beane 50
      10/12/1868
      his parents Thomas Carney & Mary Parsons Carney,
      her parents William & Rachel Wiseman Beane
    Family ID F569  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Jac. Elizabeth Beane,   b. 22 Dec 1818, Monroe County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jul 1886, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Married 12 Oct 1868  Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Notes 

    • Kanawha County, WV GenWeb:
      Carney,Charles 50
      Jac. Elizabeth Beane 50
      10/12/1868
      his parents Thomas Carney & Mary Parsons Carney,
      her parents William & Rachel Wiseman Beane
    Family ID F1941  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S193] Clark Blake.

    2. [S16] Marriage Records, Mason Co, WV.

    3. [S2] Marriage Records, Kanawha Co, WV.