West Virginia Pioneers
Anna CARNEY
1794 - 1879 (85 years)-
Name Anna CARNEY Born 8 Mar 1794 Lewis County, West Virginia, USA 
[1] Gender Female Died 8 Jul 1879 Jackson County, West Virginia, USA [1, 2] Notes
Two Staats children , sex unknown. Staats died before 1817.
JCDR:
Anna Thomas, 7/8/1879, 85y 4m, Thomas & Polly Carney; b. Lewis Co; widow
1820 Mason WV
Enoch Thomas
2m und. 10 Isaac Staats 1815 & Wm Riley Randolph 1818
1m 16-26
1f und. 10 Mary Polly Staats 1814
1f 16-26
1f 26-45 parent?
1830 Mason WV
Enoch Thomas
1m und. 5 Jesse
2m 5-10 Hiram & George
1m 10-15 Wm Riley Randolph 1818 ??
2m 15-20 Isaac Staats 1815 & ? Riley?? laborer???
1m 30-40
2f und.5 Ellizabeth & Malinda?
1f 10-15 Mary Polly Staats 1814 - 1815?
1f 30-40
1840 Jackson co
Enoch C Thomas
2 m 5-10 Elias & Nehemiah
1 m 10-15 Jesse
2 m 15-20 Hiram & George
1 m 40-50
1 f 10-15 Elizabeth or Malinda
1 f 15-20 "
Where is Anna???
1850 Jackson Co 363-367
Thomas Anna 56 F Va
Thomas Jesee 23 M Farmer Va
Thomas Elias A 18 M Farmer Va
Thomas Nhemiah 15 M Farmer Va
Thomas Lemuel C 5 M Va
1860 Jackson, VA # 1036-974
Anna 66
Nehemiah 24
Lemuel 14
1870 Jackson Co, pg 123, #337-337
Nehemiah S, 35, farmer, Jax
Anna, 77, VA
John House states that her second husband was William R Randolph - confused with son's name? Or like everyone else, got his info from Bishop's History of Roane County? I am using an approximate marriage date for them, based on birth dates of the children.
Person ID I61 WVPioneers Last Modified 7 Jan 2009
Father Thomas CARNEY, b. 15 Oct 1768, Hampshire County, WV , d. 19 Oct 1846, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA (Age 78 years) Mother Mary PARSONS, b. 1 Jan 1773, Buchannon Settlement, Harrison County, (West) Virginia , USA , d. 4 Dec 1863, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA (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.
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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."
Family ID F146 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Cornelius Staats, b. 1790, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 1814 (Age 24 years) Married 26 Sep 1812 Mason, Mason County, West Virginia [3] Notes
Marriage Record
Date: Sept 26th 1812
Place: Mason, West Virginia, United States
Cornelius Statts [indexed as Stalls]
Anna Carney
Mason Co tax list
Cornelius Staats 1813-14
John House:
He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was killed.
"Jackson County in the Wars"
War of 1812
In the summer of 1813, a body of Mason County troops under Capt. William Lowther Parsons, who then lived on Scyamore Creek near present Ripley, crossed the Alleghenies and served for a time at Norfolk, VA, They were mustered out in 1814. Known men from present Jackson County who served with Capt. Parsons' Company in the 6th VA Regiment were:. . .
Cornelius Staats, who was either killed in action or died of other causes at this time. . .
Cornelius Staats was born in Pennsylvania in 1790, the oldest son of Abraham and Ann (King) Staats, early pioneers of Jackson County. Before his untimely death, he had only two children: Isaac Staats, the miller at Staats Mill, for whom the village is named, and Mary (Polly) who married James Chancey, the ancestor of many of the families of that surname in the county.
Children 1. Mary "Polly" Staats, b. 14 Mar 1814, Mason, Mason County, West Virginia , d. 14 Mar 1893, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA (Age 79 years)2. Isaac Staats, b. Abt 1815, Mason, Mason County, West Virginia , d. 8 Apr 1890 (Age ~ 75 years)Family ID F271 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 John ? Randolph, d. Yes, date unknown Married Abt 1816 Notes
I have found no where any proof that Ann's husband was a William Riley Randolph. The only source for this that I find is a referenece to Bishop's "History of Roane County", and Vicker's "Casto Cousins", the latter written late enough to have used the Bishop reference. Bishop says only " to .......... Randolph, by whom she had one child".
The only Randolph listed in any records found so far is John, in the 1814 Mason County Personal Property Tax list. There is a Jonathan Randolph [or possibly Fitz Randolph] found in the Harrison Co PPTL, a few years earlier. Kanawha County PPTL shows tax paid on a number of slaves by the Beverly Randolph Company. This company rented slaves to the Kanawha Salines, which they said was cheaper than buying them. Could it be that (John) was a supervisor for this family company?
Considering the fact that Riley and Martha named their second son Christopher after her father, it is a strong possibility that the first son, John, was named for Riley's father.
Some people suggest that William Riley Randolph was born out of wedlock, and it is possible that she conceived him and Mr Randolph moved on but it is far more likely that Anna married Randolph soon after the death of Cornelius. There is no marriage record found for Anna and Enoch Thomas but she bore his children as well as his name.
Children 1. William Riley RANDOLPH, b. Abt 1817, Mason, Mason County, West Virginia , d. 8 May 1863, Winchester, Virginia, USA (Age ~ 46 years)Family ID F2 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 3 Enoch Calvert Thomas, b. Abt 1799, Connecticut , d. 25 Mar 1845 (Age ~ 46 years) Married 1819 Notes
1820 Mason WV
Enoch Thomas
2m und. 10 Isaac Staats 1815 & Wm Riley Randolph 1818
1m 16-26
1f und. 10 Mary Polly Staats 1814
1f 16-26
1f 26-45 parent?
1 engaged in agriculture
1830 Mason WV
Enoch Thomas
1m und. 5 Jesse
2m 5-10 Hiram & George
1m 10-15 Wm Riley Randolph 1818 ??
2m 15-20 Isaac Staats 1815 & ? Riley?? laborer???
1m 30-40
2f und.5 Ellizabeth & Malinda?
1f 10-15 Mary Polly Staats 1814 - 1815?
1f 30-40
1840 Jackson co
Enoch C Thomas
2 m 5-10 Elias & Nehemiah
1 m 10-15 Jesse
2 m 15-20 Hiram & George
1 m 40-50
1 f 10-15 Elizabeth or Malinda
1 f 15-20 "
Where is Anna???
1850 Jackson Co 363-367
Thomas Anna 56 F Va
Thomas Jesee 23 M Farmer Va
Thomas Elias A 18 M Farmer Va
Thomas Nhemiah 15 M Farmer Va
Thomas Lemuel C 5 M Va
1860 Jackson, VA # 1036-974
Anna 66
Nehemiah 24
Lemuel 14
1870 Jackson Co, pg 123, #337-337
Nehemiah S, 35, farmer, Jax
Anna, 77, VA
JCWR: pp 304, 306
Enoch C Thomas, appraisement, 3/10/1845
appraisers George Casto, William Casto and James Casto
George Thomas, Admr
Widow bot: 1 lg tub, 1 salt kettle, 22 sheep, 2 calves, 1 br heifer, 5 cows, 2 lots of corn, 1 lot household & kitchen furniture, furniture ($20) 1 Kittle, 2 pots, 1 auger, 1 pitchfork, 1 lot of hay, 2 barrels
John House: Pioneers of Jackson county, page 117
He lived at the Chase farm above Jesse Carney's and owned the mill.
Enoch Thomas was drowned in Mill Creek, just above Ripley. Mrs Thomas's three husbands are said to have been buried in the old burying yard at Ripley, side by side.
The Thomas Mill was at the bend of the creek. After Thomas's death, the mill became the property of Henry Chase.
Bishop's "History of Roane County", pg 681
Thomas
John Enoch Thomas, Justice of the Peace of Spencer District, resident in the city at time of this writing. Of this family we are told the following:
Enoch Thomas, a Connecticut Yankee, while a young unmarried man, left his parents in New England, came seeking his fortune and settled in the south end of Jackson County about the year 1818, 1819 or 1820; married Annie or Anna Carney, daughter of William [should be Thomas] Carney and sister of Charles Carney, a pre-war sheriff of Jackson County. She was also a sister of Delilah Roach, of Reedy, of Hannah, wife of Levi Casto, of Mill Creek, and of Dorcus, wife of James Brown.
[paragraph omitted and placed in notes of Wm Riley Randolph]
Enoch and Anna, with their family, became owners of large acreages of lands in Jackson County which he improved. He was a prominent citizen of Jackson County for more than thirty years.
To Enoch and Annie (Carney), his wife, were born and by them reared the following children:
Elizabeth ("Bettie"), George, Jesse, Malinda, Hiram, Elias A, and Nehemiah M.S., who was elected by the people and served three terms as Justice of the Peace of Washington District, of Jackson County.
Elias A Thomas, of above family, married Miss Harriett Shiverdecker, of a family of that name near Raymond City, on Kanawha. They reared five sons and one daughter, their names: Jerry M, John Enoch (first mentioned), George Custer, Samuel Robert, Yuluia Ann, and Elsworth D.
Children 1. Rev George Thomas, b. Abt 1819, Mason, Mason County, West Virginia , d. 31 Aug 1882, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA (Age ~ 63 years)2. Dr Hiram Powers Thomas, b. Abt 1822, Virginia, USA , d. Yes, date unknown3. Elizabeth "Bettie" Thomas, b. Between 1825 and 1830, Mason, Mason County, West Virginia , d. Yes, date unknown4. Jesse Thomas, b. 1827, d. Between 1880 and 1900 (Age 53 years) 5. Malinda Thomas, b. Abt 1830, Mason, Mason County, West Virginia , d. Yes, date unknown6. Elias Alexander Thomas, b. 3 Jul 1832, Virginia, USA , d. 2 Jun 1893 (Age 60 years)7. Nehemiah M S Thomas, b. Jan 1834, d. 1912 (Age ~ 77 years) Family ID F272 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Married - 26 Sep 1812 - Mason, Mason County, West Virginia 
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