U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kittle, Warren Brance (1872-1932) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Pages 412 and 415 Warren Brance Kittle, born 1872 at Belington, son of George M. and Charity Ellen (Poling ) Kittle, was married June 30, 1897, at Philippi, to Zonie, daughter of W. S. and Virginia (Baker) Wilson. Their child's name is Virginia. He is a member of the M. E. Church, is a Republican and a lawyer, residing at Philippi. He took the degree of L.L. B. in the West Virginia University in 1894. His father is a son of Cyrus and Tirza (Stalnaker) Kittle, and was born in Randolph in 1847, and in 1871 he married Charity Ellen, daughter of Martin G. and Hulda (Limbers) Poling. Their children were Warren B., George Bruce, Rutherford M., Lucy Rebecca, Anna Mary and Francis Gordon. Cyrus Kittle was born in 1819 and died 1885. He was a politician of considerable importance, and held fourteen offices in Randolph County. He was a Union man during the Civil War and was concerned with military affairs and had several narrow escapes. In 1862 he was in St. George at the time of the Imboden raid and escaped by burying himself in the hay in Adam Tait's barn, although the soldiers unwittingly prodded him with pitchforks while throwing out hay for their horses. Again, the next spring he was in Beverly when Imboden attacked that place, and he had barely time to hit the road for Philippi before the Confederates cut off retreat. He narrowly escaped Confederates in Barbour, and hurried into Taylor and took the road for Fairmont just in time to run into another Confederate army above Fairmont, under Jones. Taking to the open country he fled into Pennsylvania and reached Pittsburg penniless. He worked in the iron mills and earned money enough to take him home. He was at that time Colonel of the West Virginia Militia. He was a member of the first West Virginia Legislature, and was on the committee which designed and adopted the State Seal and Coat of Arms. He found the design on a tombstone in a Wheeling cemetery and had it copied. He was ten years a minister in the M. E. Church. The children of Cyrus Kittle were, Levi, George M., Creed, Amassa. Mary L., Emmett, Ulman Wirt, Eliza L., Cenna, Grant and Ellen (twins), Waitman T. Willey. The father of Cyrus Kittle was Elijah, born 1798, who married Lucinda, daughter of John Waldo. Their children were, Cyrus, John Waldo, Amassa, David A., Alva, Hulda, Prudence, Pauline, Emmeline, Harriett, Sally and Louisa. The grandfather of Cyrus Kittle, John Waldo, lived on Booth's Creek, now Marion County. He spent many years a prisoner with the Indians. The father of Elijah Kittle was Abraham, who married a daughter of John Chenoweth, who was an American soldier in the Revolution. This Abraham was a son of Abraham Kittle, the first of the name in West Virginia. He was born in New Jersey in 1735 and died in 1816. His grave is yet to be seen in the old Collett graveyard four miles below Beverly. His children were, Richard, Jacob, Abraham, George, John and one daughter. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH-CERTIFICATE, Barbour County WV, #10018 Full-name: Warren Brance Kittle Birth: Dec 23, 1875 in West Va. Death: Aug 15, 1932 in Philippi, Barbour County, WV Marital-status: Married Occupation: Judge, Circuit Court Father: Geo. M. Kittle, born in Va. Mother: Charity Poling, born in Va. Cause-of-death: Gastric ulcer, Hemorrhage from gastric ulcer Burial: Philippi REGISTER of DEATHS, Barbour County WV Page 93, Line-Number 20 Full-name: Zona Kittle Place-of-death: Philippi, WV Date-of-death: July 14, 1875 at age 89-years Marital-status: Wid. Father: Winfield Scott Wildon Mother: Nancy Baker Cause-of-death: Pulmonary embolus Burial: Masonic ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------