U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mann, John C. (b. 1836) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Page 429 John C. Mann, born 1836 in Rockingham County, Virginia, son of Oliver and Harriett (Cathrea) Mann, was married May 2, 1867, at Meadowville, to Sally, daughter of William and Lydia (Wells) Johnson. Children, William M., Okey J., Anna A., Daisy E., J. Rush, Oliver, John Bassell. He is a member of the Baptist Church, of the Odd Fellows, a farmer and plasterer, and lives on the Beverly and Fairmont pike, one mile west of Philippi. He served four years in the Confederate army, seeing his first service at Philippi, June 3, 1861. At Rich Mountain he saw his next service, and from there fell back with the Confederates to the Alleghanies, and later fought Hunter at Lynchburg and was in active duty, surrendering at the close of the war at Harrisonburg. He was taken prisoner at Cold Knobb, Greenbrier County, in December, 1862, and was sent to Camp Chase. His son Rush, enlisted in the army in 1898 for the war against Spain. Mr. Mann's ancestors were English and Irish. Henry Mann, one of his ancestors, more than a century ago was apprenticed as a turner in London, and the article of indenture is still preserved by the family. On his mother's side, his grandmother, Sophia Lewis, daughter of Thomas Lewis, was a niece of Colonel Charles Lewis, who was killed at the battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------