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Talbott, James Wesley (b. 1839)
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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 476

James Wesley Talbott, born 1839, son of Zachariah and Mary
(Ellison) Talbott, was married November 21, 1861, to Almira,
daughter of Henry A. and Eunice (Marteney) Gall. Children, Emma
Rosetta, Estella Lee, Minnie May and Adela. In 1895 his daughter
Minnie was married to Charles Bruce Sturm, of Philippi. Mr. Talbott
is a Missionary Baptist, a Mason, and in politics a Democrat. He is
proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in Philippi, and is a traveling
salesman for a Philadelphia firm. For six years he was Sheriff of
Barbour County, two years by appointment and four by election.
Immediately after his marriage he entered the mercantile business
at Mansfield, and later at Overfield. In 1865 he went into the saw-
mill business and followed it five years, until he became Sheriff.
Five years later he became cashier of the Farmers' Bank of
Philippi, and held the position nine years, in the meantime
engaging extensively in other business, and was promoter of the
first steam flour mill in Barbour County, built at Philippi, in
1882; and was prominently identified with the building of the
Grafton and Greenbrier railroad. The father of Mrs. Talbott's
mother, Gideon Ellison, came to Barbour from Eastern Virginia and
married Elizabeth Stephens, sister of Elisha Talbott's first wife.
His children were, Zachariah, John, Isaac H., Samuel W., Robert F.,
Edward G., Mary, Julia, Louisa, Emaline, Kaziah. The children of
Zachariah Talbott, by his first wife, were, James Wesley, Almira,
Ervin A., Asa Burton, Robert Clinton; by his second wife, who was
Kaziah Ellison, sister of his first wife, the children were, Gideon
P. and Baby; by his third wife, who was Margaret J. Zinn, one
child, Madera Elizabeth Belle. Mr. Talbott has a copper tea kettle
which was brought to Barbour by his grandfather, Richard Talbott,
in 1780.

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