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Prince, Nathan
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History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia
by John Davison Sutton
Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919

Pages 416-417

Nathan Prince came from London county, Va., about 1820, and settled
at Flatwoods where he purchased about two hundred acres of land,
embracing the farm of the late Dr. John L. Rhea, and also the land
on which the town of Flatwoods is situated. Mr. Prince was the son
of Captain Prince of the Revolutionary army. He had two sons, Levi
and Simon, and one daughter who married George High of Charleston.
One or two children died in infancy. Mr. Prince was said to be a
very devoted Christian. His habit was to fast one day in each week.
Whether his father, Captain Prince, came to this country or not, we
are not informed. Captain Prince was a Jew, and the old Jewish
Bible owned by the family was destroyed by fire in Webster county
where it had fallen in the hands of some distant member of the
family who had no conception of its value. Captain Prince was in
the artillery arm of the service, and became deaf by the concussion
of the guns in battle.
                          Levi Prince.

Levi Prince, son of Nathan Prince, and grandson of Captain Prince
of the Revolutionary army, was born in London county, Va., and
removed with his father's family to Braxton comity early in the
eighteenth century where he grew to manhood on his father's farm in
Flatwoods. Early in life, he married Sallie, daughter of Andrew and
Margaret (Hoskins) Skidmore. Their children were Susan C., ____
Jane, Mary, Nathan H., James, George, one or two children dying in
infancy. Mr. Prince was a land owner and farmer. He owned the land
where the towns of Flatwoods is located. He was a man of
industrious frugal habits, and was noted for his piety and
leadership in the church. He was mainly instrumental in building
the Prince chapel at Flatwoods. At the breaking out of the Civil
war, he removed with his family to the state of Ohio where, in
187_, he died by typhoid fever. He was loved and honored by all who
knew him. His remains are resting in Ohio near where he lived and
died, while those of his saintly wife were laid to rest at the
Squires cemetery on Salt Lick.

                         Simon Prince.

Simon Prince, son of Nathan and grandson of Captain Prince, came
from Loudon county, Va., with his father's family when a small boy,
and spent most of the years of his long life in Braxton county. He
married Margaret Sisk, in 1836, and to this union were born Rachel,
Nathan, Barbara, Sarah Ann and Mandy. Uncle Simon, as he was
familiarly known, was a devoted Christian and a member of the M. E.
church for a great many years. He died at the advanced age of
ninety-eight years, and was buried at the Morrison church.

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