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Loar, Richard (b. 1840)
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A History of Preston County West Virginia
Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole
Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914
by H. S. Whetsell

Pages 818-819, RICHARD LOAR. 

Four brothers bearing the name of Loar came from Germany to Preston
county in the early days. George was their ancestor and grandfather
of Richard Loar the subject of this sketch. John Loar, father of
Richard, owned a farm and kept the Half Way House between Masontown
and Morgantown, when the latter place was but a little village. He
died about the year 1866 about 55 years of age. During his
proprietorship of the tavern, he would keep sometimes twenty-five and
thirty teams over night.

John Loar married Emeline Porter of Frostburg, Maryland. Her mother
was Irish and father Scotch. The marriage of this couple took place
about 1838. Their children were Richard, John Wesley, Sarah, Mary,
Jane, George, Samuel, Margaret, Elizabeth and Mattie.

Richard Loar was born February 16, 1840. He staid on his father's
farm until grown up tilling the ground and attending school, such as
it was in his day. One winter he walked four miles to school at
Reedsville, the father of the present Attorney General of West
Virginia, William Conley, being his teacher. When twenty-five years
of age, he married Sarah Kirk about 1844. The couple moved on their
farm four miles from Reedsville. This farm, which was the old
Huddleson home, he improved and it became one of the best homesteads
in Preston County; and here Mr. Loar lived until the death of his
second wife in 1911. His first wife was a twin to Samuel B. Kirk and
daughter of Colonel Isaiah Kirk, a man of fine appearance, having a
good military record during the Civil War, and possessing a marked
individuality.

She died ___________. Their children were Anna, born ________, and
the mother of Earl Dixon, the Cashier of the Bank of Masontown, and
Athelene Loar, who married Homer Cobun and lives near Reedsville.

On the 18th of March, 1865, Mr. Loar married Cyrena Kelley, daughter
of William J. Kelley and Susan (Guseman) Kelley both representatives
of old Prestonian families. No issue.

Mrs. Cyrena Loar was a teacher in her Sabbath School fifty years.
Children of the third generation were in her class, and remember her
now as they would a saint. Mr. and Mrs. Loar were church workers all
their lives, and their beautiful home housed and sheltered the clergy
on missionary tours to their neighborhood in church work whenever
duty called them that way. Mr. Loar had always been a steward in the
church and a class teacher for years, and a Sabbath School
Superintendent a long time also. The work of this couple was always
among the children of their neighborhood, and their reward doth
follow them.

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