U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chenoweth, John (b. 1755) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia by John Davison Sutton Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919 Page 356 John Chenoweth was a Revolutionary soldier and his record in the war department is that he was in the battle of Brandywine. He was born November 15th, 1755; he lived in Randolph county, where he died and was buried near Elkins. His descendants placed a monument at his grave. There his son Robert was born July 4th, 1782. He married Edith, daughter of Capt. John Skidmore; they moved to the Holly river and settled on the big bottom known as the Skidmore farm, and afterward moved to the Elk river, not far from Frametown. Mrs. Chenoweth was born September 15th, 1788; they spent the last years of their lives on the Westfork in Roane county, where they are buried. Their son David W. Chenoweth was born November 22, 1831, in Randolph county, Virginia, and came to the Holly river with his parents in his fourth year. He relates that he rode horse back with his mother and part of the time she carried him in her lap. He remembers crossing the Little Kanawha river at Bulltown; the river was swollen and one of Mr. Haymond's colored men set them over in a canoe. Mr. Chenoweth married a Miss Mollohan and reared a large family. He is now, 1918, living at his old home on the Westfork in his 87th year. The children of Robert and Edith Skidmore Chenoweth were Susana, Rachael, Leah, Anna, Emma, Edith, Ira S., Sarah J., Isaac R., James and David W. David, the youngest and only one living, enjoys the distinction of being one of two living grand children of John Chenoweth, the Revolutionary soldier, the other being Calvin Hart of Randolph county. Also he and Delilah Cogar are the only living grand children of Capt. John Skidmore, who was wounded at the battle of Point Pleasant. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Randolph County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/randolph/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------