U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Carder Family ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Pages 611-612 The Carders. — The late John Carder, of Hardman chapel, belonged to one of the older pioneer families of the North fork of Hughes river, but owing to our indefinite information concerning his ancestors, we cannot do the family justice. However his parents lived a little north of the old Wells mill at the time of his birth on May 3, 1825, and his father died when he was still in his cradle, leaving his mother with three children to her care. Jesse, the elder brother, who was long a citizen of the Petroleum vicinity died in the West; Emily the sister was drowned in the Ohio river while attempting to dip up a bucket of water from a boat; and the mother married John Hammond, of Tyler county and finally went to Michigan, and here her history ends. The Hammond children were: Calvin, the late Wesley, of Kansas; the late Leroy, of Iowa; Elmira, who married Sanford Riggs and died in Tyler county; (Mr. Riggs is now of Pennsboro) and Josephine, the late wife of Dr. Leander Maxwell of Pleasants county. John Carder grew to manhood in the forests of Tyler county. There he was married to Miss Sarah Leeper, and there they lived until the early seventies when they came to this county, and settled on the head of Bear run of Goose creek where Barnes Beall now lives. This part of the county even at that late day had very few inhabitants, and while a slight improvement had been made here, the forest was still almost unbroken from Cornwallis on the south-west, to Glendale on the north-east, and for miles around. Stephen Weekley being the only settler on the run below him. From here he removed to what is known as the "Job Musgrave farm" not far from Harrisville; and about the year 1878, went to the Hardman chapel vicinity and made the first improvement on the farm that is now owned and occupied by W. N. Kirkpatrick. Here he resided until after the death of his wife, in October, 1890, and he then made his home with his children until May 16, 1903, when he passed into the other world, lie rests by the side of his wife in the family burying-ground on his old homestead. He was a man of strong physique, and of sterling character, and he ever stood for the right. His children were as follows: Susan, the wife of D. W. Howard, of Vienna; J. M. Carder, Parkersburg; Mrs. Emily (John) Inghram, Goose creek; the Rev. L. M. Carder of the U. B. church, who is now of Mason county; L. H. Carder, Iris; Delia the late wife of Samuel Wamsley; and Flora B., late wife of A. C. Cunningham. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------