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 Haddox Family ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Pages 604-607 The Haddoxes, who have so long been identified with the citizenship of this county, are of Irish extraction. The time of their coming to the Western world is not definitely known, but as they are only another branch of the family whose history appears with the North fork settlers, it is quite probable that they crossed to Virginia at the same time — during the latter part of the eighteenth century — as circumstances point strongly to the fact that Jonathan Haddox, the head of the North fork family, and William, the progenitor of this one, were brothers. But be that as it may, William Haddox and his wife, Mary Minear Haddox, lived and died in what is now Barbour county, where they reared quite a family. Phillip Haddox, their son, spent his entire life in Barbour county within three miles of the place of his nativity. He married Miss Isabel Hewey, of Quaker city, Ohio, and in Barbour county she also died. Their family consisted of nine children; viz., Leanna, Sarah, Nancy, Susan, Mary, Jonathan, Joseph, Samuel and Allen Haddox. Allen and Mary, who is Mrs. Duckworth, remained in their native county, and the rest came to this county. Leanna was the late Mrs. John Mitchell; Sarah, the late Mrs. John Moody Pritchard, of White Oak; Nancy was the late Mrs. Josiah Hawkins; and Susan, who first married Phillip Felton, senior, of Barbour, was the late Mrs. George Brown of Burnt House. Jonathan Hewey Haddox, the eldest son of Phillip and Isabel Hewey, was born in Barbour county, on February 20, 1822, and came to this county in his young manhood where he met and married Miss Sarah Salina Cunningham, daughter of Enoch. M. and Mrs. Jane Stuart Cunningham, and grand-daughter of Edward and Sarah Price Cunningham, of Indian fame. The marriage took place in 1843, and from that time until the day of his death, he called Ritchie county his home. He was one of the early merchants of Smithville, and from there, removed to Cairo, where he became identified in the same business, and where he played an important part in other affairs. He was a trusted employee of the "Ritchie Mine Company" during the sixties, but in the early seventies, returned to Smithville and became a member of the mercantile firm of "Haddox and Carr." Here Mrs. Haddox passed from sight, and in 1884, he again took the marriage vow, when Miss Safronia Collins, daughter of Chainey Collins, became his wife; and shortly after this event, he changed his place of business to Washburn. But finally removed to Harrisville, where he owned and managed a grocery store at the time of his death, which took place on May 27, 1906, while he was visiting his sons at Huntington. The remains were brought back to Harrisville, and there laid at rest. The children of the first union were seven in number; viz., Cincinnatus P., and Lathrop, Huntington; Maclisona was the late lamented Mrs. Adam Flesher, of Pennsboro; Etta is Mrs. Columbus Riddel, of Moundsville; Harrison B. died in 1877; Charles, in 1865, and one, in childhood. The children of the wife of his old age are: Matilda, Elsie, Dona, who is Mrs. Jesse Gatrell, and Thurman Haddox. all of Harrisville, except Mrs. Gatrell, who resides at Clarksburg. Joseph Haddox was married to Miss Sarah Wass, daughter of John Wass, whom he met while on a visit to this county; and in 1848, he purchased the improvement of his brother-in-law, John Mitchell, at Pleasant Hill, and there resided until his death, on May 9, 1900, and there his aged widow still survives. He was seventy-six years of age at the lime of his death. His children are as follows: Misses Josephine and Elizabeth, of Parkersburg; Mrs. Mary Summers (wife of John Summers), Samuel and Charles Haddox, Berea: Mrs. Ella (Bruce) Wilson, Washburn; Mrs. Etta (Hedges) Davis, Hazelgreen; Jonathan, Berea; John, of Calhoun county; and Benjamin, and Robert, whose places of residence are unknown. Samuel Haddox with his wife, Mrs. Mary A. Kennedy Haddox, came to this county in middle life, but finally went to Parkersburg where they have both been sleeping for several years; she died in 1903, and he preceded her to the grave. Their son, Jasper N. Haddox died in 1903, and the surviving members of the family are: John Haddox, of Columbus, Ohio, Coleman, and Mrs. Jennie Griffin, Parkersburg; and Mrs. Belle Hostetter, Beatrice. Allen Haddox of Berea belongs to this branch of the family, he being a son of Adam, brother of Phillip, and his mother was Miss Mary Willett before her marriage. We learn from the Haddoxes of the North fork, that all the families of the name of both the Virginias are related. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------