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McWhorter, John Minion (1822-1909)
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History of Ritchie County
by Minnie Kendall Lowther
Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911

Pages 567-569

The late Dr. John Minion McWhorter, passed into the land of eternal
peace from his home at Buckhannon, on November 9, 1909, after a
long and useful career.

Dr. McWhorter was not only a medical practitioner of wide
reputation, but he was a pioneer minister of the Universalist faith
in Central West Virginia. He was the author of a small book of
sermons, and left several manuscripts of no little value.

In compliance with a request set forth in his will, his remains,
were taken to Pittsburg and cremated, and the ashes were placed in
a bronze metal urn — then in a casket — and buried between his two
wives in the McWhorter cemetery, in Harrison county.

Dr. McWhorter was of Scotch-Irish descent and of Revolutionary
stock. He was the son of Walter McWhorter, and the grandson of
Henry McWhorter, a Revolutionary soldier, who was the pioneer mill-
wright of the West Fork river.

He was born in Harrison county on January 22, 1821; and on February
8, 1848, he was first married to Miss Rosetta Marple, daughter of
John and Ruth Reger Marple, and great-granddaughter of Jacob Brake,
who was captured by the Indians, and remained among them until he
became thoroughly "Indianized;" and after his return from captivity
married and settled near the Buckhannon fort, where he died.

This same Jacob Brake was a son of John Brake, a German Baron, who
resided near Moorefield (W.) Virginia, and who was conspicuously
known as a tory in Revolutionary times, he being the prime factor
in the only tory uprising of any note within the present boundary
of the state.

Mrs. McWhorter died on December 26, 1869, after having given birth
to twelve children, and on July 14, 1871, Dr. McWhorter married for
his second wife, Mrs. Phebe Cunningham, daughter of the Rev. James
Hardman, of Hardman chapel, who passed on in 1905.

The children of Dr. and Mrs. (Rosetta Marple) McWhorter are as
follows:

Cicero C. F., who was County clerk of Upshur for twenty years;
Flavins J., L. D., S. B., Cyrus S., cashier of the Citizens
National Bank, at Redlands, California; Lucullus V., John C., who
is a prominent barrister, and Judge of the Twelfth Judicial circuit
of West Virginia; Flora M., who is Mrs. George Lawson; and Lena L.,
the wife of Ulysses I. Jenkins; and Hyranus, Augustus O., and Lora
Lee, who all died in infancy. Mrs. Jenkins is a prominent W. C. T.
U. worker, and is at this time State Superintendent of the
Department of Anti-Narcotics, etc.

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Large shared-tombstone in the McWhorter Church Cemetery, 
McWhorter, Harrison County, WV

             Rev. J. M. McWhorter, M.D.
                     1822-1909

                 (and his two wives)
    Rosetta, first wife       Phebe C., second wife
         1828-1869                  1828-1905
    
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