U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rexroad Family ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Page 474-475 NOAH REXROAD.— The name of Noah Rexroad was closely allied with the affairs of this town for more than fifty years. From 1840. when he came from his native county — Pendleton — with his wife, Mrs. Matilda Mullenax Rexroad, until 1891, when he was borne to the Harrisville cemetery, at the ripe old age of seventy-seven years, he was a conspicuous figure, in public affairs. He was prominently identified in various walks of life, being farmer, merchant, sheriff (for two terms), member of the House of Delegates, and a corner-stone, and pillar in the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Rexroad followed him to the grave in 1892, and their only child is Mrs. E. C. Fox, of Harrisville. Mr. Fox, too, has long been prominent here, he having come from Greene county, Pennsylvania, where he was born (in 1835), in the year 1859, when he became identified with the firm of McKinney, Rexroad and Company. He is the father of but one child, L. R. Fox, of this town. The Rexroads are of German lineage. The time of their coming to the Western world is unknown, but seven or eight generations of the family, at least, have laid claim to this soil. Zachariah Rexroad, junior (son of Zachariah, senior), and his wife, Mrs. Sarah Hoffman Rexroad, were both natives of Pendleton county; and here they resided until 1845, when they came to this county, with their family, and settled on the McNeill homestead, near Smithville. Here, on October 11, 1876, Mrs. Rexroad passed from earth; and on June 25, 1877, Mr. Rexroad died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. J. W. Osbourne, at Hardman chapel. Both rest on the James Moyer farm, on Den run. They were the parents of eleven children: Noah, above mentioned, who came to the county five years before his parents, was the eldest son. Mary, the eldest daughter, married Harmon Rexroad, and remained in Pendleton county. The other members of the family were; viz., Addison, Henry, Jehu, Zebulon (father of Dr. C. W. Rexroad), Lewis (father of J. C. and George), who fell at Beverly in July, 1863, while defending the old flag; Morgan, who fell in battle at Lynchburg, in June, '64; and Jeremiah, who died in childhood; Abigail, who married James Moyer, of Den run; and Sarah Margaret, who is the widow of the late J. W. Osbourne, of Hardman chapel, and the only survivor of the family, all belonged to this county. Henry Rexroad, brother of Zachariah, junior, was also an early citizen of this community, he having come from Pendleton county some time in the thirties, and remained until his death. His sons were Daniel, Ephraim, Solomon, and Henry, junior, who all went West. The daughters were, Elizabeth, who became Mrs. Jacob Sinnett, Lucinda, who married her cousin Henry Rexroad, and Mary, the first wife of George Sinnett. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------