U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Domire, Frederick (1806-1888) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Tucker County, West Virginia From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time. by Hu Maxwell Kingwood, W. Va.; Preston Publishing Company, 1884. Pages 395-396 Frederick Domire*, brother to Rhinehart Domire, Sr., was born in 1806, and married in 1829 to Mary Ann Loughry, of Holly Meadows. Of six children, two only are living, who are Daniel L., and Samuel R. Frederick Domire was also a great hunter in his younger days, as nearly all the Domires were. He has killed many a deer and bear with an old flint-lock gun, which he still has on the rack over the door, just as hunters used to keep them. He is a farmer owning 16-1/2 acres, all improved, 9 miles from St. George, at the Leadmine post-office. He built a mill there in 1842. It was a tub- mill, and ground 8 or 10 bushels a day. In the earliest years he spent there, wild animals were plentiful. In 8 years, he killed 160 deer. He says that John Grimes was the first settler on Horse Shoe Run. He lived on the Bonnifield farm. Dr. Chilcoat lived on the Evan's farm about the same time; and John Carrico and John Stephenson were the next settlers (aside from Stephen Losh, who came earlier than 1818). Frederick Domire was postmaster for ten years before the war. * The name Domire is spelled in two ways. Thus: Domire and Dumire. It is said the name originally was Toomire. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths, Tucker County, WV (Pages 57-58, Line No. 8) FULL-NAME: Fredrick Dumire BIRTH-PLACE: Preston Co., W.Va. AGE-AT-DEATH: 82y-13d DEATH-DATE: March 25, 1888 DEATH-PLACE: St. George Dist. CONSORT-OF: Mary A. Dumire OCCUPATION: Farming PARENTS: R. & Louisa Dumire CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Old Age INFORMANT: Sam'l Dumire, son ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Tucker County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/tucker/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------