U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hile, Levi (1817-1898) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Page 420 Levi Hile was born about 1817, in Germany; is a man peculiar and eccentric, and is well known over the county, many people claiming that he has supernatural power in controlling bees, wasps, yellow- jackets and stinging insects. He claims this power, and is willing to take a good stinging in order to make people believe that the bees will not sting him; will walk into a hornet's nest and claim that they do not harm him. They do sting him, but it seems the effect is slight on him. He married Nancy Gower, and their children are, Mary, Anamelia and Samuel; is a farmer, living on Hile Run, 9 miles from St. George. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths, Tucker County, WV (Pages 105-106, Line No. 19) FULL-NAME: Levi Hile DEATH-DATE: May 10, 1898 DEATH-PLACE: Leadmine CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Old Age AGE-AT-DEATH: 80 years PARENTS: not known OCCUPATION: Farmer MARITAL-STATUS: married INFORMANT: S. D. Hile, 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------