U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hamner, William Edward (b. 1868) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Page 466 W. E. HAMNER, lumberman, was born in Scottsville, Va., June 30, 1868, son of E. B. Hamner and Martha E. Thomas, the grandson on his father's side of Walter W. Hamner and the great, great grandson of Nicholas Hamner, early settler of Albermarle County. His grandfather's mother was a Eubank and his father's mother was Ida Prear, emigrant from Scotland to Virginia. On his mother's side he is the grandson of John Snyder, whose middle name is the same as the maiden name of his mother. John S. Thomas was a native of Nelson County, Va., born in 1810, and his mother was a native of Buckingham County, Va., born in 1784, and Eliza (White) Thomas's mother was a Dawson from Ireland, and her father was a White from Scotland. Edward Bruce Hamner and Mary E. Thomas, who were married in Upshur County in 1865, had seven children whose names are: Ida Lillie Hamner, W. E. Hamner, Walter Lee Hamner, Allen T. Hamner, Clara Hamner, Charles Hamner, one dead, and Lloyd Hamner. John S. Thomas moved to Upshur in 1840, settling on French Creek, and died there in 1895, and his wife Eliza White Thomas, died in the year of 1891, at the age of seventy-seven. The subject of the sketch was educated in the common schools until 17 years old when he went West and worked on a cattle ranch two years in Dakota and on a farm in Missouri and Illinois, three years. He came back to West Virginia and entered the lumber and timber business in 1890. This being the year that railroad was being completed through Upshur County into a wilderness of timber in Randolph and Webster Counties, and also the year in which the first band saw mill was erected on the Buckhannon waters. He saw great possibilities in the specialty of fine logs of walnut, poplar and oak wood for foreign markets and to this particular branch of work and the study of forestry in general, he has devoted himself for the past seventeen years; he is now located at Buckhannon. On November 25, 1892, he married Cora L. Phillips, the daughter of Simeon Phillips and Rebecca Loudin, and the granddaughter of Horace Phillips, who was the sixth son of David Phillips of Massachusetts. Horace Phillips married Susan Cutright, the daughter of Jacob Cutright, who was the son of John Cutright of Pioneer days and Sycamore Tree notoriety. His wife was born October 3, 1872, and their living children are: Frank, born April 21, 1894; Xenna, born September 24, 1897, and Paul, born October 26, 1898. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriage License, Upshur County, WV (Page 220) William Edward Hamner (age 25) son of E. B. & Mollie Hamner born in Upshur County, WV residence - Pickens, Randolph County, WV Cora Lee Phillips (age 20) daughter of Simeon & Rebecca J. Phillips born in Upshur County, WV residence - French Creek, Upshur County, WV were married November 25, 1892 at Alton in Road by J. W. Fitzgerald, Minister of the Gospel ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------