U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Nay, Jed (1832-1907) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Pages 523-524 "JED" NAY, a native of Harrison County, born March 10, 1832. He follows farming and the stone mason business. His parents were James Nay and Sarah Haggerty and his grandfather was Benjamin Nay of Dutch descent. March 24, 1859, he married the daughter of Hezekiah Joffle and Nancy Buchanan, who was the son of James Joffle and Mary Lockwood, an emigrant from Ireland, and he first moved from Harrison County to Ritchie, where he lived until after his service in the Civil War in Company H, of the 1st West Virginia Infantry, under H. Bowers. Thomas Reed, etc.. as Captains. His company was in the battles of Rapidan. Winchester, and Bull Run. From Ritchie County he moved back to Harrison and then to Upshur, where he has since lived. Children: Nancy C, born November 29, 1859; James N., born April 29, 1861; Martha M., born December 9, 1863; Louisa and Eliza, twins, born November 18, 1865; Mary D., born January 5, 1868; Hezekiah E., born April 6, 1869; John A., born November, 1870; Adda M., born May 16, 1872; Maggie B., born May 3, 1874; Amos B., born August 24, 1875; Ettie F., born March 19, 1877; Robert C., born September 6, 1878; Joseph, born February 23, 1880; Elsie, born 1882, and Sarah T., born September 30, 1883. Mrs. Nay's christian name is Juliet. The subject of this sketch owns a hundred and four acres of land on the Staunton and Parkersburg Turn Pike Road, nine miles east of Buckhannon and commonly known as Moss Hill. He had four brothers in the Union Army; James, Alfred, Lemuel and John, who died at Clarksburg and he has five sisters all married. This family have ten of their children as members of the M. P. Church, have twenty-four grandchildren and the two youngest sons are citizens of Oklahoma State. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Marriages, Wetzel County, WV (Page 4) Jezemiah Nay (age 25, born in Harrison Co., Va. son of James & Sarah Nay Julia Joliffe (age 18, born in Tyler Co., now Wetzel Co., WV) daughter of Hez & Nancy Joliffe were married March 24, 1859 in Wetzel Co., Va. by Dan'l Ash ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tombstones in Union Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur County, WV Jed Nay (died Mar. 14, 1907 age 75y-4d) of Company H, First Regiment, W.Va. Infantry Julia Nay (Feb. 27, 1842 -- Mar. 21, 1915) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------