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Pickens, Robert (b. 1856)
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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 533

ROBERT PICKENS, a farmer and native of Lewis County, was born
November 23, 1856, the son of, John Pickens and Mary Magdaline
Stone, the daughter of Moses Stone and Elizabeth Siron, who was the
daughter of John Siron and Easter Hiner of Highland County, Va.
Moses Stone settled on French Creek in the year 1828. Moses was the
son of Peter Stone, emigrant from Germany to Pennsylvania, and
Peter was deserter of the Royal Army, to join the Army of
Washington.

His grandparents were James Pickens and Rachel Talbot of Barbour
County. James Pickens was the son of Alexander Pickens of Harrison
County, and Rachel Talbot was the daughter of David, the son of
Richard, the son of James, an emigrant from England.

His father's family consisted of eleven children. He was the
seventh son. His father was a soldier in the Civil War.

He married Emma V. Bennett, June 1, 1887, the daughter of Abram
Bennett and Elizabeth Mick, and their children are: Denver C, a
senior in the Wesleyan University of West Virginia, born May 25,
1888; Maud Victoria, born April 19, 1890, and Robert Hoy, born May
19, 1891.

The subject of this sketch is a farmer, but left his farms of which
he has two, one in Lewis County of 250 acres, and one in Upshur of
165, to move to Buckhannon for the purpose of educating his
children.

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