U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Teter, James (1797-1848) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 584-586 JAMES TETER was born in Pendleton County, December 15, 1797. Died January, 1848. Was a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Holden) Teter, grandson of Philip Teter, of Pennsylvania, and was of German descent. Just when the Teters emigrated to America is not known, but we find in history that in the forts erected in the Valley of the Kanawha that families resided in them in 1774, and among them was a family by the name of Teter. The Teters are said to have come from Pennsylvania to the Valley of Virginia, whence they entered Pendleton county, crossed into Randolph, Lewis, Harrison, now Barbour and Upshur. The Virginia land books show that Tetters owned land in 1783 in Barbour county. James Teter's sister, Mary, was the first white child born in the Valley district of Barbour county. His brothers were Jacob and Joseph, and his sister was Nancy. This family name is oftimes Tetter, Tretter and Teeter, his sister was Nancy. James Teter in 1820 married Barbara Reager, who was born August 11, 1801, and who died August 22, 1885. She was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (West) Reager. An old sheepskin patent granted by Patrick Henry, October 25, 1786, now in possession of L. A. Teter, shows a settlement made in 1777 on the Buckhannon river, and he secured a title for 286 acres, being in the County of Harrison, on Peck's Run, including the settlement made in the year of the Bloody Seven, for which he paid 30 shillings sterling. His father, Jacob Reager, and three brothers emigrated from Germany to America in 1735 to the Shenandoah Valley, Va. James Teter and Abram Reager, son of John, came in possession of a part of the land owned by John Reager. James Teter moved from the farm now owned by Wellington Strader to the land later owned by Alva Teter, and at present by B. I. Teter, this farm being a part of the land first settled by John Reager, as shown by a record made on the back of said patent by Alva Teter. To the union of James and Barbara (Reager) Tetter were born five sons: Alva, born October 18, 1822; John, born March 19, 1825; Jacob, born January 20, 1827; Isaac, born May 10, 1829; Granville, born July 21, 1835. John Teter married Lucinda McCoy, and their children were: James W., Washington, Barbara, Virginia, Mary, Martha, Cordelia and Louisa. Rev. Isaac Teter married Rebecca Jackson. Granville died in early life. Alva Teter was born on the land now owned by Wellington Strader, in 1822, and died on the farm now owned by his son B. I. Teter, January 21, 1893. He was recruiting officer during the Civil war. Through perseverance, industry and economy he accumulated considerable wealth. He was a man of great sympathy, and often made sacrifices for the comforts of those who were not so fortunately situated as he. He was a magistrate for fifteen years, a member of the board of education many terms, was deputy sheriff of Barbour county, sheriff of Upshur county, and a member of the State legislature two sessions, 1863 and 1866, and he and his wife were members of the Reger M. E. Church. In 1846 he married Mary (Sharp) Hartman, who died January 31, 1847. One child, Mary C, was born January 21, 1847, to this union. She became the wife of Perry Talbot. On October 4, 1849, Alva Teter married for his second wife, Catherine Strader, the daughter of Michael and Sarah (Bennett) Strader, and the granddaughter of John Strader, who married Miss Post. Her brothers and sisters were: Mary, the wife of Ithiel Hinkle; Christianna, the wife of Edward Davis; Betsy, wife of Joseph Ward; Granville, who married Sarah Ann Hinkle, and Michael, who married Lyda Lamb. The Straders came from Holland and settled in New Jersey before the Revolutionary War, and some of them, moved to the South Branch in the present County of Hardy about 1740. Children of Alva and Catherine Teter were: Sarah Ellen, born July 7, 1850, wife of Seymour House, after May 23, 1867; James Lee, born December 2, 1851, and married Nancy Ward, January 2, 1873; Elizabeth, born November 15, 1853, wife of John Karickhoff after December 21, 1873; Granville, whose history is given elsewhere; John, born January 22, 1858, and married Florence Rohr; Cosbi. born January 21, 1860, and died July 8, 1862; Barbara Ann, born August 11, 1862, wife of Daniel Post after May 1, 1881; Virginia Florence, born June 8, 1865, died in 1894, wife of Ira Euritt; Sherman T., born December 7, 1867, died in infancy; Lloyd Alva, born August 9, 1874; Burton Isaac, born January 1, 1877. Lloyd Alva married Floda Foster Hinkle, of Cherry Hill, Upshur County, the daughter of Foster and Melvina (Ward) Hinkle, the granddaughter of Job and Margaret (Jackson) Hinkle, the great granddaughter of Jonas and Tobitha (Cooper) Hinkle, and the great, great granddaughter of Leonard Hinkle, a Hessian German emigrant. Mrs. Teter's grand parents were: Mackinzy and Phoebe (Heavener) Ward; her great grandparents were Job and Tabitha (Cummins) Ward, German and Irish, and her great, great grandparents were Edward Haddon and Rebecca (Love) Jackson, who were the children of John and Margaret Hadden Jackson, who was son of John and Elizabeth (Cummins) Jackson. Mrs. Teter was educated in the public schools; early joined the Methodist Episcopal Church under the ministry of Rev. C. Warmen, and has been an earnest and loyal member of the church ever since. L. A. Teter followed in the footsteps of his ancestors for several generations by taking up the business of live stockman. His farms consists of six hundred acres of valuable grazing land on the waters of Peck's Run in Upshur County and Stone Coal in Lewis County. His home farm is now known as Meadow View. To keeping and improving his land and live stock, he has devoted his energy and time since leaving the West Virginia Conference Seminary, in which school he took his course, preparatory to farming. He and his wife are members of the Heaston Chapel, M. E. Church. Child: Heaston Alva. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------