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History of Wetzel County, West Virginia
by John C. McEldowney, Jr., 1901

Page 55
ABRAHAM HANES.

Abraham Hanes was born in Louden county, Virginia, in the year of
1784. He came from that place to Middle Island creek, Tyler county,
in the year of 1804, where he married Susana Martin, a native of New
Jersey. In 1807 they caine to what was then the mouth of Big Fishing
creek, and erected a house on the South Side, and kept hotel during
the war of 1812 in the same house that was known to the citizens of
the county as the Robert Cox homestead. The ground is now owned by
Dr. Underwood. In 1814 he moved with his family one mile below
Proctor, and built a house on a run which now bears his name.

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