(488.) PHOEBE McDONALD (101.) (13.) (2.) (1.):
b. c1816; m. JOHNSON MILLISON; b. c1813.CH: (1374.) Peter. (Others?).
1850 Census, Hampshire Co., Va.: Johnson Millison, 37, Ohio; Phebe, 34, Va.; Peter, 8/12, Va.
(1352.) to (1374.) No further record.
S/o William Monroe. They settled in Calhoun Co., W. VA. Sent by Wilmer Kerns.
Capon Valley 1698 to 1940 by Maud Pugh.
Lucy and Thomas Monroe had removed to Calhoun Co., W.Va. near the Little Kanawha River before the Civil War. The writer with her Aunt Effa Monroe, wife of Alexander Monroe, (grandson of the Baptist preacher) went to visit her in the early nineties. She had several children, all grown. The oldest living son, Arthur T. Monroe was married and lived several miels from his parents in a cottage near the Little Kanawha River. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe were both then old people, but she resembled her brother, Joseph S. Hiet. There sisters married brothers.
This couple at once, with practically no material means, pioneered to the then wilds of Southwestern Virginia, settling on land near the Little Kanawha River about Burning Springs now in Calhoun Co., West Vir. She was spirited and ambitious, he was a good man but plodding. The writier visited and talked with her in her declining years, she recounting her life's struggles to bring up her children. Mrs. Hiett Monroe had never been able to return to Hampshire to viist her kin who were well known to the writer, but strangers to Mrs. Monroe.
The struggles of these pioneers have been richly rewarded in the generations of fine citizenry.(455.) LUCY HIETT (98.) (13.) (2.) (1.):
May or may not be a d/o John Hiett (not named in her father's will). m. THOMAS MONROE.
John was a farmer in the North River Mills Section of Hampshire Co. The 1850 census shows him as widower, living with his eldest son, Joseph S. Hiett.
(98.) JOHN HIETT (13.) (2.) (1.):
b. c1775, Hampshire Co., Va.; d. c1857, Hampshire Co., Va.; m. (1st)., date not known, to --- McBRIDE, parentage unknown; b. date and place not known; d. date and place not known; m. (2nd)., date not known, MARTHA ELIZABETH TANSY, parentage unknown; b. date and place not known; d. date not known, prob. Hampshire Co., Va.
CH: (It is not known which are by first wife and which are by second wife.) (451.) Elizabeth; (452.) Lydia Ann; (453.) Joseph S.; (454.) Arthur Tansy; (455.) ? Lucy.
The will of John Hiett was dated 23 February 1856, and proven 28 January 1857, Hampshire Co., Va. He names: son Joseph S. Hiett and his wife, C. E., son Arthur T., dau. Lydia Ann Monroe, dau. Elizabeth Capper, and the heirs of George Scharf.
References:
(1) Hiatt-Hiett Family by William Perry Johnson, page 73.
From a posting by Dr. Wilmer Kerns, he adds to his report:
This family graveyard contains the remains of some of hte pioneer settles to Hampshire Co. (Jonathan HIETT graveyard, high on a hill on the west side of the river.) Here are buried Bethel and Rebecca Tansy Pugh (1740-1822), for example. The cast iron fence which surroudns the graveyard was removed from teh gounds of the courthouse in Romney, after the Hampshire County Courthouse was destroyed druign the 1920's. (Note: The courthouse building was not burned during the Civil War, contrary to public opinion.) Although the graveyard is located in an isolated section of Hampshire county, it is still in relatively good condition. Unlike the Evan HIETT graveyard on Sandy Ridge, this graveyard has not been ravaged or marauded by domestic animals.
Larry Anderson's book p.9.
Capon Valley 1698-1940 by Maud Pugh. Elizabeth (Betsy) Tansy was sister to the wife of Captain Jonathan Pugh.
Larry Anderson's book p. 37.
Larry Anderson's book p. 38 & 95. Died in young manhood. He was a very
intelligent and able debater of his day.