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P A
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Outline
of the Cheuvront Family in America
by:
Wesley L. Cheuvront
from
A Brief History of the Cheuvront Family In America
Children of
CALEB and REBECCA COVERT CHEUVRONT, cont'd
1:
JOSEPH[5?] Cheuvront
was born in the stone house of his grandparents Morris and Mary Mann
Covert, near Uniontown PA on July 4, 1821. He married Barbara
Stewart of Elk Creek and settled in West Union WV prior to the Civil
War, where he first operated a cabinet-making shop and then a general store.
He was once asked what percent he made on his goods and was reputed to
have said, "Percent be d---ed, I don't know anything about your percent,
but I know if I buy anything for $1.00 and sell it for $2.00, I ain't losing
anything." That's the way he operated until he accumulated an estate
of some $100,000.
Most of the children
of Joseph[5] and Barbara Stewart
Cheuvront died rather young, and at the time of Joseph[5]'s
death only two remained, Lucy and her brother Charles Stewart.
Lucy [b.
abt 1855, m 1 April 1875 (see
below) to Victor E.] Dotson
and had four children: Joe, Doll, Kate, and John. Joe Dotson was
cashier of the West Union Bank.
Charles Stewart
Cheuvront had six girls, four of whom, Lucy[2],
Undine, Ethel, and Orpha, lived to be married. Lucy[2]
married a Charles Burnside and had two daughters in Park, Clarksburg, WVa
[one of whom, Mrs. Hazel Butler, W.L. Cheuvront noted in 1950 was very
interested in family history].
Undine married Albert
Greene and had three or four daughters, but died comparatively young.
Ethel married Albert Greene but had no children, and Orpha married Amos
Lowell and had three or four sons who lived in Detroit, MI.
While he left no
descendants by the Cheuvront name, Joseph[5]
is perpetuated by a prominent street in the county seat town of West Union,
and Cheuvront Avenue is the only street in the
world that has our name [see
photos]. A large glass in the window of
the Methodist Church at West Union WV also bears the Cheuvront name.
He represented Doddridge
Co. in the second Wheeling Convention when the State of West Virginia was
formed.
NOTE: referenced (and conflicting) information
submitted by Annetta Burgess to WV GenWeb:
CHEUVRONT, James--b ca 1821 Virginia, m B.
Ann, b ca 1826 Va; Doddridge Co., WV in 1860; cabinet maker; children:
E. F.--male, born ca 1852, 1860 Doddridge
Co., WV Census #236-237
Lucy M.--born ca 1855, married Victor
E. DOTSON 1 April 1875 Doddridge Co., West Virginia
Adam--born ca 1859, 1860 Doddridge
Co., WV Census #236-237
William/H.?--born ca 1842
Source: 1860 Doddridge Co., WV Census
#236-237
Source: Doddridge County WV Marriages
and also:
CHEUVRONT, Joseph--born 4 July 1821 Fayette
Co., Pennsylvania, s/o Caleb CHEUVRONT & Rebecca COVERT, who died before
1883 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania; married first B. A. H. STEWART,
who was born 30 April 1823 and died 27 February 1877, d/o Edward &
Margaret STEWART; married 2nd in West Union, Doddridge Co., West Virginia
Mary RIPLEY, who was born in Doddridge County, d/o William B. RIPLEY &
Maggy M. JARVIS JONES; moved to Doddridge Co., West Virginia August 1845;
jp, member first convention for the division of the state; merchant, owned
Grant House, West Union, Doddridge Co;
children:
by first wife:
Edward--born 9 October 1852
Lucy M.--born 2 January 1855, married
--- DOTSON
Charles S.--born 28 February 1859
Ellsworth--born 9 December 1861, died
15 January 1867
Jane--born 3 March 1865, died 19 February
1874
Source: Hardestys WV Counties, Vol.2,
p. 42
(preceding via Annetta
Burgess, who has submitted this file for use in the WVGenWeb Archives.
It may be freely copied, but may not be sold. Copyright 1996 Annetta Burgess.)
[It's possible
that the two men here could be the same person--perhaps read from different
transcripts, maybe from a listing of "Jos"which looked like "Jas"--or that
they were brothers taking care of one another's kids during the census
counter's visit?] |
2:
ELIZABETH Cheuvront, first daughter of Caleb and Rebecca, was born
at Uniontown PA on May 25, 1823. She married on Oct. 31, 1845 to
the the Rev. Henry Myers Miller, a local Methodist Minister who came from
Berkeley Co as a schoolteacher. He had been previously married and
had one feeble-minded son, John Miller, who worked for years on the Cheuvront
farm and about whom many amusing incedents are related.
The children of
Henry and Elizabeth Cheuvront Miller include:
Rebecca Virginia
Miller, Isaac Newton Miller, Benjamin Franklin Miller, George Miller, and
Mary C. Miller Gaines Cumberledge.
Rebecca Virginia
Miller,born Dec. 28, 1846, died Jan. 19, 1897, married Wilson Kirk Shinn
on Sep. 21, 1873, and lived on Arnold's Creek, Doddridge Co, WVa.
Her descendants include Henry Hubert "Hank" Shinn, former newspaper columnist
and editor of the Doddridge County Herald, and Leo Clovis Shinn,
who got a Master's degree from West Virginia Univ in 1930.
Benjamin Franklin
Miller, born Dec. 1850 married first to Ellen Netzer, who died in childbirth,
then to a Widow Douglas. They lived in Ohio.
Isaac Newton Miller,
born Feb. 27, 1848, died married.
Mary C. Miller Gaines
Cumberledge had two rather large families, but among her descendants are:
first family:
the William Ellsworth
and Mary Elizabeth Gaines Batton family, which includes Eunice Maude Batton
Dotson from Pennsboro, WVa, Charles Okey Batton from New Martinsville,
Olive Batton of Akron Ohio, Hazel Batton of Parkersburg; Grace [Mrs. Charles
E.] Haga of near Cairo; Russell G. Batton of Akron, Ohio, and Homer Woods
Batton of Washington, D.C.
[second family]
Geneva (Mrs. John)
Reed of Fairmount and Mrs. W.W. Smith of Bridgeport.
[W.L. Cheuvront
notes that] a conspicuous monument marks the grave of Mary Cheuvront Gaines
Cumberledge, who owned and operated a general store at West Milford for
many years before mobing to West Union, WVa.
George Miller, son
of Henry and Elizabeth Cheuvront Miller, died with Dyphtheria at age 2.
(in his text W.L. Cheuvront notes a story that when the family started
toward the Old Bethel Cemetery with his coffin in a buggy down a steep
hill, some straps on the harness broke. Frightened, the horse pitched
little George's coffin from the buggy and burst it open. The burial
had to be deferred until the following day.) |
3:
JEREMIAH PATTERSON Cheuvront was born Oct. 2, 1826, at Uniontown,
Pa. where Caleb, his father, kept a tavern, and named for the friend of
the family, Jeremiah Patterson, who owned the building where this tavern
was located.
[W. L. Cheuvront
relates a story that when the baby was four years old his father gave him
a gift of a tiny axe to take out into the garden to chop corn stubs, but
in a little while the boy came back to lay on the floor saying "I'm done,
I'm all done."
Noting the boy had
a raging fever, his distraught mother interpreted that he meant he was
"all through with his life" rather than corn stubs.
Little Jerry's fever--then
called "brain fever",now called Meningitis--lasted four or five weeks,
prompting his father Caleb to promise his life's service to God if the
boy's life was spared.
Evidently Caleb's
prayers worked, as it's noted that Caleb kept his promise and was appointed
Class-Leader at the Old Bethel (Ellsworth) Church soon after, and in addition
became Chairman of the Building Committee for the New Bethel Church and
its Class-Leader until Caleb's death 30 years later.]
Jeremiah came to
West Virginia with his father Caleb in the spring of 1832. He married Mariamme
Brooks, eldest daughter of the Rev. Richard L. and Judith Adkins Brooks,
on Feb. 24, 1857. The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Boyd Elakeney,
pastor of the First Methodist Church in Clarksburg, WV. The Bride's
father, who had helped form the Constitution of West Va., and had represented
Upshur Co. in the Wheeling Constituional Convention of 1863, steadfastly
refused to offciate at any of his children's marriages.
[see
a list of Jeremiah Patterson and Mariamne Brooks Cheuvront here]
see Jeremiah
Patterson and Mariamne's headstone here
At the time of his
marriage, Jeremiah P. Cheuvront owned and operated a general store at West
Milford, and, as he was an honest man, unfortunately never refused credit
to anyone. The result was that there are still [1950] hundreds of
unpaid bills in connection with his store.
Jerry and Mariamme
set up house just out the street that runs below the high school building
[1950] in West Milford , and lived there until 1859, when their second
son Charles Ellsworth was born and Jerry sold the store to his brother-in-law
Henry Miller (who also operated another store across the street).
Jerry was perfecting plans to join his brother Morris, who wrote of wonderful
opportunities in Illinois, but his other brother Joe [Joseph(5?)]
came from West Union WV and persuaded him to abandon the idea.
Joe assured Jerry that if Jerry would take care of the parents [Caleb
and Rebecca], then Joe would see that Jerry got the entire home
farm. [Joe evidently changed his mind, and after
paying off a few debts, later took over the farm for himself.]
Jerry, with his wife
and two sons moved into Caleb's home, to live with Caleb and Rebecca, along
with Jerry's sister Mary and her son Ellsworth. Eventually the strain
of that many families under one roof caused Jerry's wife to persuade him
to build a 3-room house alongside the big house. Boyd and Charley
both died here [no dates or causes given] and six or seven of their [Jerry
and Mariamme's] children were born.
On Dec. 8, 1878,
while the family was at church, the small house caught fire, burning up
everything Jerry owned, then spread to the big house as well. [more about
this here]
[Jerry
died in 1889, on the morning of Sep. 12. W.L. Cheuvront states that
he had been hauling rock for the bridge construction at Good Hope, and
had been in a hurry when he arrived at the rock quarry at 7am. His
wagon was loaded with three large rocks, and as he started down the
hill from the quarry to the road opposite Midway met with a strange accident.
Other team drivers going uphill to load found his body under his wagon,
one shoulder chocking the rear wheel that had run through his head.
He had only been dead a few minutes.] |
-from A Brief History of the Cheuvront Family in
America, J. Howard Cheuvront, 1972
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