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I meant to post the following link instead of the one above to the History of Logan County WV by Henry Clay Ragland.
http://www.angelfire.com/wv/snr/tsloghist.html
Brenda Ferrell Sampsel wrote: History of Logan County, W.Va.
by Henry Clay Ragland
“Reuben Thacker made the first settlement at what is now known as Thacker. He came from the James River Valley, remained for a few years, giving to the creek its name, and then moved further west. ”
http://mingogenealogy.com/Early%20Settlers/Reuben%20Thacker.html
I have no way of knowing if the Thackers in Pike Co. KY & Logan Co. WV are related to the Thackers being discussed here or not, but it would be nice to know if they were since the Tug River and Big Sandy area of WV & KY has been a location where we find reports of Blackfoot ancestors.
My 3 great grandpa James Vance was shot & killed by a McCoy “posse” from Kentucky up on Thacker Mountain. My Grandpa Harry Steele worked at the Thacker station for the N & W railroad when he was a young man.
Hey Spilleddi,
Did you ever connect your Thacker’s to the Pike, KY bunch? That would be so very wonderful:)
Shirley
Brenda Ferrell Sampsel wrote: I meant to post the following link instead of the one above to the History of Logan County WV by Henry Clay Ragland.
Wow, I can’t believe what you can stumble across…Nicholas County Deragland, is this a relative?:)
Shirley
I hadn’t thought about trying to relate my Thackers to the ones in KY, since mine stayed in Virginia. I think they are related. I’ll look in my records and get back to you on that next month. I’m heading out of town tomorrow for a couple weeks.
spilleddi wrote: I hadn’t thought about trying to relate my Thackers to the ones in KY, since mine stayed in Virginia. I think they are related. I’ll look in my records and get back to you on that next month. I’m heading out of town tomorrow for a couple weeks.
I see such similarities in the surnames, times and places…if only I had the time I would really like to put it all together, so we could all see the big picture:) Have a safe trip.
Shirley
For the life of me I can’t find much of my Thacker records, I haven’t worked on this family for a while. I’ve been giving more emphasis lately to documenting stories from elderly relatives. I figure the books will still be around 10 years from now, but not granny.
Heres just the Reuben Thackers in my family, I got this from another researcher. These Thackers lived in Hanover, Louisa and Albermale counties VA before heading west.
William Thacker b abt. 1690 in Virginia d.bef. 1768 in Hanover County, Virginia
Marriage: “Cherokee” Indian
Children: Reuben Thacker b: ABT. 1740 in Virginia, d abt. 1814 in Cabell County, (West) Virginia
Marriage: “Cherokee” Indian
Childern: Reuben Thacker Jr b: 15 OCT 1764 in Lynchburg, Bedford County, Virginia
Heres some more Virginia Thackers I dug up.
Nathaniel Thacker, d. 1805, Pittsylvania Co., VA,
Marriage: Kisiah (Cassie) Evans.
Children: Peter Thacker
Marriage: Jenny Bradley 1789 in Pittsylvania Co., VA
Kids married into Atkins and Goodwin family.
For those of you researching Adkins and Dalton, Virginia Thackers also married into those lines, so who knows, we may be distant cousins. I think the Daltons they married into may have been the Pamunkey Daltons.
Hey Spilleddi and all,
Would ya be interested in knowing the Thackers listed in Haithcock’s “VA Indian Census” book? The 1850 Hanover County list is all Thacker except for one or two Ragland families.
Bear in mind, though, that I have no idea how he determined which families were Indian.
FWIW, one of the Patrick County Corn family descendants disagrees with their inclusion in this work.
Sure, does he mention any Butlers as well? Any one out of Louisa county?
I flipped through one of Haithcock’s books once, and found information from another book I have talking about the Cherokee identity of Thacker cousins that ended up in Ohio. Theres some problems with his presentation of that information. It gets you in the right direction, but you need to find the original sources to get the whole picture.
Yeah, I know there are probably some families included in the book that should not be. Would love to find original sources, but do not know what they are.
Anyway, Thackers in 1850 Hanover CO:
William and what looks like 3 children–Sarah, James, and Mary E. Thacker
Moses and Jane
Charles and Elizabeth & 8 children
John and Elizabeth & 4 children
Louisa (age 28), Cassandra (age 26), Mahaley (age 21), James (15), and Jonathan (11)
No Butlers
Thackers in 1850 Louisa CO:
William (age 28) and Martha (27) with 3 children, plus a Robert Thacker (31)
John (62) and Mary (62), with another Robert (28), Susan, Anna
Elizabeth (age 16) is all by herself, but probably belongs in John’s family above or possibly John’s family below
John and Elizabeth, both age 25 and 2 small children
Purrington & Elizabeth, with a small child and what appears to be a parent, Betsy Thacker all in this family are listed as Mulatto (No race given for any of the previous in Hanover or Louisa)
No Butler listed
Others listed are Dalton, Napper, and Johnson
Let me know if you need more of the names. Too many to type and be the wrong family. ;~)
sammarroq;30262 wrote: Wow, I can’t believe what you can stumble across…Nicholas County Deragland, is this a relative?:)
Shirley
I haven’t found any links to Henry Clay Ragland but have hit a wall researching my Ragand roots. My paternal GGrandmother was Bertie(Birdie) Ragland and I have no info on her.
David
deragland;33959 wrote: I haven’t found any links to Henry Clay Ragland but have hit a wall researching my Ragand roots. My paternal GGrandmother was Bertie(Birdie) Ragland and I have no info on her.
David
I don’t doubt that…just out of curiosity I looked up your surename on ancestry…the most information available is one who came from Wales in the 1170’s…makes me think the name took on some different variants over the years, would be quite interesting to find those changes:)
I was in WV in May, visiting family…was much too short:( Hope all is well and take care:)
Shirley
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