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1840 Jackson, VA
1m 5-10
1m 30-40
2f 0-5
1f 20-30
1850 Jackson, VA # 439-443/444
Rader M. C. 43 M Farmer Va
Rader Rebecca 37 F Va
Rader Jacob W 16 M Farmer Va
Rader Nancy M 14 F Va
Rader Elizabeth C 12 F Va
Rader Elias C 7 M Va
Rader Hannah 70 F Va
Hartley Avba 40 F Va
Hartley John 4 M Va
1860 JC # 473-441
Michael C 56
Rebecca 43
Elizabeth C 20
Elias C 17
Board, Benjamin, 23
Nancy Margaret 23
Hyre, Lenora 9
1870 Washington Dist, Jackson, WV # 6 l/w Nancy & Ben
Rader, Michael C, 64, carperter
Rebecca, 57
1880 Washington, Jackson, West Virginia Page 400A
l/w Benj. B. BOARDE
Rebecca RADER MotherL F W W 64 WV VA VA
John House, "Pioneers of Jackson Co":
Michael Campbell Rader, the second child of James Rader, was born in Mason County, in 1807, and when James Rader moved, which was at the same time his father came, or soon after, the child's mother carried him on a feather bed in her lap.
The child would have been over a year old, and it must have been before the birth of John Rader in 1810.
This fixes the date of coming to Elk at 1808 or 1809.
M. C. Rader owned one thousand acres, including the Ben Bord and Jesse Allen (H. Parrish) farms. He moved to the Mill Creek side of the hill in 1837, and built his cabin at the end of the long low point, above Mr. B. B. Bord's, where the big cedar trees are standing. Later he built on the site of the residence of Mr. Bord. The silver maple tree in the front yard, he set out in 1869, the white pine in 1842.
Soon after moving to Mill Creek, M. C. Rader built a little water mill against the high rocky hillside where the spruce pines grow, across from where he built his first cabin.
This mill was washed out by floods two or three times, and as often rebuilt.
There is a millstone to be seen at the Tom Rader house up on the point from the ford, where Joe Parsons is said to have built his cabin. It is twenty two inches across, and four inches thick, and may have been used in the mill above mentioned.
It has, so the story goes, done service in a horsemill, in grinding corn for the manufacture of johnny cake and corn dodgers, which were eaten with bear meat ninety years ago. Now it is degraded to the baser service of a doorstep, at the gate.
There is a pleasant fiction that the Michael Rader farm was traded for these hand mill buhrs.
An Anthony Rader, living in Nicholas County, made a "bear trap", Isaac Fitzwater also made one. These were used by Anthony McClung, of Nicholas, and were both in existence at Summersville some years ago.
Michael C. Rader married Rebecca, daughter of Jacob Hyre. He was born in 1807, and died in 1880, and his wife born in 1813 and died in 1882. They were married in 1832. A copy of their family record, is as follows:
Michael C. Rader, born November 29th, 1807, died April 14th, 1880. Married Rebecca Hyre who was born August 26th, 1813, and died May 11th, 1882. They were married June 7th, 1832. Their children:
Jacob Webster Clay Rader, born April 18th, 1834.
Nancy Margaret Rader, born October 14th, 1835.
Mary Rader, born in 1837, married Ben Bord.
Sandusky V. Rader, born October 12th, 1837, died September 28th, 1838.
Elizabeth Catharine Rader, born August 16th, 1839.
Nancy Ann Rader, born March 21st, 1841, died January 9th, 1848.
There were sons born in 1833 and 1844, who died in infancy.
Inscriptions on gravestones which are in Ben Bord Cemetery read:
M.C. Rader, born November 29, 1807, died April 14, 1880. Aged seventy-two years four months.
Rebecca, wife of M.C. Rader, born August 26, 1813, died May 11, 1882, aged sixty-eight years eight months.
Michael Campbell Rader was the second son of James Rader and was born NOvember 29, 1807, somewhere in Mason County. The Raders moved to Elk Fork when he was a year or two old.
In 1832, he married Rebecca Hyre, daughter of Jacob Hyre, Sr., and in 1833 or 4 moved over the hill onto Mill Creek, where he owned 1000 acres of land, including the Bord and Hamp Parish Farms.
He built a little cabin at the turn of the road where the sand lies so thick. He put up a water mill by the steep rocky hillside opposite. The mill was washed out and rebuilt several times.
There are two of M.C. Rader's children buried in the Rader Graveyard.
Nancy Ann, daughter of M.C. and R. Rader, was born March 21, 1841 and died January 9, 1848, aged seven years two months old.
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