George Washington 'Wash' Rader

1814 - 1868  (54 years)

• Name	George Washington 'Wash' Rader
  Born	9 Jul 1814	MA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Sep 1868  [2]
  Person ID	I10770	WVPioneers
  Last Modified	24 May 2005

  
  

  Father	Michael Rader, Jr,   b. 12 Feb 1788, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 18 Mar 1862  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Catherine Roush,   b. 27 Jun 1792, Virginia, USA ,   d. 6 Jul 1886, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA  (Age 94 years)
  Married	23 Feb 1813	Gallia County, Ohio, USA   [3]
  Notes	1840 JC 1m 10-15 1m 50-60 1f 15-20 1f 40-50 slaves 5 1850 JC # 441-446 Rader Michael 63 M Farmer Va Rader Catherine 58 F Ohio Hopkins William 21 M Farmer Va 1860 JC # 516-481 Michael Jr 73 Catherine 69? William 33 Elizabeth 32 Samuel B 10 John W 9 George A 7 Thomas J 5 Alexander H 2 JCWR, 1 - 68 dated 2/1/1861, Prob 9/5/1867 wife Catherine, sons, Abraham, George Washington, William, Dau Mrs Elvira (Alexander) Keeney, step-dau Elizabeth (Pfost) Harrison, exec William Rader, slaves to be freed on death of wife Buried - Mt Olive Cemetery, Gay, Jackson Co, WV John House "Pioneers of Jackson Co" Michael Rader, Jr., lived on Mill Creek below the mouth of Joe's run. He was a drummer in Captain Billy's company in the War of 1812. He married Catharine Roush, of Mason County, and lived on the farm above the mouth of Station Camp. One informant places the site of his first cabin at the old apple trees by the ford where the Joe Parsons cabin is said to have been located. Afterward, he lived in the low gap up on the point, west of the ford. This land all belonged to his father, who sold it to him, as witnessed by two deeds, on record at the Clerk's office, at Ripley: December 18th, 1828, Michael Rader sold to Michael Rader, Jr., for Three Hundred Dollars, one hundred and fifty acres of land lying on Trace Fork of Big Mill creek, above the old cabin formerly occupied by Joseph Parsons, and joining lands of Andrew Lewis. The deed is executed in Mason County. Witnessed by: (Signed) Michael Rader John Rader her Michael Rader Catherine X Rader mark Another deed is for two tracts, and is dated May 29th, 1834. One hundred acres of land patented to Michael Rader, July 18th, 1815, by Governor W. C. Nicholson, described as beginning at a black gum near the path at the first fording of the creek above the mouth of Station Camp, and running onto Station Camp. The other, patented by John Tyler, in June, 1826, lies north of this, consideration Ten Dollars. In the early days of the settlements, the road crossed the creek above J. A. Parsons, and went up through the low gap, crossing again at the old Joe Parsons cabin, instead of following around the creek, as now. Hart Rader, says Mike Rader, first built a few rods below the ford, at the mouth of Joe's Run. Children: "Wash" Rader (George W.) Born in 1814, died in 1868, first built where store is at Joe's Run, afterward moved to the Charley Shinn farm. He was clerk in a store at Reedy, in 1844 or 1845, where there was already a small improvement. Abe Rader married Polly Aultz first, second Mary Bush. He lived first at the Charley Shinn farm, and moved to Sycamore about the 1890's. He was born in 1817 and died about 1897. Will Rader married a Dye, and lived at the Low Gap across Mill Creek, below the old ford. Elvira Rader married Alec Keeney, and lived where the old apple trees are, below Cal Parishes. He sold groceries and whiskey. Rebels raided his store and burned the goods. Whiskey ran in a blaze down on the creek. Bet Rader married Wash Pfost.
  Family ID	F3588	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy J Miller,   b. Abt 1824, Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	7 Apr 1840	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA   [4]
  Notes	1840 Jackson, VA 1m 20-30 1f 10-15 1850 Jackson, VA # 443-448 Rader George W 36 M Farmer Va Rader Nancy 26 F Va Rader Elizabeth H 3 F Va Strally Barthemia A 19 F Va 1860 Jackson, VA # 460-428 George W, 46 Nancy J, 38 Elizabeth E, 13 Abraham G A, 7 [Alonzo] 1870 Mill Creek Dist,, Jackson, WV # 419 Nancy Jane 44 Abraham G A, 16 1880 Ripley, Jackson, West Virginia Page 429A l/w Alonza RADER Nancy J. RADER Mother F W W 57 OH PA PA John House, "Pioneers of Jackson Co": George W. Rader was born (from record on tombstone) July 9th, 1814, and died September 18th, 1868, aged fifty four years. He married Nancy Miller, a daughter of Kitts Miller, and Aunt of Judge Warren Miller. George W., commonly called Wash Rader, lived on the Charley Shinn farm, on Station Camp, where his daughter Ellen, who married Shinn, now lives. It is said that he built a cabin near where the pike crosses Joe's Run, when he first married. In letters to Abe Rader, who was in the west, written just after the war, he mentions a son, Alonzo, and two daughters, Ellen, who married Charley Shinn, and Eliza. These letters throw light on the conditions in Jackson County, just after the war. Wash and Abe Rader were Union men, the remainder of the family all being Confederates. Under date of May 21st, 1865, he writes – "We have had a very early spring, and we have had some very high waters. On the 9th day of May, the creek was over my floor, as it was in 1852. It was twenty three inches over my house floor (probably an old house nearer the water). I had a nasty time. It only took off three hundred rails for me. I am nearly done planting. I have about two acres to put in a the Gabbert place yet, and then I'm done. I have some corn that is large enough to work. My wheat and grass all looks well. Stock is high. I sold my big oxen the first week in May, for One hundred fifty dollars. They would have weighed a thousand pounds a piece. That was seven and a half cents a pound. The thieves is still a stealing horses, grain, chickens, meat, etc. I have Bill Harper's Charley, and two weeks ago Thursday night, some rascal stole him and took him off. I don't know where, and the next morning about seven o'clock, he came back. Two weeks ago they stole two horse from Tom Wilkerson, and I have not heard of them since." Under date of July 3rd, 1868, he writes – "The weather here is extremely hot for the last two weeks and very dry for two weeks today. I have been cutting wheat for two days, and I have just one hundred dozen cut. I will have fifty more, I think. Our county is almost taxed to death, my tax last year was Seventy three Dollars, and this year we are building a new bridge at Ravenswood, and we will have to pay Nine thousand dollars for the bridge. In the last two years, we have had to pay over Sixteen thousand dollars for bridges in the county. My taxes for township purposes is Thirty eight dollars this fall. I will be strapped, I know. There is a great deal of party strife here at present. Our Rebels feel very big since Johnson's trial is over." On the 4th of October, 1868, Charley Shinn wrote Abram Rader to announce the death of Wash, on the 18th of the previous month, after "laying sick" "about five weeks", he first "took" the "information of the brain", followed by "billious feaver" and "newmonia". Dr. "Bectal" "on Grass Lick" "tended on" him three weeks. He also states that the fall was so wet that "corn has pretty near all rotted". The water had been fifteen inches higher than ever before known.
  Children	1. Elizabeth Ellen A Rader,   b. 13 Nov 1846, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 11 Mar 1928, Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, USA  (Age 81 years)   2. Abraham G Alonzo Rader,   b. 9 Aug 1852, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 23 Jun 1940, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA  (Age 87 years)   3. Mary Sarah A C Rader,   b. 5 Apr 1856, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 7 Oct 1859, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA  (Age 3 years)   4. Ellen Rader,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3598	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S1205] Census. [S70] John House. [S61] Marriage Records, Gallia Co, OH. [S17] Marriage Records, Jackson Co, WV.