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This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Mill Creek".
Rader Family
Michael Rader lived on the first farm up Elk. He owned at one time several thousand acres of land, including the lower part of Elk Fork and Mill Creek, up to above where Hamp Parish now lives, all lower Station Camp, and a large part of Frozen Camp.
He lived at the Mackintosh farm, about a mile up from Mill Creek, where he moved from Mason County before 1810, probably 1808.
He was born in the Shenandoah Valley, of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. It is related of him that he talked a very broken English.
The house Michael Rader lived in was just below where the Mackintosh house now stands, the latter is the Joesy Rader house.
He built a mill on Elk, the first excepting Thomas's mill, on the creek above Ripley.
Rader was wealthy and kept several negro slaves, as did his sons after him.
One of these, Adam by name, was mostly employed in hunting, and kept up the supply of meat for the family. It was he who found the elk from which the stream received its name.
Michael Rader went from the Shenandoah Valley to Greenbrier County, thence to Mason, and to what is now Jackson County.
Michael Rader was a member of the first County Court of Mason County, a the time of its organization in 1804.
In 1835, Michael Rader was receiving a pension from the State of Virginia, as a Militia man. County and date of enlistment not given.
While I have not the date of his death, he was eighty three years old in 1835, which makes the year of his birth about 1751.
Rader Family Record, copied from the family Bible in 1903:
Michael Rader, born March 8th, 1751, married to Catharine Long December 25th, 1769. Their children:
Elizabeth Rader, born December 28th, 1771.
Catharine Rader, born December 29th, 1773.
Susannah Rader, born December 23rd, 1776.
Abraham Rader, born January 20th, 1779.
James Rader, born January 28th, 1782.
Philip Rader, born March 26th, 1784.
Polly Rader, born February 18th, 1786.
Michael Rader, Jr., born February 12th, 1788. He had a pension for service in the War of 1812.
Joseph Rader, born October 21st, 1790. (Died in 1880.)
History of Ritchie County gives the name of Joseph A. Rader.
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West Virginia Pioneers
1790 - 1880 (90 years)
