Elizabeth Knotts

1816 - 1905  (89 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Knotts
  Born	2 Jul 1816	Preston Co, WV   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	14 Dec 1905  [1]
  Notes	Burying Grounds, by John A House The Independence Graveyard After visiting the churchyard, I returned a short distance to where lives an old lady, Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, and spent a pleasant hour in conversation with her. Mrs. Custer was born Knotts, on the second day of July 1816, and was well started in her eighty-ninth year. She was raised in Preston County, where in 1834, she married Jeptha Magee and moved to Sandy Valley. They lived a while on Daniel Sears' place at Sandyville and seven years on the Joe Leap Farm. In 1847, Magee bought land where she now lives and put up the house she yet lives in. It has been weather boarded and has a wide old fashioned porch in front, cool and shady on which the old lady was seated. She was very communicative and seemed glad to have some one to talk to, someone who had come ten miles just to talk with her. She said it seemed like people didn't pay much attention to her, that she had outlived her time. What the present generation talked about did not interest her and the young people did not like to talk about old times. She was well preserved, intelligent and quite spry for her age. She is living with some of her grand children, perhaps. The house is at the head of two little runs, in a low gap, one of them is a tributary of Copper Fork, the other of Beatties Run. In the yard is a magnificent beech tree, three feet in diameter with wide spreading top. The old lady is quite attached to this tree which was about as thick as a stove pipe when they moved there in the woods, fifty-seven years ago. She told me much of the first settlers, of their customs and hardships and victories. She said the graveyard was opened some years before the church was built, but it is of comparatively recent date, yet there are many old people buried there, some of them pioneers.
  Person ID	I13021	WVPioneers
  Last Modified	24 May 2005

  
  

  Father	Edward Knotts,   b. Between 1780 and 1785, Delaware ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Mary Bryan,   b. Maryland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Notes	1850 Wirt Co # 259 ?? Edward Knotts, 66, NC James, 23, VA 1880 JC , l/w with Daniel & Malinda Williams James, 58, bil, PA 1900 census shows their parents were born in PA - so maybe this isn't right
  Family ID	F5510	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jeptha McGee,   b. 22 Jul 1815,   d. 12 Jan 1859  (Age 43 years)
  Married	1834	Preston Co, WV
  Notes	1840 Jackson, VA Geptha McGhee 2m 0-5 Albert, Allen? 1m 5-10 1m 20-30 1f 0-5 1f 20-30 1850 Jackson, VA # 924-930 McGee Jeptha 36 M Farmer Va McGee Elizabeth 34 F Va McGee Alfred 14 M Va McGee Mary 12 F Va McGee Allen 9 M Va McGee Rebecca 7 F Va McGee Ursulla 5 F Va McGee Chas E 2 M Va 1860 Jackson, VA # 1043-981 Anna Elizabeth, 44 Albert, 24 Allen, 20 Ursula, 15 Charles E, 12 (Elizabeth and Jeptha possibly had at least 2 stillborn children one of which was born just 5 days after Jeptha died)
  Children	1. Albert G McGee,   b. Abt 1836, Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Mary Jane McGee,   b. 1 Feb 1838, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 3 Mar 1928, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA  (Age 90 years)   3. Guy Allen McGee,   b. Abt 1841, Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Rebecca Ann McGee,   b. Abt 1843, Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Ursula F McGee,   b. Abt 1846, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Charles E McGee,   b. Abt 1848, Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Baby McGee,   d. 1 Oct 1853, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA   8. Infant McGee,   b. 17 Jan 1859,   d. 17 Jan 1859  (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F4463	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	John Peter Custer,   b. Abt 1817, Virginia, USA ,   d. 1902  (Age ~ 85 years)
  Married	11 Oct 1863	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA   [2]
  Notes	1870 JC Gilmore Dist # 77 John P 52 Elizabeth 54 1880 JC Ravenswood Dist # 286-288 John P 62 Elizabeth 64 Grant, Okey C, 11, nephew Holman, J, 33, domestic Grant, Lucy, 14, waiter After John's death, she lived with her grandson, James Freeman Blake and his wife Mollie Alice and their 4 boys.
  Family ID	F5509	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 2 Jul 1816 - Preston Co, WV Married - 1834 - Preston Co, WV  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S102] John House - Cemeteries. [S17] Marriage Records, Jackson Co, WV.