WILLIAM RAMEY'S GENEALOGY LINE

WILLIAM RAMEY INFO AND WILL

PIKE COUNTY-Will Book "B" page 50,12th day of April in the year 1864
"Having another tract of land,1490 acres of land in the State of Virginia and in Buchanan County on the Grassey Creek on 4 survey adjoining another on the right hand fork and left hand fork of said right hand fork of Grassey Creek, beginning on the said left hand fork of said creek just above Lazarus Hunts Plantation on the right hand side of the creek in a small flat on said creek marked "A" and No. 48 thense crossing the creek to a Beech marked "B" and No. 48 at the mouth of a branch crossing the line of the 400 acres tract of land straight forward to the back line of the 397 acres thence beginning at the aforesaid Beech Marked "A" and No 48, thence runnigma South course straight across the 400 acre tract to the 397 acre tract and with the line of the same to the other line," "I give a portion of the above tract or parcel of land unto my Daughters, to wit- NANCY BELCHER AND EASTER STEWART, that is to say I give unto NANCY BELCHER her part, beginning at the beginning corner of the survey and running with the line thereof and Potters to the State line and with the State line up Grassey Creek to where the line crosses the low fork of said creek, down the creek to the mouth, then crossing the main creek and up the point of the ridge straight to the dividing ridge between Grassey and Beaver Creek, thense N-45 W--crossing the survey to the back line and with the line thereof back to the beginning to the said Nancy Belcher her body forever."
DIED: SEP 1889
JOSEPH OWNED A GRIST MILL NEAR THE MOUTH OF EIGHT-MILE-HOLLOW, KANAWHA CO WVA
HE LOST IT TRYING TO FREE HIS SONS FROM MURDER CHARGES IN 1875
CHILDREN:

1. 14 1..ALLEN BELCHER B 1832 KY DIED 1881 MALDEN WVA
   LISTED AS 18 YRS OLD 1850 KANAWHA CO WVA CENSUS MARRIED TO: REBECCA QUIN GUYN 1861
   14 2..POLLY BELCHER B: 1833 LISTED AS 17 YRS
   KANAWHA CO WVA1850 CENSUS:
   14 3..ANNIE BELCHER B 1836 DIED SEP 1915 LISTED AS 14 KANAWHA
   CO. WVA., 1850 CENSUS: MARRIED: MILTON PETERS B 21 FEB 1825 DIED BLUE
   CREEK KANAWHA COUNTY WVA
   14 4..SUSANNA BELCHER B 1838 D: 1862 24 YRS OLD
   CAMP CREEK: LISTED AS 12 IN 1850 KANAWHA CO WVA 1850 CENSUS:
   14 5..JAMES K. BELCHER B 1840: LISTED AS 10 KANAWHA
   CO WVA 1850 CENSUS: MARRIED: BETTY STEWARD AND FRANCES BELCHER
   BY 1870 HAD MOVED TO PIKE COUNTY KY: LISTED 1870 CENSUS B IN WVA: MARRIED: FRANCES BELCHER:B: KY ONE CHILD LISTED IN 1870 SUZANNAH AGE 1 BORN IN KY:
   SIX OTHER CHILDREN LISTED AS BETTY STEWARDS:
   14 6..REBECCA (BECKY) BELCHER B:1845 LISTED AS 5 IN KANAWHA
   CO WVA 1850 CENSUS: MARRIED: ELI BYRD.
   14 7..GEORGE BELCHER B: 8 OCT 1848 LISTED AS 2YRS IN
   KANAWHA CO WVA 1850 CENSUS: MARRIED: #1 ELVIRA JANE ODELL(VANDELL)
   MARRIED: #2 SARAH F. NICHOLS KANAWHA COUNTY WVA
   14 8..MARY BELCHER B: 1851
   14 9..MARY CATHERINE B 1857 DIED 1920 MARRIED JOHN RATLIFF
   14 10.JOHN BELCHER