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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Full Family, Papers of Residents of Pendleton and Wirt Counties, A&M 4146, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

From information submitted by the donor:

Lewis Full (Ludwick/Lewis Full/Fultz) is very probably the eldest son of Andrew Full/Fultz/Fuls who served in the French & Indian War and later Dunmore's War from Augusta County, Virginia and died at Charleston, South Carolina in May 1780 at the Battle of Waxhaws Creek. Lewis Full, and his son Reuben, migrated from Pendleton County, (West) Virginia to what is now Wirt County about 1817. Wirt County is located in northwestern West Virginia, just across the Ohio River from the state of Ohio.

Reuben Full served as a Justice of the Peace for Wirt County for the years 1858-1860. The County Court was comprised of several Justices of the Peace. Several documents reflect his time in that position. People in that area and time were quite litigious. Defendants were summoned before the court for small debts. The court records help to flesh out the lives and relationships of average citizens since many were illiterate and did not leave much of a "paper trail". Although marriages were usually recorded as legal contracts, vital records in West Virginia did not commence until the 1860s or later. When a person appears in any document, it helps to put him/her in a time and place. It is often the only proof that he/she was still living or, perhaps, that he/she was ever born. Many early graves were marked only with a stone or not at all, so gravestones don't always provide vital information.

Therman Lockhart wrote about the Full family and the documents for The Mountaineer newspaper (published in Ripley, WV), under the pen name of Tommie Sewell, which name he shared with Harley Somerville.

Abbreviated Family Tree

Lewis [also referred to as Ludwick] Full : b. unknown, d. about 1832

Clarissa [surname not proven] : b. unknown, d. after 15 May 1833

Children of Lewis and Clarissa Full : married, probably in Pendleton County, (West) Virginia: date unknown

1. Jesse : b. ____, d. 1831: spouse - none known

2. Joseph : b: 1791, d. 1865: spouse, Mary Sheppard

3. Absalom : b. 1798, d. after 1857: spouse, 1. Jemnah Lyons, 2. Mahala Sheppard

4. Andrew : b. about 1799, d. 1867: spouse, Emma Jane Hartley

Parents of Joseph M. Full who married Julianna Lockhart

5. Elizabeth : b. about 1800, d. after 1880: spouse, Daniel Wires

6. Amelia : b. 1803, d. 1878: spouse, Rev. Samuel Sheppard

7. Reuben : b. 1806, d. 1866: spouse, Elizabeth Somerville

8. Susannah : b. about 1811, d. before 1870: spouse, Francis McGraw

Children of Reuben Full and Elizabeth Somerville : married 16 January 1842, Jackson County, (West) Virginia

1. Lewis : b. 1843, d. 1919: spouse, Olive Simms

2. Margaret : b. 1844, d. 1906: spouse, none

3. Nancy A. : b. 1846, d. 1916: spouse, Perry J. Simms

4. Virginia : b. 1848, d. 1924: spouse, Jonathan Lockhart

Parents of Therman A. Lockhart : spouse, Erna Javins

Who were parents of Brooks J. Lockhart : spouse 1. Elizabeth Counts

Who were parents of Patricia E. Lockhart Wolfgang

5. Commodore Perry : b. 1850, d. 1939: spouse, Margaret Elizabeth Barnes

6. Henry : b. 1853, d. 1929: spouse, Mary Terressa Roush

7. Martha Jane : b. 1855, d. 1889: spouse, none

8. Caroline : b. 1857, d. 1882: spouse, James W. Hill

9. Madison : b. 1860, d. 1928: spouse, Catherine Allie Vandal

10. Fanny : b. 1863, d. 1889: spouse, none

11. Lorena Jackson : b. 1866, d. 1955: spouse, Harvey Hill

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Full family
• Jackson County (W. Va.)
• Pendleton County (W. Va.)
• Wirt County (W. Va.)