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CABELL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
PTyler107@aol.com
January 27, 2000
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West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, supplement Vol# 6, Hardesty's
published by Jim Comstock, Richwood, WV 1974
Andrew Lee Beckett - born in Cabell County, July 25, 1824, and Emily
Samuels Hatfield, born in this county September 2, 1824, were united in
marriage on the 24th of June, 1850. Their children were two sons: Lewis
Henry, born August 13, 1851, married Latha Virginia Boffe, August 15, 1875;
and Oliver Francis born October 1, 1861. The wife of Mr. Beckett was a
daughter of Adam and Mary (Williams) Hatfield, and she died in this county,
at her husbands farm in Grant District, January 3, 1883. She was a faithful
wife and loving mother, at strict exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, was loved in life and mourned in death. Andrew L. Beckett is a son of
James and Hannah Lee Beckett. His father was born in Montgomery County,
Virginia, September 18, 1772, and died January 20, 1868. His mother was born
in Patrick County, Virginia, September 20, 1788 and died December 16, 1862.
James Beckett settled in what is now Grant District in 1810, and was a
prominent pioneer. The father of Hannah (Lee) Beckett served under General
Anthony Wayne in fighting the Indians in the Kanawha Valley, and was a son of
Lightfoot Lee. Mr. Beckett has a farm of 115 acres on Fudges Creek, the land
under cultivation fertile and well improved, the remainder having fine
building stone, some iron ore, and stone coal in abundance. He was a
commissioned by Gen.Wise captain in the 120th Virginia militia, and served
three years. Since the inauguration of the free school system he has been
constantly a school officer. In 1866 he was elected justice of the peace in
Grant District, and has served six years, and has filled the office of
registrar in the same district four years. For fourteen years he has been
postmaster at Fudges Creek, Cabell County, West Virginia, and is still the
incumbent.
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