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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
Emsley Wilson Beckett - is a son of Moses Beckett who in 1805 settled in
what is now Grant District, Cabell County, and helped to rear the first
cabins, fell the first trees, and bring this now fertile country into
cultivation, sharing with those who ate their bread without having mills to
grind the grain. Moses Beckett married Rebecca S. Wilson, and their son
Emsley W. was born in Cabell County, August 28, 1832. In this county,
September 26, 1854, he married Mary S. Roberts, and their children were
fourteen: John H., born August 25, 1855, married Eliza N. Kilgore; Louisa
Matilda E., born December 6, 1856, married John Hanley; Rebecca F., May 7,
1860, married Hollis Braley; James A. M., September 16, 1858, died August
1860; Lois A., April 1, 1862, died December 19, 1863; George M., March 7,
1864; Adaline, January 27, 1866; Mary F., February 19, 1868; Gertrude F.,
March 2, 1870; Margaret, October 24, 1871, died January 22, 1874; Thomas,
October 14, 1873; Allen, July 15, 1875; Ezra W., January 7, 1878; Josephine
O., April 28, 1881. Alex D. and Susan (Wells) Roberts were the parents of
Mrs. Beckett, who was born in Cabell County, February 14, 1839. Mr. Beckett
has been school trustee and road surveyor, and is now member of the board of
education of Grant District. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church at Union,
and clerk of the church at Zoah. He resides on his farm of 115 acres, having
50 acres under cultivation, the rest heavily timbered, with limestone and
iron ore indicated. He is a shoemaker as well as farmer, and has his post
office address at Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia.
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