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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: REECE, Abia
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 19, 1999
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History of Kanawha County
George W. Atkinson
1876
p. 301
ABIA REECE
Abia Reece who resides at Mud Bridge, in Cabell county, is the oldest man in
the Kanawba Valley, except Israel Rue, who resides on Davis creek, seven
miles from Charleston. He was born in Bedford county, Virginia, February 15,
1784, and removed to Kanawha in 1~9I. He was, therefore, one of the first
settlers of the Kanawha Valley perhaps has been a resident of the Valley
longer than any other person now living. Upon his first arrival in the
county, he located at the Mouth of Kelly's creek, twenty miles above
Charleston, where he resided for seven years. During his stay at that place,
he had several encounters with the Indians, but always managed to escape
unharmed. He removed to Teays' Valley in 1798, and has resided upon alarge
and beautiful farm, in a bend of Mud river, till the present time. He is in
good health, and, with the exception of a lameness in one of his hips,
occasioned by an ox running over him a few years since, is unusually vigorous
and active for a man of his advanced age.
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