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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: GARNES, John
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 377-378
JOHN GARNES, a representative citizen and general farmer in Poca District,
Kanawha County, W. Va., where he owns sixty-five acres of excellent land
which is watered by Allen's Fork Branch Creek and lies twenty-one miles west
of Charleston, was born in this district, November 4, 1847, and is a son of
George and Nancy (Crane) Games.
George Games was reared and attended school in Jackson County, Va., and came
to Kanawha County when thirty-five years old. He married Nancy Crane, a
daughter of Nathan Crane and they had the following children: Peyton, Hannah,
Amanda, Emezey, James, Mary, A. Jackson and Mary. In addition to Jackson and
Kanawba Counties, George Games lived for some time in both Nicholas and
Putnam Counties, his death occurring in Poca District, Kanawha County, at the
age of sixty-six years, and his burial was on Miner Slater's farm on Allen
Fork. For a short time he served as a trustee of Poca District. He improved
his farm of fifty acres in Poca District, which was sold at a later date. His
wife was in her forty-eighth year at time of her death.
John Games attended school in boyhood, although his advantages were rather
meager, and afterward engaged in farming and lumbering and became a lumber
contractor. During the Civil War he served as a soldier in the Federal Army,
as a member of Co. D, 7th W. Va. Cav., and was mustered out at Charleston and
honorably discharged at Wheeling, W. Va. He is a strong Repub-lican but has
never been willing to accept public office. He is a stockholder in several
telephone companies and is a substan-tial and reliable citizen.
Mr. John Games was married first to Miss Melissa J. Boggess, a daughter of
William Boggess, of Poca District, and who was survived by two children:
Peter B., who lives on the home farm; and James E., who resides in North
Dakota. Mr. John Games was married the second time to Miss Katherine Page, a
daughter of Orines and Jane Page.
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