Elder James Ellison III was a traveling preacher in what is now Southern West Virginia and a farmer, since the Baptists didn't pay much for preaching. He was born in 1778 as the first child of James II and Nancy Elizabeth (Farley) Ellison in her Uncle Thomas Farley's large blockhouse on his 355 acre farm on the West side of the New River. It was called Fort Farley when he built it in 1775 in what was then Culbertson's Bottom in Greenbrier County, Virginia and became Crump's Bottom in Summers County, West Virginia in 1871. The aerial photo on this memorial shows Tom's Run and Bull Falls on this Bottom before Bluestone Lake was backed up by Bluestone Dam in 1949. Farley's Fort was 200 yards below Tom's Run 1/4 of the way to Bull Falls. An unconfirmed source (R. E. Farley's Book?) says it was located at today's Bull Falls Camp Site 22, but this Camp is only listed with 20 sites. James Ellison II wrote in his Monroe County Revolutionary War Pension Application S6821 in 1833 that Indians burned Fort Farley in the Spring of 1778 in retaliation for the murder of their Chief Cornstalk and three other friendly Indians by Militiamen at Point Pleasant the previous Fall. It's burning must have been in May or June after James III was born there on April 29. No record of Farley's Fort being rebuilt has been found, although Thomas Farley may have had a home on this farm until he sold it to John Burnside and moved to Giles County with his brother-in-law Mitchell Clay in 1783. The next we know of this farm is when Daniel Cook settled his family there in 1793 and then died there in 1823. James II also wrote that Matt Farley and he were forting below the mouth of Indian Creek in the fall of 1780. They were probably in Fort Culbertson, which was built by the Militia at the mouth of Joshua's Run in 1774 for Dunmore's War. This stockade fort was about three miles above where Fort Farley had been built and one mile below the mouth of Indian Creek on the West side of the New River. When Indians were marauding, settlers were sheltered there, like James II, his wife Nancy and son James III in 1780, when their daughter Nancy was born. Some sources say that Nancy and several other children of James II and James III were born in Farley's Fort, but that is unlikely. These sources may have called Fort Culbertson by the name Farley, since Matt Farley's farm was across the New River from the Culbertson Fort site after 1785. The 1908 book (History of Summers County from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time) says that Fort Farley was established by Captain Matt Farley, but this also must be wrong, since he would have only been age 16 and not a captain when it was built. Matthew was the only child of Thomas Farley's brother Francis Sr. by his second wife Elizabeth Crostic and was born in 1759, married Esther McCullen in 1785, obtained a patent on his 175 acre New River farm in 1786 and then became a Militia Captain in 1788. The West Virginia Encyclopedia says Fort Culbertson was burned by Indians after it was abandoned at the end of the Revolutionary War.
James III and Mary "Polly" Callaway were married in the Indian Creek Baptist Church a mile above Greenville in 1796, then in Greenbrier County. "Polly" bore James 14 children, half on the 320 acre Indian Creek farm they got in 1804 Monroe County, which was formed in 1799. After their marriage, James Taylor in his 1838 book (Lives of Virginia Ministers) says James was regular in church attendance and family prayer for awhile, then lapsed into "wickedness" until he joined the Indian Creek Church in 1800. He then attended regularly, began preaching and was ordained an Elder in 1808. Taylor also said James III had little education because of his family's poverty, but hls talent for public speaking made him a popular preacher in this family known for its Baptist preachers i.e; James II, James III and five of his sons, Addison, Joseph, Felix, Matthew the most distinquished Baptist preacher of his day and James Elias, who was my ancestor.
In 1810, "Polly" and James III, his sister Elizabeth "Betsy" and her husband Daniel Shumate were among the first settlers in the coal marshes, when they moved their families to the mouth of Hazy Creek on the Coal River at what is now Edwight, West Virginia and built two cabins just 20 feet apart. Then in 1812, Daniel moved his family to the Sand Lick farm that later belonged to George W. Callaway, a grandson of "Polly's" brother Joshua. Daniel was also a charter member of the Guyandotte Baptist Church, which selected him as the clerk and James III as the preacher for this first church in Wyoming County. This is on a sign by their present church in Jesse, where it was moved five miles from Oceana in 1870. Their first church charter meeting was held at Thomas and Ellen Riggins Cooke's log cabin under the gnarled beech tree, which is known as the "Old Baptist Beech" shown on this page and it is still there. James III then moved his family southwest 15 miles to below the coal marshes at the Trump Mill Ford to preach in Oceana.
About 1817, James III moved his family back to the New River Ridge, where they lived near the Farley Meetinghouse, probably so he could replace his father as preacher at the newly built Red Sulphur Baptist Church. James II had probably resigned, since he had fathered Barsheba, an illegitimate mixed race daughter of his slave Fanny. In 1818, James III also became the Little Bluestone Primitive Baptist preacher at their log church in Lilly and then he became the preacher at Greenbrier in 1821 when John Alderson Jr. died. Taylor's book says James also preached at other churches in then Virginia counties of Giles, Monroe, Greenbrier, Bath and Nicholas. In these early days, the scattered churches would usually meet for two days monthly with a traveling preacher until they had enough people to support their own preacher. James III or James II was also probably the Ellison preacher listed at camp meetings in the 1830's at the "Old Shed" on Shed Mountain near McComas in Mercer County.
By the early 1820's, James III and Daniel Shumate had sold their farms on Hazy Creek to Jacob Pettry, who was married in 1821 and later attached their cabins to make room for his 19 children. In 1827, the Baptists in the Fayette County coal marshes began holding meetings, with James III preaching when he traveled between the Red Sulphur and Oceana churches. In 1829, he moved his family to Daniel Shumate's Sand Lick farm north of Glen Daniel and preached in the New Hope Meeting House, which was built of logs that year between Harper and Skin Poplar Gap on today's WV highway 3. Then in 1836, the New Hope Baptists formed the Coal Marsh Missionary Baptist Church on Trap Hill, in an area which became Raleigh County in 1850. Sadly, James III was unavailable since he had died in 1834, so they licensed his son Matthew to preach. They ordained Matt in 1837 and he preached there for 45 years in addition to many other churches, including Greenbrier and Guyandotte.
Taylor's book says James III became ill while traveling to the 1834 General Baptist Association in Richmond, Virginia with one of his sons, probably Matt. He was able to attend the meetings, but became too ill to travel after two days on their way home, so they stopped at a friend's house. James III lingered there a week and died early in the morning of May 28, 1834. This friend was probably a member of a Strawberry Baptist Association church, where James had preached on the way to Richmond. James III's youngest child, James Elias, says in his autobiography that his father died in Bedford County near Fincastle and the August 26, 1950 Beckley Post-Herald says he died in what was Roanoke County, when it was formed in 1838. Taylor's book said he died between Fincastle in Botetourt County and Liberty in Bedford County, where Liberty was the name of the town of Bedford before 1890. The best combination of these places for his death is the Bonsack area, which is 14 miles from Fincastle and was in Bedford County when James died and in Roanoke County, when it was formed in 1838. His friend, in whose house he died, may have been John Bonsack (1790-1859) who this area was named for when he donated the railroad land in 1852 and their train stop was called Bonsack Station. John's son Jacob (1819-1889) then donated land for the Bonsack Baptist Church, which was in the Strawberry Baptist Association. FYI, Jacob's son James Albert Bonsack (1859-1924) became rich after he invented the cigarette rolling machine in 1883. James III must have been cremated since Page 10 of the 1842 Annual Meeting of the Greenbrier Association says he died in Bedford County and his Ashes now quietly repose at the foot of the Blue Ridge. They were probably buried or scattered near Bonsack. These 1842 Meeting minutes also say that Ellison Hatfield of what became the feuding "Hatfields & McCoys" was named after James III when he was born in 1841.
James III and Mary "Polly" Callaway were married in the Indian Creek Baptist Church a mile above Greenville in 1796, then in Greenbrier County. "Polly" bore James 14 children, half on the 320 acre Indian Creek farm they got in 1804 Monroe County, which was formed in 1799. After their marriage, James Taylor in his 1838 book (Lives of Virginia Ministers) says James was regular in church attendance and family prayer for awhile, then lapsed into "wickedness" until he joined the Indian Creek Church in 1800. He then attended regularly, began preaching and was ordained an Elder in 1808. Taylor also said James III had little education because of his family's poverty, but hls talent for public speaking made him a popular preacher in this family known for its Baptist preachers i.e; James II, James III and five of his sons, Addison, Joseph, Felix, Matthew the most distinquished Baptist preacher of his day and James Elias, who was my ancestor.
In 1810, "Polly" and James III, his sister Elizabeth "Betsy" and her husband Daniel Shumate were among the first settlers in the coal marshes, when they moved their families to the mouth of Hazy Creek on the Coal River at what is now Edwight, West Virginia and built two cabins just 20 feet apart. Then in 1812, Daniel moved his family to the Sand Lick farm that later belonged to George W. Callaway, a grandson of "Polly's" brother Joshua. Daniel was also a charter member of the Guyandotte Baptist Church, which selected him as the clerk and James III as the preacher for this first church in Wyoming County. This is on a sign by their present church in Jesse, where it was moved five miles from Oceana in 1870. Their first church charter meeting was held at Thomas and Ellen Riggins Cooke's log cabin under the gnarled beech tree, which is known as the "Old Baptist Beech" shown on this page and it is still there. James III then moved his family southwest 15 miles to below the coal marshes at the Trump Mill Ford to preach in Oceana.
About 1817, James III moved his family back to the New River Ridge, where they lived near the Farley Meetinghouse, probably so he could replace his father as preacher at the newly built Red Sulphur Baptist Church. James II had probably resigned, since he had fathered Barsheba, an illegitimate mixed race daughter of his slave Fanny. In 1818, James III also became the Little Bluestone Primitive Baptist preacher at their log church in Lilly and then he became the preacher at Greenbrier in 1821 when John Alderson Jr. died. Taylor's book says James also preached at other churches in then Virginia counties of Giles, Monroe, Greenbrier, Bath and Nicholas. In these early days, the scattered churches would usually meet for two days monthly with a traveling preacher until they had enough people to support their own preacher. James III or James II was also probably the Ellison preacher listed at camp meetings in the 1830's at the "Old Shed" on Shed Mountain near McComas in Mercer County.
By the early 1820's, James III and Daniel Shumate had sold their farms on Hazy Creek to Jacob Pettry, who was married in 1821 and later attached their cabins to make room for his 19 children. In 1827, the Baptists in the Fayette County coal marshes began holding meetings, with James III preaching when he traveled between the Red Sulphur and Oceana churches. In 1829, he moved his family to Daniel Shumate's Sand Lick farm north of Glen Daniel and preached in the New Hope Meeting House, which was built of logs that year between Harper and Skin Poplar Gap on today's WV highway 3. Then in 1836, the New Hope Baptists formed the Coal Marsh Missionary Baptist Church on Trap Hill, in an area which became Raleigh County in 1850. Sadly, James III was unavailable since he had died in 1834, so they licensed his son Matthew to preach. They ordained Matt in 1837 and he preached there for 45 years in addition to many other churches, including Greenbrier and Guyandotte.
Taylor's book says James III became ill while traveling to the 1834 General Baptist Association in Richmond, Virginia with one of his sons, probably Matt. He was able to attend the meetings, but became too ill to travel after two days on their way home, so they stopped at a friend's house. James III lingered there a week and died early in the morning of May 28, 1834. This friend was probably a member of a Strawberry Baptist Association church, where James had preached on the way to Richmond. James III's youngest child, James Elias, says in his autobiography that his father died in Bedford County near Fincastle and the August 26, 1950 Beckley Post-Herald says he died in what was Roanoke County, when it was formed in 1838. Taylor's book said he died between Fincastle in Botetourt County and Liberty in Bedford County, where Liberty was the name of the town of Bedford before 1890. The best combination of these places for his death is the Bonsack area, which is 14 miles from Fincastle and was in Bedford County when James died and in Roanoke County, when it was formed in 1838. His friend, in whose house he died, may have been John Bonsack (1790-1859) who this area was named for when he donated the railroad land in 1852 and their train stop was called Bonsack Station. John's son Jacob (1819-1889) then donated land for the Bonsack Baptist Church, which was in the Strawberry Baptist Association. FYI, Jacob's son James Albert Bonsack (1859-1924) became rich after he invented the cigarette rolling machine in 1883. James III must have been cremated since Page 10 of the 1842 Annual Meeting of the Greenbrier Association says he died in Bedford County and his Ashes now quietly repose at the foot of the Blue Ridge. They were probably buried or scattered near Bonsack. These 1842 Meeting minutes also say that Ellison Hatfield of what became the feuding "Hatfields & McCoys" was named after James III when he was born in 1841.
Elder James Ellison III was a traveling preacher in what is now Southern West Virginia and a farmer, since the Baptists didn't pay much for preaching. He was born in 1778 as the first child of James II and Nancy Elizabeth (Farley) Ellison in her Uncle Thomas Farley's large blockhouse on his 355 acre farm on the West side of the New River. It was called Fort Farley when he built it in 1775 in what was then Culbertson's Bottom in Greenbrier County, Virginia and became Crump's Bottom in Summers County, West Virginia in 1871. The aerial photo on this memorial shows Tom's Run and Bull Falls on this Bottom before Bluestone Lake was backed up by Bluestone Dam in 1949. Farley's Fort was 200 yards below Tom's Run 1/4 of the way to Bull Falls. An unconfirmed source (R. E. Farley's Book?) says it was located at today's Bull Falls Camp Site 22, but this Camp is only listed with 20 sites. James Ellison II wrote in his Monroe County Revolutionary War Pension Application S6821 in 1833 that Indians burned Fort Farley in the Spring of 1778 in retaliation for the murder of their Chief Cornstalk and three other friendly Indians by Militiamen at Point Pleasant the previous Fall. It's burning must have been in May or June after James III was born there on April 29. No record of Farley's Fort being rebuilt has been found, although Thomas Farley may have had a home on this farm until he sold it to John Burnside and moved to Giles County with his brother-in-law Mitchell Clay in 1783. The next we know of this farm is when Daniel Cook settled his family there in 1793 and then died there in 1823. James II also wrote that Matt Farley and he were forting below the mouth of Indian Creek in the fall of 1780. They were probably in Fort Culbertson, which was built by the Militia at the mouth of Joshua's Run in 1774 for Dunmore's War. This stockade fort was about three miles above where Fort Farley had been built and one mile below the mouth of Indian Creek on the West side of the New River. When Indians were marauding, settlers were sheltered there, like James II, his wife Nancy and son James III in 1780, when their daughter Nancy was born. Some sources say that Nancy and several other children of James II and James III were born in Farley's Fort, but that is unlikely. These sources may have called Fort Culbertson by the name Farley, since Matt Farley's farm was across the New River from the Culbertson Fort site after 1785. The 1908 book (History of Summers County from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time) says that Fort Farley was established by Captain Matt Farley, but this also must be wrong, since he would have only been age 16 and not a captain when it was built. Matthew was the only child of Thomas Farley's brother Francis Sr. by his second wife Elizabeth Crostic and was born in 1759, married Esther McCullen in 1785, obtained a patent on his 175 acre New River farm in 1786 and then became a Militia Captain in 1788. The West Virginia Encyclopedia says Fort Culbertson was burned by Indians after it was abandoned at the end of the Revolutionary War.
James III and Mary "Polly" Callaway were married in the Indian Creek Baptist Church a mile above Greenville in 1796, then in Greenbrier County. "Polly" bore James 14 children, half on the 320 acre Indian Creek farm they got in 1804 Monroe County, which was formed in 1799. After their marriage, James Taylor in his 1838 book (Lives of Virginia Ministers) says James was regular in church attendance and family prayer for awhile, then lapsed into "wickedness" until he joined the Indian Creek Church in 1800. He then attended regularly, began preaching and was ordained an Elder in 1808. Taylor also said James III had little education because of his family's poverty, but hls talent for public speaking made him a popular preacher in this family known for its Baptist preachers i.e; James II, James III and five of his sons, Addison, Joseph, Felix, Matthew the most distinquished Baptist preacher of his day and James Elias, who was my ancestor.
In 1810, "Polly" and James III, his sister Elizabeth "Betsy" and her husband Daniel Shumate were among the first settlers in the coal marshes, when they moved their families to the mouth of Hazy Creek on the Coal River at what is now Edwight, West Virginia and built two cabins just 20 feet apart. Then in 1812, Daniel moved his family to the Sand Lick farm that later belonged to George W. Callaway, a grandson of "Polly's" brother Joshua. Daniel was also a charter member of the Guyandotte Baptist Church, which selected him as the clerk and James III as the preacher for this first church in Wyoming County. This is on a sign by their present church in Jesse, where it was moved five miles from Oceana in 1870. Their first church charter meeting was held at Thomas and Ellen Riggins Cooke's log cabin under the gnarled beech tree, which is known as the "Old Baptist Beech" shown on this page and it is still there. James III then moved his family southwest 15 miles to below the coal marshes at the Trump Mill Ford to preach in Oceana.
About 1817, James III moved his family back to the New River Ridge, where they lived near the Farley Meetinghouse, probably so he could replace his father as preacher at the newly built Red Sulphur Baptist Church. James II had probably resigned, since he had fathered Barsheba, an illegitimate mixed race daughter of his slave Fanny. In 1818, James III also became the Little Bluestone Primitive Baptist preacher at their log church in Lilly and then he became the preacher at Greenbrier in 1821 when John Alderson Jr. died. Taylor's book says James also preached at other churches in then Virginia counties of Giles, Monroe, Greenbrier, Bath and Nicholas. In these early days, the scattered churches would usually meet for two days monthly with a traveling preacher until they had enough people to support their own preacher. James III or James II was also probably the Ellison preacher listed at camp meetings in the 1830's at the "Old Shed" on Shed Mountain near McComas in Mercer County.
By the early 1820's, James III and Daniel Shumate had sold their farms on Hazy Creek to Jacob Pettry, who was married in 1821 and later attached their cabins to make room for his 19 children. In 1827, the Baptists in the Fayette County coal marshes began holding meetings, with James III preaching when he traveled between the Red Sulphur and Oceana churches. In 1829, he moved his family to Daniel Shumate's Sand Lick farm north of Glen Daniel and preached in the New Hope Meeting House, which was built of logs that year between Harper and Skin Poplar Gap on today's WV highway 3. Then in 1836, the New Hope Baptists formed the Coal Marsh Missionary Baptist Church on Trap Hill, in an area which became Raleigh County in 1850. Sadly, James III was unavailable since he had died in 1834, so they licensed his son Matthew to preach. They ordained Matt in 1837 and he preached there for 45 years in addition to many other churches, including Greenbrier and Guyandotte.
Taylor's book says James III became ill while traveling to the 1834 General Baptist Association in Richmond, Virginia with one of his sons, probably Matt. He was able to attend the meetings, but became too ill to travel after two days on their way home, so they stopped at a friend's house. James III lingered there a week and died early in the morning of May 28, 1834. This friend was probably a member of a Strawberry Baptist Association church, where James had preached on the way to Richmond. James III's youngest child, James Elias, says in his autobiography that his father died in Bedford County near Fincastle and the August 26, 1950 Beckley Post-Herald says he died in what was Roanoke County, when it was formed in 1838. Taylor's book said he died between Fincastle in Botetourt County and Liberty in Bedford County, where Liberty was the name of the town of Bedford before 1890. The best combination of these places for his death is the Bonsack area, which is 14 miles from Fincastle and was in Bedford County when James died and in Roanoke County, when it was formed in 1838. His friend, in whose house he died, may have been John Bonsack (1790-1859) who this area was named for when he donated the railroad land in 1852 and their train stop was called Bonsack Station. John's son Jacob (1819-1889) then donated land for the Bonsack Baptist Church, which was in the Strawberry Baptist Association. FYI, Jacob's son James Albert Bonsack (1859-1924) became rich after he invented the cigarette rolling machine in 1883. James III must have been cremated since Page 10 of the 1842 Annual Meeting of the Greenbrier Association says he died in Bedford County and his Ashes now quietly repose at the foot of the Blue Ridge. They were probably buried or scattered near Bonsack. These 1842 Meeting minutes also say that Ellison Hatfield of what became the feuding "Hatfields & McCoys" was named after James III when he was born in 1841.
James III and Mary "Polly" Callaway were married in the Indian Creek Baptist Church a mile above Greenville in 1796, then in Greenbrier County. "Polly" bore James 14 children, half on the 320 acre Indian Creek farm they got in 1804 Monroe County, which was formed in 1799. After their marriage, James Taylor in his 1838 book (Lives of Virginia Ministers) says James was regular in church attendance and family prayer for awhile, then lapsed into "wickedness" until he joined the Indian Creek Church in 1800. He then attended regularly, began preaching and was ordained an Elder in 1808. Taylor also said James III had little education because of his family's poverty, but hls talent for public speaking made him a popular preacher in this family known for its Baptist preachers i.e; James II, James III and five of his sons, Addison, Joseph, Felix, Matthew the most distinquished Baptist preacher of his day and James Elias, who was my ancestor.
In 1810, "Polly" and James III, his sister Elizabeth "Betsy" and her husband Daniel Shumate were among the first settlers in the coal marshes, when they moved their families to the mouth of Hazy Creek on the Coal River at what is now Edwight, West Virginia and built two cabins just 20 feet apart. Then in 1812, Daniel moved his family to the Sand Lick farm that later belonged to George W. Callaway, a grandson of "Polly's" brother Joshua. Daniel was also a charter member of the Guyandotte Baptist Church, which selected him as the clerk and James III as the preacher for this first church in Wyoming County. This is on a sign by their present church in Jesse, where it was moved five miles from Oceana in 1870. Their first church charter meeting was held at Thomas and Ellen Riggins Cooke's log cabin under the gnarled beech tree, which is known as the "Old Baptist Beech" shown on this page and it is still there. James III then moved his family southwest 15 miles to below the coal marshes at the Trump Mill Ford to preach in Oceana.
About 1817, James III moved his family back to the New River Ridge, where they lived near the Farley Meetinghouse, probably so he could replace his father as preacher at the newly built Red Sulphur Baptist Church. James II had probably resigned, since he had fathered Barsheba, an illegitimate mixed race daughter of his slave Fanny. In 1818, James III also became the Little Bluestone Primitive Baptist preacher at their log church in Lilly and then he became the preacher at Greenbrier in 1821 when John Alderson Jr. died. Taylor's book says James also preached at other churches in then Virginia counties of Giles, Monroe, Greenbrier, Bath and Nicholas. In these early days, the scattered churches would usually meet for two days monthly with a traveling preacher until they had enough people to support their own preacher. James III or James II was also probably the Ellison preacher listed at camp meetings in the 1830's at the "Old Shed" on Shed Mountain near McComas in Mercer County.
By the early 1820's, James III and Daniel Shumate had sold their farms on Hazy Creek to Jacob Pettry, who was married in 1821 and later attached their cabins to make room for his 19 children. In 1827, the Baptists in the Fayette County coal marshes began holding meetings, with James III preaching when he traveled between the Red Sulphur and Oceana churches. In 1829, he moved his family to Daniel Shumate's Sand Lick farm north of Glen Daniel and preached in the New Hope Meeting House, which was built of logs that year between Harper and Skin Poplar Gap on today's WV highway 3. Then in 1836, the New Hope Baptists formed the Coal Marsh Missionary Baptist Church on Trap Hill, in an area which became Raleigh County in 1850. Sadly, James III was unavailable since he had died in 1834, so they licensed his son Matthew to preach. They ordained Matt in 1837 and he preached there for 45 years in addition to many other churches, including Greenbrier and Guyandotte.
Taylor's book says James III became ill while traveling to the 1834 General Baptist Association in Richmond, Virginia with one of his sons, probably Matt. He was able to attend the meetings, but became too ill to travel after two days on their way home, so they stopped at a friend's house. James III lingered there a week and died early in the morning of May 28, 1834. This friend was probably a member of a Strawberry Baptist Association church, where James had preached on the way to Richmond. James III's youngest child, James Elias, says in his autobiography that his father died in Bedford County near Fincastle and the August 26, 1950 Beckley Post-Herald says he died in what was Roanoke County, when it was formed in 1838. Taylor's book said he died between Fincastle in Botetourt County and Liberty in Bedford County, where Liberty was the name of the town of Bedford before 1890. The best combination of these places for his death is the Bonsack area, which is 14 miles from Fincastle and was in Bedford County when James died and in Roanoke County, when it was formed in 1838. His friend, in whose house he died, may have been John Bonsack (1790-1859) who this area was named for when he donated the railroad land in 1852 and their train stop was called Bonsack Station. John's son Jacob (1819-1889) then donated land for the Bonsack Baptist Church, which was in the Strawberry Baptist Association. FYI, Jacob's son James Albert Bonsack (1859-1924) became rich after he invented the cigarette rolling machine in 1883. James III must have been cremated since Page 10 of the 1842 Annual Meeting of the Greenbrier Association says he died in Bedford County and his Ashes now quietly repose at the foot of the Blue Ridge. They were probably buried or scattered near Bonsack. These 1842 Meeting minutes also say that Ellison Hatfield of what became the feuding "Hatfields & McCoys" was named after James III when he was born in 1841.
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