Pribble-WVA-Slave Owners-1817

PRIBBLE Slaves of Wirt Co., (W)V

From "A Pioneer History of Wirt County" by Tommie Sewell, 1941 [Note: this is a photocopy given to me by a relative; I have never been able to find the actual book or article by this author]:

	"Mr. [Thomas] Pribble was a slave owner; ARGO, EPHRAIM, EPHA, GREEN, JOHN, and TANNER, were bought at Wheeling in 1817 of John House.  Many of the large land owners, Saunders, Enochs, Butchers, and Creels were slave owners.

Pribble Cemetery

	Mr. Pribble set aside a certain portion on the west side of this cemetery for his slaves to be buried.  Not many years ago, as many as nine graves of these negroes were visible.  Some of their names were:

EPHRAM, EPPA, TANNER, also JOHN and EMERSON GREEN, and JENNIE PAYTON, GREEN, who were slaves of Mrs. Hiram Pribble which she secured from her parents, the Butchers.

Other cemeteries in the Little Kanawha Valley where slaves were buried were:

Kinchloe cemetery, Henderson cemetery near Dulin, the Butcher farm at Beech Point, a cemetery near Davisville. The Boggs and Vandal who were slave owners on Spring Creek where in an old cemetery in that locality many were buried.
	One slave MARIAH GREEN was buried in the Freeport cemetery.  She was the property of Mrs. Deborah Pribble.
	The Buckner and Saunders slaves were buried near Davisville and Newark, also, in the Round Bottom cemetery slaves were buried.  Some of the Enoch slaves were buried in the old cemetery at Elizabeth."

This is a verbatim transcript.  The punctuation and grammar in the article make it difficult to determine some of the names.  Any questions or comments, please e-mail me directly.

John

Contributed by: "Jackson John M." Jmjackson1@LIBAXP.UALR.EDU