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Subject: BIO: Abraham Elias HUDDLESTON, Greenbrier County
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 06:10:40 EDT

History of Greenbrier County
J. R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV 1917
p. 259-262

ABRAHAM ELIAS HUDDLESTON.

Abraham F. Huddleston, the subject of this sketch, was born in Alleghany
county, Virginia, December 16, 1855. Because of the Civil war and
after-the-war conditions, his education was rather limited. His first
employment was as timekeeper oil a brick-yard at the age of fourteen. He then
clerked in a store for four years, after which he studied telegraphy and -as
in the employment of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company from 1873 to 1879
as station agent and telegraph operator. In 1876 he opened a store at
Callaghan, Va., and in 1879 he resigned from the railroad to go into the
lumber business and has since been continuously in the mercantile and lumber
business. In 1906 he organized the White Sulphur Supply Company, one of the
largest retail stores in southern West Virginia. In 1908 he organized the
Mountain Milling Company, and in 1910 the Electric Plant, all situated at
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where he located in 1887.
The Huddleston family date back to the twelfth century and were among the
English settlers of Virginia in the early part of the seventeenth century,
one of that name being an aid-de-camp to Ceneral Washington.
The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Abraham J. Huddleston, was
born in Bedford county, Virginia, in i8oo, came to Alleghany county, Virginia
in 1830, and married Leah Bowyer, who died in 1902. He died April 3, 1873. He
had seven sons and four daughters: David G. the father of the subject of this
sketch, who died in 1878; Daniel Y., who died in 1913; John, who died in
1862; Joseph, who died in 1863; George W., who died in 1915 ; William B., who
died in 1905 ; Robert W., who died in 1912; Sarah (Plymale), now living at
Boulder, Cob.; Elizabeth (Lock-hart), now living in Covington, Va.; Minerva
(Bowley), now liv-ing in Anselmo, Neb; Nancy (Smith), now living in Grand
Island, Neb.
David G., the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Alleghany
county, Virginia, March 2, 1834, and married Agnes Hook, of Alleghany county,
March 7, ~ She was the daugh-ter of Elias Hook and was born in Alleghany
county, Virginia, February 4, 1834, and died in Covington, Va., October,
1903. The children of David G. Huddleston, besides Abraham E., who was the
eldest, were the following: Joseph W., born August 22, 1857, married Emily
Moyers, January i8, 1883, who died in Coving-ton, Va., in 1891. He afterwards
married Mattie Hippert and now resides at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.;
George W., born May 11, 1859, and died at Cedar Grove, Neb., September 9,
1880; Rebecca L., born April 6, i86i, and married Samuel B. Johnson, March
iS, 1884, and now living in Chattanooga, Tenn; John D., born March 21, 1863,
married Mollie B. Vaughan, December 22, 1882, and now resides at Alexandria,
La.; Adelia B., born May I, 1865, and married Howard W. Tyree, September,
1887, and now resides in Alleghany county, Virginia; Cora Virginia, born
February 27, 1867, married Henry Brown, September, 1889, and now resides in
Chattanooga, Teun.; Bettie P., born September 7, 1869, married Robert W.
Butler in 1896 and now resides in Memphis, Teun.; Daisy A., born October 21,
1873, married, in 1909,
Converse and resides in Chattanooga, Tenn.; David G., Jr., born August 15,
1876, and was killed in a railway accident in Arkansas, March 4, i906.
On September 4, 1877, the subject of this sketch was married to Isabella
Johnson Richardson, the daughter of John F. and Marguerite Richardson, of
Alleghany county, Virginia, and to whom the following children were born:
Sarah Blanche, born June 19 1878, married to Harry E. Crickenberger, June 18,
1901, and' lives at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Bessie Lee, born August 1,
1879, married to Edward M. Haynes, December 12, 1906, and resides at White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Ada Edith, born May 19, 1881, married to Edward H.
Butts on September 15, 1908, died at Logan, W. Va., April 6, 1915; George
Dice, born November 12, 1882, died in infancy; David Franklin, born December
12, 1883, married Mabel Kerr, September 22, 1909, and now resides at White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Alfred Elliott, born August 2, 1885, died in
infancy; John Lester, born February 13, 1887, married Maud M. Wineberger,
April, 1912, resides at White Sulphur Springs; Mary Isabella, born February
21, 1889, married Dr. David H. Hill, June 3, 1915, resides in Charleston, W.
Va.; Ruth and Rose, twins, were born January 1, 1892, and died in infancy;
Agnes Jane, born June 13, 1895, and died December 2, 1914; Beulab, born
January 13, 1897, died in infancy; Albert I Elias, born January 7, 1899, died
July 4, 1900.
Mr. Huddleston and his wife now live in their home (Hillcrest) Overlooking
the town of White Sulphur Springs. He is a man of somewhat retiring
disposition, but has been kept before the public in various capacities. As a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, he has been Sunday school
superintend ent for nearly forty years; was a delegate to the general
conference of his church, which met at Dallas, Texas, in 1902, and at
Birmingham, Ala., in 1906; has been a member of the joint board

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