Family Files February 2022 - Person Sheet
Family Files February 2022 - Person Sheet
NameRalph WANLESS 
, M
, MBirth28 Mar 1756, England
Death26 Jul 1842, Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Misc. Notes
WILL of Thomas Adams of Calfpasture, Augusta Co. left land to Ralph Wanlass and his heirs the lands whereon he now lives, subject to a house and home for his Mother during her life.
This was printed in the 25 March 1898 edition of the Pocahontas Times published in Marlington, WV on page 1 under the title Biographic Notes by W.T.P.
Ralph Wanless, a pioneer blacksmith, and progenitor of the Pocahontas branches of the Wanless relationship, was a native of England. It is believed that Ralph and his brother Stephen Wanless lived awhile in the lower Valley of Virginia on the Fairfax lands. About 1790 Ralph Wanless settled in The Hills, near Mount Tabor. Stephen located in Bath County, Va. Some of his descendants now live near Clover Dale.
Ralph's wife was Lucretia Nicholas, sister of William Nicholas who was living on Douthard's Creek, and an aunt of the late Thomas Nicholas, of the Indian Draft, near Edray, who was a son of William Nicholas. They were the parents of seven sons and five daughters. THe following particulars are given respecting their family.
Anna Wanless became Mrs. Reuben Matheny, and lived near Valley Contre in Highland County.
Mary (Dolly) became Mrs. ALexander Campbell, and lived near Meadow Dale in Highland. Her daughter Laura was a very attractive and accomplished young lady whose early death was widely lamented.
Margaret Wanless was married to James Sharp, and lived on Thorny Creek.
Elizabeth Wanless became Mrs. Thomas Hadden and after living some years on the Greenbrier near the mouth of Deer Creek, went to Ohio.
Lydia Wanless was married to (unreadable, may be McGuire) and settled in Ohio.
The sons of Ralph Wanless the pioneer were William, James, Levin, Ralph, Stephen, John, and Thomas.
WIlliam Wanless married Nancy Wilson from Fort Defiance, Augusta County. Her widowed mother, Nancy Wilson, died on Knapp's Creek early in the century. Particulars in reference to William's family were given in a former sketch.
James Wanless was a local minister and prominent citizen. In a former paper he was specially mentioned.
Ralph Wanless, junior, first married Anna Poage, daughter of G. W.. Poage of The Levels. After living in Huntersville several years as the village blacksmith, he located on the homestead at Mt. Tabor.
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...ing attentions were to our people when regular physicians were so far away. Sick people had so much confidence in her that they seemed to think there was no danger of dying if Elizabeth Bridger could be had in time.
Thomas Wanless married Julia Bucher and settled in Ohio.
For about one hundred years this name has been familiar and identified with the progress of our people. For the most part, the Wanless influence has been on the side of morality, industry, and mental improvement.
The cheerful assistance of J. F. Wanless, Esq., and Mrs. Rachel Logan herby remembered.
Most all of the Wanless brothers were industrious and skillful workers in iron, acquired from their father, who seems to have been a genius in that line of industry, so useful to the people in pioneer and later times. When Ralph Wanless and his sons wrought at the anvil and passed the primitive forests to ring with their strong and unreadable striking of hammers and sledges, their businesss was of essential importance. In their times most of the imlements used in clearing lands, cultivating the ground, and building houses were made at home. In the pioneer shops, and for years subsequently, were forged axes, hoes, shovel plows, bull-tongues, brush hooks, seng hoes, mattocks, broad axes, grubbing hoes, pot hooks and hangers, kettle bales, log chains, double unreadable, single trees, door hinges and latches, and other articles rather tedious to mention and still more tedious to make.
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This was printed in the 25 March 1898 edition of the Pocahontas Times published in Marlington, WV on page 1 under the title Biographic Notes by W.T.P.
Ralph Wanless, a pioneer blacksmith, and progenitor of the Pocahontas branches of the Wanless relationship, was a native of England. It is believed that Ralph and his brother Stephen Wanless lived awhile in the lower Valley of Virginia on the Fairfax lands. About 1790 Ralph Wanless settled in The Hills, near Mount Tabor. Stephen located in Bath County, Va. Some of his descendants now live near Clover Dale.
Ralph's wife was Lucretia Nicholas, sister of William Nicholas who was living on Douthard's Creek, and an aunt of the late Thomas Nicholas, of the Indian Draft, near Edray, who was a son of William Nicholas. They were the parents of seven sons and five daughters. THe following particulars are given respecting their family.
Anna Wanless became Mrs. Reuben Matheny, and lived near Valley Contre in Highland County.
Mary (Dolly) became Mrs. ALexander Campbell, and lived near Meadow Dale in Highland. Her daughter Laura was a very attractive and accomplished young lady whose early death was widely lamented.
Margaret Wanless was married to James Sharp, and lived on Thorny Creek.
Elizabeth Wanless became Mrs. Thomas Hadden and after living some years on the Greenbrier near the mouth of Deer Creek, went to Ohio.
Lydia Wanless was married to (unreadable, may be McGuire) and settled in Ohio.
The sons of Ralph Wanless the pioneer were William, James, Levin, Ralph, Stephen, John, and Thomas.
WIlliam Wanless married Nancy Wilson from Fort Defiance, Augusta County. Her widowed mother, Nancy Wilson, died on Knapp's Creek early in the century. Particulars in reference to William's family were given in a former sketch.
James Wanless was a local minister and prominent citizen. In a former paper he was specially mentioned.
Ralph Wanless, junior, first married Anna Poage, daughter of G. W.. Poage of The Levels. After living in Huntersville several years as the village blacksmith, he located on the homestead at Mt. Tabor.
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...ing attentions were to our people when regular physicians were so far away. Sick people had so much confidence in her that they seemed to think there was no danger of dying if Elizabeth Bridger could be had in time.
Thomas Wanless married Julia Bucher and settled in Ohio.
For about one hundred years this name has been familiar and identified with the progress of our people. For the most part, the Wanless influence has been on the side of morality, industry, and mental improvement.
The cheerful assistance of J. F. Wanless, Esq., and Mrs. Rachel Logan herby remembered.
Most all of the Wanless brothers were industrious and skillful workers in iron, acquired from their father, who seems to have been a genius in that line of industry, so useful to the people in pioneer and later times. When Ralph Wanless and his sons wrought at the anvil and passed the primitive forests to ring with their strong and unreadable striking of hammers and sledges, their businesss was of essential importance. In their times most of the imlements used in clearing lands, cultivating the ground, and building houses were made at home. In the pioneer shops, and for years subsequently, were forged axes, hoes, shovel plows, bull-tongues, brush hooks, seng hoes, mattocks, broad axes, grubbing hoes, pot hooks and hangers, kettle bales, log chains, double unreadable, single trees, door hinges and latches, and other articles rather tedious to mention and still more tedious to make.
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Spouses
Marriage30 Sep 1788, Augusta, Virginia