Amanda McPherson Arbuckle

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• Residence: 1880, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA

Amanda married Samuel M McNeill on 19 Apr 1881 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA. Samuel was born on 8 Jul 1851 in Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA; died on 1 Mar 1918 in Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1855, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1870, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA

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Buried:
GRid=105666146

James married Mahala Frances McPherson. Mahala was born on 27 Jul 1821 in Fauquier County, Virginia, USA; died on 18 Feb 1908 in Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1855
• Residence: 1880, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA

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Buried:
GRid=69053449

James married Catherine Alexander on 2 Jan 1798 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA. Catherine was born on 20 Sep 1781 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA; died on 21 Jan 1863 in West Virginia, USA; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
GRid=69053497

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Married:
11 children

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• Occupation: Military Officer, Frontiersman
• Probate: 20 Nov 1781, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; "An appraisement of the goods and chattels of Capt. Matthew Arbuckle."

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Matthew Arbuckle was a renowned frontiersman in western Virginia (now West Virginia) and the Ohio territory in the 1760, and is considered to be the first European to travel on his own (i.e. not in captivity) across the mountains of Virginia to the Ohio River. He was an officer in the Virginia miltia as early as 1767, and was a "gentleman justice" in Botetourt County Virginia from 1769 to 1773. In 1773 or 4, he was the guide and chief scout for British General Andrew Lewis in his campaign in the upper Ohio River Valley. In October, 1774, he led a Virginia militia company in the Battle of Point Pleasant, which is historically because it was the first battle in which Colonial and British armies were (effectively) on opposite sides. General Lewis was expected to join the Virginia Militia in defense of frontier settlements that were under attack by a Native American force led by the Shawnee Chief Cornstalk. but General signed a peace agreement with a Shawnee conferation. His failure to assist the militia at the time of the Battle of Point Point Pleasant contributed to the miltia's sound defeat.

In 1777, Captain Arbuckle was in command of Fort Randolph at Point Pleasant, when he "detained" Cornstalk while Cornstalk was on a peace mission. When Cornstalk's son Elinipsico visited him at the fort, a Native American who was presumed to be part of Elinipsico's contingent killed a militiaman, whereupon a gang of militiamen raced into the fort and murdered Cornstalk, Elinipsico, and two companions. The murder was widely publicised and roundly crticized, but the militiamen were acquitted at trial because their fellow soldiers refused to testify againt them.

In 1789, Captain Arbuckle participated in Gen. George Rogers Clark's successful military expedition into the Northwest Territories (Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, etc.). Then, in 1790, he was the first settler of the new town of Lewisburg, (now West) Virginia, on the western slopes of the Allegheny Mountains. In 1781, while returning from a trip to the Virginia state capital at Williamsburg, he was killed by a falling tree during a storm.

Capt Arbuckle's son, Gen. Matthew Arbuckle, was instrumental in establishing peaceful relations between American and Native Americans in western Arkanas and eastern Oklahoma. The Arbuble Mountains of Oklahoma are named for Gen. Matthew Arbuckle.

See Captain Matthew Arbuckle'ss Wikipedia article☍


Buried:
GRid=19481302; lengthy obit of military career and life thereafter. Grave metal sign and Gravestone with curved top, both with inscriptions.

Died:
Killed by falling tree in a storm while returning to Greenbrier County from Jamestown

Matthew married Frances Lawrence Hunter on 17 Dec 1774 in Botetourt County, Virginia, USA. Frances was born on 10 Mar 1749 in Botetourt County, Virginia, USA; died on 25 Jul 1834 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Welch Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]