from east of the mountains, from somewhere in Virginia. He is thought to have been a soldier for Braddock and Washington in the famous campaign of 1755. About 1760 he came to what is now Hancock County, WV. His land was part of the Johnson Survey, granted in 1775, when Patrick Henry was governor of Virginia. The grant was for 7,000 acres, but when it was surveyed it measured 8,100 acres. Of this Aaron Marshall was assigned 205 acres at ten shillings an acre, payable in whiskey at five shillings a gallon, flour and other forms of currency of the day. Aaron Marshall had the fourth house on the tract. The original record of title is at Louisville, Kentucky. The town of Newel1 stands on part of the original grant. In his minutes George Washington mentions the waterfalls where his tract borders the Ohio River, but the land of Aaron Marshall was some five miles northeast from that stream. Aaron Marshall continued to live on his Hancock County land until his death 1826. He was a Baptist and frequently preached in the Kings Creek area, where he is buried. Aaron Marshall's son, John, was born in 1782 and died in 1859, spending his entire life in Hancock County. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. John Marshall's son, James G. Marshall, was born at old Fairview, Hancock County on November 2 1, 1826 and died October 6, 1902. He left the farm, did considerable surveying, became an attorney, and for twenty-four years was the prosecuting attorney of Hancock County. He was buried in the old Presbyterian churchyard at Fairview. His wife was Lavina Miller, daughter of John Miller and granddaughter of David Miller. David Miller settled on Tomlison Run, where he owned 400 acres, secured from Dorsey Pentecost, one of the two last judges who held court at Pittsburgh under the authority of the British crown. David had the first house in Gas Valley, and died in 1835, in his ninety-ninth year. His son, John, spent his life as a farmer at the old place, and his daughter, Lavina was born there. She died when about sixty years old. Her three children are: Oliver S., E.D. Marshall, an attorney at Santa Clara, CA, and Ila, who mamed Dr. J.W. Walton. Oliver S. Marshall attended West Liberty Normal School and graduated from Bethany College in 1878. Marshall served as a