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Surnames I'm researching : Williams, McCoy, Ocheltree, Blake

Pages 316-317

Captain Samuel Williams House

Neare the Monroe County line, south of the Greenbrier River, in Irish Corner District, and on a hilltop, with fine, sweeping view in all directions, is a very early house. One leaves Route 60 at the village of Caldwell and after a few miles turns easy at a fork in the road between Caldwell and Organ Cave, down a narrow valley, and in two or three miles the house is in view on the right, high against the sky. The steep and deeply rutted lane leading to it must be climbed on horseback or on foot. One wonders if once there was not an attempt made to beautify this narrow approach, for there are old apple trees, plum, wild cherry, dogwood, and many other flowering trees growing in the tangle of weeds along the split rail fence on each side.

The house faces the easy and is master of all it surveys. One end consists of the original log cabin, with its large stone chimney, and extending from it is a later two-story weatherboarded addition with small windows, low porch, and stone chimney at the end.

Now owned and occupied by Mrs. R. L. Boone, this is considered the earliest house standing in this part of the county. It was built by the Revolutionary officer, Captain Samuel Williams, a pioneer settler in 1785, who received a grant of 390 acres of land from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1787 and built the log house about that time. Captain Williams was the first sheriff of Greenbrier County and was a private in Colonel John Stuart's Company at the Battle of Point Pleasant and later captain of a company of county militia.

He married a widow, Sabina Stuart Wilson, sister of Colonel John Stuart. Their daughter, Margaret Lynn Williams, married Thomas Creigh in 1801, and the names of their nine children are given in the Montescena sketch following. Four years before his death, in October, 1818, Captain Williams married Sallie Cox. The last of the Williams descendants to own the old homestead was a great-grandson of the pioneer, Reverend Abner A. P. Neel.