JOHN WILLIAM MITCHELL
CATHERINE MARGARET TETER MITCHELL
my great-great-great-great grandparents

JOHN WILLIAM MITCHELL b: May 4, 1763 in Dawston, Lancashire, England
d: April 29, 1840 in Jane Lew, Lewis, West Virginia
married Bet. 1783-1784 in Rockingham County, Virginia
CATHERINE MARGARET TETER, b: Abt. 1765 d: Bet.1803 - 1804 in
Harrison County, Virginia shortly after arrival at
Hacker's Creek, now Lewis County West Virginia

Their children are:
I descend from William H. Mitchell

GEORGE MITCHELL married Mary McCann
JANE MITCHELL married Alexander Curtis and 2nd John Godfrey
JOHN E. MITCHELL b: Abt. 1788
.....married January 26, 1818 Mary Polly Howe
WILLIAM H. MITCHELL b: Bet. 1788 - 1789 d: Early 1834
.....married January 30, 1809 in Harrison County, Virginia
.....ELIZABETH STRALEY b. 1784
ABNER MITCHELL b: July 31, 1789 in Pendleton County, (W)Virginia
.....married in St. George's County, Maryland
.....Dorcas Lawson b: October 22, 1793
MARY MITCHELL b. Jan 26, 1792, Pendleton Co., (W)VA; d. March 1, 1871, .....buried Old Harmony Church Cemetery, Jane Lew, WV
......beside her husband, George Cookman
......They married Abt. 1811
MARGARET MITCHELL b: Abt. 1795 d: May 6, 1853

John William Mitchell jumped ship at Yorktown, Virginia 1774 and then lived in Hampshire County, (W)VA where he married Catherine Margaret Teter,
oldest daughter of George Teter, who once rode with George Rogers Clark.

John and Catherine with their two riding horses and walking for six weeks with all their children, belongings and livestock and a young baby;
Catherine died shortly after their arrival.
God Bless You, Catherine.

Second marriage of
JOHN WILLIAM MITCHELL
Married December 3, 1804 in Harrison County (W) VA
SUSANNAH WASHBURN
b: November 17, 1782 near Jane Lew, Lewis, West Virginia d: February 5, 1849

Their children were:

ELI MITCHELL married in Monongalia County, West Virginia Deilah Windsor
CATHARINE MITCHELL, married Philip Petty b: Noble Co.OH
ISAAC L. MITCHELL b. 1812 Enlisted in Civil War (Union) at age 50
BENONI MITCHELL b: February 19, 1815 in Lewis County, (W) VA
.....d: November 16, 1902 in Jane Lew, Lewis, West Virginia
......married August 18, 1837 Susana Life d: April 1902
CASANDRIA MITCHELL
ELIZABETH MITCHELL d: June 14, 1901 on Bent Farm, Rt. 119 between
.....Speed and Gandeeville, Roane County, West Virginia
.....married George Brinton BENT in Lewis County, West Virginia
REBECCA MITCHELL b: Abt. 1835

Picture of John William Mitchell gravestone with DAR metal marker.

Lewis County West Virginia Her People and Places
pp. 176 & 177
is an article entitled "Schiefer-Mitchell" written by William Foster Hayes III
Bill Hayes has also written a comprehensive article (in several sections) regarding John William Mitchell and his descendants
which is in several of the HCPD Journals. I am not sure which ones.
Bill writes that John William Mitchell was present at Surrender Field
when General Cornwallis' sword was surrendered
(that he had climbed a tree to get a better viewing position.)

William H. Mitchell and Elizabeth Straley Mitchell
my great-great-great grandparents

Their children were:
I descend from Mary Isabelle Mitchell

JOSEPH MITCHELL married March 14, 1830 Margaret Fisher
PHOEBE MITCHELL married June 2, 1861 James Reed
MARGARET MITCHELL 1891
WILLIAM MITCHELL
ELIZABETH MITCHELL b. Abt. 1819
REBECCA MITCHELL Abt. 1819
MARY ISABELLE MITCHELL b: December 15, 1819 in Jane Lew, Lewis, (W)VA
......d: June 22, 1891
..... married November 11, 1856 in Harrison County, West Virginia
..... JAMES B. BENT b: 1820 in Prince William County, VA
d: 1894 in Addison County, West Virginia. His parents were Delany Bent and Hester Golden Bent.

MARY ISABELLE MITCHELL AND JAMES B. BENT

Their children were:

ADOLPHUS M. BENT b: March 15, 1857 in Gilmer County, (W)VA
..... d: June 14, 1919 married Eliza Bode
PAUREUS L. BENT b: July 16, 1858 in Gilmer County, (W)VA
.... d: September 24, 1921 married Morna Peterson
GEORGE W. BENT b: November 10, 1859 in Gilmer Co., (W)VA d: December 23, 1914
.....at home in Huntington,,West Virginia
.....married April 4, 1894 MARY LOUVENIA BROWN b: February 22, 1867 Halleck,
.....Monongalia County, West Virginia d: April 5, 1907
..... *2nd Wife of George W. Bent married July 2, 1909
..... Gertrude Gurk b: Baltimore, Maryland
MARY E. BENT b. 1860 in,Gilmer County, (W)VA
..... d: January 24, 1936 at home in Gilmer County, West Virginia
ROSA DOVE BENT b: April 24, 1861 in Troy, Gilmer, West Virginia
..... d: January 24, 1936 at home Rush Run, Troy, Gilmer, West Virginia
..... married February 25, 1879 in Marietta, Washington, Ohio
.....HENRY BRANNON b: August 15, 1850 Louisa County, Virginia
d: February 14, 1943 at home in Rush Run, Troy, Gilmer, West Virginia
ETTIE M. BENT b. April 1, 1863 d: January 10, 1906 married J. C. Belt b: 1862 d: 1911

On page 394, No. 2 of the West Virginia WPA book is an article regarding John William Mitchell and the Old Harmony Church in Jane Lew, Lewis County, West Virginia.
On page 394, No. 1 of this book is an article regarding Stonewall Jackson.

In a book of published poems by Mary Isabelle Mitchell, my great-great grandmother
(John William Mitchell's grandaughter)
one of the poems written was,
Click here to read
"Acrostic--to Stonewall Jackson."
It says at the bottom of the page of this particular poem that
*(Mrs. Bent and Gen. Jackson were intimate friends in early life.)

Rev. Mansfield McWhorter in a letter dated March 2, 1904 said of her: "I knew your mother well. Was often with her at Sunday school and church. She was a woman of more than ordinary intellect and rare piety."

Genealogy of The Straley Family by Grace (Rhoads) Straley Swartz-Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore 1987
"Mary Isbelle was very knowledgeable in history, etc. and she wrote poetry,
some of which was published by her son, Rev. George Bent. "

Go To Picture of ETTIE M. BENT AND J. C. BELT

Go to BENT PAGE

Go to Hacker's Creek for picture of area,
Harmony Church & cemetery grounds.

Go to 150th year Dedication Speech
for Old Harmony Church-1969

Some Source Notes from Footsteps

04/17/2002