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Ancestors of George Henry Custer, Jr.

Generation No. 5

      16. Mark Custer, Sr., born Abt. 1788 in Pennsylvania; died 02 Sep 1859 in Sandyville, Jackson County, Virginia (Source: Indexed Register of Deaths Jackson County, West Virginia, page 115, Custer, Mark (Sr) White male Date of Death month 9, day 2, year 1859 age 78 place of death Jackson County, cause of death Fever Father Peter Custer, Mother Catherine, Name of person giving information J. P. Custer.). He was the son of 32. Peter Custer and 33. Elizabeth ?. He married 17. Mary Margaret Kimble 08 Oct 1810 in Berkeley County, Virginia (Source: Guy L. Keesecker, Marriage Records of Berkeley County, Virginia 1781-1854, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc 1983), page 54, 122, Custer, Mark m. Kimble, Mary Oct 8, 1810 suretor Richard Morrison bond 3b163 Kimble, Margaret m. Custer, Mark Oct 8, 1810 suretor Richard Morrison bond 3b163.).

      17. Mary Margaret Kimble, born Abt. 1785 in Virginia; died Bef. 1850 in Virginia. She was the daughter of 34. Jacob Kimble and 35. Unknown.

Notes for Mark Custer, Sr.:

      1830 Census Center Township, Greene County, PA lists one male under 5; one male 10-15; one male 40-50; one female under 5; one female 5-10; one female 10-15; one female 20-30; one female 50-60. (Brother John Custer living in Wayne Township, Greene County, PA)
      1840 Census Tyler County, VA/WV lists Mark Custer head of household and 1 male 5 Yrs. and under, 1 male 10 - 15 Yrs., 1 male 20 - 30 Yrs, and 1 male 40 - 50 Yrs. 2 females 15 - 20 Yrs. and 1 female 50 - 60 Yrs.
      1850 Census Jackson County VA/WV : 197-201 Custer, Mark Sr. 61 Miller (died Sep 1859) b.PA
listed with Custer, David 16 (married Jerusha d/o Daniel W. and Hepsibah [Chapman] Sayre).
      Note from John Houseman's "Pioneers in Jackson County" page 250 that Abraham Trueman sold a half interest in his mill to John Custer. Believe this should be Mark Custer. Need to check records in Jackson County.

Notes for Mary Margaret Kimble:
      Said to be buried Ben's Run Tyler/Pleasants County line.
      From Connie Loy 4 Sep 2000: This Bogard cemetery is just a short distance from Ben's Run.

More About Mark Custer and Mary Kimble:
Marriage: 08 Oct 1810, Berkeley County, Virginia (Source: Guy L. Keesecker, Marriage Records of Berkeley County, Virginia 1781-1854, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc 1983), page 54, 122, Custer, Mark m. Kimble, Mary Oct 8, 1810 suretor Richard Morrison bond 3b163 Kimble, Margaret m. Custer, Mark Oct 8, 1810 suretor Richard Morrison bond 3b163.)

Children of Mark Custer and Mary Kimble are:

Sarah Jane Custer, born 06 Aug 1812 in Berkeley County, Virginia; died 03 Mar 1880 in Pleasants County, West Virginia; married Samuel B. Seckman 02 Sep 1830 in Greene County, Pennsylvania; born 20 Mar 1810 in Berkeley County, Virginia (Source: Information from Lenore Radcliffe Yeager. A Pleasants County history says he was born in Berkeley County, Virginia. Lenore is checking on her source which she believes was from the Allen County Library in Indiana.); died Unknown.

Notes for Sarah Jane Custer:
Information on the descendants of Sarah Jane "Sallie" Custer Seckman is contributed by her descendant Lenore Radcliffe Yeager. Her sources are the Bible records of her Great Grandmother Mary Florence Seckman Jones as well as marriage and birth records from the Court House at St. Marys in Pleasant County, West Virginia.

Notes for Samuel B. Seckman:
Served eight years as a Justice of the Peace. Primary occupation stock-raising on his farm, which lies along Big Run. His address was Twiggs, Pleasants County, WV.

More About Samuel Seckman and Sarah Custer:
Marriage: 02 Sep 1830, Greene County, Pennsylvania

ii.

John Peter Custer, born Jan 1818 in Berkeley County, Virginia; died 19 Jan 1902 in West Virginia; married (1) Charlotte Seckman Abt. 1842; born Abt. 1818; died 11 Jul 1862 in Jackson County, Virginia; married (2) Elizabeth Knotts 11 Oct 1863; born 02 Jul 1816 in Preston County, Virginia; died 14 Dec 1905 in Jackson County, West Virginia (Source: John House, Pioneers in Jackson County , W.VJA. History of Mill Creek and Sandy Valley and its Early Settlements, (Compiled in 1906), page 243, died December 14th, 1905, aged eighty nine years, five months and twelve days.).

Notes for John Peter Custer:
In an e mail from Freda Blake Bradley sent 16 Apr 2001:

Middle Sandy Valley

Big Lick Run comes on the right of Sandy, and a short distance above. It has
been a wild, rough country in the pioneer days. The hills are high, steep,
and rocky. There are imposing cliffs and walls of sandstone lining the sides
of a gorge, below the Grant farm, with rocks framed in the walls as large as
a house. This strata of rocks seems to run solid through the hill, and crops
out on the right fork of Coon Run in a solid wall of rock on each side of the
stream, twelve to sixteen feet in thickness, through which the valley has
been worn in the course of centuries. Near the mouth of Trap Run, the left
bank of the stream is a wall of stone.

The run is named from a spring in the bottom, on the right side of, and near
the stream a little distance from its mouth. This once famous deer lick is
only about a hundred yards below the site of John Custer's cabin, and near
the upper line of K.C. Hutchinson's land, and the water comes out from under
the foot of a towering mountain.

1850 Census Jackson Co., VA: 198-202 Custer John P. age 33 Miller at Sandyville b. Berkeley County; Charlette (Seckman) age 33; Melissa J. Custer age 7 born Tyler Co., VA,; George N. Custer age 6 born Tyler Co., VA,; Sylvester B. Custer age 5 born Tyler Co., VA.

1860 Census Jackson Co., VA: 840-792 John P. Custer age 42 farmer on Trace Fork of Sandy born VA; Charlotte (Seckman) 42 born PA; George 15 born VA

1870 Census Jackson Co., WV: 77-77 John P. Custer age 52 farmer on Trace Fork born Berkeley Co.,; Elizabeth age 54

1880 Census Jackson Co., WV: 286-288 John P. Custer age 62 farmer born Berkeley Co., WV;
Elizabeth 64; Okey C. Grant age 11 nephew (s/o Chapman Grant and Margaret Custer Grant m. 16 Aug 1866 Jackson Co., WV); Holman, H. age 33 domestic born WV; Lucy? Grant 14 waiter born WV (Charles L. Grant).
Margaret Custer MacFarland Grant was the sister of John P. Custer.

Home Guard during the War Between the States.

From John House's "Pioneers in Jackson County":
"John Custer married first a Seckman, a sister of Squire Sayre's wife. He lived on the Sarver Farm, on Big Lick, which he sold to Old Jimmy Harper. He was living there in 1858. He married next Elizabeth, widow of Jephtha Magee. He lived after his second marriage at the home of his wife, beyond Independence."

Notes for Charlotte Seckman:
John House in "Pioneers of Jackson County" states that Charlotte was a sister of Squire Sayre's wife. Squire Sayre was the brother of Jerusha Sayre, wife of David Custer. John Custer would be the brother in law of Squire Sayre and Jerusha Sayre Custer.

More About John Custer and Charlotte Seckman:
Marriage: Abt. 1842

iii.

Margaret Mary Custer, born 01 Dec 1823 in Greene County, Pennsylvania; died 04 Sep 1878 in Jackson County, West Virginia; married (1) Thomas D. McFarland 12 Oct 1843 in Tyler County, Virginia; born 16 Dec 1816 in Providence, Rhode Island; died 28 Oct 1859 in Jackson County, Virginia; married (2) Chapman Grant III 16 Aug 1866 in Jackson County, West Virginia; born Abt. 1809 in Harrison County, Virginia; died Bef. 1880 in Jackson County, West Virginia.

Notes for Margaret Mary Custer:
Lived next door to John P. Custer, her brother, in 1860 Jackson County.
Margaret Grant age 56 date of death 9th month 1878 location: Sandy cause of death: Lung Fever. Jackson County Death Records.
Okey and Charles L. Grant living with John P. Custer in 1880 Census.
Buried at Cottageville, West Virginia.

More About Margaret Mary Custer:
Burial: Unknown, Cottageville Cemetery, Jackson County, West Virginia

Notes for Thomas D. McFarland:
Information for the Thomas and Margaret Custer McFarland Family and their descendants from Carol Taravella whose husband is a descendant of this family through Robert William McFarland and from Stan Machett who is a descendant through Martha Elizabeth McFarland (both Robert and Martha were children of Thomas Jefferson McFarland who was a son of Thomas and Margaret Custer McFarland)
Further information from "Tommie" Erma Cavender states that Thomas and Margaret Custer McFarland are buried at Cottageville, West Virginia.

More About Thomas McFarland and Margaret Custer:
Marriage: 12 Oct 1843, Tyler County, Virginia

iv.

Christina Custer, born 14 Mar 1826 in Greene County, Pennsylvania; died 19 Jan 1896; married Aaron Greenfield McCardell 10 Apr 1845 in Tyler County, Virginia; born 20 Jun 1821; died 08 Jul 1888.

Notes for Christina Custer:
Lived in Tyler County 1850, Pleasants County 1860 , and Tyler County in 1870.
Donald Custer states that Myrtle Custer gives Christina Custer's grandparents as Peter and Elizabeth Custer and her parents as Mark and ? Kimbel Custer.
Linda Cheek is a descendant of Christina Custer McCardell.

More About Aaron McCardell and Christina Custer:
Marriage: 10 Apr 1845, Tyler County, Virginia

	8	v.		Mark Custer, Jr., born 1829 in Greene County, Pennsylvania; died 1863 in Jackson County, West Virginia; married Mary Elizabeth Morehead 20 Jun 1850 in Jackson County, Virginia.
		vi.		David Custer, born 22 Nov 1833 in Tyler County, Virginia; died 03 Dec 1858 in Jackson County, Virginia (Source: Indexed Register of Deaths Jackson County, West Virginia, page 115, Custer, David, White male, died 1858 age 29 years and 11 months Jackson County of Fever Father Mark, Mother Margaret. Persons giving information Jerusha and T.N. McFarland Another death entry was given by J. P. Custer late with age of 22 years one month and death date of Sep 1859 which is incorrect as David died the year before his father.); married Jerusha Sayre 16 Feb 1854 in Jackson County, Virginia; born 10 Sep 1830 in Virginia; died 19 Jul 1878 in West Virginia.

Notes for David Custer:
From John House's "Pioneers in Jackson County" page 250:
"David Custer married Jerusha Sayre, daughter of Daniel Sayre. He lived at the mouth of a little run which comes in to the Right Fork of Sandy, a little above Murray's, and about two miles above Sandyville."

Notes for Jerusha Sayre:
Jerusha was sued by John Peter Custer over estate his brother David Custer. Last record found so far was that the case belonged in the Wood County courts rather than Jackson County courts.
Jerusha buried in New Era, WV.

More About David Custer and Jerusha Sayre:
Marriage: 16 Feb 1854, Jackson County, Virginia

18. Armistead Morehead, born 14 Oct 1793 in Fauquier County, Virginia (Source: Tombstone Inscription United Methodist Cemetery Sandyville, West Virginia); died 17 Oct 1878 in Sandyville, Jackson County, West Virginia (Source: Tombstone Inscription United Methodist Cemetery Sandyville, West Virginia). He was the son of 36. Nathaniel Morehead, Sr. and 37. Margaret Jett. He married 19. Tacy Richards 21 Jul 1814 in Wood County, Virginia (Source: Marriage Record Wood County, Virginia 1814).

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