By B. F. HARLOW, JR. and

Other Assistants, some named in Dedication

1951

THE RENICKS of

GREENBRIER

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For this data on the Kincaid family we arc indebted to Dr. Herbert Clarke Kincaid, member of the National Genealogical Society, V/a nington, D. C. * \ The first American Kincaid of whom I find any record, is Daniel, who

came to New Hampshire in 1689. Patrick cane to Maine a few years later. In 1701 some of the family emigrated to Ireland with the Hamilton set-tlement. Some of their descendants emigrated to Pennsylvania, and by 1750 there were at least nine different branches of the family scat-tered thro New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas and Geor -gia. As nearly as I can arrive at the facts of the case, by diligent research, correlation of tradition, and correspondence with Kincaids in Scotland, the cause of the emigration of my immediate ancestors was as follows: The Kincaids, as a rule, were naturally attached to the Stu-art cause by blood ties and clan loyalty. David Kincaid, brother of the then Laird, took part in the unsuccessful Stuart Rebellion in 171$, and was in consequence obliged to leave Scotland. He came to Spotsylvania County, Va., where he took up land with George Robinson; later moved to Albemarle County, thence to Augusta; and finally died in Bath. Vfnen Charles Stuart attempted to retake his throne in December 17U5> and was defeated in Stirlingshire, four of the sons of Alexander Kincaid joined him and fought under Cluny MacPherson in the rear-guard action follow-ing Stuart's retreat, where they were captured. All this took place within a few miles of Kincaid, and the family retainers soon learned of the capture. The wives of the two married brothers, Samuel and George, were taken to Glasgow with some of their furniture, and the four broth-ers, Samuel, George, James and Robert, were spirited out of the English camp, and all of them put on board ship. They came to Va. fairly well supplied with "siller," and, on the advice of their uncle David, set-tled in Augusta County. The difficulties in the way of separating the Kincaid families in the

old records have been very great, as there were at least four branches in Augusta County very early. One of these was that of Thomas Kincaid, who came from Ireland to Penn., thence to Augusta and died shortly thereafter, his eldest son being William, a Captain in the Revolution-ary Army, who married Eleanor Guy and was the ancestor of a number of the Kentucky Kinkaids, who have been very prominent in the history of that state. Other descendants of Thomas remained in Augusta and Green-brier counties. Another was the family of David Kincaid, Sr., already mentioned, who

came from Scotland to Spotsylvania County shortly after 1715, was an early settler in Orange and raised a large family. David built the •first Augusta County jail. A number of his descendants are still in V/. Va., while David, Jr. went to Ky. shortly after the Revolution. Still another was John Kincaid, who came to Augusta from Penn. He al-

so had a large number of descendants in this and other states. V/illiam, Matthew, James, John, Thomas and Andrew are among the names

common to all three of these families and, with the exception of Mat-thew and Joseph, to my cam. Samuel, George and Robert, I have found in Va. only in ny own branch. James is one of the commonest Kincaid names, and a majority of Lairds of-that-Ilk have borne that name. There have also been these Lairds: David, Thomas, George, V/illiam, John, Patrick, Francis and Robert. SAMUEL, with his brothers Robert, George and James came to America in

17U6. James went to the South; George settled on Jackson's River, in what is now Alleghany County, Va. near Falling Spring, about seven miles below Covington. His wife's name is unknown to me. Here in 1756 he was killed in an Indian raid and his wife and three children were captured by the savages, and returned in 176U under the terms of Bouquet's trea-ty. Of his children, Samuel married Elizabeth, daughter of Col. George V/ilson, and removed to Penn. This Samuel was a Lieut, in the Va. Mili-tia, 177U, and was Wounded in the arm in a fight with the Indians near

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was declared against England; he went to Pittsburg in 1775 with his old friend and neighbor, Capt. John Wilson, and was wounded in the thigh" vriile on that service, According to family tradition, he never fully re-covered from this wound and died in 1780. Pittsburg Papers .,31, in the State Library, Richmond, Va., shows the roll of Capt. John Wilson's Co. "Samuel Kincaid wounded, received 19 days pay, 3 pounds, 7 shillings, advances on pay-wounded. Balance 3 pounds, 7 shillings." In 1780 shortly before his death, Samuel, then a widower, makes deed

to his nephew and son-in-law, Andrew Kincaid, of a tract he had bought in 1771 from William Hamilton on Jackson's River. Tradition says very little about him, except as above given. His daughter-in-law, Margaret Clark, wife of Samuel,*Jr.,lived to the ripe age of 9U years, but her stories to her grandson, the writer's grandfather, mostly concerned her husband, SAMUEL JUNIOR, so far as I recollect them. DR. CLARK KINCAID was sixteen years old at the time of his grandmother's death, and as the only boy in a house full of girls, he was naturally the favored re-cipient of her tales of the old days. Is ue: Alexander, died young; SAMUEL; GEORGE; James, went to Ky. about

1800; Ann married Andrew Kincaid, Feb. U, 1782. Their son, An-drew, Jr. born Mar. 2li, 1783, died Jan. 8, 1858 married Ann of Samuel, Jr. in 1811; Robert; Hugh had 95 acres in Greenbrier "joining Renix," 1782; William had 1;QG acres Greenbrier River, June 20, 1782; others ?

KINCAID, SAMUEL, Jr. (6) was born in Scotland about 173U and died in Greenbrier County, Va. Jan. 23, 1819. He was Captain in the

Botetourt Militia and his company was at Pittsburg in 1775* (Pittsburgh Papers ?/3U, Va. State Library). (Capt. Samuel Kincaid's Roll. He war, paid for 69 days service. His pay was 3U pounds, 10 shillings. Dated Sept. 2, 17750 According to family tradition, he resigned his commission shortly af-

ter his father was wounded and, as the eldest son and heir and. the only son unmarried, returned to the home place to look after it and his fa-ther, who had been long widowed. Here about 1776 he married Margaret, daughter of his old neighbor, James Clarke. SAMUEL was one of the largest landowners in Greenbrier County at the

time of its formation from Botetourt in 1777, e>na acquired much land later. Greenbrier Land Entry Book No. 1, p. 8, shows 390 acres; Book 2, p. 130, 300 acres, State Military Warrant 183U2, May 3, 1791; p. 182, 220 acres, Warrant 15276. These were taken at random from the Greenbrier records; his total holdings were over 10,000 acres. In 1780 he moved to what is now Neola on Anthony's Creek. At that time the only feasible road from Va. into that territory came thro Rucker Gap, down Meadow Creek to its junction with Anthony's at Neola. Here he built a large ho-tel, with a number of summer cottages, and for many years drew a clien-tele from the entire eastern United States, comparable to the patronage now enjoyed by the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs. The wri-ter's father has often described to him the fireplace in the old hotel, in which it is said that sire men could stand abreast. SAMUEL was one of the most prominent citizens of Greenbrier. He served

on a grand jury in May 1781. In 179U he'was one of a commission of ten outstanding men selected to settle a dispute between Greenbrier and Mon-roe counties. (Morton's History of Monroe). In 1792 he was commissioned Justice for Greenbrier County: gave bond as "Hiprh Sheriff" Aug. 22,1807, (Greenbrier Deed Book IV.-191) and served as sheriff thro 1808 and 1809. His will dated in 1816 and proved in 1819, divides his real estate on

Anthony's Creek almost equally between his three sons, giving the mid-dle portion, with the home place to JAMES. Issue as named in the will; there may have been others, deceased.:

Samuel married Sallie Kester; a daughter Harriet Frances married Lanty

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Scott; George married Susie Remley and went west; JAMES (5); Sally mar-William Brown 180U; Sam'l. makes deed to William in Sept. 130U; Betty, born 1707; married John 11. Brown, Jan. ll;, 1808; /am, born Aug. £0,1791, died Sept. 10, 186U; married her cousin Andrew Kincaid and lived\at Fal-ling Spring, Va. One of her children was killed by a slave. KINCAID, GQJRGE (6), brother to SAMUEL (6), was born probably in Scot-

land, possibly in Augusta County, Va., and died in Greenbrier. He married MARGARET, daughter of Captain RDBSRT REliICK, about 1770. He and his brother James were in Capt. Robert McClanachan's Co. of Green-brier Valley Volunteers, in the Botetoxirt Regiment, at the Battle of Pt. Pleasant, under Sergeant Samuel Clarke, brother to Margaret(Clarke). Greenbrier Land Entry Book No. 1, p. 268, shows 200 acres to George Kin-caid, State Military Warrant ,rl5020, Sept. 1736. George inherited noth-ing from his father, who died intestate, SAMUEL claiming the estate as heir-at-law. He is mentioned in Augusta Records (Chalkley II-U19); in June 1803, Simpson Archer and his children; George Kincaid and children; "some of the poor entitled under the will of John Archer." He apparent-accumulated nothing except a large family, raising eleven boys and two girls, (a list of whom are given in the main part of THE REl-ilCKS OF GREENBRIER, under II. 5. Margaret or Peggy Renick, daughter of ROBERT and BETSY ARCPEl REi.TCK, who was one of the seven children carried away by the Shawnee Indians with their mother and kept in captivity until rescued by Bouquet, an account of which is also given earlier.) KINCAID. JAMES (5), son of SAMUEL and MARGARET (CLARKE) KINCAID, was

born in Greenbrier County, May 15, 1782; and married Liar.. 26, 1816, Phebe, his first cousin, daughter of GBJRGE and MARGARET (REIilCK) KINCAID, (above), the ceremony being performed by Rev. John Pinnell. JAMES was commissioned a Justice of Greenbrier County, Apr. 17, 1809; qualified at the May Court, 1809, and served as such until his death, except during his term as High Sheriff; he appeared at the March Court, 1827, and "entered into bonds" having produced his commission as Sher-iff. He was commissioned Colonel of the 79th Va. Infantry, but I find no record that this regiment caw any active service during the war with England in 1812-11}. This Regiment was a part of the Thirteenth Militia Brigade, Third Division. He was also a member of the Va. House of Dele-gates. Col. James is said to have been one of the most powerful men, physically, in Va. My grandfather told me of one occasion when a big stranger rode up to the house late one afternoon and enquired for Col. Kincaid. Vihen James appeared the stranger informed him that his reputa-tion had reached his (the stranger's) home somev/here east of Richmond, and that being the best man in his neighborhood, he had felt it incum-bent upon himself to come over and "lick" Col. James. Ly great-grand-father suggested that he put off the battle until the next morning; en-tertained him royally that night, and the next day, finding him still of the same mind, they peeled their shirts after breakfast and went at it, hammer and tongs. The stranger received a good thrashing, declared himself perfectly satisfied and rode off in the best of humor. James and Phebe had nine children, two of whom were poisoned by a ne-

gro slave. James died of pneumonia July 9, 1838. In his will he divided his lard, equally between his two sons. Issue: Elizabeth Ann, born Jan. 3, 1817; died unmarried May 8, 181*2.

ALEXANDER CLARKE (It); Margaret Susan, born Jan. 27, 1820, died Apr. 25, 1888, married McCallister; Frances Jane, born March 7, 1822, died May 8, 1893; married Michael Gillilan; Agnes Letitia, born Jan. 19, 182U, married Josiah Loury or Lowry; some of their descendants live in Pocahontas and "Kanawha; Sarah Rebecca, Oct. 25, 1825-Aug. 7, 1826; Mary Louisa, May 31, 1827-Aor. 7, 13U9, married Dean; Avalina Lovinia, Jan. 22, 1829-Feb. 6, 1837; Wil-

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liam Renick, Jan. 19, 1831-Aug. I084, mr-rried I-Ic-ry -.run yell; served in the Confederate Array, and died at Covington, Va. a zdfi, Thomas Alexander Bell, lives in Huntington, .;. Va. (1936) and a daughter in Covington; he has a large number of descendants in both Virginias.

KINCAID, PHEBE, (5), daughter of George and i irgaret (R2HICK) KUICAID, wife of Colonel JALIES, was born in Greenbrier County, April 15,

1795, twin to Hugh. After the death of Col. James, she married a Fleis-chman and spent two or three years touring the west in a carriage, try-ing to locate her twin brother, unsuccessfully, so far as I know. She was left a very generous share of a large estate. Prom the recollection of two or three very old people who knew her, she was a remarkably strong and intelligent woman. Her home is said to have been the last word in hospitality. She continued to run the hotel established by her father-in-law and bequeathed to JALIES, after the Colonel's death, but a relative in any degree was a guest of L'rs. Xincaid, and not of the ho-tel. She died in Greenbrier County, Jan. 16, 1858, and is buried with Col. James, near Neola, in the Kincaid cemetery. KINCAID, ALEXANDER CLARKE, (U), eldest son of James and Phebe Kincaid,

named for his great-grandfather ALEXANDER KINCAID and his grandmother CLARKE, was bom on Anthony's Creek, Greenbrier County, Va. Feb. 27,-1818, and inherited a very handsome property from his father. He graduated from the University of Virginia, and married, Oct. 31,l8L|.7, '.laria Louise Hamilton, at Summersvillc,Nicholas County, where he en-gaged in the mercantile business. Early in 1852, he removed to L£L11-point, Pocahontas County, where he was in business with his uncle tlx— chael Gillilan, and in lo5U, graduated from Richmond Medical College; removed to Sutton in 1856, when the town was incorporated by Act of Leg-islature Feb. 20, i860, he was one of the four commissioners of the first election. At the outbreak of the Y/ar Between the States, he gave up his prac-

tice and removed his family to Greenbrier and raised and equipped a troop of cavalry at his own expense. (Cole's History of Greenbrier). This he commanded for a time, when he was transferred to the Albemarle Rangers; a sword which was personally presented to him by Gen. Robert E. Lee, is still one of the treasured family relics. "Dr. Clarke," as he was generally and affectionately known, was an eminently successful and universally respected physician for many years until his death, Dec. 6, 1893, at Prankford, Greenbrier County, V/. Va. He was. a Presbyterian and a tiason. Issue: ROBERT ALEXANDER (3)J James Renick, liar. 22, l85ii-Jan. 12, 1922.

He was named for his grandfather Kincaid and his maternal great-grandmother Renick; graduated in medicine at Richmond, Va. and practised until his death at Frankford, Greenbrier County. He married Alice, daughter of Richard Y/hite, and they had four chil-dren: Llary Hamilton, married Thomas Beard as second wife, have one son; Edith V/hite; Byrria; both of these are unmarried and live at the home place in Frankford; James Clarence, who married Lary Ruffner Davenport, and live at Daytona Beach, Fla. No issue. Fannie Bell, born at Sutton, Aug. 25, 1856; died Feb. 22, 1863; Phebe Caroline, born at Sutton, l y-27"', 1857; widow of .Robert Y/oodward; died at Frankford, Aug. 9, 1933 of an accident. Laura Llargaret, born at Sutton, Oct. 19, 1858; married Cal. Lev-isay; one son lives at Frankford. Died July 2, 1885. i!ary Agnes, born at Frankford, Feb. 2, l86ii; died Jan. 28, 1873. Lucy Hamilton, born at Frankford, Apr. 8, 1869; married William A. Jameson and lives at Bramwell, V>. Va. One son, two daughters.

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KINCAID, ROBERT ALEXANDER. (3), eldest child of Dr. A. C. Kincaid, was v,ras born at Mill Point, Pocahontas County, Va. June 1, 1552,

He was named for his grandfather, Col. Robert Hamilton, and for his fa-ther. As a child, most of his time was spent at the home of Col. Hamil-ton, who had a large family of daughters and but one son, the youngest, and had almost given up hope of a Hamilton grandson to carry on the fa-mily name. Robert matured early and at the age of twelve was enlisted for a time in the Confederate Army. In this service he received a blow from a Federal musket butt, which permanently affected his hearing.One of the writer's most treasured possessions is his father's Confederate Cross of Honor. ROBERT was until a few years before his death, a man of exceptional

physique. I have seen him, at the age of sixty, twirl a fifty pound ir-on crowbar between his fingers like a cane and hold a fifty pound weight on each little finger, with arms extended. He received a classi-cal education at Hampden Sydney and William & Mary Colleges; read law, passed the bar examination, was qualified by the Nicholas County Court in 1879. He practised his chosen profession in Nicholas County for many years; was Prosecuting Attorney there for tivo terms, and was recognized as one of the outstanding specialists in land title and tax matters in West Virginia. He was a Democrat and a Presbyterian; of decided opin-ions; loyal to a fault, and his word once given, was kept at any cost. He was a Mason, Knight Templar, and K. P., and a member of the United Confederate Veterans. (References: Kincaid Family Bible; Uicholas Co. Records; History of Greenbrier; United Confederate Vets.) He died after a long illness of progressive muscular atrophy, at the

I'cdung Hospital, Richwood, W. Va. Jan. 25>, 1926. On May 2£, 1380 he married liary Thomas Fatton at Hew Orleans, La.

Issue: 1. Phala Hamilton, born at Summersville, Apr. 1, 1881. She was ed-ucated at the Lewisburg Seminary and taught in the public schools

of Charleston, YJ.Va. for some years. She married William Baltzer Moore, an Attorney, practising in Lisbon, Ohio, and they had four fine boys: V/illiam B. Moore, Jr., rho married in December 1933, and has two sons; he is an attorney, practising with his father; Edmond, married 1939, a musician, lives in Lisbon; Randolph Patton, a physician, now serving with the U. S. Army at Fort Thomas, Ky. (l9Ul), married 1939; and Rob-ert, killed accidentia 193$.

2. HERBERT CLARKE (2). 3. Wallace Patton was born Feb. 2, 1386, graduated from Green-

brier Military Academy, and after some years in banking, organized the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Summersville in 1910. Of this bank he has made a remarkable success, and is well known in banking circles through-out the state. He is the donor of the Wallace Patton Kincaid Cup, at the G. M. A.; is single, and resides at SummersvillejWhere he owns the home place

k, Robert Truslow, born Oct. 11, 1838; died of diphtheria, Sept. 23, 1892.

5. liary Louise, educated at the LewLsburg Seminary, is single and resides at Summersville.

6. James Baldwin, born July 10, 1895; graduate of the Summers-ville Normal, and of Greenbrier Military Academy, 1913; was affiliated with the Kanawha Banking & Trust Co. of Charleston, and volunteered at the outbreak of the World War; went to Fort Benjamin Harrison, First Officer's Training Camp; was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Air Service, and sent overseas in 1917; discharged March 1919, with the most favorable comment for meritorious service as a pilot; returned to Charleston, where he entered the Life Insurance field; organized and commanded for years (7) Company C. 150th Infantry, W. Va. National Guard; promoted to 33th Division Staff as Aide to the Commanding General. In 1931 he was made a Major in the Chemical Warfare service, and in June

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1935. promoted to lieutenant Colonel and appointed U. S. Property ahd . Disbursing Officer for W. Va. '.Vhile on duty in that capacity at the an-nual encampment at Camp Conley, near Point Pleasant, W. Va., he died suddenly, Jiily 17, 1935, of a suspected heart lesion. He married Hay 25, 1928, Willie Loys Vaughn of Missouri. Mo issue.

7. Ralph Templeton, born May 29, 1898, is also a graduate of Green-brier Military Academy. He married Katherine Leo Boggs of Clay County, and is associated with his brother Wallace Kincaid in the Bank at Sum-mersville. They have one daughter, Mary Katherine. KINCAID, HERBERT CLARKE (2), second child and eldest son of ROBERT

ALEXANDER and MARY THOMAS (PATTON) KUICAID, was born at Sum-mersville, W. Va., Oct. 16, 1383, and graduated from the Summersville Normal School in 1899. In the same year he attended the Capital City Commercial College at Charleston, and in 1901 was the champion typist of the State. In 1903 he went to Utah, where he vorked as a stenograph-er, book-keeper, salesman and store manager. Returning to W. Va. in' 190U, on account of his mother's illness, he worked for a time in Clarksburg, and in 1906 matriculated at the Baltimore Medical College (Univ. of Md.), and graduated Cum Laude, 1910. At the outbreak of the World War I, as Health Officer of Nicholas Co., he automatically became a member of the Local Draft 3oardj immediately applied for a commission and July 10, 1917, was commissioned First Lieutenant, Medical Reserve Corpsj served with the 58th Infantry, Fourth Division, Regular Army, and was promoted to Captain in France, May 27, 1918: participated in. the battles of the Marne, Veale, St. Mihiel and Argonne; was with the Army of Occupation in Germany, and was invalided home on account of an acute dilatation of the heart, brought on by overexertion after being gassed twice; was discharge from the Walter Reed General Hospital, Apr, 16, 1919, after five months hospitalisation. After a year of recoupera-tion, he resumed private practice, which he was soon obliged to give up on account of his physical condition, and he is at present the National Medical Consultant for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States at Washington, D. C. He learned the French language while abroad, and has some knowledge of German, Spanish and Italian; is retired as Capt. Medical Corps, for disability incurred in combat with an enemy of the United States. He is Past Master of Boone Lodge 162, A.F. & A.M.; mem-of V.F.W., fellow of the Institute of American Genealogy, member of the National Genealogical Society. He married BESS LUCILLE R0LLYS0M, Dec. U, 1912, at Weston, W. Va. and resides (1951) at 161*1 Harvard St., N. W. Washington, D. C. Issue: Virginia Carolyn Kincaid (l), born at Summersville, June 20,1911*;

honor graduate of Charleston High School, 1931; honor graduate, Bachelor of Arts, Marshall College, 1936; member Delta Sigma Ep-silon Sorority, Gamer Gamer; Junior Woman's Club, Huntington, W. Va. Married Carl Welch Taylor. Lives in Washington, D. C. Robert Alexander Kincaid II, (l), born at Summersville, Feb. 6, 1916; graduated from Charleston High School, 193U, on First Hon-or Roll; Basketball, Gym. and Track, in High School; one time Tri-State Champion i*1 Fancy Diving; graduated June 8, 1938, Kamp-den-Sydney College, Va., Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, with Letters in Track, Tennis, Boxing, Basketball and Football; Pres. of the Student Body 1937-8; Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Sig-ma; Seven and a Half, Omicron Delta Kappa, member of Pan-Hellen-ic Council, etc. (See Who's Who Among Students in American Col-leges and Universities, 1937-8). He completed two years in Law, G. .7. lT.; received a commission as Ensign, U.S.N.R., Dec. 12, 19h0, and is at present assigned to the U.S.S. Bulmer, Asiatic Fleet. Lt. J.G. June 16, 19li2; Lt. S.G. Dec. 1, 19U2; Lt. Cmdr. now on active duty, Corpus Christi, Tax.- Navy Cross, Silver Star Medal,D.F.C. Air Medal. Married July U, 19U8, Phyllis Kitson.