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HISTORY ON WAYNE COUNTY WV Origin: Founded in 1842 as Trout's Hill in honor of its first settler, Abraham Trout. Incorporated as Fairview in 1882 by Circuit Court, but changed to Wayne in 1911. Named for Revolutionary War Gen. Anthony Mad Anthony Wayne. Population (according to 1990 Census): 1,128. Area in square miles: 365 acres. Boundaries: Johnson Nichols Funeral Home to the north, Wayne Fire Department to the South, Spunky Addition to the east. ZIP code: 25570. Wayne, the county seat of Wayne County, was originally founded in 1842 as Trout Hill. It was later named Fairview and was finally incorporated as Wayne in 1911. The town began on a hill, as its original name would suggest, overlooking the Twelve Pole River, which feeds into the Ohio. The first settlers in the area farmed the land in the valleys surounding Trout Hill. Throughout the years the town also spread to the surrounding valleys. EARLY SETTLERS OF WAYNE Abraham Trout was the first. The rest of the early settlers arrived in 1842, the year the county was born. Hugh Bowen was the first merchant (1842). Calvin Cyphers opened the first blacksmith shop (1845), Dr. William Maupin was the first resident physician. Henry Lloyd organized the first Sabbath School, (1845), and in 1844 Benjamin Davis opened the first shoe shop. These first men were muscled for endurance, with shaggy locks, and long beards. They were clad in coon skin caps, and their bodies were covered with coarse cloth or the skins of animals, and shoes of different types, usually the inventions of the owners. Skins of animals were used to wrap the legs as we today use leather leggings. These first men to whom many claim kin, came quietly and on a thoughtful and purposeful mission. They came to build homes. These homes, as were their schools and churches were crude affairs. Those hamlets, however, housed the most liberty loving people of all times. The early arrivals reared large families because the work was hard and many hands were needed. It is because of this fact, with due consideration for the need of social intercourse, that such progress among primitive communities can best be explained. MORE INFORMATION ON HOW THE TOWN CAME TO BE::: Wayne County was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on January 18, 1842 from parts of Cabell County. The county was named in honor of General “Mad” Anthony Wayne (1745-1796). Anthony Wayne was born on January 1, 1745 in Eastown, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was educated in Philadelphia and operated a surveyor’s office in Eastown. He was sent to Nova Scotia in 1765 to locate a grant of land given to a company of Pennsylvanians and was the superintendent of the settlement for two years. He then returned to Eastown and his surveyor’s office. He was appointed a representative to the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1773 and left that position in 1775 when he was commissioned a Colonel in the Continental Army. Following a series of brilliant military maneuvers during the American Revolutionary War at the Battles of Ticonderoga, Morristown and Brandywine, he was promoted to Brigadier General and given the title of “Mad” Anthony Wayne. He later captured an important British garrison at Stony Point on the Hudson River. In 1783, he retired from the military with the rank of brevet major general. He later served in the Pennsylvania convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution. He then relocated to a farm granted to him by the state of Georgia for his service in that state during the war. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia in 1791. He was called out of military retirement in 1792 by President George Washington to command an American military force that was being organized to put down a major Indian uprising on the western frontier (along the Ohio River). His command of about 3,000 men engaged and defeated a force of about 2,000 Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794 near the present site of Toledo, Ohio. The decisive battle led to the end of the Indian uprising. On August 3, 1795, twelve Indian chiefs signed articles of agreement “to bury the hatchet forever” and the treaty, known as “Wayne’s Treaty,” marked the end of major, organized hostilities with the Indians in what is now West Virginia and along the Ohio River on the western frontier. He died on December 15, 1796. The county was originally surveyed by George Washington in October 1770 as bounty lands for Captain John Savage and the 60 men in his company for their services during the French and Indian War. Captain Savage’s land grant was issued on December 15, 1772 and it included much of present day Wayne County. The first settler in the county was Samuel Short, who built a cabin in 1796 near the present town of Cassville. Robert Tabor arrived in 1798 and patented a tract of 2,500 acres nearby. Stephen Kelly also arrived in 1798. He built a cabin near Virginia Point. The first meeting of the county court was held on April 11, 1842 at the home of Abraham Trout. Trout Hill was then established as the county seat, in honor of Abraham Trout, the first settler in the region and the owner of the land on which the town was laid out. A log cabin was constructed to house the court. The town was later incorporated on March 27, 1860 and renamed Fairview. It was often called Wayne Court House by the local residents because the court house was the center of the area’s social and economic life. In 1911, the town’s name was changed to Wayne to conform with the local custom of referring to the town as Wayne Court House or, if in a hurry, as Wayne. Wayne County News Headlines over the last hundred years::::::: 23 October 1919 History of School System in Wayne County Wolf Creek Items Camp Creek Items 27 November 1919 Squibs: Stonewall District Broom Business 4 December 1919 Squibs: Butler District Celebrates Ninetieth Birthday 11 December 1919 Squibs: Ceredo District 18 December 1919 Squibs: Lincoln District Victory Buttons Aunt Mary Ann Sansom Passes Away 25 December 1919 Pioneer District: Butler 22 January 1920 County's First Rural High School Wayne County Woman, Age 94, Dies Whites Creek Woman Makes a Farm Record 5 February 1920 Only Sixteen Living Descendants of Bloss Family First Love Triumphs 9 September 1920 Westmoreland Woman is 105, Well, Active, but Won't Vote, re Mrs. Hanna Runyon Blankenship 16 September 1920 First Will in County Recorded in 1846; Is Preserved by Clerk, brief history and text of the will State Legislature Holds Extra Session This Week, re provisions in registering women to vote for the first time in upcoming November election and lingering opposition to their voting Coat Hung over Hole in Brick Wall of Jail as Three Prisoners Escape 23 September 1920 Dunlow Woman, 104, Victim of Paralytic Stroke 19 January 1922 Hot School Lunches Are Proven Success Deaths 16 February 1922 Aged Woman Pictures the Hardships of Early Days 11 May 1922 Capt. Ferguson Sold Farm for Race Track, But Didn't Know It Monument To Be Built in Memory of Dead Heroes 27 July 1922 Wayne Woman 71 Years Old Has Taught for Half a Century 12 October 1922 Death Takes. . . Dr. G. R. Burgess 7 December 1922 Wayne Woman Is Given Party on 93rd Birthday 16 November 1922 Beloved Woman Succumbs After Year's Illness 1 February 1923 Death Summons Judge P. H. Napier, One of the County's Most Notable Men "Uncle Pat", an eulogy re Judge Napier 9 August 1923 Old Timer Tells of Killing Deer in Wayne County, re Bostic Brumfield, Sr. Vocational Agriculture Is Added in Local High School Lost: County's Freakish Chicken Among Missing, a short humorous notice 22 November 1923 Did George Washington Cut Initials "G. W." on Chimney Rock near Ceredo?, re land grants and early settlers of Wayne County Local News Items 20 December 1923 Sturdy Pioneers of Wayne County Eulogized by Z. T. Vinson in Remarkable Word Picture, a letter In Quiet Thought, editorial comment upon Col. Vinson's richly detailed letter 23 December 1923 Wayne's Seven Wonders, re scenic spots/history J. H. Meek Began on $26 a Month Teaching School, a letter O. J. Wilkinson at Charleston Practicing Law, a letter Local News Briefs 17 January 1924 Mrs. Donald Clark, of This County, Announces for Secretary of State, re the first woman ever to seek elected state office in WV Local News Briefs 7 February 1924 Execution of Walker Here Is Outstanding Event in History, re 1878 public execution, Wayne's only civil execution Local News Briefs 10 April 1924 Ancient Savage Land Grant Was Sold for Taxes, re first land granted to private individuals Local News Letters, details routine events and interests within small Wayne communities Notice to Teachers, re qualifications for elementary certificates in the 1920's 15 May 1924 Death Takes Woman Age 108 Years; Was Oldest Person in This County, re Hannah Runyon Blankenship, life and interesting funeral Local News Briefs 12 June 1924 Nationally Known Man Recalls Boyhood Days Spent in Wayne County, reprint from Wheeling Telegraph Local News Briefs 18 December 1924 From F. S. Vanhoose, a remarkable letter depicting a life with Wayne connections From Pvt. Emery Wilson, a letter from the Mexican border From Paul Wilson, a letter from an ex-Wayne Countian 15 January 1925 Wayne County of Forty Years Ago, Pictured in Local Papers of 1880's Public Opinion, G. M. Johnson writes letter to the editor calling for tax collection revisions News Briefs, items of local interest 22 January 1925 Y. B. Salmons Taken in Death, an obituary 30 April 1925 Death Ends Useful Career of Wayne County Woman Who Taught 52 Years, a tribute to Arabella Copley New Law Requires Cedar Trees To Be Cut Down To Stop Rust, a measure to protect apple orchards Numerous Local Folks To Attend Sunday School Convention, interdenominational project News Briefs, items of local interest, including the formation Wayne County's first Rotary Club 21 May 1925 News Briefs, items of local interest, truck farming and apple orchards 2 Killed and 3 Injured at Kermit, Board of Education meeting 8 August 1925 Bethesda Home-Coming and Toney Family Reunion Deaths, Mary Elizabeth Marcum Co-operation, food for thought 27 August 1925 What Do You Know about Twelve Pole? good info about Twelve Pole Creek, from sources to mouth Wayne-Logan Connected by Way of Mingo, as part of 200.1 mile Tug River Highway from Huntington to Charleston; guide to motoring the Tug River Highway K. G. E. Castle To Be in Huntington, Wayne delegates among officers of lodge, Knights of the Golden Eagle 3 December 1925 Celebrates 96th Birthday, "Aunt" Amanda Osburn, b. 1829 Deaths, Dr. C. E. Wilkinson and Nancy Hale 28 January 1926 First Deed Recorded in This county 84 Years Ago, brief account of Wayne's separating from Cabell, copy of the first deed's text, and increasing responsibilities of the county clerk Jurors for Court Term Next March, grand and petit jurors' names and their home districts Births, recent Wayne births reported Wayne Countians in Ritchie County, Wayne road construction outfit contracted in Ritchie 12-Pole Flooded Road Last Week News Briefs, items of local interest 11 February 1926 Local Church in New Home; Founded 1874, re Ceredo Congregational Church M. E. Revival in Wayne Promotes Church Council, a non-denominational organization Pioneers from This County in Wars of 1812; 1861, a Barboursville historian notes Wayne soldiers 25 March 1926 Negro Hangs Next Month for Attack on Mingo Woman, an especially speedy judicial process in Mingo County Indictments of Long Standing Are Nolled Here, an especially slow judicial process in Wayne County 20 May 1926 Teachers Are Employed for Lincoln District W. B. Smith Candidate for Legislature, seeking to run for House of Delegates Crop Conditions in Wayne County Shown in Report, some crops affected by late winter weather Y. W. C. A. To Open Camp at Dickson Again This Year, second year of the camp Gragston News Items President Lakes-Florida Highway Association To Stop in Wayne Saturday, on an inspection tour of the Tug River Highway 24 June 1926 Former Pupils of L. Dickerson Will Again Live School Days at Reunion Cuts Earliest Cabbage, re Wayne truck farmers Buryl Cyrus and R. R. Gillette 26 August 1926 Dog Race Track Is Built at Ceredo; Is Most Novel of All Local Sports, greyhound racing Ceredo-Kenova Teachers Assigned George Ferrell Meets Death in Auto Accident 16 September 1926 Harrison Gives Official Tabulation of His Race in Sixth Senatorial District, a letter of thanks to the public Teachers Favor County as Tax Unit and Oppose Darwin Theory, workshop resolutions Good Program Is Planned for 24th at Wilson School, five schools join for a day's fun County Court News, judgments, bids, awarded contracts Local News Items The Capture of Laban T. Walker by Mose A. Napier An interesting if tragic, occurrence was to take place in, or rather near, Ceredo on August 21, 1878. On Virginia Point in what is now the City of Kenova on that day a young man, Laban Walker, murdered Patrick Nolan as Nolan exited a saloon at Virginia Point. Walker had been drinking and reportedly was paid five dollars by a prominent businessman who was angry toward Nolan. After killing Nolan, Walker panicked and fled to the scrub willow growth along the Ohio River bank. The Marshall was summoned from Ceredo and he quickly organized a posse. Walker was found shaking with fright in a willow thicket. He was placed under arrest, shackled, and taken to Ceredo for arraignment before Justice of the Peace S. D. Ward. On the morning of August 22nd after spending the night in the Ceredo Jail on B and 3rd Street East, under constant vigil, Walker was transported to the county seat at Wayne. When the grand jury convened Walker was indicted and ordered to stand trial after evidence was presented by Johnson Fry, Dr. J. T. Wharton and Patrick MeLeese. Walker asked for a postponement and it was not until August 9, 1879, nearly a year after the crime had been committed, that the trial commenced. On Aug. 12, counsel for the state and the defense rested their cases and the matter went to jury. On the 13th a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree was returned and on the 16th Judge Evermont Ward sentenced Walker to be hanged by the Sheriff on the 28th day of November 1879. When the date of execution arrived young Walker was taken from the jail and through the crowd of nearly ten thousand people who had gathered in the tiny village of Wayne to watch the hanging. It was a spectator event. Hawkers were peddling souvenirs, food, and drinks. The crowd was raucous, carnival-like. At about five minutes past two-o'clock of the afternoon Walker, assisted by the sheriff and the jailer, ascended the scaffold. A black hood was placed over his head and the rope quickly adjusted. Almost immediately the trapdoor was sprung and Laban Walker died. He was not yet twenty- one years of age. He was pronounced dead twenty minutes later by Doctors Enslow and Burgess and his body was removed to Catlettsburg for burial. Exerpted from Ceredo: Its Founders & Families by Mose A. Napier c. 1989 Pheonix Systems Ltd. Ceredo, WV Judge Evermont Ward's sentencing of Laban T. Walker The Hanging of Laban T. Walker
