Sarah (Osborn) Alderson (1761)

Born 1761 in Rockbridge County, Virginia

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Genealogical Notes of Virginia and George Jansen, 1999.

Alderson Ancestry of the Jansen Daughters: The John Alderson Family.

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In the old marriage book in the clerk's office at Lewisburg the first recorded marriage, after Greenbrier was organized as a separate county (1777), was that of George Alderson and Sarah Osborne, Rev. John A. officiating. She was the daughter of Rev. Josiah Osborne, born March 5, 1750, a Baptist minister, who lived in the Big Levels of Greenbrier, but who came from Lost River, Hardy county, before the close of the Revolution. George Alderson was the eldest son of Elder John Alderson, Jr., and was horn August 30, 1762, in Rockbridge county, and soon after his marriage moved to what is now Kanawha county, and settled at the mouth of George's Creek, which was named for him. Some time after his settlement there the new county of Kanawha was formed (1789 and he was one of its first justices when Charleston was incorporated, December 19, 1794. He had four children, three sons and a daughter, who moved hack to Greenbrier with their mother after his death about 1805. Of the sons, John, Levi and James 0. (the daughter, Pollie, married a McClung), the first lived at Western View (on the outskirts of Alderson) and will be mentioned later. James 0. was a very devout Baptist preacher, but died young. He was the father of James G. Alderson, who is now 86 years old.