Pochohontas (Smith) Vineyard (1864 - 1936)

Born 17 Apr 1864 in Frederick County, Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Died 20 Jun 1936 at age 72 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA

Biography

" Our family consisted of four children the oldest Wonder born in February 1857 died when she was four years old of diptheria next is myself whose birth is chronicaled in the onset of this biography

third was Pochahontas christened by a negress Mariah who was one of grandfather Lockharts slaves who after her freedom lived with our family until we left our old home in Fredrick County Virginia she being unable to speak Pochahontas nick named her Katy which name she still bears

She was born the 17th day of April 1864 and died June 20 1936 and on the

6th day of January 1881 was united in marriage by the ministerial officiery of Rev. Charley Shackleford a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; to

Samuel Vinyard a Son of Wm Vinyard whose father was one of the pioneer Settlers of the Poca Waters in Roane County W.Va. emigrating there from Elk river just below Jarretts ford in Kanawha County to whence he had come from Greenbrier County; Samuel Vinyard’s grand father Lane Vinyard married a Hammix all the Hammixes of Roane, Jackson and Kanawha County’s being protages of the same ancestry his mother was

Sally Looney a daugher of Robert Looney the paternal ancester of all the Looneys of the upper Poca and Henry’s fork waters he settling in an early day where Loony Ville

now is the issue of Katy was

• Bettie born Nov. 1881
• Maud born in 1883 and

two boys twins

• Aristotle and
• Aljournan born in 1888 and fourth
• Ann Ellis who was named for my mother whose name was Elizabeth Ann. "^[1]

Death Record

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Sources

1. ↑ Aristotle Smith's Notebook, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/l/M-B-Wilson/FILE/0007page.html