The following is a brief excerpt describing my 5g-grandmother Margaret (Hutcheson) Hervey (Hutcheson-252) from "HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia" 1879, by J. H. Newton,
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle. Pages 349-350
A year ago I knew nothing of this person. Now, I couldn't be prouder.
The father and mother - the revered head of the family-lived together for twenty-nine years on the farm that their industry had made productive, and were mutually blessed in each other's society, when, in 1805, Henry Hervey, the father and husband, died after a short illness at the age of sixty-five, and was buried in Lower Buffalo graveyard. The mother, thus left in sole responsibility as the head of a large family, by her great executive ability, by her constant and even gladsome devotion to duty, by the depth and strength of her character, and by her life-controlling integrity and piety, raised a family distinguished for usefulness, intelligence and activity in the community and in the church. She communicated to them in some measure her own characteristics, making upon them an indelible impression, extending to the third and fourth generation, so that generation after generation of her descendents rise up and call her
blessed. She lived in widowhood twenty-nine years, and died January 16, 1834, aged about eighty years (although her tombstone says seventy-seven), and lies buried in the graveyard of Beech Spring Congregation, Harrison County, Ohio.
