58. Lewis Allen⁴ Alderson (Joseph³, John², John¹) reference ALDELE12 was born in Alderson, Greenbrier Co, WV 5 May 1812. Lewis died 9 Jun 1881 in Atchison, Atchison Co, KS, at 69 years of age. His body was interred 1881 in Atchison, Atchison Co, KS.

He married twice. He married Lucy Williams Miles in Athens, Athens Co, OH, 24 September 1832. Lucy was born in Athens, Athens Co, OH 2 December 1811.⁽²¹⁵⁾ Lucy was the daughter of J. B. Miles. Lucy died 5 February 1833 in Alderson, Greenbrier Co, VA, at 21 years of age.⁽²¹⁶⁾ Her body was interred in Alderson, Greenbrier Co, VA, Greenbrier Baptist Cemetery.⁽²¹⁷⁾ He married Eliza Floyd Coleman in Amherst Co, VA, 26 Jun 1838. Eliza was born in Amherst Spring, Amherst Co, VA 4 Aug 1819. Eliza was the daughter of John Coleman and Sarah Wyatt Powell. Eliza died 24 Jan 1909 in Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV, at 89 years of age. She was listed as a resident in the census report in Greenbrier Co, VA, 1850.

A census listed Lewis as head of household in Greenbrier Co, VA, 1850. He moved 07 April 1858 in Atchison, Atchison Co, KS. Occupation: Baptist minister 1858 in Atchison, Atchison Co, KS. He was listed as a resident in the census report in Atchison Co, KS, 1860.

"The late L.A. Alderson came to Atchison April 24, 1858, on Friday, and preached the following Sunday in the office of S.C. Pomeroy, corner of Second and Atchison streets, which is still standing. He was a Baptist minister, and came from Alderson, W.Va., a town named in his honor. He brought $40,000 in gold to the country, and was one of the first bankers. In 1864, he opened a bookstore, which may be seen in one of the old street scenes illustrated in this issue. He gave $2,000 in cash toward building the present Baptist Church, and preached three years without pay. Dr. W.L. Challiss gave a similar amount toward building the Baptist church, and these two men supported it a great many years. Mr. Alderson died in 1881. His wife and five children survive him." [From undated and untitled article (evidently an old newspaper clipping), from Norman Hemphill, 1990: Includes portrait photograph.]

"Rev. Lewis A. Alderson was the youngest son of Squire Joseph Alderson and grandson of Rev. John Alderson, Jr. he was born in 1812 at North Alderson, in Greenbrier County in the large stone house built in 1789, and now owned by Mr. Joseph S. Thurman. He graduated at the University of Ohio at Athens, Ohio, in 1832, and the day after he married Miss Lucy B. Miles, of Athens. He brought her home but she lived but three months. In 1838, while pastor of Grace Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., he married Miss Eliza Floyd Coleman, daughter of Capt. John Coleman, of Amherst Co., Va. They had eight children, one a daughter. The eldest son was Joseph Coleman Alderson, of Charleston, W.Va. He and Mrs. Church J. White, of Atcheson, Kansas, and Lewis A., of Sheridan, Wyoming, are all now living. Rev. Lewis A. Aldereson went to Atcheson and built the first Baptist Church in 1858, mostly with his own means. he and Dr. L.H. Kalloch, founded Ottawa University, one of the largest educational institutions west of the Mississippi River. He died and was buried at Atcheson in 1881. From "The Alderson Family" in History of Charleston and Kanawha County, by W.S. Laidley, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., IL, 1911, p. 1013.

Obituary of Eliza Floyd Alderson, Monroe Watchman, Union, Monroe Co., WV: 28 Jan. 1909. Mrs. Eliza Floyd Alderson, widow of the Rev. Lewis A. Alderson and mother of Major J. Coleman Alderson, died at ther home in Charleston on Sunday, 24 Jan. 1909, aged 89 years. She was a daughter of Capt. John Powell Coleman of Amherst Co., and granddaughter of the first Governor Floyd of Virginia. In 1838 she married Lewis A. Alderson, then pastor of the Grace Street Baptist Church in Richmond. They returned to Greenbrier Co., then in 1858 went to Kansas where he organized the first Baptist Church in the state. He died in Atchison, Kansas in 1881, and Mrs. Alderson returned to West Virginia to live with Coleman Alderson, her eldest son. L.A. Alderson of Sheridan, WY and Mrs. Mary Cornelia White of Atchison, KS survive their mother. Coleman Alderson wants to bring the body of his father from Kansas to Greenbrier.

"Lewis Allen Alderson, born May 5, 1812, graduated at the University of Ohio and entered the Baptist Ministry, married on September 24, 1832, Lucy B. Myles, of Athens, Ohio, who lived a few months only. Then when minister of the Grace Street Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia, he married June 26, 1838, Eliza Floyd Coleman, of Amherst County. He organized the Greenbrier Agricultural Society and was its first president. With his family, he moved on April 7, 1858 to Atchinson and became a prominent minister in Kansas. He died there on May 19, 1881. Their eight children were: Joseph Coleman Alderson, born October 29, 1839, married Mary Price, the daughter of Virginia's Civil War Lieutenant Governor. he was a Lieutenant in the 14th Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A. He died without issue. The other children, Floyd Powell, Irving Newman, Lindsay, Cary Trimble, and Walter Wyatt, scattered over the Mid-West, leaving many descendants." From "Data Requested by the Library of Congress to Accompany the Colonel C.N. Feamster Manuscripts" (ca. mid-1950s).

Lewis Allen Alderson and Eliza Floyd Coleman had the following children:

277 i. Joseph Coleman⁵ Alderson reference ALDEJO39 was born in Locust Grove, Amherst Co, VA 29 Oct 1839. Joseph died 28 November 1912 in Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV, at 73 years of age. His body was interred 1912 in Alderson, Greenbrier Co, WV, Old Greenbrier Baptist Church. He married twice. He married Mary Price in Greenbrier Co, WV, 24 February 1874. Mary was born in Greenbrier Co, VA. (Additional notes for Mary Price⁽²¹⁸⁾) Mary died 15 Aug 1895 in Mountain Lk Park, Garrett Co MD.⁽²¹⁹⁾ He married Mary Calvert Kirker in Wellsburg, Brooke Co, WV, 30 December 1904.⁽²²⁰⁾ (Additional notes for Mary Calvert Kirker⁽²²¹⁾)

He was listed as a resident in the census report in Greenbrier Co, VA, 1850. He moved 1869 in Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV.

Confederate Military History, Extended Edition, Vol. III, West Virginia, by. Col. Robert White et al, copyright 1899 by Confederate Publishing Company, reprinted 1987 by Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC. pg. 139-141

Lieutenant Joseph Coleman Alderson, of Wheeling, W. Va., distinguished among the Confederate soldiers of Greenbrier county for faithful and devoted service, was born at Locust Grove, Amherst county, Va., October 19, 1839, the home of his maternal grandfather, John Coleman. His father, Rev. L. A. Alderson, a few years later removed to the old stone mansion opposite the town of Alderson, on the Greenbrier river, where young Alderson was reared. He was educated at the Lewisburg academy and Alleghany college, at Blue Sulphur Springs, an institution which was destroyed by the war. In his senior year at this college he enlisted on April 15, 1861, in the Greenbrier cavalry, a company which served in the West Virginia campaign of 1861 as bodyguard for General Garnett until his death, and afterward as bodyguard to Gen. R. E. Lee, and as his couriers until he left that department. In December following the company was disbanded. Alderson was a young man of remarkable physical development and a famous athlete, qualities which, added to great personal daring, made him a natural leader among his fellows. He devoted his talents to the Confederate cause by raising a new cavalry company, of which he was elected second lieutenant. This company was assigned to the Fourteenth cavalry regiment, and Lieutenant Alderson a few months later organized another company, of which he was made first lieutenant, declining, as in the previous instance, the rank of captain. This became Company A, of the Thirty-sixth Virginia battalion of cavalry, distinguished in the commands of General Jenkins and W. E. Jones. Lieutenant Alderson commanded this company from June 12, 1863, to the close of the war, and was frequently in command of the battalion, acting as major. During his four years' service he never had but eight days' leave of absence from his command. He commanded his company at the fight at Buchanan, Upshur county, was in the fights at Weston, W. Va.; Ravenswood and Racine, on the Ohio river; Charleston and Buffalo, W. Va., and in the winter of 1862 was sent on detailed service to Roanoke, Va. Returning in the early summer of 1863, he passed through Lexington, Va., on the day of the interment of the body of Stonewall Jackson, and his company fired the military salute over the dead hero's grave. He next fought at Opequon, captured and brought in eight Yankees at North Mountain Gap, and then participating in the Pennsylvania campaign skirmished every day and night as far as Carlisle, Pa., whence he was sent with an escort of five men to carry important dispatches to General Early, near York, seventy miles away, through the enemy's country, one of his most daring exploits. He was with his command at Gettysburg, carried the first order on the first day from General Ewell to General Rhodes, and at night gave General Lee the first news of the Federal reinforcements. In the cavalry fight which followed from Hagerstown to Williamsport he was wounded by a fragment of shell and disabled two months. In 1864 he was in battle at Jonesville, W. Va. ; Cumberland Gap, Rogersville, Tenn.; Waynesboro, Va., and Pettit's Mill. In the last encounter he was captured by the enemy. His conduct while a prisoner strikingly displayed his unconquerable spirit. He had hardly well started on the road north before he secured the escape of twenty-seven of his Confederate comrades, and while confined at Camp Chase, Ohio, he made three ineffectual attempts to escape by tunneling. He refused alike to take the oath or to give his parole on condition of remaining North. Finally,in February, 1865, he was sent to Fort McHenry and Point Lookout, and in the following month was exchanged at City Point. While on his way to rejoin the army he was informed of the end of the war. He took part, in all, in over two hundred engagements, and his service was frequently of the most arduous character, as in the winter of 1863-64, when he was in daily fighting, and in the Tennessee campaign, under General Jones, when he was on the march every night. Going west in 1865 he had charge of the middle division of the Butterfield overland express through the Indian country until it was broken up by the red men, when he joined his father and farmed near Atchison, Kan. Since 1869 he has resided at Wheeling, and has conducted an extensive insurance business and dealt largely in coal and timber lands. He has declined political advancement, but served as a West Virginia commissioner at the Ohio Valley centennial at Cincinnati in 1888 and at the Washington centennial in New York in 1889. He married Miss Mary, daughter of ex-Gov. Samuel Price, of Virginia.

Monroe Co. Watchman, Union, Monroe Co., WV: 5 Jan 1905. Major J. Coleman Alderson of Greenbrier Co., now of New York City, married Mary Calvert Kirker at the home of her uncle Mr. Charles Kirker in Wellsburg, WV, on Friday 30 Dec 1904.

5 Dec 1912. Major J. Coleman Alderson died Thursday, 28 Nov 1912 in Charleston. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Lewis A. Alderson and was born in Locust Grove, Amherst Co., VA on 29 Oct 1839. He was aged 74. He joined the Confederate Army on 16 Apr 1861 and was a private in the Greenbrier Cavalry. In April 1862 he became a 2nd Lieutenant, and in Dec 1862 a 1st Lieutenant. He was a member of Company A, 36th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, and was in East Tennessee in 1863 under General William E. Jones. He was injured twice, once in Maryland and once in Virginia. He was captured on 12 Jun 1864 and sent to Camp Chase, Ohio. After the war he was in the coal and timber business, and founded Williamson and Bellepoint, and Mt. Lake Park and Loch Lynn Heights in Maryland. In 1874 he married Mary Price, daughter of Gov. Samuel Price of Greenbrier Co. She died in 1895, and 8 years ago he married Mrs. Mary Kirker of Wellsburg, WV. He is survived by his wife and nephew George P. Alderson. He was a Baptist and was buried at the Greenbrier Baptist Church in Alderson.

278 ii. Floyd Powell Alderson was born in Monroe Co, VA 21 Apr 1842. Floyd died 18 Sep 1857 in Greenbrier Co, VA, at 15 years of age. His body was interred in Alderson, Greenbrier Co, VA, Old Greenbrier Baptist Church. He was listed as a resident in the census report in Greenbrier Co, VA, 1850.

+ 279 iii. Irving Newman Alderson was born 24 Jul 1845.

280 iv. Mary Cornelia Alderson was born in Alderson, Greenbrier Co, WV 19 Oct 1848. Mary died after 1911 in Atchison, Atchison Co, KS. She married Church J. White in KS.

She was listed as a resident in the census report in Greenbrier Co, VA, 1850. She resided in Atchison, Atchison Co, KS 1909.

281 v. Allen Lindsey Alderson was born in Alderson, Greenbrier Co, WV 16 Dec 1850. Allen died 30 Aug 1851 in Alderson, Greenbrier Co, WV, at less than one year of age. His body was interred in Greenbrier Baptist Cem, Alderson, Greenbrier Co, VA.

282 vi. Cary Trimble Alderson reference ALDECA53 was born in Alderson, Greenbrier Co, VA 30 Apr 1853.⁽²²²⁾ Cary died 26 Aug 1907 in Atchison, Atchison Co, KS, at 54 years of age.⁽²²³⁾ His body was interred 27 Aug 1907 in Atchison, Atchison Co, KS, Mt Vernon Cemetery.⁽²²⁴⁾ He married Mary B. --?--. Mary was born 1857.⁽²²⁵⁾ (Additional notes for Mary B. --?--⁽²²⁶⁾) Mary died 12 Feb 1901 in Atchison, Atchison Co, KS, at 43 years of age.⁽²²⁷⁾ Her body was interred in Atchison, Atchison Co, KS, Mt Vernon Cemetery. Obituary from Monroe Co. Watchman, Union, Monroe Co., WV. 29 Aug. 1907: Mr. Cary Trimble Alderson died at his home in Atchison, Kansas on Monday 26 Aug. 1907. He was age 54, and had been sick for years. He was the 5th son of the Rev. L.A. and Eliza Alderson and was born near Palestine. He moved to Kansas in 1858 and resided there until his death. He was the brother of Major J.C. Alderson of Charleston, with whom his mother lives. He was buried at Atchison last Tuesday.

+ 283 vii. Walter Wyatt Alderson was born 12 Feb 1856.

284 viii. Margaret Alderson was born in Greenbrier Co, VA January 1858.

+ 285 ix. Lewis Allen Alderson was born 1863.

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