Upshur County, West Virginia Biography of LEMUEL R. CUTRIGHT This biography was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.org/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 579-580 LEMUEL R. CUTRIGHT, of Upshur County, is in his seventy- second year, and is probably the youngest Grand Army man in West Virginia. Ue was in service only the latter months of the great struggle, but four of his older brothers were in the service practically from the beginning of the war. The Cutrights have been a prominent family in Upshur County since pioneer days, and the name has always been associated with stalwart Americanism. Lemuel R. Cutright, who is still living on his farm on the French Creek Pike, a half mile north of Adrian, was burn in Upshur County, February 3, 1850, son of Elmore aud Nancy A. (Wolfe) Cutright. His father was born near Hampton, West Virginia, December 31, 1820, and his mother on Middle Fork in Upshur County, January 10, 1823. After their marriage they settled on a farm near Hampton, and in October, 1870, moved to another farm in Rowan County, where they lived out their lives. They were devout Meth- odists in religion, aud the father always upheld the prin- ciples of the republican party. In their family were twelve children, a brief record of whom follows: Mifflin, born April 9, 1841, who was one of the soldiers of the family in the Civil war; Granville S., born October 29, 1842, who also had a military record; Abraham, burn March 23, 1844, who died while in the army; Mary E., born November 14, 1845, now deceased; Jacob E., burn July 6, 1847, who was a soldier and is still living; Lemuel R.; Asa, born August 6, 1851; James A., born July 5, 1853, deceased; Alonzo, born December 13, 1854; Columbus, born May 6, 1856; Indiana, born December 27; 1857; and Derwinda J., born May 18, 1859. Lemuel R. Cutright grew up on a farm, was educated in the common schools, and in 1865, at the age of fifteen, was mustered into Company I of the Third West Virginia Cavalry. He was with that command during the concluding phases of the Civil war, and then came home and went to work on the farm. Farming has been his steady occupation during all subsequent years, and he still lives on his place of fifty-seven acres. He is one of the directors of the Bank of Adrian, is a member of the Grand Army Post at Buck- hannon and has stanchly upheld the republican party in many successive campaigns. On November 14, 1867, Mr. Cutright married Salina Brady. Her death on March 31, 1917, occurred only a few months before they should have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. To their marriage were born eleven children: Aura M., born October 16, 1870, at home; Allen B., born January 2, 1873, deputy sheriff of Upshur County; Elva, born June 3, 1875, wife of Charles Hyre; James E., born June 10, 1877; Bertha, born Jane 2, ly79, deceased; Holly, born May 27, 1881; Carl, born June 13, 1883; Maude, born October 5, 1885, wife of Mack Cutright; Lora, born September 2, 1888, wife of G. C. Marsh; and two other chil- dren that died in infancy.