Cabell County, WV Heritage 1809 - 1996
Produced by: KYOWVA Genealogy Society, Huntington, WV
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Lucinda Lusher
     Lucinda Lusher Notthingham can include four old Cabell County families in her ancestry. Her parents were Irvin Lewis and Pauliana "Polly Ann" Gue Lusher both born in Cabell County in the 1870s. Irvin was the son of Charles (born 1842) and Mary F. Hatfield Dial. Charles married first Amazette (Emizetta) Hatfield (born 1837). Amazetta was the daughter of George Hatfield and Jane Conley Swann Hatfield. Mary Frances Hatfield, cousin to Amazetta, first married Elisha Dial, and they had one son, Ben Dial. After his death, she married Charles Lusher. Her parents were Andrew Lewis "Lou" Hatfield, son of Adam Hatfield and Mary "Polly" Williams (parents: George Henry and Magaritha Harless Williams) who moved to Cabell in 1802 from Montgomery County, VA, and Mary Frances Pennell Hatfield, daughter of James and Phoebe Boggess Pennell. Adam Hatfield's parents were Captain Andrew Supples Hatfield who served in the Revolutionary War and Christina Powell. The Hatfields settled near Inez on the Guyan River and most are buried in the Hatfield Cemetery on McComas Road.
     Charles' parents, Irving and Virginia Blake Lusher, had a farm on the Mud River in 1832. Charles and Amazette Lusher had the following children: Benjamin, Almeda I., and Albert G. Charles and Mary Dial had Irvin Lewis and Mary F. Charles died in 1880.
     Irvin and Polly Ann Lusher and their children lived on a farm on Lower Creek, Cabell County (house no longer stands) before moving to Huntington. While living in Huntington, Irvin owned a small store and several lots where Lincoln School was built and worked for H. C. Wyllie China Co. Irvin and Polly Ann had the following children: Oakley who married Robert Earls McComas; Lucinda who married Roe Nottingham (see Roe Notthingham Family for children); Willie who married Oak Cupp; Almeda "Cricket" who married five times, lastly, Charley Bragg; Charley who married Ethel A. Meadows; Goldie who married Hez Mills; James "Jim" who married Lena Back; Homer; Joe who married Hazel L. Hensley; and Bob who married Perilee Back. Irvin married, after Polly Ann died (1927), Lulla Kirk and had three more children: Daisy; Mary; and Billy. Irvin died in 1939.
     The first Gue known by the family to be in Cabell County is Lindsey Gue who was born in Amherst County, VA and was the son of Samuel Gue. He married Nancy Nicely, daughter of Jonas and Jane Byas Nicely. Lindsey Gue had several children and three sons served in the Union Army: Presley, Samuel D. and Powhatan who were in Co "D:, 9th Reg. WV Fed. Inf. His son, James H. Gue, was Polly Ann Gue's father. James H., born in 1843, married, first, Mary Francis Turley in 1859. They had a large family with fourteen children. James H. left only a $1 to his daughter Polly Ann in his will in 1924, but Polly Ann and Irvin had received from Lindsey Gue, in 1910, 80 acres of land in the McComas District. In 1908 they had received 28 acres on Madison Creek from Lucy Gue, etal. Samuel D. Gue also married a Turley, Amazetta, sister to Mary Francis. The Turley sisters parents were Emmerson and Mary Ann "Polly" Russell (daughter of John and Elizabeth Russell) Turley who were married in Cabell County in 1829 and lived on a farm near Martha in Cabell County. Emmerson's parents were Atha and "Martha" Margaret Finley Turley.
     Persons in picture with story are: (left to right) Almeda Bragg; Willy Cupp; Lucinda Notthingham; Goldie Mills; and Oakly McComas.

Submitted by: Lucille Adkins