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Isaac Griffith GARTIN was born in Monroe county, (now) West Virginia, February
3, 1832, and settled in Lincoln county in 1864. His parents are Elijah Alexander and Mary (Carper) Gartin, who
settled here in 1850. August 28, 1856, in Logan county, (now) West Virginia, the Rev. J. Workman joined in
wedlock Isaac G. Gartin and Elizabeth Margaret Toney. She was born in Kanawha county, (now) West Virginia,
October 15, 1835, and she is a daughter of James and Nancy (Gahlaspie) Toney, who came to this county in 1843.
Mr. and Mrs. Gartin have been blessed with six children: Eliza Ann, born October 3, 1857, married and residing
in Lincoln county; James Alexander, September 12, 1860, married and lives in this county; Susan Jane, June 22,
1864; Nancy Caroline, September 12, 1867; Elizabeth Agnes, February 18, 1872; Martha Frances, March 11, 1876.
Isaac Gartin was justice of the peace for four years in Hart Creek district, and secretary of the board of
education six years, also a member of that board for a number of years. Mr. Gartin volunteered in the State
line troops of Virginia, and served eight months, when it was thought best to abandon the brigade to which he
belonged, and he came home. They were afterward ordered to meet an officer in Logan County, who would muster
them into the regular service, but this failed, and Mr. Gartin again returned to his home. Harry P., a brother
of Isaac G., a volunteer in the Confederate army, was taken sick and died at Meadow Bluffs, Greenbrier county,
after one year’s service. Isaac Griffith Gartin owns a fine farm at the head of Little Hart creek, and the land
produces well in grain as well as fruit, and it contains iron ore and fine building stone. Address, Fourteen,
Lincoln county, West Virginia.
Extracted from West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, a reprint of Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia Lincoln County, WV, Biographies List, 1884.