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Braxton County, West Virginia, USA

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  • Carey Ellsworth Mollohan (1902 - 1987)
    Carey Ellsworth Mollohan BIRTH 12 Apr 1902 Braxton County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 18 Jul 1987 (aged 85) Harrisville, Ritchie County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Harrisville IOOF Cemetery Harrisvill...
  • Martha Jane Cunningham (1874 - 1954)
    Martha Jane Frame Cunningham BIRTH 25 Aug 1874 Braxton County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 25 Feb 1954 (aged 79) Normantown, Gilmer County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Crooked Fork Baptist Church Cemetery ...
  • Thornton Granville Berry, Sr. (1869 - 1955)
    Thornton Granville Berry, Sr BIRTH 1869 Braxton County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 9 Nov 1955 (aged 85–86) Sutton, Braxton County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Sutton Cemetery Sutton, Braxton County, We...
  • Eliza Genevieve Andrew (1841 - 1910)
    Eliza Genevieve Newlon Andrew BIRTH 25 Oct 1841 Lewis County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 10 Jan 1910 (aged 68) Sutton, Braxton County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Sutton Cemetery Sutton, Braxton County, We...
  • Rachel May Ramsey (1915 - 2007)
    Find a Grave, database and images ( : accessed 13 February 2021), memorial page for Rachel Mae Mollohan Ramsey (25 Oct 1915–12 Apr 2007), Find a Grave Memorial no. 19041273, citing West Virginia Memori...

This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of West Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county.

The county was formed in 1836 from parts of Lewis, Kanawha, and Nicholas counties and named for Carter Braxton, a Virginia statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Important salt works were located at Bulltown and here, in 1772, Captain Bull and his family and friendly Delaware Indians were massacred by frontiersmen. Jesse Hughes helped Jeremiah Carpenter track and kill the Indians responsible for the Carpenter massacre. Jeremiah was a notable fiddle player who wrote a song Shelvin’ Rock about the experience of escaping to rock shelter.

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