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AMICK'S RANGERS AMICK FAMILY, FRIENDS & PLACES |
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The settlers brought their love to the mountains; English brought law and love of business; Scots-Irish brought frugality, love of liberty & music, and whisky; Germans brought independent thought, industry, love of culture and education, and brandy. They didn't live at the mountains, they became part of the mountains. Amick families homesteaded the Meadow River of western Virginia, Jacob Amick and brother John the miller Amick moved to Anglings Creek before 1821. More Amicks followed; John Nicholas Amick (Emick) followed to homestead at Cross Lanes. Amick sons married daughters of other mountaineer families, their sons were sparkin' for Amick daughters. They built wagon paths from the fields to the mills which dotted the Meadow River wilderness; Wm. Henry Amick had a mill (Red Rabbit Saloon) & blacksmith shop at Ravens Eye next to Stone House. They built schools and Liberty Methodist churches, deeply religious and spiritual the Amicks lived a free life in the mountain wilderness. Citizens in the western Virginia counties were divided about the war, opposed to secession both from the Union and Virginia. Few mountaineers had contact with Richmond society or could afford slaves, most felt slavery was a sin, yet most were stubbornly anti-federalist and loved Mother Virginia. The independent mountaineers resisted the Federals during the Whiskey Rebellion, distrusted them for the forced removal of their friends the Cherokee, and had tarred and feathered campaigning yankee temperence Prohibitionists and Know-nothings from Ohio. The county militias were divided in loyalties because the citizen-soldiers were divided. The new volunteer army companies that sprang up to replace them were extended family based, not geographical by county. During the Civil War the families couldn't avoid the fight as it came to our door steps in Nicholas, Greenbrier, Fayette, and Wirt counties. "And there appeared to be no safety or security except in the army of one side or the other; men hesitated concerning enlistment in either army. No able bodied man can occupy a neutral position. Those who take no position in the struggle are suspect and shot at by both sides, and their only hope is to take up the gun and enlistments into both armies were certainly and gradually being made in the months of October and November, 1861." (Wheeling Intelligencer) A Family In The Fight....... |
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Amick Family Genealogy Amick Confederate Soldier List w/ 18 Biographies Myron & Hiram Amick Wilderness District- Amick, Halstead, Ramsey Sewell Mountain District- Francis Tyree Stone House Sewell Mtn- Red Rabbit Saloon Sewell Mtn- Ravens Eye Sewell Mtn- Lee's Camp Mountain Cove District- William Tyree Halfway House Mtn Cove - Nancy Hunt Letters: Tyree, Halstead, Ramsey Mtn Cove - Lover's Leap Tyree Soldier List Biographies: Friends & Neighbors Heroines of the War Between the States (Bell, Hart, Smith, Tyree) Legend of Nancy Hart Diana Smith: Guerrilla Fighter Lewisburg Turnpike Lewisburg Academy Nitre District No. 4 Pendleton County Militia- 1794 Emmick's Landing, Ky NIOBRARA OUTLAWS Conrad Amick & 15th So. Carolina |
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