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Amick's Rangers |
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Our Amick Family Roots |
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The Amicks gathered "ramps", a form of wild onion, ginseng, and put up hams. These they would take to market, along with the rye and corn they milled. They hunted wild game in the Yew Mountains with home-crafted Greenbrier Rifles. Mountain folk are frugal and make every shot count. The families, being devoutly religious built churches and schools, Methodists, and Free Masons, opposed to slavery. As Jackson Democrats, were stubbornly Anti-Federalist, had been since the Whiskey Rebellion, and distrusted government for the forced removal of their friends the Cherokee and Shawnee. |
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Amick Ginsing Garden
" Henry's sister was a Herbalist" |
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AMICK SPRINGS
"Coldest Water in Pendleton County -
Makes the Best Whisky" |
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Existing Springhouse - Left of road
Amick Stillhouse - Right,
Destroyed By Federals During Prohibition |
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CIDER PRESS TREE
Next to Springhouse |
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Wilderness Road, Jacob moved to Nicholas County before 1821 to work on the road, and was followed by brothers John the miller and Henry, and sisters Elizabeth and Barbara, along with their husbands by 1835. Amick children continued to homestead in Nicholas, Greenbrier, and Fayette Counties; from Mt. Nebo, Hominy Falls, and Angling Creek at Runa and Liberty, over the mountain to Greenbrier and also at Mountain Cove up to Ravens Eye at Sewell Mountain. They constructed a network of wagon roads from the fields, to the mills, to the homesteads, known as "Saturday", "Sunday", "Old Nichols", and the "Wilderness Road" |
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William D. Washington |
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Jacob started with three tracts of land and a mill on Anglins Creek; a total of 320 acres, the homestead is now known as Runa. Jacob had eight children; John, Samuel, Henry, Rachael, Jacob Jr, Catherine, Elizabeth, and Mary.
John the miller Amick started on Anglins Creek and built a grist mill, saw mill, and later a house. John the miller and Catherine had fourteen children named; Lucy, Eli, Polly, Jesse, Asa, Gideon, John, Barbara, Arnold, Ann, Catherine, Joseph, James and Perry. John the miller Amick died in 1846 and is buried in Liberty Cemetery. |
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Old Amick School House - Runa |
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John Nicholas Amick and Mary had six children; Jacob, William Henry, John Jr, Eva, Nicholas, and David. Jacob Amick and wife Rachel moved to Kane Co. Illinois, and sons Hiram and Myron fought for the Union.
Wm. Henry Amick, with a mill on Mann Creek, married Delilah Walker and had eight children; John Walker, James, Mary Jane, Madison, Sarah, William, Francis, and Eliza.
John Amick Jr, married Elizabeth Burdette and had nine children; James Robinson, Francis Marion, Sarah J,
Marthia Walker, Elizabeth K, William Thompson, Mary E. and
Preston in Fayette County. |
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Pleasant Hill Church - Runa |
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Out in Kentucky, Nicholas Emmick had secured a land grant while in Pennsylvania, and his sons George and Jacob inherited the property. George built a large plantation home on the Ohio River at Emmicks Landing. George and Jacob Emmick were steamboat pilots on the Ohio River. Jacob's son George Emmick, entered as a private into Company D, First Kentucky Cavalry Regiment.
The family business of small farms, mills, and black powder would serve them well in the war about to begin, Amick family was in the fight during the War Between the States on the Confederate side. |
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