Person:David Clinebell (1)

David Clinebell was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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1.   Greenbrier County Heritage Book Committee ([St. Albans?], West Virginia). Greenbrier County, West Virginia, family heritage, 1997. (Walsworth Pub. Co., c1996 (Summersville, WV : Shirley Grose & Associates))
   pg. 43.

   David Clinebell
   
   David H. Clinebell came to Greenbrier County some time between 1830 and 1837. He was born in 1793 to George and Sarah Klinebell of Middlebrook, Augusta County, Virginia. David Clinebell's grandfather, Johannes Michael Kleinbehl, came to America in 1754 from Bavaria.
   
   On August 2, 1827, David Clinebell married Sarah Jane Christ, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Christ. They had seven children: Sarah, Robert, Eliza, John, Elvira, Clinton and Lucie. The last three were born in Greenbrier County. By 1840, David Clinebell lived in the North Greenbrier District outside of Lewisburg. He and his wife Sarah Jane, joined the Old Stone Presbyterian Church in Lewisburg in 1848. The next two daughters, Sarah and Eliza Jane, joined the church.
   
   David Clinebell passed away in April of 1849. He left all of his property to his wife Sarah Jane Clinebell, except for a horse to his oldest son, Robert Clinebell, when he reached the age of twenty-one. David Clinebell is buried without a marker in the historic cemetery at Old Stone Presbyterian Church in Lewisburg.