Person:James Pilcher (3)

Name	James Madison Pilcher
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	7 Apr 1777	Culpeper, Virginia, United States
Marriage	1805	Virginiato Nancy Sage
Death^[1]	23 Mar 1872	Elk, Vinton, Ohio, United States

Part of the transactions to settle the estate of James Madison Pilcher appearing in The Vinton Record, McArthur, 17 Apr 1873:
Minerva Quick to C. B. Pilcher, quit claim, 81 acres, Elk Twp, $529.22
Ann Maria Allen to C. B. Pilcher, quit claim, 81 acres, Elk Twp., $250
Samantha Ward and Arminda Caldwell to C. B. Pilcher, quit claim, 40 acres, Elk Twp., $1
C. B. Pilcher quit claim, to Samantha Ward and Arminda Caldwell, 40 acres, Elk Twp., $1

Excerpt from the History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, published in 1883, pg. 1257:
C. B. Pilcher is a son of James and grandson of Stephen Pilcher. The latter was a native of Virginia, where he married and reared a family. In 1800 he settled on a farm near Athens, Ohio, where he spent the remainder of his life. James, the father of our subject, and the fifth son of the above, was born April 7, 1777, in Virginia, where he matured to farm life and married Nancy, daughter of Samuel Sage. In 1800 he emigrated to Ohio with his father's family, but not liking the country near Athens he settled at Zaleski, Vinton County. In a few years his farm was overflowed by Raccoon Creek, and he went to the farm where the infirmary now stands. This was about the time of the breaking out of the war of 1812. Here he remained until 1840 when he settled on section 22, where his death occurred not many years after. His wife also died here. He was a man who preferred the quiet routine of farm life, and never aspired to office though repeatedly holding the office of Township Trustee. Politically he was a Democrat. His wife bore him eighteen children -- Lenecy, Edward, Nancy, Charlote, Harriet, Ann Maria, Samantha, James, Henry, Amanda, Samuel, Minerva, Melissa, Columbus B., George W., Hiram, Eliza and Arminda. Two sons and five daughters are yet living.

Excerpt from A standard history of the Hanging Rock iron region of Ohio, pg 1151:
The ancestry of Mr. [Otto] Pilcher is of staunch English order, but the name has been identified with American history for several generations. James Pilcher, grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in the State of Maryland, and the family name of his wife was Sage. They were numbered among the early settlers in Vinton County, Ohio, where Mr. Pilcher acquired a tract of land and developed a productive farm in Elk Township and not far distant from McArthur, the county seat, he was known and honored as one of the substantial agriculturists and sterling and influential citizens of, Vinton County and continued to reside on his old homestead farm until his death, at the patriarchal age of ninety-five years. He was a man of wonderful physical vigor and virtually his only illness during the long course of his life was that which resulted in his death, the wife of his youth having passed away when somewhat less than forty years of age. Both were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in politics he paid staunch allegiance to the democratic party. Of the family of two sons and sixteen daughters all attained to maturity, married and reared children, most of them having reached advanced age but all being now deceased.

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