Person:John Toney (5)

Born 1835, Kanawha County West Virginia. Married Sarah Jane Thompson, sister to Robert Thompson, who married Mary Delia Hager. In the Civil War, John was a Captain in the 22nd VA Infantry CSA. Promoted to Lieutenant on June 20,1861 and then promoted to Captain March 1862 at age 33. He was a Captain at the Battle of Droop Mountain in West Virginia, where he was captured on November 6, 1863 and sent to Camp Chase, Ohio. He was then transferred to Fort Delaware on March 2, 1864. He was released on June 12, 1865. On February 3, 1903, until his death, John was Post Master of the Estep Post Office, located below the Bell Cemetery on Big Ugly Creek, now Leet, West Virginia. Yvonne Booz ordered him a headstone and with her daughter Barbara and her husband Jimmy Harmon they have set the John Toney Stone in the old part of the Bell Grave Yard. The VFW is going to have a ceremony. Directions to the cemetery on 119. Take the Big Ugly exit go about 3 miles where the road splits and stay right, at the first drive way turn right. The cemetery is straight up the Hill. Grady and Janet Hainor live there. They are really nice people, so please do not litter.