Person:James Auvil (1)

James Elias Auvil was born near Valley Furnace in Bar- bour County, June 21, 1861. He attended the common schools, but even while in school had some share of the work on the farm. After reaching his majority he located on a farm in the same community, and he still owns a farm on the west side of the Tygart Valley River. His chief farming industry is grazing, and he made his best profits from handling and dealing in cattle and sheep. He gave many years of labor and intelligent management to the development of the old home place, and sold it in the spring of 1921 and moved to Philippi, where he purchased the property of E. H. Compton. That is now the home of his retired years.

During the many years he spent in rural districts he was a member of the German Baptist or Brethren Church, and took an intelligent interest in every matter affecting the locality. Mr. Auvil cast his first presidential vote for Grover Cleveland in 1884, but has not taken politics seriously. (This is an excerpt from The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923. See source for more information about this family)¹

1.   Callahan, James Morton, and American Historical Society (New York). History of West Virginia, old and new: in one volume : and West Virginia biography in two additional volumes. (Chicago [Illinois]: American Historical Society, c1923).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=66715929 #66715929], in Find A Grave.