Person:Phillip Hager (2)

About Phillip Hager, Jr.

PHILLIP HAGER JR., born around abt. 1770, son of Phillip Hager, was old enough to sign petitions in Wythe County, VA by 1793. He appears on the 1798 (1802) and 1806 tax list of Kanawha County, VA and the 1810 tax list of Cabell County. This list shows two other males in his household over 16 years old. This is probably James and Andrew. He died between November 1843 and February 1844 on Spruce Fork near Ramage Hill and is probably buried there. He had a mill in the narrows below the mouth of Six Mile Creek.

Phillip first settled on Powell Creek when he came to this area. He sold this tract of 600 acres to James Hager in 1843. I have never found the deed from William Dingess and David French for this tract and now feel that Phillip may have settled on the wrong tract. There is a deed for the Dingess and French 630 acre Survey which starts at Ramage and runs up Spruce Fork to near Sharples. This deed is recorded in Cabell County.

It appears that this Phillip was married twice, 1st to Catherine Vannatter and a 2nd wife name unknown. There is no proof for this statement, but census records seem to bear it out. His second wife may have been a Garrett. Catherine was living between Low Gap and Ramage when the 1850 Boone County Census was taken. Age 80 years old she stated to the census taker that she was born in Maryland. She appears to be the mother of Benjamin Hager or at least raised him.

Submitted by. Willam Hager, Hewett, WV; Boone County West Virginia History, 1990 published by the Boone County Genealogical Society, Inc.

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