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R/RFHA Newsletter March 1989 P.5

From Marie Gollehon, P.O.Box 464, Ripley, West Virginia 25271

From "Pioneers in Jackson County, W. Virginia" by John A. House

P.171

There were several of the ROLLINS family who came to Mill Creek, brothers and sisters, but there is no record of either of the parents ever having lived here. The first and most notable of these is ELIJAH, who was raised in the Buckhannon settlement, and came to Mill Creek about 1811. He was the first white settler on Tug Fork, settling there about 1816. He and George Casto were local Methodist preachers, "preached a great deal", and formed the first Methodist classes in the upper Mill Creek Valley. He died about 1854, at the age of ninety years.

His wife's name was Lucretia Casto, a sister of Jonathan, Levi, etc.

BENJAMIN ROLLINS, ELIJAH'S son, kept a hotel at the Anderson stand in Ripley, 25 years ago. Captain COLUMBUS ROLLINS was a son of JONATHAN ROLLINS. He went to Kentucky after the war. (which one?)

A brother of ELIJAH ROLLINS, by the name of ZACHARIAH, came from Lewis County, and settled at the first place below Staat's Mill. He married Elizabeth Howell

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From WASH ROLLINS and REBECCA ROLLINS PRICE, I am indebted for the following outline of the ROLLINS Family.

ELIJAH ROLLINS married Lucretia Casto, sister of Levi Casto, and their children were:

ISAAC ROLLINS, married Betsy Westfall. and lived on Tug Fork. Their children were: NATHANIEL, ANDY and CRETIA (who married Pete Murphy). After the death of his first wife, ISAAC married Polly Parsons and had one daughter who married James Kelly of Little Creek.

BENJAMIN ROLLINS, married Phebe, a sister of Joel Cunningham.

REBECCA ROLLINS, born in 1820, married Abraham Price. They had 2 children, Rhoda who married Sam McKeown, and Jemima who married John Vandyne.

JOHN ROLLINS, born in 1812, was 4 years old when they moved to Tug Fork. He married Mary Hoffman and they had 1 son and a daughter.

AERLI ROLLINS married William Armstrong, brother of Ben Armstrong.

LEVI ROLLINS married Elizabeth Murphy, sister of Pete Murphy.

JABEL ROLLINS married Janet Parsons and lived on Mill Creek above Ripley.

JONATHAN ROLLINS married Sarah Casto.

WATT and WILLIAM ROLLINS never married.

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ZACHARIAH ROLLINS, brother of ELIJAH, married Elizabeth Howell. Their children were: ELI, BARNEY, JOHNSON, ADONIJAH, GIDEON, WESLEY and CYRUS.

SUSIE ROLLINS, sister of ELIJAH, married William Casto.

POLLY ROLLINS, sister of ELIJAH, married Jesse Shamblin.

From Barbara Browder, 4400 Cheyenne Road, Richmond, VA 23235

RAWLINGS, Virginia, near the Nottoway River in the northern part of Brunswick County, derived its name from RAWLINGS STORE, owned by members of the RAWLINGS family. The building which housed the store was still standing in 1985. RAWLINGS is not exactly a town or a village, though there are residences in the area. It was a whistle-stop on the Seabord Ariline Railway, and one of the early post offices in Brunswick County was in the store. Zip code is 23876.

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