8Elias R. Pritchard served in the Civil War. He died of brain fever after a dispute with a neighbor who hit him over the head with a tampin machine they were using to dig posts for a fence to separate their properties. there is no record of that incident in the Roane County records, but descendants of Elias believe that bot he an the neighbor died as a result of their feud.

46County: State Troops
Unit: Vol. U. S. A.
Last Name: Pritchard
First Name: Elias
Middle Name or Initial:
Rank:
Company:
Age:
Roll Dated:
When Enrolled: July 26 1863
Where Enrolled:
Length of Service: 6 mos.
Mustered In:
Mustered Out:

836Craig:
I married one!
My wife Vicki Lee Pritchard is the daughter of John Earl Pritchard, the
eldest son of Harold Dean Pritchard. Harold was a son of James Robert
Pritchard, the son of Elias R. Pritchard, who was a son of Thomas D.
Pritchard, the son of Thomas Pritchard, Jr., by his second wife Mary Moody.
How do you fit in?
Jim

Sophia Amelia Watson
* Sex: F
* Birth: 22 Aug 1844 in Ritchie Co., WV

Father: Otho G. Watson
Mother: Louisa Jett