His son, Henry W.
Withers, served with credit during the war in the Union service in the
Twelfth Virginia Regiment.

Mr. Withers was blessed with two sons and three daughters--one of the
sons has passed away; the other, Major Henry W. Withers, resides in
Troy, Gilmer county, West Virginia; Mrs. Tavenner still lives at
Parkersburg; Mrs. Mary T. Owen, at Galveston, Texas, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Ann Thornhill, in New Orleans.

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[1] The venerable Mark L. Spotts, an intelligent and
long-time resident of Lewisburg, West Virginia, writes, in
December, 1890: "I had an old and particular friend, Mr. Thomas
Matthews, of this place, who, many years ago, conceived the
idea of preparing and publishing a revised edition of Withers's
_Border Warfare_, and no doubt had collected many facts looking
to such a publication; but the old man's health gave way, he
died, and his widow moved away, and what became of his notes, I
can not say--perhaps destroyed."--L. C. D.

CHRONICLES

OF

BORDER WARFARE,

OR

A HISTORY

OF THE

SETTLEMENT BY THE WHITES,

OF NORTH-WESTERN VIRGINIA:

AND

OF THE INDIAN WARS AND MASSACRES,

IN THAT SECTION OF THE STATE,

WITH

REFLECTIONS, ANECDOTES, &c.

BY ALEXANDER S. WITHERS.

CLARKSBURG, V.A.

PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH ISRAEL,

1831

WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, _to wit_:

Be it remembered, That on the twenty-sixth day of January, in the
Fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America,
JOSEPH ISRAEL, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office,
the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the
words following, To wit:

"Chronicles of Border Warfare, or a history of the settlement, by the
whites, of North-Western Virginia: and of the Indian wars and
massacres, in that section of the State; with reflections, anecdotes,
&c.--By ALEXANDER S. WITHERS, 1831," in conformity to the act of
Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement
of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the
Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein
mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled "An act for the encouragement
of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the
Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein
mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of
Designing, Eng