Charles R. Poling - pursues the double avocations of farming
and teaching in Jackson county, West VIrginia, with his residence in Ravenswood
district, where his parents, Edward and Ann E. (Rankin) Poling, made their
home in 1859. They came to this county from Alleghany county, Maryland,
but their son Charles R., subject of this sketch, was born in Hampshire
county, Virginia, in 1843. He had one brother, H.
L. Poling, who served three years in the 1861 war, from 1862 until
peace was declared. H. L. was a participant in the battle of Cloyd Mountain,
West Virginia, and was in all the engagements of the Shenandoah Valley
campaign, and was present at the surrender at the close of the war. He
was a member of Company I, 11th Virginia Infantry. He is now a minister
of the United Brethren Church, Parkersburg Annual Conference, which he
joined in 1870. He served the following congregations: Pennsborough circuit,
Parkersburg circuit, Mannington circuit, Buckhannon Station, Hartford City
Station, West Columbia Station, and others. The post office address of
Charles R. Poling is Ravenswood, Jackson county, West VIrginia.
This is one of the biographical sketches of Jackson County residents
from "Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia... Special History
Of The Virginias ..1883."
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