ELIJAH J. SECOR, a son of the above, was born in Clarksville, Penn., Nov. 16, 1816. With his parents he came to this county in 1833, where he has since resided. He was united in marriage Dec. 2, 1841, in Belmont county, O., with Elizabeth A. Lockwood, a native of that state, and a daughter of Judge David Lockwood, an early settler of Belmont county, O. Mr. and Mrs. Secor were blessed with 8 children - Rebecca T., wife of Geo. Robinson, of Kansas; Theodore F., died in infancy; Edmund C., born March 28, 1846, and killed by lightning, July 17, 1870; Levina E., born April 18, 1843, died in infancy; Eliza J., born March 16, 1851, the wife of Prof. W. J. Davis, now principal of the Cherokee Male Seminary, in the Indian Territory; Benjamin L., born Dec. 2, 1852, at home attending to his father's farm; James L., born Jan. 26, 1854, now of St. Louis, practicing law; Arthur T., born May 25, 1857, now living on a stock farm owned by his father, in Rockbridge township. Mr. and Mrs. Secor and their children are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and he has been an elder in the church since 1842. Mr. S. now owns 700 acres of improved land in this county, the house in which he lives being valued at $5,000, and a house on another of his farms, occupied by his son, Arthur, costing $2,500. Although a natural mechanic, he has always been engaged in farming and stock raising, and has been eminently successful. In politics he is a republican, has been postmaster at Walnut grove, but has had no ambition for political preferment. Mr. Secor is a kind, genial gentleman, and is much respected by all who are intimately acquainted with him.