Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, Boyd County William H. H. Eba was born in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Penn, November 5, 1831, and is a son of George and Maria (Mellinger) Eba, natives of Pennsylvania, of German origin. His parents removed to western Pennsylvania, in 1836, settling at Monongabela City, Washington County, where he remained some years, learning a trade and working in a foundry as a stove and hollow-ware molder until 1852, when he came to Kentucky and engaged as salesman in a store owned by an uncle, at Catlettsburg. In September, 1861, he enlisted as a private, in Company I, Fifth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry; he was soon after promoted to Sergeant-Major, then again, promoted and commissioned by Gov. Peirpont as First Lieutenant and Adjutant, which commission he declined. Shortly after he was again commissioned First Lieutenant and assigned to Company F, same regiment, and was mustered out as such at Wheeling in 1863. Mr. Eba has never made application for, or drawn a cent, in the way of bounty or pension. On his return to Catlettsburg, he again engaged in mercantile business; in 1866 he removed to Parkersburg, W. Va., to straighten up the affairs of a company that had met heavy losses by fire, remained there until spring of 1869, when he again returned to Catlettsburg, removing from there to Ashland in 1872, where he has since resided. In 1875 he was elected Secretary of the "Mutual Benefit Association of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South," and held the position until April, 1881, when he resigned. He married Amanda L. Henderson in October, 1856; three children were born to them; two daughters died in infancy, and a son twenty years of age died in 1881. Mr. Eba is a member of several benevolent organizations, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican, has served as Mayor of Ashland, but is neither of politician or office seeker. He is at present engaged with the Ashland Coal & Iron Railway Co. Eba Mellinger Henderson Peirpont = Lebanon-PA Washington-PA VA WV http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/boyd/eba.whh.txt