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Rufus Stowers, son of William Larkin and Rebecca (Lambert) Stowers, was born in
Tazewell county, Virginia, January 26. 1842, and settled in Lincoln county in 1872. His father died in Tazewell
county in 1857, and his mother in 1856. Mr. Stowers taught school thirteen years, but is now a farmer in
Carroll district, owning about 127 acres of land on Scary creek, seven miles southeast from Hamhin. The farm
is in good condition, large orchard of apple, pear and peach trees, and a portion of it is heavily timbered
with poplar, sugar, maple, beech, hickory and walnut. In Tazewell county, August 16, 1859, Rufus Stowers was
united in wedlock with Sarah Elizabeth Lambert. She is a daughter of Hiram H. and Priscilla E. (Lambert)
Lambert, and she was born in Tazewell county, April 26, 1844. October 28, 1882, Mrs. Stowers died, leaving a
husband and six children to mourn her loss. She was the mother of seven children, one deceased, who were born
as follows: George Washington, September 8, 1860; Matilda Jane, March 29, 1862; Mary Priscilla, August 14, 1864;
Martha Rebecca Alice, August 9, 1871; Emma Eva Christina, October 7, 1875; James Addison, March 8, 1877, died
July 5, 1878; Luella Ann, April 16, 1879. Mr. Stowers is a member of the United Baptist Church; his wife was
a member of the same church at the time of her death. William Stowers, father of Rufus, was a soldier in the
war of 1812. Rufus Stowers was at one time constable and commissioner of revenue in Bland county, Virginia.
Any mail for him may be addressed to Hamhin, Lincoln county, West Virginia.
Extracted from West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, a reprint of Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia Lincoln County, WV, Biographies List, 1884.