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Andrew Lewis SIAS is one of the farming population of Hart Creek district,
Lincoln county, and owns 87 1/2 acres of land on the East fork of Fourteen-mile creek, 45 acres well
cultivated, the rest heavily timbered, and coal, iron ore and building stone are to be found on the farm. Mr.
Sias was born in Mercer county, (now) West Virginia, May 28, 1842, and was married in Lincoln county February
10, 18~7, to Martha Ellen Lambert, the Rev. John Lucas officiating clergyman. The children of this union were
born as follows: Jeremiah, November 25, 1868; Delilah Jane, March 1, 1870; Henry C., September 5, 1872; Lena L.,
March 8 1874; Charlotta, November 5, 1870; Mary Etta, April 25, 1880. The parents of Andrew Sias, James and
Rebecca (Adkins) Sias, have resided in Lincoln county since its organization. Mrs. Andrew Sias was born in
Tazewell county, Virginia, April 12, 1848, and her parents, Jeremiah and Sarah (Hedrick) Lambert, were
residing here before the county was organized. Andrew Lewis Sias enlisted in the late war, in Company G, 22d
Virginia Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Clawhammer Witcher, in General A. J. Jenkins brigade. Mr.
Sias was wounded in the battle of Gettysburg, on the third day of the fight, and was left in the hands of the
enemy, taken to Point Lookout, Maryland, held eight months and four days, suffering untold injuries. When the
word of exchange came Mr. Sias went back to his company, his arm still in a sling, and participated in several
engagements, though he could use a revolver only with his left hand, and would have suffered for something to
eat had it not been for the kindness two good soldiers. Andrew Lewis Sias settled in Lincoln county in 1867,
and receives his mail at Fourteen, 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.