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Rev. Eliphus SPURLOCK is a son of Charles and Lena (Hager) Spurlock, who came to
Lincoln county in 1798. He was born in Cabell county, May 11, 1824, and in Boone county, (now) West Virginia,
in 1853, he was joined in marriage with Selpha, daughter of Elijah and Martha (Elkins) Elkins, residents of
Boone county. She was born in Logan county, (now) West Virginia, in 1834, and is the mother of three children
living in Lincoln county, and one dead: Martha, born February 14, 1857; Dice, September 17, 1859; Stephen,
April 30, 1862; Pattison, May 8, 1864, died November 29, 1866. Mr. Spurlock enlisted in the war between the
States in September, 1861, serving in the Federal army, in the 8th West Virginia Infantry, and was in the
battles at Boone, Scary, Maryland and Rocky Gap. Eliphus Spurlock came to Lincoln county in 1851, and in 1868
he was overseer of the poor in this county, as well as road surveyor. He is an ordained Methodist minister,
and was on the Hamlin circuit one year, in 1866, as a supply, but has since been a local Preacher. Beside
ministering the gospel, Mr. Spurlock is engaged in farming in Laurel Hill district, owning 60 acres of land,
upon which there is a good orchard of apple, peach and pear trees, and a part of the land is timbered with
oak and chestnut. He may be addressed at Hamlin. 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.