OLD MRS. QUARRIER.
I mentioned that at one time there were only two communicants
in our Church at Charleston,—Mrs. Lovell and Mrs. Quarrier. The
latter died in the year 1852, full of years, and ready to depart
and be with Christ. As Mrs. Quarrier, beyond any other individual,
may be considered the mother of the Church in Western
Virginia, by reason of her age, her holy life, and numerous posterity,
who in different places have zealously promoted it, I must
give a brief genealogical sketch of the same. Mr. Alexander
Quarrier was born in Scotland in the year 1746. He removed to
America in his twenty-ninth year, and, settling in Philadelphia and
marrying, lived there twelve years, when he removed to Richmond.
His wife dying, he contracted a second marriage with Miss Sally
Burns. He left Richmond in 1811, and removed to Kanawha,
where he died at the advanced age of eighty-two. By his first
marriage he had six children,—Harriet, Eliza, Margaret, Helen,
Alexander, and Betsy. By his second wife he had seven children,
—William, James, Gustavus, Monroe, Archibald, Fanny, and Virginia.
Being unable to state the marriages and localities, &c. of
all of them, I shall mention none. The members of the Church in
different parts of Western Virginia know how much it has been
indebted to them.
