SUDDARTH.
William and James Suddarth were early settlers in the
county. They were undoubtedly brothers. They and their
descendants were located on the south fork of Hardware,
between the Cross Roads and Covesville. Previous to 1750,
William bought from Abraham Venable three hundred acres
of a tract of fifteen hundred which Venable had patented in
1735 in that vicinity. In the year first named, William
exchanged two hundred acres with James, for the same quantity
which James had purchased from the same tract. William
seems to have died before 1768, as at that time Lawrence
Suddarth, apparently his son and representative, conveyed to
James the other hundred acres of William's purchase from
Venable. Lawrence was a resident of Amherst, but subsequently
settled in Albemarle, on Green Creek. His wife's
name was Martha, and he died in 1815.
James died in 1800, and left at least three children, William,
James, and Mildred, the wife of John Turner. These
brothers lived near where the present Lynchburg Road
crosses the south fork of Hardware, a mill known as Suddarth's
Mill having conspicuously marked that locality for
many years. In 1830 William was assessed with more than
thirteen hundred acres of land. He died in 1832. It is said
his wife was Martha Sumter, and his children were William
H., James, Sarah, the wife of Robert Porterfield, Martha, the
wife of Richard Littleford, Richard P., who married Martha
Morris, and whose daughter Sarah was the wife of Henry
Darrow, Nancy, the wife of George Paris, Elizabeth, the
wife of John W. Dettor, and Mildred, the wife of William
Page. His brother James married Jane, daughter of John
Randolph. He died about 1850, and his children were
James, Randolph, William T., Mary, the wife of David
Hicks, Patience, the wife of Rice Oaks, Thomas, John and
Benjamin.
