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JOHN JACKSON HUFF

John Jackson Huff, of Bent Mountain, Roanoke
County, Virginia, was born October 16th, 1846, in
Floyd County, being the eldest son of Robert and Mary
(Kefauver) Huff. Beside
the subject of this
sketch three other children
were born; Nellie,
now Mrs. Fowler of
Floyd County; Emma
married to Richard F.
Cannaday of Salem, Virginia,
and Waller P. of
Roanoke, Virginia. John
Jackson Huff's parents
settled on a four hundred
and forty-acre plantation
lying partly in
Roanoke and partly in
Floyd counties, in 1851.
Robert Huff was distinguished
for his hospitality,
his kindly, gentle disposition
and during his
lifetime was regarded as a true Virginia gentleman of
the old school. He and his estimable wife were ardent
members of the Baptist Church. They were liberal
almost to a fault in church affairs, and it was largely
through them that Mount Olivet Baptist Church was
erected and maintained. Robert Huff was born April
21st, 1822, and died July 2d, 1895.

John Jackson Huff received his education at home
and in the country schools. In 1870 he embarked in the
mercantile business at Bent Mountain where he sold
general merchandise for twenty-five years. During a
greater portion of tha