HARPER.
Castleton Harper was a deputy of Joseph Thompson, the
first Sheriff of the county. His home was on the north
fork of Hardware, near the mouth of Sowell's Branch. His
death occurred about 1799. His children were Richard, Castleton,
Henry, Rebecca, the wife of Jeremiah Hamner, Mary,
the wife of Reuben White, Jemima, the wife of Edward
Lyon, and Ellinda, believed to have been the wife of Thomas
Staples.
Charles Harper came to Albemarle from Culpeper about
1814. In that year he bought from Thomas Wells eight
hundred acres south of Ivy Depot. By continued purchases
he became the owner of more than twelve hundred acres in
that vicinity. In 1817 he disposed of three hundred acres,
and half of the mill on Ivy Creek, to his son Joseph. He
died in 1848. His wife was Lucy Smithers, and his children
Joseph, Sarah, the wife of John Slaughter, Mary, the wife of
William H. Glasscock, William, Charles, Gabriel, Lydia,
the wife of Stephen C. Price, Robert, Lucy, the wife of Dr.
M. L. Anderson, Nancy, the wife of Uriah P. Bennett, and
Eliza Jane, the wife of John Wood Jr.
Joseph in 1826 sold to Benjamin Wood a tract of fifty acres,
which acquired the name of Woodville, but has since been
called Ivy Depot. In 1832 he sold his property, and removed
to Daviess County, Missouri, where he died the same year
as his father. He was twice married, first to Eliza Ann
Green, and secondly to Mary Ann Miller, the widow of
Robert W. Wood. His children were Twyman W., William,
Mary, the wife of — Martin, Lucy Ann, the wife of Norborne
T. Martin, a former merchant of Charlottesville,
Charles and John. Gabriel married Sarah, daughter of
Edmund Anderson and Jane Lewis. He was appointed a
magistrate of the county in 1838. Some years before the war
he removed to Appomattox County, and later to Prince
Edward. When the war closed, he settled on James River
below Richmond, where not long after he died.
