Born in Cabell County, Virginia (now West Virginia) to farmer Jeremiah Witcher and his wife Polly, John Witcher was his family's only son, having an elder sister Emily (b. 1838) and younger sisters America (b. 1844) and Valeria (b. 1846). The family also included his paternal grandmother Sarah until some time before 1860.[4][5] John attended the local private schools as a child, as well as helped on the family farm.
He married Mahaley F. Witcher, four years his junior, and they had a daughter Valera in 1862 and sons William V Witcher (b. 1863), P. Sheridan Witcher (b. 1865) and John T. Witcher (b. 1867).[6]
Career
John Witcher, who listed himself as a farmer on the 1860 census (when the household also included a 25 year old day laborer), was elected clerk of the circuit court of Cabell County in 1861.
^Davis, William and James I. Robertson (eds.), Virginia at War, 1863, Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2009, pg. 58 ISBN978-0813125107
^Mountaineers of the Blue and Gray, The Civil War and West Virginia, George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, Shepherd Univ., 2008, CD-Rom
^1850 U.S. Federal Census for District 10, Cabell County, Virginia family 461, p. 64 of 142
^1860 U.S. Federal Census for Cabell County, Virginia family 951, p. 125 of 175
^1870 U.S. Federal census for Guyandotte, Cabell County, West Virginia), family no. 228 p. 32 of 53
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