The Maddox ChronicleA Family History · Wales to the Western Waters
Chapter the Fifth

Places & Migrations

Three centuries of ground: from Scethrog in the Usk valley to the Maryland tidewater, over the mountains to the western waters of Virginia, and across the Ohio. The chart below is a stylized map in the manner of an old atlas plate — it is not geographically exact.

AMERICACYMRUScethrog, WalesTidewater MarylandThe Virginia PiedmontThe Western WatersThe Ohio SideA stylized chart of the family’s journeys · not drawn to geographic truth

The Western Waters

Harrison, Jackson & Wood County, West Virginia · abt 1800 – present

The family’s deepest ground: from Harrison County (then still Virginia) after 1800, into Jackson County — Drift Run, Grass Lick, Sandyville — and later Wood County and Parkersburg. The Maddox and Drift Run cemeteries in Jackson County hold more of this family than any other place on earth.

Most-recorded localities

  • Jackson County, West Virginia · 168 records
  • Harrison County, Virginia (WV) · 42 records
  • Maddox Cemetery, Jackson County, West Virginia · 20 records
  • Drift Run Cemetery, Jackson County, West Virginia · 15 records
  • Wood County, West Virginia · 14 records

Family recorded here · 219

Matthew Maddox, Sr. · Rachel Bonnifield · Mary Molly Maddox · Peter Romine · William Maddox · Sarah Gaston · Mansfield Maddox · Margaret Maddox · Dorcus Maddox · Oliver Maddox · Arnold Maddox · Anna Maddox · …

Journeys