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Note: 1. Margaret Masterson was of Ansted, Fayette county, WV. This place is near Horseshoe Creek and near Shade Creek. 2. Copied from This History of Nicholas County, WV (1985): "One of the earliest settlers in the Nicholas County area was Thomas Masterson, who, with his wife, Jane, and children, Elizabeth, Samuel, William, Joseph and Margaret, moved to the farm later known as the Hamilton Place, near Kesler's Cross Lanes. In 1816 Thomas bought land on the South side of Gauley River, and moved his family to a 200 acre farm on Horse Shoe Creek. When Nicholas County was organized in 1818 he was a member of the Court that was sworn in to establish the County government. Later, in 1831, when Fayette County was organized, his land was included in the new county's territory, and he was no longer a citizen of Nicholas County. Thomas Masterson, born in Maryland in 1770, came from Rockbridge County, Virginia, to Greenbrier County, Virginia, as a youth, with the Rev. John Alderson. On 1 December 1791 he was married by that pioneer Baptist minister to Jane McClung, daughter of "Sinking Creek" Joseph McClung and his wife Margaret Bell. The young couple's children were born in the Blue Sulphur District of Greenbrier County. Thomas and Jane both died the same year, 1834, on their farm in the Mountain Cove District of Fayette County. He was 64 and she was 68. They were buried in the Vandal-Westlake Cemetery "on the hill" at New Haven (now Ansted), where their tombstones can still be seen. One of their sons, William F. Masterson, was a member of the Board that organized the town government of New Haven in 1830. Another son, Samuel Arminius Masterson, became a country doctor. The third son, Joseph Masterson, dropped out of sight at New Orleans after writing that he was planning a trip up the Red River. Elizabeth Masterson, older of the two daughters, married Jacob Nebergall, and raised a family of five children in Fayette County, then moved to Missouri. The other daughter, Margaret Bell Masterson, married Charles Campbell, of Kesler's Cross Lanes, 14 Dec 1826, and bore by him ten children before her death in 1849. The Mastersons were Baptists, and in the 1820's attended the Kanawha Baptist Church at Pratt. In 1835 William and Samuel, and their wives, became charter members of the Gauley Bridge Baptist Church. Samuel was Clerk of that church from 1837 to 1845. Both families later transferred their membership to Hopewell Baptist Church at New Haven. During the War Between the States two of Samuel's sons, James William Masterson and Thomas Vandal Masterson, served the Confederate cause, as did Col. Edward Campbell and four of his sons. Three died during that War. One son, Sidney Masterson Campbell, was attending college in Ohio, and was drafted into the Union forces. Samuel and his wife, Elizabeth Vandal, moved with their younger children to Scott County, Iowa, about 1856, and then settled at Tipton, County Seat of Cedar County, Iowa, for several years, removing to Marshalltown, Iowa, in 1870, and joining two daughters and two sons who were farming there. After Samuel's death in 1871, Elizabeth applied for a homestead in Smith County, Kansas. She died there in 1873. Descendants of Thomas and Jane Masterson most actively identified with the more recent history of Nicholas County are the Campbells, children and grandchildren of Edward and Margaret Campbell. Descendants of Samuel Arminius and Elizabeth (Vandal) Masterson have spread to several States, including California, Iowa, Kansas and Washington."
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