The Kincaid Clan has served as leaders and played an active
part in Scottish history for centuries. Members of the clan have
been knighted, earned a special coat of arms, and have served
honorably in the government as well as actively defending their
kings, clan, and country. History may have removed the name from
center stage in recent years, but past exploits of the Kincaid
Clan are firmly entrenched in Scotland's dynamic past, and recent
genealogical studies are re-establishing that importance.

     Except for a few side lights, I will leave the early history
of the KINCAIDS in Scotland to the serious researchers who have
preceded me. See Clan Kincaid (go to Early History), and other
numbered reports near the end of my basic page.

     During the conflict of Robert Bruce and Edward of England,
Robert granted FRANCIS KINCAID the right to add a triple towered
castle to his arms for helping retake Edinburgh Castle from the
English in 1314. FRANCIS went to Sir Thomas Randolph, the Bruce's
brother-in-law and explained that during his father's government
of Edinburgh, he had an affair with a young lady in the town, and
had used a secret path on the castle's steep cliff to conceal his
courtship from his father. He offered to lead a surprise attack
up the almost perpendicular secret path.

     On a dark night, followed by Sir Thomas and a small group of 
hand-picked men, they climbed the cliff, surprised the garrison,
and after a bloody battle, captured the Castle. FRANCIS was
knighted for this exploit, and he and his successors were awarded
a hereditary constableship of Edinburgh. The position lasted for
many generations; but, always being attached to the Stuart cause,
the family lost the office when William & Mary came to the throne
of Great Britain & Ireland.

(1)  JAMES KINCAID apparently had a character flaw. He appeared
before his church congregation on 10 Nov 1696 to receive public
rebuke for having a groom thresh straw on the Sabbath. It seems
that on a previous Sabbath he arrived home from a journey, and
finding no food for his weary horse, ordered his groom to go into
the field and get some. Under questioning James agreed the trans-
gression reulted from his own negligence. He died about 1700. His
first son, John, became Laird-of-that-Ilk; another, ALEXANDER, a
pharmacist in Edinburgh became the progenitor of my Clan in
America.    
     John, who became Laird-of-that-Ilk, had three sons and a
grandson come to America about 1715 and settle at Upton, now
called Chester, about 14 miles from Philadelphia.(map)
From that group, a Thomas and a David later moved to Virginia,
complicating the tracing of Kincaid lineage in early Virginia.

(2)  ALEXANDER KINCAID, the pharmacist, had four sons come to
America in 1745, first going to Pennsylvania where their rela-
tives had settled, but on advice from their relatives, went to
Virginia where they bought land on the Cow Pasture River, near
the present city of Staunton, VA. (map).
     The four sons were SAMUEL, George, Robert, and James.
     
(3)  SAMUEL and George were married and brought their families
from Scotland. On May 16,1754 SAMUEL bought 100 acres in
Beverly Manor, Augusta County. About 1765, SAMUEL moved to the
Falling Spring section, then to Botetourt County, even later to
Greenbrier County, now Allegheny County where he bought 283
acres. When war was declared against England, SAMUEL went to
Pittsburgh with his old friend and neighbor, Captain John 
Wilson. He was wounded in the thigh, never fully recovered and
died in 1780. Pittsburgh Papers #31, in State Library, Richmond
VA establish his wounds. He had several children: Samuel Jr, or
Samuel II, prominent in Virginia history, and JOHN KINCAID, who
was about 9 years old when Samuel came to America .

(4)  JOHN KINCAID, b.1736 in Scotland, married Ann Graham, in
Amherst county, Virginia in 1759. They had a son JOHN JR.
KINCAID. In 1774 John and Ann moved to Bath County, and in 1784
moved to Monroe County, WV, for the remainder of their lives on
Indian Creek. They raised a large family: Thomas (who lived on
Lick Creek), James (on Grassy Meadows), Matthew  (where town of
Lowell is now located), Lanty (on Lick Creek), JOHN JR. and
SAMUEL. 

(5)  SAMUEL KINCAID was born 1761 in Amherst County. He married
Mary Tincher in 1785. They had a son WILLIAM. 

(6)  WILLIAM KINCAID lived on Lick Creek near Meadow Bridge. He
married his cousin VIRGINIA.
  
  *********Virginia was the son of John Jr.************
        John Jr., son of John (see 4 - above), was born 10
     March 1760, in Amherst County, Virginia. He served in
     the Revolutionary War- Certificate #23913, VA agency-
     from 15 Feb 1781 (21 yrs old) for six or seven months
     as private.  He served as a guard for Tory and Indian 
     prisoners at Fort Woods,  a stockade built in 1773 by
     Captain Michael Woods,three miles east of Peterstown.
     John married Elizabeth, a daughter of James Gillespie
     on February 11, 1782 in Greenbrier County. The record
     is in the County Clerk's office,in the court house at        
     Lewisburg, Greenbrier County. John moved onto Roaring
     River,Tenn. then later to Big Creek that empties into
     the Gauley River, some 2 miles above Gauley Bridge,in
     Fayette Cnty.In 1834 he received a last pension check
     from Virginia, while living in Fayette County, WV. He
     is thought buried on Indian Creek with his father and
     mother. John Jr and Elizabeth had a very large family
     including,Mathew,James,Galespie,William,Sallie,Terry,
     Nancy Hughs, Magdalin, Wyatt, Margaret Ingram, Hannah
     Watts, Polly Burgess, and VIRGINIA.
     *****************************************************

    WILLIAM and VIRGINIA had a son GALESPIE (GILLESPIE).

(7) GILLESPIE KINCAID, born 1813, first married Virginia Nance.
They had three children. One daughter, Amanda Jane (McGraw), died
10 Jan 1854, at age 22 of consumption. His second marriage was to
Rachel Harrah (widow of Daniel Smith).
                   
Great-great-grandfather           Great-great-grandmother
Gillespie Kincaid                 Rachel Harrah 
                  Married - 22 Dec 1841
             Minister: Rev. William Carnafit
              Child: John Alexander Kincaid
                   General Information:
1850 census, Fayette County, District 14, page 499
indicates Gillespie Kincaid, age 36, is a farmer, with a
wife Rachel, age 38, and son John A., age 7

1860 census, Fayette County, District #2, page 323
indicates Gillespie Kincaid, age 47, is a farmer, has $100,
a wife Rachel, age 48, and son John A., age 14


(8)  JOHN ALEXANDER KINCAID married Elizabeth L. Rule. He
had a ferry on the Gauley River and ferried troops during
the Civil War. Children: PEYTON KINCAID, and Emma.
                   
Great-grandfather                Great-grandmother
John Alexander Kincaid           Elizabeth L. Rule 
Born 1843                        Born 1841 
Died 14 Jun 1924                 Died 7 Oct 1912
                Married - 29 May 1867 
                  Gauley Bridge, WV
               By: Alexander Rippetoe
    In the presence of Thornton and Mary Harrah 
               Children: PEYTON & Emma
    
                 General Information:
1870 census, Fayette County, John is shown as a 25 yr old
white male farm laborer, owning no real estate or personal
estate, born in VA, can read & write, has son PEYTON, age 8
months born in WV. He and his family apparently lived on the
farm of a John Evans, During the Civil War, John operated a
ferry at Gauley WV, transporting troops across the river.


(9) PEYTON KINCAID married Jane Hornsby.
                   
Grandfather                        Grandmother
PEYTON Kincaid                     Mary Jane Hornsby
Born 13 Nov 1869                   Born 22 May 1872
on Gauley River, WV                At Campbells Creek, WV
Died 27 Apr 1931                   Died 8 Nov 1952
Where - Elkridge WV                Where - Elkridge WV 
Buried-Powellton WV                Buried-Powellton WV
                   Married - 19 April 1888
 In home of William Anderson Hornsby and Mary Basham Hornsby
                        Powellton, WV
                   
                          Children:
 Emogene    10 Nov 1889            John William 14 Jan 1892
 Ethel      24 Feb 1894            Gertrude      2 Apr 1896
 Carrie     24 Nov 1899            Helen  Pearl 23 Feb 1903
 Thomas Lee 27 Sep 1905            Hally Louise 24 Feb 1908
 Garnett     6 Nov 1911            Lola May     28 Jan 1913

                      General information
                      Also see basic page
After PEYTON died Mary Jane Kincaid operated a boarding house
for the local coal miners. Though young, I (JPK) remember 
enjoying a fabulous meal with the miners, at a table filled
with food to match miners' appetites. The large plate stacked
high with hot biscuits is as clear today as back then. Aunt
Emogene operated the boarding house when Grandmother quit. 


(10) JOHN WILLIAM KINCAID married Cecil O. Pauley.
                   
Father                              Mother 
John William Kincaid                Cecil Olivia Pauley
Born 14 Jan 1892                    Born 18 Mar 1897
in Powellton, WV                    In Winifred WV
Died 15 Jan 1962                    Died 22 Apr 1984
Where: In back yard                 Where: Monroe, OH
Buried: Middleport OH               Buried, Middleport OH 
                   Married - 16 Jan 1915,
                          Boomer, WV
                   
                         Children:
William Keith Kincaid - Born  3 Nov 1915, Middleport, OH.
John PEYTON Kincaid   - Born 28 Aug 1919,     "       " 
Pauley Anne Kincaid   - Born 12 Nov 1924,     "       "


(11) JOHN PEYTON KINCAID married Ley Ancell. Children: John Craig
Kincaid and James Edward Kincaid.
                   
Information on surviving clan members is intentionally sparse.
     
          See basic page for additional information