William Luther Chrislip

1858–1930

William Luther Chrislip (Friedrich Carl Christlieb¹, Jacob Christlieb², Abram Chrislip³, Ervin G. Chrislip⁴) [753], born ca. 1858; died 6 August 1930, aged 72 years, 8 months and 4 days. He was buried in the family cemetery at Chrislip Hollow. A merchant in Philippi, Luther and his brother, Albert, started a farm machine business. Together they introduced the first corn drill and the first ball-bearing mowing machine in Barbour County. William married, 24 April 1880, in Barbour County, West Virginia, Martha Ann Griffith, born 3 July 1863, Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia; died 25 November 1939, in Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia; burial in Belington Fraternal Cemetery, Belington, Barbour County, West Virginia. William Luther’s nephew, Harold McGee, recalled that Luther’s children, Orpha and Rezin, made annual summer visits to Washington D.C., where they would visit cousins who were descendants of Catherine Crislip O’Connor.

Headstone for William Luther Chrislip - Chrislip Cemetery, Chrislip Hollow, West Virginia.

Headstone - Martha Ann Griffith Chrislip

Headstone for Martha A. Griffith Chrislip - Belington Fraternal Cemetery, Belington, Barbour County, West Virginia.

Children of William Luther Chrislip and Martha A. Griffith

Orpha M. Chrislip (Friedrich Carl Christlieb¹, Jacob Christlieb²,Abram Chrislip³, Ervin G. Crislip⁴, William Luther Chrislip⁵) [753], born 1882; died 1940 at age 57; burial in Belington Fraternal Cemetery, Belington, Barbour County, West Virginia.
Rezin Edmund Chrislip (Friedrich Carl Christlieb¹, Jacob Christlieb²,Abram Chrislip³, Ervin G. Crislip⁴, William Luther Chrislip⁵) [753], born 14 December 1886, Barbour County, West Virginia; died 19 Jan 1967, Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia; buried 22 Jan 1967, in Belington Fraternal Cemetery, Belington, Barbour County, West Virginia.

Shown here is a response from Orpha and Rezin Chrislip to Bessie Chrislip McGee, upon the death of their mother, Martha (Griffith) in 1939:

Neither Orpha nor Rezin ever married. In the 1930 census they were living with their parents at 106 North High Street, Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia. When Orpha and Rezin died, they were both buried in Belington Fraternal Cemetery, in Belington, Barbour County, West Virginia. There is a family plot there with a headstone containing the family surname of Chrislip. Next to that headstone is headstone denoting Rezin's service in World War I. The inscription on that stone reads "Pvt 11 Co 3 Dev Bn, World War I."