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Samuel I. Cabell (Unknown - July 18, 1865) was a wealthy plantation owner who was known for his strong will as well as his strong temper. His plantation was located approximately nine miles west of the capitol of Charleston, W. V. in what is now known as the college town, Institute, W.V. While little is known about his ancestry and or roots, (some speculate he was from Georgia and others say he was from England), Cabell settled in southern West Virginia in Kanawha County around the end of the civil war where he subsequently purchased over nine hundred acres once which once belonged to George Washington. Little is recorded in the history books but he was apparently part of the well known Cabell family who spawned politicians, generals, bankers and other prominent statesmen.

Cabell is the central figure in what one writer has been "an epic love story." Cabell took one of his slaves (Mary Barnes) as his lifelong mate and fathered thirteen children (Elizabeth, Sam, Lucy, Mary Jane, Sidney Ann, Soula, Eunice, Alice, Marina (or Bobby), Braxton, Betty, William Clifford and James B.) whom he cared for, eventually granted freedom from slavery, sent some of them to private school in Ohio and also bequeathed virtually all of his inheritance to upon his death.

References:

1) http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh32-2a.html

2) http://www.newwave.net/~haught/epic.html

3) http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SLAVEINFO/2001-05/0988854999

4) http://www.soulofamerica.com/index.php?id=7784,0,0,1,0,0

5) http://greatafricanamericans.org/wvstateuniversity.pdf

6) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvkanawh/cemetery/cabell.html