User talk:KandiKountryGirl

Henry (Churchill) Church was from Suffolk, England. After the English were captured & imprisoned in Yorktown, Pa for two years, they traveled in to the Allegheny Mountains to hide from the English who would force them to return to England where they would suffer extreme punishment for having lost the Revolutionary War in America. Hundred, Virginia is named because over 100 men from the area fought for the Americans. Hundred, West Virginia was named for Henry Churchill dba Church because he lived to be 109 years old and his wife Hannah Keine Church lived to be 106 years old. They held the National Award for being married 87 years.

The men who had fought for the English but who decided to stay in America rather than return to England to be punished for losing the War all seemed to make a change in at least one syllable of their last name either by dropping a syllable or adding a syllable or changing the spelling of a syllable. At first, it was thought that the Census didn't know how to spell their names but, in fact, it was the actual man himself who altered his name so he couldn't be forced back to England.

Shirley Kern Hall Roche-Hogue (descended from Henry & Hannah Churchill, dba Church.