Hardesty's History of Calhoun County, West Virginia

JAMES Y. WAITE, M. D. 

     James Y. Waite, M. D., was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, 
December 6, 1816, a son of Joseph L. and Anna (Jones) Waite. In 
Frankfort, Greenbrier County, Virginia, May 6, 1836, James Y. Waite 
became the husband of Elizabeth Correll, who was born in that county, 
September 19, 1813. They have one daughter and have buried two sons. 
Samuel C., born in 1838, died in September 1864; James W., born in 
1842, died in August, 1864; Elizabeth Agnes was born in 1844. 
     The first born was in command of Horton's batallion, Jubal 
Early's brigade, when he was killed at Leetown, below Winchester. 
James W. was shot by bushwhackers in Johnson County, Missouri, by 
mistake, being taken for another man. 
     James Y. Waite's grandfather and grandmother came from England 
about 1760, settled in Culpepper County, Virginia, and their children 
were: Obed, who settled in Winchester, and was president of a bank 
until his death; Jesse, settled at Fredericksburg and was mayor of 
city; Edward, went to Georgia; Joseph L., father of James Y., settled 
in Culpepper County, married Anna Jones, and both died in Ohio, 
leaving eleven children: Kesiah, Lydia, Sarah, Catherine, Hannah, 
Oliver L., Lemuel, Anderson M., Robert J., George, and James Y., the 
subject of this sketch. 
     The parents of Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Waite, were John C. and 
Nancy (Hannah) Correll, who lived and died in Greenbrier County. 
     James Y. Waite settled in Kanawha County in 1836, moved to 
Monroe County in 1840, and practiced medicine until 1879, when he 
moved to his present location. He is now engaged in practice and in 
the conduct of mercantile business at Arnoldsburg, Calhoun County, 
West Virginia. 

(Linda Fluharty)