"Hardesty's Biographical Atlas of Tyler County West Virginia"
H. H. Hardesty, 1872

JOHN W. GARRISON - is a native of the "Old Dominion State," born in 
Loudoun county, Virginia, August 1830. He came to Tyler county, in April 
1849, and has lived in the county since that date, following the 
avocations of an agricultural life, and making his home in Meade 
district. In the years of the civil war he was a soldier in Company H, 
1st West Virginia Infantry, from October 25, 1861, until November 25, 
1864, and he was engaged in the following battles: Winchester, Port 
Republic, second Bull Run, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, New Market, 
Piedmont, Lynchburg, Martinsburg, Halltown, Fishers Hill, Cedar Creek and 
he was on detached service in the engagement at Gettysburg in 1864. In 
Tyler county, February 22, 1860, John W. Garrison and Emeline Baker were 
united in marriage, and they have three living children, while death has 
taken one from them. these children were born: Margaret E., March 17, 
1861; Sarah E., January 21, 1863, died June 8, 1863; William H., August 
17, 1865; Honh F., September 14, 1871. Fench and Eleanor (Ellis) Garrison 
were the parents of John W., and his wife was a daughter of Meshach and 
Sarah (Smith) Baker. Her mother died at Sistersville, this county, 
February 15, 1883, and her father died in this county, at Middlebourne, 
February 22, 1866. The father of Mr. Garrison died in Tyler county, 
March, 1859, and his mother now makes her home in Marietta, Ohio. John W. 
Garrison's post office address is Wick, Tyler county, West Virginia.

Submitted by Rosalie Markins.