Category: Geography of Upshur County, Texas

* Arlington, Upshur County, West Virginia

* Upshur County ( southwest )

** Excelsior, Upshur County, West Virginia

* Lewis County and Upshur County ( north )

Upshur County is a county located in the U. S. state of West Virginia.

* Upshur County ( east )

* Abel Upshur ( 1791-1844 ), born in Northampton County, United States Secretary of State and United States Secretary of the Navy

* Upshur County ( east )

Upshur County is a county located in the U. S. state of Texas.

Upshur County is part of the Longview Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Longview – Marshall Combined Statistical Area.

Upshur County is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the Republican Bryan Hughes, a lawyer in Mineola.

Upshur County Courthouse

Upshur County Courthouse

Upshur County was named for Abel Packer Upshur, Secretary of State under John Tyler.

Upshur County has the distinction of being the county that has the largest settlement in Texas organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The following school districts serve Upshur County:

* Union Hill ISD ( mostly in Upshur County, partly in Wood County )

* The singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked, who grew up in Gilmer, refers to Upshur County in several of her songs.

* Author Edward Hancock II sets many of his stories in and around Upshur County, Texas.

When Upshur was killed in an accident on February 28, 1844, the treaty was almost complete.

The county is named for Abel P. Upshur who was U. S. Secretary of State during President John Tyler's administration.

Upshur was killed in the explosion on the USS Princeton along with new United States Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer ( who was the namesake for the county seat of Gilmer ).

The first White settler in Upshur county was probably Isaac Moody who settled there in 1836.

The county's area was reduced in 1846, following the establishment of Panola and Upshur Counties.

When Gregg County was created, it first consisted of approximately taken from Upshur County, and the Sabine River was its southern boundary.

After Upshur County authorities were unable to track down McFadden and his hostage the evening of the escape, Lingle's plea for assistance was answered by over 1000 law enforcement officers from all over the state.

Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Jane ( née Upshur ) and Alfred Enos Woodward II, Chief Judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court.

* USS Upshur ( DD-144 ) was a United States Navy Wickes class destroyer during World War I

Abel Parker Upshur ( June 17, 1790 – February 28, 1844 ) was an American lawyer, judge and politician from Virginia.

Upshur was active in Virginia state politics and later served as Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of State during the Whig administration of President John Tyler.

Upshur was instrumental in negotiating the secret treaty that led to the annexation of Texas to the United States and played a key role in ensuring that Texas was admitted to the United States as part of the Union.

Upshur was born in Northampton County, Virginia, to Littleton Upshur and Anna ( née Parker ) Upshur.

Upshur attended Princeton University and Yale College ; he was expelled from the former for participating in a student rebellion.

Upshur was admitted to the bar in 1810 ; he briefly set up practice in Baltimore, Maryland, but returned to Virginia after the death of his father, where he set up a thriving law practice and became active in state politics.

Upshur County's six districts were formed on July 31, 1863:

The Second District as originally formed in 1863 included Taylor, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Tucker, Barbour, Upshur, Webster, Pocahontas, Randolph, Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, and Morgan counties ( Jefferson county's status in the state was still in dispute, and Grant and Mineral counties were still part of other counties, but the modern territory of all was also included ).

The Buckhannon River is formed at the community of Alexander in southern Upshur County by the confluence of the Left Fork Buckhannon River and the Right Fork Buckhannon River, both of which rise in southwestern Randolph County at elevations of and, respectively, and flow generally north-northwestwardly into southern Upshur County.

When the Texas State Legislature convened in January 1873, Democratic representative B. W. Brown of Upshur County introduced a bill to create a new county from parts of Harrison, Rusk, and Upshur counties.

On July 10-11, 1986, more than a thousand law enforcement officers responded to Big Sandy Chief of Police Richard Lingle's request for assistance after convicted murderer Jerry " the Animal " McFadden escaped from the Upshur County jail with jailer Rosalie Williams, the wife of a Department of Public Safety trooper, as hostage.

On May 23, 1861 the voters of Upshur County voted 7 to 3 against secession from the United States.

The majority of soldiers from Upshur served in the Union Army, while over 180 soldiers enlisted in the Confederate Army.

Upshur was elected to a term in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1812, was Commonwealth's Attorney for Richmond ( 1816 – 1823 ), ran unsuccessfully for the U. S. Congress, returned to the legislature from 1825 to 1827, was elected to the Virginia General Court in 1826, and was an influential delegate to the Virginia State Constitutional Convention of 1829 – 1830.

All of Marion County, Cass County, and the majority of Upshur County were removed from the district.

After graduating from the University of Tennessee in 1848 he moved to Gilmer in Upshur County, Texas.

* USTS State of Maine ( 1982 – 1983 ) former Barrett class USNS Upshur, borrowed from Maine Maritime Academy

Morrill and Upshur continue to host shows and broadcast news and traffic on other Clear Channel stations ( WDAS, WISX and WIOQ ) as programming changes have forced public affairs shows from Power 99 to those other stations.

John Upshur Dennis Page ( February 8, 1904 – December 11, 1950 ) was an United States Army officer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.