They floated to Ravenswood until they came to the Sandy Creek and headed up the creek. They took the Left Fork of Sandy Creek and ended up at their new home off Drift Run near Nesselroad Run and Lockhart. He traveled with 3 of his brothers, his sister Priscilla, her husband and all the children. The older boys of the families drove the cattle and other livestock across country to the homestead.
By 1840 Aaron has settled in and is farming. He has one son still living with him and his wife Sarah (Richards). She passes in 1841 and Aaron marries a woman named Matilda. He is 68 years old in 1850, still farming and his widowed daughter Elizabeth Maddox, her 5 children and Matilda are all in the home.
Aaron must have brought enough equipment from his old homestead in Lewis County when he moved to Jackson County to care for all his farm and his brother and sister's farm and home blacksmith needs. He was the first blacksmith in the Lockhart area.
On 9 February 1863 Aaron Charles Cheuvront, my Very Great Grandfather dies and is buried in the Maddox Cemetery in Lockhart, Jackson County, West Virginia.
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