Amos Aaron Maddox was born in 1839 in Jackson County, West Virginia. Earlier in 1838 Amos's parents packed everything they could onto wagons and herded their livestock and themselves to Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. There they built rafts and after loading the rafts with everything but the livestock they floated down the Ohio River the older boys of the families moving with them herded the livestock along through the wilderness. They landed near Ravenswood and after unloading everything and joining up with the herd of livestock they set out across land following Sandy Creek. They found the perfect location for a new farmstead and soon after Amos was born.
Amos's father, William Oscar Maddox dies in 1841 of Typhoid Fever leaving his mother, Anna Maria Elizabeth (Cheuvront) Maddox with a new farmstead and 5 children all under the age of 8. By 1850 Amos, his mother and siblings are living in a home with his grandfather Aaron Charles Cheuvront in Jackson County, West Virginia. When Amos is 21 in 1860 he still living on the farm with his mother, Grandfather and a sister and they are farming.
dies in 1863 of Typhoid Fever his grave marker tells us he was also a Civil War Soldier.
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