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The following information is from “Echoes of the Past” by Homer Floyd Fansler, THE PARSONS ADVOCATE newspaper, July 17, 1958. “Stephen Losh was born August 29, 1779, in Morgormay Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. His parents were John Adam and Susanna Losh, German Lutherans. He was christened ‘Gedry Stephen’, but never used the name Gedry. He came with his family to Tucker County, West Virginia, from Rockingham County, Virginia, about 1815, and built a crude, lean-to shanty, under a crab-apple tree, on Horseshoe Run, and subsisted by fishing, hunting, and trapping. He built a cabin of buck-eye logs on the left (south) side of Maxwell Run, at its mouth.” Mr. Fansler’s article explains that Stephen Losh had land trouble as he learned that the land that he was on belonged to Isaac Parsons, so Losh moved a mile down Horseshoe Run to the mouth of Mike Run. Then Stephen Losh learned that this land belonged to Michael Hansford, so he moved three miles up Horseshoe Run and settled near the mouth of Hyle Run, where the high rock-cliff is known now as ‘Losh Rock.’ He then lost this place in a lawsuit and spent the remainder of his days living among his relatives and friends. He died in 1874, and is buried on the hill above Maxwell Run, overlooking the site of his buckeye log cabin. The 1860 Tucker County Census shows that he was living at the time of the census on Horseshoe Run with Rebecca Sybolt, age 48, and her two sons, George, age 15 and Christian, age 11. Fansler continues: “Stephen Losh occasionally operated a blacksmith shop and a grist mill but he always lived a sort of nomadic life, roaming hither and yon, an unlettered frontiersman, marksman, hunter and trapper. He was the ‘Davy Crockett’ of Tucker County. He was an expert swimmer and swam flooded Cheat River many times when others feared to cross it with a boat or raft.”
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