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William Welch |
"He was at one time a member of the Buncombe county court, and in January 1805 was coroner. He was interested in lands on what are now Haywood and Depot streets. He afterwards removed to Waynesville and married Mary Ann, a daughter of Robert Love. In 1829 he was a senator from Haywood county, a member of the constitutional convention of 1835 and for many years clerk of the court. He was born April 8, 1796 and died February 6, 1865. (1914. Arthur, John. Western North Carolina: A History..., p. 151.) |
| "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority
of the same, that the aforesaid sixty-three acres of land be and the
same is hereby constituted and established, a town by the name of
Ashville [sic], and that John Jarrett, Samuel Chunn, William Welch,
George Swain and Zebulon Baird, Esq, be and they are hereby appointed,
commissioners for the purpose of carrying into effect the plan of said
town....(1922. Sondley, F. A. Asheville and Buncombe County,
p. 92.)
"William Welch, or William Welsh as he wrote it, was at one time a member of Buncombe County Court, and in January 1805, was elected and qualified as coroner of that county. He was at one time interested in lands lying in Asheville, and on what are now known as Haywood and Depot Streets. (1922. Sondley, F. A. Asheville and Buncombe County, p. 99.)
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| Bibliography: Sondley, F.A. Asheville and Buncombe County, |
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