Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.
 
 MARK L. SPOTTS - was born May 31, 1812, in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, 
where he has lived and had his home to the present date. In Union, Monroe County, (then)
Virginia, on the 4th of July, 1855, he married Virginia W. WIATT who was born in 
Lynchburg, Virginia, July 4, 1827. William and Elizabeth (Moyers) SPOTTS, the 
parents of Mark L., came to Greenbrier County in their childhood, and died in
Lewisburg in old age, each between the age of 70 and 80 years. The parents of 
Virginia W., wife of Mr. SPOTTS, Samuel J. and Sallie L. (BROWN)
WIATT were both natives Lynchburg, Virginia. Mark L. SPOTTS
had a paternal and maternal uncle in the 1812 war, serving in the Northwest, 
under Harrison, and sharing all the hardships of that memorable campaign. They 
went from Lewisburg, and returned here at the close of the war, spending the 
residue of the days in Lewisburg and its vicinity, living to a good old age, 
honored of all who knew them. The subject of this sketch was deputy clerk of
the United States district court in 1835, under Col. R. W. Moore; was commissioner
of revenue of Greenbrier County, 1835-54; was justice of Lewisburg District
before the war; was county superintendt of schools from 1852 to the year 
1864; was deputy recorder of the county court, 1869-72, inclusive and since 
January, 1873, has been clerk of the county court. He has been acting notary
public for the past twelve or fifteen years, and was deputy sheriff 1861-2. 
He is at this time the oldest native citizen of Lewisburg living here, and 
by his efficient discharge of all the public duties laid upon him, has won and
held the respect of all its citizens.

Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @trellis.net>, 1998.