Sophia Westfall

Harrison County Historical Society Collection, wvculture.org and Bridgeport by Robert F Stealey

Sophia "Aunt Sook" Westfall, was born into slavery in the early 1800s. She lived on Simpson Creek near Bridgeport, West Virginia until her death in 1902. She and her daughter, Jane, were bought not long before the War Between the States by George Higinbotham, a rich Simpson Creek farmer. The Higinbotham farm is now the Bridgeport Country Club.