Editing Elizabeth, West Virginia (section)

==History==
The site of Elizabeth was first [[settler|settled]] by William Beauchamp (1743-1808) in 1796 when it was still part of the original, vast [[Harrison County, West Virginia|Harrison County, Virginia]]. It was known as "Beauchamp's Mills" until 1817 when it was renamed for Elizabeth (Woodyard) Beauchamp (1780-1838), the wife of William's son David Beauchamp (1776-1828).<ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=252;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=224}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n114 116]}}</ref>  Elizabeth was [[municipal charter|chartered]] by the [[Virginia General Assembly]] in 1822<ref>
''West Virginia Blue Book.'' [http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Educational/publications/pub.cfm Published annually] by the Clerk's Office of the [[West Virginia Senate]].</ref> and became the county seat when Wirt County was created in 1848.