Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Samuel Gandy Zinn    
                Born: May-15-1806          in Preston Co, (W)VA  1
                Died: Oct-27-1895          in Stillwell, Hancock Co, IL  1
              Father: John Zinn   (1778 - 1848) 
              Mother: Ruth Gandy   (1785 - 1865) 
Other spouse 2
                Wife: Martha Miranda Weaver   2,3  
       Also known as: Miranda Weaver 3
              Father:
              Mother:
           F Child 1: Rachel J. Zinn      
                Born: May- 9-1827          in Preston Co, (W)VA  4,5
                Died: Oct-19-1924          in Ritchie Co, WV  6
              Buried:                      in South Fork Baptist Church Cemetery, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV  4
             Husband: Edward Marshall Brown  b. Sep-26-1832  d. Aug- 6-1911  
             Married: Jul-19-1877          in Ritchie Co, WV  7
           M Child 2: Christopher Columbus Zinn      
                Born: ca 1830               
           M Child 3: Worthington Conklin Zinn      
                Born: Sep- 6-1835           1
                Died: Mar-16-1922          in Bourbon, Marshall Co, IN  1
           M Child 4: William Hayhurst Zinn      
                Born: Jun-19-1838          in Virginia  1
                Died: Sep- 8-1927          in Stillwell, Hancock Co, IL  1

Sources:
(1) One World Tree (www.ancestry.com) 
(2) Death record of daughter. 
(3) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 231. 
(4) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx) 
(5) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 
(6) Ritchie County WV Deaths 1918-1940, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Nov 1998) 
(7) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as 
Edward M. Brown, widowed, 42, b. Lewis Co, res. Ritchie Co, son of David E. & Debora; and Rachel J. Zinn, 37, b. Preston 
Co, res. Ritchie Co, dau of Samuel.  Married Jul 19 1877.  The bride's stated age would put her birth in about 1840, but 
her death record of Oct 19 1924 shows her age as 97y5m10d and birth date as May 9 
1827. 







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