Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Willian Van Ransler Gill    
                Born: Jun-  -1853          in Virginia (now West Virginia)  1,2
                Died: 1928                  2
              Buried:                      in Hardman Chapel Cemetery, Smithville, Ritchie Co, WV  3
              Census: 1900                 in Murphy District, Ritchie Co, WV  
          Occupation:                      farmer  1
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Martha Rebecca Ferguson   4,5  
       Also known as: Rebecca Ferguson 4
                Born: Jan-  -1856          in Pennsylvania  1,2
                Died: 1953                  2
              Buried:                      in Hardman Chapel Cemetery, Smithville, Ritchie Co, WV  3
              Census: 1900                 in Murphy District, Ritchie Co, WV  
              Father:
              Mother:
           M Child 1: Lemon Lionel Gill      
       Also known as: Lionel Lemon Gill 
                Born: Aug-31-1879          in Ritchie Co, WV  6,2,7 (see note 1)
                Died: Sep-25-1969          in Morgan Co, WV  8,6 (see note 2)
              Buried:                      in IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  3
             Resided:                      in Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV  9
             Resided: 1942                 near Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  10
              Census: 1930, 1940           in Grant District, Ritchie Co, WV  
              Census: 1900, 1910, 1920     in Murphy District, Ritchie Co, WV  
             Resided: 1901                 at Eva, Ritchie Co, WV  7
          Occupation: 1940                 foreman for State Road Commission  11
          Occupation:                      farmer  12
                Wife: Jessie Ellen Nutter  b. Oct-19-1883  d. May-14-1942  
             Married: Jun-13-1901          in Smithville, Ritchie Co, WV  7

Sources:
(1) 1900 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Murphy District) 
(2) Headstone (year only) 
(3) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(4) Death record of son. 
(5) Findagrave.com. 
(6) Social Security Death Index. 
(7) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV. 
(8) Morgan County Death Records, Berkeley Springs, WV, Identified as Lemon Lionel Gill, widower, age 90, occupation foreman, 
son of William Gill & Rebecca Furgeson; died Sep 25 1969 at Morgan County Hospital, cause of death bronchopneumonia in 
right lung.  Informant:  W. J. Gill. DR p. 48 : 
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4264785&Type=Death. 
(9) Social Security Death Index, Social Security card issued in West Virginia before 1951. 
(10) Death record of wife. 
(11) 1940 Census, Ritchie County, WV. 
(12) 1910 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Murphy District) 

Event Notes
Note (1) Age 60 stated on wife's death record would put birth date at about 1882, but
age 90 in his own death record puts it in about 1679.  Headstone reads 1879.
Note (2) Death date on headstone reported as 1964, but death record shows it as Sep 25
1969, age 90.







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