Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: William Presley Phares    
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Sarah Jane Ware   1  
                Born: May- 8-1870          in Braxton Co, WV  2,3
                Died: Dec-18-1938           2,3
              Buried:                      in Sunset Memorial Park, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV  2
              Father:
              Mother:
           M Child 1: Lloyd Lawson Phares      
                Born: Mar-31-1903          in Braxton Co, WV  4,5
                Died: Jan- 1-1957          in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV  4,5
              Buried:                      in Mt. Harmony Masonic Cemetery, Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV  6,4
             Resided:                      in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV  4
              Census: 1940                 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV  
              Census: 1930                 in Holly District, Braxton Co, WV   (see note 1)
          Occupation:                      railroad conductor  4
          Occupation: 1940                 supervisor for Dept of Public Assistance  7
                Wife: Lena W. Burton  b. Sep- 8-1904  d. bef Jul 1997  
             Married: Sep-19-1923          in Sutton, Braxton Co, WV  8
         No children:                        
                Wife: Ruth Evelyn Ball  b. Apr- 8-1911  d. Jan-21-1960  
          Birth name: Evelyn Ruth Ball 9

Sources:
(1) Death record of son. 
(2) Findagrave.com. 
(3) Headstone. 
(4) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx) 
(5) Headstone (year only) 
(6) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(7) 1940 Census, Harrison County, WV. 
(8) Braxton County Marriage Records, Sutton, WV. 
(9) West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 

Event Notes
Note (1) With wife Lena, listed as son-in-law Loyd Phares, 27, in household of her
parents, William & Nannie Burton.







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