Jul-28-2018
Husband: Marshall Starcher
Born: Mar- -1846 1
Census: 1900, 1910 in Lee District, Calhoun Co, WV
Occupation: farmer 2
Father: Henry Starcher (1807 - 1880)
Mother: Elizabeth McElwain (1813 - 1880)
Wife: Louisa Green Husk
Married: Aug-12-1875 in Calhoun Co, WV 3
Born: May-21-1853 in Greene Co, PA 1,4,5
Died: 1940 6
Census: 1900, 1910 in Lee District, Calhoun Co, WV
Census: 1870 in Walton District, Roane Co, WV
Father: Samuel A. Husk (1823 - 1888)
Mother: Dorcas Anne Critchfield (1827 - 1914)
F Child 1: Dorcas Elizabeth Starcher
Born: Dec- 1-1876 in Calhoun Co, WV 7
Died: Feb-16-1963 in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV 7
Buried: in Hur Cemetery, Calhoun Co, WV 7
Resided: in Glenville, Gilmer Co, WV 7
Husband: James Franklin Fowler b. Sep- -1866 d. bef Apr 1934
Also known as: Frank Fowler 8,9
Married: Jan-12-1897 in Calhoun Co, WV 10
F Child 2: Sarah E. Starcher 11
Born: Sep-14-1879 1
Died: Jan-25-1963 1
Husband: John E. Fowler b. ca 1871
Married: Dec-15-1899 in Calhoun Co, WV 10
M Child 3: George B. Starcher
Born: Jan-28-1884 in Calhoun Co, WV 1
Died: Oct-15-1953 1
Census: 1900, 1910 in Lee District, Calhoun Co, WV
M Child 4: Samuel H. Starcher
Born: Jan- -1887 in Calhoun Co, WV 2 (see note 1)
Died: Jun-21-1915 at Rowles Run (Cremo), Calhoun Co, WV 12
Cause of death: pneumonia 12
Occupation: farmer 12
Never married: 12
Census: 1910 in Lee District, Calhoun Co, WV
M Child 5: William Starcher
Born: Jun- 8-1889 in Calhoun Co, WV 1
Died: Apr-30-1962 1
Census: 1900, 1910 in Lee District, Calhoun Co, WV
F Child 6: E. Wyoma Starcher
Also known as: Oma Starcher 13
Born: Aug-14-1894 in Calhoun Co, WV 14,15 (see note 2)
Died: Jan- -1975 14
Resided: in Grantsville, Calhoun Co, WV 16
Census: 1910, 1920, 1930 in Lee District, Calhoun Co, WV
Resided: 1918 in Cremo, Calhoun Co, WV 13
Husband: James Kenna Greathouse b. Sep- 8-1896 d. Mar- -1970
Also known as: Kenna Greathouse 13,17
Married: Apr-21-1918 in Roane Co, WV 13
Sources:
(1) Polly Walker Kreaps, Walker WV 26180, , Walker Family GEDCOM
(http://txnetwork.net/walker/gedcoms/pkreaps/html/pkreaps.html)
(2) 1900 Census, Calhoun County, WV.
(3) Calhoun County WV Marriages 1856-1927, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Oct 1989), Participants
identified as Marshall Starcher, age 28, son of Henry & Elizabeth Starcher; and Louisa Husk, age 22, b. Greene Co, PA,
dau of Samuel & Dorcas Husk. Ceremony held Aug 12 1875.
(4) Calhoun County WV Marriages 1856-1927, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Oct 1989), Other researchers
(e.g., Polly Walker Kreaps and Libby Cottrill White) have reported birthplace as Wetzel Co, (W)VA, but marriage record
states Greene Co, PA.
(5) Lizabeth Cottrill White, Charleston, WV 25314 .
(6) Gloria Jean Powers Husk, Carrabelle, FL (Genealogy Website: www.gloryway.com)
(7) Wood County Death Records, Parkersburg, WV.
(8) Marriage record of daughter.
(9) Obituary of daughter.
(10) Calhoun County WV Marriages 1856-1927, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Oct 1989)
(11) William Fred Spuhler Jr. (1940-2004), Richfield, MN, a Husk descendant and genealogist.
(12) Calhoun County Death Records, Grantsville, WV.
(13) Roane County Marriage Records, Spencer, WV.
(14) Social Security Death Index.
(15) Calhoun County Marriage Records, Grantsville, WV.
(16) Social Security Death Index, Social Security card issued in West Virginia before 1951.
(17) 1930 Census, Calhoun County, WV.
Event Notes
Note (1) Reported age at death would put birth at Feb 17 1887, but 1900 Census states
birth date as Jan 1887.
Note (2) Identified in 1900 Census as Yoma L. Starcher, b. Aug 1893. But name appears
as Wyoma in SSDI (b. Aug 14 1994) and as E. Wyoma on headstone (b. 1894), but
she was known simply as Oma in other census years and in her marriage record.
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