Notes for: Nancy Herold
1850 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), District 13, enumerated on Sep 24 1850:
Aldridge Ford, 35, farmer, value of real estate (blank), cannot read/write; Nancy, 34, cannot read/write; Emily, 9; Mary A, 7; Eliza, 5; Mariah, 3; Richard, 2; Anna, 1; Willis Herrel, 70, farmer, value of real estate $300; Mary Herrel, 65. All born in Virginia.
1860 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Jun 29 1860:
Oldridge Ford, 50, farmer, value of real estate $300, value of personal estate (blank); Nancy, 45; Emily, 18; Mary, 16; Eliza, 13; Maria, 11; Richard, 10; Anna, 9; James, 7; H. (female), 6; A. A. (female), 6; John, 4; Alfred, 2; Mary Herold, 80.
NOTE: There is consistently an 8 or 9-year difference in the ages of all the older children as compared to the 1850 Census, rather than the expected 10-year difference.
1870 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Grant Twp), enumerated on Jul 6 1870:
Oldridge Ford, 57, farmer, value of real estate (blank), value of personal estate $100, cannot read/write; Nancy, 56, cannot write; James, 19, farm laborer, attended school within the year, cannot write; Alfred, 13, attended school, cannot read/write; Mary A, 27, cannot read/write; Maria, 24, cannot read/write; Ann, 20, cannot read/write; Herman, 8.
The next enumerated household was that of Oldridge and Nancy's son Richard:
Richard Ford, 23, farmer, value of real estate (blank), value of personal estate $250, cannot read/write; Eveline, 28, cannot write.
1880 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Grant Districtr), enumerated on Jun 12 1880:
Richard Ford, 31, cannot read/write; wife Evaline, 38, cannot write; dau Jenie, 9, attended school within the census year; dau Mary, 8; dau Nancy, 6; dau Francis, 2; mother Nancy N, 65, widowed, cannot write; sister Mariah, 33, single, cannot read/write; brother Alfred N, 22, single, farmer, cannot write; brother Hermin D, 17, single, farmer. In the column labeled "Maimed, Crippled, Bedridden, or otherwise disabled," a mark was entered for both the daughter Nancy and the mother Nancy. Also, in the column labeled "Insane," a mark was entered for sister Mariah.