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| 14251 | Enumerated on Jan 5 1920: 1st head of household Loyd Duff, 45, divorced, keeper of lodging house; 2nd head of household Tina Brown, 33, divorced, keeper of lodging house; dau Evelyn Brown, 11; lodger Minnie McVicker, age unknown, divorced. | DUFF, Lloyd Grant (I114603)
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| 14252 | Enumerated twice in 1930, once as "Allen" in Doddridge County with his family in West Union, and again as "Allan" in Harrison County as a night student at Salem College. | FORD, William Allen "Shorty" (I77909)
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| 14253 | Enumerated twice in 1930, once as Harman R. Swiger in his parents' household in Doddridge County, and once as Ray Swiger in the household of his brother Winter in Clarksburg. | SWIGER, Harman Ray (I79657)
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| 14254 | Enumerated twice in 1940, once with her family in Bownemont and again in the household of her remarried maternal grandmother Lolie Byrd McCoy Myers and her husband John Myers on Eastover Road in Charleston. | FERRELL, Mary Frances (I140081)
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| 14255 | Enumerated twice in 1950, once with his father in Doddridge County, and again with his mother and three sisters in Steubenville. | UTSINGER, Austin Darrell (I138067)
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| 14256 | Enumerated twice in the 1930 Census, he was listed with his family in Southwest District, and was also listed as a boarder in the household of Henry & Myrtle (Cornell) Hughes in the Wabash district of West Union. | RUBLE, Leo Franklin "Bud" (I23449)
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| 14257 | Enumerated twice in this census, once in his parents' household and once in the household of his widowed sister Mildred. | BODE, Stacy Leon (I37819)
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| 14258 | Enumerated twice in this census, once in the household of his brother Thomas in Butler County, and again in the household of his sister Effie Mclaughlin in Greenwood County. | LEMASTERS, Percy (I99123)
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| 14259 | Enumerated twice in this census, once with her family in New Milton District, and again with the family of her mother's sister (Mary Isabel Ford & husband Milton Davis) in Grant District, Doddridge County. | HOLLIDAY, Margaret F. (I21018)
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| 14260 | Enumerated twice in this census, once with her mother and stepfather in Tenmile District and again in the household of her aunt Nellie (Davis) Bonnell at Turkey Run (Salem), also in Tenmile District. | COLLINS, Lillian Thelma (I63315)
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| 14261 | Enumerated twice in this census, once with her parents and again In the household of her aunt & uncle Bridget (Morrison) & William Strother and their family. | BACKUS, Almeda (I80696)
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| 14262 | Enumerated twice in this census, once with his family and again as a faculty member at Salem College. | SUTTON, Ernest Ray (I99099)
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| 14263 | Enumerated twice in this census, once with his family at Long Run in Doddridge County, and once with his wife in Portage Co, Ohio, both in April. He had married the previous month. A notation "AB" on his entry in Doddridge County indicates that he was absent at the time of the enumeration. His physical location in April was in Ohio. | WILLIAMSON, Gerald Francis (I62017)
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| 14264 | Enumerated twice in this census, once with his parents and again as a lodger in a boarding house. | GAINES, Harley Dallas (I119734)
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| 14265 | Enumerated twice in this census, with her parents in West Union District, and again with her widowed paternal grandfather in Greenbrier District. | FLINT, Bessie Myrtle (I100298)
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| 14266 | Enumerated twice, once with her family in Gilmer County, and also with her husband in Doddridge County. She probably was not actually present in her parents' household for that census. | SPURGEON, Elizabeth C. (I41118)
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| 14267 | Enumerated twice, once with his mother and siblings, and also in the household of Cyrus A. & Leah (Hansford) Trough, occupation common laborer. | MORROW, James R. (I78513)
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| 14268 | Enumerated twice, once with his parents and family, and again in the hotel of Francis F. M. Smith. Both times lised as Evan Gatrell. | GATRELL, James Evan (I101603)
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| 14269 | Enumerated twice: Once with her parental family as "L. Spurgeon," and again with her husband as "L. J. Spray." Age 20 in both cases. | SPURGEON, Louisa J. (I53456)
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| 14270 | Enumeration was of the Doddridge County Infirmary, of which Laban Bennett, age 53, was the head. Also enumerated was his wife, Stella B. Bennett, age 50, and 19 "inmates" of both sexes ranging in age from 82 down to 1 yr 11 mo. Nearly half were children, and most of the others were over 70. | BENNETT, Laban (I5982)
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| 14271 | Ephraim Bee played a prominent role in the establishment and early development of Doddridge County and West Union. He was born in Salem, New Jersey, on December 26, 1802, and he died in Doddridge County at Cabin Run on October 23, 1888. His parents were Asa Bee and Rhoda Cox. His father was a Revolutionary War soldier and a Seventh Day Baptist preacher. His family moved to western Virginia when he was nineteen years old, staying briefly in Preston and Taylor Counties before settling in Salem, Harrison County. Two years later, Ephraim married Catharine Davis in Salem. In 1828, they built a log home on Meathouse Fork of Middle Island Creek, now West Union. They also built an inn at Lewisport (now West Union) below the blockhouse on the Northwestern Turnpike. It became a very popular stop for travelers and locals alike. One of those travelers was Joseph H. Diss Debar, designer of the West Virginia State Seal. He wrote of the excellent quality of food, saying that he had a smoking hot dinner of boiled ham, greens, mashed potatoes, dried peach pie and store tea, all of a quality to be gratefully remembered. When he settled his bill and learned that the proprietor's name was Bee and observing the number of children playing about, he said that it had never before been his pleasure to dine in a "Bee Hive." For years afterwards, the inn was known by that name. It is likely that the Beehive Inn was the location referred to by the "Richmond (Va.) Enquirer" in an article on Mar 27 1840 summarizing recent acts passed by the Virginia Legislature: "180. An act to change the place of holding a separate election in the county of Botetourt, and one in the county of Harrison; to be held in Botetourt at the Hobhouse hotel in the town of Buchanan, and in Harrison at the house of Ephraim Bee in the town of Lewisport." Ephraim and Catharine had ten children. When Catharine died in 1852, she was buried in the then-Lewisport section of West Union in the cemetery of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, of which she and Ephraim were members. That SDB cemetery is now part of what has become known as the Blockhouse Hill Cemetery. The following year Ephraim married Mary Melissa "Polly" Welch, who bore him seven more children. Their grave is at Cabin Run Cemetery, near Oxford Road in Doddridge County. Ephraim's descendants are still plentiful in Doddridge and surrounding counties. Ephraim Bee was a blacksmith by trade. For 35 years, he had a blacksmith shop near the present-day railroad bridge in West Union, making everything from guns to cowbells to augurs. The first bridge across Middle Island Creek was of hewed logs with a center abutment of stones. In the great flood of 1835 it was washed away. In 1842 a contract was awarded to build a new covered bridge. Ephraim Bee at that time had a hotel and blacksmith shop on what is now known as Blockhouse Hill. He made all the bolts and bands for the bridge, which was completed in 1843 and stood for the next 107 years as one of the town's most prominent features, until destroyed in the Great Flood of 1950. Even now, its memory remains a source of pride to the local citizens. In addition to his primary business, Ephraim also established a farm, stables, tannery and a horseracing track to enhance his income. He also served as postmaster and magistrate. A shrewd land speculator, he owned about 40,000 acres of land. At the age of 60, Ephraim Bee was a Captain of the Doddridge County Militia, which protected the area from roving Confederate forces, horse thieves and outlaws. Along with Luke Jaco, he was a key member of the Underground Railroad, helping to hide slaves in Jaco Cave on their flight for freedom. http://www.urrfreepress.com/index_files/2009_Survey_Report.pdf In 1863, with the formation of the new state of West Virginia, Ephraim was elected to represent Doddridge County in the legislature at Wheeling, the first capital. When a daughter was born to him on January 1st of that year, the same day that President Lincoln announced the statehood proclamation, Ephraim proudly named her West Virginia Bee. He was re-elected to two more terms and was thus instrumental in the formulation of the new state's first laws. Another contest that Ephraim won was being named the Ugliest Man in the State of West Virginia. For that victory, he was awarded a beautiful pocket knife. However, he was forced to relinquish it a few years later when the State found a man whom it deemed to be even uglier. According to H. H. Hardesty's History of Doddridge County, "To the people of Central West Virginia, Ephraim Bee was a personage combining the qualities of a shrewd wit and love of fun, with a keen eye for value in a horse-trade or a deal in land. To the younger generation he has become something of a legend, so great and widespread was his fame." Ephraim had a reputation as a great story teller and practical joker. Hardesty wrote: "Lincoln & Bee had more in common than a sense of humor. They were both long, lean and lanky and with faces that could not be termed handsome by their dearest and closest friends. They were saved from ugliness by a sense of humor and softened, kindly eyes that lit up and redeemed an otherwise unprepossessing appearance." "Along this line of having fun, Ephraim established a secret order of his own, called E. Clampus Vitus and with a ritual similar to existing orders. His goal was to produce a grin where only a grouch had flourished. This order had quite a success, too lengthy to describe here. It was started at West Union perhaps as early as 1850. By 1853 it was being introduced to other towns and had won a very considerable following of zealous members." A report of the activities was recorded in the Weston Herald for Nov. 28, 1953. ECV has grown to become an active fraternal organization throughout the nation, particularly in the western states. A news item in the West Union Record in 1885 stated that "Honorable Ephraim Bee, one of the first settlers in this area & now an old & respected citizen of this county, is dangerously ill at his home on Cabin Run." He died on October 23, 1888 at age 86, and was buried at Cabin Run Cemetery. http://www.doddridgecountyheritageguild.com/ephraim-bee-e-clampus-vitus http://www.wvculture.org/history/sesquicentennial/biobeeephraim.html https://sites.google.com/site/researchingfamilies/story-of-ephraim-bee http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvdoddri/who/bee.htm http://www.ephraimsclampingvipers.com/ http://www.ecv5917.com/ http://www.ecv5917.com/PDF%20files/DarlingsECV.pdf http://www.mountaincharlie1850.org/west_virginia_ecv.html http://www.eclampusvitus.com/a-little-more-ecv-history.html http://www.eclampusvitus.com/additional-ecv-history.html YouTube video about E Clampus Vitus, focusing on alleged paranormal activities at the ECV lodge in Virginia City, Nevada - https://youtu.be/onUpggfAkBs | BEE, Ephraim (I20587)
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| 14272 | Ephraim Bee Welch was the grand-nephew of Mary Melissa "Polly" Welch, the second wife of Doddridge County pioneer Ephraim Bee (1802-1888). | WELCH, Ephraim Bee (I106555)
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| 14273 | Erckiel Shepherd in the 1840 United States Federal Census Name Erckiel Shepherd [Ezekiel Shepherd] Residence Date 1840 Home in 1840 (City, County, State) Preston, Virginia Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39 1 Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29 1 Persons Employed in Agriculture 1 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49 2 Total Free White Persons 2 Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves 2 | Family: Ezekiel SHEPHERD / Delila ___ (F61902)
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| 14274 | Eric Gessler came to Marshall University in 1971. That year, in which the Marshall football team was known as the Young Thundering Herd, the NCAA allowed the school to play freshmen to help fill out the roster that had been decimated a year earlier by a tragic plane crash. The chartered jet bringing the Thundering Herd back from a 17-14 loss to East Carolina on Nov. 14, 1970, crashed short of the runway at Tri-State Airport in Kenova. All 75 aboard died. Gessler, 6-foot-3, 241 pounds, started at center his final three seasons. In the 1974 Herd media guide, Gessler was called the keystone to the offensive line. He graduated with a degree in marketing and was recruited to play for the Cleveland Browns. He then attended Calhoun Engineering School in Baltimore, Md. Upon graduation he joined the Merchant Marines. He was later employed at Constellation Energy as a plant operator for more than 25 years. https://www.herald-dispatch.com/sports/marshall_plane_crash/the_young_herd/young-thundering-herd-player-dies/article_e687029d-64f0-550a-9606-8732630cf031.html | GESSLER, Eric Samuel (I141065)
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| 14275 | Erman Dale Burbridge was well known for his bridge building and well as his love for bluegrass music and oil & gas engines. For 13 years, he helped organize the Bluegrass Festival at Happy Hollow Campground that he owned and operated on Redlick Road and also helped organize the Doddridge County Tractor & Flywheel Festival. He was known simply as Pap to all who loved him. | BURBRIDGE, Erman Dale (I18622)
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| 14276 | Ernest B Gaston II in the U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970 Name: Ernest B Gaston II Birth Date: 21 Mar 1924 Service Number: 0-766479 Unit: Air FORCE 53rd- FTE. SQD, A/S-AC, 36th FTR GP Enlistment Date: 3 Apr 1943 Death Date: 26 Aug 1944 Cemetery: Fairhope Single Tax Corp Cemetery Cemetery Location: Fairhope, Alabama, USA | GASTON, Ernest Barry II (I56648)
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| 14277 | Ernest Helmick's wife Hermione was the stepdaughter of his sister Lucy. | HELMICK, Ernest (I5103)
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| 14278 | Ernest R. Sutton was a former chemist for Weirton Steel Corp, and had been a professor at Salem College and a school principal in Ohio and West Virginia. He was a member of the Archaeologist Society of both Ohio and West Virginia. He also published articles on archaeology in both Parkersburg and Athens newspapers. [obit] | SUTTON, Ernest Ray (I99099)
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| 14279 | Ernest Wellington Smith, his wife Janie Iantha King, and their son Christian Joy Smith were killed in an automobile accident. Some genealogists have incorrectly given his wife's name as Stella, with children other than the ones he had. The "Stella" material is an erroneous reference to the wife of another Ernest Smith, Ernest Hoff Smith (4/29/1880 - 7/21/1928, son of John Smith & Margaret Hoff) of Buckhannon Pike in Nutter Fort, that has been repeated by copyists. Ernest Wellington Smith graduated from George Washington University with an M.D. degree in 1906. Suffering from polio in his youth, he became a doctor of osteopathic medicine and chiropractics. | SMITH, Ernest Wellington "Doc" (I5135)
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| 14280 | Ersel Husk was a well-known gospel singer. His wife's sister, Violet Pearl Roberts, married his third cousin, Commodore W. Husk. Ersel and another third cousin, Ernest Ray Husk, were apparently married in a double ceremony, as their weddings were performed by the same minister, same date and location. | HUSK, Ersel (I1975)
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| 14281 | Estate appraised in November 1853, per Doddridge County fiduciary records. | ALLEN, Israel Joshua (I57383)
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| 14282 | Estate appraised in November 1853. | ALLEN, Pindell (I102224)
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| 14283 | Esther M. Fitz-Randolph Burdick Birth 28 Aug 1828 Salem, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA Death 23 Feb 1905 Hebron, Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA Burial Hebron Cemetery Hebron, Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA Born what was VA.,now West Virginia to William Fitz-Rnadolph and Mary Bond...Married Leroy Burdick as his third wife...Several children... Family Members Spouse Photo Laroy Burdick 18181905 Children Photo Elvin Gains Burdick* 18581935 Photo Ella Burdick Stearns* 18661941 | RANDOLPH, Esther F. (I92108)
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| 14284 | Ethel I. Myers in the U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current Name Ethel I. Myers Gender Female Death Age 76 Birth Date abt 1917 Birth Place Virginia, USA Residence Place Barberton, Summit, Ohio, USA Death Date 7 Jul 1993 Obituary Date 8 Jul 1993 Obituary Place Akron, Ohio, USA Newspaper Title The Akron Beacon Journal Spouse Thomas R. Child Bill Nicholson B. Irene Norris | PERRINE, Ethel Irene (I37525)
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| 14285 | Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs | NUTTER, Eugene Debs (I25162)
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| 14286 | Eunice Ann Coon had five children by Hubbert Starcher prior to marrying Lewis Johnson Carpenter and bearing six more. As grandchildren of Samuel A. Husk and Dorcas Anne Critchfield, Hubbert Starcher and Eunice Ann Coon were first cousins. | Family: Hubbert STARCHER / Eunice Ann COON (F5412)
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| 14287 | European African Middle Easter Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal. | STUTLER, Robert Lee (I108871)
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| 14288 | Eva worked with her husband for many years at Joe Lambert Trucking Inc. In 1958 they became the owners of the Stone Building in Harrisville. In 1992 they opened it as The Heritage Inn at 315 East Main Street in Harrisville. She was a member of St. Lukes United Methodist Church and had managed the youth department. In 2006, she was awarded the West Virginia History Hero Award in Charleston, WV for her role in the founding of the Thomas Harris Museum in Harrisville. She loved to decorate homes, shopping for antiques, tending her flowerbeds, traveling and being married to Joe. She researched her family genealogy back to the 1600s. She was a member of both the Daughters of American Pioneers and the Daughters of the American Revolution. https://youtu.be/wGPRvzIhbt4?si=1oIs6gnSgu8FwihN | MORRIS, Eva May (I140931)
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| 14289 | Evelyn moved to Ohio during World War II to work at Goodyear Tire and Rubber, building rafts for the military. While living in Akron, she would invite each of her brothers, as they graduated from high school, to move in with her and she helped each of them get a good start in life. She later moved back to Camden to help care for her parents. | TITUS, Evelyn Mae (I93447)
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| 14290 | Evelyn started the Little Red School Daycare in Forest City, which she managed for 10 years. She then taught in the Teachers Associate Program at Isothermal Community College in Spindale before retiring in 2007. She thoroughly enjoyed teaching and encouraging her students to excel. | MOORE, Evelyn Frances (I81260)
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| 14291 | Exact date not entered, just the month and year. Age given as 1 day. Identified as Mary Exline, daughter of A. & M. Exline, informant Abram Exline. | EXLINE, Mary (I112466)
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| 14292 | Exact date not entered, just the month and year. Age given as 7 days. Identified as Nancy E. Exline, daughter of A. & M. Exline, informant Abram Exline. | EXLINE, Nancy E. (I112467)
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| 14293 | Exact place of birth within Doddridge County given as Beech Lick in his birth record, as New Milton in his first marriage record, and as Avon in his obituary. | NICHOLSON, Charles Richard "Dickie" (I16251)
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| 14294 | except for a few years starting in 1797, at Neal's Island four miles below Parkersburg | LOWTHER, Jesse (I29158)
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| 14295 | Excerpt for the 1981 nomination form to place the Clarksburg Downtown Historic District on the National Regiser of Historic Places: "Roberts Hardware Building, 213 W. Pike Street, 1905. A three-story brick building with a three-part entablature at the roof level. The laurel motif of the frieze surrounds the date '1905' beneath a bracketed three-band cornice. Originally H. E. Johnson's Wagon Works, a firem that began in 1900, the building was occupied in 1916 by Roberts Hardware, which continues to inhabit the building to the present time." http://129.71.204.160/shpo/nr/pdf/harrison/82004794.pdf | ROBERTS, Abraham Lincoln (I130740)
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| 14296 | Excerpt from "Genealogical & Personal History of Upper Monongahela Valley," 1912, by Bernard Butcher, p. 560: "James Robinson Jones, son of Thomas Anderson Jones, was born in Smithton, West Virginia. As a boy, he worked on the farm, later took up the trade of carpenter, and for a number of years was engaged in the manufacture of flour. Then he removed to the west and was in the butcher business, and later went to Vinita, Oklahoma, and installed the entire gas system of that place. Still later he returned east, worked at tool dressing in the oil fields, and is at present working again at his trade of carpentry. He married (first) Columbia, daughter of Valentie and Caroline Langfitt; she died in 1889. He later married Elizabeth Ann Paine Armstrong." Local news item, "West Union Herald," Thursday, Jan 18 1917, in its entirety: "James R. Jones, of Smithton, was a business visitor last week. Mr. Jones is plumbing his residence at Smithton for water. He is piping it from a spring on the hill above his house." | JONES, James Robinson (I97751)
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| 14297 | Excerpt from an article in The Clarksburg (W.Va.) Telegram, Friday, January 31, 1902, p. 15, titled "Fiduciary Orders": "Eddy [Eldy] B. Flint has qualified as guardian of Corley E. Flint, infant of Gideon M. Flint, deceased; bond, $1,000." | FLINT, Gideon M. (I140151)
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| 14298 | Excerpt from an article in the series "Mostly About Ourselves," by Alton Childers, "West Union Herald Record," Aug 1 1989, in which Silas P. Smith is quoted reminiscing about West Union as it was when he first published the "West Union Record" in March 1886: "... The crowd of men attending court were taken care of by two hotels, the U.S. Hotel and the Grant House. J. H. Thorndell was proprietor of the U.S. Hotel and Joseph Cheuvront of the Grant House. ... At that time, West Union had one two-room school house located where the Columbian hotel now stands. In fact, the school house forms part of the present hotel building which was completed by Mrs. M. I. Ash about 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition of Chicago. It was this year that Columbian street was widened, having been only an alley up to that time." | THORNDELL, James H. (I81763)
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| 14299 | Excerpts from "History of Harrison County West Virginia," by Henry Haymond, 1910: "On the 31st December, 1771 a party of explorers consisting of John Merrick, Samuel Cottrill, Andrew Cottrill, Levi Douglass and Sotha Hickman, encamped on Ann Moores run near the present town of Grasselli in Clark District. They were engaged in hunting and looking out for lands upon which to make permanent settlements. On New Year's day 1772 they turned out to hunt, and passing south through the low gap where Lemuel D. Holden afterwards lived for so many years, and near there killed a bear and several turkeys. On the little bottom where Brushy Fork empties into Elk Creek their dogs discovered a herd of buffalo and in a short time the hunters had killed seven of them. One of the largest of the herd being fatally wounded in attempting to escape down Elk Creek fell dead into the bed of the little stream that puts into Elk below the mouth of Brushy Fork, and lay in such a position that they could not pull him out, and he was left to lie there with regrets that they could not get his robe. The party remained in this camp all winter and were visited by a friendly Indian who hunted with them for some time. They discovered the abandoned camp on the "West Fork River of Robert Lindsay a trapper, and also where he had made one or more canoes to transport his furs down to Fort Pitt. In the Spring of 1772 they selected lands on which to establish permanent homes. Andrew Cottrill located his claim and built his cabin at the site of their camp, on Ann Moore's run, where Grasselli is now located. Samuel Cottrill just east of where Clarksburg now stands, near the Jackson grave yard. Sotha Hickman on the opposite side of Elk Creek near where the Elk View Cemetery now is, and Levi Douglas preempted four hundred acres on the Brushy Fork of Elk. John Merrick did not permanently locate in this country but probably went further West. There are still residing in Harrison County many descendants of the two Cottrills, Hickman and Douglass, and they have the satisfaction of knowing that their ancestors were among the very first permanent settlers in the present limits of Harrison County." [p. 21] "It appears that at the June Court 1787 appraisers were appointed for the estate of Levi Douglass and that at the September Court of the same year Mrs. Ann Burrowes was appointed guardian for Thomas Cottrill orphan of Andrew Cottrill, deceased. This indicates that both of these men died in that year, which is a matter of interest as they were both among the original pioneer settlers of Harrison County, as is related elsewhere, and had borne the hardships of frontier life for sixteen years." [p. 208] "Levi Douglass. In company with Sotha Hickman he was captured by Indians, an account of which is given elsewhere. He was a man of sterling worth and for that day accumulated considerable property. The census of Monongalia County taken in 1782 before Harrison County was formed, shows that at that date his family consisted of four members. The inventory of his estate was dated August 4, 1787, the exact date of his death being unknown. His descendants still reside in the County." [p. 382] "Sotha Hickman. ... While trapping on the Liitle Kanawha River in Company with Levi Douglass they were captured by a party of Indians and taken to their towns on the Sciota River in Ohio. One night while the Indians were holding a grand dance and festival the prisoners were left in charge of an old man who fell off into a sleep. They each then quietly seized a gun and equipments and struck out for home and liberty. Travelling only at night they were four days without food and after reaching the Virginia side of the Ohio River they were fortunate enough to kill a bear and ate so much of it that they both became very sick and were relieved by drinking what was called rock oil, which was found floating on the surface of Hughes River." [p. 383] "To show the household articles in use, and the personal property belonging to a well to do pioneer, the following is taken from the appraisement of the estate of Levi Douglass, who died in 1787 : 2 horses, 1 colt, 2 steers, 2 heifers, 1 cow, 1 calf, 17 shoats, 1 plow, 1 negro boy, 1 rifle gun, shot pouch and powder horn, 1 woman's saddle, 2 bridles, 1 man's saddle, drawing knife, stillyards, pot and hooks, hackle-bell, pans, spinning wheel, wooden ware, knives and forks, pewter ware, beds and bedding, flax seed, wheat, hemp seed, beehives and hominy block." [p. 427] | DOUGLASS, Levi (I38490)
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| 14300 | Excerpts from "The History of West Virginia, Old and New," published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 643-644: Born into a prominent family in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1816, Lathrop Russell Charter lived in Springfield until he was eighteen years of age, and then for one year was employed at Hartford, Connecticut. In the meantime his parents removed to Otsego County, New York, and when he rejoined his parents he engaged in teaching. He was liberally educated for his time and generation. He taught nine terms of school and in the meantime read medicine with Doctors Curtis and Johnson of Cooperstown, New York. One of his cherished memories of this period of his life was the friendship he formed with James Fenimore Cooper, the American novelist. In 1840-41 he attended medical lectures at Albany, New York, and then at Woodstock, Vermont, where he was graduated in 1841. One of the signers of his diploma from the College of Medicine at Woodstock was H. H. Childs, at that time president of the college and later a governor of Massachusetts. Dr. Charter subsequently took a medical course at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In the Fall of 1841 he began the practice of medicine at Guilford, New York, and two years later removed to Alleghany County of the same state. In the fall of 1845 he came to West Union, West Virginia, and a few months later went back to bring his family, making these three trips in a buggy. Through his liberal education and high attainment, soon after locating at West Union, he had all the work he could do as a physician and surgeon over a wide expanse of country around that town. He performed his professional labors at a time when none of the modern facilities were available, such as good roads, the telephone, the corner drug store, but he was a very conscientious doctor and many a time when called out to attend the sick, drove miles over the hardest kind of roads and in inclement weather, never giving the matter of remuneration a thought. The manner in which he endured the hardships of his work and his true loyalty to all professional obligations indicated that he drew heavily from those inner resources of manhood that are the foundation of religion. He was one of the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church at West Union and for many years was a generous supporter of the church and its program of activities. In politics he was a democrat. Dr. Charter was the third superintendent of schools in Doddridge County. He also officiated as mayor of West Union, as magistrate, United States Commissioner and for fifteen years was United States Pension Examiner. He was eminently successful as a physician, and became a charter member of the West Virginia Medical Society and a member of the American Medical Association. At the time of his death, he was the oldest member of each of these bodies. http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/doddridge/bios/charter2.txt There is evidence that at one point after settling in West Union, Dr. Charter may have considered re-locating to Kearney Junction in Buffalo County, Nebraska. In reference to doctors in the early years of the county, the Buffalo County Historical Society states: "Another doctor is known to have been present. Dr. Lathrop R. Charter from Doddridge County, West Virginia was witness to a land sale in mid-September, 1872 and later that month purchased four lots in the Perkins & Harford addition. His name does not appear in 1873, however." No further mention of Dr. Charter in Nebraska has been found. Just four years later, he built his permanent home in West Union. http://www.oldcottonmill.com/buffalo-tales/BTales_198309.htm Dr. Lathrop Charter's two-story T-shaped frame brick home in West Union, at 109 High Street near the court house, was built in 1877 in the Italianate style. Well known locally as the Charter House, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/doddridge/93000219.pdf Charter's previous West Union home was destroyed by fire in 1858, as was most of the town. The fire actually originated in Dr. Charter's home, according to this account: "On the night of March 27th, 1858, the fire fiend once more visited West Union, and this time laid the town in ashes. At the time many of the citizens were absent at Clarksburg, attending the United States court, then in session in that city. The fire originated in an upper room of the residence of L. R. Charter. A brisk gale was blowing and the flames spread rapidly to other buildings, the first being the large hotel and store room belonging to James A. Foley. Then followed the residence of Ethelbert Bond and the storehouse of Arthur Ingram. Many other buildings shared the same fate, and the next morning, what the evening before had been the town of West Union, was but a mass of smoldering ruins. But just at the time the Parkersburg and Grafton branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway was completed, and the town, phoenix-like, arose from its own ashes, and in a short time no traces of the holocaust remained behind." http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvpioneers/doddridgecountyhistory.html In addition to the children that he had by his two wives, Dr. Charter seems also to have fathered a daughter whose mother was a slave. Doddridge County birth records contain an entry for a female born alive in West Union in 1858. As with all other entries in the ledger-style birth record, only the child's first name is given, Julia. Exact date of birth is blank, but the sequence among other entries would indicate that it was late in the year. The child's race is given as C-S (corrected from W), presumably short for colored slave. Father's name: L. R. Charter. Father's occupation and residence: (blank). Mother's name: (blank). Informant and relationship to person born: L. R. Charter, Master. With the exception of the 1860 Slave Schedule, no further record has been found for this Julia Charter, assuming that she took that surname. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=2604473&Type=Birth | CHARTER, Lathrop Russell (I52075)
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