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| 14551 | Frank F. Leggett was a charter member, director and treasurer of the West Union Volunteer Fire Department, a past adjutant and member of Robison Post No. 25 of the American Legion, a former town councilman, a member of the cemetery committee of the Masonic Memorial Park Cemetery, a charter member of the Middle Island Golf Club, and a member of the Farming for Better Living Council. [obituary] "Mr. and Mrs. Leggett resided in West Union for a number of years while rearing their children. During this time Mr. Leggett was employed by the West Union Bank and was cashier at the time of his death. Mrs. Leggett operated a tourist home in the family home on Neely Ave. for a number of years before going to Masontown." [wife's obituary] | Family: Frank Francis LEGGETT / Lora Edith ROSS (F7650)
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| 14552 | Frankie E. Ross shares a common grave marker with J. Dewey Leggett, the second of her three husbands. | ROSS, Frankie Eugenia (I16930)
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| 14553 | Franklin Fitz Randolph was a delegate to the Wheeling Convention which led to the establishment of West Virginia as a state. | RANDOLPH, Franklin Fitz (I38477)
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| 14554 | Franklin Maxwell was "one of the State's most extensive landowners. He once represented the district of which the county of Doddridge was a part in the West Virginia Senate." [son's obituary] Local news item, "The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer," Mar 29 1882, in its entirety: "Senator Maxwell, of Doddridge county, left for his home on the Andes yesterday accompanied by his daughter, Miss Susie, who has been here with her father during the session, forming a valuable addition to Wheeling society." He is said to have helped many poor laborers to homes of their own by permitting them to live on his lands and by giving them time to make payments, provided that they were honest and industrious. [Minnie Kendall Lowther's "History of Ritchie County," p. 601] The 1860 Census showed the value of Franklin Maxwell's real estate to be $50,000, and the value of his personal estate to be $8,000. By the time of the 1870 Census, those values had increased to $80,000 and $40,000. According to his obituary, Franklin Maxwell left an estate worth about a half million dollars. | MAXWELL, Franklin (I34244)
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| 14555 | Fred Cox's birth date is shown in his obituary, in his death record and on his headstone as 18 Apr 1900. But he was age 1 in the 1900 Census, birth date April 1899. His WW I draft registration and the Social Security Death Index also show it as 18 April 1899. This is confirmed by his Doddridge County birth record, which shows that he was born on 18 April 1899 in the community of Knight. That community no longer exists by that name. It is most likely what is now known as Knights Fork or Little Flint. https://dach-image-proxy.digital-relativity.workers.dev/?film=838203&frame=00040 | COX, Fred Raymond (I140232)
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| 14556 | Freddie Layman was the principal source of information for the website devoted to the history of Victory High School, which closed in 1973 when it was consolidated with Bristol High School and Salem High School to form Liberty High School. http://www.victoryhighschool.org/ | LAYMAN, Frederick Gwynne (I125810)
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| 14557 | Frederick W. Bolte and Frances Bertha Devericks were married twice to each other. | Family: Frederick William BOLTE / Frances Bertha DEVERICKS (F10864)
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| 14558 | Freeman Cemetery, per death record | COLLINS, Lavina Jane (I6307)
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| 14559 | Freeman Goff Squires was a son of Virgil B. Squires (a stone mason) and Elizabeth Laverna Gaston. The eighth of their ten children, he had five brothers and four sisters. He was sometimes known by his middle name Goff. At the time of the 1910 Census, he was a glass worker. When he registered for the military draft in June 1917, he was working as a chauffeur. One of the questions on the draft registration form was "Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)?" His answer was "Father & Mother to support." He was drafted into the Army, rank Private, unit Co D, 310th Rep Shop Unit, Motor Trans Corps. His obituary states that he died shortly after arriving in Europe with the American Expeditionary Force. "On the voyage across he contracted influenza and pneumonia, and he was immediately taken to a hospital on landing, where he died after a brief illness." In November 1929, his mother appeared in a War Department list of mothers and widows of deceased soldiers killed in World War I. The U.S. Government offered such women the opportunity to travel to their loved one's final resting place in Europe, a program which came to be known as the World War I Mothers Pilgrimage. Such all-expense paid trips were offered in the years 1930 through 1933. Listed as Mrs. Eliza L. Squires of Industrial, West Virginia, Freeman's mother apparently declined to make the trip to France in 1930 and further indicated that she did not wish to participate at a later date. | SQUIRES, Freeman Goff (I13537)
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| 14560 | Freeman Paul Smith was a specialist in agriculture and rural development, retiring from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1969 as chief of agriculture and rural development for USAID in Recife, Brazil. Prior to his assignment in Brazil, he had served in similar positions as the senior agriculture and rural development officer in USAID and predecessor agency missions in Ecuador, Argentina, Peru and Costa Rica. During his 18 years with U.S. development agencies, he oversaw assistance that led to the transformation of agricultural practice, the introduction of new crop and livestock varieties, land reform, and the establishment of new national research and training institutions in Latin America. From 1949 to 1951, he served with the U.S. Occupation Forces in Japan, helping to guide reform and modernization programs for the Japanese pearl and fishing industry. A native of West Union, W.Va., he attended nearby Salem College and received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in plant pathology from West Virginia University. Immediately following his graduation, he worked as a county agricultural agent for the West Virginia Agricultural Extension Service in Point Pleasant, W.Va., and later for the U.S. Farm Security Administration in Morgantown, where he met his wife, the former Rose Marie Pilegge, also of Morgantown. His 10-year tenure with the Farm Security Administration was interrupted with service in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant in the Pacific Theater during World War II. After retiring from USAID with a total of 35 years of federal service, he worked for International Development Services Inc., an international consulting firm where he managed the firm's agriculturual and rural development projects. In the later years of his life he divided his time between his home in Chevy Chase, and his family farm near West Union, where he experimented with new methods of organic gardening. | SMITH, Freeman Paul (I82378)
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| 14561 | Freeman Smith was orphaned when very young and was raised by Isaac Underwood, who later became his father-in-law. 1860 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Jun 20 1860: Freeman Smith, 32, farmer, value of real estate $700, value of personal estate $200; Mary, 30; S. V. (female), 4; B. Davis (male), 1. All born in Virginia. NOTE: The female S. V. Smith would be daughter Sarah. Identity of the Davis boy is not known. Also not known is why daughter Martha, born in 1858 according to her birth record and the 1870 Census, was not present for this census. 1870 Census, Tyler Co, WV (McElroy District), enumerated on Jul 18 1870: Freeman Smith, 41, occupation milling, value of real estate $1,200, value of personal estate $500, cannot read/write; Mary, 40, cannot write; Sarah, 14; Martha, 12; Rachel, 10; Benton, 8; Samuel, 4; Jacob, 2; Silas, 7 months, birth month November. 1880 Census, Tyler Co, WV (McElroy District), enumerated in June 1880: Freeman Smith, 51, laborer, cannot read/write; wife Mary, 50, cannot write; dau Rachel, 20, teacher; son William, 18, laborer, cannot write; son Samuel, 13; son Jacob, 11; son Austin, 8; granddau Elizabeth, 8. | Family: Freeman H. SMITH / Mary UNDERWOOD (F42665)
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| 14562 | Friary, Carmarthenshire | THOMAS, Rys Ap (I44988)
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| 14563 | From "A Reminiscent History of Northern West Virginia" (1895), pp. 140-141: PETER W. ASH To till the soil so that the occupation will be profitable it is necessary that a man should be intelligent, progressive and energetic, and these very necessary and useful qualities are among the chief characteristics of Peter W. Ash. He is a native of Harrison County, born in 1849, and is a son of Isaac P. R. and Sarah (Harbert) Ash, who were also born in Harrison County, in 1827 and 1832, respectively. The mother died in January, 1887, having long been a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Isaac P. R. Ash has spent his entire life in this county, has been an industrious and progressive farmer and a useful citizen in every worthy particular. He held the office of Township Treasurer for some years, but has never been called an official aspirant, he merely discharged the duties that were imposed upon him to the best of his ability. His father, Peter Ash, was born in Pennsylvania, but when four years old was brought by his parents to Harrison County, Virginia, and here spent ninety years on Gregory's Run, dying on the fine farm which he had improved from its primitive state. His wife died at the age of eighty-six, having borne him thirteen children. Adam Ash, the great-grandfather, was born, reared and married in Germany and his first child was born while on the ocean voyage to America. They resided in Pennsylvania for a few years, then were among the first to settle in Harrison County, where the rest of their lives were spent. The maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, David Harbert, was of Irish origin, but was born in Harrison County, where his entire life was spent in tilling the soil and in peddling books. His father, John Harbert, was a pioneer of the county. Peter W. Ash was the eldest of the following children: Martha, wife of Lafayette J. Allen: David, a Methodist minister of Grafton, and presiding elder of Morgantown district, West Virginia, conference; and Louisa, wife of Henry A. Swiger. Mr. Ash was reared on the farm on which he now lives, and obtained a fair education in the subscription schools which were in vogue at that time. In 1870. he led to the altar Miss Missouri, daughter of Martin and Catherine Fittro, natives and life-long residents of Harrison County. The father was a worthy tiller of the soil and died in 1887. His father, Joseph Fittro, was one of the pioneers of this county, but later in life moved to Ohio, where he died. Mrs. Ash's mother is still living. She was born in this county and her union with Mr. Ash has resulted in the birth of the following children: Georgie, Lillie E., Allie, Foster D. and Mattie Pearl. Sarah Catherine died at the age of nine years. Mr. Ash is the owner of 103 acres of land and has a comfortable and pleasant home. He has been president of the Board of Education, is a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, Sardis Council No. 109. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church and politically he is a Republican. His father's brothers and sisters were: Mary Susannah, wife of Joseph Hammond; Catherine, wife of Alfred Rogers; Henrietta, wife of Joseph Shinn, of Indiana; Sophia, wife of Lemuel Harbert. of Gilmer County, West Virginia; Jemimah, the deceased wife of William McGathern, of Iowa, and Daniel. | ASH, Peter William (I125668)
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| 14564 | From "A Reminiscent History of Northern West Virginia" (1895), pp. 671-672. (Paragraph breaks inserted for ease of reading): HENRY ASH This busy and successful man of affairs is a native of Doddridge County, West Virginia, his birth occurring on the 28th of November, 1853. His earlv days were devoted to learning the details of agriculture on his father's farm, and he first began attending school when he had reached the age of twelve years, purchasing his books with money which he had obtained by working at odd jobs. In 1873, he began teaching school and followed this occupation during the Winter months and followed farming during the Summers until he entered the West Virginia College, at Flemington, after which he continued teaching up to 1881. From that time up to 1883 he was Deputy Sheriff, then turned his attention to mercantile pursuits at Center Point, of which establishment he is still the owner. In 1884 he was the Democratic nominee for County Sheriff, and to his credit be it said, that he was the only one on his ticket that was elected. After serving one term he gave his attention to the management of his store, but in 1890 left it to take upon himself the duties of Circuit Clerk, to which he had been elected in 1890, and this office he is filling at the present time. In 1889, with a number of others, he began the development of the oil fields of this county, but they sold out in June, 1894, and formed another company known as the Ash Oil Company, and since that time have leased large tracts of land and put down several paying wells, one being a gas well that has turned out satisfactorily. He is the son of Absolom and Susan (Barnard) Ash, the former of whom is the son of Jacob Ash, of Harrison County, and grandson of Christopher Ash, who came from the New England States to West Virginia, and became a surveyor. He settled in Harrison County, and was the founder of the family in this section of West Virginia. He was of Dutch descent. His son Jacob participated in the War of 1812, and was a commissioned officer, but the rank is not known. Absolom Ash was engaged in farming throughout life, accumulated a large tract of land in McClellan District, which was divided among: his heirs at his death, and gave them all an excellent start. His wife was from Old Virginia, and the male members of her family were prosperous farmers. Her union with Mr. Ash resulted in the birth of five children, two of whom died young. Those who lived were: Henry; Marshall, who is living on the old homestead ; and Zadock, who is a farmer and trader of Tyler County. The mother of these children died May 7, 1865, but the father is still living on the old homestead, and is sixty-five years of age. November 23, 1884, Henry Ash was married to Miss Florence O. Allen, daughter of Isaiah and Rebecca Allen, natives of Harrison County, and farmers by occupation. To them one child was given: Ethel Ash. Mr. Ash's second marriage occurred February 10, 1895, to Mrs. Mary Cheuvront, who was born in Doddridge County, the daughter of William B. Ripley, who is deceased. The mother, Maggie M. (Jarvis) Ripley, yet resides in this county. The parents of William B. Ripley, Jacob and Elizabeth Ripley, came from Greene County, Pennsylvania, at an early day and were among the early settlers of this section of the country. John and Margaret Jarvis, the maternal grandparents of Mrs. Ash, were also among the early settlers of this section. The former died in 1860, but the latter survived him many years, and died at the age of ninety years. | ASH, Henry (I79679)
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| 14565 | From "Davis - The Settlers of Salem WV," p. 360: Elias and Honora were buried in Doddridge Co on what was the McMillan Farm on Flint Run. This on authority of Carsie Williams who says "They were interred behind the McMillan Barn and no stone marks the spot." Carsie also told of the many moves the couple made in Doddridge and Tyler Co's WV, which he was unable to explain. In our searches we were unable to find any records indicating that Elias Williams Sr owned any land in Doddridge or Harrison Co's, so possibly this is the explanation for the many moves that Carsie Williams spoke about. From the Census, they lived first in the Coburn Creek area of Harrison, and later worked their way through Doddridge and probably into Tyler Co, with their last resting place in Doddridge. Honora was living in Doddridge Co at the time of the 1850 Census. | Family: Elias WILLIAMS / Honora TRENARY (F2222)
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| 14566 | From "Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Passaic Valley," p. 68: "James Cauldwell, with his wife Mary, emigrated from Ireland, about the year 1732, when his son William was six years old, and settled on Long Hill, on lot No. 30, addition of the Elizabethtown lots, which it appears he drew. From tradition among the families, it would seem, and I am led to believe, that James Cauldwell's wife was Mary Gaston, sister of the father of Hugh Gaston, of Peapack. Hugh Gaston was brother of Capt. William Logan's wife, and probably also brother of the wife of Thomas Kirkpatrick, at Liberty Corner. His children called him Uncle Hugh Gaston, and Mr. Gaston, Mrs. Logan and the old Kirkpatrick family claimed kin to the Cauldwell family." | Family: James CAULDWELL / Mary GASTON (F3125)
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| 14567 | From "History of Nutter's Fork Community" (1927) by Lily Smith Carothers...... "Just across the creek opposite the mount of Slaughter was the prosperous home of Tom Bond, Sr. He was a slave-holder. It is said that slaves set fire to his barn, burning it and two of his children. There are none of his descendants in the community. Later this farm belonged to J. N. Wolverton, a prominent teacher, surveyor, and farmer; and it is now in the hands of W.F. Smith, of West Union." | BOND, Thomas (I92245)
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| 14568 | From "History of Nutters Fork Community" (1927), by Lily Smith Corathers: "Thomas Smith, Sr., of German descent, moved from Greene County, Pennsylvania, to Barnesville, Ohio, thence to Tyler County, Western Virginia, and finally to the Sears lands near the Bog. Here he had a brick house erected which he later sold to his son-in-law, Eleazer Sr., it passed into the hands of his son, the late Joseph Freeman, whose widow now owns property." | SMITH, Thomas (I79340)
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| 14569 | From "History of the Upper Ohio Valley," p. 635: Dr. Ephraim Gaston "was one of the most distinguished physicians of his time." Also served one term in the legislature, but then returned to medicine until "compelled to abandon it on account of cataract of the eyes, dying about two years afterward." | GASTON, Ephraim (I3581)
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| 14570 | From "History of West Virginia, Old and New," published in 1923 by the American Historical Society, Volume II. p. 352: Homer Strosnider has long been recognized as his usefulness, trustworthiness and thorough efficiency as a private citizen of Clarksburg, let him quietly and successfully perform his manifold duties as a prominent lawyer, public official. Mr. Strosnider was the son of Rezin and Sarah (Lemley) Strosnider, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania. When he was three years old his parents moved from Pennsylvania to West Virginia, settling first in Ritchie County then to Doddridge County. As a young boy at Center Point he assisted his father until he was ready to enter the State Normal School at Fairmont. Later he entered the University of West Virginia at Morgantown. After taking a two-year course in law in the university, when he took his diploma without a degree, hoping to continue his law studies in Yale University. While on a short visit to Clarksburg, The Hon. Millard F. Snider became interested in him and offered him a job in his law office, at Clarksburg. He was admitted to the bar in 1907 and for two years was associated with Mr. Snider, since which time he has carried on an individual general practice. He passed the bar before the United States Supreme Court December 7, 1914. He has made an honorable record and is a member of the Harrison County as well as the West Virginia State Bar associations. In 1900 Mr. Strosnider was married to Miss Della Kile, who was born in Doddridge County, West Virginia, and they have two daughters and one son: Mabel, Luther and Marjorie Jean. In political life Mr. Strosnider is a democrat and quite active in the councils of his party. For three years he was the city solicitor of Clarksburg and as a city law officer has performed his duties in a manner that has brought forth the highest praise. | STROSNIDER, Homer Rezin (I109088)
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| 14571 | From "The Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White": "Hither came, toward the close of the eighteenth century, a body of sturdy New Englanders, and, among them, my grandfathers and grandmothers. Those on my father's side: Asa White and Clara Keep, from Munson, Massachusetts; those on my mother's side, Andrew Dickson, from Middlefield, Massachusetts, and Ruth Hall from Guilford, Connecticut. They were all of ``good stock.'' When I was ten years old I saw my great-grandfather at Middlefield, eighty-two years of age, sturdy and vigorous; he had mowed a broad field the day before, and he walked four miles to church the day after. He had done his duty manfully during the war, had been a member of the ``Great and General Court'' of Massachusetts, and had held various other offices, which showed that he enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-citizens. As to the other side of the house, there was a tradition that we came from Peregrine White of the Mayflower; but I have never had time to find whether my doubts on the subject were well founded or not. Enough for me to know that my yeomen ancestors did their duty in war and peace, were honest, straightforward, God-fearing men and women, who owned their own lands, and never knew what it was to cringe before any human being." 1850 Census, Onondaga Co, New York (city of Syracuse), enumerated on Sep 12 1850: Horace White, 45, b. NY, cashier, value of real estate owned $43,000; Clara D White, 39, b. NY; Andrew D White, 17, b. NY; Horace R White, 14, b. NY; Ruth Dickison, 60, b. NY; Bridgett Canon, 22, b. Ireland; May McElroy, 15, b. NY; John McElroy, 21, b. Ireland. (Note: Could Clara's middle initial stand for Dickson?) 1860 Census, Onondaga Co, New York (city of Syracuse), enumerated on Jul 6 1860: Horace White, 57, b. NY, banker, value of real estate $55,000, value of personal estate $530,000; Clara D White, 48, b. NY; Horace K (or H) White, 22, b. NY, banker; Ruth Dickson, 70, b. Connecticut; Ellen McGrath, 30, b. Ireland, domestic; Mary Fay, 25, b. Ireland, domestic; Patrick McGee, 23, b. Ireland, laborer. 1870 Census, Onondaga Co, New York (city of Syracuse), enumerated on Jul 7 1870: Clara D White, 60, b. NY; Mrs. Dixon, 48, b. NY; Ann Boyle, 27, b. Ireland, domestic; Maggie O'Neel, 30, b. Ireland, domestic; Michael Ryan, 25, b. Ireland, coachman. 1880 Census, Onondaga Co, New York (city of Syracuse), enumerated on Jun 7 1880: Clara D White, 64, b. NY, widowed; servant Maggie Stepleton, 25, b. Ireland, single; servant Hanna Wall, 30, b. Ireland, single; coachman Price Owen, 38, b. Wales, single. | Family: Horace WHITE / Clara DICKSON (F1281)
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| 14572 | From "The History of Doddridge County," p. 249, by U. Reva Bennett: "Louverna was a tall woman who loved to cook and keep house. She had one child by her first husband. The child lived one year. They separated. Later she married a Civil War veteran. He lived a short time. Her third spouse was Sil Drain. They lived in Hepzibah, Harrison County." | SQUIRES, Mary Louverna "Verna" (I6291)
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| 14573 | From "The History of Edgar County, Illinois," published in 1879, p. 631: "Jesse Lowther, farmer, S. 30; P.O. Cherry Point City; born in Harrison, now known as Ritchie Co., West Va., March 29 1823, where he lived and engaged in farming until 1865, when, selling his farm in West Virginia, he emigrated West and located on Cec. 30, Ross Tp., Edgar Co., Ill., where he has since continued to live; he owns 160 acres of well-improved land in his home farm, and has an interest in eighty acres more, which he has secured by his own hard labor and industry; living in West Virginia during the late rebellion, and being a strong Union man, the inconveniences and persecutions which he suffered from his outspoken sympathies and heartfelt interest in the success of the Union army, led him to look for a new location, where he could settle quietly, free from the above persecutions; coming West, he selected his present place, which at that time was unimproved; he has improved it since that time until it is second to none in the township. He was married Dec. 25, 1845, to Hannah Leeson; she was born in West Virginia March 27 1827; they are the parents of eleven children now living, viz., Granville, Mary J., Elizabeth, Nancy, Rosetta, Charles L., Sarah A., Rachel, William A., Virginia and Arminta." His son, the Rev. Granville Lowther, D.D., wrote in 1907: "My father, Jesse Lowther, was a man of smaller stature, about five feet ten inches high, but very quick and muscular. He is now living at the age of eighty-four years and is still strong. He, too, was of the pioneer type, who knew no defeat and acknowledged no superior. He was captain of Virginia Militia upon the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion. Excitement ran high and many reports of raids and invasions from the Confederates were rife. The colonel had ordered his regiment to West Union, West Virginia to meet a supposed enemy and to guard the town. My father mounted a horse and rode it down, gathering his company. He rode a second horse down getting equipment and necessary preparations for the journey and camp. Then they started on a forced march of eight miles across the hills to West Union. When about half-way, they were met by the colonel on horseback, who in anger and excitement commanded: 'Quick step. Run into town.' My father retorted 'Run yourself. We will be there to assist in any fight you may have on hand when we arrive.' This was insubordination, but he had inherited the spirit of his ancestors and brooked no intolerance, even from his commandant." (Above quote from "Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia from 1768 to 1795 ... " by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, 1915, page 271.) | LOWTHER, Jesse (I36099)
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| 14574 | From "The Sabbath Recorder," Vol 63, No 6, p 93, Feb. 11, 1907: "Wm. H. Davis was born in Clark county, Ohio, May 3, 1841, and died Jan. 26, 1907 at his home near New Milton, W. Va., in the 66th year of his age. He was the son of Rev. James B. and Jane Happing Davis. While still a young man in Ohio he was converted and baptized by his father, and admitted into membership in the Jackson Center Seventh-day Baptist church. Later in life he moved to New Milton, W. Va., and joined the Middle Island Seventh-day Baptist church of which he was a member and treasurer when he died. Sept. 4, 1863 he was married to Margaret J. Morris, who died March 22, 1875. Sept. 13, 1875 he was married to Emma S. Bond who still survives him. By the first wife were born to him five children, and by the second six, all of whom with his widow and friends mourn his death. Funeral services were conducted by the pastor of the Lost Creek church. Text., II Peter 3:14. H. C. V. H." http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jonsaunders&id=I68776 | DAVIS, William Henry Harrison (I45441)
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| 14575 | From 1936 to 1939, she was the Recreation Director for Ritchie County, under the National Youth Administration. She also organized the first two Girl Scout troops in Ritchie County, one in Smithville and the other in Harrisville. Upon obtaining her college degree in 1941, "she taught her first two years in one-room schools in Ritchie County, where she could walk home for the weekends. Then in 1943, Edith took a position teaching first grade in Harrisville, where she taught for 17 years. She and [husband] Wilson came to Ohio in 1960 where she continued teaching in Tuscarawas and Stark counties." | HEDGE, Edith (I19247)
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| 14576 | From 1950 to 1960, he was employed by Universal CIT in Clarksburg, and he later served as vice president of Community Bank in Clarksburg until 1982. Still later he was in partnership with J. Y. Metal Industries until 1990. He was a longtime member of the West Virginia Farm Bureau. | CURRAN, Charles Walton (I19318)
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| 14577 | From a front-page article titled "Win Golden Stars," listing local war casualties, "Doddridge County Republican," Thursday, Nov 21 1918: "From the distant West -- out near the Golden Gate -- comes the news of the death of an old Doddridge boy. "William Lee Netzer was killed in action about Oct. 18th to 20th. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Netzer of Sanger, Cal., formerly of Arnolds Creek, and he was born and grew to manhood on old Arnolds Creek, on the farm now owned by Assessor J. Benton Swiger. "Besides his immediate family in the west, his loss is mourned by his aged grandfather, Jacob Netzer of Arnolds Creek; his grandmother, Mrs. Matilda Conaway of 1312 Lyon St., Parkersburg, and many other relatives and friends." | NETZER, William Lee (I79829)
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| 14578 | From a memoir, "Echoes of the Civil War - A reconstructed Family History," written by his granddaugher (thru his first wife) Alberta "Joette" Bennington Mealy (1899-1979), on file at the West Virginia State Archives: "We have learned that Nimrod is not buried by the side of his second wife. He is in a cemetery through which a road was made -- near Grottoes, Va. -- and his grave was moved. Now it is a kind of bramble area. ... To my knowledge -- just two of Nimrod's grandchildren by his first marriage are living. Maude Cain Weaver, the youngest daughter of his oldest daughter. Maude lives in Wellsville, Ohio and I correspond with her regularly. She is 80 years od. When I wrote to her that we had found where her grandfather was buried in an unmarked grave in the brambles of a cemetery in Virginia, she wasn't a bit sympathetic about it. She said that was a good place for him! Her mother, being the oldest daughter of the deserted family, had known the suffering he had caused her mother." | BENNINGTON, Nimrod (I103052)
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| 14579 | From a news article entitiled SOLDIERS' LETTERS AND ADDRESSES, in the "Doddridge County Republican," Thursday, Aug 29 1918: "Ernest Brown of Central Station, who left a few days ago for the W.V.U. Training School at Morgantown, W. Va., has undergone an operation for appendicitis and is recovering as rapidly as could be expected." | BROWN, George Earnest (I88755)
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| 14580 | From a news article entitiled SOLDIERS' LETTERS AND ADDRESSES, in the "Doddridge County Republican," Thursday, Aug 29 1918: "Pvt. Earnley H. Freeman, 1st Prov. Co. Inft., July Automatic Repl. Draft, American E. F. France, via New York." | FREEMAN, Earnley Hiram (I27619)
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| 14581 | From a newspaper clipping in 1949: "Weather forecasts for the next two days indicate nothing to compare with the terribly cold weather in Clarksburg and its vicinity of about fifty years ago. Marion Husk, Route 3, is our authority for the fact that on February 10, 1899, the bottom practically dropped out of the thermometer to a gruesome forty-two degrees below zero. 'How is this for winter?' Mr. Husk asks in a letter. 'Just fifty years ago tonight, February 10 1899, a schoolmate of mine passed away. A few minutes before he died, he asked me to select his burial outfit. Granting his wish, I chose to walk nine miles to West Union, starting at 7 o'clock. When I left the house, the thermometer reading was thirty-eight degrees below zero, and when I arrived at West Union about the middle of the night, it was forty-two degrees below zero.' Mr. Husk recalls that on that particular errand, he did not stop to rest! He also says that with the help of a friend, he opened a grave for his schoolmate at the Powell graveyard on Buckeye, the mercury at the time sagging to thirty-eight below zero." | HUSK, John Marion (I827)
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| 14582 | From a photograph, the hand-carved inscription on the fieldstone marker reads: "Garrett, Sarah Hart, the wife of Josiar Hart, died in the yeare of our Lord 1850 April 3." Subsequent to the taking of that photo, the lower portion of the fieldstone, containing the date, has deteriorated and no longer exists. | GARRETT, Sarah (I317)
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| 14583 | From an article titled "News of the Week 33 Years Ago" in the "West Union Record" of June 1 1916, in its entirety: "M. K. Duty, teacher of the Summit school, was elected Supt. of schools of Ritchie county." Obituary - "The Palladium-Item," Richmond, Indiana, Tuesday, 22 June 1926, Page 10: MICHAEL K. DUTY DIES CLARKSBURG, W. Va., June 22 -- Michael K. Duty, 71 years old, widely-known West Virginia attorney and former State Senator, is dead at his home at Pennsboro after an illness of two weeks. He formerly was Mayor of Pennsboro, Ritchie County School Superintendent, and member of the State House of Delegates. The widow, a son, M. P. Duty, of Wheeling, and a daughter, Mrs. Jenny Pritchard, of Cumberland, Md., survive. | DUTY, Michael Kerns (I41932)
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| 14584 | From an article titled "News of the Week 33 Years Ago" in the "West Union Record" of June 1 1916, in its entirety: "The funeral sermon of Mrs. Delia A. Moffett was preached in the M. E. church at West Union last Sunday by Rev. J. A. Boggess. Mrs. Moffett was an honored and honest member of the U. B. church for seventeen years." | DAVIS, Delia Ann (I41043)
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| 14585 | From an article titled "News of the Week 35 Years Ago" (i.e., in 1881) in the "West Union Record" of June 22 1916, in its entirety: "Miss Jennie Maulsby, in company with her father, left on Thursday night last for Millersburg, Ky., where she will remain until June, a student at the Female College. Her many friends wish her a pleasant trip, and success in her studies. Mr. Maulsby will be absent a week, visiting friends in Ohio." https://collegehistorygarden.blogspot.com/2013/09/millersburg-female-college-ky.html https://kwc.edu/about-wesleyan/wesleyan-history-and-tradition/ https://www.kyatlas.com/ky-millersburg.html https://www.kyhistory.com/digital/collection/Morgan/id/5825 | MAULSBY, Virginia Etta (I42617)
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| 14586 | From an article titled "News of the Week 37 Years Ago" in the "West Union Record" of June 8 1916, in its entirety: "H. C. Foley started for Philadelphia last Monday, where he will lay in a new stock of goods for his store, to be opened soon at Shirley." | FOLEY, Henry C. (I47229)
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| 14587 | From an article titled "News of the Week 37 Years Ago" in the "West Union Record" of June 8 1916, in its entirety: "Mr. V. E. Dotson is acting the gentleman, only for a short time though." Local news item, "Doddridge County Republican," Thursday, Aug 31 1916, in its entirety: "Mrs. Lucy Dotson is erecting a fine porch in front of the Grant House, which will add materially to the appearance as well as to the convenience of this splendid old property, when the improvement is completed." 1920 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (West Union District, Town of West Union), enumerated on Jan 22 1920 at 310 Church Street: Lucy Dotson, 64, widow, dau Barbara Wallace, 41, married; son-in-law Bruce Wallace, 40, married, driller (oil wells); boarder Eula Greene, 15. All born in West Virginia. 1930 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Town of West Union), enumerated on Apr 3 1930 at 310 Church Street: Lucy M. Dotson, 75, married [sic], value of home $6,000; dau Barbra A. Wallace, 51, married; son-in-law Mont B. Wallace, 50, driller (oil & gas); lodger (corrected from "friend") Charles Jones (or Janes), 15. All born in West Virginia. Lucy Cheuvront Dotson died in August 1938. 1940 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Town of West Union), enumerated on Apr 21 1940 at 310 Church Street: Bruce Wallace, 60, driller in oil field, 4 yrs high school; wife Barbra, 61, 1 yr college. | Family: Victor Emanuel DOTSON / Lucy M. CHEUVRONT (F36098)
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| 14588 | From an article titled "News of the Week 37 Years Ago" in the "West Union Record" of June 8 1916, in its entirety: "Mrs. I. M. Harshbarger accidentally scalded two of her fingers last week." | LEE, Catharine Kathleen (I56994)
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| 14589 | From an undated newspaper clipping, newspaper not identified: "In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt was President. Our sheriff was W. B. Allen. O. A. Ashburn was school superintendent. An important event for West Union that year was the dedication of a beautiful building. (It still is.) We think of it as the Masonic Building. The RECORD reported: 'The Macabee Temple was dedicated on Saturday. It is the first to be built on Foley Square and is a beautiful structure. The building and the ground cost $10,000.' A large crowd was present throughout the day and into the evening. The M. E. Church Orchestra played. Miss Beulah Stuck and Miss Emma Shannon sang solos." | STUCK, Beulah Irene (I12903)
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| 14590 | From an undated newspaper clipping, newspaper not identified: "In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt was President. Our sheriff was W. B. Allen. O. A. Ashburn was school superintendent. An important event for West Union that year was the dedication of a beautiful building. (It still is.) We think of it as the Masonic Building. The RECORD reported: 'The Macabee Temple was dedicated on Saturday. It is the first to be built on Foley Square and is a beautiful structure. The building and the ground cost $10,000.' A large crowd was present throughout the day and into the evening. The M. E. Church Orchestra played. Miss Beulah Stuck and Miss Emma Shannon sang solos." Local news item, "West Union Record," Thursday, Apr 13 1916, in its entirety: "O. A. Ashburn, Inspector of Weights and Measures, was here this week and appeared before the county court and asked that a county inspector be appointed for Doddridge County, which the court declined to do. Mr. Ashburn then went to Sheriff Nutter to serve in that capacity, which he refused to do. This action will leave Doddridge County without an officer in that department." | ASHBURN, Oliver Alvadore (I55209)
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| 14591 | From an undated newspaper clipping, newspaper not identified: "In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt was President. Our sheriff was W. B. Allen. O. A. Ashburn was school superintendent. An important event for West Union that year was the dedication of a beautiful building. (It still is.) We think of it as the Masonic Building. The RECORD reported: 'The Macabee Temple was dedicated on Saturday. It is the first to be built on Foley Square and is a beautiful structure. The building and the ground cost $10,000.' A large crowd was present throughout the day and into the evening. The M. E. Church Orchestra played. Miss Beulah Stuck and Miss Emma Shannon sang solos." News item, "West Union Herald," Thursday, March 20 1913, in its entirety: "Besides our present sheriff Eli Nutter, ex-Sheriffs John M. Gribble, Joseph Freeman, W. B. Gribble, W. B. Allen and J. E. Trainer were all at the Court House at one time Tuesday, as well as several of their respective deputies; it is not necessary to state that the very best of order prevailed." From an article titled "News of the Week 35 Years Ago" in the "West Union Record" of June 22 1916, in its entirety: "W. B. Allen and Judge Stuart, his counsel, went to Parkersburg Monday to attend the trial of the case of Allen against Adam's Express company, in the U.S. Circuit Court. And on Tuesday, Capt. Smith and wife, Wm. McConnell and Israel Allen went to attend said trial, as witnesses." | ALLEN, William Benton (I88189)
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| 14592 | From an undated newspaper clipping, newspaper not identified: "In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt was President. Our sheriff was W. B. Allen. O. A. Ashburn was school superintendent. An important event for West Union that year was the dedication of a beautiful building. (It still is.) We think of it as the Masonic Building. The RECORD reported: 'The Macabee Temple was dedicated on Saturday. It is the first to be built on Foley Square and is a beautiful structure. The building and the ground cost $10,000.' A large crowd was present throughout the day and into the evening. The M. E. Church Orchestra played. Miss Beulah Stuck and Miss Emma Shannon sang solos." | SHANNON, Emily L. (I94750)
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| 14593 | From an undated newspaper clipping: LAST LETTER FROM LINDEN L. GAIN This letter was the last one I received from Linden L. Gain at home. He died of wounds received in action Sept. 30, 1918. Somewhere in France Sept. 25, 1918 Dear Mother and all -- Will write you a few lines today. This leaves me well and hope you are all the same. This is a right pretty day, only the wind blows cold. If Nellie or Guy don't know why I don't write to them, you tell them I thought they might not be at home and I know you would want to hear from me, but I will write them. I might not have a chance to write any more for a few days, so if you do not hear from me as soon as you think you ought, don't be uneasy about me. I will write as often as I can, but there are times when we can not write, but if I can I will write again in a day or two. I wrote Lucy a letter last week and was going to write to Louie, but I didn't have time, but I am going to write to her as soon as I have time, and I will write to Claud and Bertha when I have time, but I can't write to them all at once. My address is Co D, 119th Inf, 30th Division, A.E.F. I see Burt every few days. He is well. I don't know when he wrote to them last, but you can tell them he was well when I wrote this letter. Has Oris got "Teddie" broke to ride? I don't expect any of you have had time to bother with him this summer, but if nothing unexpected happens, I will be there I think next summer to ride him. Tell Oris if he gathers those chestnuts for me to save them for me till I come home. Tell him I only want a few; he can eat the rest and if the chestnuts are all gone when I come home, we will eat candy together. Who is going to teach school this winter, or are you going to have any school this winter? Has Mr. Douglas moved to his farm or is he going to it this fall? Who did he have working for him this summer, and who did Everett have working for him this summer? Well, this will be all for this time; will write again as soon as I have time. All of you take care of yourselves and write and tell me all the news. From Lind, By by to mama and all. | GAIN, Linden Lewis (I80190)
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| 14594 | From an undated newspaper clipping: "Jack Swiger of Fairmont. The first Fathers Day celebration in America, so far as Fairmont people know, was at the Methodist Temple Sunday school, and the originator of Fathers Day in America was Jack Swiger, superintendent of the school at that time, in company with his associates. Jack was 88 years of age early this month. He acted as superintendent of a Sunday school for 34 years and continuously for the Methodist Temple for 24 years. Jack's hobby has been church work. His school was the first in Fairmont to observe Mothers Day after it was begun at Andrews Church, Grafton, W. Va., under the ministery of Dr. Harry C. Howard. ... Jack was born on Mudlick near Shinnston and he began making and laying bricks at the age of 16, more than 72 years ago. When a young man he worked for a time on a log raft running from Fairmont to Uniontown. In his early days the fun of the community was apple peelings, bean stringings, husking bees, literary societies, singing schools at which he was a shining light, log rollings, and such party games as post office, such as even some of us younger fellows remember with considerable exuberance. Jack's father dug the first grave at Woodlawn cemetery for Joe Hamilton who was killed on the spot in a hunting accident. He was at Franklin Roosevelt's first inauguration, having been in Washington working on government housing. ... As a brick contractor he laid bricks personally to the age of 83." | SWIGER, John Allen "Jack" (I25007)
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| 14595 | From an undated newspaper clipping: "The high school auditorium of Smithfield was crowded by the friends and school mates of Miss Eva Phipps Wednesday evening when a double surprise reception was rendered her on the occasion of her birthday and in recognition of her victory in the Red Haired Beauty contest conducted by the Clarksburg Telegram a short time ago. Miss Phipps won this contest from a large field of contestants from every section of the state, and after she finishes her term of school this week, she will make preparations for an extended tour of the eastern states as the Red Headed Beauty Queen of West Virginia. ... After her tour east, she will re-enter Fairmont Normal school to complete her summer school work." | PHIPPS, Eva Cleo (I24462)
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| 14596 | From church records. | JUNGEL, Anna Elizabeth "Maria" (I140132)
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| 14597 | From Doddridge County and West Virginia Deaths by Donald Ramage, local news item of Jan 17 1902 "James Wanstreet, son of "Squire John Wanstreet" of Leopold, died at Bendena, Kansas, last week of pneumonia. The funeral took place at Bendena where the body was buried. James was a bright young man and will be sadly missed." | WANSTREET, James T. (I105588)
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| 14598 | From Doddridge County and West Virginia Deaths by Donald Ramage, local news item of Jan 17 1902 "Mariah, the wife of Abel Rodgers, died at her home on Long Run some time in December. Her infant child followed her to the grave in two weeks after its mother's death." | JENKINS, Nancy Mariah Jane (I122383)
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| 14599 | From family Bible, but Lelia herself claimed to have been born in 1889. | BARRADELL, Lelia Sanford (I9790)
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| 14600 | From Harrison County, Virginia, Revolutionary War pension application, dated 18 Jun 1833: Benjamin Coplin was born 28 Mar 1752 in Rockingham County, Virginia. He lived at Nutters Fort when he entered the Revolutionary War in a Company commanded by Capt. William Lowther. He was stationed at Nutters Fort and employed in scouting from the Monongahela River to the Ohio River. He served for six months and was discharged in the fall of 1776. Then in the spring of 1777, he volunteered again in the same Company and was stationed at Powers Fort on Simpson Creek, Harrison County. He was again employed as a scout for a term of six months. In the spring of 1778, he served as a scout another six months at Powers Fort under the same command. In the spring of 1779, he volunteered under Captain Lowther again at Powers Fort. In the spring of 1780, he volunteered again and was stationed at the Blockhouse on Elk Creek, where Clarksburg now stands. He was employed for six months as a scout. In the spring of 1781, he volunteered under a Company commanded by Capt. George Jackson, because Lowther had been promoted to Major. He served another six months. In the spring of 1782, he volunteered under Capt. Christopher Carpenter for six months. All the above-named officers were commissioned by the state of Virginia and were employed to guard the frontier settlement from the depredation of the Indians. Although Benjamin Coplin is reported by some researchers as being a Captain in the Revolutionary War, and his headstone states his rank as Colonel, nothing in his pension application indicates that. Rather, he was employed as a scout and spy, and was not attached to any regiment. He was involved in several skirmishes with the Indians and at one engagement killed an Indian. In the year 1776, he was stationed at Powers Fort when news reached the Fort that a parcel of Indians were at Middle Island, in western part of Harrison County (this would be present-day Doddridge County). He and about 20 others went in pursuit of them and was gone for four days. http://www.revwarapps.org/s10464.pdf (Transcribed from original documents on file at the U.S. National Archives and viewable online at www.fold3.com) | COPLIN (COPELAND), Benjamin (I16157)
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