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| 14701 | Graduate of Doddridge County High School and West Virginia Business College in Clarksburg. He had a lengthy career with C&P Telephone Company, beginning as a commercial representative in Clarksburg in 1942. He subsequently held various commercial department positions in Kingwood, Grafton and Wheeling, transferring to Charleston in Jan 1966 as commercial supervisor on the staff of the general commercial manager. Among others, survived by one grandson, Dwight Ross Leggett II, Fort Wayne, IN. | LEGGETT, Dwight Ross (I20778)
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| 14702 | Graduate of Doddridge County High School, Glenville State College, and West Virginia University, where he obtained a master's degree in education. He was involved with education most of his life as a teacher and principal, with employment in Doddridge, Wood, Ritchie and Pleasants counties. | HILEMAN, Calvin David (I297)
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| 14703 | Graduate of Doddridge High School with the class of 1943. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 thru 1945, training as an Air Force pilot. Graduated from Graceland Junior College, Lamoni, IA, class of 1955. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, with a B.A. in Education. He was employed by the Oberlin, Ohio Board of Education for two years before joining Saga Corp in Pittsburgh from 1959 thru 1969. He was then transferred to Walnut Creek, CA, working for that company in the food service industry until 1984, when he retired from a position in Danville. He moved to Pine Grove, CA in 1985, residing there and in Pioneer, CA. | DOUGLASS, Charles Franklin (I19590)
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| 14704 | Graduate of Fairmont State College, Masters from West Virginia University. Taught in Marion, Monongalia and Baltimore County schools, and was Associate Professor in English at Fairmont State College for 15 years. | DAVIS, Marilynn Jean (I1552)
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| 14705 | Graduate of Harrisville High School. Attended Salem College and Alderson- Broaddus College. [obit] Author of "Those Days of Long Ago," a memoir of her early years in Doddridge County, published Sep 15 1984, reprinted in June 1999 by Michael Ruppert, Jr., of Los Angeles, with the help of Mike Ruppert, Sr., of Grove, WV and Loudon, TN, a copy of which is on file at the Doddridge County Library. | GASTON, Amy Mae (I1419)
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| 14706 | Graduate of Pennsboro High School, 1900. Entered WVWC in Fall Term 1901. Treasurer of "Chrestomathean" Literary Society. On baseball team. Photographic editor of "Murmurmontis" yearbook. | SIGLER, Robert Harold (I43833)
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| 14707 | Graduate of Salem College in 1944 with a B.S. degree in chemistry, and of West Virginia University in 1948 with an M.S. degree in physical chemistry. Served in U.S. Navy in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters in antisubmarine warfare during World War II. Served as Vice-Mayor and City Councilman at St. Albans, Kanawha Co, WV, and was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1966-1970. Retired after 37 years of employment with Union Carbide Corporation, South Charleston, WV. Owner of Davisson Corrosion Control Associates. A life member of the Harrison County Genealogy Society. Author of the book "The Davissons - A History and Genealogy," 1993, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV. | DAVISSON, Russell Lee (I16200)
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| 14708 | Graduate of Salem College, 1965. Taught English in Pennsboro, WV. With her husband, owned and promoted antique shows across the U.S. Also owned and operated Nan's Cards at Meadowbrook Mall, Bridgeport, WV. Was also a trainer for the InfoCision Management telemarketing firm in Clarksburg. | ADAMS, Nancy Kay (I994)
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| 14709 | Graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Began medical practice in Hoopston, IL. In 1881 he went to Kansas and was a prominent physician, much esteemed for his sterling work. He leaves a wife and two sons. | GASTON, Eugene A. (I4959)
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| 14710 | Graduate of West Virginia University, and earned PhD from University of Cincinnati. Retired from Cincinnati school system as administrator, then worked for IRS and University of Kentucky. | JONES, Dale Wren (I1550)
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| 14711 | Graduated as Salutatorian of Liberty High School, Harrison Co, WV, and graduated with honors from Fairmont State University. She was previously employed by the Fairmont Housing Authority before moving to Spencer, Roane Co, WV. She was employed by Pfizer, was owner of Reliable Mortgage Company, and was past president of the Spencer Development Corporation. | COLE, Sheila Ray (I27873)
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| 14712 | Graduated from Harvard College in 1880, admitted to the bar in 1883, and became a member of [his father's law] firm Gaston & Whitney in October 1883. [American Ancestry, Vol V, p. 103] Was Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1902-03, was a Massachusetts delegate-at-large to the National Democratic Convention in 1904, was nominated by the Democrats in 1905 for U.S. Senator, and was a member of the National Democratic Committee. [Colonial Families of the United States, Vol III, p. 174] "Trustee of the Boston Public Library, 1923-1927. Born 1859 in Roxbury and died 1927 in Barre, MA. Lawyer, banker and Democrat. The son of the Honorable William Gaston, former Boston Mayor and former Governor of Massachusetts, William Alexander Gaston graduated from Harvard in 1880 and was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt and Josiah Quincy. He studied law at Harvard Law School and his fathers firm, and later organized his own Boston firm of Gaston, Snow and Saltonstall, from which he practiced corporation law and the management of estates. His success as a corporate lawyer led to his selection as coordinator for the consolidation of the citys various street railway companies into the Boston Elevated Railway Company. In the banking industry, Mr. Gaston was a leading and influential participant in overseeing several financial institutions as well as organizing the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, of which he was president for a number of years before becoming chairman of its board of directors. Following World War I, he was appointed by the U.S. Government as an arbitrator of labor disputes in Hartford, CT, and Bath, ME. Colonel Gaston was a prominent Massachusetts Democrat, serving on the staff of Governor William Eustis Russell where he attained his title, and ran unsuccessfully for the Massachusetts Governorship. Outside his public life, he maintained a famous herd of cows on his Barre farm where he researched problems related to raising livestock and standardizing food production. In addition to his Library trusteeship, he was a member of the Overseers of Harvard University, of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and of Trinity Church. Colonel Gaston supported many other organizations and causes associated with education and charity with both his time and money." [Boston Public Library website, www.bpl.org/general/trustees/gaston.htm] | GASTON, William Alexander (I3042)
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| 14713 | Graduated from Harvard University in 1961 with a BA in Far Eastern Languages and History, after having spent 3 years studying Japanese at International Christian University in Tokyo. After college, worked for the Peace Corps in Washington, DC. Came to Emmons, WV in 1964 as a VISTA worker. In 1966, elected to 2-year term in WV House of Delegates. Then served 4 years as WV Secretary of State, 3 years as president of WV Wesleyan College, and 8 years as Democratic Governor of West Virginia. In 1984, elected by voters of West Virginia to the U.S. Senate, and re-elected in 1990 and 1996. [Biographical sketch on Internet] | ROCKEFELLER, John Davison "Jay" IV (I5671)
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| 14714 | Graduated from Lost Creek High School in 1941 and Salem College in 1945 with an A.B. degree in Commerce and Physical Education. At Salem College, she was voted Tigress and the first-ever female Student Body President (1945). Upon graduation she was the first recreation director at the Salem Industrial Home for Girls, and then a business studies and physical education teacher, first at Salem High School and later at Bristol High School and Liberty High School until her retirement in 1983. She helped restore the Salem Garden Club, and was a founder of Lake Floyd Golf Club. In her retirement she also served as a volunteer at United Hospital Center in the surgical waiting room. Orphaned at an early age, Marie was raised by aunts and uncles in her extended family of Methodist ministers, in various parsonages in Harrison County, and by her eldest brother William Reece Burns who brought his siblings back together as a young minister. | BURNS, Olga Marie (I90845)
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| 14715 | Graduated from Parsons High School, attended Salem Academy, graduated from West Virginia Tech at Montgomery, and Shepherds College at Shepherdstown. He taught several terms of school in Doddridge County, WV, later going to Winchester, VA to teach at Handley High School. | GRAY, Ancil Snyder (I25000)
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| 14716 | Graduated from St. Louis University Medical School in 1914, interning at Alexion Bro's Hospital in St. Louis. Entered the Navy in World War I and was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. He practiced medicine most of his life in Webster Groves, MO. He was active in church, fraternal and civic organizations in Webster Groves, and was a member of the Missouri Historical Society. | GASTON, Ralph Estep (I9789)
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| 14717 | Graduated from the US Army Missile and Munitions School for Hazardous Devices at Red Stone Alabama, member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators and helped establish the Department of Corrections K-9 unit and worked closely with the NYS Police Bomb Disposal Unit, as a regional bomb technician for the FBI. He was a weapons specialist and training instructor for Firearms and Chemical Agents and part of the CERT team. AT the time of his retirement in 2006, he was the Assistant Commissioner of Corrections. After retirement he was a partner of BeeSecure LLC. | BEE, Clair Francis Jr. (I79784)
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| 14718 | Graduated with a B.S. in Forestry and a M.F. from the University of Michigan, a M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University, and a Ph. D from Michigan State University. Dr. Carothers retired from Louisiana Tech University in July of 1986 after teaching there for more than 20 years. Ed Carothers was a dedicated member and elder in the University Presbyterian Church, which later merged with First Presbyterian Church of Ruston. He was a Sunday school teacher and leader of the Mexico Mission Project and Habitat for Humanity. He sang bass in the PCR choir. He attended the 8th World Forest Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1984 and also made a professional trip to China in 1986. He spoke limited Chinese. He was a dedicated member of the Society of American Foresters, beginning in 1938, and was known as the oldest such member in Louisiana and Mississippi. He served for many years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Forestry Association. He expressed his pride in forestry students and tried to inspire them. He stimulated his students, both men and women, to explore and think about the issues of the day and the basic fundamentals of economics and policy. Ed was the forest manager of the Alpine, Tennessee Forest Reserve for five years. This was a project of the Board of National Missions, Presbyterian Church USA. While in Alpine, he was granted leave for two months to help deliver 360 draft mares from New Orleans to Yugoslavia. This voyage was one of the first for what is now the Heifer Project. Ed was a dedicated father, husband, and neighbor. Regarding the "Carothers" spelling of his name, his daughter provided the following explanation: "Based on the spelling shown in the commission of Colonel John "Jack" Carothers, who fought in the War of 1812, my father felt the original spelling of our name was Carothers, so he changed it from Corathers to Carothers; however other immediate family members did not change their names." | CAROTHERS, John Edwin "Ed" (I59768)
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| 14719 | Granddaughter of Col. Ben Wilson, Senior. | WILSON, Mary Bird (I34289)
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| 14720 | Grandson John W. Hart, in a W. Guy Tetrick family information survey completed in 1931, reports her date of death as Mar 24 1872. | NUTTER, Melinda Ann (I309)
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| 14721 | Grandson of Jonathan Hughes, an Indian scout and and ensign in the Navy during the Revolutionary War. A marker was erected at his grave in the Eddy Cemetery in 1925 by the D.A.R. | HUGHES, Stephen (I20463)
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| 14722 | Grandson of one of the original Washburn settlers of Harrison Co, WV. | WASHBURN, Isaac (I32187)
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| 14723 | Grant District | HOSKINSON, Lena (I10519)
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| 14724 | Grant District | DAVIS, Benjamin Franklin (I29799)
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| 14725 | Granville B. Richards was the tenth child of Michael & Caroline Wilson Richards. 1900 Census stated his birth date as Oct 1854. | RICHARDS, Granville B. (I170)
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| 14726 | Grass Run | MORAN, Elbert Ervin (I21493)
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| 14727 | Grassy Run | VINCENT, John Steinrod (I10852)
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| 14728 | Grave marker in the Brown family plot has only her first name and years of birth & death. Her married name Squires is not evident, despite her being identified in her death record as Nancy J. Squires. | BROWN, Nancy Jane (I56079)
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| 14729 | Grave marker inscription: Gay L. 1976 | CONWELL, Lillie Gay (I83315)
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| 14730 | Grave marker shows birth date as Nov 13 1905, but SSDI has it as Nov 13 1904. Age 21 given at time of Oct 1926 marriage could be calculated either way. | LOVEJOY, Virgil N. (I62167)
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| 14731 | Grave marker unreadable. | PIERCE, Albert G. (I40272)
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| 14732 | Gravesite for George Sharps and Priscilla Zinn identified in an email by great-grandson Alfred Ray Sharps as "on Sycamore Ridge between two forks of the Sycamore Creeks. The graves are marked by four field stones on Grandfather's land that was willed in 1881 from his father." | Family: George SHARPS / Priscilla ZINN (F4805)
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| 14733 | Great Torrington, Devon | DE TORITON, Avice (I44977)
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| 14734 | great-granddaughter of Jefferson Davis Butcher and Etta Maude Morris. | Source (S2145)
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| 14735 | Great-grandfather of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States. | HOOVER, Jacob (I107313)
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| 14736 | Great-grandson of Robert Chipps. | CHIPPS, Harry Lewis (I59275)
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| 14737 | Greenbrier Creek, WV | MORAN, Ammon G. (I30782)
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| 14738 | Greenwood Mills in Orangeburg, Smoaks Construction of St. Matthews, and Bobby Hutto's Construction in Orangeburg. | HAMILTON, Edward Earl (I135515)
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| 14739 | Gregory Run | SHRADER, David Guy (I139823)
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| 14740 | Grover "Buck" Mullenix was a highly decorated military man having spent a 26 year career as part of the US Army. He served in the Korean War and in 2 tours during the Vietnam War- all combat tours. For his service, Buck was awarded the Silver Star, numerous Bronze Stars, multiple Purple Hearts, the Valor Medal, and held the highest medal the South Vietnamese awarded. He was also a member of the Civil Service in Virginia for 12 years, a member of the Parkersburg VFW, and the Parkersburg American Legion Post #15 | MULLENIX, Grover Elmer "Buck" (I62772)
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| 14741 | Guarded tunnels, bridges and blockhouses on the N.W.Va.R.R | STINESPRING, John A. (I75122)
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| 14742 | Gunners Creek | BOWYER, John (I44922)
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| 14743 | Gustavus A. Corbin and Harriett had the misfortune to lose 3 children in infancy. Harriett died soon after. Gustavius remarried and had 5 additional children. The inscription on his grave marker reads: "He taught the first public school organized in Hume in 1883. Born in Harrison Co, W.Va." | Family: Gustavus Adolphus CORBIN / Harriett M. MCDONALD (F1498)
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| 14744 | Guy Drain was a World War II Veteran of the United States Army, serving in the Marianna Islands in the South Pacific, and was recalled to active duty in 1950 to Fort Campbell, KY, as a medical technician to administer to our Korean War casualties in the Fort Campbell Hospital. He was First Sergeant of Hq. & Hq. Company, 1092d Engr. Bn., West Virginia National Guard of Parkersburg, WV, retiring at the rank of Master Sergeant with thirty years of military service. | DRAIN, Leonard Guy (I17195)
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| 14745 | Had a total of four sons and seven daughters. | Family: Henry HESS / Mary Ellen Rebecca SIGLER (F7144)
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| 14746 | Had a total of four sons and six daughters. | Family: John ROSBOROUGH / Eleanor KEY (F1270)
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| 14747 | Had eight children. | GASTON, James (I3381)
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| 14748 | Had epilepsy. Never married and remained at home. Local news item, "The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer," March 1, 1886: "Marcellus Squires, of Doddridge county, was hanging up his rifle when the strap broke, and falling, the rifle discharged, the ball striking him in the leg about five inches above the ankle, shattering the leg in a horrible manner. Several pieces of bone were taken out." | SQUIRES, Marcellus H. (I6287)
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| 14749 | Had five children, none of whom had any children of their own. | GASTON, Esther (I3037)
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| 14750 | Had no children, according to Charles Hanna in "Ohio Valley Genealogies," p. 43. But research by Peter J. Topoly and Jane Carson Topoly revealed the two children given here. | Family: Samuel MCCLAIN / Margaret GASTON (F1229)
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