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Matches 15,001 to 15,050 of 23,923
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| 15001 | He was a retired coal miner, having worked at the Dawson Mine at Gypsy, WV, and several other area mines. He had also been employed by Spencer Enterprises of Doddridge County in the oil and gas industry, and was also self-employed timberman. Among others, survived by a son, James H. Garrison Jr, of Canton OH, and daughters Rosemary "Sally" White, Cleveland OH, Penny Tanner, New Martinsville WV, Sandra Rose, New Martinsville WV, Susan Landers, Avondale (West Union) WV, and Kathy Cork, Smithburg, with whom he made his home. Among others, predeceased by three infant children and daughter, Shirley Schaffner. | GARRISON, James H. (I17573)
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| 15002 | He was a retired crew leader with 43 years of service for the Equitable Gas Company, retiring from the West Union Compressing Station. He also pastored several independent non-denominational churches in West Virginia, primarily in the Doddridge County area, where he was the current pastor of the Ruley Chapel Church at the time of his death. Name listed in SSDI as Jesse F. Pierce, but identified in obituary as Rev. J. Franklin Pierce. | PIERCE, Jesse Franklin "Frank" (I8354)
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| 15003 | He was a retired glassworker with the Mid-Atlantic Glass Company of Ellenboro with 55 years of employment. He was a farmer and a former employee of the Lacey Huff Lumber Company, formerly of Pennsboro. | ADAMS, Brady Elden (I17562)
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| 15004 | He was a retired Greyhound bus driver with 33 years of service, and he owned and operated the Triple S Sharpening Shop in Jane Lew. | SPURGEON, Hayward Cline (I1425)
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| 15005 | He was a retired truck driver for Central Supply of Clarksburg, with 22 years of service. He was also employed in the construction trade. His name was always seen as Charley, except in his mother's and father's obituaries, where he was identified as Charles L. Perine. His own obituary, headstone and SSDI entry all show it as Charley L. Perine. | PERINE, Charley Luther (I14086)
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| 15006 | He was a self-employed mechanic and over the years owned many businesses including Wib's Ashland of Jane Lew, Minuteman Muffler of Weston and was a private airplane pilot. | MCWHORTER, Willard Hampton (I24691)
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| 15007 | He was a self-employed painting contractor and carpenter, and was a former employee of Goff Brothers of Pennsboro. He was survived by a stepdaughter, Donna Kirsch of Parkersburg, and was predeceased by one son. | IRELAND, Herbert O'Neal (I16882)
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| 15008 | He was a skilled glassworker for 50 years and retired from the former Mid-Atlantic Glass Co., where he was primarily employed. Clyde occasionally worked at the former Pennsboro Glass Co. and was the Ellenboro Glass Festival Parade Marshall in 2000. | DOAK, Clyde Jr. (I137035)
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| 15009 | He was a stockholder and director of the West Union Academy, a Seventh Day Baptist school, which was organized in 1851. Three of his children attended that school. | DAVIS, William Johnson "Rock Run Billy" (I43649)
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| 15010 | He was a successful merchant in New York, head of the firm Hedges, Powers & Co., with business at 27 Murray and 31 Warren Street. He resided in Elizabeth, New Jersey. | HEDGES, James English (I4539)
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| 15011 | He was a teamster, a carpenter, a former Grant District Commissioner, a former member of the Grant District School Board, and a retired employee of the West Virginia State Department of Highways. Roy Cleveland Hoskinson had both a wife and a sister named Golda Fay, commonly spelled Goldie Faye, both of whom were born in Doddridge County in 1893. | HOSKINSON, Roy Cleveland (I10518)
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| 15012 | He was a three-time WV State Archery Champion, winning as both a left and right handed archer. He then went on to finish 11th nationally and taught archery as a student at West Virginia University. | ROSS, Robert Neil (I62392)
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| 15013 | He was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and received the Vietnam Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the National Defense Service Medal. He served aboard the USS Harold J. Ellison, the USS Newport News and the USS Barney. He was proud to have served his country. | DOAK, John Lewis (I27092)
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| 15014 | He was a very active supporter of Doddridge County sports. He coached Salem Little League for many years and was Sedalia basketball coach. He coon hunted Bluetick coonhounds for 46 years. He was a passionate caretaker of the Center Point Christian Church Cemetery and Underwood Cemetery. | UNDERWOOD, Okey Jr. (I39345)
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| 15015 | He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, and died in a Veterans hospital. He married Bertha Thompson while stationed at Fort Flagler, Maristone Island, Washington. | PATTON, James Beryl (I20691)
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| 15016 | He was a veteran of the U.S. Army prior to World War II and had worked as an auto mechanic in Alexandria, VA. Although all official records and other source material pertaining to him and his immediate family have the family name spelled "Kerby," references throughout his obituary have it spelled "Kirby." Denver Steven Kerby and wife Hilda Catherine Ingram were third cousins once removed, as he was the great-great-grandson of Samuel Husk (died before June 1848) and she was the great-great-great-granddaughter of the same Samuel Husk. | KERBY, Thomas Denver (I1136)
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| 15017 | He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the Infantry of the Seventh Army in Europe. He was a member of the Harrison County Emergency Squad, to which he was elected secretary, and had been a First Aid instructor. For the last ten years, he was an insurance adjuster for the Shelby Insurance Co of Wheeling. | ADAMS, Worthy Bernard (I988)
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| 15018 | He was a ward in the West Virginia Childrens Home. Other Isner children were Orden Isner, age 7, and Helen Isner, age 5, relationships not indicated. | ISNER, John Elex (I77380)
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| 15019 | He was a well-known central West Virginia banker, retiring as vice president of the former Lowndes Bank after a 37-year career. Prior to that, at the time of his 1948 marriage, he resided in South Charleston, WV and was employed by the Carbide & Carbon Corporation. | LEGGETT, Donald Frank (I20779)
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| 15020 | He was a witness to the first atomic bomb tests in the Bikini Atoll. | YOST, Kenneth Carroll (I137139)
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| 15021 | He was a WWII veteran, having served in the US Army Air Corps. He was in Normandy on D-Day and earned a European-African and Middle Eastern Theatre Medal with 1 Silver Star, 1 Bronze Battle Star, a Good Conduct Medal, Air Force Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, and a Distinguished Unit Badge. [obit] | LIPSCOMB, Edwin Carl (I60235)
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| 15022 | He was absent from the 1860 Census. | BACKUS, Thomas (I74063)
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| 15023 | He was absent from the 1870 Census, which included his wife and son Lewis. Marital status was not included in the 1870 Census. Neither of them was found in teh 1880 Census. | SIMON, Abraham (I67815)
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| 15024 | He was age 10 in the 1860 Census, one year young than brother James and one year older than sister Bashaba. This would put his birth in about 1850, rather than the 1848 in his death record and on his headstone. | LINDSEY, William C. "Doc" (I35835)
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| 15025 | He was age 10 months at the time of the census enumeration on Aug 14 1850. | SMITH, Jacob (I64234)
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| 15026 | He was age 17 in the 1850 Census and age 27 in the 1860 Census. | DUNN, Jonathan (I58952)
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| 15027 | He was age 4 in the 1850 Census, with brother Nelson age 2. | REED, Asbury (I46946)
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| 15028 | He was age 6 months at the time of the April 1910 Census enumeration. The headstone which he shares with his two infant brothers has only the year 1910, implying that he was both born and died in 1910. But the census indicates otherwise. | FERREBEE, Robert Franklin (I102159)
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| 15029 | He was age 8 in the 1940 Census. | RICHARDS, Curtis Delane (I58452)
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| 15030 | He was age 9 in the 1900 Census, enumerated on 2 Sep 1900. | COX, Daniel Sedwick (I44683)
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| 15031 | He was age one month at the time of the 9 August 1850 census enumeration. | CHILDERS, William J. (I128620)
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| 15032 | He was also a member of the Pennsboro City Council for a number of years, and was Chief of the Pennsboro Volunteer Fire Department for 15 years. With his friend Kenneth K. "Tom" McCullough, he worked on a lake for the Pennsboro City Park, the lake now being known as Tracy Lake. | LAW, Tracy Forest (I5193)
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| 15033 | He was also a past member of the Bay Area Officials Association. He was an active member and volunteer for Edison Memorial UMC. He remained a supporter of Edison Schools, most notably as the JV Baseball Coach and volunteer for the athletic department. He often served as a volunteer coach for his children and other local youth with Edison Youth Sports, North Coast Showtime and the Norwalk Rec. In high school he was a member of the undefeated "Iron 14" freshman football team and the 1996 Fostoria Redman State Football Championship team. | SEEL, Mike (I101160)
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| 15034 | He was also a street rod fabricator and builder since his teens, specializing in 1930 automobiles. He was a founding member of the Citrus County Cruisers and a lifetime member of the National Street Rod Association. | MONIGOLD, Leonard Artis (I25393)
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| 15035 | He was also a volunteer fireman at the Salem Fire Department. | EDDY, James "Ray" (I130965)
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| 15036 | He was also an Adjunct Professor with West Virginia Wesleyan College, Fairmont State College where he taught in the federal prison system, and Salem College. His great passion was teaching. The Mountain State Auto Auction was a later part of his life where he worked with many new and old friends. | MACE, James Allen (I139259)
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| 15037 | He was also Chief of the Auxiliary Police in Marion County for several years. He served as Governor of Civitan International in West Virginia in 1961, and more recently was on the Marion County Civil Service Committee. | BEE, William Basil (I43343)
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| 15038 | He was also enumerated in Grafton, Taylor County, in the household of his brother Earl. | MCKEEN, Nelson Harrison (I93700)
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| 15039 | He was also enumerated in Harrison County as a student at Salem College. | RITTER, Clifton Clinton (I17561)
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| 15040 | He was also formerly employed by: Specialty Groups, as a night watchman, he had worked several years as a dozer operator at various local coal companies and in the tank department at P. P. G. Industries in Nutter Fort. | JETT, William Henry "Bill" (I38512)
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| 15041 | He was also head mechanic and sponsor of Paradise Valley Racing team at both Tyler and Interstate 79 Speedway. | NICHOLSON, Roy Kay "White Top" (I19507)
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| 15042 | He was also part of the first EMS organization in Clarksburg. | PERKINS, Woodrow Jennings "WJ" (I48709)
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| 15043 | He was also the Board Director of the American Cancer Society in Valparaiso and a volunteer at the Park Place Childrens Center in Anderson. | STEDMAN, Raymond Glenn (I139210)
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| 15044 | He was also the inventor of the tennis court roller for finishing tennis courts. His first love was family and his second was racing. His 25 year career produced 430 wins as he raced the biggest names in the sport. He was inducted into the Alabama Auto Racing Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2005. | MADER, David George Jr. (I54392)
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| 15045 | He was an active bowler and president of the Niles Bowling Association. | ALLEN, Edward Lee Jr. (I139363)
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| 15046 | He was an altar boy for the Pope while living in Italy prior to coming to the United States. | BUFFEY, Michael (Mike) (I35728)
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| 15047 | He was an elementary school principal in Doddridge County. During World War II, he attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy, where he was captain of LST 139 that participated in D-Day. He was awarded a Bronze Star for his military service. In 1948, he was president of the Doddridge County Education Association, as well as president of the West Union Lions Club. He then moved to Huntington, where he became professor emeritus at Marshall University, teaching in the Elementary Education Department. He retired to Sarasota, FL. Caption with his 1932 Salem College yearbook photo: " 'He speaketh not, and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.' And we might add that when he does talk he says something worth hearing. He is steadily dependable, and has proven himself invaluable to the Junior class by his willingness to shoulder responsibility." | GRAY, Rex Cameron (I5988)
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| 15048 | He was an employee of the Louis Marx Toy Plant, Glen Dale, until its closing, and was a retired guard of the West Virginia Penitentiary, Moundsville. He enjoyed bowling very much, a sport in which he won many awards, including being inducted into the Wheeling Bowling Association Hall of Fame on May 25, 2005. | HUSK, Fred James (I2620)
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| 15049 | he was an original landed proprietor | CHEESEMAN, William (I9841)
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| 15050 | He was awarded the Medal of Honor as a Private in Company B, 2nd West Virginia Cavalry for action at Deatonville (Sailor's Creek), Virginia on April 6, 1865. His citation reads "Capture of flag of 6th North Carlina Infantry (C.S.A.)." | KIMBALL, Joseph L. (I88321)
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