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| 15051 | He was band director at Parkersburg South High School, Ravenswood High School, Southern High School in Racine,Ohio,and River High School in Hannibal, Ohio. He was also well known for his saxophone playing in various groups in the Parkersburg area, which included Blennerhassett Trio & Charisma. | WALTERS, Thomas Andrew (I139752)
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| 15052 | He was born Harry Lee Stutler, son of Irvin Stutler and Theresa E. "Resa" Clevenger. After his parents divorced, he and his brother Charles were raised by their maternal grandparents, Harrison C. & Mary Ann (Divers) Clevenger. After their mother remarried Cauda W. Coffman, both boys were known by their stepfather's surname. Despite being listed as grandson Harry Cleavenger in the 1920 Census, it is unclear whether he actually ever went by that name. | COFFMAN, Harry Lee (Stutler) (I115450)
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| 15053 | He was born in (W)Va, both his parents born in Pennsylvania. | SHERWOOD, Joseph Wayne (I65371)
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| 15054 | He was born on his grandfather's farm in Harrison County, was reared by his grandfather, and worked on the farm until age 15, when he learned the barber business in a thorough manner at Wilsonburg. In 1898 he went to Salem and in the year following established a first class barber shop at that place, on the corner of Water and Main Streets, where the First National Bank is now situated. In1902, after being burned out by the disastrous fire of Salem in 1901, he opened his present shop in the Merchants and Producers Bank building, where he has an excellent business in his line. Besides his shop, he owns one of the most attractive houses in Salem. He is a thorough-going, highly respected, public spirited citizen, pursuing a useful trade in a satisfactory manner to a large number of customers. [Genealogical & Personal History of Upper Monongahela Valley, by Bernard Butcher, 1912, p. 758] | BUMGARDNER, James Andrew (I140746)
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| 15055 | He was captain of the 1933 Victory High School basketball team that won the West Virginia state championship. He coached baseball for many years for the Marion, Indiana Little Leage known as the Kiwanis Dodgers. He played church league basketball and softball and later played with the Draper Dodgers championship softball team that traveled to Portland, Oregon for the 1948 World Championship. | SINES, Roscoe H. "Rocky" (I18355)
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| 15056 | He was captain of the Kent State Basketball team from 1960-1961. He was the head basketball coach for Tallmadge High School for 22 years, and retired from the Tallmadge School system in 1995 after 32 years of service. In 1980 and 1982, he was the Summit County Coach of the Year, was a member of the Summit County Sports Hall of Fame, Summit County Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and Tallmadge High School Hall of Fame. | MADDOX, James Oren (I15523)
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| 15057 | He was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge and was held as a prisoner of war in a German prison camp from Dec 31 1944 until Apr 15 1945. | BASNETT, Robert (I17300)
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| 15058 | He was Chief Engineer of WCOM in Parkersburg and WMOV in Ravenswood and made several major technological advances within the radio broadcast field to include the first remote broadcasts of local sports from the stadiums or from vehicles for on the spot news updates. Bill also owned and operated Collins Communications for 35 years, a Motorola Service Station for the commercial radio division. [obit] | COLLINS, William Earl (I122795)
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| 15059 | He was chosen as part of a team sent to Egypt to determine the feasibility of building a factory there. However, the Seven Days War broke out and he was sent to Greece instead. When he returned to the US, he transferred to a plant in Michigan, and then moved to a job at the Ford Motor Factory north of Dundee, Michigan. He attended several community college classes and served in several capacities in the Monroe and Dundee city/county offices. He retired from Ford Motor Company as a union supervisor and member of UAW and lived at Eagle Springs (Dundee) until 2020, when he returned to West Virginia to be close to family. | NICHOLSON, Arley Edsel "Eddie" (I81624)
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| 15060 | He was currently serving on the Pennsboro City Council, Pennsboro High School Alumni, Ritchie County Historical Society, Ritchie County Economic Authority, Relay for Life, Ritchie County Fair Association, and Ritchie Regional Health board. | JONES, Donnie K. (I13079)
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| 15061 | He was devoted to a career in education, having been a part of the Ritchie County School system for 21 years as a teacher and principal, 14 years in the Wood County School system teaching at Franklin Junior High School for eight years and was a teacher and the initial principal at Edison Junior High School for six years, concluding his public school teaching during a 10-year employment period with the Citrus County Schools in Florida. | COTTRILL, Paul Kenneth (I105245)
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| 15062 | He was disabled and was active in the Long Beach Special Olympics, being a medal winner in basketball, of which he was very proud. | CRITCHFIELD, Robert Irvin (I17501)
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| 15063 | He was drafted into the 11th Airborne Division in his second year of college due to the Korean War. He was later a member of North Bend Gold Course and an avid and competitive golfer. He won the Seniors Championship in 1983 at North Bend Golf Course. Ira was also an excellent rifleman and made his own gun barrels. He won the State Championship in 1987 with his Model 29 Remington barrel and in 1986 he won the State Championship with his Remington 31. Ira was named Harrisville Alumni in 2008. He was also inducted into the Mid-Ohio Valley Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. | ROBINSON, Ira Theodore (I137627)
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| 15064 | He was educated in the Tyler County school system, Salem College and West Virginia University. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. His first job was with Wetzel County School System as an instructor of veterans, 1949-50. He then went on to work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Soil Conservation Service in Nicholas and Kanawha Counties 1951-67. He finished his career in Morgantown at the Soil Conservation Service State Office as Personnel Officer 1967-69 and State Administrative Officer 1970-1977. | ESTLACK, Eli Thomas (I134205)
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| 15065 | He was elected to five consecutive terms as Township Trustee for Palmer Township, Washington Co, OH, from 1972 to 1992. Jim was highly skilled in HVAC, carpentry and woodcraft. On numerous occasions he hand-crafted wooden cradles and rocking horses for the young children of his extended family. | GASTON, James Morgan (I60)
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| 15066 | He was employed as a coal truck driver for J and W Trucking, then at Circle M Enterprises and finally Randy Moore of Harco Trucking Company of Shinnston, West Virginia. | STUTLER, Charles "Eugene" (I140897)
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| 15067 | He was employed as a dry goods salesman for the Koblegard Company and Thomas Field Company, following which he was employed briefly by the Smith Lumber Company. For 16 years, he was owner of the Underwood Gift Shop in Salem, after which he became manager of the NBC Clothing Outlet in West Union. He was also a farmer and raised livestock. | UNDERWOOD, William Beecher "Happy" (I60601)
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| 15068 | He was employed as a dry goods salesman for the Koblegard Company and Thomas Field Company, following which he was employed briefly by the Smith Lumber Company. For 16 years, he was owner of the Underwood Gift Shop in Salem, after which he became manager of the NBC Clothing Outlet in West Union. He was also a farmer and raised livestock. | UNDERWOOD, William Beecher "Happy" (I60601)
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| 15069 | He was employed as a production spray painter for the Clarksburg Plant of Lockheed Aeronautical Systems of Georgia. He was also retired from the Harrison County Emergency Squad. Among survivors were three sons, Rodney Wayne Plaugher, West Milford, Harold L. Plaugher, Clarksburg, and William Scott Plaugher, Wilsonburg; and three daughters, Rhonda Zirkle, Sun Valley, Cynthia Jean Hammond, Wallace, and Sheri McClung, North Carolina. | PLAUGHER, Harold Autry (I17287)
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| 15070 | He was employed as an engineer on the gas plant at Porto Rico, Doddridge County, and was killed in an explosion there. | RUBLE, Albert Lee (I23446)
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| 15071 | He was employed by Fourcos Clearlite Glass Company in Adamston, WV, for 2 years as a chemist then transferred to PPG Industries and worked as a Quality Control Technician for 9 years and continued as a Systems Analyst Computer Programmer for 27 more years, retiring from PPG Industries in 2001. | MCCLAIN, Worthy Otis (I27915)
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| 15072 | He was employed by his uncle William Gaston (1787-1837), the Savannah merchant, in his New York City branch office. After his uncle's death, he owned a stock farm at Bound Brook, finally settling in Somerville. | GASTON, William Ker (I4514)
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| 15073 | He was employed by the Wheeling Downs Race Track, Power Plant, Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel, Koppers Chemical Plant, and Sears Roebuck Company. After active military duty, Jerry joined the WV State Police, retiring in 1992 after 25 years of service with the rank of Sergeant. Jerry served at Morgantown, Paden City, Clarksburg, Bridgeport, and Shinnston, WV. In 1986, Jerry and his wife Lois built, owned and operated the Rt. 23 Country Store in Center Point, WV for 20 years. They both operated a small farm in Center Point, raising Black Angus, Belted Galloway cows, and calves sold for beef. Until his death, he and Maggie were active with the farm. They also enjoyed going to Quebec, Canada, where he bought a small cottage on an island and enjoyed walleye fishing. Jerry was a member of the Masonic Lodge 63 of Bridgeport, WV since 1979, All Retired State Police Association, Nemesis Shriners of Parkersburg, WV, Life member of Disabled American Veterans, American Association of State Troopers and a life member of the All State Police VFW. | BRAUN, Jerry Eugene (I103539)
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| 15074 | He was employed from 1959-60 as a teacher at Magnolia High School in Wetzel Co, from 1960-73 in the Industrial Arts Dept at Tyler Co High School, where he also served as Principal in 1972-73, and he retired in 1986 from Doddridge Co High School, where he had been Principal since 1973. | ASH, Randall Bates "Ranny" (I26746)
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| 15075 | He was employed in the garment industry all of his life, starting at Myles Manufacturing in Harrisville. Throughout his employment, he worked in the Laura Mae and United Manufacturing plants, where he served in every position. In later years, he was the owner and manager of the Safety Stitch garment factory in Harrisville. | MOSSOR, Donald Edwin (I42140)
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| 15076 | He was engaged in the dairy business with his parents at their Hi-Land Jersey Farm for many years. Subsequent to that, he drove dairy trucks for the United Dairy of Martins Ferry, for 10 years and was later employed by Switzerland of Ohio School District as a bus driver. | KINDELBERGER, George Paul (I88693)
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| 15077 | He was enumerated twice in 1940, once with his family and again in the household of his married sister Gladys Wilson and her family. | KINNEY, George Nolan (I52682)
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| 15078 | He was enumerated twice in 1950, once with his family and then listed as Maynard Kesling, 16, farm hand, one of three lodgers (all farm hands) in the household of Leeman C. & Freda Cumpston and their family. | KESLING, Maynard M. "Skip" (I140410)
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| 15079 | He was enumerated twice in the 1910 Census of Doddrige County, once with his widowed mother in Southwest District, and also in his own household with his wife and family in New Milton District. | LIPSCOMB, Allen (I105058)
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| 15080 | He was enumerated twice in the 1930 Census, once with his family (with the notation "absent'), and again as a boarder in a hotel in the town of Addison in Webster County, where his occupation was given as miner. | DAVIS, Jerry Grandison (I36318)
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| 15081 | He was enumerated twice in the 1940 Census, once as Jeffrey R. Sutton with his family in New Milton District, and also listed in Cove District as Ray Sutton, 29, single, hired farm hand, in the household of Frank & Christiana Hinter. | SUTTON, Jeffory Ray (I68904)
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| 15082 | He was enumerated twice in the 1940 Census, once in West Union District, Doddridge County, and again with his wife and parents-in-law in Wilbur, Centerville District, Tyler County. | COTTRILL, Charles David (I62068)
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| 15083 | He was enumerated twice in this census, once with his family (noted as being absent), and once as one of many soldiers at Fort Hayes in Columbus, Ohio. He was identified as Warren G. Hickman, 19, b. WVa, residence in 1935 in Salem WVa, single, completed 8 years of education. | HICKMAN, Warren G. "Bud" (I85483)
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| 15084 | He was enumerated twice in this census, once with his family in West Union, and then as a lodger in Akron. | BLAIR, George Neely (I75336)
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| 15085 | He was enumerated twice in this Census, with his father in Southwest District, and with his sister's family in New Milton District. | FISHER, Okey Arthur (I48493)
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| 15086 | He was enumerated with his family in West Union, and also as a student at Salem College, Harrison County. | SMITH, Otha Eugene (I59499)
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| 15087 | He was formerly a police officer for the city of Salem, WV, and served five terms on the City Council. His last employment was with Tom's Foods Inc. before becoming disabled. | PRICE, William D. (I19911)
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| 15088 | He was formerly employed by B & O Railroad for 12 years, and retired in 1981 after 21 years with the Harrison County Board of Education, with his last assignment being Salem Middle School. His first name was given as "John" in his birth record, but as "Johnnie" in obituary. | HUSK, John Robert "Johnnie" (I2025)
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| 15089 | He was founder and former pastor of the Mission of Faith Church, Big Isaac. He was also a former pastor of the Sawyers Run community Church, the West Milford Community Church, and the Long Run Community Church. In his 44 years of ministry, Rev. Hart preached numerous revivals in West Virginia and surrounding states. | HART, John W. "Chuck" Jr. (I1729)
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| 15090 | He was inducted into Eldora Racing Hall of Fame 2014 and the West Virginia Drag Racers' Hall of Fame in 2019. He won several WV State Championships in Drag Racing at Eldora Raceway. Jimmie had owned the Tyler County Speedway in 1982 and 1983. | NICHOLSON, Jimmie Melvin "Big Daddy" (I60938)
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| 15091 | He was informant on his brother Samuel's death record. | RIPLEY, Daniel (I97496)
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| 15092 | He was involved in many businesses over the years, including: Sammy's Inn, Sammy's Discount Store, The Mill Club, and Superfit. He was proud to have had the first discount store in West Virginia. He was a talented artist and awesome drummer who played for several bands in the 1950s and 60s. He attended Mountaineer Boys State at the same time as NBA Star Jerry West and often bragged that they worked on their jump shots together. He was once an extra in a movie called "Wild Hearts Can't be Broken" which was filmed in Myrtle Beach, SC. | VELTRI, Samuel Louis (I9419)
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| 15093 | He was involved in the capture of Iwo Jima in the South Pacific. After the Japanese surrender, he was involved in the occupation of Japan and was also involved in the disarmament of South Kyuso, particularly destroying coastal defense guns and a large ammunition dump. | HOLTZ, Charles Edward "Chuck" (I79806)
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| 15094 | He was known by several nicknames, "Butch," "Butchie" or "Junior" to family and friends; "Gilbert" to coworkers at Kroger; and "Sonny" to those who rode the city bus with him between Stonewood and Clarksburg. He began working in local body shops at the age of sixteen. He worked in the body shop at Harry Green Chevrolet from about 1966 to 1971. He also worked at Rose's Furniture and Bauer Lumber in Glen Elk and was a carpenter's helper with Louie Mazza before going to work at Coca Cola about 1975. He remained at Coke until the local plant quit bottling pop about 1986. He went to work for Kroger in Dec 1990, retiring in 2004. | BUTCHER, Gilbert Franz Jr. (I34720)
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| 15095 | He was last employed at General Motors in Detroit, Michigan, retiring in 1976. At one time he was employed at Brown-Reynolds Lumber Company in New York, Alcoa Aluminum in New York, Rutland RR Company in Vermont, Remington Arms in New York, E.I. Dupont in New Jersey, Navy Yard in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Remington Tabulator in New York, Ford Motor Company in Michigan, Burroughs Adding Machine in Michigan, and Civil Aeronautic Administration in Anchorage, Alaska. | GONYEA, Cecil H. (I23581)
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| 15096 | He was later employed with MAP International, Clarksburg casket Company and Mountain State Casket Co., and J.B. General Builders. | GODFREY, Ronald Lynn (I136191)
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| 15097 | He was manager of the former Calhoun Super Service Store in Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV, prior to moving to Charleston. There he was dispatcher for the Kanawha Regional Transportation Authority, from which he retired after 32 years of service. He was president of the Britton family reunion. | BRITTON, Kenneth Edward (I12428)
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| 15098 | He was mentioned on the Paul Harvey radio show, as well as local newspapers, as the fireman who went down a 30 foot well to rescue a dog. | TRENT, Virgil "Scott" (I17791)
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| 15099 | He was not present for the 1850 Census, and again for the 1860 Census. | WILLIS, William (I22569)
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| 15100 | He was not present for the 1880 Census. | POWELL, Harvey William (I96720)
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