Doddridge County Roots


A West Virginia Genealogy

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22201 SAR entry indicates Neelytown as being located in Ulster County, New York. NEELY, John Jr. (I79705)
 
22202 Sarah A. Cunningham in the 1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Sarah A. Cunningham
Age: 40
Birth Date: Abt 1840
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1880: Troy, Gilmer, West Virginia, USA
Dwelling Number: 188
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Jacob Cunningham
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Name: Lucinda Cunningham
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Blind: Yes
Deaf and Dumb: Yes
Cannot Read: Yes
Cannot Write: Yes
Neighbors:
Household Members Age Relationship
Jacob Cunningham 62 Self (Head)
Lucinda Cunningham 63 Wife
Sarah A. Cunningham 40 Daughter
John S. Cunningham 25 Nephew
Phebe Cunningham 14 Niece 
CUNNINGHAM, Sarah Ann (I119985)
 
22203 Sarah Cole was a full-blooded Indian of the Creek Nation, Maryland. Is is further believed that she was an Indian Princess, a daughter of Chief Little Bear of the Creek Indians. It has also been said that she was a Cherokee, a tribe of the Creek Nation. COLE, Sarah (I10965)
 
22204 Sarah Ella Hess in the West Virginia, U.S., Deaths Index, 1853-1973
Name Sarah Ella Hess [Sarah Ella Greynolds]
Birth Date 6 Apr 1868
Birth Place Harrison , West Virginia
Death Date 24 Dec 1945
Death Place Bristol, Doddridge, West Virginia
Burial Date 27 Dec 1945
Burial Place Big Isaac, Doddridge, West Virginia
Death Age 77 years 8 months 18 days
Occupation House Work
Race White
Marital Status Widowed
Gender Female
Father Name Levi Greynolds
Father Birth Place West Virginia
Mother Name Mary Ferrebee
Mother Birth Place Sisterville, West Virginia
FHL Film Number 838195 
GREYNOLDS, Sarah Ella "Luella" (I139076)
 
22205 Sarah H. "Sallie" Wilkes Carder

Birth: Feb. 8, 1856 <<=========
Virginia, USA
Death: Oct. 20, 1929
Doddridge County
West Virginia, USA

Daughter of:
Albert Wilkes

Family links:
Spouse:
Joseph B. Carder (1851 - 1937)*


Note: Burial: 22 Oct 1929

Burial:
Mount Lebanon Cemetery
Harrison County
West Virginia, USA

Created by: Bob & Kathy
Record added: Jan 05, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 63787570 
WILKES, Sallie H. (I76618)
 
22206 Sarah Hughes' middle name has been reported variously as Abigail or Ann. The latter is considered more likely. HUGHES, Sarah A. (I43263)
 
22207 Sarah Phipps and her first husband, Peter Walter, had five children. PHIPPS, Sarah (I35145)
 
22208 Sarah Phipps was the first white child born in Scrubgrass (now Clinton Township), Venango County, PA. PHIPPS, Sarah (I35123)
 
22209 Sarah Pritchard was the only child of Thomas Pritchard Sr. who remained in Virginia. PRITCHARD, Sarah (I35641)
 
22210 Sarah was born to her mother, Rachel Lowther, before the marriage to her stepfather William Reed. Her natural father was Elmore Burton. She thus was born Sarah Columbia Lowther, but assumed the name Reed of her stepfather. [per daughter Maggie Husk Brannon] She was identified in daughter Bessie's obituary, however, as Sarah Burton, and in husband's death certificate as Sarah Lowther. REED, Sarah Columbia Lowther (I2480)
 
22211 School activities: Glee Club; Operetta; Staff, Basketball '24, '26, '27; T. A. O. Club; Friendship Club; Junior Play; Emerson English Club; Head Cheer Leader; Dramatics; Debating Club. WARNER, Margaret Lavina (I107765)
 
22212 Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
Name William Ramsey
Gender Male
Birth Date 03 Oct 1735
Birth Place Torryburn,Fife,Scotland
Father James Ramsey
Mother Janet Hynd
FHL Film Number 1040182 
RAMSEY, William III (I120740)
 
22213 scratched on tombstone GARRETT, Almeda A. (I94127)
 
22214 SDB Churches served as pastor included the Ritchie SDB Church of Berea, WV, and the Middle Island SDB Church of New Milton, Doddridge, Co., WV, 1955-1960; Dodge Center (MN) SDB Church 1960-1965; Verona (NY) SDB Church, 1965-1970; Marlboro SDB Church, Bridgeton, NJ, 1970-1982; and Waterford (CT) SDB Church, 1983-1986. While in Waterford he also served as pastor of the Rockville (RI) SDB Church and worked with a group of Jamaican SDBs in Hartford, CT. Earlier he also served as interim pastor of the Durhamville Baptist Church and New London Methodist Church, both located in New York State. In November 1986 he became Manager of Camp Joy, Berea, WV.
https://campjoywv.org/ 
RICHARDS, Donald E. (I137644)
 
22215 Second of nine children. PAYNE, Gertrude Virginia "Trudy" (I131299)
 
22216 Section 5, Lot 11, Grave 3W. No marker. BEVERLIN, William M. "Willie" (I58913)
 
22217 Section 70A, Row U Grave 23 DOUGLASS, Eva Mae (I19591)
 
22218 Selected as the 1977 Vernon Strawberry Queen. TOWNER, Cheryl Lee (I135685)
 
22219 Sena Ellen Young Lowe
Birth: 1870 Folsom, Wetzel County, West Virginia, USA
Death: 1 May 1948 (aged 77–78) Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
Burial: Sunset Memorial Park, Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
Memorial #: 166778309

Family Members
Parents
Eli Young 1840-Unknown
Mary Miller Young 1843-Unknown
Spouse
Ulysses Grant Lowe 1874-1956
Siblings
Lloyd Young 1864-1945
Saphrona "Frona" Young Martin 1867-1955
Laverna "Verna" Young Bates 1870-1940
Eli Young 1874-1951
Jackson Andrew Young 1876-Unknown
Ida M Young 1880-1880
C M Young 1882-1883

Created by: Jennifer Wilt (47498841)
Added: 2016-07-10T21:46:40.000Z
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166778309/sena_ellen_lowe 
YOUNG, Sena Ellen (I138034)
 
22220 Sentenced to 6 months in the Montana State Prison for burglary. ROGERS, Frederick Russell "Fred" (I64387)
 
22221 Sep 10 (or 19) 1785 (or 1790) STUTLER, Martha (I46306)
 
22222 Sergt. Samuel Cleveland, along with brothers Moses and Aaron, was a soldier in King Philip's War, 1675-76. He was known as Sergt Cleveland, and is thus designated in the Woburn and Canterbury town, land and church records. CLEVELAND, Samuel (I72769)
 
22223 Served 24 years in the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville for first degree murder, later commuted to second degree murder.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=105453375 
ROSS, Julia Maude (I74536)
 
22224 Served 3 years in the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry, was wounded 3 times, once at Gettysburg. GASTON, James M. (I8852)
 
22225 Served 45 years as Justice of the Peace and was twice elected County Commissioner, dying during his second term. GASTON, Joseph Smith (I3480)
 
22226 Served aboard LST-117, LST-845, USS Chenango (CVE-28), USS Klondike (AD-22), USS Lassen (AE-3), USS Suwanee (CVE-27). ROBISON, Robert Ray (I82272)
 
22227 Served aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Leedstown (AP-73), the destroyer USS Laffey (DD-724) (known as "the ship that would not die" and now a museum ship in South Carolina), the PCE-900, and the attack cargo ship USS Virgo (AKA-20).

From a news article in the West Union Herald of February 1, 1945:
"Robert B. Pernell, Pharmacist Mate 1/c, has been in the Navy three years. Fourteen months of this time was spent in European waters. He was a member of the crew of the ship Leedstown, bound for the United States, after unloading troops in North Africa, and which was attacked and sunk by the enemy on Nov. 8, 1942. He and other members of the crew were picked up by airplane after several hours in the water."
(NOTE: The initial attack and damage was on Nov 8 1942, with a second attack and further damage the next day. The ship sunk on Nov 9 1942 about 12 miles from Algiers. http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l5/leedstown-i.htm) 
PERNELL, Robert Boyd (I81901)
 
22228 Served aboard the attack cargo ship USS Algorab (AKA-8), the attack transport USS Marvin H McIntyre (APA-129), and the light cruiser USS Albany. SWISHER, William Low (I81306)
 
22229 Served aboard the battleship USS New York (BB-34), the escort carriers USS Suwanee and USS Tulagi (CVE-72), the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain (CV-39), and the oiler USS Monongahela (AO-42). PRATT, Clayton (I28657)
 
22230 Served aboard the destroyer USS Isbell (DD-869) during the Vietnam War. The USS Isbell’s primary function was to serve as an escort for aircraft carriers while operating in the combat zone, providing protection against enemy threats and also provided naval gunfire support to the ground troops in Vietnam. Tom received a Citation for Bravery from the Commander of the USS Isbell and from the Commander of the Pacific Fleet for Bravery Under Fire when they rescued US Air Force personnel in the Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea, while under enemy fire for 30 minutes. This award is given to someone who acts with bravery and courage in an emergency while jeopardizing their own life to save another. RHODES, Thomas Nelson (I46236)
 
22231 Served aboard the destroyer USS Thatcher (DD-162), aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412) which was sunk in June 1942 in the Battle of Midway, troop transport USS Mount Vernon (AP-22), destroyer USS Gansevoort (DD-608), and aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVB-41). COX, Holt Forest (I53192)
 
22232 Served aboard the minelayer U.S.S. Canonicus from Aug 17 1918 to Jan 5 1919 in Scotland and North Sea. "During the summer and fall of 1918 [the Canonicus] participated in laying the North Sea mine barrage, an anti-submarine barrier intended to limit the German U-Boat threat. Canonicus returned to the U.S. at the beginning of 1919, less than two months after the end of World War I's fighting. Reconverted to a troop transport and transferred to the Cruiser and Transport Force, she made three voyages from France to the East Coast, bringing home more than four-thousand veterans of the "Great War"."
http://shipscribe.com/usnaux/ww1/ships/id1696.htm 
BLAIR, Francis Keech (I75337)
 
22233 Served aboard the minesweeper U.S.S. Dextrous (AM-341) in the Mediterranean in 1943-1944 (Anzio beachhead in preparation for invasion, and southern France) and in the Pacific in 1945-1946 (Pearl Harbor, Guam, and Okinawa in connection with the U.S. 3rd Fleet's final raids on Japan).

From a news article in the West Union Herald of February 1, 1945:
"Bertie O. Pernell, S 1/c, has been in the Navy two years. He trained at Great Lakes and has been in active service 14 months. He was in the invasion of Southern France, Italy and other ports in the Mediterranean area. He has reported back to Norfolk, Va., for orders." 
PERNELL, Bertie Owen (I77454)
 
22234 Served aboard the submarine tender USS Otus (AS-20), Landing Craft Tank (LCT) Flotillas 2 and 7, and the destroyer USS Buck (DD-761). BUSH, Clarence Irvin (I15155)
 
22235 Served aboard the submarine USS Bowfin (SS-287), the submarine rescue ship USS Chanticleer (ASR-7), and the submarine tender USS Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16). MCMILLION, George James (I44629)
 
22236 Served aboard the T2 tanker (fleet oiler) USS Kennebec (AO-36) and the attack cargo ship USS Shoshone (AKA-65). On the Shoshone, he took part in the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was witness to the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima. TUSTIN, Ivol Wayne (I60516)
 
22237 Served aboard the tank landing ship LST-569 at Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Zambales-Subic Bay and Mindanao Island. LST-569 earned four battle stars for World War II service. ASH, Albert Thomas (I84045)
 
22238 Served aboard the tank landing ship LST-997, participating in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France, in August and September 1944. He later served aboard LST 907. BOYCE, Joseph Walton (I84047)
 
22239 Served aboard the U.S.S. Bountiful Hospital Ship (AH-9) in the Pacfic Theater.

Ship information -
Originally launched as the Henderson (AP-1) on 17 June 1916 and commissioned on 24 May 1917. She served as a transport until decommissioned on 13 October 1943 for conversion to a hospital ship.
Length: 483 feet 10 inches
Beam: 61 feet 1 inch
Tonnage: 7,750 GRT
Speed: 13.5 knots
Armament: None
Crew: 233 crewmen
Troop Capacity: 477 patients

1944 - Commissioned as Bountiful on 23 March. Departed San Francisco on 1 April for Honolulu, returning to San Francisco later that month Sailed 1 May for the western Pacific. Arrived on 18 June at Saipan after a brief service at Honolulu and Eniwetok. She made three passages to the hospitals on Kwajalein with casualties of the Marianas invasions and at about this time, Bountiful established one of the few blood banks on a Naval ship. She then remained at Manus until 17 September when she sailed for the Palaus to bring casualties of the Peleliu landing to hospitals in the Solomons. After November, Bountiful operated between Leyte and the rear bases carrying veterans of the Philippines campaign.

1945 - She departed Manus 24 February for Ulithi and Saipan to receive casualties of the Iwo Jima assault, and in the next months sailed to rendezvous with the fleet to take on wounded from Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the fleet units themselves. Returning to Leyte Gulf on 15 June, she remained until 21 July, and then got underway for California. Bountiful arrived after war's end, sailing into San Francisco Bay on 21 August. Bountiful departed San Francisco on i November after being assigned as a hospital ship at Yokosuka, Japan. She arrived 24 November to support the occupation forces, and remained until 27 March 1946 when she sailed for San Francisco.

1946 - The ship sailed 26 May for the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll, and after observing the series of nuclear experiments of Operation "Crossroads" returned to Seattle 15 August. She decommissioned 13 September. Bountiful was sold for scrap by the Maritime Commission on 28 January 1948 to Consolidated Builders, Inc., Seattle.

Source: http://ww2troopships.com/ships/b/bountiful/default.htm 
BOWERS, Francis Woodrow (I138530)
 
22240 Served aboard the U.S.S. Wyoming, the U.S.S. Hill DE-141, the ATA-192, and the ATR-74. HURST, Edward Lee (I140542)
 
22241 Served aboard the USS Gannet (AVP-8) in 1941-42, on the USS Ariel (AF-22) in 1942, on the LST-454 in 1943-44, on the USS Gilmer (APD-11) in 1944, on the USS Telamon (ARB-8) in 1945-47, on the USS Eversole (DE-404) in 1947-48, and on the USS Tekesta (ATF-93) in Dec 1948. Aboard the USS Gannet when it was sunk on June 7, 1942, he was one of 18 men who were in the ocean for 17-1/2 hours before they were rescued and taken to a hospital for three weeks. PERNELL, Onnie Gordon (I81900)
 
22242 Served aboard the USS Harry L Corl (APD-108) high-speed transport.
https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/04/04108.htm 
BATTON, Ralph Hurl (I137043)
 
22243 Served aboard the USS Mississippi in 1945 and 1946 at the time of her conversion from battleship (BB-41) to a weapons testing ship (AG-128). GASTON, Carmi David (I61478)
 
22244 Served aboard USS Leonard Wood (APA-12), USS Concord (DL-10), USS Antares (AG-10), USS Ranger (CV-4), USS Shamrock Bay (CVE-84). BROWN, Willis Wayne (I82683)
 
22245 Served aborad the USS Franklin D Roosevelt (CCVA-42) and the USS Arneb (LKA-56) during the Vietnam War. FLEMING, Danny Gerald (I136519)
 
22246 Served as a 4-H leader for 35 years, was a 4-H All Star, and served on the Doddridge County Fair Board. SPURGEON, Cletha Helen (I17107)
 
22247 Served as a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, as Mayor of Boston from 1871-72, and 1875-76 as Governor of Massachusetts. He also had a private law practice in which his son William Alexander Gaston became a partner. ["The Gaston Genealogy," p. 40] Earned a B.A. & M.A. from Brown University in 1840 and 1843, and a law degree from Brown & Harvard in 1875. [American Ancestry, Vol V, p. 103] "William Gaston had established a successful legal practice in the City of Roxbury before entering politics. He served as a Representative in the State Legislature (1853-1854), as Roxbury's City Solicitor (1856-60), and as its Mayor (1861 and 1862). He resumed his private practice of law until 1868, when he served the Massachusetts Senate for a year. The City of Boston annexed Roxbury in 1868, and in 1871, Gaston was voted Mayor of Boston. Running for Governor as a Democrat, Gaston defeated incumbent Thomas Talbot who had supported the continuance of statewide prohibition by his veto. Gaston promoted a law repealing the Commonwealth's prohibition law, leaving such restrictions to the determination of localities. Governor Gaston was defeated in his reelection bid by Alexander Rice. Mr. Gaston returned to his extremely successful legal practice, gaining renown as a trial attorney."
http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/massgovs/wgaston.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/3/14132/14132.txt 
GASTON, William (I3040)
 
22248 served as a missionary of the Baptist Church in India from 1892 to 1915 BOGGESS, Wheeler (I43058)
 
22249 Served as an anti-aircraft gunner aboard the "Liberty Ship" USS Harriet Monroe (2134).

"Liberty ship" was the name given to the EC2-type ship designed for emergency construction by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II. The 2711 Liberty Ships were built to a standardized, mass produced design. The 250,000 parts were pre-fabricated throughout the country in 250-ton sections and welded together in about 70 days. Libertys carried a crew of about 44 and 12 to 25 Naval Armed Guard. Liberty ships were named after prominent deceased Americans.
SOURCE: http://www.usmm.org/libertyships.html
https://ww2ships.com/acrobat/us-os-001-f-r00.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Monroe 
SPENCER, Hugh Kendall "Bud" (I22661)
 
22250 Served as captain of a volunteer company, 1775, between Broad and Catawba rivers in South Carolina. GASTON, William (I3315)
 

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