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Flora PARKER

Flora PARKER

Female 1857 - 1923  (~ 65 years)

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  • Name Flora PARKER 
    Born May 1857  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    • Birth date May 28 1851 in death record is inconsistent with other records. Age 21 at time of her August 1879 marriage puts her birth in about 1858, and the 1900 Census gives her birth date as May 1857. Birthplace given in her death record as Wetzel County, but in her marriage record as Doddridge County.
    Gender Female 
    Residence 1879  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Census 1880  McElroy District, Tyler Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1900  McClellan District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1914  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Residence 1918  Blue, Tyler Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Census 1920  Elk Lick, McClellan District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Died 20 Apr 1923  Alvy, Tyler Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Cause: pneumonia fever 
    Buried Alvy, Tyler Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I118004  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 26 May 2020 

    Father Eli PARKER 
    Mother Isabell PITTS 
    Family ID F50791  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Smith E. SULLIVAN,   b. 15 Mar 1856, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Nov 1935, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married N 
    Marital Status Partners 
    Children 
    +1. Emery PARKER,   b. 14 Mar 1878, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Sep 1935, Sistersville, Tyler Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years)
    Family ID F50413  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Benonia S. (Benjamin N.) WRIGHT,   b. 20 May 1857, Tyler Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 23 Aug 1879  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Notes 
    • 1880 Census, Tyler Co, WV (McElroy District), enumerated on Jun 26/29 1880:
      Bennona Wright, 22, farm laborer; cannot read/write; wife Flora Wright, 21, cannot read/write; stepson Emery Sulivan, 2.

      1900 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (McClellan District), enumerated on Jun 12 1900:
      Benjamin N. Wright, 42, b. Nov 1857, farmer, married 20 yrs; wife Flora, 43, b. May 1857, married 20 yrs, mother of 1 child (still living).
      NOTE: The next enumerated household was that of Benjamin's (aka Benonia's) brother Isaac N. Wright and his family. Also nearby, living alone, was Flora's son Emery, who was now going by his mother's surname: Emory Parker, 22, b. Mar 1878, single, day laborer.
    Family ID F36901  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 John C. CLARK,   b. Aug 1855, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1 Jan 1914  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Documents
    118012_JohnCClark_FloraParkerWright_MarriageRecord_1Jan1914.jpg    		118012_JohnCClark_FloraParkerWright_MarriageRecord_1Jan1914.jpg
    Family ID F50414  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    118004_CLARK_FloraParker_1857-1923_DeathCertificate.jpg    		118004_CLARK_FloraParker_1857-1923_DeathCertificate.jpg

  • Sources 
    1. [S2010] 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (McClellan District).

    2. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, MR p. 234, Line 18 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11792345&Type=Marriage.

    3. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11795238&Type=Marriage.

    4. [S1875] World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, National Archives and Records Administration, (Ancestry.com online database).

    5. [S2075] 1920 Census, Doddridge County, WV (McClellan District).

    6. [S1853] Death Certificate, WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx), http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1424906&Type=Death.

    7. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, MR p. 234, Line 18 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11792345&Type=Marriage.
      Identified as Benonia Wright, 21, b. & res. in Wetzel Co, son of Daniel & Prudence Wright, occupation farmer; and Flora Parker, 21, b. & res. in Doddridge Co, dau of Levi & (blank) Parker. Married Aug 23 1879 in Doddridge County, officiated by Samuel Starkey.