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Ira Ledford TRAUGH

Ira Ledford TRAUGH

Male 1877 - 1958  (81 years)


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  • Name Ira Ledford TRAUGH
    Birth 2 Nov 1877  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male
    Census 1880  Grant District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1900  Sardis District, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • With his mother, in household of maternal grandfather.
    Occupation 1900  [4] 
    tool dresser 
    Census 1910  Junction City, Perry Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1910  [5] 
    driller in oil field 
    Occupation 1918  [3] 
    oil & gas driller 
    Residence 1918  Clendenin, Kanawha Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6] 
    Census 1920  Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1920, 1928  [7, 8] 
    oil driller 
    Residence 1928  Saginaw, Saginaw Co, MI Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Census 1930  Prestonsburg, Floyd Co, KY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Listed as Ira L. Traugh, 52, b. WVa, divorced, driller for oil & gas company, one of several "roomers" at a hotel.
    Occupation 1930  [9] 
    driller for oil & gas company 
    Residence 1935  Mt. Pleasant, Isabella Co, MI Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Census 1940  Grand Rapids, Kent Co, MI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Listed as Ira Traugh, 62, b. WVa, divorced, oil field worker, resided 1935 in Mt. Pleasant Michigan, a lodger in the household of Fred Pugh (47, b. Ohio, pumper in oil field), his wife Gertrude and their three children.
    Occupation retired tool dresser in oil fields  [11] 
    Occupation 1940  [10] 
    oil field worker 
    Residence Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Residence 1942, PARK HOTEL  Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 4 Nov 1958  Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Burial Short Creek Methodist Cemetery, West Liberty, Ohio Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12] 
    Person ID I129515  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 14 Oct 2020

    Father Martin L. TRAUGH,   b. CA 1858, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Mother Mary F. HICKMAN,   b. CA 1858, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 May 1918, Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 60 years)
    Family ID F22853  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1553] Doddridge County Birth Records, West Union, WV, BR p. 90, Line 33 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=2604070&Type=Birth.

    2. [S2508] National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, (Ancestry.com online database).

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

    4. [S1980] 1900 Census, Harrison County, WV.

    5. [S1813] 1910 Census.

    6. [S1671] Death record of mother.

    7. [S2354] 1920 Census, Kanawha County, WV.

    8. [S2201] City Directory.

    9. [S1898] 1930 Census.

    10. [S127] 1940 Census.

    11. [S1853] WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx), http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1364364&Type=Death.

    12. [S934] Findagrave.com.