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Nancy Rhuhama SOMMERVILLE

Nancy Rhuhama SOMMERVILLE

Female 1852 - 1941  (89 years)


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  • Name Nancy Rhuhama SOMMERVILLE
    Birth 6 Feb 1852  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Minnie Kendall Lowther, p. 309, reports birth date as 1848. But age 19 given at time of Nov 1871 marriage would put birth at about 1852, headstone reads 1852, and death record specifies Feb 6 1852.
    Gender Female
    Death 25 Oct 1941  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Burial Auburn Community Cemetery, Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 6] 
    Person ID I21597  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 26 Feb 2006

    Father Robert SOMMERVILLE,   b. 1 May 1800, Harrison Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Jun 1871 (Age 71 years)
    Mother Mary "Polly" WARD,   b. 6 Nov 1802   d. 21 Jul 1894 (Age 91 years)
    Family ID F3353  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Wilson D. "Willis" WATSON,   b. 16 Oct 1850   d. 8 Apr 1930, Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)  [7, 8]
    Marriage 30 Nov 1871  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Children 
    >1. Dora Belle WATSON,   b. 1872   d. 15 Oct 1966, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years)
    +2. George Robert WATSON,   b. 29 Aug 1874, Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jul 1955, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    +3. Otis WATSON,   b. 5 Apr 1880, Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 May 1947, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
    >4. Marvin Len WATSON,   b. May 1882, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Oct 1969, Umatilla Co, OR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 87 years)
    +5. Henry Carl WATSON,   b. 28 Dec 1883, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jun 1955 (Age 71 years)
    >6. Winfield Scott WATSON,   b. Jul 1887, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Feb 1963, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years)
    Family ID F7983  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1853] WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx).

    2. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    3. [S1630] Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)).

    4. [S1853] WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx).
      Identified as Nancy Watson, widow of Wilson Watson, b. Feb 6 1852, dau of Robert Sommerville & Mary Hall [sic], d. Oct 25 1941 at Auburn. Informant: Dora Westfall, Auburn.

    5. [S1783] Ritchie County WV Deaths 1941-1955, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Dec 1998)).

    6. [S123] Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, (McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995).

    7. [S1570] Obituary of son.

    8. [S283] Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance, (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 309.

    9. [S1821] Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV, MR p. 25.
      Identified as Wilson D. Watson, 21, b. & res. in Ritchie Co, son of George & Susanna; and Rhuhama Sommerville, age 19, b. & res. in Ritchie Co, dau of Robert & Mary. Married Nov 30 1871 in Ritchie County.