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Melissa Jane DAVISSON

Melissa Jane DAVISSON

Female 1857 - 1893  (36 years)

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  • Name Melissa Jane DAVISSON 
    Born 18 Nov 1857  Marion Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    • Birth date calculated from age at death (36y 1m 2d) appearing in death record and on headstone. In conflict with this, the headstone gave the birth and death dates as 1858 to 1893.
    Gender Female 
    Census 1860  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 20 Dec 1893  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Buried Cairo Baptist Church Cemetery, Cairo, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I2608  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 4 Aug 2016 

    Father Jasper W. DAVISSON,   b. 11 Jul 1836, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Sep 1895  (Age 59 years) 
    Mother Mariah FAST,   b. 11 Jul 1835, Monongalia Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Mar 1913, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Family ID F1052  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Samuel Austin HUSK,   b. 13 Apr 1858, Greene Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Aug 1938, Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Married 12 Oct 1879  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Children 
    +1. Cora Rosalthee HUSK,   b. 7 Jul 1880, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Sep 1952, Sistersville, Tyler Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
     2. May HUSK,   b. 1882, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1882  (Age 0 years)
     3. Homer HUSK,   b. 1883, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1903  (Age 20 years)
    +4. Jane "Janie" HUSK,   b. 25 Feb 1885, Ross Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Feb 1974  (Age 88 years)
    +5. Jasper Isaac "J. I." HUSK,   b. 23 Apr 1887, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Oct 1971  (Age 84 years)
    +6. Samuel Leonard HUSK,   b. 22 Dec 1888, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Dec 1969, Columbus, Franklin Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
     7. Jerome Asbury HUSK,   b. 22 Apr 1891, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jan 1894, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 2 years)
     8. John DeWitt HUSK,   b. 23 Nov 1893, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Feb 1894, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F934  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S258] Birth date calculated from age at death on death record.

    2. [S1774] Doddridge County WV Marriages 1845-1937, (Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1993)).

    3. [S1736] Ritchie County Death Records, Harrisville, WV, DR Bk 1, p. 28.

    4. [S5] Headstone.

    5. [S1574] West Virginia Marriage Records, 1863-1900, (http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4484.htm).
      Samuel Husk's middle initial given as "H" which is incorrect, as his middle name was Austin.