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Charlotta WILLARD

Charlotta WILLARD

Female 1813 - 1895  (82 years)


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  • Name Charlotta WILLARD  [1]
    Birth 29 Jan 1813  Greene Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female
    Census 1850, 1860  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1870  Union District, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1880  Murphy District, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • In household of daughter and son-in-law Sallie & Charles Leggett.
    Death 6 Apr 1895  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Burial Lowther (Walnut Grove) Cemetery, Holbrook, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I28360  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2021

    Father George WILLARD
    Mother Elizabeth HUME,   b. Germany Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F17423  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Archibald LOWTHER,   b. 17 May 1811, West Milford, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1874, Holbrook, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)  [4]
    Marriage 26 Dec 1834  Monongalia Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Don Norman reports marriage as Sep 23 1834 in Ritchie Co.
    Notes 
    • 1850 Census, Ritchie Co, Virginia (now West Virginia) (Western District), enumerated on Sep 5 1850:
      Archo Lowther, 39, farmer, value of real estate $1500; Charlotte, 27 (sic); Eliz. J., 14; Wm. G., 11; Margaret, 10; Alex, 8; Wm., 81, farmer; Rebecca, 48. All born in Virginia except for Charlotte, born in Pennsylvania.

      1860 Census, Ritchie Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Aug 20 1860:
      Archibald Lowther, 49, farmer, value of real estate $3000, value of personal estate $982; Charlotte, 49; Wm. G., 21; Margaret, 20; Alexr, 18; John M, 8; Sarah A, 6; Rebecca, 57.

      1870 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Union Twp, Harrisville Post Office), enumerated on Jun 30 1870:
      Archibald Lowther, 59, farmer, value of real estate $3000, value of personal estate $675; Charlotte, 58, cannot write; John M, 17, attended school within the year; Sarah A, 16, attended school within the year; Rebecca, 67, cannot write. Birthplaces of all given as "Virginia now W.Va.," except for Charlotte, born in Pennsylvania.
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Jane LOWTHER,   b. 16 Aug 1836   d. 19 Jan 1853 (Age 16 years)
    +2. William George LOWTHER,   b. 11 Feb 1839, Lewis Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 May 1921, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    +3. Margaret Clarissa LOWTHER,   b. 1840, Lewis Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1905 (Age 65 years)
    +4. Alexander S. LOWTHER,   b. 1 Jun 1842, Lewis Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jun 1917 (Age 75 years)
     5. Robert LOWTHER,   b. 3 Apr 1844   d. 7 Feb 1850 (Age 5 years)
    +6. John Marshall LOWTHER,   b. 5 Jun 1851, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Apr 1930, Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    +7. Sarah Ann LOWTHER,   b. 23 Feb 1854   d. 9 Sep 1917, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
    Family ID F10742  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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

    2. [S293] Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County, (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 227.

    3. [S1823] Don Norman, 41991 Emerson Court, Elyria, OH 44035, The Descendants of Robert Lowther, (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hcpd/norman/lowther.htm).

    4. [S1583] Marriage record of daughter.

    5. [S340] Penny & O.D. Linder, http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GIBSON/2003-10/1067200853, The Gibson and Related Families, (McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991).
      citing Monongalia County Marriage Book 2, p. 585. Bond date Dec 19 1834, marriage date Dec 23 1834. Minnie Kendall Lowther, in "History of Ritchie County," p. 227, gives marriage date as Sep 23 1834.