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Joseph SMITH

Joseph SMITH

Male 1859 - 1937  (78 years)


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  • Name Joseph SMITH
    Birth 15 Nov 1859  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male
    Occupation farmer  [1] 
    Residence Chipps Run (Nutters Fork), Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Death 20 Dec 1937  Chipps Run (Nutters Fork), Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Burial Freeman-Coleman Cemetery, Rt 18 N (Crystal Lake), West Union, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6] 
    Person ID I32629  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 4 Jan 2012

    Father Isaac Oscar SMITH,   b. 20 Feb 1815, Greene Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 May 1880, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    Mother Sarah Ann CAROTHERS,   b. 22 Sep 1826, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Sep 1888, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
    Family ID F13704  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Jane MCKINNEY,   b. 1 Apr 1863   d. 31 May 1945, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)  [7, 8]
    Marriage 2 Apr 1881  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Notes 
    • Joseph Smith was the last surviving member of a family of eleven children.

      1900 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (West Union District):
      Joseph Smith, 40, b. Nov 1859, married 18 yrs; wife Mary J, 38, b. Apr 1862, mother of 2 children (both still living); dau Lillie S, 18, b. Feb 1882; son Henry W, 16, b. May 1884; nephew Harley L. Smith, 7, b. Jun 1892; father-in-law Thomas McKinney, 78, b. Apr 1822, married 45 yrs.

      1910 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (West Union District), enumerated on Apr 28 1910 at Nutters Fork:
      Joseph Smith, 50, b. WVa (father b. Ohio, mother b. WVa), farmer, married 29 yrs; wife Mary J, 47, b. WVa (both parents b. WVa), mother of 2 children (both still living); son Walter H, 25, farm laborer, single; niece Nancy E. Doak, 43, married 25 yrs, mother of 8 children (7 still living); greatnephew Dock Doak, 3; nephew Harley L. Smith, 17, farm laborer, single.
    Children 
    +1. Lily S. SMITH,   b. Feb 1882   d. 1956 (Age ~ 73 years)
    +2. Henry Walter SMITH,   b. 9 May 1884, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Dec 1975 (Age 91 years)
    Family ID F12686  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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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. [S1998] 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (West Union District).

    3. [S14] Obituary.

    4. [S1752] Obituary - At home.
      Parents identified as Oscar & Sarah Corathers Smith.

    5. [S1773] Doddridge County WV Deaths 1853-1969, (Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101).
      Identified as Joseph Smith, son of Isaac Smith & Jane Corathers; died Dec 20 1937. (His mother's identity is an apparent clerical error, since she was actually Sarah Ann Carothers; it was his wife, Mary Jane McKinney, who was known principally as Jane.)

    6. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    7. [S1372] Obituary of wife's brother.

    8. [S110] Obituary of husband.

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