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Thomas Wesley IRELAND

Thomas Wesley IRELAND

Male 1840 - 1913  (72 years)


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  • Name Thomas Wesley IRELAND
    Birth 30 Jun 1840  Lewis Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Gender Male
    Census 1880  Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1880  [6] 
    teacher 
    Census 1900  Monongalia Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1900  [7] 
    traveling salesman 
    Census 1910  Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Rev. Thomas W. Ireland was enumerated twice in the 1910 Census. With his wife, he was listed in the household of their son Archibald and his family in Morgantown, enumeration date Apr 23 1910. By himself, he was listed in the household of William & Harriett Primm and their family in Pullman, Ritchie County, enumeration date Apr 18 1910. Nature of his relationship with the Primm family is not known.
    Occupation minister, Morgantown WV  [1, 8, 9] 
    Death 31 Mar 1913  Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 10] 
    Burial Mt. Union Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 11] 
    Person ID I32686  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 30 Sep 2011

    Father Thomas IRELAND,   b. 10 Apr 1798, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jul 1869, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
    Mother Catherine LOWTHER,   b. 25 Jan 1798, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Mar 1873 (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F10901  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Temperance Jane WILSON,   b. 14 Dec 1838, Wood Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1916 (Age 77 years)  [1]
    Marriage 12 Dec 1864  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Children 
    +1. DeWitt F. IRELAND,   b. Oct 1865, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1909 (Age ~ 43 years)
    >2. Dolly Ann IRELAND,   b. 9 Oct 1866   d. 13 Apr 1951, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    >3. Sylvia Blanch IRELAND,   b. 1868, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1942 (Age 74 years)
    >4. Daisy Dean IRELAND,   b. CA 1870
    >5. Catherine Elizabeth IRELAND,   b. CA 1871, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1911 (Age ~ 40 years)
    +6. Archibald J. Wilson IRELAND,   b. Jun 1872, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1951 (Age ~ 78 years)
     7. Addie Rosalie IRELAND,   b. 3 Feb 1875   d. 1 May 1944, Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     8. Harlan Humphreys IRELAND,   b. Oct 1877
     9. Thomas W. IRELAND
     10. Basil Watts IRELAND,   b. CA 1883   d. 19 Nov 1905, Fairmont, Marion Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 22 years)
    Family ID F12717  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S283] Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance, (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 233.

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

    3. [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), p. 439.

    4. [S638] Headstone (year only).

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

    6. [S2204] 1880 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Clay District).

    7. [S2420] 1900 Census, Monongalia County, WV.

    8. [S1900] Lathrop Russell Charter, The Lowther Family of Doddridge County, West Virginia, (self-published Nov 9 1951, on file at Doddridge County Library), p. 6.

    9. [S2452] 1910 Census, Monongalia County, WV.

    10. [S2258] Monongalia County Death Records, Morgantown, WV, DR p. 75 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4691556&Type=Death.
      Identified as Thomas Ireland, white male, married, minister; died Mar 31 1913 in Morgantown, age 72, cause of death Bright's disease. (Note: "Ritchie County in History & Romance," p. 233, incorrectly reports death date as Apr 2 1913.)

    11. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    12. [S1630] Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)).
      "Ritchie County in History & Romance," p. 233, reports marriage date as Dec 14 1864.