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Hester DAVIS

Hester DAVIS

Female 1834 - 1925  (90 years)


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  • Name Hester DAVIS  [1]
    Birth 17 May 1834  Champaign Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    • Birth date given in 1900 Census as Mar 1834, age 66. Age given at marriage would put birth in about 1839.
    Gender Female
    Residence 1859  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Census 1860  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1870  New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1880  Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1900  Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • in household with son Charles
    Census 1910  Glade District, Webster Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 1925  [4] 
    Person ID I38491  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 29 Jun 2021

    Father Phineas DAVIS,   b. 29 Sep 1794, New Salem, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1845, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    Mother Rulana RANDOLPH,   b. 14 May 1799   d. 25 May 1836 (Age 37 years)
    Family ID F15689  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William Tyler PRITCHARD,   b. 21 Apr 1830, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 May 1911, Webster Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)  [5]
    Marriage 30 Jun 1859  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Notes 
    • 1860 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Jun 14 1860:
      Wm. T. Pritchard, 28, farmer; Hester, 23; Alice, 2 months.

      1870 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (New Milton Twp):
      William T. Prichard, 40, farmer; Esther, 36, b. Ohio; Alice C, 10; Lloyd W, 7; Willie A, 5; Olin D, 2; Charles J, one month.

      1880 Census, Jackson Co, WV (Ravenswood District), enumerated on Jun 21 1880:
      W. T. Pritchard, 50, farmer; wife Esther, 47; dau Alice C, 20; son Wallace, 18; son William A, 15; son Olin D, 12; son Charles J, 10.

      Article in "Sistersville Oil Review," Friday, July 15, 1904:
      RADIUM IN DODDRIDGE
      The West Union record says that William Pritchard of Webster County, Ola Pritchard of Ritchie County, and a Mr. Dotson late of Colorado, a mining expert, are at work at an old shaft on Lewis Maxwell's land, near the residence of Clarence Maxwell, prospecting for the very valuable metal radium, which is worth some millions of dollars a pount. William Pritchard dug a shaft at the same place over thirty years ago, when he was engaged in prospecting for gold. They are now engaged in cleaning out the old shaft, and have come to a layer of peculiar kind of stone which is strangely mixed with some other kind of mineral.
    Children 
    >1. Alice Carey PRITCHARD,   b. May 1860, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Sep 1939, Marietta, Washington Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 79 years)
    >2. Lloyd Wallace PRITCHARD,   b. 20 Oct 1862, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Feb 1943, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    +3. William A. PRITCHARD,   b. 28 Dec 1865, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1911, Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years)
    +4. Olin D. PRITCHARD,   b. 14 Feb 1868, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1959, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
    +5. Charles J. PRITCHARD,   b. 15 Apr 1870, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Dec 1947, Bristol, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    Family ID F15358  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1890] 1860 Census, Doddridge County, (W)VA.

    2. [S83] Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, (Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >), p. 19.

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

    4. [S1863] Emily Pritchard Cary, Scottsdale AZ , The Pritchard Family History, (Heritage Books, Bowie MD, 1999, rev 2001), p. 141.

    5. [S283] Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance, (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 287-A.