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Margaret BARNETT

Margaret BARNETT

Female 1842 - 1914  (~ 72 years)

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  • Name Margaret BARNETT 
    Born CA 1842  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Age given at time of March 1871 marriage would put birth in about 1850, but the 1900 Census gives age as 45 and birth date as May 1855. "Davis - The Settlers of Salem WV," p. 362, reports birth date as about 1842, probably based on her age 8 in the 1850 Census..
    Gender Female 
    Census 1850, 1860  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1870, 1880, 1900  New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 1914  [3] 
    Person ID I45289  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 27 Aug 2017 

    Father Joseph BARNETT,   b. CA 1791, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Feb 1871, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth "Betsy" MCCARTNEY,   b. CA 1796, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Apr 1895, Lewis Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 99 years) 
    Family ID F18403  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Slaughter Bradford NICHOLSON,   b. Sep 1851, Madison Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 30 Mar 1871  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Notes 
    • 1880 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (New Milton District), enumerated on Jun 23 1880:
      Bradford Nickleson, 29, b. Va. (both parents b. Va.), farmer; wife Margaret, 30, b. Va. (both parents b. Pa.); dau Lovila B, 8, b. Va; son Albert L, 6, b. Va; son Loyd E, 3, b. Va; son Charles, 1, b. Va; sister-in-law Frona Barnett, 39, b. WVa (both parents b. Pa.), single; mother-in-law Elisabeth Barnett, 80, b. Pa. (both parents b. N.J.).

      1900 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (New Milton District):
      Margaret Nicholson, 45, b. May 1855, widowed, mother of 5 children (3 still living); son Charles, 21, b. May 1879, single; son Orley L, 17, b. Oct 1882, single; grandson Willie, 10, b. Feb 1889; grandson Doyle, 8, b. Jan 1892.

      1910 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (New MIlton District), enumerated on Apr 25 1910:
      Margarette Nicholson, 61, farmer (home farm), married 38 yrs, mother of 5 children (3 still living); son Charley, 30, farm laborer, married 4 yrs; son Arley, 27, farm laborer, single; grandson Willie Dennison, 20, farm laborer, single; grandson Doyle Dennison, 18, farm laborer, single.

      https://cenantua.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/on-my-supposed-isolationist-hillbilly-roots-the-nicholson-family-in-madison-county-va-part-1/ [4]
    Children 
    +1. Louvilla B. NICHOLSON,   b. 20 Jun 1871, New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Jul 1893, New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 22 years)
     2. Albert L. NICHOLSON,   b. 20 Jun 1873, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Lloyd Edgar NICHOLSON,   b. 25 Sep 1877,   d. 21 Feb 1950, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
    +4. Charles Winfield NICHOLSON,   b. 4 May 1879, Coldwater (New Milton), Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1963, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
    +5. Arley Leonidas NICHOLSON,   b. 17 Oct 1883, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1952, Salem, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
    Family ID F18402  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S242] 1850 Census, Harrison County, (W)VA.

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

    3. [S83] Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Susie Davis Nicholson, (Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >), p. 362.

    4. [S1604] Death record of son.