Doddridge County Roots


A West Virginia Genealogy

First Name Last Name
James RICHARDS

James RICHARDS

Male 1842 -


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  • Name James RICHARDS
    Birth CA 1842  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male
    Military Co A, 14th W.Va. Inf, Civil War (severe musket wound in foot at Winchester Va, Sep 19 1864)  [3] 
    Census 1850  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I55792  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2017

    Father James Tolbert RICHARDS,   b. CA 1809, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location
    Mother Elizabeth CHILDERS,   b. CA 1807, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F2250  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah Catherine MEADOWS,   b. CA 1847   d. 18 Apr 1871, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 24 years)
    Marriage 9 Aug 1866  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F44669  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Delila Ann F. RANDOLPH,   b. Jan 1831, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4]
    Marriage 11 Apr 1872  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Divorce May 1890  Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Family ID F23100  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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

    2. [S941] 1850 Census, Doddridge County, (W)VA.

    3. [S2219] H. H. Hardesty, History of Doddridge County (1883), (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvpioneers/doddridgecountyhistory.html).

    4. [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. 103.

    5. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, MR p. 188 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11791199&Type=Marriage.
      Identified as James Richards, single, 29, b. Harrison Co, res. Doddridge Co, son of James T. & Elizabeth; and Delila A. F. Hughes, widowed, 41, b. Harrison Co, res. Doddridge Co, dau of John S. & Experience F. Randolph. Married Apr 11 1872 in Doddridge County.

    6. [S1711] Civil War Service Records, ().