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Rosabell WILSON

Rosabell WILSON

Female 1863 - 1878  (~ 15 years)


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  • Name Rosabell WILSON
    Birth CA 1863  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female
    Census 1870  Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 9 Nov 1878  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Cause: fever 
    Person ID I61568  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 27 Feb 2016

    Father Joshua WILSON,   b. 2 Feb 1840, Marion Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Dec 1901, Despard (Clarksburg), Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
    Mother Mary CONAWAY,   b. Jun 1841, Marion Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1916 (Age ~ 74 years)
    Family ID F25582  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1563] Doddridge County Death Records, West Union, WV.

    2. [S967] 1870 Census, Doddridge County, WV (South West Twp).

    3. [S1563] Doddridge County Death Records, West Union, WV, DR p. 31, line 79 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=5046307&Type=Death.
      Identified as Rosebell Wilson, white female, age 15, b. Doddridge Co, dau of Joshua Wilson; died Nov 9 1878 in Doddridge Co, cause of death fever. Informant: Father.
      (NOTE: This is the third of three consecutive entries for this family in the ledger-style death record, the preceding two being Joshua Wilson's wife Martha (d. Dec 17 1878) and their son Esta (d. Apr 10 1878, also of fever). Informant for all three was Joshua Wilson. Inasmuch as this death record ledger is a handwritten alphabetized listing of 1878 deaths, is it clear that the entries were transcribed from another original record, which probably was not preserved. In the death of Rosabell Wilson, there appears to have been a clerical error made, since a second death record entry is found at DR p. 33 line 72 <http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=5046579&Type=Death>, in which she is identifed as Rosabell Wilson, white female, age 15, dau of J. & W. (sic) Wilson, died Oct 19 1879, cause of death fever, informant mother. Since Rosa Wilson was age 7 in the 1870 Census, age 15 at death would correspond to the 1878 death record. Although it is likely that she and Esta were buried at South Fork Cemetery, where their father and grandmother are known to be buried, no headstone or other evidence of burial location has been found.)