Doddridge County Roots


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Elsie Jane VANHORN

Elsie Jane VANHORN

Female 1832 - 1909  (76 years)


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  • Name Elsie Jane VANHORN
    Birth 12 Nov 1832  Lost Creek, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Female
    Census 1860  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 22 Jun 1909  [1] 
    Person ID I65389  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 28 Jan 2021

    Father Thomas VANHORN,   b. 10 Aug 1788   d. 9 Jul 1853 (Age 64 years)
    Mother Elenor BROWN
    Family ID F27359  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hiram N. DAVIS,   b. 14 Nov 1833, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Dec 1920, Salem, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
    Marriage 22 Nov 1854  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Notes 
    • 1860 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia):
      H. N. Davis (male), 26, farmer; G. (?) J. Davis (female), 26; E. J. Spurgeon (female), 10. All born in Virginia.
      NOTE: Eliza Jane Spurgeon, daughter of Jeremiah Spurgeon and Rebecca Ann VanHorn, was the niece of Elsie Jane VanHorn Davis. Eliza's father had died in 1853, and her mother remarried Joseph Fleshter.

      Hiram and Elsie "pioneered in Colorado, but returned to Lost Creek to live." [1]
    Family ID F27358  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [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. 67.

    2. [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV.