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Mary Gertrude CHILDERS

Mary Gertrude CHILDERS

Female 1867 - 1901  (34 years)


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  • Name Mary Gertrude CHILDERS
    Birth 1867  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female
    Census 1870, 1880  New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1900  Coal District, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 15 Aug 1901  Blandville, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Cause: typhoid fever 
    Burial Childers Cemetery, New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Person ID I66899  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 5 May 2022

    Father Cyrus Stout CHILDERS,   b. 12 Mar 1838, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 May 1897, New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
    Mother Columbia Columbine SOUTHWORTH,   b. 12 Oct 1844, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jan 1927, New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F16922  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family James Harrison ROSS,   b. Jul 1865, Bath Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Sep 1901, Lick Run, New Milton (Blandville), Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 36 years)
    Marriage Mar 1888  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Notes 
    • 1900 Census, Harrison Co, WV (Coal District), enumerated on Jun 5 1900:
      James Ross, 34, b. Jul 1865 in Virginia, coal miner, married 12 yrs; wife Gertrude, 32, b. Sep 1867 in W. Va, married 12 yrs, mother of 5 children (all still living); dau Oma, 11, b. Feb 1889; dau Ina, 10, b. Feb 1890; dau Audra, 6, b. Sep 1893; dau Flora, 4, b. Feb 1896; dau Iva, 7 months, b. Oct 1899; boarder Vernard Childers, 14, b. Mar 1885.
    Children 
    >1. Oma ROSS,   b. 4 Feb 1889, New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jul 1958, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    +2. Ina Mae ROSS,   b. 13 Feb 1890, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Dec 1936, South Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)
    >3. Audrey ROSS,   b. 16 Sep 1893, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Aug 1972, Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    >4. Flora ROSS,   b. 26 Feb 1896, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Feb 1965, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
    +5. Iva ROSS,   b. 29 Oct 1899, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Mar 1983, Maumee, Lucas Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
     6. (Daughter) ROSS,   b. 12 Aug 1901, Lick Run, New Milton (Blandville), Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F28110  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    2. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV.

    3. [S1563] Doddridge County Death Records, West Union, WV, DR p. 138.
      Identified as Mary Gertrude Ross, married, age 33, b. Doddridge Co, lifetime resident of West Virginia; died Aug 15 1901 at Blandville, cause of death typhoid fever complicated by premature childbirth, burial at Childers Graveyard.

    4. [S1563] Doddridge County Death Records, West Union, WV.

    5. [S2550] Donald Edward Ramage (1934-2016), Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. I, (4117 Almaville Rd, Smyna TN 37167 (1988, rev. 1999)).

    6. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, MR p. 257.
      Identified as James Harrison Ross, 23, b. Bath Co Virginia, res. Doddridge Co; and Mary Gertrude Childers, 20, b. & res. in Doddridge Co. Informants for marriage license: James H. Ross & Cyrus S. Childers. License issued on Mar 13 1888, but there was no minister's return or endorsement to indicate that the marriage took place. (Note: The 1900 Census of Harrison County shows this couple as man and wife, having been married for 12 years.)