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Andrew Jackson GROAH

Andrew Jackson GROAH

Male 1838 - 1917  (78 years)


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  • Name Andrew Jackson GROAH
    Census 1870, 80, 1900, 10  New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Birth 20 Sep 1838  Augusta Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    • Birth date given in 1900 Census as Sep 1837. But death record shows it as Sep 20 1838, and date on headstone is also 1838.
    Gender Male
    Military Civil War 
    Census 1850, 1860  Augusta Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence Apr 1861  Greenville, Augusta Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Residence Jul 1863  Windham, Bradford Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Occupation 1870  [5] 
    carpenter 
    Death 3 Mar 1917  Flora, Wallowa Co, OR Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 6] 
    Burial FLORA CEMETERY  Flora, Wallowa Co, OR Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Notes 
    • Local news item, "West Union Record," Thursday, Jun 17 1915, in its entirety:
      "A. J. Groad, of Market, left Monday evening for Vesuvius, Rockbridge County Va, to visit relatives and the scenes of his earlier life. Mr. Groah being a native of Augusta County, Va. He will be gone for some time. He was a soldier in the war '61 and was engaged in many battles in the valley of Virginia during the war, the scenes of which he will revisit."

      Local news item, "West Union Record," Thursday, August 26 1915, in its entirety:
      "A. J. Groah, of Market, who has been visiting his old home in Rockbridge County, Va., for the past two months, has returned to Doddridge. He left here the first of the week to see his grandson, who is in a Parkersburg hospital with tuberculosis of the bone of one of his arms."

      Local news item, "Doddridge County Republican," Thursday, Aug 26 1915, in its entirety:
      "A. J. Groah, an aged and respected citizen of New Milton, was in town Saturday, looking as well as usual. Mr. Groah recently returned from a two-month's visit with friends and relatives in Rockbridge, his native Virginia county. This is Mr. Groah's third visit to the old home where he was born in 1838, the first having been made about nine years ago and the second some six years since. Coming here from Pittsburgh shortly after the close of the war, Doddridge has now been his home for nearly half a century."
    Person ID I69704  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 7 May 2013

    Father William GROAH,   b. CA 1793, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location
    Mother Elizabeth ___,   b. CA 1797, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F38560  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Emzy Jane RUSSELL,   b. 19 May 1848   d. 23 Feb 1901, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)  [7]
    Marriage 7 Apr 1870  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Hattie May GROAH,   b. 11 Aug 1873, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1901, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years)
    +2. Margaret Elizabeth "Maggie" GROAH,   b. 9 Nov 1875, Market, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Sep 1965, Cisco, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
    +3. John Franklin GROAH,   b. 2 Dec 1877, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jun 1969 (Age 91 years)
     4. Howard Averie GROAH,   b. 18 Sep 1882   d. 28 May 1908 (Age 25 years)
    +5. Milton GROAH,   b. 3 Nov 1884, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Jan 1968, Weston, Lewis Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
     6. Scott Filmore GROAH,   b. 23 Oct 1886, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Nov 1950, Silverton, Marion Co, OR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)
    Family ID F29432  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    2. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    3. [S2619] U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line], (Ancestry.com).

    4. [S2688] U.S. Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com and National Archives).

    5. [S493] 1870 Census, Doddridge County, WV (New Milton Twp).

    6. [S2483] Oregon Death Index, 1898-2008 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com).

    7. [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. 219.