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Bessie Elizabeth "Betty" TANZEY

Bessie Elizabeth "Betty" TANZEY

Female 1925 - 1978  (53 years)


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  • Name Bessie Elizabeth "Betty" TANZEY
    Birth 8 May 1925  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Female
    Death 3 Oct 1978  [2] 
    Burial IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I731  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 4 Jan 2010

    Father Sherman Leslie TANZEY,   b. 28 Jan 1904, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jul 1983, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Mother Beulah Wave BRITTON,   b. 10 Jan 1908, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jan 1990 (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F249  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Fred Earl HUSK,   b. 31 Aug 1910, Ripley, Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Dec 1993, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
    Marriage 25 Sep 1943  Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Divorce Y  [5]
    Family ID F247  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S5] Headstone.

    2. [S123] Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, (McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995), p. 568.
      Name on headstone: Betty Tanzey. SSDI reports a Betty Husk, b. May 28 1925, d. Nov 1978, resident of Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV. This would be the same Betty Tanzey Husk, who apparently dropped the Husk name after divorce.

    3. [S123] Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, (McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995).

    4. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, MR Bk 15, p. 209.
      Identified as Fred Husk, 33, b. Jackson Co, res. Oxford WVa, son of William Leonard Husk & Virginia Husk; and Betty E. Tanzy (sic), 21, b. Doddridge Co, res. Grennwod WVa, dau of Sherman L. Tanzey (sic) & Beulah Tanzey (sic). Married Sep 25 1943 in Harrisville, WVa. (Note: Harrisville is in Ritchie County, but the license was issued and the marriage recorded in Doddridge County, residence of the bride. Her name appears as "Betty E. Tanzy," spelled without an "e" both time it appears. Her parents are listed as Sherman L. Tanzey & Beulah Tanzey, both with an "e.")

    5. [S14] Obituary.