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Elvira SANDY

Elvira SANDY

Female 1842 -

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  • Name Elvira SANDY 
    Born CA 1842  Rockingham Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    • Age 33 in 1870 marriage record would put birth in about 1840. But she was age 18 in the 1860 Census, with an older brother age 20.
    Gender Female 
    Census 1850, 1860  Gilmer Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1870  Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1873  Gilmer Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Census 1880  New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1900  West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Listed as a boarder, widowed, in household of Bertha Hustead and her daughter Icy.
    Person ID I98303  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 14 Jun 2019 

    Father Preston SANDY,   b. CA 1816, Culpeper Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef Mar 1889  (Age ~ 73 years) 
    Mother Rosa TURNER,   b. CA 1820, Harrisonburg, VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Mar 1889, Arnolds Creek (West Union), Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Family ID F21772  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Children 
     1. William H. SANDY,   b. CA 1863
    +2. Mary J. SANDY,   b. CA 1864, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Sarah Frances SANDY,   b. Aug 1870, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Gilla E. SANDY,   b. CA 1872, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F53921  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Benjamin LAMB,   b. CA 1812, Augusta Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1894, Sunnyside (West Union), Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years) 
    Married 11 Oct 1873  Gilmer Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Notes 
    • 1880 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (New Milton District), enumerated on Jun 5 1880:
      Benjamin Lamb, 66, farmer; wife Elvira, 38; stepson William H, 17; stepdau Mary J, 15; stepdau Sarah F, 11; stepdau Gilla E, 8; son Benjamin, 2.
      (Note: Surname given for head of household, Benjamin Lamb, but not for the others. The four older children should all have been entered with the surname Sandy. Their birthplace appears to be Ohio.)

      1900 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Town of West Union), enumerated on Jun 5 1900:
      Bertha Hustead, 23, b. Jul 1876 in WVa, occupation wash & iron, single, mother of one child (still living); dau Jan (?) M. Hustead, b. Sep 1895 in WVa; boarder Elvira Lamb, 60, b. Jun 1840 in Va, widowed, mother of 5 children (3 still living).
    Children 
     1. Benjamin Howard LAMB,   b. 29 May 1878, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Dec 1901  (Age 23 years)
    Family ID F16049  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S2009] 1860 Census, Gilmer County, (W)VA.

    2. [S1889] Gilmer County Marriage Records, Glenville, WV.

    3. [S1889] Gilmer County Marriage Records, Glenville, WV, MR p. 19 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=12134&Type=Marriage.
      Identified as Benjamin Lamb, 62, b. Augusta Co Va, res. Gilmer Co; and Elvira Sandy, 33, b. Rockingham Co Va, res. Gilmer Co. Married Oct 11 1873 in Gilmer County. (Note: Marital status not given.)