Doddridge County Roots


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First Name Last Name
Isabelle PICKERAL

Isabelle PICKERAL

Female 1855 - 1931  (76 years)


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  • Name Isabelle PICKERAL
    Birth 19 Apr 1855  Columbus, Franklin Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Her birth date in the 1900 Census is April 1858, age 42. But the April 1855 birth date in her death record is consistent with the ages 24 and 54 in the 1880 and 1910 censuses. Age 76y 5m in her death record calculates to a birth date of Apr 19 1855. Her headstone has only the year 1855.
    Gender Female
    Census 1870  Clark District, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Listed as Isabella Pickerel, white female, 15, b. Ohio, one of three domestic servants in the household of attorney Burton Despard (54, b. NY, both parents of foreign birth, value of real estate $20,000, value of personal estate $23,000 ), his wife Gertrude (32), and their three children..
      Note: Colonel Burton Despard was a prominent attorney and entrepreneur in Harrison County. His large home on E. Main Street in Clarksburg was built in the mid-1850s and remained in the Despard family until 1919. It was purchased in the 1950s by John Davis and Harry Weaver and converted to the Davis-Weaver Funeral home, which remains in operation.
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    Residence 1877  West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Census 1880  West Union District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1900  [4] 
    dressmaker 
    Occupation 1910  [5] 
    proprietress of rooming house 
    Census 1900, 1910, 1920  Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1930  Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Listed as Isabell Jones, white female, 75, b. WVa (sic), single (sic), one of many "inmates" at the West Virginia Masonic Home.
      NOTE: Her death record the following year shows that Isabell Jones, widow, a resident of the W.Va. Masonic Home in Parkersburg, was born in April 1855 in Columbus, Ohio, parents unknown. This conforms to other census records. Informant for the death record was J. E. Miller, superintendent of the W.Va. Masonic Home.
    Residence Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Death 19 Sep 1931  Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Burial Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 6] 
    Person ID I98607  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 5 Nov 2018

    Family William Henry JONES,   b. 4 Apr 1851, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Aug 1896 (Age 45 years)
    Marriage 13 Dec 1877  Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Notes 
    • 1880 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (West Union District), enumerated on Jun 12 1880:
      W. H. Jones, 27, b. Va (father b. Md, mother b. Va), miller; Isabel Jones, 24, b. Ohio; Not named Jones (female), 2, daughter.

      1900 Census, Harrison Co, WV (City of Clarksburg), enumerated on Jun 7 1900:
      Isabelle Jones, 42, b. Apr 1858 in WVa, dressmaker, widowed, mother of 2 children (both still living); dau Belle, 13, b. Sep 1886.

      1910 Census, Harrison Co, WV (City of Clarksburg), enumerated on Apr 22 1910:
      Haze Morgan, 34, b. WVa, attorney with corporation, married 14 yrs; wife Anna G, 30, b. WVa, mother of 3 children (all still living); son William H, 12, b. District of Columbia; dau Eliza E, 5, b. WVa; dau Virginia, 2, b. WVa; mother-in-law Isabelle Jones, 54, b. Ohio, proprietress of rooming house, widowed, mother of 2 children (1 still living).
    Children 
    >1. Anna Greta JONES,   b. 29 Sep 1879, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jun 1920 (Age 40 years)
     2. Belle JONES,   b. Sep 1886   d. Bef 1910 (Age ~ 23 years)
    Family ID F18950  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
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    98607_JONES_Isabell-Pickeral_1855-1931_DeathCertificate.jpg

  • Sources 
    1. [S1853] WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx), http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1934538&Type=Death.

    2. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    3. [S2325] Ohio County Marriage Records, Wheeling, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=12411676&Type=Marriage.

    4. [S1980] 1900 Census, Harrison County, WV.

    5. [S2113] 1910 Census, Harrison County, WV.

    6. [S934] Findagrave.com, Name on headstone (flat marker): Isabel Jones.