Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Charles Brown    
                Born: ca 1830              in Lewis Co, (W)VA  1
             Resided: 1856                 in Gilmer Co, (W)VA  1
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Sarah E. Sommerville   2  
             Married: Feb-23-1856          in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  3
                Born: ca 1839               2,4 (see note 1)
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  2
              Census: 1850                 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
              Father: Robert Sommerville   (1800 - 1871) 
              Mother: Mary "Polly" Ward   (1802 - 1894) 
Notes 

Sources:
(1) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 
(2) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 309. 
(3) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as 
Charles Brown, 25, b. Lewis Co, res. Gilmer Co, son of Juditt; and Sarah C. Sumerville, 18, of Ritchie Co, dau of Robert 
& M.  Married Feb 23 1856. 
(4) 1850 Census, Ritchie County, (W)VA. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Birth date reported by Minnie Kendall Lowther as 1839, which also coincides
with age 11 in 1850 Census.  But age 18 given at time of Feb 1856 marriage would
put birth in about 1837.







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