Jul-28-2018
Husband: George Henry Whetsel 1
Born: ca 1834 2
Died: ca 1915 3 (see note 1)
Census: 1910 in Freemans Creek District, Lewis Co, WV
Census: 1870 in Lincoln District, Lewis Co, WV
Census: 1860 in Lewis Co, (W)VA
Military: Co B & D, 10th W.Va. Inf, Civil War 3
Father: Abraham Whetsel (1807 - 1869)
Mother: Phebe Life (1811 - 1870)
Wife: Emily Jane Marsh
Married: Dec- 2-1866 in Lewis Co, WV 4,5
Born: Oct-21-1844 in Lewis Co, (W)VA 6,4
Died: Dec- 6-1923 in Lost Creek, Harrison Co, WV 6
Buried: in Lost Creek 7th Day Baptist (Brick Church) Cemetery, Harrison Co, WV 6
Census: 1910 in Freemans Creek District, Lewis Co, WV
Census: 1870 in Lincoln District, Lewis Co, WV
Father: Alexander Marsh (1814 - 1846)
Mother: Anna Peterson (1821 - 1901)
Sources:
(1) Morris Braum, Marietta, GA 30066 , Hinzman Braum (WV) Genealogy (Ancestry World Tree Project,
http://awt.ancestry.com)
(2) 1870 Census, Lewis County, WV (Lincoln Township).
(3) U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line], Ancestry.com and National
Archives & Records Administration.
(4) Penny & O.D. Linder, http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GIBSON/2003-10/1067200853, The Gibson and Related
Families, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991, p. 320.
(5) Lewis County WV Marriages 1817-1880, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101, Identified as George H.
Whetsel & Emily J. Marsh. Married Dec 2 1866.
(6) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx)
Event Notes
Note (1) His wife filed for a widow's pension on Apr 9 1915.
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