Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Calvin Earnest Wilson    
         Census name: C. Ernest Wilson 1
                Born: Jun-23-1872           2,1,3
                Died: Mar-17-1912           2 (see note 1)
              Buried:                      in South Fork Baptist Church Cemetery, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV  4
              Census: 1880                 in Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV  
          Occupation:                      teacher, Baptist minister  3
              Father: James Kelly Wilson   (1850 - 1929) 
              Mother: Amelia Virginia Griffin   (1849 - 1924) 
Other spouse 2
                Wife: Ella Jane Maxwell   5,3  
             Married: Jun-15-1896          in Doddridge Co, WV  6
                Born: Nov-24-1870           2,1
                Died: Aug- 1-1906           2
              Buried:                      in South Fork Baptist Church Cemetery, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV  4
             Resided:                      in Summers, Doddridge Co, WV  5
              Census: 1900                 in Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV  1
              Father: Abner M. Maxwell   (1834 - 1909) 
              Mother: Lydia Jane P. Woofter   (1842 - 1903) 
           F Child 1: Vera Alma Wilson      
                Born: Sep-25-1899          in Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV  7,8
                Died: Sep-10-1954          in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV  7
              Buried:                      in Bridgeport Cemetery, Bridgeport, Harrison Co, WV  7
      Cause of death:                      cerebral hemorrhage  7
             Resided:                      in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV  7
             Resided: 1920, 1921           in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV  9,8
              Census: 1920                 in West Union, Doddridge Co, WV   (see note 2)
          Occupation: 1920                 bookkeeper at Vitrolite Company of Parkersburg  9 (see note 3)
           Education: 1920                 business college  
             Husband: William Herbert Toothman  b. ca 1898  d. bef 1979  
       Also known as: Herbert Toothman 3
             Married: Nov-24-1921          in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV  8
           F Child 2: (Infant daughter) Wilson      
                Born: Feb- 2-1905           2
                Died: Feb- 2-1905           2
              Buried:                      in South Fork Baptist Church Cemetery, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV  4

Sources:
(1) 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Southwest District) 
(2) Headstone. 
(3) The History of Doddridge County, West Virginia, Taylor Publishing Co, 1979, p. 290. 
(4) Donald Edward Ramage, Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. III, 4117 Almaville Rd, Smyna TN 37167 (1988, rev. 1999) 
(5) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 602. 
(6) Doddridge County WV Marriages 1845-1937, Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1993) 
(7) 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=1105659&Type=Death. 
(8) Wood County Marriage Records, Parkersburg, WV. 
(9) West Union Herald, 11/4/1920. 

Event Notes
Note (1) History of Doddridge County, p. 290, reports death date as 1911.  But
Doddridge County Cemeteries Vol III, p. 89, reports death date on headstone as
Mar 17 1912.
Note (2) Listed as granddaughter Vera Wilson, 20, single, student in business college,
in household of paternal grandparents.
Note (3) Local news item, West Union Herald, Thurday, Nov 4 1920, in its
entirety:
"Miss Vere Wilson, one of our best young ladies, who is employed as head
bookkeeper of the Vitrolite Company of Parkersburg, came home to vote and to
spend a few days, and while here ordered the Herald sent to her address in
Parkersburg, as she wanted to get the news from home."







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