Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: John H. Stinespring    
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Eleanor ___     
              Father:
              Mother:
           M Child 1: John A. Stinespring      
                Born: ca 1779              in Lancaster Co, PA  1,2 (see note 1)
                Died: May-  -1869           3
              Buried:                      in Oxford Baptist Church Cemetery, Doddridge Co, WV  4
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Doddridge Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation:                      miller  1,2,5
          Occupation:                      farmer  6
                Wife: Mary Watson  b. Sep- 1-1792  d. Jul-11-1854  
                Wife: Mariah Jane Haught  b. 1834  d. Apr-29-1912  
             Married: Feb-26-1857          in Doddridge Co, (W)VA  7

Sources:
(1) 1850 Census, Doddridge County, (W)VA. 
(2) Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV. 
(3) Record of wife's remarriage. 
(4) Findagrave.com. 
(5) U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885, Ancestry.com and National Archives & Records Administration 
(NARA) 
(6) 1860 Census, Doddridge County, (W)VA. 
(7) Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, Identified as John A. Stinespring, widowed, 60, b. Lancaster Co PA, 
res. Doddridge Co, son of John H. & Eleanor Stinespring; and Maria Jane Musgrave, single, b. Monongalia Co, res. 
Doddridge Co, dau of Bathsheba Musgrave.  Married Feb 26 1857 in Doddridge County. MR p. 120:  
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11790530&Type=Marriage. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Age 60 given at time of Feb 1857 marriage would put birth in about 1796 or
1797, while age 95 in the 1870 Federal Mortality Schedule puts birth in about
1774/75.  Age in 1850 was clearly 71, putting birth in about 1779, while age in
1860 was just as clearly 73, putting birth in about 1787.







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