Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Ambrose Bray Sommerville    
       Also known as: A. Bray Sommerville 1
                Born: Nov-17-1838           2
                Died: Jan-13-1887           3
              Buried:                      in Pullman Cemetery, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV  4
              Census: 1880                 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV  
              Census: 1850                 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA  
              Census: 1840                 in Harrison Co, VA (now Doddridge Co, WV)  
              Father: Alexander L. Sommerville   (1811 -     ) 
              Mother: Mary W. Husher   (1811 -     ) 
                Wife: Sarah E. Lowther   5  
             Married: Jun-23-1869          in Ritchie Co, WV  6
                Born: Jun- 2-1845           3,7
                Died: Jul-20-1891           3
              Buried:                      in Pullman Cemetery, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV  5,4 (see note 1)
              Census: 1880                 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV  
              Census: 1860                 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
              Father: William Ireland "Willie" Lowther   (1818 - 1904) 
              Mother: Caroline Virginia Mitchell   (1820 - 1885) 
Other spouse 2

Sources:
(1) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 289. 
(2) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death. 
(3) Headstone. 
(4) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(5) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 350. 
(6) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as 
Ambrose B. Sommerville, 28, of Doddridge Co, son of Alexander & Mary W.; and Sarah E. Lowther, 24, of Ritchie Co, dau of 
William J. [sic] & Caroline V.  Married Jun 23 1869. 
(7) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 

Event Notes
Note (1) Headstone reads:  Sarah E., wife of  A. B. Sommerville, and wife of W. S.
Chapman.







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