Apr-24-2012                   

             Husband: Cornelius Sutton    

                Born: Oct-29-1750          in New Jersey  1,2
                Died: Sep-30-1850           3,4
              Buried:                      in Blockhouse Hill Cemetery, West Union, WV  5
              Census: 1850                 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA   (see note 1)
              Father:
              Mother:
Other spouse 2

                Wife: Elizabeth Applegate     

              Father:
              Mother:

           F Child 1: Jane Sutton      
                Born: Oct- 7-1770          in New Jersey  6
                Died: Apr-27-1857          in   6

           F Child 2: Hannah Sutton 3     
                Died: aft Jan 18 1854      in   6

           F Child 3: Sarah Sutton      
                Born: ca 1778              in   3
                Died: Mar-18-1863          in Clark Co, OH  7

           M Child 4: Cornelius Sutton, Jr.      
                Born: Jun-20-1780          in New Jersey  3
                Died: Aug-30-1859          in Randolph Co, IN  8

           M Child 5: John Sutton      
                Born: Oct-20-1785          in New Jersey  3
                Died: Mar-  -1869          in   

           M Child 6: Amos Sutton      
                Born: Oct-17-1789          in New Jersey  9
                Died: Feb- 9-1870          in   9


Sources:
(1) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death. 
(2) 1850 Census, Doddridge County, (W)VA. 
(3) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon 
Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm 
>, p. 355. 
(4) Headstone. 
(5) West Union WV Cemeteries (Doddridge County), Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, 
Parkersburg, WV 26101 (July 1990), "Davis - The Settlers of Salem WV," p. 355, gives 
burial location as "the old Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery at West Union."  But "West Union 
WV Cemeteries," p. 41, shows it as the Blockhouse Hill Cemetery in West Union and 
indicates that in the vicinity of Cornelius Sutton's grave is a marker erected by DAR in 
1925 for "OLD CHURCH SITE 1792-1832 Seventh Day Baptist." 
(6) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon 
Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm 
>, p. 21. 
(7) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon 
Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm 
>, p. 29. 
(8) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon 
Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm 
>, p. 37. 
(9) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon 
Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm 
>, p. 356. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Enumerated Jul 16 1850 in household with daughter Jane and her husband Nathan
Davis.  Age given as 99.

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