Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Jacob Moats    
                Born: Mar-  -1799           1
                Died: Jan- 8-1885           2
              Buried:                      in IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  3
              Father: George Moats   (1773 - 1844) 
              Mother: Eve Stone   (1773 - 1850) 
                Wife: Mary Elizabeth Starr   4  
                Born: May- 5-1805           2
                Died: Mar-25-1873           2
              Buried:                      in IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  3
              Father:
              Mother:
           F Child 1: Jane Moats      
                Born: Apr-14-1832           5,6
                Died: Nov- 4-1907          in Ritchie Co, WV  5,6
              Buried:                      in IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  5
             Husband: Jefferson Reese Sigler  b. Mar- 3-1820  d. Mar-24-1894  
           M Child 2: Benjamin Moats      
                Born: 1838                 in Wood Co, (W)VA  6,7
                Died: 1904                  6
              Buried:                      in IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  3
             Resided:                      in Ritchie Co, WV  7
            Military:                      Co K, 10th W.Va. Inf, Civil War  3
                Wife: Mary I. Pierpoint  b. ca 1842  d. Mar- 9-1876  
             Married: Oct-13-1864          in Ritchie Co, WV  8
                Wife: Elizabeth Featherland Morton  b. 1853  d. 1882  
       Also known as: Eliza F. Morton 
             Married: Sep-12-1878          in Ritchie Co, WV  9
                Wife: Amanda M. Lowther  b. Apr-30-1852  d. Apr-24-1950  
             Married: Oct-10-1883          in Ritchie Co, WV  10
           M Child 3: Andrew Moats      
                Born: ca 1843              in Wood Co, (W)VA  7
             Resided: 1866                 in Ritchie Co, WV  7
                Wife: Sarah A. Ford  b. ca 1848  
             Married: Jun-28-1866          in Ritchie Co, WV  7

Sources:
(1) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death. 
(2) Headstone. 
(3) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(4) Marriage record of son. 
(5) Findagrave.com. 
(6) Headstone (year only) 
(7) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 
(8) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as 
Benjamin Moats, 26, b. Wood Co, res. Ritchie Co, son of Jacob & Mary; and Mary I. Pierpoint, 22, b. Marion Co, res. 
Ritchie Co, dau of Z. M. & Martha.  Married Oct 13 1864. 
(9) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as 
Benjamin Moats, widowed, 40, b. Wood Co, res. Ritchie Co, son of Jacob & Mary; and Eliza F. Morton, 25, b. Pennsylvania, 
res. Ritchie Co, dau of Robert & Elizabeth.  Married Sep 12 1878. 
(10) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as 
Benjamin Moats, widowed, 45, of Ritchie Co; and Amanda Lowther, 31, of Ritchie Co.  Married Oct 10 
1883. 







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