Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Cornelius Sutton    
                Born: Oct-29-1750          in New Jersey  1,2
                Died: Sep-30-1850           3,4
              Buried:                      in Blockhouse Hill Cemetery (old SDB section), West Union, Doddridge Co, WV  5,3
              Census: 1850                 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA   (see note 1)
              Father:
              Mother:
Other spouse 1
                Wife: Elisabeth Davis     
             Married: Sep-12-1806          in Harrison Co, (W)VA  6
                Born: 1746                  6
                Died: 1807                  6
              Father: Thomas William Davis   (1719 - 1791) 
              Mother: Tacy Crandall   (1721 - 1795) 
Other spouse 1

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. 12. 

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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