Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Luther F. Randolph    
                Born: Dec-12-1846          in Harrison Co, (W)VA  1,2,3
                Died: 1922                  1,2
              Buried:                      in Middle Island 7th Day Bapt Cem, Sugar Camp, New Milton, Doddridge Co WV  4
              Census: 1900, 1910           in New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV  
             Resided: 1873                 in Doddridge Co, WV  3
          Occupation:                      teacher, merchant (proprietor of Racket Store)  3,5,6
              Father: Jepthah Fitz Randolph   (1814 - 1879) 
              Mother: Deborah Sutton   (1813 - 1901) 
Other spouse 1
Notes 
                Wife: Missouri Davis     
             Married: Aug-18-1887          in Doddridge Co, WV  1
                Born: Jun-24-1856           7,2
                Died: 1923                  7,2
              Buried:                      in Middle Island 7th Day Bapt Cem, Sugar Camp, New Milton, Doddridge Co WV  4
              Census: 1870, 1900, 1910     in New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV  
              Father: Eli Davis   (1822 - 1879) 
              Mother: Margaretta Davis   (1823 - 1906) 
Notes 
           F Child 1: Hester Virginia McKinzie [adopted]       
       Also known as: Hester Randolph 8
                Born: Dec-27-1899          in Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV  9,10
                Died: Jul-11-1966          in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV  11,12
              Buried:                      in Union Mission (Sunrise) Cemetery, New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV  9,10,13
             Resided:                      at Sugar Camp (New Milton), Doddridge Co, WV  10
              Census: 1930                 in New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV  
             Husband: Frank Keister  b. Nov- 8-1899  d. Dec-15-1982  
             Married: Jun-29-1918          in Smithton (now Smithburg), Doddridge Co, WV  14

Sources:
(1) 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. 67. 
(2) Headstone (year only) 
(3) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV. 
(4) Donald Edward Ramage, Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. II, 4117 Almaville Rd, Smyna TN 37167 (1988, rev. 1999) 
(5) 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (New Milton District) 
(6) The History of Doddridge County, West Virginia, Taylor Publishing Co, 1979, p. 227. 
(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. 73. 
(8) Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV. 
(9) Harrison County Death Records, Clarksburg, WV. 
(10) Obituary. 
(11) Harrison County Death Records, Clarksburg, WV, Identified as Hester Virginia Keister, 67, married, b. Dec 27 1899 in 
Ohio Co WV, dau of John McKeinzie (sic) & Mary Anna Hoffman; died Jul 11 1966 at St. Marys Hospital in Clarksburg, cause 
of death uremia, burial at Union Mission Cemetery in New Milton, Doddridge County.  Informant:  Paul W. Keister, 
Weirton, WV. 
(12) Obituary - Hospital. 
(13) Donald Edward Ramage, Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. I, 4117 Almaville Rd, Smyna TN 37167 (1988, rev. 1999) 
(14) Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, Identified as Frank Keister, 18, b. & res. in Doddridge Co; and Miss 
Hester Randolph, 20, b. in (blank), res. in Doddridge Co.  Married Jun 29 1918 at the M. E. Parsonage in Smithton.  
Informant for marriage license:  A. L. Keister, Doddridge Co.  (Note:  Wife's obituary incorrectly states marriage date 
as Jun 19 1917.), MR p. 239. 







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