Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Ernest Brent Yerkey    
         Census name: Brent Yerkey 
                Born: 1888                  1 (see note 1)
                Died: 1975                  1
              Buried:                      in Forest Hill Cemetery, Canton, Stark Co, OH  2
              Census: 1910, 20, 30, 40     in Grant District, Doddridge Co, WV   (see note 2)
          Occupation: 1910                 grocery store merchant  3
              Father: Lewis Alexander Yerkey   (1853 - 1939) 
              Mother: Mary Iowa Ash   (1858 - 1941) 
Other spouse 1
                Wife: Lee Nora Davis   4  
       Also known as: Nora Davis 5
             Married: Jan-14-1925          in Salem, WV  6
                Born: Feb-16-1903          in Doddridge Co, WV  6,7,1
                Died: Jan- 8-1975          in Canton, Stark Co, OH  8,7,1
              Buried:                      in Forest Hill Cemetery, Canton, Stark Co, OH  2
             Resided:                      in Canton, Stark Co, OH  9,5
              Census: 1910, 20, 30, 40     in Grant District, Doddridge Co, WV  
              Father: Lorhemus W. "Low" Davis   (1876 - 1951) 
              Mother: Talitha Frances Ford   (1878 - 1940) 
           M Child 1: Ernest Valentine Yerkey      
                Born: Nov-21-1925          in Morgansville, Doddridge Co, WV  10
             Resided: 2005                 in Canton, Stark Co, OH  11
              Census: 1930, 1940           in Grant District, Doddridge Co, WV  

Sources:
(1) Headstone (year only) 
(2) Findagrave.com. 
(3) 1910 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Grant District). 
(4) Obituary of wife's father. 
(5) Obituary of father. 
(6) Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV. 
(7) Social Security Death Index. 
(8) Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007 (online), Ancestry.com and Ohio Department of Health. 
(9) Social Security Death Index, Social Security card issued in Ohio before 1951. 
(10) West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(11) Obituary of half-brother. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Age was given as 32 in 1920 Census, but as 46 in 1930.  Age in 1940 appears
to be 51, but could be interpreted as 57.  Age in Jan 1925 marriage record was
given as 35.
Note (2) In 1940, location specified as Morgans Run Road.  A notation indicates that
he was the owner of his residence but that the title was in the name of his son
Berma.







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