Notes for: Leah Childers

1870 Census, Harrison Co, WV (Coal District, Clarksburg Post Office), enumerated on Jul 1 1870:
Leah Shinn, 46, housekeeper; Charles, 19, blacksmith; Alice, 15; Elizabeth Riley, 8.
The next enumerated household was that of Leah's son Leonidas, which also included Leah's widowed mother Rebecca, who had remarried William Roach.
Leonidas Shinn, 27, blacksmith, value of real estate (blank), value of personal estate $200; Francis R, 20, keeps house; Rebecca Roach, 79, cannot read/write; Albert Cottrill, 13, attended school within the year. All born in Virginia except Rebecca, born in Georgia.

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