Notes for: Sarah Jane Harper

1880 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Grant District), enumerated on Jun 23 1880:
Stephen Ash, 52, b. Va, farmer; wife Sarah J, 48, b. Del; dau Lenorah, 18, b. Va; dau Walbuga, 11, b. WVa, attended school within the year.

The following entries were made as a continuation of the above household, but were set off with markings to indicate a separate entity. The nature of the entries make it likely that they were residents of the County Poor Farm. With the one exception indicated, all were borin in Virginia/West Virginia:

John M. Wolf, pauper, 67, b. Germany, blacksmith; Dorah M. Wolf, 4; Alice Wolf, 1;
Tacy J. Bee, pauper, 41, widowed, disabled;
Robert Swan, pauper, 24, single, idiotic, cannot write;
Margaret Smith, pauper, 78, widowed;
Abraham Williams, pauper, 45, single, deaf & dumb;
Felix Moore, pauper, 35, married, farmer; wife Jamimah, 30, cannot read/write; dau Verginie N, 7; son Harvy, 6; dau Margaret A, 5; dau Affa, 3; (son) Flaveous, 6 months, birth month December.