Notes for: Leona Blanche Lowther

Local news item, front page of the "West Union Record," Thursday, Apr 18 1918, in its entirety:
"The wells drilled by the West Virginia Gas company on the farms of F. O. Nutter and John G. Michaels near Oxford, have both come in dry, and have given a black eye to drilling in that vicinity."

1920 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Southwest District), enumerated on Jan 24 1920:
John G. Michael, 36, farmer, widowed; son Kenneth L, 14; dau Brice I, 7; mother Angeline, 74, widowed.