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Harrison Ellsworth WASS

Harrison Ellsworth WASS

Male 1834 - 1923  (89 years)

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  • Name Harrison Ellsworth WASS  [1] 
    Born 6 Feb 1834  Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    • Marriage record gives birthplace as Allegheny Co, PA, but death record has it as Somerset Co, PA.
    Gender Male 
    Military Co E, 6th WV Inf - Civil War  [4] 
    Occupation farmer  [5] 
    Residence Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Residence FORMERLY  Goffs, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence 1856  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Died 5 Apr 1923  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7] 
    Buried Bethany UM Church Cem, Rt 28 btwn Goffs & Prunty, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 8] 
    Person ID I34199  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 18 May 2012 

    Father John WASS,   b. CA 1804, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jul 1863  (Age ~ 59 years) 
    Mother Barbara Aletha BOWYER,   b. CA 1808, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1884  (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Family ID F14856  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Cora Casandra "Cassie" PRITCHARD,   b. 29 Nov 1836, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Mar 1911, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)  [9] 
    Married 6 Mar 1856  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Children 
     1. William WASS,   b. 19 Jan 1857, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jul 1942, Mariposa Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     2. Safronia Jane WASS,   b. 14 Sep 1858, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jul 1860  (Age 1 years)
    +3. Lewis Maxwell WASS,   b. 26 Sep 1860, Goffs, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Nov 1947, Mariposa, Mariposa Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
    +4. Harrison Ellsworth WASS,   b. 13 Feb 1863, Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Nov 1945, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)
     5. John Anderson WASS,   b. 4 Jun 1865, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1936  (Age 70 years)
    +6. Barbara Alice WASS,   b. 1 Nov 1867, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Nov 1962, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 95 years)
     7. Peter WASS,   b. 19 May 1870,   d. 12 Dec 1951  (Age 81 years)
    +8. Charles Grant WASS,   b. 12 Sep 1872,   d. 3 Jan 1950, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     9. Roy WASS,   b. 9 Jun 1875, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Apr 1954  (Age 78 years)
    +10. James Rienzi WASS,   b. 27 Oct 1878, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1912  (Age 33 years)
     11. Daisy Dell WASS,   b. 26 Mar 1882, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jun 1904, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 22 years)
    Family ID F13426  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
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  • Sources 
    1. [S2477] Tichenor Families in America, Harold A. Tichenor, (Braun-Brumfield Inc, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988), p. 150.

    2. [S1630] Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)).

    3. [S1864] Death Record - Birth date calculated from age at death.
      Birthplace stated as Summit Co, PA, which is at variance with the Allegheny Co PA stated in his marriage record.

    4. [S5] Headstone.

    5. [S1853] Death Certificate, WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx).

    6. [S283] Ritchie County in History and Romance, Minnie Kendall Lowther, (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 331.

    7. [S1781] Ritchie County WV Deaths 1918-1940, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Nov 1998)).

    8. [S123] Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), (McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995).

    9. [S293] History of Ritchie County, Minnie Kendall Lowther, (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 349.

    10. [S1630] Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)).
      Identified as Harrison Wass, 22, b. Allegheny Co, res. Ritchie Co, son of John & Barbary; and Cora Pritchard, 19, b. Harrison Co, res. Ritchie Co, dau of Peter & Elizabeth. Married Mar 6 1856.