Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: John Prunty    
                Born: Dec-21-1751          in Virginia  1
                Died: Apr- 8-1822          in Harrison Co, (W)VA  1
             Resided: since 1784           in Harrison Co, (W)VA  1
             Resided: formerly             in Hampshire Co, VA  1
          Occupation:                      state legislature (1789-1815), Harrison County sheriff (1796)  1
              Father: Barnabus Prunty   (1718 -     ) 
                Wife: Mary Taylor     
                Born: 1754                  1
              Father:
              Mother:
           M Child 1: Jesse Prunty      
                Born: 1779                  1
                Wife: Nancy Finney  
                Wife: Susanna McKinney  b. ca 1795  
       Also known as: Susan McKinney 2
       Marriage Bond: Apr- 4-1807          in Harrison Co, (W)VA  3
             Married: Apr- 7-1807          in Harrison Co, (W)VA  4
           M Child 2: Samuel Prunty      
                Born: ca 1782               5,6 (see note 1)
                Died: 1862                 in Pleasants Co, (W)VA  7
              Census: 1860                 in Pleasants Co, (W)VA  
                Wife: Ellen Greathouse  b. ca 1792  
         Census name: Elenor 6
           M Child 3: Jacob Prunty      
                Born: Apr-21-1786          in Harrison Co, VA (now Taylor Co, WV)  8 (see note 2)
                Died: Jan- 8-1861          in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  1 (see note 3)
              Buried:                      in White Oak ME Church Cem, near Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV  8,9
             Resided: since 1851           at Beason (Pennsboro), Ritchie Co, WV  10,1
             Resided: 1842 - 1851          in Pruntytown, Taylor Co, WV  1
             Resided: 1830 - 1842          in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  1
          Occupation:                      wheelwright, served in state legislature  11,1,8
                Wife: Mary McKinney  b. ca 1796  d. 1865  
             Married: Jul-18-1811          in Harrison Co, (W)VA  12,8

Sources:
(1) Randy E. Prunty, Descendants of Barnabus Prunty (self-published) 
(2) Marriage record of son. 
(3) Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV. 
(4) Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, MR : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=21298&Type=Marriage. 
(5) Death Record - Birth date calculated from age at death. 
(6) 1860 Census, Pleasants County, (W)VA. 
(7) Pleasants County Death Records, St. Marys, WV, Identified as Samuel Prunty, 80, b. Virginia, son of John & Mary, consort 
of Ellen Prunty, occupation farmer; died in 1862 in Pleasants County, cause of death old age.  Informant:  son. DR p. 
10. 
(8) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 436. 
(9) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(10) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 253. 
(11) 1850 Census, Ritchie County, (W)VA. 
(12) Harrison County WV Marriages 1785-1894, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (1985) 

Event Notes
Note (1) Death records gives birthplace as Virginia, but son's death record indicates
Ohio.
Note (2) Age 75y 8m 17d on headstone would put birth date at Apr-22-1785.  Birthplace
reported as Pruntytown
Note (3) Minnie Kendall Lowther, RCHR, p. 436, gives death date as 1860.







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