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Husband: John O'Byrne Born: ca 1829 in Ireland 1 Resided: 1862 in Wheeling, Ohio Co, (W)VA 1 Occupation: marble cutter 1 Father: Mother: Notes
Wife: E. P. "Jane" Pritchard Also known as: Elizabeth Jane Pritchard 2 Married: Sep- 1-1862 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA 3 Born: 1838 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA 4,5,1 (see note 1) Died: 1921 5 Buried: in IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV 6 Resided: in Fairmont, Marion Co, WV 7 Census: 1900, 1910 in Fairmont, Marion Co, WV Census: 1880 in Palatine (East Fairmont), Marion Co, WV Resided: 1862 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA 1,7 Census: 1860 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA Census: 1850 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA Resided: originally at White Oak (near Pullman), Ritchie Co, WV 7 Father: Peter Pritchard (1798 - 1883) Mother: Elizabeth Willis (1798 - 1869) Other spouse 1 Other spouse 3
Sources: (1) Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV. (2) Harold A. Tichenor, Tichenor Families in America, Braun-Brumfield Inc, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988, p. 152. (3) Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, Identified as John O'Byrne (or John O. Byrne), single, 33, b. Ireland, res. Wheeling, son of Patrick & Hannah O'Byrne, occupation marble cutter; and Jane Maxwell, widowed, 23, b. Ritchie Co, res. Doddridge Co, dau of Peter & Elizabeth Pritchard. Married Sep 1 1862 in Doddridge County by Thomas B. Hughes. MR p. 142 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11791607&Type=Marriage. (4) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) (5) Headstone (year only) (6) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. (7) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 349. Event Notes Note (1) Birthplace given as Lewis County in her marriage record with Lewis Maxwell in Ritchie County, but as Ritchie County in her marriage record with John O. Byrne in Doddridge County. The latter is considered more likely. Birth date reported in "Tichenor Families in America," p. 152, as Apr 29 1840, but date on headstone is 1838.




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