Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Samuel Prunty    
                Born: ca 1782               1,2 (see note 1)
                Died: 1862                 in Pleasants Co, (W)VA  3
              Census: 1860                 in Pleasants Co, (W)VA  
              Father: John Prunty   (1751 - 1822) 
              Mother: Mary Taylor   (1754 -     ) 
                Wife: Ellen Greathouse   4,5  
         Census name: Elenor 2
                Born: ca 1792               2
              Census: 1860                 in Pleasants Co, (W)VA  
              Father:
              Mother:
           M Child 1: Samuel J. Prunty      
                Born: Apr-24-1824           6,7 (see note 2)
                Died: May-10-1913          in Sumner, Chariton Co, MO  7
              Buried: Lakewood Cemetery     7
             Resided:                      in Missouri  8
             Resided: formerly             in Chrisman, Edgar Co, IL  8
             Resided: until 1865           in Ritchie Co, WV  6
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation:                      farmer  6,9,10
                Wife: Elizabeth Jane Lowther  b. Jun-12-1828  d. Apr- 9-1913  
             Married: Jul- 8-1847          in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  11

Sources:
(1) Death Record - Birth date calculated from age at death. 
(2) 1860 Census, Pleasants County, (W)VA. 
(3) 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. 
(4) Death record of son. 
(5) Death record of husband. 
(6) The History of Edgar County, Illinois, Wm. LeBaron Jr. & Co, Chicago IL (1879), p. 633. 
(7) Death record. 
(8) Jane Lowther Bolster, The Families of Jesse Lowther and His Son Granville, with Their Descendants and Antecedents in 
America, Daamen, Inc. (1982), p. 28. 
(9) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx) 
(10) 1860 Census, Ritchie County, (W)VA. 
(11) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 

Event Notes
Note (1) Death records gives birthplace as Virginia, but son's death record indicates
Ohio.
Note (2) "History of Edgar County, Illinois," p. 633, states birthplace as Taylor
County, (W)VA.  But death record shows it as Ohio.







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