Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: David Thoburn Kershner    
                Born:                      in Pennsylvania  1
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Elenor Powell   1  
                Born:                      near Hagerstown, Washington Co, MD  1
              Father:
              Mother:
           F Child 1: Lucy Kirshner      
                Born: Mar-18-1863          in Marion Co, WV  2,3,4,5
                Died: Jun- 2-1925          at Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV  2,4
              Buried:                      in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV  6
              Census: 1900                 in Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV  
             Resided: 1886, 1896           in Ritchie Co, WV  5
             Husband: Francis M. Leggett  b. May-11-1857  d. Jul- 3-1890  
       Also known as: Frank Leggett 7,8
             Married: Oct- 7-1886          in Ritchie Co, WV  9
             Husband: John M. Gray  b. Dec-  -1842  d. 1914  
             Married: Jul- 2-1896          in Ritchie Co, WV  10

Sources:
(1) Death record of daughter. 
(2) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx) 
(3) 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Southwest District) 
(4) Headstone (year only) 
(5) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 
(6) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(7) Jane Lowther Bolster, The Families of Jesse Lowther and His Son Granville, with Their Descendants and Antecedents in 
America, Daamen, Inc. (1982), p. 30. 
(8) Penny & O.D. Linder, http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GIBSON/2003-10/1067200853, The Gibson and Related 
Families, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991, p. 455. 
(9) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as 
Francis M. Leggett, divorced, 29, of Ritchie Co; and Lucy Kirshner, 23, b. Marion Co, res. Ritchie Co.  Married Oct 7 
1886. 
(10) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as 
John M. Gray, widowed, 53, b. Harrison Co, res. Doddridge Co; and Lucy Leggett, widowed, 33, b. West Virginia, res. 
Ritchie Co.  Married Jul 2 1896. 







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