Jul-28-2018                   
             Partner: Ulysses Grant Sherwood    
       Also known as: Grant Sherwood 1
                Born: Jun-21-1866          at Avon, Doddridge Co, WV  2,3
                Died: May-12-1953          in Newark, Licking Co, OH  2,3
              Buried:                      in Snider Cemetery, jct Double Camp Rd & Meathouse Fork, near Avon, Doddridge Co, WV  4,2
              Census: 1910, 1920, 1930     in Greenbrier District, Doddridge Co, WV  
              Census: 1870, 1880           in New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV  
              Father: Joseph Sherwood, Jr.   (1819 - 1896) 
              Mother: Susanna Jacobs   (1828 - 1900) 
Other spouse 2
             Partner: Martha Elizabeth Yerkey     
       Also known as: Elizabeth Yerkey 
         Not married:                        
                Born: Nov-22-1871          in Elk District, Harrison Co, WV  5,6,7
              Census: 1880                 in Union District, Harrison Co, WV  
              Father: Silas I. Yerkey   (1839 -     ) 
              Mother: Anne R. Pickerell   (1846 -     ) 
Other spouse 2
           F Child 1: Dollie Bell (Yerkey) Sherwood      
         Census name: Dollie 
                Born: Dec-31-1889          in Beech Lick (Salem), Doddridge Co, WV  8,9,3
                Died: Jan-18-1941          in Miletus (Salem), Doddridge Co, WV  10,3
              Buried:                      in Mt. Olive Baptist Cemetery, Patterson Rd, Salem (Doddridge Co), WV  10,11
              Census: 1910, 20, 30, 40     in Greenbrier District, Doddridge Co, WV   (see note 1)
             Husband: William Burt Chipps  b. May- 5-1889  d. May-10-1948  
       Also known as: Burt Chipps 1
             Married: Mar-19-1911          in Doddridge Co, WV  9 (see note 2)

Sources:
(1) Birth record of daughter. 
(2) Obituary. 
(3) Headstone (year only) 
(4) Donald Edward Ramage, Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. I, 4117 Almaville Rd, Smyna TN 37167 (1988, rev. 1999) 
(5) West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(6) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 371. 
(7) West Virginia Marriages Index, 1785-1971 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(8) Doddridge County Birth Records, West Union, WV, Identified as Dolly Bell Yerkey, white female, born Dec 31 1890 (sic) at 
Beech Lick, Doddridge County.  Mother:  Martha Elizabeth Yerkey.  Father:  (blank). 
NOTE:  This birth record is a typewritten ledger transcribed from the original handwritten records.  In at least this 
case, the birth date was entered incorrectly, as shown by the following court document information: 
Doddridge County Court Case No. 5471, Book 7, Page 76, states that "Martha E. Yerkey was delivered of a female bastard 
December 31, 1889," in connection with which the Court found U. G. Sherwood guilty of a charge of bastardy on July 29 
1890. BR p. 373, Line 3351 : 
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=2605499&Type=Birth. 
(9) Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV. 
(10) West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(11) Findagrave.com. 

Event Notes
Note (1) In 1910, listed as Dollie B. Yerkie, 20, single, a servant in the household
of William Stutler (80, widowed) and his son Jesse & Sarah (Yerkey) and family. 
Sarah was Dollie's aunt.
Note (2) at the home of Jesse Stutler







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