Husband: Homer Judson Knisley
Born: Aug- 7-1900 in Gilmer Co, WV 1,2 (see note 1)
Died: Apr-15-1955 in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV 3
Buried: in Broad Run Baptist Church Cemetery, Jane Lew, Lewis Co, WV 1,4
Resided: near Weston, Lewis Co, WV 1,5
Census: 1910 at Horn Creek, Gilmer Co, WV
Occupation: C & A Gas Co. 1
Military: Jun-25-1918 - Oct- 1-1919 Pfc, Co E, 33rd Infantry, World War I 4
Father: Harvey E. Knisely (1868 - )
Mother: Elizabeth Ida Bush (1868 - )
Wife: Melva Roxanna Law 6 7
Also known as: Roxana Law 7
Married: Dec-22-1951 in Middlebourne, Tyler Co, WV 8
Born: Feb- 6-1907 in Newberne, Gilmer Co, WV 9,10,11,6,12
Died: Mar-30-1995 in Marietta, Washington Co, OH 10,11
Resided: in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV 13
Resided: 1957 in Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV 14
Resided: 1951, 1956 in Weston, Lewis Co, WV 5
Census: 1940 in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV
Census: 1910, 1930 in DeKalb District, Gilmer Co, WV (see note 2)
Father: Levi Morris Law (1860 - 1935)
Mother: Iris Columbia Woodford (1865 - 1964)
Other spouse 1
Other spouse 3
Sources: (1) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx) (2) Gilmer County Birth Records, Glenville, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=9664&Type=Birth. (3) West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. (4) U.S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963 [database on-line], Ancestry.com, Office of Quartermaster General, and National Archives & Records Administration. (5) Lewis County Marriage Records, Weston, WV. (6) Gilmer County WV Marriages 1845-1933, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (Jan 1989) (7) Amos Beaty Sharps, The Samuel Barr Family: A Genealogy List of the Various Descendants of This Family (on file at West Virginia University Library; ca 1961) (8) Lewis County Marriage Records, Weston, WV, Identified as Homer Judson Knisley, 52, b. Aug 7 1899 in Gilmer Co, res. Weston, son of Harvey & Ida (Bush) Knisley; and Melva Roxanna Law, 44, b. Feb 6 1907 in Gilmer Co, res. Weston, dau of Levi Morris & Iris C. (Woodford) Law. Married Dec 22 1951 in Middlebourne (Tyler County), W.Va., officiated by Rev. French Boone, a Minister of the Gospel. NOTE: Marital status not indicated. Bride's name was entered three times as Melva Roxanna Law, and once as M. Roxanna Law. Although the ceremony was held in Tyler County, the license was issued and the marriage recorded in Lewis County, residence of the bride. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=10294959&Type=Marriage. (9) West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. (10) Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007 (online), Ancestry.com and Ohio Department of Health. (11) Social Security Death Index. (12) 1910 Census, Gilmer County, WV. (13) Social Security Death Index, Social Security card issued in West Virginia before 1951. (14) City Directory. Event Notes Note (1) Although Home Knisley's military headstone application, his marriage record and his birth record itself all specify his birth date as Aug 7 1899, census records cast serious doubt on that date. He was not with his family in the 1900 Census, in which his mother's entry indicates that the four children in that census were all that she had had to that point. Similarly, he was age 9 in the 1910 Census, in which his mother's entry indicates that she had had a total of five children. The dates of the census enumerations could allow for a birth date of either Aug 7 1900 or 1901. Note (2) In 1930, with her husband, in household of her parents.