Jul-28-2018
Husband: Francis Marion Law Also known as: Marion F. Law 1,2
Born: Sep-15-1848 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA 3,2 Died: Jul-18-1916 4,3 Buried: in Lawford Cemetery, Spruce Run, jct CR 19 & 34, Ritchie Co, WV 5 (see note 1) Resided: in Lawford, Ritchie Co, WV 4 Father: Asby Poole Law (1823 - 1868) Mother: Deborah Gaston (1827 - 1916) Other spouse 1Wife: Hannah Etta Barr Also known as: Marietta "Eliza" Barr Married: Mar-31-1901 in Ritchie Co, WV 6,7 Born: Nov- 3-1860 in Smithville, Ritchie Co, WV 8,9,10 Died: Mar-24-1937 in Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV 8,11 Buried: in Pullman Cemetery, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV 5,4,12,13 Father: Alfred Barr (1839 - 1915) Mother: Cynthia Ann Smith (1837 - 1925) Other spouse 1 Other spouse 3
M Child 1: Audley Pall Law Born: Jan-22-1902 at Spruce Creek (Auburn), Ritchie Co, WV 14,4,5 Died: Mar-30-1903 5 Buried: in Lawford Cemetery, Spruce Run, jct CR 19 & 34, Ritchie Co, WV 5
Sources: (1) Death record of daughter. (2) 1900 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Union District). (3) Obituary, Ritchie Gazette, 7/28/1916. (4) 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) (5) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. (6) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as Francis Marion Law, widowed, 52, or Ritchie Co; and Etta Sharps, divorced, 40, of Ritchie Co. Married Mar 31 1901. (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). Husband's obituary states marriage date as Mar 30 1901. (8) Ritchie County WV Deaths 1918-1940, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Nov 1998) (9) Alfred Ray Sharps (1927-2007), Virginia Beach, VA. (10) Elizabeth Witter Clarke Lerman, Dayton, OH 45406. (11) Alfred Ray Sharps (1927-2007), Virginia Beach, VA, DR Bk 6, p. 298. (12) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 236. (13) Obituary. (14) Ritchie County Birth Records, Harrisville, WV. Event Notes Note (1) Name on headstone: F. M. Law. Name Index