Notes for: Elizabeth Pinell

1850 Census, Tyler Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Aug 31 1850:
Phillip McGill, 38, farmer, cannot read/write; Elizabeth, 30; Jane, 8; Ellen, 4; Nimrod, 3; William, 8 months. All born in Virginia.

1860 Census, Pleasants Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Jun 28 1860:
Philip McGill, 49, hatter, value of real estate (blank), value of personal estate $45; Elizabeth, 45; Emily, 15; Ellen, 14; Nimrod, 12; William, 9. All born in Virginia except Philip, born in New Jersey.

1870 Census, Meigs Co, Ohio (Olive Township), enumerated on Jun 23 1870:
Philip McGill, 55, b. New Jersey, farm laborer; Elizabeth, 47, b. Va, cannot read/write; Ellen Andrews, 23, b. WVa, housework, cannot write; William T. Andrews, 4, b. Ohio; Evaline Harvey, 4, b. Ohio.

1880 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Grant District), enumerated on Jun 17 1880:
Filip McGill, 65, b. WVa (father b. Ireland, mother b. Germany), farmer, insane; wife Elizabeth, 57, b. WVa (both parents b. Va.), cannot read/write.
NOTE: Significance of husband's designation of being insane is not known. It is possible that the term was used to refer to what we now call dementia.