Doddridge County Roots


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23901 World War I draft registration indicates a birth date of Jun 16 1894 in Shirley, Tyler County. But birth records show it as Jun 19 1894 in Doddridge County. CHAPMAN, Frank Robert Jr. (I100001)
 
23902 World War II draft regisration states birth as 2 Feb 1912 in Calhoun County, but his marriage record shows it as Ritchie County. His death record reflects a birth date of 2 Feb 1913, and the date on his headstone is also 1913. No birth record has been found for either date or location. However, since records show that both his next older (Dennie) and next younger (Romeo) siblings were born in Calhoun County, it is reasonable to conclude that Burl was also born there as stated in his draft registration. FORTNEY, Burl Alton (I139421)
 
23903 World War II draft registration indicates birthplace as Calhoun County, but his marriage record states Smithville, Ritchie County. BARKER, John Earl (I90165)
 
23904 World War II draft registration states birth date as Jan 19 1901 in Wallace. GIFFORD, Worthy Herschel (I114722)
 
23905 World War II service dates: May 28 1940 - Oct 19 1945. In World War II, while assigned to Med Dept, 46th Armored Medical Battalion, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in connection with military operations against enemy forces during the period of Jul 13 1944 to May 8 1945 in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Czechoslovakia. HOALCRAFT, Ancil Burdette (I19867)
 
23906 Worthy Doak was enumerated twice in the 1910 Census, once in the household of his sister & brother-in-law Daisy & Harley Smith in Clarksburg, and again as a nepher in the household of Charles M. Palmer and Lydia (Dotson) Palmer.

1910 Census, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (City of Pittsburgh), enumerated on 27 April 1910 at 6626 Brainard Street:
Charles M. Palmer, 37, b. New York (both parents b. in Germany), piano tuner, married 7 years; wife Lydia Palmer, 34, b. WVa (both parents b. WVa), married 7 yrs, mother of one child (still living); lodge Everett Fox, 45, b. Indiana (both parents b. Indiana), widowed, peddler of notions; nephew Dewey Doak, 15, b. WVa (both parents b. WVa); nephew Worthy Doak, 8, b. WVa (both parents b. WVa); dau Elizabeth Palmer, 5, b. WVa (father b. NY, mother b. WVa); son John Palmer, 3, b. WVa (both parents b. WVa). 
DOAK, Worthy Earl (I114677)
 
23907 Wounded in action Nov 6 1863 at Droop Mountain. CALHOUN, David (I87957)
 
23908 Wounded in battle at Boonesboro, Maryland, on Jul 8 1863. Died in a hospital at Staunton, Virginia, on Aug 9 1863. WEST, Floyd Albion (I20677)
 
23909 Wounded with a shot that hit under his eye in the Battle of Hanging Rock, SC, in the Revolutionary War. He later became a Magistrate for over forty years, and was also an elder of the Presbyterian Church. In 1830, he was elected to the South Carolina Legislature, and shortly before his death he published an article describing his Revolutionary War experiences. GASTON, Joseph (I3335)
 
23910 Writing under the pen name "Uncle Zeke," Patrick Newton Blake was author of the humor column "The Buzzardtown News," which appeared in various West Virginia newspapers in the arly 1900s.

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Uncle Zeke: The Bard of Buzzardtown
ISBN 0-87012-825-6
by David Parmer
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2012
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BLAKE, Patrick Newton "Uncle Zeke" (I111451)
 
23911 Wrote a history of her Gaston ancestors from the 1700's. Upon her death, all her family memorabilia were donated to the Philadelphia Historical Society. GASTON, Lillian (I4970)
 
23912 WW II draft registration gives birth date as May 1 1905 in Fairmont. But his birth record shows it as Apr 30 1905 in Barnsville, a community within Fairmont. SWIGER, Charles Cecil Merrifield (I122721)
 
23913 www.royalprovincial.com/military/musters/6njv/njvlee1.htm PIGOTT, George (I116375)
 
23914 Wynooche Cemetery HILEMAN, Malinda Viola (I20092)
 
23915 Xenia E. Bond was appointed secretary of the Seventh Day Baptist Church South-Eastern Association in the following years:
- 1898, 27th Annual Session at Middle Island, Doddridge County
- 1899, 28th Annual Session at Berea, Ritchie County
- 1900, 29th Annual Session at Lost Creek, Harrison County 
BOND, Xenia Ethel (I129711)
 
23916 Year of marriage given as 1850 in marriage bond, but as 1849 in marriage record. The 1850 date would be correct, since Cassander (Cassa) Weekley is still living with her mother and siblings in the 1850 Census, enumerated in Jul/Aug 1850. Family: Richard WEEKLEY / Cassander A. WEEKLEY (F38504)
 
23917 Yeater Family: Thomas Asa WILDMAN / Katherine STARKEY (F31040)
 
23918 Yeaters Mills FRUM, Columbia Jane (I58932)
 
23919 Yellow Creek CONN, Nannie Lillian (I138715)
 
23920 Yeovilton, Dorset YEOVILTON, Elizabeth (I44970)
 
23921 Yevalton, Dorset MARTIN, Robert (I44969)
 
23922 Yevelton, Devon ___, Elizabeth (I44972)
 
23923 Zachariah Offutt's headstone contains no military information. But his entry in "Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. II," p. 8, includes the following: "Military Information. Offnutt [sic], Col. Zachariah. Married Harriet Neely on 25 November 1855. WUR [West Union Record] 21 December 1906. Reprint WUR 16 December 1937. Page 4. Also WVHE [West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia], Page 47." We have been unable to find any primary source, to include Civil War records on file at the U.S. National Archives (www.fold3.com), to confirm that Zachariah Offutt had any military service. OFFUTT, Zachariah (I62901)
 

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