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- 1860 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Jun 14 1860:
Wm. T. Pritchard, 28, farmer; Hester, 23; Alice, 2 months.
1870 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (New Milton Twp):
William T. Prichard, 40, farmer; Esther, 36, b. Ohio; Alice C, 10; Lloyd W, 7; Willie A, 5; Olin D, 2; Charles J, one month.
1880 Census, Jackson Co, WV (Ravenswood District), enumerated on Jun 21 1880:
W. T. Pritchard, 50, farmer; wife Esther, 47; dau Alice C, 20; son Wallace, 18; son William A, 15; son Olin D, 12; son Charles J, 10.
Article in "Sistersville Oil Review," Friday, July 15, 1904:
RADIUM IN DODDRIDGE
The West Union record says that William Pritchard of Webster County, Ola Pritchard of Ritchie County, and a Mr. Dotson late of Colorado, a mining expert, are at work at an old shaft on Lewis Maxwell's land, near the residence of Clarence Maxwell, prospecting for the very valuable metal radium, which is worth some millions of dollars a pount. William Pritchard dug a shaft at the same place over thirty years ago, when he was engaged in prospecting for gold. They are now engaged in cleaning out the old shaft, and have come to a layer of peculiar kind of stone which is strangely mixed with some other kind of mineral. [2]
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