Mary Jane BRITTON
1828 - 1918 (90 years)
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Name Mary Jane BRITTON Born 1828 Gender Female Census 1850, 1860 Preston Co, (W)VA 
Census 1870 Rowlesburg, Preston Co, WV Census 1880 Sheridan District, Calhoun Co, WV Census 1900 Reno District, Preston Co, WV - Listed as mother-in-law Mary J. McGee, 72, b. May 1828, widowed, in the household of her daughter Virginia B. (McGee) Pratt and her family. However, in the same census she and her husband James R. McGee were enumerated together in Lyon District, Preston County. Circumstantially, it appears that James and Mary had separated at about that time. Because of social stigma in that era, It was not unusual for a separated or divorced woman to indicate her marital status as widowed. In the 1910 Census of Kingwood, Preston County, she had reverted to her maiden name, being listed in son James W. McGee's household as mother Mary J. Britton, 80, widowed. Nonetheless, in her death record she was identified as Mary Jane McGee, 90, widowed. Her husband James had remarried in 1901 and died in 1913.
Census 1900 Lyon District, Preston Co, WV Census 1910 Kingwood, Preston Co, WV Died 14 Jun 1918 Tunnelton, Preston Co, WV [1] Person ID I128583 Doddridge County Roots Last Modified 28 Jul 2020
Father James BRITTON, b. CA 1805 Mother Elizabeth SQUIRES, b. CA 1803, d. 9 Apr 1883, Kingwood, Preston Co, WV (Age ~ 80 years) Family ID F46626 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family James R. MCGEE, b. Jul 1824, d. 3 Jan 1913, Hallsville, Ross Co, OH (Age ~ 88 years) Married CA 1848 [2] Family ID F56102 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Sources - [S1916] Preston County Death Records, (Kingwood, WV), DR p. 12, Line 7 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4764701&Type=Death.
- [S2256] 1900 Census, Preston County, WV.
- [S1916] Preston County Death Records, (Kingwood, WV), DR p. 12, Line 7 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4764701&Type=Death.