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Andrew Mead SQUIRES

Andrew Mead SQUIRES

Male 1882 - 1965  (83 years)

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  • Name Andrew Mead SQUIRES 
    Born 19 Aug 1882  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    • Harrison County Death Records states his birth as Aug 19 1881, and headstone shows birth in 1881, but obituary, SSDI, and Joy Gilchrist's Squires Genealogy all give it as Aug 19 1882.
    Gender Male 
    Census 1900  Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1910  West Union District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1919  Summers, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Census 1920  Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation Murphy Oil & Gas Co  [1] 
    Residence FORMERLY  Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Died 7 Oct 1965  Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8] 
    Buried South Fork Baptist Church Cemetery, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 9] 
    Person ID I1618  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 6 Nov 2018 

    Father Virgil B. SQUIRES,   b. 21 Dec 1851, Barbour Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Mar 1933, Industrial, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Laverna GASTON,   b. 7 Nov 1853, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Feb 1940, Industrial, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years) 
    Family ID F575  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Lenora Bird ADAMS,   b. 7 Aug 1880,   d. 21 Oct 1917, Summers, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years) 
    Married 18 Apr 1903  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 11] 
    • Wes Cochran's "Doddridge County WV Marriages" reports marriage date as Apr 19 1904.
    Notes 
    • Andrew Mead Squires and Lenora Bird Adams were double cousins, in that they were both third cousins (both were great-great-grandchildren of John Gaston, Jr (b. 1752 in NJ)) and also fifth cousins (both were great-great-great-great- grandchildren of John Smith (b. 1699)).

      1910 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (West Union District), enumerated on May 7 1910:
      Andrew M. Squires, 28, laborer in gas field, married 5 yrs; wife Lenora B, 29, married 5 yrs, mother of 1 child (still living); dau Ilda L, 3.
    Children 
    +1. Ilda Leon SQUIRES,   b. 16 Jun 1906, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Mar 1969, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)
    +2. Lenora Squires GASTON,   b. 20 Oct 1917,   d. 4 Dec 2001  (Age 84 years)
    Family ID F548  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Emma Gertrude PRUNTY,   b. 8 Jan 1880, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Nov 1955, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Married 25 Dec 1918  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Notes 
    • 1920 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Southwest District), enumerated on Jan 20 1920:
      Andrew M. Squires, 38, farmer; wife Emma G. Squires, 39; stepson Charley L. Grimm, 14; stepdau Ruby E. Grimm, 11; stepson Clarence C. Grimm, 9; stepson Dale W. Grimm, 7. [11]
    Children 
    +1. Winifred SQUIRES,   b. 6 Dec 1920, Summers, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Sep 2011, Florida Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years)
    Family ID F875  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    1618_SQUIRES_AndrewMead_1920Census_DoddridgeCoWV_SouthwestDist_20Jan1920.jpg    		1920 Census, Doddridge Co WV, Southwest Dist

  • Sources 
    1. [S14] Obituary.

    2. [S1556] Squires Genealogy, Joy Gregoire Gilchrist Stalnaker, (Hackers Creek Pioneers Descendants, Jane Lew, WV (www.hackerscreek.com)).

    3. [S15] Social Security Death Index.

    4. [S26] Harrison County Court House, Clarksburg, WV, DR Bk 24, p. 247-A.

    5. [S1577] Obituary of sister.

    6. [S1932] Social Security Death Index.

    7. [S1707] Obituary - Hospital.

    8. [S1670] Harrison County Death Records, Clarksburg, WV, DR Bk 24, p. 247-A.

    9. [S5] Headstone.

    10. [S692] Obituary of wife.

    11. [S110] Obituary of husband.

    12. [S1774] Doddridge County WV Marriages 1845-1937, (Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1993)).