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Kate RAMSEY

Kate RAMSEY

Female 1902 - 1957  (55 years)

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  • Name Kate RAMSEY 
    Born 4 May 1902  Central Station, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Female 
    Census 1920  Central District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1930  West Union District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1940  Wolf Summit, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence Wolf Summit, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Died 24 Jul 1957  Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3] 
    Cause: pneumonia due to metastatic carcinoma of rectum 
    Buried Duckworth (Summit) Cemetery, Greenwood, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4] 
    Person ID I21383  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 29 Jun 2022 

    Father William C. RAMSEY,   b. 19 Feb 1875, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Dec 1939, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years) 
    Mother Lucinda "Lou" CARDER,   b. 20 Mar 1875, Greenwood, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 May 1963, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Family ID F34579  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Marion Clyde SQUIRES,   b. 11 Jan 1899, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Dec 1954, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Married 13 Aug 1921  [2] 
    Divorced 1948  Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Notes 
    • 1930 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (West Union District), enumerated on Apr 5 1930 on Route 50:
      Marion Squires, 31, gas company roustabout, age 23 at time of first marriage; wife Kate, 27, age 19 at first marriage; dau Norma, 6; Myrle Squires, 38, b. WVa (father b. WVa, mother b. England), laundress for private families, single [sic]; Charles Layton, 20, b. WVa (father b. Belgium, mother b. WVa), single; Dorothy Howard, 9; William McCullough, 6; Mary McCullough, 4.
      NOTE: Relationships of everyone except for his wife and daughter were entered as "Relative." Myrle Squires is actually Marion's first cousin, daughter of Andrew Jackson Squires (b. WVa) & Jessie Booker Brown (b. England). According to her birth record, Dorothea Phyllis Howard was born in West Union on Jun 16 1920, daughter of Frank Howard and Myrle Squires. In the 1940 Census of West Union District, Myrle Squires was head of household, marital status single, with son William McCullough and daughters Dorothy Howard & Mary Louise McCullough. Charles Jackson Layton was a son of Lester Lee Layton and Myrle's sister Ellen Grace Squires.

      1940 Census, Harrison County, WV (Tenmile District), enumerated on May 16, 1940 in the community of Wolf Summit:
      Marion Squires, 41, oiler for gas company, 7 yrs education; wife Kate, 37, 1 yr high school; dau Norma, 6 [sic], 3 yrs high school. All born in West Virginia and residing in the same house in 1935.
      NOTE: Daughter Norma's age should have been entered as 16. [6]
    Children 
    +1. Norma Jean SQUIRES,   b. 5 Nov 1923, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jul 2003  (Age 79 years)
    Family ID F7894  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1853] Death Certificate, WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx), http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1605428&Type=Death.

    2. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    3. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    4. [S2544] Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. II, Donald Edward Ramage (1934-2016), (4117 Almaville Rd, Smyna TN 37167 (1988, rev. 1999)).

    5. [S1966] Record of husband's remarriage.

    6. [S1583] Marriage record of daughter.