Marion Bruce SUMMERS
1869 - 1928 (58 years)
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Name Marion Bruce SUMMERS Born 24 Apr 1869 Doddridge Co, WV 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Occupation Abt 1887 to 1901 [1] school teacher Census 1870, 1880, 1900 Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV Residence 1903 Summers, Doddridge Co, WV [3] Occupation From 1905 to Aft 1913 [1, 4] banker/cashier, First National Bank of West Union Occupation 1901-1905 [1] cashier, Auburn Exchange Bank, Ritchie Co. Census 1910 West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Census 1920 Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA Education Fairmont Normal School [1] Occupation 1920 [5] manager at steel company Died 1928 Sarasota Co, FL [6] Notes - Twice married, both of Marion Bruce Summers' wives were named Maude. His first wife, Maude B. Stalnaker, died before Jan 1920, probably in Pennsylvania where he was found as a widower in the 1920 Census. They had three children, Joseph, Marion and Betty. His second wife, Leota Maude Goff, was known almost exclusively by her middle name. She had two previous marriages, first to James R. Wass who died in 1912 and by whom she had daughters Helen and Virginia. Her 1917 marriage to Edgar Sylvester White, a native of Maine, apparently soon ended in divorce. Marion Bruce Summers and Maude White were in adjacent households in the 1920 Census of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is not known when or where they were married, but they were in Sarasota, Florida at the time of his 1928 death. Maude was still residing there with her daughter Virginia in the 1945 Census, and she is reported to have died there later that year.
In November 1914, along with accomplice C. D. Martin, Marion Bruce Summers was found guilty on multiple counts of bank fraud, specifically the embezzlement of about $35,000 from the First National Bank of West Union. They were both sentenced to five years in the West Virginia state prison.
1910 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (West Union District, town of West Union), enumerated on Apr 18 1910:
M. Bruce Summers, 40, occupation banker, married 6 yrs; wife Maude B, 30, mother of 2 children (both still living); son Joe D, 5; son Marion B, 1; roomer Adaline Tschudi, 32, b. Maryland, single, occupation dressmaker.
Census entries indicated that the family residence was a house rather than a farm, that it was owned rather than rented, and that it was without a mortgage.
1920 Census, Allegheny Co, Pennsylvania (city of Pittsburgh), enumerated on Jan 15 1920:
M. B. Summers, 50, occupation manager at steel company, widowed; son Joe D, 16; dau Betty M, 2, b. Pennsylvania.
In the next household:
Maude White, 36, b. WVa (father b. WVa, mother b. Ohio), no occupation, widowed; dau Helen, 12; dau Opel, 10. (Note: Maude White's listed marital status is incorrect. She and her husband of 2-1/2 years, Edgar Sylvester White, had apparently separated, as he was enumerated in the 1920 Census in Portland, Maine, his native state.)
1930 Federal Census, Sarasota Co, Florida (city of Sarasota), enumerated on Apr 14 1930 on Gillespie Ave:
Maud A (?) Summers, 46, b. WVa (father b. WVa, mother b. Ohio), occupation retail grocery merchant; dau Betty M. Summers, 12, b. Pa; dau Helen F. Wass, 22, b. WVa, single; dau Virginia O. Wass, 20, b. WVa, single.
1935 Florida State Census, Sarasota Co, Florida, enumerated at E. 24th Street:
Maud Summers, 52, b. Ohio, housewife, home owner (rather than rent); dau Bettie Summers, 17, b. Pa, stenographer.
In the next household were Maud's daughter and her family:
Alton P. Bowers, 28, b. South Carolina, occupation ice plant; wife Virginia O. Bowers, 25, b. WVa; dau Virginia Dorothy Bowers, 2, b. Florida.
In the 1945 Florida State Census of Sarasota, Florida, Maud L. Summers was listed in the household of her daughter and son-in-law Virginia O. & A. P. Bowers.
Person ID I55705 Doddridge County Roots Last Modified 18 May 2012
Father Joseph A. SUMMERS, b. 15 Mar 1833, Monongalia Co, (W)VA , d. 13 Jan 1879, Doddridge Co, WV (Age 45 years) Mother Nancy WILSON, b. 29 Sep 1838, Monongalia Co, (W)VA , d. 16 Mar 1920, Bridgeport, Harrison Co, WV (Age 81 years) Family ID F11602 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Maude B. STALNAKER, b. CA 1879, Lewis Co, WV , d. Bef Jan 1920 (Age ~ 40 years) Married 16 Sep 1903 Ritchie Co, WV [7] Children 1. Joseph Doliver SUMMERS, b. 2 Aug 1904, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV 2. Marion B. SUMMERS, b. CA 1909 3. Betty Maude SUMMERS, b. CA 1918, Pennsylvania Family ID F34727 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Leota Maude GOFF, b. 1 Jun 1883, Hazelgreen, Ritchie Co, WV , d. 24 Sep 1945, Sarasota, Sarasota Co, FL (Age 62 years) Family ID F35296 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Twice married, both of Marion Bruce Summers' wives were named Maude. His first wife, Maude B. Stalnaker, died before Jan 1920, probably in Pennsylvania where he was found as a widower in the 1920 Census. They had three children, Joseph, Marion and Betty. His second wife, Leota Maude Goff, was known almost exclusively by her middle name. She had two previous marriages, first to James R. Wass who died in 1912 and by whom she had daughters Helen and Virginia. Her 1917 marriage to Edgar Sylvester White, a native of Maine, apparently soon ended in divorce. Marion Bruce Summers and Maude White were in adjacent households in the 1920 Census of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is not known when or where they were married, but they were in Sarasota, Florida at the time of his 1928 death. Maude was still residing there with her daughter Virginia in the 1945 Census, and she is reported to have died there later that year.
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Sources - [S2622] West Virginia and Its People, Vol. III, Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell, (Lewis Historical Publishing Co, 1913), p. 948.
- [S1891] 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Southwest District).
- [S1821] Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV.
- [S2032] 1910 Census, Doddridge County, WV (West Union District).
- [S1734] 1920 Census.
- [S2396] Florida Death Index, 1877-1998 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com and Florida Dept of Health, Office of Vital Records), DR Vol. 383, No. 14589.
- [S1821] Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV, MR p. 18 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11535845&Type=Marriage.
Identified as Marion B. Summers, 34, b. Doddridge Co, res. at Summers in Doddridge Co; and Maud B. Stalnaker, 24, b. Lewis Co, res. at Auburn in Ritchie Co. Married Sep 16 1903 "at the Hovanah Farm, Ritchie Co."
- [S2622] West Virginia and Its People, Vol. III, Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell, (Lewis Historical Publishing Co, 1913), p. 948.
