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Wallace Bruce GRIBBLE

Wallace Bruce GRIBBLE

Male 1873 - 1960  (86 years)

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  • Name Wallace Bruce GRIBBLE 
    Born 14 Oct 1873  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Census 1880  New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1900  West Union District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1900  [2] 
    Clerk of Circuit Court 
    Census 1910  West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1910  [4] 
    land title abstractor 
    Residence 1919  West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Occupation 1920  [5] 
    lawyer 
    Occupation 1917, 1920  [6, 7] 
    State Senator 
    Occupation 1930  [8] 
    general supervisor of gas company (supplies gas to city) 
    Census 1920, 1930, 1940  Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • In 1920, listed as Wallace B. Gribble, 42, lawyer, married, one of many roomers at the Gore Hotel, 200 W. Pike Street. His wife was not present. In 1930 and 1940, location specified as 351 Buckhannon Avenue, where he was still residing at the time of his death.
    Occupation Doddridge County Sheriff  [9] 
    Occupation general superintendent at gas company  [1] 
    Occupation 1940  [10] 
    farmer (retired) 
    Residence Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 11] 
    Died 27 Jan 1960  Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Buried (MAUSOLEUM)  Elkview Masonic Cemetery, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 13] 
    Notes 
    • Local news items, "Doddridge County Republican," Thursday, Sep 7 1916, in its entirety:
      "Attorney Wallace B. Gribble was elected Special Judge at Saturday's Special Term of the Circuit Court."

      Local news item, "West Union Herald," Thursday, Jan 18 1917, in its entirety:
      "W. B. Gribble has been appointed on the following committees of the Legislature by President Wells Goodykoontz. Finance, Chairman of the committe on immigration and agriculture. These are very important assignments, and Senator Gribble is very competent to fill them in an able manner."

      Biographical sketch from the "West Virginia Blue Book" of 1919:
      GRIBBLE, WALLACE BRUCE. (Republican) Address: West Union, West Va. Born in the village of Oxford, Doddridge County, October 14, 1873; educated in the common and high schools; is an attorney by profession; has been Clerk of the Circuit Court and also Sheriff of Doddridge County; elected to the Senate in 1916; in 1919 ws Chairman of the Committee on Forfeited and Unappropriated Lands and the Committe to Examine the Clerk's Office; he also rendered faithful and especially valuable services as a member of the Judiciary, Finance, Prohibition and Temperance, Penitentiary, Rules and Virginia Debt committees.

      http://www.wileygenealogy.com/biographies/category/wv/doddridge/
    Person ID I58515  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 15 Oct 2023 

    Father John Marion GRIBBLE,   b. 5 May 1838, Preston Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jan 1923, West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Ann GRAY,   b. 1837,   d. 27 Dec 1926, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years) 
    Family ID F11664  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret Connell SNIDER,   b. 6 Jan 1887, Preston Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Nov 1970, Marion Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 29 Dec 1919  Fairmont, Marion Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 8] 
    Family ID F42316  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Documents
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1853] Death Certificate, WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx).

    2. [S1998] 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (West Union District).

    3. [S1835] Marion County Marriage Records, Fairmont, WV.

    4. [S2032] 1910 Census, Doddridge County, WV (West Union District).

    5. [S2096] 1920 Census, Harrison County, WV.

    6. [S1605] Obituary of wife's sister.

    7. [S691] West Union Herald, 1/18/1917.

    8. [S2039] 1930 Census, Harrison County, WV.

    9. [S691] West Union Herald.
      News item, "West Union Herald," Thursday, March 20 1913, in its entirety:
      "Besides our present sheriff Eli Nutter, ex-Sheriffs John M. Gribble, Joseph Freeman, W. B. Gribble, W. B. Allen and J. E. Trainer were all at the Court House at one time Tuesday, as well as several of their respective deputies; it is not necessary to state that the very best of order prevailed."

    10. [S2638] 1940 Census, Harrison County, WV.

    11. [S1594] Obituary of brother.

    12. [S2568] West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com).

    13. [S934] Findagrave.com.