Harrison County WV Archives Biographies.....JARVIS, Benjamin Bassel February 17, 1883 - unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William (Bill) Samuel BOGGESS http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005917 September 29, 2009, 6:02 pm Source: self Author: Bill BOGGESS       BENJAMIN   BASSEL   JARVIS       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Benjamin Bassel Jarvis was reportedly born 17 February1883 at Brushy Fork, near Quiet Dell, Harrison county, West Virginia, and was sixth and last known born of William Loftus Jarvis and Mary Martha Stout who joined in matrimony October 1867 in West Virginia. 1923 published biography, http://files.usgwarchives.org/wv/harrison/bios/jarvis.txt http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=califia1&id=I8422 His 1923 biography states he pursued farm his first sixteen years except for when in Vernon, Wilbarger county, Texas when about three to eight years of age. That would be years of 1887/8 to 1890/1. Reportedly, but NOT documented, is his mother's death in 1887. Death Records of Harrison county do not list her, so she may (?) have died in Texas. The 1900 Federal census of Vernon, Wilbarger county, Texas has his father, William Loftus Jarvis and second wife, Henriette Jane Wood listed, where in they state they had been married (location unknown) ten years (1890). (Henriette had moved September 1889 from Bristol, Tenmile district, West Virginia to Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri with her widowed oldest sister where there is NO record of a marriage (nor does West Virginia.) William died 4 December 1910 in Coal county, Oklahoma were they were on the 1910 Federal census. Benjamin is listed in eldest sister's household for 1900 Federal census of Elk district, Harrison county, West Virginia as a student which in his 1923 biography states; at age seventeen he attended West Virginia Business College at Clarksburg, West Virginia. It further states he married 2 October 1909 after graduating from West Virginia University, shortly thereafter moving to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma county, Oklahoma where he remained about three years.Their first son was born in 1911 before returning to Clarksburg. His eldest sister, Celia (Jarvis) Pickens and family are found in the 1910, 1920 and 1930 Federal census of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma county, Oklahoma. Their father and step-mother were listed in Coal county, Oklahoma for 1910 Federal census, where he died 4 December 1910 and was buried in Centrahoma cemetery. Step-mother Henriette moved to Claremore, Rogers county, Okahoma were she died January 1928 and is buried in Park cemetery at Carthage, Missouri. Benjamin is found on 1918's World War I Draft Registration, brown eyes and hair, age 35, married and a self employed attorney-at-law at Clarksburg, then for 1942 World War II Draft Registration is found, 5'-9¼", at 195lbs, in Morgantown, Monongalia county, age 59, married and employed by the Supreme Court of the State of West Virginia. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/harrison/bios/jarvis44nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wvfiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb