West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 109 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: JESSE E. KEYSER, Barbour Coun [Valerie & Tommy Crook ] #7 Mollie F. Duckworth-obit [Bridgette Osz ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from WV-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to WV-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the WV-FOOTSTEPS-D list administrator, send mail to WV-FOOTSTEPS-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:56:53 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991110215653.00e40ec0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: JESSE E. KEYSER, Barbour County WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 310-311 Barbour JESSE E. KEYSER. Belington is one of the fast growing commercial centers, particularly well situated to enjoy the advantages arising from the developments in a vast ter- ritory on both sides of the Alleghanies. The first whole- sale business established here is now the Kane & Keyser Hardware Company, of which Jesse E. Keyser is presi- dent. He has been a business factor in the locality since 1901. At that time the corporation was started with a capitalization of $100,000. The capital was raised to a quarter of a million in 1921, but the official personnel remains practically the same. The normal territory served by this house is all of Eastern West Virginia, a portion of Virginia and the western part of Maryland. A staff of five salesmen cover this region. The company handles an extensive line of general hardware, and a large volume of the business is in builders, mine and railroad supplies. Besides the head- quarters at Belington, the company maintains offices at 107 Chambers Street, New York, in the Union Arcade Building at Pittsburgh, and in the Continental & Com- mercial National Bank Building in Chicago. Mr. Keyser is a member of the National Hardware Jobbers Association. Jesse E. Keyser has been a West Virginia business man for nearly thirty years. He is a native of Ohio and was born near Bellaire in Belmont County July 31, 1863. The remote ancestor of the Keyser family settled in Philadelphia in 1688, coming from Amsterdam, Hol- land, where he had been a silk manufacturer. The old Keyser home is still standing on Grermantown Avenue in Philadelphia. The early generations of the Keysers were of the Quaker faith, consequently opposed to war and did not participate in the Revolution, but later generations have departed somewhat from the anti-military customs and the family was represented on both sides in the Civil war. The grandfather of the Belington business man was Jesse Keyser, who lost his life while raising a log house in Belmont County, Ohio. Isaac Keyser, father of Jesse E., was born in Belmont County, and his life was devoted to farming. He lived in Noble County, Ohio, from 1864 until his death in 1898, at the age of eighty- five. He was a democrat and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He married Monica Porterfield, who died just two weeks before him, at the age of seventy-eight. Her father, John Porterfield, arrived in New York City from the North of Ireland in 1800 and settled in Belmont County, Ohio. He married a member of the Robb family, pioneers. In the Porterfield family there were sixteen children. Isaac Keyser and wife had six children, and of these Jesse is the only survivor. Jesse E. Keyser was reared and educated in Noble County, Ohio, attending the public schools and the Normal School at Sharon, Ohio. While in an office at Dover, Ohio, he learned telegraphy, and he earned his first money as a telegraph operator in the service of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Eailroad, later the B. & O. system with which he was connected for three years. Later he was with the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, and was with that company eight years, chiefly in station work. His last work for the railroad was at Hayward, Wisconsin. >From there Mr. Keyser came to West Virginia in 1894, and, locating at West Union in Doddridge County, engaged in the hardware and oil well supply business as a member of the firm E. J. Kane and J. E. Keyser. Out of this relationship has since developed the Kane & Keyser Hard- ware Company, and in. 1901 they moved their business to Belington, where it has grown and prospered to the condi- tion above noted. Mr. Keyser and Mr. Kane came together from Ohio and reached West Union at the time Coxey's Army was march- ing on to Washington. Mr. Keyser left the railroad serv- ice just before the big A. R. U. strike under Debs. These young men were about the same age, had little capital, but a great deal of enterprise and confidence in them- selves, and in spite of the business depression prevailing during most of the decade of the '90s, they more than realized their expectations, and out of their efforts has been developed the big wholesale house at Belington. Mr. Keyser is also vice president of the First National Bank of Belington, of which he was one of the founders. He was a member of the City Council during the era of paving and sewerage construction. He has interested him- self in party politics only as a voter of the democratic faith, is a deacon in the Belington Presbyterian Church and a member of the Allegheny and Cheat Mountain Clubs and the Business Men's Club of Belington. At West Union, June 27, 1900, Mr. Keyser married Miss Dagmar Neely, daughter of Alfred and Mary (Morris) Neely. She is a native of Doddridge County, where her father was a well known country physician. She finished her education in the Fairmont State Normal School and was a teacher until her marriage. Mrs. Keyser is a sister of Matthew M. Neely, former Congressman from the First West Virginia District. Her sister, Delmond, is the wife of C. H. Jones, secretary-treasurer of the Kane & Keyser Hardware Company of Belington. Mrs. Keyser is a mem- ber of the Daughters of the American Revolution, due to the service of her great-great-grandfather as a soldier in the war for independence. During the World war Mr. Keyser was active in home work, was a member of the Council of Defense, was vice chairman of the local Red Cross, and was chairman of the Y. M. C. A. drive and a worker in other local campaigns. Mr. and Mrs. Keyser have two children. The son, Robb Neely, is a student in the Davis and Elkins College at Elkins. The daughter, Mary Monica, is a high school girl at Belington. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:57:43 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991110215743.00e44880@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: THOMAS J. SHAW, Preston County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 311-312 Preston THOMAS J. SHAW. This is probably the last history of the State of West Virginia which will include representa- tion of surviving members of the Civil war. All these sur- vivors of the great conflict have passed the age of three score and ten. One of them, a highly honored citizen of Preston County, a retired farmer living in the Village of Denver, is Thomas J. Shaw, whose life as a civilian has been thoroughly worthy of his record as a soldier. He was born in Preston County, Reno District, February 24, 1842. His grandfather, Thomas Shaw, was a native of England, spent many years as a sailor on the high seas, and after leaving the sea he lived near Philadelphia for a time and then came to West Virginia. He died in 1866 and is buried in the Israel Cemetery in Reno District of Preston County. His children were Thomas A., Nicholas C., and Mary, who became the wife of Henson Pointer. Thomas A. Shaw was born in Monongalia County, West Virginia, about 1820, moved from there to Preston County, where he married Rebecca Stillwell, whose father had come from the vicinity of Philadelphia to Morgantown and later settled in Preston County. Thomas A. Shaw for more than half a century was a farmer in the Reno District. He was one of the pioneers there, purchasing land covered with heavy timber, and every acre put in cultivation was the result of arduous work with the axe and other imple- ments required for clearing. He lived there until his death in 1897. He was a republican after that party came into existence, and was a member of the Methodist Church. His wife died several years before him. Their children were: Eliza A., who married Christian Nine and is now living at Terra Alta; Thomas Jackson, Lemuel Clark, whose home is in Colorado; Mary Elizabeth and Rebecca Jane, twins, the former of whom died as the wife of Jacob Miller, while the latter is living in Reno District, the wife of James Braham; Mrs. Virginia Ford, of Reno District; Columbia, who first married Aaron Hardesty, then Mr. Bucklew, and finally Lloyd Bolyard, and is now living as a widow near Fellowsville in Preston County; Melissa, Mrs. Alexander Shahan, living not far from Fellowsville. Thomas J. Shaw spent his youth in what might be termed a backwoods district. As soon as he was old enough he handled the axe and other tools, assisting his father to clear away the timber and brush from their acreage on the headwaters of the Sandy. He is a product, so far as his education is concerned, of one of the typical schools of that generation. The community provided only an old log shack as a schoolhouse, its furnishings being split logs for benches, greased paper windows, a fireplace, the fuel for which had to be chopped by the older boys. In this rude temple of learning he studied a spelling book, learned a little writing and figuring, and he considered it a good record if he was permitted to attend school four days out of the week. He had barely completed his experience in this school- house when the cloud of Civil war arose, and in 1863, when he was twenty-one, he volunteered for the defense of the flag in Company E of the Fifteenth West Virginia Infantry, under Captain Paul and Colonel Morris. He drilled with this company on Wheeling Island, went to Sir John's Run in Morgan County, then to the Big Kanawha, and from there the command was ordered to Lynchburg. He caught his first view of Confederate forces and engaged in his first battle at Cloyd Mountain. He also fought at Lynch- burg, Cedar Creek, Winchester, Hatchers Run, and in front of Richmond his division took the three Confederate forts of Harris, Gregg and Hill. Later his regiment was on a forced march to Appomattox, and his command came in contact with the enemy and had a skirmish before the final surrender. Thomas Shaw was in sight of the place where the negotiations for the surrender of Lee's army took place, and for a long time he owned a portion of a tree from McClain's orchard, the tree under which the terms of capitulation were written. After the surrender his regiment was sent to Wheeling, mustered out in June, 1865, and Mr. Shaw came out of the army with a record of active participation in thirteen different battles. His company went into service with 117 men, only 33 were mustered out, and he was one of the three who escaped wounds. As soon as his discharge was in his hand Mr. Shaw hur- ried home to help on the farm, finding the harvest ready, and he aided in putting it away. For a time he worked at the sawmill of Martin L. Shaffer, later cut timber, worked as a carpenter on several houses, and for some twenty years he put up a strenuous fight to win existence from an old farm on Brushy Ridge, where all the land had to be cleared before any crops could be raised. This was the strenuous period of his existence, as he recalls it, since he worked from 4 in the morning until 8 at night, regardless of weather conditions. His grit and persistence while there laid the foundation of something like pros- perity, and after he sold the coal under his land he estab- lished himself at Denver on a little farm; and here, too, the exertion of clearing had to be put forth before culti- vation could be practiced. Then for some years followed a successive program of crops, grain and stock, with sub- sequent purchases of more land from time to time, until the evening of life found him prepared with an ample competence and now, with the companionship of the wife of his youth, he is enjoying the comforts of a good resi- dence at Denver, and they look back over the past without regret and to the future without concern. Thomas J. Shaw voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, while he was in the army. He has cast a vote at every suc- cessive national election, always in the same party faith. He has served as a. trustee of the Methodist congregations at Denver and at Nazareth. In Taylor County, near Grafton, Mr. Shaw married, on December 7, 1865, Miss Rosanna Rosier. She was born in Taylor County, daughter of John and Narcissus (Hull) Rosier. Her father was a native of Germany, was brought to the United States at the age of ten years, spent his active career as a farmer, and he and his wife are buried in the Knottsville graveyard. Their children were: Edgar Rosier, who served as a Union soldier and is living at Grafton; Sarah Ann, who died at Webster, West Virginia, wife of Balden Funk; Lemuel, also a Union soldier, who died in Taylor County; Mrs. Shaw, whose birth occurred April 10, 1844; Caroline, wife of Reuben Dillon, living near Knottsville; Sanford, of Grafton; Miss Hattie, liv- ing near Grafton; Amanda, who died unmarried; Jacob, a farmer at the old homestead in Grafton; and Belle, Mrs. Mart Thomas, of Fairmont. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw, who celebrated their golden wed- ding anniversary half a dozen years since, have one son, and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The son, Charles Franklin Shaw, was born at Austen, Pres- ton County, September 19, 1866, and is a successful mer- chant at Clarksburg. He married Cora Taylor, and their children are: Lula, Nellie Rose, Charles F., Jr., Carl J., and Ruby. The daughter Lula is the wife of Ned Edwards, and they have five children, named Catherine, Edward, Thomas, Susan and Lncile. Nellie Shaw married Roy Repard, and her children are Cloyd, Walter and Luella Jean. The grandson of Thomas J. Shaw, Carl J. Shaw, is married and has a daughter, Bettie. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:57:53 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991110215753.00e43660@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: CHARLES A. DUFFIELD, Braxton County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 312 Braxton CHARLES A. DUFFIELD. Three occupations, agriculture, merchandising and contracting, have occupied the activities of Charles A. Duffield, of Sutton, during a career that has been prolific in achievement. In each of these fields of en- deavor he has won his way to the forefront through the exercise of close application, capacity for management and native ability, and also in each field he has maintained a well-earned reputation for high business principles and sound integrity. He also may lay claim to belonging to the self-made class, having worked his own way, unaided, to his present position. Mr. Duffield is a product of the agricultural community of the section in which he now lives, having been born on a farm in Braxton County, June 15, 1873, a son of E. D. and Araminta (Keener) Duffield. His father was born in Clay County, West Virginia, in 1845, and as a youth came to Braxton County, where he married Miss Keener, who had been born in this county in 1850, and who, like himself, had received a country school education. After their marriage they settled down to farming, in addition to which Mr. Duffield also engaged in lumbering to some extent. Al- though he has reached his seventy-seventh year, he continues to be interested in agricultural matters and carries on opera- tions in Braxton County on quite an extensive scale. He is a democrat in his political allegiance, but has never taken other than a good citizen's interest in public affairs, having never been an office seeker. He and his worthy wife are faithful members of the Baptist Church. They have been the parents of ten children, of whom nine are living: Sarah J., the wife of James Smith; Charles A., of this review; Emma, the wife of Wilbur Eckle; John, a resident of Sutton; Clarence, a resident of Charleston; James A., engaged in merchandising at Sutton; Will; Robert, a rail- road man of Sutton; and Mollie, the wife of U. R. Duffield. The childhood and youth of Charles A. Duffield were passed in the midst of an agricultural atmosphere, and his early education was acquired in the country schools. This was supplemented by a course at the Mountain State Busi- ness College of Parkersburg, West Virginia, and when he graduated therefrom he adopted the vocation of teaching school in the country districts of Braxton County. The country at large is beginning to recognize more fully than formerly that no better preparation can be given a man for his life work, no matter in what arena, than that afforded in the labors of an educator. Learning to dis- cipline others, to impart to expanding minds many and varied facts, seem to give a man an insight into human nature and a knowledge of the motives which govern the masses. Mr. Duffield's experience in this line proved of great value to him when he later entered the business of lumber merchandising and water well contracting, fields in which he has risen to well-merited success. He has also found prosperity in his ventures as an agriculturist, and in each line his success has been all his own and by no means due to the assistance of others. In October, 1902, Mr. Duffield was united in marriage with Miss Bessie Carper, who was born and reared in Braxton County, where she received her education in the common schools. To them have been born five children: Gertrude, who attended the State University and is a graduate of the Sutton High School, where she is now teaching a class; Genevieve, also a high school graduate, who is attending the State University; Joseph, who is at- tending high school; and Charles A., Jr., and Paul, who are attending the graded schools. Mrs. Duffield is a member of the Baptist Church, and the children are being reared in that faith. Mr. Duffield in politics is a democrat, but has not been a seeker for public office. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:57:59 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991110215759.00e441b0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: C. B. CHRISMAN, Braxton County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 313 Braxton C. B. CHRISMAN. Recognized as one of the thriving com- munities of Braxton County, Burnsville has been for many years accepted as one of the commercial centers of this sec- tion. Its geographical location and trade advantages make it a desirable market, and its growth and development along this and kindred lines have been largely due to the efforts of business men who have devoted themselves to its ad- vancement. These men have also contributed to progress in encouraging the development of the large agricultural territory contiguous to this community. Among the ener- getic business men who have thus taken advantage of the opportunities offered and who while advancing their own interests have also assisted their community is C. B. Chris- man, manager of the Kanawha Grocery Company of Burns- ville. Mr. Chrisman was born September 20, 1876, in Gilmer County, West Virginia, and is a son of Ballard and Fannie (Stalnaker) Chrisman. Ballard Chrisman was born in June, 1847, in Virginia, a son of FIoyd and Margaret (Neal) Chrisman, who brought their family to West Vir- ginia at an early date and settled in Greenbrier County. Later they moved to Gihner County and took up their residence ten miles from Glenville. There Floyd Chrisman spent the remainder of his long and useful life in the pur- suits of agriculture, and died when in advanced age, with the respect and esteem of his neighbors and acquaintances. He was a highly religious man, a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church, and one of the organizers of the con- gregation of that denomination at Button. In political mat- ters he was a stanch democrat. Ballard Chrisman was a child when taken to Greenbrier County, and there grew up on a farm. His education was somewhat neglected, but he had the ambition that led him to educate himself, and so well did he do this that he was able to instruct others and was engaged in teaching for several years. After his marriage he settled on a farm in Gihner County, and there his subsequent life has been spent in the pursuits of the soil. He has made a success of his operations and still resides on the old place, although he is now retired from active pursuits, having reached the ripe old age of seventy-five years. He is a democrat in his political belief, and his religious connection is with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His first wife died in 1876, leaving one child, C. B., of this record. Later Mr. Chrisman married again, and by his second union had five children. C. B. Chrisman was an infant when his mother died and he was taken into the home of his paternal grandmother, who cared for him until his father married again,-when he went to the home of his father and stepmother. After at- tending the common schools of his native community he pursued a course at the Glenville Normal School, and then entered upon his career as a teacher in the rural districts. He was thus engaged when the United States declared war against Spain, and he enlisted in Company L, Second Regi- ment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, with which he went first to Charleston and then to Middletown. This regiment was not called into active service, and at the close of hostilities Mr. Chrisman received his honorable discharge and went to Flatwoods, West Virginia, where he secured employment as clerk in a general store. After being thus employed for some time and learning the details of the business, he, in 1901, came to Burnsville and engaged in the mercantile business. Later he went to Erbacon, West Vir- ginia, for three years, and then returned to Burnsville and became associated with the Burnsville Grocery Company of which he later became president. In March, 1921, he be- came general manager of the Kanawha Grocery Company, a large and prominent concern, which is incorporated with the following officers: Dr. D. P. Kessler, president; C. F. Engle, vice president; and F. D. Lemon, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Chrisman is a man of superior business ability and one who has won and held the confidence and esteeem of his business associates. In April, 1902, Mr. Chrisman married Miss Georgie Ann strong, a product of the public schools, and to this union there have been born three bright and interesting children: Mabel, Fred and Bonnie, all of whom are attending school. Mr. Chrisman belongs to Burnsville Lodge No. 87, A. F. and A. M., of which he is a past and the present master and a member of the Grand Lodge; Sutton Chapter No. 29, R. A. M.; Sutton Commandery No. 16, K. T.; Lodge of Per- fection, Clarksburg, and Consistory at Wheeling, being a thirty-second degree Mason. In politics he is a democrat. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:57:57 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991110215757.00e44410@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: THOMAS I. FEENEY, Braxton County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 312-313 Braxton THOMAS I. FEENEY. One of Burnsville's well-known and reliable business establishments, which has a record for straightforward dealing and honorable action, is the fur- niture and undertaking enterprise of the Feeney Furniture and Supply Company, Inc. The president of this business, whose name it bears, was born in Burnsville and has spent his entire life here with the exception of a short time during the World war and one year when he was absent in Fair- mont, and is well known to the citizens of this community, not only as a business man but as one who has contributed in the way of splendid public service to the growth, develop- ment and advancement of the town. Mr. Feeney was born December 15, 1888, at Burnsville, on the same street on which his business is now located, and is a son of John F. and Nora (Dolan) Feeney. His father was born January 5, 1856, on a farm in Lewis County, West Virginia, where he was reared and educated, and there mar- ried Miss Dolan, who had been born in 1862 in Gilmer County, but had been brought as a child to Lewis County, where she attended the public schools. Shortly after their marriage John F. Feeney, who was a cabinet maker by trade, embarked in business at Burnsville, first working at his trade and later opening a general store in which he sold all manner of goods. In him the business instinct was present in a marked degree, and he was successful in all his undertakings. He founded the furniture and undertaking business of which his son is now the head, and in his de- clining years disposed of his holdings. Mrs. Feeney died in 1893, firm in the faith of the Catholic Church. A demo- crat in his political views, Mr. Feeney was one of the in- fluential men of his party, and was called upon to serve in several official capacities, among them on the Board of Education and as a member of the town council. He and his worthy wife were the parents of four children: Thomas I., of this record; John W., who graduated from the San Bernardino High School in California, and who married Adaline Morissy, of Chicago; Madeline, a graduate of the Parkersburg High School; and Rose E., who died January 20, 1919. Thomas I. Feeney was reared at Burnsville, where he com- pleted the prescribed course of the graded schools and spent two years in high school, and entered upon his industrial career in the capacity of a school teacher. After two years thus spent he decided that the educator's life was not his forte, and he accordingly went to Fairmont, where he secured a position as bookkeeper. This likewise failed to satisfy him, and after one year's experience he returned to Burnsville, where he became store manager for his father, a capacity in which he remained two years, at the end of which time he bought the elder man out. He then con- ducted the business until the World war, when he was com- pelled to close his business and enter the United States serv- ice as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Depot Brigade, on detached service at Camp Meade. After six months he received his honorable discharge and returned to Burnsville, where he incorporated his business, the officers being: President, Thomas I. Feeney; secretary, R. H. Kidd; treasurer, Russell T. Reed; and the foregoing, with the following, as the board of directors: F. W. Shrieves, H. C. Murphy, A. N. Stockart and H. C. Crutchfield. The company carries a full line of furniture of all kinds. Its undertaking department is likewise fully equipped, and Mr. Feeney and his representatives are prepared to advise with clients regarding a final resting spot, the details of funeral services, legal requirements, transportation, and all other necessary details in the reverent care of the dead. Mr. Feeney is also largely interested in the real estate business at Burnsville and the near vicinity, and has other matters of a business nature which require his attention. In politics he is a democrat and has been prominent in public affairs, having served in various public offices, includ- ing those of mayor, councilman, recorder and member of the Board of Education, and in all has rendered excellent serv- ice. He is a member of the Catholic Church, attending services at Orlando. Mr. Feeney is unmarried. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:16:41 -0500 From: Bridgette Osz To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <382B4049.8B2622A@eohio.net> Subject: Martha Elizabeth Moats-obit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit September 18, 1958 page 10 Barbour Democrat Martha Elizabeth Moats, 78y of Nestorville, died in a Philippi rest home, Sunday, September 14. Mrs. Moats was born November 15, 1879, in Buckhannon. The daughter of the late William H. and Abigail Simmons Alberts. She was the wife of George Moats, who preceded her in death. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Lula Wilson of Kasson, Mrs. Martha Spencer of Rowlesburg, Mrs. Laura Feber, 63 North Caroline Street; two sons, Lloyd and Willis both of Philippi; two sisters, Mrs. Edna Summers and Mrs. Lillie Purkey, both of Nestorville; 11 grandchildren and some 14 great grandchildren. Mrs. Moats was a member of the Nestorville Methodist Church. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, Sep 17, with the Rev. H. O. Poling officiating. Burial was made in the church cemetery. ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:39:04 -0500 From: Bridgette Osz To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <382B4588.C03BA5E0@eohio.net> Subject: Mollie F. Duckworth-obit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thursday February 9, 1956 page 6 Barbour Democrat Mrs. Mollie Freeman Duckworth, 79y, died at the local hospital about 7:30 am Saturday, following a brief illness. Funeral services were held at the Clemtown Church, Monday afternoon and burial was made in the Clemtown cemetery. Mrs. Duckworth was born in Barbour County May 13, 1876, a daughter of James and Sarah Grothey Freeman. She is survived by her husband, Columbus L. "Cooper" Duckworth; two brothers Henry Freeman of Arlington and Ira Freeman of Canton, Ohio; two sisters Mrs. Rachel Woody and Miss Myrtle Freeman both of Arlington. Mrs. Duckworth was a member of Arden EUB Church.