Virginia Family Group Sheet for the John Sears Family

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Submitted by: Jeanne Crews
Email address: <jeanne_crews@yahoo.com>

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Husband: John Sears
Birth date: 1795
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Death date: after Mar 1855
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Marriage date: 1 Sep 1819
Marriage place: Hardy Co., Virginia

Wife: Ruth Orahood
Birth date: about 1800
Birthplace: Virginia
Death date: 6 Mar 1855
Place of death: Hardy Co., Virginia
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Father: Joshua Orahood
Mother: Catherine Norman

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CHILDREN
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Child No. 1: Ann Jemima Sears
Sex: f
Birth date: about 1829
Birthplace: Virginia
Death date: Oct 1865
Place of death: Hardy Co., West Virginia
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Spouse's name: George Keplinger Jr.
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Child No. 2: John Sears
Sex: m
Birth date: about 1832
Birthplace: Virginia
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Child No. 3: Catherine Sears
Sex: f
Birth date: about 1833
Birthplace: Virginia
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Child No. 4: Israel Sears
Sex: m
Birth date: 1836
Birthplace: Virginia
Death date: 22 Apr 1900
Place of death: Carthage, Illinois
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Marriage date: 20 Sep 1860
Marriage place: Pruntytown, Taylor Co., Virginia
Spouse's name: Harriet Tamar Gawthrop
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Child No. 5: Alexander Sears
Sex: m
Birth date: about 1838
Birthplace: Virginia
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Child No. 6: Ann Sears
Sex: f
Birth date: about 1841
Birthplace: Virginia
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Child No. 7: Abel Sears
Sex: m
Birth date: about 1844
Birthplace: Virginia
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Child No. 8: Stingley Sears
Sex: m
Birth date: about 1846
Birthplace: Virginia
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Place of death: probably Mineral Co., West Virginia
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Documentation: Home in 1850: District 23, Hardy Co., VA
Roll: M432_950
Page: 73
Image: 147
John Sears, 55, Stone Mason, b. PA, cannot read or write Ruth, 49, b. VA, cannot read or write Ann J.?, 20, b. VA John T.?, 18, Laborer, b. VA, attended school within the year Catharine ?., 16, b. VA Israel, 14, b. VA, attended school within the year Alexander, 12, b. VA, attended school.............. Ann L., 9, b. VA Abel, 6, b. VA Stingley, 3, b. VA In 1912 the property of Stingley Sears in Keyser, Mineral County, WV was sold to Mrs. Sears.