Barbour County Deaths

Barbour County Deaths
A Collection

We began this death record file with data collected from many sources by Fred Knapp and Diana Taylor. We invite you to contribute death information from your research. It may come from family record such as Bible records, public records, newspaper vital statistics and obituary notices, articles or family histories.

Can you add to our list? We welcome additions and corrections to this data.

The purpose of this listing is to help you find information on Barbour County families. Remember that these are compiled records and that you should try to obtain original proof to document any that you add to your family research. This collection is presented for your personal use and is not to be used by anyone for commercial publication.

Note: We have used current names and boundaries for the locations. Remember that before 1863 WV was VA and that before the creation of Barbour County in 1843 the area in question was Lewis, Harrison or Randolph County. Source: To identify and contact the source see the two letter code in the record and consult the list of contributors for name and e-mail address.

Click on alphabetical group.

A - L M - Z

B surnames for following periods,
transcribed by Crystal Boggs:

1874
1920 - 1928
1929 - 1948

Contributors

Thanks to these generous contributors our collection is growing; can you help it too?

Sources for the Barbour County Deaths Collection

Submitted by:	Code
Adith C. Spencer christispencer@prodigy.net	AS
Brenda Ericsson dbericsson@aol.com	BE
Cara P. Miller grider@2i2.com	CPM
Crystal Boylen Boggs cboggs@ncweb.com
Fred H. Knapp	FK
Janet Waite jwaite@weir.net	JW
Julia Workman Sterrett jnsterrett@cescomputers.net	JWS
Diana Taylor lannytaylor@worldnet.att.net	DT
L. D. Lawrence WVSwede@aol.com	LL
Larry & Donna Hall ldhall@cetlink.net	LDH
Linda K. Graham lkgraham@uswest.net	LKG
Louis Ruf LRuf@aol.com	LR
Olin Compton ORCompton@aol.com	OC
Gloria Mathew Schell gschell333@prodigy.net	GS
Dale Walter dwalter1@hotmail.com	DW

Linda K. Graham has extracted her data from the Barbour County Death Register and may have additional information not shown here as the Register shows birth date, age at death, burial date, Occupation, burial place.

Crystal Boggs and Janet Waite have taken their data from microfilmed records of Barbour County.

The information submitted by Fred Knapp was extracted from the sources indicated below. Except in the case of his own ancestors he made no efforts to verify the data, however, it is intended through it's publication to aid others in the research of their Barbour County ancestors. Additions and corrections are welcomed.

Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (1953) w/Supplement (1956), by (Dr) Alfred Averill Knapp.
History of Barbour Co, WV (1898), by Hugh Maxwell
DeLauter Families in America - DeLauter, DeLauder, DeLawd(t)er, DeLaughter (1982), by Pauline Grace (DeLauter) Fry.
Research of
Barbara Fahey, Beaverton, OR;
Nelson E Matthews, Clarksburg, WV;
Roy DeLauder, Fairfax, VA;
Glenna Carlson, California;
Rick Toothman, Mannington, WV, et al
Barbour Co, WV-Vital Records: Books of Death 1853-1919 & Will Books 1 & 1 1/2 1839-1889, by Mary C Coffman
Index Cards [taken from "Old Book #2"], Barbour Co Clerk's Office, Philippi, WV [extracted by Rick Toothman, Mannington, WV]
Other: Obituaries, Tombstones, Family bibles, Family Knowledge, and General Correspondence and other miscellaneous writings.

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