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Margaret Virginia “Maggie” Barnes

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Margaret Virginia “Maggie” Barnes

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
29 Sep 1887 (aged 27)
Lewis County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Born in Wheeling, Ohio, Virginia before West Virginia statehood, daughter of Reese/Reece Barnes and Alice Okey, likely named after her grandmother Margaret Johnston.

Margaret age 15, married Theodore Thompson, born Wheeling, age 20, May 2, 1875, Wheeling, WV with consent of her father Rees Barnes and his father Jas Thompson. They had at least one child from their marriage - Alice Thompson born Sept 21, 1876, in West Virginia. Alice was living with her grandmother Alice Okey Barnes on the 1880 census, Wheeling, WV.

Her death record is under name Maggie Barnes and lists her as single. Her obituary in Wheeling Register also gives her name as Barnes.

Theodore Thompson remarried to Mary Alice Durbin/Durben.

There is a pension record for her father who served in Civil War, Company A West Virginia Independent Exempts Infantry. Her father was first married to Penelope Coats and they had children William Barnes and Charles D. Barnes in Belmont, Ohio.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio, Virginia before West Virginia statehood, daughter of Reese/Reece Barnes and Alice Okey, likely named after her grandmother Margaret Johnston.

Margaret age 15, married Theodore Thompson, born Wheeling, age 20, May 2, 1875, Wheeling, WV with consent of her father Rees Barnes and his father Jas Thompson. They had at least one child from their marriage - Alice Thompson born Sept 21, 1876, in West Virginia. Alice was living with her grandmother Alice Okey Barnes on the 1880 census, Wheeling, WV.

Her death record is under name Maggie Barnes and lists her as single. Her obituary in Wheeling Register also gives her name as Barnes.

Theodore Thompson remarried to Mary Alice Durbin/Durben.

There is a pension record for her father who served in Civil War, Company A West Virginia Independent Exempts Infantry. Her father was first married to Penelope Coats and they had children William Barnes and Charles D. Barnes in Belmont, Ohio.


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