Facts and Events
!SOURCE: "The Gorby Family" compiled by Alva Gorby in 1936, printed by Tri-Arts Press, Indianapolis, IN. Records in Greene Co. Courthouse, Waynesburg, Pa. Record Book 17/44, Ohio County Courthouse, Wheeling, West Virginia. Henry Parsons death certificate recorded in Death Record No.1, p38, 1853, Clerks Office of Marshall Co.,West Virginia. Henry Parsons will recorded in Book #1, p.168, Clerk of Court, Marshall Co., West Virginia. !NOTE: Henry and Hanna moved from Greene county, Pa. to Ohio County, Va. sometime between 1820 and 1830. They were listed in the Ohio County 1830 census. Jason Parsons said that his grandfather, Henry, moved from the state of Pennsylvania to the state of Ohio (to what is now Stark County) but did not like the area and moved from there to Fish Creek in what is now Marshall County, West Virginia. Henry and Hanna and James and Elizabeth Rine and 2 children were listed in the same household in the Marshall County 1850 census. Henry sold 100 acres in Morris Twp. Greene Co. Pa. in 1831. Henry Parsons purchased from James B. Buchanan 143 acres on the north bank of Fish Creek in 1831.
References
- ↑ Death Certificate.
- Alva Gorby. The Gorby Family. (Tri-Art Press, Indianapolis, Indiana 1936).
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