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Note: Rev. William Montgomery Doyle as written by Sarahjane Doyle Nelson Swarstad William Montgomery Doyle, a Methodist Episcopal Minister, a farmer, and a census enumerator, was born in Montgomery Co., Va. at Shawsville, Alleghaney Springs, which is near Christiansburg, Va., 22 November 1854. He was the oldest of 13 children of James Allen and Martha A. Jewell Doyle. He and his little brother,James E., moved with their parents, when they were young, between 1854 and 1860, to Beaver Pond District of Mercer Co., Va. At the onset of the Civil War, this part of western Virginia became West Virginia and today is Bluefield, West Virginia and Princeton, West Virginia area. On 6 August 1872 he married Sarah Evelyn Winfrey, in Mercer Co, West Virginia. She was the daughter of Burrell (Burwell) and Orina (Corina) Hutson Winfrey. They moved onto land which today is on the old Bluefield-Princeton Road and built their home, still standing, and passed thru Ernest, their youngest son to David Doyle, the youngest child of Ernest and Elsie Doyle. In many families it was the youngest child who stayed home and took care of the parents, so when the older folk died the youngest inherited the land. William traveled by horse, all over the countryside, taking census enumerations and preaching. Sometime between 1886 and 1903 the family moved to Morristown, Hamblem Co., Tennessee, later returning to their home and farm in Bluefield, West Virginia. Then, again, about 1911 he returned to Tennessee. In 1912 he delivered the devotional for a Methodist-Episcopal conference in Mosheim, Greene Co., Tennessee. Patricia Winfrey Lovelace says Infant #5 child was named Jewell died at birth. William Montgomery, died, age 62 on 31 January 1916, when his horse stepped in a hole and threw him, breaking his neck. He is buried in the Winfrey Family Cemetery, Princeton, West Virginia. Directions to Winfrey family cemetery are: From Route 460, (between Bluefield & Princeton, West Virginia) take the Clover Dew Dairy Road 1.5 miles to Bernard Winfrey farm. Turn left, thru the gates, and go one tenth mile. The cemetery is on a hill to the left above the Winfrey house. Census 1880 Mercer Co., W.Va. 1910 Mercer Co., W.Va. Beaver Pond Beaver Pond Bluefield City ED 80 Dist 126 page 29 sheet 8B William Doyle 25 William M. Doyle 55 Sarah 21 Sarah E. 52 Martha 1 James A. 28 William C. 26 Steward 17 Lewis R. 14 Ernest H. 12 In 1950 William M. Doyle showes up in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph as an Assistant Assessor for Mercer Co., WVa.
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