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Note: N13 aka Michael Jacob GENTLEMAN JUSTICE, LOUDOUN COUNTY COURT, 1865 "Jacob and Mary were the parents of Michael Wiard (was listed as Jacob in the 1850 census). However Michael Wiard's tombstone only reads as Michael and don't know if Michael's real name was Michael Jacob or Jacob Michael. Michael is buried at the New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Cemetery in Lovettsville." --Bob Harrington Jacob and his family appear in the 1860 census living next door to 50-year-old Jonas Potterfield and 47 year-old Chas. Potterfield (probably brothers of Mary). Michael was reportedly a stone mason. Are Jacob and Michael the same person or different? Interestingly, the immigrant Robert Wiard of Warwickshire, England, from whom this family is believed to be descended was also a mason. The 1860 census: Jacob Wiard b. abt 1796 VA Mary abt 1802 VA Eliz A. abt 1830 VA Wm. C. abt 1833 VA Mary abt 1836 VA Lewis W abt 1838 VA Leah L abt 1846 VA 1870 census: Michael Wiard abt 1797 VA, farmer Mary abt 1843 VA Lewis abt 1845 VA Drucilla abt 1847 VA 1880 census: Michael Wiard, abt 1797 VA, Stone Mason (shows father b. VA, mother in MD) Mary abt 1841 VA, daughter May Smith, abt 1865, VA granddaughter, domestic servant The 1880 census of Lovettsville, VA shows Michael Wiard (b. abt 1797) as head of household. His daughter Mary and his granddaughter May Smith are living with him. He is listed as married, not widowed. His parents were born in Virginia. MICHAEL ELECTED GENTLEMAN JUSTICE "Several writers of Loudoun history have commented on Brigadier General Thomas Devin and his Federal Brigade that: occupied the Lovettsville area around Christmas, 1864. During the winter of 1864-65. Devin's troops occupied all sections of Loudoun County. In spite of all the strain and hatred that was usually shown occupation forces. Devin's troops seem to have had fairly good relations with the people of the County. There are indications that this officer demonstrated to those who were to be the future officers of the County how to show and attitude of compassion to a defeated people. When Devin left Loudoun on February 24, 1865, the County had been occupied by Federal troops exactly three years to a day. General John W. Geary's forces had entered Loudoun on February 24, 1862. The election of County officers was held on June 1, 1865 and the first post-war County Court was held July 10, 1865. The gentlemen justices who had been elected and commissioned by the Governor of Virginia, and who met at the Court House on that: July day, were George Abel, R. M. Bentley, Francis M. Carter, John Compher, Thomas Cost, John D. Deny, Enoch Fenton, Herod Frasier, Fenton Furr, Henry Gaver, John Grubb, Charles Manitin, Asbury M. Nixon, Basil Shoemalcer, John L. Stout, Mahlon Thomas. Lott Tavenner, Henry S. Taylor, Michael Wiard, John Woolford, Thomas Burr Williams, James M. Wallace and William H. Gray." --The History of Loudoun County, Virginia Sources: 1) LDS Ancestral File of MARY MILLICENT RIDLEY, 1754 SAWYER WAY COLORADO SPRINGS CO USA 80915 Microfilm: 1394336 Submission: AF83-080940 (shows Michael b. abt 1813) 2) 1880 census, Lovettsville, Loudoun, Virginia, Family History Library Film 1255376, NA Film Number T9-1376, Page Number 606C 3) The History of Loudoun County, Virginia, Website 2004 http://www.waterfordva-wca.org/history/loudoun-cw-road-back.htm 4) Jacob and Emma Snoots WIARD, Loudoun Co., VA, (shows family of Jacob Wiard and Emma Snoots, relation, if any, unknown, TEXT: "Jacob was the son of Jonathan and Maria WIARD and seems to have died by 1880. Emma may have been the daughter of John Snoots and Susan Cordell, though I have no solid proof of that. Emma was born in 1834 and died April 12, 1911. She is buried at Union Cemetery in Lovettsville, Loudoun Co., VA.") http://genforum.genealogy.com/wiard/messages/28.html 5) LDS Ancestral File of unknown submitter 6) 1860 census, Loudoun, Virginia; Roll: M653_1359; Page: 510; Image: 193. 7) 1870 census, Northern Division, Loudoun, Virginia; Roll: M593_1659; Page: 104; Image: 209. 8) Family Data Collection, Ancestry.com (shows Michael and Mary Potterfield as parents of Lewis) 9) Email from Bob Harrington, 27 Nov 2006, harringr_AT_yahoo.com (confirms parentage of Michael and gives birthdate 13 May 1797 and death date 22 Dec 1889)
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