Name: Ancestors and Inlaws of An ALLEYCAT

Updated: 08-05-2020 23:08:40.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Amanda Gorby: Birth: 1861. Death: 1938

  2. Lenora S. Gorby: Birth: 1864 in Doddridge Co., (W)VA.

  3. Atha B. Gorby: Birth: 1867 in Doddridge Co., (W)VA.


Family
Marriage:
Sources
1. Title:   www.findagrave.com
Page:   New grave stone is 1832 which agrees with age 72 in obituary.
2. Title:   West Union Record
Page:   August 25 1905 (Friday). Died Last Friday
Publication:   Friday, 25 August 1905
3. Title:   Marriage Records Doddridge Co., WV

Notes
a. Note:   Morgan married again after Lettice's death and had 2 more children. There is no stone in the Coleman Cemetery.
 Obituary, West Union Record, 25 August 1905 (Friday):
 Morgan Gorbey, one of the oldest citizens in the county, died very suddenly at his home at Center Point Friday. He was in rather good health and cheerful on the day of his death and was engaged in conversation with a friend when the end came.
 Mr. Gorbey was seventy-two years old and had been married twice. His last wife survives him. He had five children by his first wife and two by his last. The children by his first wife are Mrs. Atha Halman, of Alvy; Mrs. Nan Cutright, of Sedalis; Mrs. Amanda Underwood of Alpha; Mrs. Emma Furbee of Salem; and Miss Helen Gorbey; and those of his last wife are Miss Jessie Gorgey and Guy Gorbey.
 The Internment took place Saturday at the Coleman cemetery, all his children and many of his relatives and old friends being present.
 Other news on that page:
 Our people were shocked with surprise last Friday to here of the sudden death of Morgan Gorby, of Center Point. Uncle Levi Roberts, in his 83ÙCsupÙDrdÙC/supÙD year, followed his old friend to the Coleman cemetery on Middle Island creek and saw his body laid away. He says that there are not many of us left.

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