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Surnames: PARSONS, CHANNELL, DAWSON
Classification: Query
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I am looking for any information on a marriage record I found in Barbour County, WV.
According to the record, David Dawson (son of Mathias Dawson, born in Monongalia Co., WV)
married Hannah Channell (age 20, daughter of Jonathan and Edith Channell, born in Barbour
County) on 13-November-1864.
My concern is that Hannah Channell, daughter of Jonathan and Edith supposedly married
Thomas Benton Parsons in 1874. In the 1870 Census I found Hannah living with her parents
and sister in Tucker County, WV. I initially though that maybe David had passed away, but
I also found David in the 1870 Census in Marion County, WV (p.16, Lincoln Township,
Fairmont Post Office). David is listed at age 25 and living with a Mary J. (age 26), his
father Mathias (age 60), and a child Irving (age 4).
Can anyone shed any light on this marriage? Did Hannah and David get divorced? Is Irving
the child of David and Mary J. or David and Hannah? Does anyone know where/when David and
Mary J. got married (or Hannah and Thomas Parsons, for that matter)?
Glenn