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Surnames: Zickefoose, Day, Harper, Harmon, Westfall, Wade, Calllahan, Houston
Classification: Query
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Hi! I am away from my dbase now... but think it is possible that I may be able to help.
My gggrandmother was a Martha Zickefoose, from Pendleton Co and later Upshur Co (then) VA
- later WV, b 14 October 1828, parents, Sampson Zickefoose and Sarah Wade. She married
James Barnes Westfall, Ritchey Co WV in 1850. He was killed shortly after the war...and
she had 5 children to raise. Her brother in law - Joel J. Westfall had gone to Mariposa,
CA during the gold rush. He began helping nephews move to CA and get started. The boys
went back and brought Martha out from VA before the turn of the century and she died there
in 1916. There were a few other connected families from the same areas of Upshur and
Ritchie Co that had moved to CA at that time. I know I have more info on her line and
will try to get back to this very soon. Joel J. Westfall went back to WV in 1906 and died
there- Smithville, Ritchie Co in 1910. So there was a close connection back to the
families in WV!
...and communication and visits. It would seem that it would have been possible that
your Sampson Zickefoose could be connected to this line. I have a picture of an elderly
Martha Zickefoose.
Will post what I can add, soon!
Nancy