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Gawthrop, James William (1844-1917)
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The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest
Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time
by Hu Maxwell
The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899

Pages 387-388

James William Gawthrop, born 1844 at Pruntytown, son of Enos D. and
Ruth (Wiseman) Gawthrop, was married in 1871 to Mary, daughter of
Jacob and Nancy (Martin) Reger. They have no living children. He is
a member of the Baptist Church, is a Democrat and a farmer, living
near Burnersville. The ancestors of Mr. Gawthrop were English and
Irish; his father being born and raised at the Gawthrop homestead
near Pruntytown. Mr. Gawthrop followed teaching several years; was
three times elected Justice of the Peace; once County Assessor;
once a member of the Legislature, and in 1899 was appointed
Assessor for the western district of Barbour. For fourteen years he
has been superintendent of the Bethany Baptist Sunday School. In
1861, when seventeen years of age, he enlisted in the Confederate
army, and was in the fight at Philippi in June of that year,
remaining in the army till the close of the war; was captured and
taken to Point Lookout, and later to Elmira, N. Y., where he was
held a prisoner nine months. He came into West Virginia on the
Imboden raid in 1863, and was in the fighting about Richmond before
Lee's surrender. He came to Barbour County in 1868.

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DEATH-CERTIFICATE, Barbour County WV, #1888
Full-name: James William Gawthrop
Birth: - - (died at age 73y-11m-19d)
Death: Feb. 1917 in Philippi, Barbour County, WV
Marital-status: married
Parents: (none listed)
Place-of-burial: (none listed)
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