U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sommerville, John (b. 1832) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Page 572 John Sommerville is at this time one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of the town [Auburn]. Perhaps, no other name has had a longer association with its public affairs than that of Mr. Sommerville. He was born in Harrison county, on October 19, 1832, and came to this vicinity with his parents when he was but a small child, and here his entire life has been spent, on the old farm that his father entered in the wilderness days. He served as a soldier of the Union army, having entered as a private in the Infantry, rose to the rank of Captain in the Sixth Virginia Cavalry. He has been a life-long communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is prominently connected with some of the business interests of the town. He married Miss Elizabeth Brannon, daughter of Thomas Brannon, of Gilmer county, and they are the parents of three daughters, and five sons: viz., Mae, the eldest daughter, was the late Mrs. Miles Heckart, of Auburn; Lelia is Mrs. J. N. Brown, of Colorado; and Harvey and Eldred are also of Colorado; and Miss Dell B., Walter, Ralph, and Berne Sommerville, are all of Auburn. ------------------------------------------------------------------- (wife of John Sommerville) From Death Certificate, Ritchie County, WV #8058 FULL-NAME: Elizabeth Jane Sommerville BIRTH-DATE: July 26, 1848 BIRTH-PLACE: Glenville, Gilmer DEATH-DATE: May 6, 1929 (at age 80y-99m-10d) DEATH-PLACE: Auburn, Union District, Ritchie County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed (John Sommerville) OCCUPATION: at home FATHER: Thomas H. Brannon (born in Georgetown, Va.) MOTHER: Jane Brown (born in Glenville, Gilmer) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Arteriosclerosis INFORMANT: Dell S. Rymer (of Auburn, W.Va.) BURIAL: Auburn ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------