U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Valentine, Dan H. (d. 1905) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Page 547, Dan H. Valentine D. H. Valentine was the first shoe-maker of the village [of Smithville]. He came here from Gilmer county where he was born, and remained a citizen of this part of the county, until a few years before his death in 1905, when he went to Wirt county, where he sleeps. He was a lay minister of the M. E. Church South. He was twice married, his first wife being Miss Sarah J. Wyer, of Gilmer county, and his widow, Mrs. Mary Goff Riddel, daughter of the late Strother Goff, of Burnt House. He was the father of twelve children: J. B., Macfarlan; James, Ohio; C. J., Fonsoville; E. L., Newberne; and Mrs. Katherine Beckner, Parkersburg, were the fruits of the first union; and Charles, Marshall, Roy, Mrs. Etta Hatch, Mrs. Blanche Hatch, Mrs. Emma ____, and Jennie, who died in youth, of the second. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths, Wirt County, WV FULL-NAME: Dan. H. Valentine AGE-AT-DEATH: 69 years DEATH-DATE: February 11, 1905 DEATH-PLACE: Wirt County MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Farmer CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Heart Failure ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------