U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cutright, Claude B. (1872-1947) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Pages 425-426 CLAUDE B. CUTRIGHT, born August 4, 1872, son of Granville S. Cutright and Elizabeth Hinkle, the daughter of Abram Hinkle, who was the son of Jonas Hinkle, of Randolph County. Was educated in the common schools and the Buckhannon High School. In 1896, he married Mary E. Lewis, daughter of H. H. Lewis of Randolph County and they have two children, Ruth, born June 24, 1897; Claude B., Jr., born September 11, 1900. The subject of this sketch, at the age of nineteen, after his graduation from the high school entered the mercantile business at Newlon, as clerk for C. I. Farnsworth. He was a merchant at Pickens for several years and at West Union, Doddridge County, for one year. He quit the store business and opened a fire insurance office in Clarksburg, which business he followed until 1905, when he sold out his agencies and went into the lumber business. He lives at Clarksburg. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Cabell County, WV #1200 FULL-NAME: Claude Burr Cutright BIRTH-DATE: BIRTH-PLACE: Buckhannon, W.Va. DEATH-DATE: February 19, 1947 at about 77-years of age DEATH-PLACE: Memorial Hospital, Huntington, Cabell County, WV USUAL-RESIDENCE: 1309-16th Street, Huntington, Cabell County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Insurance FATHER: Daniel Cutright (born in Brushy Fork, W.Va.) MOTHER: Not Known CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Gastro intestinal hemorrhage / Terminal pneumonia INFORMANT: Gladys W. Cutright BURIAL: Clarksburg Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va. (wife of Claude B. Cutright) From Death Certificate, Harrison County, WV #9352 FULL-NAME: Mary E. Cutright BIRTH-DATE: September 6, 1873 BIRTH-PLACE: W.Va. DEATH-DATE: August 25, 1954 at 80-years of age DEATH-PLACE: 418 N. 5th St., Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV USUAL-RESIDENCE: 418 N. 5th St., Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Housewife FATHER: Henry H. Lewis MOTHER: Martha Ann Harris CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Cerebral Hemmorhage with hemiplagia INFORMANT: Ruth Moseman BURIAL: Bridgeport ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------