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, Ishmael Guy (1871-1939) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Page 428 ISHMAEL GUY CUTRIGHT, born January 17, 1871 at Hinklesville. The son of G. S. Cutright and Elizabeth Hinkle. He was raised on a farm, educated in the public schools of the County and the Buckhannon High School, from whence he went into the mercantile business at Newlon as clerk for C. I. Farnsworth; at Pickens and Cairo for himself. He was one of the original promoters of the reorganization of the West Virginia Western Telephone Company, whose principal office is at Parkersburg. He has been in the lumber business and the insurance business for the past ten years. He married Mary Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Edward Brown and Sara Godfrey of Lancaster County, England. Mr. Brown emigrated from England in 1871, locating at Titusville, Pa., and became a producer of petroleum. He is a petroleum producer at Cairo, West Virginia. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #2623 FULL-NAME: Ishmael Guy Cutright BIRTH-DATE: January 17, 1871 BIRTH-PLACE: Upshur Co. DEATH-DATE: January 29, 1939 at age 68y-0m-12d DEATH-PLACE: Buckhannon, Buckhannon District, Upshur County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Lumberman FATHER: Granville Cutright (born in W.Va.) MOTHER: Elizabeth Hinkle (born in W.Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Cancer INFORMANT: I. G. Cutright, Jr. (of Buckhannon) BURIAL: Heavner Cemetery (wife of Ishmael Guy Cutright) From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #12709 FULL-NAME: Mary Elizabeth Brown Cutright BIRTH-DATE: August 5, 1873 BIRTH-PLACE: Titusville, Penna. DEATH-DATE: September 14, 1932 at age 59y-1m-9d DEATH-PLACE: Buckhannon, Buckhannon District, Upshur County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Housewife FATHER: Edwin Brown (born in England) MOTHER: Sarah Godfrey (born in England) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Acute Indigestion INFORMANT: I. G. Cutright BURIAL: Heavner Cemetery ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------