U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Marple, Albert Jenkins (1857-1936) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 503-504 ALBERT JENKINS MARPLE, Ex-Sheriff of Upshur County, was born March 19, 1857. Son of Granville D. and Eliza (Loudin) Marple. Was raised on a farm. Attended the public schools in winter and assisted on the farm during summer. He completed his education at the French Creek Institute. Was a teacher for four years and was selected as Deputy Sheriff of his father from 1881-5, and was elected Sheriff for the term 1893-7. From birth until 1881, he lived on the waters of Grassy Run, Washington District, where his father owned a farm. In 1881 he moved to Buckhannon Town and lived there until 1885, when he returned to the farm on Grassy Run and there lived until 1893, when he came to Buckhannon to be at the County Seat, during his term of Sheriffship. In 1898 he moved to Lorentz, where he now lives on a farm, and is surrounded with good neighbors. He has always taken a lively interest in live stock of all kinds, keeps blooded turkeys, registered hogs, pure blood cows and fine orchard. He was an ardent tax reformer in the campaign of 1904, and for his enthusiastic support of Governor W. M. O. Dawson in the preliminary contest and the general election was named by his excellency as a member of the Board of the Spencer Asylum for insane of West Virginia. On May 26, 1881, he married Mary M. Reger, daughter of David S. and Elizabeth (Neely) Reger and to this marriage have been born four children, two sons and two daughters, whose names are: Clyde, Hugh, Grace and Ruth. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #19525 FULL-NAME: Albert Jenkins Marple BIRTH-DATE: March 19, 1857 BIRTH-PLACE: Hodgeville, Upshur Co., W.Va. DEATH-DATE: November 19, 1936 DEATH-PLACE: Lorentz, Buckhannon, Upshur County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed (Mary M. Marple) OCCUPATION: Farmer FATHER: G. D. Marple (born in Harrison Co.) MOTHER: Eliza Loudin (burn in Turkey Run, Upshur Co., W.Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Bronchial pneumonia INFORMANT: Ruth Marple (or Lorentz, W.Va.) BURIAL: Lorentz Cemetery There's a double-tombstone in Lorentz Cemetery, Upshur County, WV A. J. Marple (1857-1936) Mary M. Reger, his wife (1855-1923) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------