U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ours, James Howard (1860-1931) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 529-530 JAMES HOWARD OURS, born May 18, 1860, son of Henry Ours, Jr., and Almira Field. He was the only son in the family of four, his sisters being, Ida B., wife of D. L. Caynor, and Maggie and Josephine C, the eldest, (died in infancy). He was raised on a farm a short distance east of Buckhannon, was educated in the public school and private normal, conducted in the county, and at the age of twenty began the profession of teaching, which he pursued continuously for twenty years or until 1898, when he retired to the farm of his father to make his parents' old age pleasant and comfortable. His father was a wagoner during the Civil War. His great grandfather was Cichman Ours, a revolutionary soldier, who moved to the Buckhannon settlement about the time of the murder of the Bozarth family, near Lorentz and his sons John Ours, Nicholas Ours, Sr., and Henry Ours, Sr., were among the first residents and settlers in the Buckhannon Valley. His grandfather was. a soldier in the war of 1812. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #2843 FULL-NAME: J. H. Ours BIRTH-DATE: May 18, 1860 BIRTH-PLACE: Upshur DEATH-DATE: February 13, 1931 (at age 70y-8m-26d) DEATH-PLACE: Union District, Upshur County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Single OCCUPATION: Farmer FATHER: Henry Ours (born in W.Va.) MOTHER: Almyria Fields (born in Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Organic Heart Disease / Diabetes Mel. INFORMANT: Willie Caynor BURIAL: Ours 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------