52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Martha J Dick / Dix
Martha Jane Dick / Dix was born around Aug 18461 in Greenbrier, West Virginia to Joseph Daniel and Elizabeth (Meadows) Dick. She was the oldest child of nine.
On 22 Jan 1863 she married Jesse Bragg in Greene, VA. They had the following children:
Jackson (1865 – unknown)
Jesse Allen (1865 – 1920)
Mary Elizabeth (1867 – 1946)
Thomas (1869 – unknown)
Martha (1870 – 1910)
At some point Martha lost her husband Jesse. No documentation has been found on his death or a divorce to date.
She then married William Harrison Richmond Sr on 12 Jan 1875 in Summers County, West Virginia.
They had the following children:
Thomas J (1867 – unknown)
John Eldridge (1875 – 1955)
Manda Susan (1878 – unknown)
Nancy J (1879 – 1881)
William Harrison, Jr. (1882 – 1956)
Victoria (1885 – unknown)
Martha died after 1910. Current records available online are 1871 – 1872, 1874 – 1905, 1908, 1917 – 1963 on the WV Culture website. Martha cannot be found in these records.
1860 Federal Census ↩
