Ancestors
Joseph Toothman
b. 1827 · Magisterial District 5
Born 1827, Marion County, then Virginia
Children include Mary
Joseph Toothman married Barbary Satterfield on 30 August 1846 in Marion County, while it was still Virginia. He was about nineteen and she about seventeen.
The 1860 census of Magisterial District 5 has him at thirty three with Barbara at thirty one and five children: William E. thirteen, Thomas eight, Mary E. six, Sarah A. three and Daniel W. one, with a Melinda Toothman of thirty in the house as well.
His name is Joseph. His son George's certificate of 1919 calls him Jos., and only one document says otherwise. Mary Elizabeth's death return of 1933 gives her father as Jacob Toothman, and it is the only thing that does. The marriage return of 1846 and the census of 1860 both say Joseph. Jacob and Joseph are the pair of names a grieving informant swaps most easily, and the contemporary record wins.
Toothman is thick in Marion and Doddridge counties, probably an anglicised German name, and nothing documents where it came from.
One more son came after the 1860 census. George W. Toothman was born on 4 March 1861 in Marion County. He spent his working life at Fairmont as a school janitor and died there of heart failure on 5 October 1919, aged fifty eight. His wife gave the clerk his parents: Jos. Toothman and Barba Satterfield, both born in West Virginia.
Children
Mary Elizabeth Toothman (1855-1933)
Sources
West Virginia, Deaths, 1804-1999, Mary Elizabeth Merrifield, Marion County, 2 January 1933, no. 733. West Virginia, Marriages, 1854-1932, Joseph Toothman and Barbary Satterfield, Marion County, 30 August 1846. United States Census, 1860, Magisterial District 5, Marion County, Virginia, household of Joseph Toothman. West Virginia, Deaths, 1804-1999, Columbus N. Merrefield, Marion County, 20 May 1925. Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953, Pauline Keck, Cincinnati, 27 August 1928, file 49502. Find a Grave Index, Seminettie N. Meadows Fetty, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia.
Virginia, Marion County, Marriages, minister's return of William Hawkins for 1846 and 1847, pages 16 and 17, Joseph Toothman and Barbary Satterfield, 30 August 1846. West Virginia State Archives, Vital Research Records, film 835626 image 26.
Marion County, West Virginia, Register of Deaths, page 165, 1908, line 2. FamilySearch film 834816, image 475.
United States Census, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930, parents' nativity columns, eighty six sheets, read on the FamilySearch record pages.
Marion County marriage returns, 1846. 1860 census, Magisterial District 5, Marion County. Satterfield heirs deed, 1 January 1858. West Virginia certificate of death 548, George W. Toothman, 1919, film 1952794 image 1472. Marion County register of deaths, 1908, page 165.
West Virginia State Department of Health, certificate of death, register no. 548, George W. Toothman, Marion County, 1919. West Virginia Archives vital records, film 1952794, image 1472.
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