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Mary McNemar

b. 1811
Born 1811, Virginia
Children include Joanna

Mary McNemar married Daniel R. Helmick in Lewis County, Virginia, on 23 October 1828. John Talbott, a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, married them and returned their names with the rest of his marriages for 1827 to 1829. She was about seventeen.

They were still in Lewis County about 1837, when their son Nathaniel was born there, and by 1850 they were in Harrison County. The census of that year has her at thirty nine with eight children in the house, from Clark at fifteen down to Albert at six months. The third of them was Joanna, aged ten, who married John A. Leonard of Preston County in Marion County in 1856 and appears in later records as Anna.

When Nathaniel died at Fairmont in 1923, his death certificate filled the printed line for his mother's maiden name with Mary McKennan, a near hearing of McNemar written down by someone ninety five years after her wedding. His own marriage register of 1864 names his parents as Daniel R. and Mary Helmick.

Children

Joanna Helmick, called Anna (b. 1840)

Sources

United States Census, 1850, Harrison County, Virginia, dwelling 518, household of Daniel Helmick. United States Census, 1850, Marion County, Virginia, Israel Helmick in the household of Albert Shores. United States Census, 1880, Union District, Marion County, Anna Leonard aged forty.
West Virginia State Department of Health, Certificate of Death 5798, district 251, series 96, Marion County, Nathaniel D. Helmick, died 20 April 1923 at Fairmont. West Virginia State Archives, Vital Research Records, film 1953053 image 2837.
West Virginia Vital Research Records, Marion County Register of Marriages 1856, film 835626, image 120, line 7. The bond index is the same film, image 75.
Virginia, Marion County, marriage licence register, 1856, page 12, J. A. Leonard and Joann F. Helmick, 27 March 1856, and Abraham I. Conaway and Emily Merrell, 24 March 1856. West Virginia State Archives, Vital Research Records, film 835626 image 75.
West Virginia, Harrison County, Register of Marriages, 1863 to 1864, page 31, line for Nathaniel D. Helmick and Margaret D. Gaston, 28 February 1864. West Virginia State Archives, Vital Research Records, film 847276 image 36.
Virginia, Lewis County, marriage returns, pages 46 and 47, list of John Talbott, 1827 to 1829. West Virginia State Archives, Vital Research Records, film 825112 image 44.

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