Heirology

Ancestors

Mary Shiltz

1823-1893
Born 1823
Died 1893
Children include Jane

Mary Shiltz is named once, in the printed MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER field of her daughter's death register entry in 1924, with W. Va. written beside it for where she was born.

On the county birth register she is only ever Mary Slaten or Mary Slaton, under her husband's surname, which is what that book did to every mother on every page. The maiden name survives because a different clerk, sixty years later, was working from a form that asked for it properly.

Shiltz is the German Schultz or Schiltz written the way a Mason County ear heard it. She was born in West Virginia, so the crossing was her parents' or her grandparents', not hers.

She died in the county on 1 June 1893 and her husband outlived her by fourteen years.

Her eldest known son, James W. Slayton, was born about 1848 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, according to his own Mason County marriage licence of 1867, which names his parents as Daniel W. and Mary Slayton. Whatever county she was born in, she was living in that corner of Pennsylvania as a young wife.

Children

Jane Elizabeth Slayton (1854-1924)

Sources

West Virginia Vital Research Records, Mason County register of deaths 1924, film 567385, image 12, line 25.
West Virginia Vital Research Records, General Index and Register of Births, Mason County, film 567388, image 206.
Mason County, West Virginia, Register of Deaths, District of W. H. Rowsey, Assessor, year ending 31 December 1893, page 820, line 39. FamilySearch film 567384, image 285.
Mason County, West Virginia, Register of Deaths, 2nd District, year ending 31 December 1907, page 19, line 30. FamilySearch film 567384, image 639.
West Virginia, Mason County, Register of Marriages, licence and certificate for James W. Slayton and Martha Duncan, 25 September 1867, page 87. West Virginia State Archives, Vital Research Records, film 567389 image 640.

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