Moses Kepplinger

1821-1892 · Virginia

Born 1821, Virginia

Died 1892

Father: Jonathan Keplinger

Mother: Margaret Siever

Children include Anna

Moses Keplinger was born in Virginia on 7 September 1821. His parents were Jonathan and Margaret Keplinger. A memorial gives his mother's maiden name as Siever.

On 28 January 1847 he married Susanah Lantz in Hardy County. He was 25 and she was 18. The minister Benjamin Stickley sent the county clerk a single sheet listing every couple he had married over the past year, and "Moses R. Keplinger and Susanah Lantz" are on it. Moses farmed near Maysville, in the part of Hardy County that became Grant County in 1866.

They had seven children: Mary Ann (1847), Martin (1849), Jonathan Matthew (1852), Wilson (1855), Anna (1858), Sarah (1861) and Mahala (1863). Consumption, the old name for tuberculosis, took Sarah in 1879, Mahala in 1884, Wilson in 1885 and Jonathan in 1891.

Moses died at Maysville on 26 January 1892 of blood poisoning, aged 70 years, 4 months and 19 days. His wife Susan gave the particulars to the assessor. Three months later, on 27 April 1892, their son Martin died at Maysville of consumption, aged 42. Moses is buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery, Maysville. A portrait of Moses and Susan survives, seated side by side before a painted backdrop.

Parents

Jonathan Keplinger (1795-1866)

Margaret Siever (1797-1866)

Children

Anna Keplinger 1858-1903

Sources

Find a Grave, memorials 37480292 and 37480373, photograph captioned "Susan Lantz and Moses Keplinger", added by Sharon Shockey Wetzel

Grant County, West Virginia, Register of Marriages, page 29, 1882; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 810250, image 49

Grant County, West Virginia, Register of Deaths, page 59, 1903; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 809857, image 88

Grant County, West Virginia, Register of Deaths, page 38, 1892; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 809857, image 65

Hardy County, Virginia, marriage returns, minister's return of Benjamin Stickley, 1847; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 1846255, image 60

Find a Grave, memorial 37480292, Moses Keplinger, Mount Hebron Cemetery, Maysville, photograph added by hmoore, 2009

Find a Grave, memorial 37480373, Susan Lantz Keplinger, Mount Hebron Cemetery, Maysville, photograph added by hmoore, 2009

Grant County Register of Deaths 1892, page 38, line 24 (West Virginia Archives and History, film 809857, image 65); Hardy County minister's return of Benjamin Stickley, 1847 (film 1846255, image 60); gravestone at Mount Hebron Cemetery; Find a Grave memorial 37480292

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