Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameJohn Griffith Wells
BirthOct 1860, Fayette Co, PA
Census26 Jun 1900, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV
Memoroll#1767, pg 16
Census15 Apr 1910, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV
Memoroll#1691, pg 194 (ED 79)
Census14 Jan 1920, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV
Memoroll#1964, pg 13
Census14 Apr 1930, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV
Memoroll#2548, pg 14
Census9 Apr 1940, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV
Memoroll#4433, roll 61
Death25 Jan 1947, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV
BurialOak Grove Cem, Morgantown, WV
FatherWilliam Johnson Wells (1819-1896)
MotherRebecca Garrett (1835-1916)
Misc. Notes
Listed in 1900 census as a teamster (39, PA) with his wife and 4 children, married 16 years.
Listed in 1910 census as being married 24 years with 4 children, all living. With them is their son John (13) and daughter Daisy (20) with her husband plus a 14 month old grandson. He was a packer at the Glassworks.
Is living in his home on Beechurst Ave in Morgantown in 1920, as age 59 and born in Penn. with his wife Anna (55), and son (John) Griffith (23). He is working as a laborer in the Glass Plant.
Listed in 1930 census for Morgantown on the same street, at age 66 and a laborer in a glass plant, with his wife Annie (64, WV). It says he was first married at 19, but other census records indicate their marriage in 1883, and since he was still living at home in 1880, it appears that this is simply an error in calculating his age.
1940 census shows the two of them still in Morgantown at 79 and 75, both with 6th grade educations.
He died in 1947 or bronchial pneumonia.
Spouses
BirthApr 1864, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV
Death28 Feb 1958, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV
BurialOak Grove Cem, Morgantown, WV
Misc. Notes
Dau of Albert Comley Wood and Mary Jane Berkshire Mills
1940 census says she completed the 6th grade.
Listed as Annie in cemetery.
Marriage19 Aug 1883
ChildrenWilliam Albert (1885-1968)
 Daisy Blanche (1889-)
 Ruth Margaret (1892-1973)
 John Griffith (1896-1975)
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