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From: "Melissa Barker" <>
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Death Date Question
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 12:40:30 -0500
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Hello, Thanks, that was my thoughts, but I always like to get second
opinions and this list is good about giving them.

In Christ,
Melissa Barker

----- Original Message -----
From: "LBoswell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Death Date Question


> It sounds like your affidavits are right, and that the county clerk's date
> may actually be the date of registration of the death.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Melissa Barker" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 1:14 PM
> Subject: [ADVANRES] Death Date Question
>
>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I have an ancestor, Benjamin Debolt, my 4th great-grandfather that died
>> in
>> December 1890 in Wetzel County, West Virginia. My problem is that I have
>> two sources that have his date of death differently. The Wetzel County
>> Clerk no longer has the original death records, they only have a
>> transcription. So, when I sent for his death certificate, I received a
>> Certificate of Death that the clerk typed herself that gives a date of
>> death
>> as December 27, 1890. My second source are 3 affidavits from Benjamin
>> Debolt's Civil War Pension File. These 3 affidavits, which are by 3
>> different people, give his date of death as December 18, 1890. The
>> affidavits were dated in 1892. I sent a second letter to the county
>> clerk
>> sending her the affidavits for her to see and her reply was that they did
>> not have the originals to confirm only the transcriptions.
>>
>> Since I can not get the original record, I am wondering which date I
>> should
>> go with? My instincts are to go with the December 18, 1890 date that was
>> in
>> the affidavits since this was given at the time or 2 years after. I
>> don't
>> think I should rely on the transcriptions from the county clerk.
>>
>> I would appreciated any opinions on this. I will say that I am noting
>> both
>> dates in my research. There is no will, probate records, headstone or
>> any
>> other record of his death that I have been able to find so far.
>>
>>
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