Looknig for Edward C. Raymond. He had a bunch of children, and son Albert went with their family just before 1900 to live ni Wharton, Pennsylvania, which it sounds like might be jsut across the state line. They too had a bunch of children. Then in 1920 apparently he shot his wife, who survived, then shot himself. Beginning with Albert, they are buried at a Chalk Hill Lutheran cemetery, in the township immediately east of Wharton. But even though Edward lived with them in the 1910 census he is not buried in that burial ground. Now, this is odd, because it's hard to understand why a family named Raymond would be Lutherans. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Cale Sisler" <jsisler@frontiernet.net> To: "Dora Smith" <tiggernut24@yahoo.com>; <wvpresto@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:46 PM Subject: Re: [WVPRESTO] Where was Grant Township, Preston County, West Virginia in 1870-80? > Dora: > > Grant Township became known as Grant District which exists today. I'm > sitting in it. It would help to know who you are looking for. Might be > able to give you an approximate location. > > Janice >> I'm trying to trace a family taht I find in West Virginia in the census >> in 1870 and 1880. Specifically both the 1870 and 1880 censuses insist >> that they are located in Grant Township, Preston County, West Virginia. >> >> 1880 census adds a Grant Magisterial district and that it was Enumeration >> District 58. >> >> Modern discussions of Preston County insist there is no such place. >> Where was it? >> >> And, even more important. Wehre WAS "Grant Township" in 1860? I gather >> that Preston County existed but West Virginia did not, for starters, and >> if geography was ephemeral in this region... >> Yours, >> Dora Smith >> Austin, TX >> tiggernut24@yahoo.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> WVPRESTO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >