52 Ancestors: #4 William Henderson DEMPSEY 1860-1941

I spent the last weekend moving 52 Ancestors #1, #2, and #3 to my blog. Rewriting, formatting and adding images took longer than expected. 52 Ancestors #4 is a bit late getting published but I am now back on schedule to post on Mondays starting next week.

#4 William Henderson DEMPSEY 1860-1941

In 1995 I received a package from my aunt Lois Dempsey Lee containing family group sheets, marriage certificates, and other misc. notes written by her first cousin Geraldine Dempsey Workman. Included was a letter written by Geraldine explaining how she had gotten started with this hobby. In the late 1970s, her younger daughter had taken a mini-course in high school and passed her work on to her older sister who soon tired of the project. Geraldine picked it up as a hobby, took a night class in genealogy, began searching at the local courthouse, then ventured on to other courthouses in other states.

Proving the Parentage of Wm H. DEMPSEY in a Roundabout Way

Geraldine wrote that William Henderson DEMPSEY was the son of Wm A. DEMPSEY and Sarah WOOD. I believed this to be true, however, I was only able to “prove” it in a roundabout way.

• William Henderson DEMPSEY was never seen with his parents on a census.
  • 1870 census: with a FORSYTHE family, no relationship listed.
  • 1880 census: with a CAMPBELL family,  listed as adopted.
• 1884 marriage record: listed his parents as W. & S. DEMPSEY.
• 1941 death record: listed Wood DEMPSEY as his father and his mother as unknown.
• 1941 obituary: mentioned a brother Elijah L. DEMPSEY.
• 1885 will of Elijah WOOD: “bequeath to my grandson Elijah Lewis Dempsey”.
• 1943 death record for Elijah Lewis DEMPSEY has not been found at WVCulture.
• 1850 and 1860 census found for Wm. A. W. and Sarah
• pre-1850 marriage record for Wm. A. W. Dempsey and Sarah A. Wood was not found.
• All marriage records for children of Wm. A. W. Dempsey and Sarah A. Wood were found. Parents were listed as Wm and Sarah.
• <1930 death record of John Henry Dempsey: father seen as Wm Dempsey BUT instead of his mother’s name, John’s wife’s name was listed under the maiden name of the mother.
• No death records were found for the other siblings.
• 1870 census: Elijah and his mother Sarah Dempsey were found together in a household but no relationship is listed.
• Recent find: Provost Marshal File. 1862 “William A. W. Dempsey – citizen residing on Dogwood Ridge, Fayette Co., farmer, left home on the 18″ [sic, 18 May 1862]. Started when they heard firing at the Court House, came down to get work in the Valley, refers to Simpson Wood, Styris Wood, and G. W. McVay, of the Oil Works, (brothers-in-law of his). Knows Hamilton as Hamilton of Hawks Nest.”

Provost Marshal File¹

After analyzing all records found, this is the story I would like to tell about my great-grandfather William Henderson DEMPSEY.

A Family Continues to Grow

William Henderson DEMPSEY was born in Clifty, Fayette County, West Virginia, on 14 September 1860, a few months after the enumeration of the 1860 census.². He was the sixth child of William A. W. DEMPSEY (1860 age 40) and his wife Sarah Ann WOOD (1860 age 36). William’s older siblings were Elizabeth Rachel “Lizzie” (1846-1880), James Alexander “Buck” (1848-1909), Mary Virginia (1854-1900), Eunice V. (1855-1940), and John Henry (1857-1930).

The Civil War Years

The American Civil War began on 4 February 1861. In that year a separate government for the western section of Virginia was organized under the name of Kanawha. In 1862 Virginia separated from western Virginia. The DEMPSEY family continued to grow with the birth of William’s youngest brother Elijah Lewis (1862-1943) during the war. West Virginia was admitted into the union as the thirty-fifth state on 20 June 1863. The American Civil War ended on 23 June 1865.

The Family Is Split Up

William’s father died soon after the end of the war (abt. 1867). In 1868 his sister Lizzie married Robert J. HUGHES.³ By 1870 the family had split up and the children were living with different WOOD relatives. James was living with his Aunt Amanda Jane (WOOD) PARRISH⁴; Eunice and John were with their grandfather Elijah WOOD⁵; Elijah, the youngest, and his mother Sarah were with his aunt Turzey (WOOD) NEAL.⁶ Mary Virginia who was about 16 years old and known to be living was not found enumerated as Mary or Virginia Dempsey.

1870 U.S. Federal Census > Wm Dempsey in the Forsythe household

William, age 10 at the time and working as a farm laborer, was living with the Abraham “Abram” FORSYTHE family.⁷ Mr. FORSYTHE was first married to Sarah HENDRICK (d. 1859) and second to Mary WESTLAKE in 1862. Both Abram’s brother Samuel and Mary’s sister Mathilda were married to WOODs. This is likely the connection and reason that we see William with the FORSYTHEs in 1870. Abraham FORSYTHE moved to Colorado in the 1870s.

Siblings Began To Marry

In the 1870s three of his older siblings married. Mary V. married John A. SNELL in 1872, ⁸ Eunice married John Isaac SCAGGS in 1873.⁹ James A. “Buck” married Mary E. SADDLER in 1874.¹⁰

Adoption of William H. DEMPSEY?

1880 U.S. Federal Census > William M. Dempsey adopted in the John Campbell family

William is seen with the John CAMPBELL family in 1880.¹¹ He is listed as “adopted” however no record has been found to show this was a legal adoption. It is not known how long he lived with this family before or after the 1880 census. John CAMPBELL was first married to Mary KESLER (the mother of Nancy seen in the census) and second to Amanda Francis ALDERSON (mother of Joseph and Fanny seen in the census). John CAMPBELL died in 1895 leaving a will.¹² William H. DEMPSEY was not mentioned.

Two of William’s brothers married in 1882: John Henry married Amanda Ann McCLUNG and Elijah Lewis married Octavia Dell INGRAM.¹³,¹⁴

Life as a Married Man and Father

1884 marriage register entry for W. H. Dempsey and Laura B. Ingram

William, at the age of 24, was the last of the DEMPSEY children to marry. He was joined in matrimony with Laura Belle INGRAM age 16 on 1 October 1884, nearly two years after his brother Elijah and Laura’s sister Octavia married.¹⁵

William and Laura’s first child Viola was born in 1885¹⁶ and died in 1887.¹⁷ Three months before the death of his first child, William’s mother Sarah Ann WOOD died on 1 April 1887.¹⁸

Five more children were born before 1899. William W. “Willie” was born in 1888 and Ernest Rupert in 1890, both in Keeneys Creek; Oscar Lawrence in 1892 in Prince or across New River in Royal, now a ghost town; Roy Lee in 1894 and Pearl in 1897, both in Victor.¹⁹,²⁰,²¹,²²,²³

From the places of birth of the children, we know that William and Laura lived in Keeneys Creek in 1888 and 1890, in Royal (Raleigh) or in Prince (Fayette) in 1892, and in Victor from 1894. There is conflicting information on the residence in 1892. No birth record has been found for son Oscar whose WWI Draft Card shows his place of birth as Royal.²⁴ When he entered the V.A. Facility in Huntington as a patient in 1940 he gave information used for his 1940 death record including Royal as the place of birth. Both records were produced with the information given by Oscar. On his record of marriage in 1914 the place of birth is seen as Prince.

This conflicting information on the place of birth for Oscar made me look more closely into the area as one place was in Raleigh County and the other in Fayette County. I learned that the first coal mine in Raleigh County was opened at Royal in 1891. Royal Coal and Coke Company used Prince as their post office address. A unique suspended cable system was used to transport the coal down the mountain and across New River to the railroad at Prince. William H. Dempsey may have been a miner at the Royal Coal Mine at the time of Oscar’s birth.

“Royal was once a booming coal town. Now it’s just some metal artifacts, stone walls, and gravestones.” Ghost Town: Royal, WV

William Becomes A Land Owner

William Henderson Dempsey (1860-1941)

On February 25, 1899, W. H. DEMPSEY bought a parcel of land in Victor, Fayette County, West Virginia, for the sum of $225.²⁵ In later years the home was passed on to his son Fred and was sold in 1998 after the death of Fred’s widow Myrtle Hazel ROOP DEMPSEY BOLES.

Deed: R. W. Coleman To W. H. Dempsey
(in margin: Pd. 2.00 to R. W. Coleman 10-13-99 C&I)
This Deed, made the 25th day of February 1899, between R. W. Coleman, party of the first part, and W. H. Dempsey, party of the second part, both of the county of Fayette, and State of West Virginia, Witnesseth, That for and in consideration of the sum of Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars, ($225.00), payable as follows to-wit: Fifty Dollars, ($50.00), cash in hand before the delivery of this deed, Fifty Dollars ($50.00), in six months from this date with interest from date, Fifty Dollars, ($50.00), in twelve months from this date, with interest from date, and the residue, to-wit, Seventy Five Dollars, ($75.00), in two years from this date, with interest from date, for which defered payments the said W. H. Dempsey has this day executed his promisory notes to the said R. W. Coleman; the said R. W. Coleman has bargained and sold, and by these presents doth grant and convey unto the said W. H. Dempsey, a certain parcel or tract of land, situated on the North side of The James River and Kanawha Turnpike, East of Victor, in Mountain Cove District, in Fayette county, West Virginia, adjoining the land of H. Nunnery, Ed. Legg and others and bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a bunch of maples on the North bank of the said turnpike; thence, N. 59‘ E. 52 poles, to a stake on Nunnery’s line; thence, with Nunnery, N. 4‘ E. 10 poles, to a stake East of a small pine, thence leaving Nunnery, S. 81‘ W. 32 poles, to a hickory, corner to Ed. Legg; thence, with Legg, N. 73 W. 19 poles to the S.E. corner of the School-House lot, thence, with the turnpike, S. 6‘ E. 20 poles, to a stake; thence S. 36‘ E. 28 poles to the beginning, containing Eight and one-fourth acres, Being a part of a 47 acres tract heretofore conveyed to the said R.W . Coleman by John A. Hawver, Trustee. To have and to hold to the said W. H. Dempsey, his heirs and assigns, forever, with covenants of general warranty. And the vendor’s kin is hereby specially reserved to secure the defered payments above described. Witness the following signatures and seals.
R. W. Coleman -Seal
State of West Virginia, County of Fayette, to-wit:
I, J. R. Koontz, a notary public of the said county of Fayette, do certify that R. W. Coleman, whose name is signed to the writing above, bearing date on the 25th day of February, 1899, has this day acknowledged the same before me in my said county. Given under my hand this 25th day of February, 1899.
J. R. Koontz, N. P. Fayette County, West Virginia
West Virginia, Fayette County Court Clerk’s Office, July 26, 1899.
This Deed was this day presented in my office and being stamped 50¢ is admitted to record together with the certificate thereto annexed.
Teste: J. T. Grose, Clerk

1900 U.S. Federal Census > William H. Dempsey household

On the 1st of June 1900, William was listed on the census as owning a mortgage-free farm.²⁶ From the deed above we know how payment was arranged. The farm was not fully paid for at the time and the deed had not yet been recorded in the County Court Clerk’s Office. The important thing was that the family had their own home. William H. was working as a coal miner and had been employed during the past 12 months.

Following the purchase of their home four more children were born in Victor: Fred Rothwell in 1899, Clyde Lewis in 1902, Hester Ethel in 1904, and Earl Stanley in 1910.²⁷,²⁸,²⁹,³⁰

 

1910 U.S: Federal Census > William H. Dempsey household

By 1910 William had changed occupations and was now a carpenter doing housework for a wage. Three sons ages 15, 17, and 25 were working as miners in the coal mines.³¹

Tragedy Strikes the Dempsey Family

William’s oldest son Willie married Mallie Lee GRAY.³² Their first two children, William’s first grandchildren, Olive (1909-1910) and Herbert (1911-1911) both died young.³³,³⁴ Willie was killed on October 5, 1915. He had gone into a small mine at his home, accompanied by his wife and little son Gordon, to mine some coal for home use. While his pregnant wife was watching him a heavy fall of slate came in on him, killing him instantly.³⁵ Mallie gave birth to a daughter 9 days later and named her Willie Mae.³⁶

Three more of William’s children married shortly before and after the beginning of World War I in 1914: Oscar Lawrence married Fannie Belle Noble, Roy Lee married Liliane Madelene Nunnery, and Ernest Rupert married Virginia Lenora “Lee” Wills.³⁷,³⁸,³⁹

1920 U.S. Federal Census > William H. Dempsey household

On the 1920 census, we see that William is now a self-employed carpenter doing housework.⁴⁰

By 1930 all children had left home and William age 69 and Laura age 61 were living alone in their home valued at $3000.⁴¹

1940 U.S: Federal Census > William H. Dempsey household

In 1940 their divorced son Oscar had come back home to live. By this time both William and Oscar were unable to work and no longer working. The 1940 census was enumerated as of the 1st of April and the page was dated May 7 while May 20 was written in the margin showing the date of visit.⁴² Oscar was admitted to the V.A. Facility in Huntington on May 8 and died on May 14.⁴³ Therefore by the time, the enumerator came around to the Dempsey place Oscar had died but was included in the count as he was living on April 1st. William’s wife Laura Belle died about five months later on October 8, 1940, in Victor.⁴⁴

William H. Dempsey Dies After a Short Illness

1941 Certificate of Death, Register No. 1724, William Henderson Dempsey

William Henderson DEMPSEY died Friday, 24 January 1941, after a short illness. His daughter Hester SKAGGS was the informant. Not all information that she gave was correct on the death certificate. The father’s name was given as Wood Dempsey and the mother’s maiden name as Unknown.⁴⁵

Obituary of William H. DEMPSEY

The Charleston Gazette, January 26, 1941. Clipping courtesy of Laura Workman Campbell.

Publication: The Charleston Gazette
Published: January 26, 1941
Headline: William H. Dempsey
Services for William Henderson Dempsey, 80, of Victor, retired carpenter, who died Friday after a short illness, will be held today at 2 p.m. at the Hopewell Baptist church, Victor. Rev. George B. Denver of Lansing will officiate.
Burial will be in the McVey cemetery on Shady creek in charge of the Thomas mortuary, Ansted.
Survivors include a brother, Elijah L. Dempsey of Ansted; five sons, E.R. Dempsey of Ansted, R. L. Dempsey of Fayetteville, Fred Dempsey of Victor, Clyde Dempsey of Garten and Earl Dempsey of Lansing; and a daughter, Mrs. William R. Skaggs of Ansted.⁴⁶

This Post Was Updated on 22 January 2022: Missing source citations were added, the photo was watermarked, and some corrections were made to the text and format.

© 2014-2022, copyright Cathy Meder-Dempsey. All rights reserved.

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1. “United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866,” images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-MKHK-D?cc=1845948&wc=M6KL-Y38%3A165419801%2C165561201 : 22 May 2014), Records by Number and Date > 02132-02398, Sept. 1862 > image 724 of 1041; citing NARA microfilm publication M416 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). ↩
2. West Virginia Vital Research Records Project (database and images), West Virginia Division of Culture and History citing county records in county courthouses, West Virginia (A collaborative venture between the West Virginia State Archives and the Genealogical Society of Utah to place vital records online via the West Virginia Archives and History Web site accessible at https://archive.wvculture.org/vrr), West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999, FHL microfilm 1983558, Fayette, West Virginia, Certificate of Death, Registered No. 1724, William Henderson Dempsey, 02 Jan 1941, citing Victor, Fayette County, West Virginia. Includes his date of birth: 14 September 1860.  (http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1067455&Type=Death : accessed 8 January 2022). ↩
3. Ibid., West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 584764, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Marriage 1868, image 248, page 9, Robert Huse and Elizabeth Dempsey, 8 April 1868, citing Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584764/00248.jpg : accessed 30 June 2018). ↩
4. 1870 U.S. Federal Census, (index and images), Ancestry, citing Ninth Census of the United States, 1870 population schedule, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C., NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls, Roll: M593_1686; West Virginia, Fayette County, Mountain Cove, page 18, sheet 147B (147 stamped on page 17), HH #124-124, Jesse J. Parrish household. (https://www.ancestry.com/ : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
5. Ibid., Roll: M593_1686; West Virginia, Fayette County, Mountain Cove, page 11, sheet 144A (stamped 144), lines 31-34, HH #74-74, Elijah Wood household. (https://www.ancestry.com/ : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
6. Ibid., Roll: M593_1686; West Virginia, Fayette County, Mountain Cove, page 19, sheet 148A 8stamped 148), lines 19-30, HH #129-129, John Neal household. (https://www.ancestry.com/ : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
7. Ibid., Roll: M593_1686; West Virginia, Fayette County, Mountain Cove, page 17, sheet 147A (stamped 147), lines 12-16, HH#116-116, Abram Forsythe. (http://search.ancestry.com/ : accessed 25 Dec 2014). ↩
8. WVCulture.org, West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 584764, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Marriage 1872, image 259, page 19, John Snell and Mary V. Dempsey, 16 Sep 1872, citing Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584764/00259.jpg : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
9. Ibid., West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 584764, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Marriage 1873, image 261, page 21, line 9, John I. Skaggs and Eunice Dempsey, 11 May 1873, citing Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584764/00261.jpg : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
10. Ibid., West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 584764, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Marriage 1874, image 264, page 24, line 41, James Dempsey and Mary Saddler, 25 Dec 1874, citing Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584764/00264.jpg : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
11. 1880 U.S. Federal Census, (index and images), Ancestry, citing Tenth Census of the United States, 1880 population schedule, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C., NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls, Roll: 1402; West Virginia, Fayette County, Mountain Cove, enumeration district 30, sheet 114A, line 35-41, HH #332-345, John Campbell. (http://search.ancestry.com/ : accessed 25 Dec 2014). ↩
12. “West Virginia Will Books, 1756-1971,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9392-CSSN-Z5?cc=1909099&wc=Q816-MTS%3A179689901%2C179746101 : 23 October 2018), Fayette > Will book, v. 003 1885-1901 > image 160 of 274; citing Fayette County Clerk, West Virginia. ↩
13. WVCulture.org, West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 584764, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Marriage 1882, image 284, page 43, line 23, John H Dempsey and Amanda McClung, 22 Feb 1882, citing Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584764/00284.jpg : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
14. Ibid., West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 584764, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Marriage 1882, image 284, page 45, line 29, E L Dempsey and Octavia D. Inghram, 19 Oct 1882, citing Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584764/00286.jpg : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
15. Ibid., West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 584764, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Marriage 1884, image 293, page 52, line 40, W H Dempsey and Laura B. Ingram, 1 Oct 1884, citing Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584764/00293.jpg : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
16. Ibid., West Virginia Births, 1853-1930, FHL microfilm 584755, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Births 1885, pages106-107 (stamped), line 48, Viola Dempsey; citing District of W. S. Thomas in Fayette, County, West Virginia. (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=584755&ImageNumber=166 : accessed 15 January 2022). ↩
17. Ibid., West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999, FHL microfilm 584755, Register of Deaths 1887, page 356-357 (stamped), line 35, 4 July 1887, Violad Dempsey, consumption, citing District of W. S: Thomas in Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584755/00298.jpg : accessed 17 January 2022). ↩
18. Ibid., West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999, FHL microfilm 584755, image 299, Register of Deaths 1887, page358-359, line 46, 1 Apr 1887, Sarah A. Fox, consort of J M Fox, citing Ansted, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584755/00299.jpg : accessed 17 January 2022). ↩
19. Ibid., West Virginia Births, 1853-1930, FHL microfilm 584761, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Births 1888, pages 10-11 (stamped), entry 10, (no name) Dempsey; citing Keeneys Creek, Fayette, County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584761/00302.jpg : accessed 17 January 2022). Note: The child’s name was not given. The father was (erroneously) listed as English and born in England. ↩
20. Ibid., West Virginia Births, 1853-1930, FHL microfilm 584761, image 362, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Births 1888, pages 104-105 (stamped), entry 4, 19 Feb 1890 Earnest Dempsey; citing Keeneys Creek, Fayette, County, West Virginia. (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=584761&ImageNumber=362 : accessed 17 January 2022). ↩
21. Ibid., West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999, FHL microfilm 1983478, Standard Certificate of Death, Registered No. 7439, Oscar L. Dempsey, 11 May 1940, citing Huntington, Wayne County, West Virginia. (http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1058154&Type=Death : accessed 8 January 2022). Includes date and place of birth. No birth record was found on WVCulture.org as of 21 January 2022. ↩
22. Ibid., West Virginia Births, 1853-1930, FHL microfilm 584762, image 9, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Births 1894, pages 9-10 (stamped), entry 68, 19 Oct 1894 Roy Dempsey; citing Mountain Cove, Fayette, County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584762/00009.jpg : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
23. Ibid., West Virginia Births, 1853-1930, FHL microfilm 584762, image 65, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Births 1894, pages 113-114 (stamped), entry 111, 25 Jan 1897 Pearl Dempsey; citing Victor, Fayette, County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584762/00065.jpg : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
24. “U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” (index and images), Ancestry, citing original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., FHL microfilm M1509, 4,582 rolls, Roll: 1992960, Registration State: West Virginia, Registration County: Raleigh County, Oscar Lawrence Dempsey, white, born 24 Sep 1892 in Royal, West Virginia. (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
25. Fayette County (West Virginia), Clerk of the County Court, “Deed book, 1831-1902; deed book index, 1831-1951” (database with images), FamilySearch, filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969, citing microfilm of original records at the Fayette County courthouse, Film 584109, DGS 8589002, Deed book, v. 21-22 1899-1900, Deed book 21, pages 545-546, images 280-281 of 696. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C37T-M6X2?i=279&cat=100754 and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C37T-MD8J?i=280&cat=100754 : accessed 22 January 2022). ↩
26. 1900 U.S. Federal Census, (index and images), Ancestry, citing Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900 population schedule, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C., NARA microfilm publication T623, 1854 rolls, West Virginia, Fayette County, Mountain Cove District, enumeration district 17, sheet 25A, line 1-7, household 425-437, Wm. H. Dempsey. (http://search.ancestry.com/ : accessed 23 Dec 2014). ↩
27. WVCulture.org, West Virginia Births, 1853-1930, FHL microfilm 1992377, Fayette, West Virginia, Delayed Certificate of Birth, Fred Rothwell Dempsey, 30 Oct 1899, citing Victor, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=3313971&Type=Birth : accessed 7 March 2013). ↩
28. Ibid., West Virginia Births, 1853-1930, FHL microfilm 584762, Register od Birth, line 15, Clyde Lewis Dempsey, 13 Apr 1902, citing Victor, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=584762&ImageNumber=145 : accessed 2 January 2022). ↩
29. Ibid., West Virginia Births, 1853-1930, FHL microfilm 1992738, 1904 Delayed Birth Certificate (reviewed 19 April 1955), Hester Ethel Dempsey, 21 Sep 1904, citing Victor, Fayette County, West Virginia. “.” (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=004017262&ImageNumber=2983 : accessed 11 Jan 2014). ↩
30. Ibid., West Virginia Births, 1853-1930, FHL microfilm 1992947, Birth certificates no. 1751-4000, 1910 (Registration dates 1940-1942), image 319 of 3811, Delayed Birth Certificate, Earl Stanley Dempsey, 15 Nov 1910, citing Victor, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=3291597&Type=Birth : accessed 2 January 2022). ↩
31. 1910 U.S. Federal Census, (index and images), Ancestry, citing Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 population schedule, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls, West Virginia, Fayette County, Mountain Cove magisterial district, enumeration district 20, sheet 6B, lines 48-50, household 71-71, William H. Dempsey and sheet 6B, lines 51-55, household 71-71, William H. Dempsey. (http://search.ancestry.com/ : accessed 23 Dec 2014). ↩
32. WVCulture.org, West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 584765, Register of Marriage, 1907, page 34, 7th line from bottom, William W. Dempsey and Mollie L. Gray, 24 Dec 1907, citing Victor, Fayette, West Virginia. (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=584765&ImageNumber=422 : accessed 2 January 2022). ↩
33. Ibid., West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999, FHL microfilm 584754, image 85, Register of Deaths 1910, page 34 (stamped), line 4, 12 Jan 1910, Olive Dempsey, age 3 mos. 15 days, citing Ansted, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584754/00085.jpg : accessed 22 January 2022). ↩
34. Ibid., West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999, FHL microfilm 584754, image 86, Register of Deaths 1910, page 35 (stamped), line 13, 6 May 1913, Herbert Dempsey, age 1 yr 10 mos 11 days, citing Ansted, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584754/00086.jpg : accessed 22 January 2022). ↩
35. Ibid., West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999, FHL microfilm 584755, Register of Death, right page, line 39, Willie W. Dempsey, 05 Oct 1915, citing Ansted, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=584755&ImageNumber=351 : accessed 2 January 2022). ↩
36. Ibid., West Virginia Births, 1853-1930, FHL microfilm 584755, image 333, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Births 1915, left page (not numbered), entries 18 and 30, 14 Oct 1915 Willie Mae Dempsey; citing Ansted, Fayette, County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/584755/00333.jpg : accessed 21 January 2022). ↩
37. Ibid., West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 494264, image 47, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Marriages, page 36 (stamped), line 37, Oscar Dempsey and Fannie Noble, 04 Feb 1914, citing Shade Creek School House, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/494264/00047.jpg : accessed 2 January 2022). ↩
38. Ibid., West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 584764, image 47, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Marriage 1884, page 36 (stamped), line 43, Roy L Dempsey and Liliane Nunnery, 19 Mar 1914, citing Ansted, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/494264/00047.jpg : accessed 22 January 2022). ↩
39. Ibid., West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, FHL microfilm 494264, image 48, Fayette, West Virginia, Register of Marriage 1914, page 37 (stamped), line 14, Ernest R Dempsey and V Lenora Wil, 16 Nov 1914, citing Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://images.wvculture.org/494264/00048.jpg : accessed 22 January 2022). ↩
40. 1920 U.S. Federal Census, (index and images), Ancestry, citing Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920 population schedule, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls, West Virginia, Fayette County, Mountain Cove District, Victor Precinct, ED 33, sheet 7A, household 107-109, William H. Dempsey. (http://search.ancestry.com/ : accessed 11 Jan 2014). ↩
41. 1930 U.S. Federal Census, (index and images), Ancestry, citing Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930 population schedule, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C., NARA microfilm publication T626, 2,667 rolls, West Virginia, Fayette County, Mountain Cove magisterial district and precinct, ED 10-27, sheet 1B, lines 86-87, household 18-19, William H. Dempsey. (http://search.ancestry.com/ : accessed 15 July 2002). ↩
42. 1940 U.S. Federal Census, (index and images), Ancestry, citing Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940 population schedule, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D. C., NARA microfilm publication T647, 4,643 rolls, West Virginia, Fayette County, Mountain Cove magisterial district, Victor, enumeration district 10-36A, sheet 4A, lines 19-21, household 63, William H. Dempsey. (http://search.ancestry.com/ : accessed 4 Apr 2012). ↩
43. WVCulture.org, West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999, FHL microfilm 1983478, Standard Certificate of Death, Registered No. 7439, Oscar L. Dempsey, 11 May 1940, citing Huntington, Wayne County, West Virginia. (http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1058154&Type=Death : accessed 8 January 2022). ↩
44. Ibid., West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999, FHL microfilm 1983556, Fayette, West Virginia, Certificate of Death, Registered No. 12945, Laura Ingram Dempsey, 08 Oct 1940, citing Victor, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1063678&Type=Death : accessed 8 January 2022). ↩
45. Ibid., West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999, FHL microfilm 1983558, Fayette, West Virginia, Certificate of Death, Registered No. 1724, William Henderson Dempsey, 02 Jan 1941, citing Victor, Fayette County, West Virginia. (http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1067455&Type=Death : accessed 8 January 2022). ↩
46. Newspaper clipping of the obituary of William H. Dempsey is courtesy of Laura Workman Campbell, downloaded 5 January 2013 from her family tree on Ancestry. The entire month of January 1941 is missing on NewspaperArchive.com for The Charleston Gazette. Unable to locate a newspaper site with this newspaper title. ↩