Permelia Mathew
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Nov 1838 - , Preston, VA
Christening:
Death: 14 Mar 1920 - Parkersburg, Wood, WV
Burial: in Meadowville, Barbour, WV
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Arnold Schoonover (27 Mar 1838 - 7 Dec 1878) 5
Marriage: 2 Jan 1858 - , Barbour, VA
Notes
General:
BIRTH: Fred H. Knapp, fritz@fidnet.com, Aug 1998, e-mail to dbericsson@aol.com; CONFLICT: date of birth on tombstone is 2 Nov 1840; this date would fit with censuses in 1850 and 1860 but not with age at marriage.
CENSUS:
1850 Barbour County WV Census, Wes Cochran; 1986; Parkersburg WV: Wes Cochran; p. 18; NOTE: Permelia, age 10. 1860 Barbour County WV Census, Wes Cochran; 1986; Parkersburg WV: Wes Cochran; p. 31; NOTE: Amelia, age 20, with husband T.A. Schoonover age 21, and son Benjamin B. age 7/12.
1870 U.S. St. Clair co MO; Jackson tsp, Taberville P.O., FHL call #552306; date of enumeration 13 Jul; p. 460, dwelling #77, family #72; Schoonover, Thos., age 33, farm work, no real estate value given, personal property value $523, bp Virginia, eligible to vote; the rest of the Schoonovers listed were Permelia age 32 b. VA; Perry? [Benjamin B.] age 10 b. VA, Mary? [Elizabeth] age 8 b. VA, Henry? [Amos W.] age 6 b. MO, Bryan age 4 b. MO, Joice? [Sarah Jane] age 1 b. MO. This census was extremely hard to read.
1880 U.S. Census St. Clair co. MO, Polk twp, 1/2 of sub district 234, date 10 Ju 1880, ED 234, FHL film #1254714, pg. 8, line 30, dwelling 74, family 84; Schoonover, Vermelia, age 40, widowed, keeping house, b. VA; other Schoonovers listed were Lizzie age 18, dau, single, at home, b. MO, parents b. VA; Bryant age 15, son, single, farming, emp, can't write, b. MO; Sarah, age 11, dau, single, at home, went to school 2/12, can write, b. MO; Virginia age 9, dau, , at home, b. MO; Martha age 7, dau, at home, b. MO; Emma age 4, dau, at home, b. MO; and Sallie, age 40, sister-in-law, at home, idiotic, b. VA. Note that Permelia's son Amos and wife Hannah both age 17 were in dwelling 73. Also, Permelia's brother-in-law John Poling (formerly Bryan W. Schoonover), age 52, was on p. 10 in dwelling 97 with his second wife. He also had his sister Polly Ann [Mary Ann] age 40 with him (the "idiotic" s/l Sallie with Permelia) as a servant. She must have lived between the two houses. 1900 U.S. Census Tyler co. WV, Lincoln District, FHL #1,241,774, date 12 Jun 1900 by N.L. Boyles, SD 287?, ED 85, sheet 7, page 80B, dwelling 142?, family #148?; for Irwin, John W., head, b. J(an)? 1844, age 58, married 3 years, he and his parents b. PA, oil field laborer, 0 months unemployed, can read, write and speak English, owned home free; wife Virginia A. Irwin, b. J(an)? 1874? age 26, m. 3 years, 0 (or 2?) children born, 0 living, b. MO, parents b. WV, can read and write; Schoonover, Permelia, m/l, b. Nov 1843?, age 56?, wd, mother of 8, 6 living, she and parents b. WV, can read and write. This census was very dark and difficult to read.
1910 U.S. Census, WV, Wood co., Parkersburg Dist., Parkersburg city, 19 Apr 1910, SD 4, ED 129, sheet 5, line 42, FHL film #1,375,710; Charles Street, house# 912, dwelling 102, family 109; Schoonover, Permelia, head, rents, age 63, wd, 6 of 8 children living, can read and write, she and her parents b. WV, no occupation; Irwin, Virginia, dau., age 35, married 13 years, 0 children born, can read and write, b. MO, parents b. WV, waitress at hotel, 0 out of work. 1920 U.S. Census Soundex; I650, Wood Co. WV; for Vol 54, ED171, sheet 2, line 91; Virginia Irwin, lived in Parkersburg, Chas. St., 912; enumerated with Prmelia Schooner, mother.
MARRIAGE: Marriage record; Barbour Co. Court House, Philippi WV; p. 10; line 23; Thomas was age 20 years, 7 months, 25 days; Permelia was age 19 years, 2 months, 2 days.
CITY DIRECTORY: Polk's Parkersburg [WV, Wood co.] City Directory, 1912, p. 234; W917.5423p759 1912; West Virginia Collection, Colson Library, WVU, Morgantown WV; Parmelia Schoonover (with Thomas), h.912 Charles; her daughter Jennie Irwine, waitress, bds (boards), same address. In the 1921 Polk's Parkersburg City Directory, W917.5423p759 1921, p. 801, Schoonover, Parmelia (aged 78)d. 14 Mar 1920. Her daughter Virginia Irwin was listed on p. 569, waitress Robert A. Mellace [restaurant], res. 312 1/2 3rd. Neither Permelia nor Virginia were listed in the 1897 Parkersburg Directory.
DEATH: Death Index 1917-1924, WV Dept. of Health Vital Statistics, WV State Archives, Charleston, WV; Roll 1, Vol. 17, #8224.
CEMETERY: New Bethel Cemetery.
NAME: Her name was hard for census takers to note correctly. For instance, in the 1860 VA Federal census microfilm for Barbour Co., p. 68, she is written as Amelia. MINISTER: Rev. Charles Willis (at marriage).
CAUSE OF DEATH: Tuberculosis, according to Dessie England Schoonover, widow of Permelia's grandson Stuart Schoonover, in an interview with Brenda Burner Ericsson on 15 Nov 1991, at her home in Belington, WV.
AGE AT DEATH: 79.
EPITAPH: "Rest mother, rest in quiet /sleep, while friends in/sorrow, o'er thee weep."