Nancy Schoonover
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Jun 1799 - , Randolph, VA
Christening:
Death: 29 Dec 1880
Burial: in , Randolph, WV
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Benjamin Schoonover (1745-1838) 5
Mother: Mary Hand (1755-1841) 5
Spouses and Children
1. *Amos N. Canfield (14 Jun 1794 - 27 Dec 1881) 5
Marriage: 16 Jan 1814 - , Randolph, VA
Notes
General:
BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Hallie Canfield Kyle, THE CANFIELD FAMILY 1637-1978; Elkins WV, self-published, 1978; p. 40; book owned by Firmen Canfield, Elkins WV. The author cites Book 1, p. 18, of Randolph Co. Marriages as her source for Nancy's marriage.
DEATH: Death records;1853-1939;Randolph Co. WV Deaths, Vol. I;;FHL Microfilm #808241.
CEMETERY: Canfield Cemetery, Leadsville District, five miles e. of Elkins.
MINISTER: At marriage, John Rowan.
BIOGRAPHY: The following is from Kyle, p. 103, and is based on a chart filled out by a granddaughter of Nancy. "Nancy, b. June 17, 1799; d. December 29, 1880 (Bk-Deaths, Rand.), a dau. of Benjamin and Mary Schoonover; and born on a farm where she later lived until she died. Her father had settled on the land in 1795, and her husband bought it of her parents a few years after their marriage. Her education consisted of reading, writing and spelling; was an industrious person, of a nervous irritable disposition, but so helpful in the neighborhood. Her father was of Dutch ancestry. She had scarlet fever in her youth, typhoid fever in middle age, and scorfula is said to have been the cause of her death. A farmer's wife, and the mother of twelve children made a busy life. She joined the Primitive Baptist Church on September 19, 1824, which her mother and father-in-law helped organize at Arnold Hill near Elkins. Her son, Amos J., made her casket with burial in the Canfield Cemetery."