James Ira Slider ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

  Birth Notes:

Name: James Ira Slider
Birth Date: 25 Jan 1916
Birthplace: Hur, Calhoun, West Virginia
Gender: Male
Father's Name: Joseph Slider
Mother's Name: Orvana Slider
Film Number: 808278
Digital Folder Number: 4208138
Image Number: 545
Reference Number: v 4 p 321
Source:County Records

"West Virginia Births, 1853-1930," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F1LV-J9B : accessed 28 July 2012), James Ira Slider, 1916.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1920 US Census in Sheridan Magisterial District, Calhoun, West Virginia, United States on 4 March 1920. ⁴

1920 US Census
Sheet 13A, District 21, Family 157, Roll 1950
Sheridan District, Calhoun County, West Virginia
Farm rented
James Slider..Son..3-3m..WV
(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1930 US Census in Marietta, OH on 8 April 1930. ⁵

1930 US Census
Sheet 6B, District 19, Dwelling 128, Family 133, Roll 1887
Marietta, Washington County, Ohio
122 Elmwood Street; Home rented $13
Ira Slider..Son..12..WV
(Living with parents.)

NOTE - If his birth date was 25 Sep 1916, then his age should have been 13 instead of 12.
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• His obituary was published in the Marietta Times on 15 February 1937 in Marietta, OH.

⁷ James Ira Slider, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Slider of 901 Front Street, was asphyxiated in the bathroom of the family home early Sunday morning as the result of gas fumes from a faulty hot water heater. His body was found in the bath tub when his father went to the home at 7 a.m. Sunday. When he opened the bathroom door monoxide gas fumes coming from the gas heater was stifling.

Dr. H. W. Riggs, Washington County coroner who investigated pronounced death accidental and due to asphyxiation.

The Slider family had moved from their home during the flood to higher ground and had been living with relatives on higher ground since. The young man left the home of his relatives at 4 a.m. according to his father, to go to the family home to light fires for drying out the house and was alone in the house evidently taking a bath when he was overcome by fumes.

Funeral services will be held at the home, 901 Front Street, on Wednesday at 3 p.m.. Internment will be made in Valley cemetery.

Surviving with the parents, Joseph and Arvanna Reynolds Slider, are the brothers and sisters, Reuben, Vioila, Hallie, and Joseph Slider and the half-sisters who are Mrs. Gathie Ritchie and Mrs. Emma Kirby. The father of the deceased is employed in the Marietta street department.

(Source: Marietta Times, 15 Feb 1937, page 12)
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• He was buried on 17 February 1937 in the East Lawn Memorial Park in Reno, OH.

Find A Grave Memorial #110511804
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