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Esther Wigner
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Esther Wigner 1 2 4 5 6
- Born: 14 February 1881, Calhoun County, WV 1 4 5 6
- Marriage (1): Okey Johnson Gainer on 11 February 1900 in Calhoun County, WV 1 2 3
- Died: 17 July 1966, Spencer, WV at age 85 5 6
- Buried: 19 July 1966, Mount Zion, WV 1 5 6
 Cause of her death was Cerebral Hemorrage/Malnutrition; Senility.5
Death Notes:
The SSDI gives an incorrect date of death as 15 Sep 1966 instead of 17 Jul 1966.
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Noted events in her life were:
• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Center District, Calhoun, WV on 18 June 1900. 4
1900 US Census
Sheet 15A, District 21, Dwelling 255, Family 255
Center District, Calhoun County, West Virginia
Farm owned, no mortgage
Ester Gaines..Daughter-in-Law..--- 1881..19..WV..M 0 Yrs..0/0
(Living with husband at the home of his parents.)
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• She was buried on 19 July 1966 in the Saint Paul Cemetery in Mount Zion, WV.
"Esther W. Gainer - 1881 - 1966"
Find A Grave Memorial #61465562
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Esther married Okey Johnson Gainer, son of Jesse Carpenter Gainer and Catherine Stalnaker, on 11 February 1900 in Calhoun County, WV.1 2 3 (Okey Johnson Gainer was born on 6 February 1871 in Calhoun County, WV,1 4 7 8 9 died on 30 December 1945 in Center District, Calhoun, WV 1 8 and was buried on 4 January 1946 in Mount Zion, WV 1 8 9.)
Noted events in their marriage were:
• They appeared on the 1900 US Census in Center District, Calhoun, WV on 18 June 1900. 4
1900 US Census
Sheet 15A, District 21, Dwelling 255, Family 255
Center District, Calhoun County, West Virginia
Farm owned, no mortgage
Married 45 years
Jessie Gainer..Head..Feb 1834..66..WV..Farmer
Rotherine Gaines..Wife..Jan 1836..64..WV..8/8
Lottie Gaines..Dau...Jun 1879..20..WV
Okey Gaines..Son...Feb 1871..29..WV..M 0 Yrs
Ester Gaines..DauL..--- 1881..19..WV..M 0 Yrs..0/0
(Okey was newly married and living with his wife at the home of his parents.)
NOTE - This record is sometimes indexed with the surname spelled as "Gaines" instead of Gainer.
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Sources
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Polli Kreaps, "Walker Kreaps APRIL 2008" (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pollee_tribe; Updated: 2008-04-10 04:15:54 UTC (Thu)).
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"West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database and images, FamilySearch (accessed 14 Apr 2015); Name: Okey J Gainer; Event Date: 11 Feb 1900; Event Place: Calhoun, West Virginia.
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1900 U.S. census, population schedule, Center District, Calhoun County, West Virginia, enumeration district (ED) 21, sheet 15A, dwelling 255, family 255, Okey Johnson Gainer and Esther Wigner; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 14 Apr 2015); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623.
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1900 U.S. census, population schedule, Center District, Calhoun County, West Virginia, enumeration district (ED) 21, sheet 15A, dwelling 255, family 255, Jesse Carpenter Gainer and Catherine Stalnaker; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 14 Apr 2015); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623.
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"West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," database, FamilySearch (accessed 14 Apr 2015), Name: Ester Gainer; Event Date: 17 Jul 1966; Event Place: Spencer, Roane, West Virginia.
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Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 14 Apr 2015), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61465562.
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1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Center District, Calhoun County, West Virginia, enumeration district (ED) 145, p. 258C, dwelling 18, family 19, Jesse Carpenter Gainer and Catherine Stalnaker; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 3 Dec 2018); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 1401.
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"West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," database, FamilySearch (accessed 14 Apr 2015), Name: Okey J. Gainer; Event Date: 30 Dec 1945; Event Place: Calhoun, West Virginia.
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Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 14 Apr 2015), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61465788.
