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John Perry Lynch

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John Perry Lynch

Birth
Maken, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
Death
18 Apr 1897 (aged 78)
Maken, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Maken, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
104
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1897 county record:
"LYNCH, J Perry       78y 10m     No date     s/o H & N        died 18 Apr"

Church Trustee,

Birth: in Virginia, now West Virginia.

Census: 1850, age 31 in district 21, Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia, with wife & three kids.

h/o Zipporah, with once toppeled shared stone. state record has his death at Cherry Camp, Harrison county, s/o Hiram & Nancy Somerville, they reportedly buried at Lynch cemetery in Coal district, Harrison county, West Virginia, Hiram helped build the Northwestern Pike (now U S #50) during mid/late 1830's.

Father: Hiram Lynch b: 10 JAN 1791 in Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia
Mother: Nancy Ann Somerville b: 1 OCT 1792 in Ireland (to America & Virginia July 1795)

Reportedly, it was in John Perry Lynch's home on land given him by his father, Hiram, that the earliest meetings of the Tenmile district were held, until railroad contruction (ca 1855) removed his house as was the 1837 created Mount Morris ME church, east of him.

The church and cemetery were relocated onto his brother:   William Burnside's farm, next to old log school house, renamed Point Pleasant because of the view it commanded of Wizzardism run and Tenmile creek valley in Carpenter Hollow.

Among their children was a son named Hiram born Dec 1860.

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1897 county record:
"LYNCH, J Perry       78y 10m     No date     s/o H & N        died 18 Apr"

Church Trustee,

Birth: in Virginia, now West Virginia.

Census: 1850, age 31 in district 21, Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia, with wife & three kids.

h/o Zipporah, with once toppeled shared stone. state record has his death at Cherry Camp, Harrison county, s/o Hiram & Nancy Somerville, they reportedly buried at Lynch cemetery in Coal district, Harrison county, West Virginia, Hiram helped build the Northwestern Pike (now U S #50) during mid/late 1830's.

Father: Hiram Lynch b: 10 JAN 1791 in Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia
Mother: Nancy Ann Somerville b: 1 OCT 1792 in Ireland (to America & Virginia July 1795)

Reportedly, it was in John Perry Lynch's home on land given him by his father, Hiram, that the earliest meetings of the Tenmile district were held, until railroad contruction (ca 1855) removed his house as was the 1837 created Mount Morris ME church, east of him.

The church and cemetery were relocated onto his brother:   William Burnside's farm, next to old log school house, renamed Point Pleasant because of the view it commanded of Wizzardism run and Tenmile creek valley in Carpenter Hollow.

Among their children was a son named Hiram born Dec 1860.


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