Verna Ruth Grant

Verna married Harold A. Moon in Private. Harold died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Grant recently observed their 65th wedding anniversary at their home, 59 Brant Road, Cresaptown. The Grants were married February 3, 1907, at Barnum, W.Va., by Rev. Yost, pastor of the Methodist Church. Attendants were Cornelius Cramer and Miss May Durham. Mrs. Grant, formerly Eva V. Burke, is the daughter of the late Dorcas and William N. Burke. Mr. Grant is the son of the late Mary and John Grant. He has one brother, John, who is 78 and resides in Florida, and two sisters, Bertha Stottlemyer, Cresaptown, 86, and Edna Stottlemyer, Cumberland, 83. They are the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living. Amelia Clayton, Cleveland, Ohio; Mildred Combs, LaVale; Robert Grant, Cumberland; Clarence Grant, Hyndman; Pauline Flanagan, Cresaptown; Dorothy Shimer, Cumberland; Verna Moon, LaVale; Paul, a twin to Pauline, died in 1940 and James, who died in 1967. They have 27 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Grant, 83, is able to do some light housework although confined to a wheelchair. Her hobbies were sewing and quilting. Mr. Grant is 89 and enjoys gardening and working in the yard even though he spends most of his time in a wheelchair because of a broken leg suffered in an automobile accident. He was a former pastor of Cresaptown Assembly of God Church and also retired from the Celanese Fibers Company in 1953. The Cumberland Sunday Times, March 12, 1972.

The Rev. Charles R. Grant, 97, of 13513 Brant Avenue, Cresaptown, died yesterday in Sacred Heart Hospital. Born July 10, 1882, in Cresaptown, Rev. Mr. Grant was a son of the late John D. and Mary E. (McKenzie) Grant. His wife, Eva V. (Burke) Grant, died in 1974. Rev. Mr. Grant was a member of the Cresaptown Assembly of God Church, a former Celanese Fibers Company employee, and a retired Assembly of God minister. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Amelia I. Clayton and Mrs. Mildred L. Combs, both of Cresaptown; Mrs. C. Pauline Flanagan, at home; Mrs. Dorothy M. Shimer, Eckhart, and Mrs. Verna R. Moon, LaVale; one son, C. Robert Grant, this city; one sister, Mrs. Bertha Stottlemyer, Cresaptown; 29 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Friends will be received at the George Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. at the Cresaptown Assembly of God Church with the Rev. William M. Hoard officiating. Interment will be in Eckhart Cemetery. The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to the service. Pallbearers, all grandsons of the late Rev. Mr. Grant, will be Thomas Raley, Bobby Grant, Paul Flanagan, Donald Grant, Allen Shimer and Larry Moon. Cumberland Evening Times [date of death was December 7, 1979]

Charles married Eva V. Burke on 3 Feb 1907 in Barnum, Mineral County, West Virginia. Eva (daughter of William N. Burke and Dorcas A. Lyons) was born in 1888 in Little Orleans, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 2 Oct 1974 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mrs. Eva V. Grant, 86, of 13513 Brant Avenue, Cresaptown, died yesterday at Memorial Hospital, where she had been admitted September 15. Born in Little Orleans, Md., she was a daughter of the late William N. and Dorcas A. (Lyons) Burke. Mrs. Grant was a member of the Cresaptown Assembly of God Church. Surviving are her husband, Charles R. Grant; five daughters, Mrs. Amelia I. Clayton, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Mildred L. Combs, LaVale; Mrs. C. Pauline Flanagan, at home; Mrs. Dorothy M. Shimer, LaVale; Mrs. Verna R. Moon, LaVale; one son, C. Robert Grant, this city; one sister, Mrs. Lydia Fazenbaker, Beryl, W. Va.; 29 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren. Friends will be received at the George Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A service will be conducted at the Cresaptown Assembly of God Church, Saturday at 2 p.m. Rev. Hugh L. Porter and Rev. J. E. Barrick will officiate. Interment will be in the Eckhart Cemetery. The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to the service. The Cumberland News, October 3, 1974.

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John D. Grant, 75, a farmer of Cresaptown, died this morning at his home. Mr. Grant is survived by two sons, John and Richard Grant, both of Cresaptown, and by five daughters, Mrs. Scott Chilott, Mrs. James Stottlemeyer, Mrs. John Stottlemeyer, and Mrs. Edward Carpenter, all of Cresaptown, and Mrs. Howard Darr, Frederick, Md. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a. m. Thursday from the Cresaptown Church, with burial in the Cresaptown cemetery. The Cumberland Evening Times, July 11, 1928.

The property John lived on was granted to him in 1877, Liber F. Folio 445

John married Mary Elizabeth McKenzie on 27 Oct 1871 in Allegany County, Maryland. Mary (daughter of David McKenzie and Mary Carter) was born on 6 Jun 1851 in Maryland; died on 22 Apr 1931 in Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary E. MCKENZIE was born in Jan 1853 in Maryland. She died on 22 Apr 1931 in Cresaptown, Allegany Co., Maryland. Mrs. Mary E. Grant, 79, widow of John D. Grant, died yesterday morning at her home in Cresaptown. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. H. S. Chilcott, Richard Grant and Mrs. James Stottlemeyer, Cresaptown; Mrs. Howard Darr, Frederick, Md.; Mrs. Edward Carpenter, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. John Stottlemeyer, this city, and John Grant, of Philadelphia. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Cresaptown Methodist Episcopal Church, with interment in the church cemetery. The Cumberland Evening Times, April 23, 1931.

William + Dorcas A. Lyons. Dorcas died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Per the research of Col. G.T. MacKenzie (Ret.) collected from elderly ancestors beginning in 1929, after Charles Grant died in 1856, James Moses McKenzie raised the four children of Charles Grant and Mary Ann McKenzie until all reached the age of 21.

Charles married Mary Anna McKenzie on 22 Feb 1847 in Allegany County, Maryland. Mary (daughter of James Moses McKenzie and Margaret Agnes Porter) was born on 1 Mar 1826 in Allegany County, Maryland; died in May 1861. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth recorded in Western Maryland Catholics, Koch and Davidson, page 88.

May Anna McKenzie was baptized on March 11, 1827.

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These were all posted by Genie Ragan on Our Brick Walls site:

I, David McKenzie, do make this my last Will and Testament.
Item, I give and devise unto my son, Daniel R. McKenzie, the house in which he now lives and thirty acres of land, more or less, lying adjacent thereto.
Item, I give and bequeath to my grand-son Ulyssess E. McKenzie, Five dollars ($5.)
Item, I give and bequeath to my grand-daughter Emma B. McKenzie, Five dollars ($5.)
Item, I give, devise and bequeath the rest and residue of my estate as follows: to my son, Henry H. McKenzie and Florrence Ann McKenzie, one acre of land, more or less, containing my residence and outbuildings, equal share and share alike.
Item, I give and devise and bequeath also to my dughter[sic] Florrence Ann, about twenty acres of land, more or less, designated by marked lines.
Item, I give and devise and bequeath to my daughter, Mary E. Grant, to her and her heirs, administrators and assignes[sic], the remainder of my real estate, containing twenty acres of land, more or less, also designated by marked lines.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and seal this 27th day of January 1892.

David McKenzie (seal)
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Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named in our presence, who, at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other, have hereunto set our hands as witnesses hereto.

W. C. Cessna
S. D. Heileman
Edith Cresap

Admitted to probate November 9th 1894
Recorded in Will Liber G, folios 71&c.
True Copy. Test: A. H. Dowden, Register

David married Mary Carter on 24 Sep 1844. Mary was born in 1817; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]