Mary Alice Cade Pritchard Caplinger
My great-grandmother

Descendants of Henry Dye and Sarah Unknown Dye
Mary Alice Cade's grandparents
(my great-great-great grandparents)

Henry Dye b: 1806
.........married Sarah Unknown b: 1810
. 2 John W. Dye b: 1833
..... married Rebecca b: 1839
..... 3 William H. Dye b: 1855
..... 3 Iva Dye b: 1858
..... 3 Mitchie Dye b: 1860
. 2 Mary Dye b: 1835
. 2 Susan Dye b: 1838
. 2 David B Dye b: 1841
. 2 Alfred H Dye b: 1843
. 2 Julie Ann Dye b: 1848
. 2 Andrew J Dye b: 1851
. 2 Lemira Alice Dye b: 1854 in Clinton Twp.,Vinton County, Ohio
..... married December 25, 1868 in Clinton Twp., Vinton Co., Ohio
...........Isaac Cade b: 1843 in West Virginia
.............. 3 John Cade
.............. 3 Mary Alice Cade b: July 3, 1869 Hamden, Vinton County, Ohio
..................d: January 8, 1949 Davisville, Wood, West Virginia;
..................Buried Bailey-Kanawha Chapel Cemetery Wood, West Virginia,
................ married m: November 5, 1887 Washington County, Ohio
................ John Andrew Pritchard b: August 8, 1862 d: April 24, 1911
.................Buried in Nethken Hill Cemetery, Elk Garden, Mineral, West Virginia
............... 2nd Husband of Mary Alice Cade:
............... married September 15, 1912 James Caplinger b: 1854 d: 1940 Clay ...............District, near Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia

* Direct ancestors in this blue.

DESCENDANTS OF ISAAC CADE & SARAH FOUTTY CADE
Great-grandfather of Mary Alice Cade
(My great-great-great-great grandfather)

....2 John Cade m. Jane Davis on June 30, 1842 in Wood Co., (W)VA
....2 Lydia Cade b. Abt. 1823 m. January 2, 1840 in Wood Co., WV m. Owen Lazure
....2 Rebecca Cade b. February 23, 1830 m. February 21, 1850 in Wood Co., (W)VA .........Thomas Peter Hannaman b. 1825 d. 1878
....2 Jacob Cade b: 1825 Virginia married Catherine Taitt b: 1822 Virginia
........ 3 Isaac F. Cade b. 1843 married Lemira Alice Dye
...............4 Mary Alice Cade
........ 3 Sarah F. or I. Cade b: 1845
........ 3 Ruhama C. Cade b: 1848
........ 3 Henry H. Cade b: 1850
....2 Eva Ann Cade b. Between 1820-1831 in (West) VA d. 1909 Wood Co., WV
........... Buried: Bailey-Kanawha Cemetery, Kanawha Station, Wood County, WV
.............1st Husband Silas Riley b. Bet. 1825-1826
.............2nd Husband m. June 27, 1860 in Wirt Co., (W)VA
....................Madison Wherry b. 1837 in PA d. 1894

* Direct ancestors in this blue.

Isaac F. Cade, Civil War, Union, 10th, 11th & 22nd Regiments, West Virginia Infantry

The Cade's were listed on census' in Wirt County, (West) Virginia

Ancestors of Catherine Taitt b. 1822 in Virginia

1......Sturman Taitt m. Elizaeth McComas
......2 James Shelton Taitt m. Sarah Fudge
............3 Catherine Taitt

JOHN ANDREW PRITCHARD b: August 8, 1862 d: April 24, 1911
married November 5, 1887
Buried in Nethken Hill Cemetery, Elk Garden, Mineral, West Virginia
MARY ALICE CADE b: July 3, 1869 d: January 8, 1949

Their children are:

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DORA MAY PRITCHARD b: September 1887 d. 1962
...........married Robert Runion

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SAMUEL WARREN PRITCHARD was called "Cap."

SAMUEL WARREN PRITCHARD b: June 16, 1889 d: July 7, 1957
.....married 1909 Carrie Virginia Biller m: 1909
2nd Wife of Samuel Warren Pritchard
.....married September 15, 1912 Madie J. Stinespring:
Friend of Samuel Warren Pritchard
..... met February 1919 Nellie Helen Purcell b: Abt. 1902
3rd Wife of Samuel Warren Pritchard
.....married April 29, 1921 Louvada West b: June 20, 1904 d: April 1988
4th Wife of Samuel Warren Pritchard
.....married December 21, 1931 Mary Brown b: November 15, 1905 d. June 5, 1985
5th Wife of Samuel Warren Pritchard
.....married November 19, 1943 Cora Evelyn Shaver b: September 2, 1920 d.

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My grandmother, Leona Lavena, was called "Vene" (Pronounced "Veen")

LEONA LAVENA PRITCHARD b: February 25, 1892 d: October 23, 1968
..... married August 15, 1911
Samuel Franklin Emrick b: September 18, 1890 d: May 4, 1971

My middle name is "Levena," spelled a little differently, but I am named after her and her daughter, Lucille Dolores. (I am Dolores Levena.)

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ARTHUR PRITCHARD b: June 1893 d: April 24, 1911
in the coal mining accident along with his father, John Andrew Pritchard
Buried in Nethken Hill Cemetery, Elk Garden, Mineral, West Virginia

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HARRY FRANKLIN PRITCHARD, SR. b: December 28, 1894 d: 1947
..... married December 26, 1912 Mable May Stinespring b: 1895
2nd Wife of Harry Franklin Pritchard, Sr.
..... married 1929 Violet Louella Smith b: April 23, 1906 d: July 12, 1972

Mayble May Stinespring is the sister of Madie J. Stinespring
who married Samuel Warren Pritchard above.
Violet Louella Smith married John Everett Pritchard below.

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Rosa Blanche was called "Rose."

ROSA BLANCHE PRITCHARD b: February 14, 1897
...................Buried: Sunset Memory Gardens, outside South Parkersburg, Wood, WV
1st Husband of Rosa Blanche Pritchard:
..... married Levi Marlow
2nd Husband of Rosa Blanche Pritchard:
..... married September 20, 1920 Clay McCulty b: 1893
3rd Husband of Rosa Blanche Pritchard
..... married Philip Nichols

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RALPH LEROY PRITCHARD b: May 10, 1899 d: April 21, 1973
......Buried: Bailey-Kanawha Chapel Cemetery, Wood County, West Virginia
..... married Queenie Anderson
2nd Wife of Ralph Leroy Pritchard
..... married February 1, 1921 Icy Bailes
3rd Wife of Ralph Leroy Pritchard:
..... married Hazel O. Unknown b: May 19, 1910 d: August 11, 1959
..........Buried: Bailey-Kanawha Chapel Cemetery, Wood County, West Virginia
4th Wife of Ralph Leroy Pritchard:
..... married Elsie Winans Whitlatch b: November 4, 1895 d: April 4, 1969

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FLOSSIE GERTRUDE PRITCHARD b: 1902
..... married C. C. Holmes
2nd Husband of Flossie Gertrude Pritchard:
.....married February 2, 1923 Clarence Little b: 1904

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John Everett Pritchard was called "Everett."

JOHN EVERETT PRITCHARD b: 1904 d: August 1969
.....1st Wife married November 1, 1924 Violet Louella Smith b: April 23, 1906 d: July 12, 1972
.....2nd wife Thelma Babb

Violet Louella Smith was married also to Harry Franklin Pritchard above.

Page/Pictures of Ma Caplinger's children

Samuel Warren Pritchard (Cap)

Leona Lavena Pritchard (Vene)

Harry Franklin Pritchard (Harry)

Ralph Leroy Pritchard (Ralph)

John Everett Pritchard (Everett)

Dora May Pritchard

"Flo" and "Ma" Caplinger
(Mary Brown, Ma's daughter-in-law, raised Flo)

Pauline "Flo" b. Inez, KY 1921
d. 12-20-2000, 2000
buried in Perryville Cemetery, Perryville, Pennsylvania
Flo is on Cap's page in the band picture
and with Everett Pritchard.

Ma Caplinger on the right.
Everett Pritchard, her son, is immediately next to her.

Ma Caplinger & Beechie,
(Cap & Mary Brown's baby girl)
Beechie b. 1939

Cap on left next to his mother, Ma Caplinger
The others haven't been identified.
Please let me know if you know them.

Musing:
Harry d. 1947 (abt. 56 years)
Ma d. 1949 (abt. 80 years)
Cap d. 1957 (abt. 68 year)
Norma b. 1939
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If I might take a guess, I would venture that the man on the back right is Cap's brother, Harry. The woman in front and the woman on the left in back have faces and noses similar to Harry.
The young woman in front wouldn't be Harry's daughter, Norma because Norma was born in 1939 and would be too young here for this young woman. . The woman beside him, back middle, could be Harry's wife, Violet. The woman in the back left would be too young to be a sister of Cap and Harry and too old to be a daughter of Harry.
The young woman in front looks like she could be the d/o Cap's sister, Vene: Lucille Emrick b. 1914.

Ma Caplinger.
Two eldest children are children of Ma's daughter, Rose Pritchard.
[Rose Pritchard m. Philmore Nichols]
Rosemary & Philmore (called "Junior").

In front is Ralph Dennis Marlow, grandson of Rose Pritchard.
[Rose Pritchard m. Levi Marlow]
[Rose and Levi's son is Harold Marlow]
[Ralph is Harold and Goldie (McIntire) Marlow's son]

Elk Garden, West Virginia
Home where Mary Alice Cade Pritchard lived with her husband
John Andrew Pritchard at the time of the Coal Mining Explosion
which killed her husband and her son, Arthur.

These two pictures were taken in July of 1963, 52 years later.
Someone told me where the Pritchard house is/was,
but it looked different in 1999 than in 1963,
and I'm not sure that I was given the correct house.
But the next journey I take, I will be able to take these pictures to search it out,
if it is still standing.

This first picture is Elsie Winans Pritchard, wife of Ralph Pritchard on the left.

This second picture, Ralph Pritchard in the middle.

Correct spelling of Pall Bearers: Glenn Emrick, Sammy Emrick

DEATH CERTIFICATE OF MARY ALICE CADE PRITCHARD CAPLINGER

Mrs. Rose Nichols is Mary Alice Cade Pritchard Caplingers's daughter.

Gravestone of Mary Alice Cade Pritchard Caplinger

All of the pictures on this page have been provided to me by Cliff Caplinger, Cap's son.

Page Last Accessed or Updated:
December 27, 2007