Ralph Pritchard

RALPH LEROY PRITCHARD

Marriages

RALPH LEROY PRITCHARD b: May 10, 1899 Kanawha Station, Wood, West Virginia
d: April 21, 1973 Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia;
Buried: Bailey-Kanawha Chapel Cemetery, Wood, West Virginia
..... married 1st, Queenie Anderson
2nd Wife of Ralph Leroy Pritchard
..... married February 1, 1921 Icy Bailes
..........Their daughter: Juanita Pritchard b. June 19, 1922 in Ravenswood, Jackson, WV
..........married June 26, 1939 Hartsell Ray Ahart d. May 15, 1995
..........Juanita died April 1, 1995 Buried: Vienna,Wood, West Virginia
3rd Wife of Ralph Leroy Pritchard:
..... married Hazel O. Mace b: May 19, 1910 d: August 11, 1959
4th Wife of Ralph Leroy Pritchard:
..... married Elsie Winans Whitlatch b: November 4, 1895 d: April 4, 1969
......... Buried: Bailey-Kanawha Chapel Cemetery Wood, West Virginia
.........(Elsie's gravestone says: Pritchard, Elsie Winans Whitlatch 11-4-1898 / 4-19-1969)
.........(Elsie is listed in the 1910 Census Jefferson Winans, Widower, age 10 and Clara age 16 -no one else)

Ralph with his mother, Ma Caplinger
(Mary Alice Cade Pritchard Caplinger)
Too bad her picture is not on here.


Front row: left to right: Andy Patterson, Cap Back row: Unknown, Ralph Pritchard, Everett Pritchard	Ralph playing the mandolin.

Abt. 1946
Ralph Abt. 47 years

I don't know where Ralph served in World War I.
He would have been 17-19 years old during the United States' participation in World War I, 1916-1918.

Ralph L. Pritchard of Parkersburg, WV
Recent Election of Veterans Officers WW I
State Commander and Department Quartermaster
In Front with Hands Crossed.

Ralph and his older brother, Cap

These pictures are all Ralph Pritchard.

I remember seeing Ralph only once when I was a child. We went to his home, probably around 1946.
He took us to see a cage of pet racoons that he was keeping.
I have heard that he had run for the (State?) House of Representatives.

This is a deed of Ralph's mother
Mary Alice Pritchard Caplinger to Ralph and Everett, his brother.
This is probably the property where we went to visit him.

Deed September 16, 1920 (Recorded Sept. 17, 1920) between Mary A. Caplinger and James Caplinger, her husband and Ralph L. Pritchard and Everett Pritchard - Amount $1,400 cash for 60 acres on the waters of Kites Run, District of Clay, Wood County, West Virginia.

Of interest: it says below that this is the same tract of land that was bought July 31, 1911, by Mary A. Pritchard (Deed Book 156, page 630).

Mary Alice Cade Pritchard's husband John Andrew Pritchard died April 24, 1911 in the Elks Garden coal mine explosion. Since James Caplinger was not her husband in July 1911 according to the deed below, she may have used the insurance money from John Andrew Pritchard's death to buy this land in July 1911. At the time of John Andrew Pritchard's death, Ralph was about 12 years old and Everett was about 7 years old. (Rose was around 14 and Flosse was around 9 so she still had younger children to care for.) My grandmother, Vene, married in August of 1911 and Harry married in 1912.

There are probably living relatives that know exactly where this property is on a map. If they do know and wish to inform me, I would be more than most grateful.

All pictures on this page were provided by Ralph's grandaughter, Tammy.

See pictures of Ralph with others

September 18, 2003