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Research Notes
Possible Marriage Record:
"Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X51S-4YM : 5 December 2014), W H Vavell and Mollie V Martin, 13 May 1885; citing Halifax, Virginia, reference p155; FHL microfilm 2,048,454.
Martha may have died before 1900 when a William H Vowell was enumerated as a widow with one daughter, age 11:
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMN4-FY3 : accessed 17 September 2017), William H Vowell, Banister District South Boston town, Halifax, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 43, sheet 13B, family 302, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,711.
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC5H-MK9 : 15 July 2017), Martha V Martin in household of John I Martin, Staunton, Halifax, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 125, sheet 415D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1369; FHL microfilm 1,255,369.
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