Event Date: 30 Mar 1955
Event Place: Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 05 Sep 1893
Birthplace: Bluff City, Va
Marital Status: Married
Father's Name: James A. Ratcliff
Mother's Name: Elizabeth Farley
Occupation: Housewife
Cemetery: Walnut Grove
Burial Date: 01 Apr 1955 [1]
Find A Grave Memorial# 17693606
Belle Veanie Ratcliff Catron
Birth: Sep. 5, 1893
Bluff City
Giles County
Virginia, USA
Death: Mar. 30, 1955
Mercer County
West Virginia, USA
Belle was the daughter of James Alexander Ratcliff and Elizabeth Farley. She married (1) Edward "Ed" Williams on July 14, 1909, Bluefield, Mercer Co.,WV, and (2) Frazier W. Catron. Belle and Ed were the parents of Edna Bell (married Oakley Robert Abshire) and Patricia.
Family links:
Spouses:
Frazier Wesley Catron (1900 - 1986)
Edward Williams (1886 - 1944)*
Calculated relationship
Burial:
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Bluefield
Mercer County
West Virginia, USA [2]
Sources
↑ Affiliate Repository Type: County Records GS Film number: 804480 , Digital Folder Number: 4227411 , Image Number: 248 , Reference ID: v 8 p 249 "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NM1R-MVT : accessed 1 June 2015), Elizabeth Farley in entry for Belle Veanie Cottron, 30 Mar 1955; citing Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia, County Records, v 8 p 249, county courthouses, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 804,480.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Belle by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Belle: