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Descendants of William Lake

46. GIBSON L.⁴ LAKE (ILA³, GEORGE B.², WILLIAM¹) was born Abt. 1840. He married MARY HENDERSON March 12, 1867 in Taylor County, WV. She was born Abt. 1849.

Notes for GIBSON L. LAKE:
I'm wondering if there is an error in the birth date of Saaranza. This date is a month before Gibson and Mary's marriage, which is not impossible but a little unusual in those days. The fact that the first two children are born on February 12 makes me suspect that they are twins born on February 12, 1868. This needs some research.

(1) Marion County Deed Book 15 - Page 65, the court divides the property of Ila Lake among his three sons.
(2) Marion County Deed Book 34 - Page 157 verifies that Gibson is the son of Ila Lake and that he is married to Mary Henderson.
(3) Rem Rudy's records (reviewed by Troy Lake - location unknown).
(4) Marion County Birth Book 1 - Page 49 (Saaranza), Book 1 - Page 59 (Sarah), Book 1 - Page 88 (Robert), Book 1 - Page 117 (Samuel), Book 1 - Page 139 (William), Book 1 - Page 173 (Elizabeth).
(5) Taylor County Marriage Book 0 - Page 74 for Gibson and Mary also gives Gibson's parents names.
(6) 1880 census - Marion County, WV - lists last five children only. Gibson and Mary are shown as being 39 and 31 years old respectively

More About GIBSON LAKE and MARY HENDERSON:
Marriage: March 12, 1867, Taylor County, WV

Children of GIBSON LAKE and MARY HENDERSON are:

	i.		SAARANZA⁵ LAKE, b. February 12, 1867.
	ii.		SARAH A. LAKE, b. February 12, 1868.
	iii.		ROBERT H. LAKE, b. September 12, 1871.
	iv.		SAMUEL E. LAKE, b. March 23, 1874.
	v.		WILLIAM LAKE, b. September 23, 1876.
	vi.		ELIZABETH J. LAKE, b. June 25, 1879.

47. JOHN AARON⁴ LAKE (ILA³, GEORGE B.², WILLIAM¹) was born November 02, 1843, and died September 27, 1927 in Marion County, WV. He married MARGARET HENDERSON, daughter of SAMUEL HENDERSON. She was born August 23, 1845, and died November 11, 1915 in Fairmont, WV.

Notes for JOHN AARON LAKE:

John and Margaret Lake are buried at the Church Cemetery on Glady Creek, near Fairmont, West Virginia. John's grave has no marker. My father (Lester Lake) told me of the time his father (Ila Henderson Lake) and he drove a horse and wagon to Glady Creek from their home on Pete Johnson Run with the gravestone for Margaret Lake's grave. He told my father at that time that John was allowing Grover (John's son) to waste all his money and John would probably end up penniless, which is what happened. Ila said that he would never buy John a gravestone and to this day there is no marker. His grave is marked only by a field stone. However, Ila did pay his father's funeral expenses.

In earlier years, John lived in what is now (1968) known as the John McDonald house near the now abandoned Lake schoolhouse. This house was built by John Adam Fast (per Bessie Lake Carpenter). Later John moved to property two miles upriver from Valley Falls. Bessie Lake Carpenter remembers visiting there as a little girl and on the way home in the buggy, they were caught in a rainstorm and her new hat was ruined. Her Aunt Sallie (Sarah, John's daughter) promised her a new hat if she would not cry. John later moved to State Street, in Fairmont where his wife died on November 11, 1915. He died at the home of his son Ila on Pete Johnson Run, near Fairmont. John also lived in Blueville, near Grafton, West Virginia before moving to the Fairmont area.

L. Rex Lake

(1) Told to the author by Lester Lake and Bessie Lake Carpenter.

(1) Bessie Lake Carpenter's recollections.
(2) Lester Lake's recollections.
(3) Marion County Birth Book 1 - Page 139 (Cordelia), Book 1 - Page 173 (Elza), Book 1 - Page 207 (Floyd), Book 1 - Page 242 (Grover), Book 1 - Page 285 (Lillian).
(4) Marion County Death Book 6 - Page 120 (John Aaron).
(5) Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery (Elizabeth, Floyd, John and Margaret).
(6) Taylor County Birth Book 2A - Page 60 (Lillian).
(7) Several dates supplied by Velma Lake Conner.
(8) 1880 census - Marion County, WV - list children Sarah through Elza.

More About JOHN AARON LAKE:
Burial: Fairmont, WV - Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery

More About MARGARET HENDERSON:
Burial: Fairmont, WV - Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery

Children of JOHN LAKE and MARGARET HENDERSON are:

	i.		UNNAMED⁵ LAKE.
	ii.		ELIZABETH I. LAKE, b. 1865.

More About ELIZABETH I. LAKE:
Burial: Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery, Fairmont, WV

116.	iii.	SARAH ANN LAKE, b. September 21, 1867, Marion County, WV.
117.	iv.	ILA HENDERSON LAKE, b. April 04, 1870, Marion County, WV; d. January 14, 1943.
118.	v.	ROSELLA MAE LAKE, b. March 27, 1874; d. 1900.
119.	vi.	CORDELIA E. LAKE, b. September 16, 1876, Marion County, WV; d. March 08, 1899, Marion County, WV.
120.	vii.	ELZA L. LAKE, b. June 13, 1879, Marion County, WV; d. October 15, 1953, Lewis County, West Virginia.
121.	viii.	FLOYD WAYNE LAKE, b. May 04, 1882, Marion County, WV; d. September 13, 1907.
	ix.	GROVER CLEVELAND LAKE, b. June 14, 1885, Marion County, WV.

Notes for GROVER CLEVELAND LAKE:

Grover never married. He had many good jobs on construction work as a painter, but lost most because of his heavy drinking. This probably accounted for his death at a young age.

(1) Family records of Bessie Lake Carpenter.
(2) Interview with Lester Lake.
(3) Marion County (WV) Birth Book 1 - 242 (Grover).

LILLIAN (LILLIE) LAKE, b. April 03, 1889, Reported in Marion County, WV & Taylor County, WV.

48. WILLIAM⁴ LAKE (ILA³, GEORGE B.², WILLIAM¹) was born 1846 in West Virginia. He married PARTHENIA MILLER July 31, 1864 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, daughter of JACOB MILLER and BLANCHLET STEELE. She was born August 11, 1845 in Taylor County, WV, and died August 14, 1898.

Notes for WILLIAM LAKE:
William and Parthenia were married July 31, 1864 in Green County, Pennsylvania. Parthenia was born in Taylor County, Virginia (now West Virginia). She was the daughter of Jacob and Blanchlet Steele Miller, one of twelve children. She is buried at McAlister, Oklahoma. William is buried in Leavenworth, Kansas. He lived in the old soldiers home in Leavenworth prior to his death.

Mary Roberts supplies the following in an e-mail dated September 27, 1997: William volunteered with Company E, 7th Regiment, West Virginia Infantry Volunteers on April 3, 1865 and served until mustered out on July 1, 1865 at Munson Hill, Virginia (from National Archives). He is described as 18 and 9/12th years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, fair skin, hazel eyes and dark hair, born in West Virginia and a farmer. In his application for a pension, his medical conditions were many: rupture, chronic diahrea, piles, impaired hearing, rheumatism and a heart problem. He gave the same information as shown on this family sheet as family information including his wife and all the children. He received a pension of $8 a month. In his application for his pension, he states: "I have not been employed in the military or naval service of the United States since the first day of July 1865. I contracted chronic diarhea and piles while in the military services of the United States and a member of the organization aforesaid in camp near Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1865. I incurred rupture from a fall received about the month of May, 1880. While passing over a rough piece of road, I stumbled and fell and shortly after I first noticed the appearance of rupture."

He was dropped from the pension rolls on May 9, 1912 due to his death. His last pay was February 4, 1912.

(1) Steele Family History, family number 8, by Donley M. Steele,
1919.
(2) Letter of Jack Lake of McAlester, Oklahoma, December 10,
1971.
(3) Marion County Deed Book 17 - Page 320, Book 21 - Page 225.
(4) Marion County Birth Book 1 - Page 50 (John).
(5) E-mail from Mary Roberts

More About WILLIAM LAKE:
Burial: Leavenworth, Kansas
Military service: Union Army - Co. E, 7th Regiment, WV Infantry Volunteers
Occupation: Farmer

More About PARTHENIA MILLER:
Burial: McAlister, Oklahoma

More About WILLIAM LAKE and PARTHENIA MILLER:
Marriage: July 31, 1864, Greene County, Pennsylvania

Children of WILLIAM LAKE and PARTHENIA MILLER are:

122.	i.	JOHN N.⁵ LAKE, b. July 04, 1867.
123.	ii.	NANCY JANE LAKE, b. November 26, 1869; d. Abt. 1955.
	iii.	COLUMBUS LAKE, b. October 01, 1871; m. MYRTLE ?; b. 1882.

Notes for COLUMBUS LAKE:
No family records are available for Columbus and Myrtle Lake. Their last known address was 415 North Smith Street, Pittsburg, Kansas in the year 1900.

(1) From family records of Jack Wesley Lake (Born 11/13/1929).