Abraham G Alonzo Rader

1852 - 1940  (87 years)

• Name	Abraham G Alonzo Rader
  Born	9 Aug 1852	West Virginia, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Jun 1940	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA   [1]
  Notes	Death Record Name: Alonzo/Rader Sex: Male Death Date: 23 Jun 1940 Death Place: Ripley, Jackson, West Virginia Age at Death: 87y10m4d Cemetery: Mt Olive, Ripley, WV Birth Date: 8/12/1952 Birth Place: Ripley, Jackson, WV Marital Status: Ed Spouse: Margaret/Gobbert Mother: Nancy/Miller Mother's Birth Place: WV Father: George/Rader Father's Birth Place: WV Informant: Delsie Rader, Ripley, WV Cause: Myocarditis
  Person ID	I12904	WVPioneers
  Last Modified	24 May 2005

  
  

  Father	George Washington 'Wash' Rader,   b. 9 Jul 1814, MA ,   d. 18 Sep 1868  (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Nancy J Miller,   b. Abt 1824, Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	7 Apr 1840	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA   [2]
  Notes	1840 Jackson, VA 1m 20-30 1f 10-15 1850 Jackson, VA # 443-448 Rader George W 36 M Farmer Va Rader Nancy 26 F Va Rader Elizabeth H 3 F Va Strally Barthemia A 19 F Va 1860 Jackson, VA # 460-428 George W, 46 Nancy J, 38 Elizabeth E, 13 Abraham G A, 7 [Alonzo] 1870 Mill Creek Dist,, Jackson, WV # 419 Nancy Jane 44 Abraham G A, 16 1880 Ripley, Jackson, West Virginia Page 429A l/w Alonza RADER Nancy J. RADER Mother F W W 57 OH PA PA John House, "Pioneers of Jackson Co": George W. Rader was born (from record on tombstone) July 9th, 1814, and died September 18th, 1868, aged fifty four years. He married Nancy Miller, a daughter of Kitts Miller, and Aunt of Judge Warren Miller. George W., commonly called Wash Rader, lived on the Charley Shinn farm, on Station Camp, where his daughter Ellen, who married Shinn, now lives. It is said that he built a cabin near where the pike crosses Joe's Run, when he first married. In letters to Abe Rader, who was in the west, written just after the war, he mentions a son, Alonzo, and two daughters, Ellen, who married Charley Shinn, and Eliza. These letters throw light on the conditions in Jackson County, just after the war. Wash and Abe Rader were Union men, the remainder of the family all being Confederates. Under date of May 21st, 1865, he writes – "We have had a very early spring, and we have had some very high waters. On the 9th day of May, the creek was over my floor, as it was in 1852. It was twenty three inches over my house floor (probably an old house nearer the water). I had a nasty time. It only took off three hundred rails for me. I am nearly done planting. I have about two acres to put in a the Gabbert place yet, and then I'm done. I have some corn that is large enough to work. My wheat and grass all looks well. Stock is high. I sold my big oxen the first week in May, for One hundred fifty dollars. They would have weighed a thousand pounds a piece. That was seven and a half cents a pound. The thieves is still a stealing horses, grain, chickens, meat, etc. I have Bill Harper's Charley, and two weeks ago Thursday night, some rascal stole him and took him off. I don't know where, and the next morning about seven o'clock, he came back. Two weeks ago they stole two horse from Tom Wilkerson, and I have not heard of them since." Under date of July 3rd, 1868, he writes – "The weather here is extremely hot for the last two weeks and very dry for two weeks today. I have been cutting wheat for two days, and I have just one hundred dozen cut. I will have fifty more, I think. Our county is almost taxed to death, my tax last year was Seventy three Dollars, and this year we are building a new bridge at Ravenswood, and we will have to pay Nine thousand dollars for the bridge. In the last two years, we have had to pay over Sixteen thousand dollars for bridges in the county. My taxes for township purposes is Thirty eight dollars this fall. I will be strapped, I know. There is a great deal of party strife here at present. Our Rebels feel very big since Johnson's trial is over." On the 4th of October, 1868, Charley Shinn wrote Abram Rader to announce the death of Wash, on the 18th of the previous month, after "laying sick" "about five weeks", he first "took" the "information of the brain", followed by "billious feaver" and "newmonia". Dr. "Bectal" "on Grass Lick" "tended on" him three weeks. He also states that the fall was so wet that "corn has pretty near all rotted". The water had been fifteen inches higher than ever before known.
  Family ID	F3598	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Elizabeth A Gabbert,   b. 1851, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 1915  (Age 64 years)
  Married	4 Apr 1876	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA   [2]
  Notes	Marriage Record Date: License 4/4/1876 Place: Jackson, West Virginia, United States A G Rader, 22 Margaret E Gabbert, 21 Marriage Record Date: 4/4/1876 Place: Jackson Alonzo G Rader, Jackson Co, Jackson Co M E Gabbert, Greenbrier Co, Jackson Co 1880 Ripley, Jackson, West Virginia Page 429A Alonza RADER Self M M W 26 WV WV OH Margaret RADER Wife F M W 25 WV VA VA George W.H. RADER Son M S W 4 WV Mary J.T. RADER Dau F S W 2 WV Martha E. RADER Dau F S W 3M WV Nancy J. RADER Mother F W W 57 OH PA PA 1900 Ripley, Jackson, WV #9-9 Rader, Alonzo G 8/1853 m 23y WV WV WV day laborer Margertt A wife 9/1854 m 23y 10-7 children WV WV WV George W H son 5/1876 s WV WV WV pedler - notions Martha E dau 2/1880 WV WV WV Maud da 10/1884 WV WV WV Louis son 7/1886 WV WV WV Warren son 6/1888 WV WV WV Harriet da 11/1891 WV WV WV Amanda da 4/1895 WV WV WV 1910 Ripley, Jackson, WV #128-130 East Street, Ripley Rader, Alonzo 56 m1- 33y WV WV WV Margaret wife 53 m1- 33y 10-7 children WV WV WV Martha E da 26 WV WV WV Willa M da 23 WV WV WV Warren C son 18 WV WV WV Harriett H da 15 WV WV WV Amanda da 13 WV WV WV 1930 Ripley, Jackson, WV Rader, Warren R 40 md age 32 WV WV WV Delsie wife 31 md age 23 WV WV WV A G father 79 wd WV WV WV 1940 Ripley, Jackson, WV Rader, Warren R 50 WV 1935: lived same house Delsie wife 41 WV 1935: lived same house Alonzo father 81 wd WV 1935: lived same house Randolph, Nancy maid 16 WV 1935: lived rural Jackson WV Jackson County, WV Birth RecordsCBR W C m 6/6/1887 Alonzo & Margaret, Jackson Co, Farmer reported by Alonzo - typed record, is there a mistake? James E 6/22/1889 AG & ME Rader Jackson Co - stone for him in Mt Olive
  Children	1. George Washington Hanley Rader,   b. 15 May 1876, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Mary J F Rader,   b. 1878, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Bef 1900  (Age < 21 years)   3. Martha Ellen Rader,   b. 19 Feb 1880, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. William A Rader,   b. 27 Nov 1881, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 27 Dec 1882, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA  (Age 1 years)   5. Willia Maude Rader,   b. 7 Oct 1883, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Lewis Miller Rader,   b. 30 Jul 1885, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. James E Rader,   b. 22 Jun 1888, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Bef 1900  (Age < 11 years)   8. Warren R Rader,   b. 16 Jun 1889, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   9. Harriet Harrison Rader,   b. 15 Nov 1891, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   10. Amanda Elizabeth Rader,   b. 18 Apr 1895, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F4430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Death Records, Jackson Co, WV. [S17] Marriage Records, Jackson Co, WV.