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10-Edward Templin LICKLIDER, b. 20 Jan 1853, Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., VA, s/o Grandison Templin and Amanda Samana (HUMRICHOUSE) LICKLIDER, d. 26 Aug 1941, Shepherdstown, m. 25 Oct 1876, Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., WV, (11) Ellen Virginia ENTLER, b. 22 Apr 1852, Shepherdstown, d/o Cato Moore and Mary Ellen (BOWEN) ENTLER, d. 8 Jan 1929, Shepherdstown. Both are buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, WV. E. T. LICKLIDER was born in the old Joseph ENTLER Hotel (the LICKLIDER Home, a gray building on German Street, the second house on the west side of German Street from the four way stop) in Shepherdstown. He sold machinery for D. M. Osborne Farm Implements, and farmed for 20 years outside of Shepherdstown on the road to Kearneysville. For a number of years he operated the LICKLIDER Corporation with his son Harry. The business failed during the depression. At the death of his son Harry in 1938, at age 74, he was appointed postmaster of Shepherdstown in his son's place, the oldest person to ever have been appointed to the position. He was secretary of Morgan Grove Fair Association for a number of years, Post Grand Patriarch of WV State Encampment-Odd Fellows, a term ending in 1915. He was a member of the Methodist Church Board of Stewards, and served 10 years on the Board of Directors-Odd Fellows Home in Elkins, WV. He served as a town Councilman in Shepherdstown. E. T. was 8 years at the outbreak of the Civil War. He heard the guns of the Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg and witnessed the coming and goings of troops to the battlefield and the thousands of wounded who were brought back to Shepherdstown. From the scrapbooks, a newspaper clipping revealed that when E. T. was a young man, he and others were went up and down the street in the dead of night to yell fire when his father's smoke house caught on fire and lit up the neighborhood. You will notice that three of the daughter below married into the MORROW family. Louise, m. Ruthvan W. MORROW, and Reika, m. William H. MORROW, brothers, while Anna Virginia m. Joseph R. MORROW, a half-first cousin to the bothers. William H. MORROW, and another brother, Everett, were housed with the LICKLIDER family during part of their youth after the death of their parents. (BR8, O12, PI30) Children:
10.1-Mary Amanda LICKLIDER, b. 29 Aug 1877, d. 6 Sep 1964, never married, graduated from Shepherd Normal School. She remained at home taking care of her father and mother. Bessie left her share in the LICKLIDER house in Shepherdstown to her sister Bessie B. LICKLIDER.(O12, WVJE2,21)
10.2-Harry Templin LICKIDER, b. 11 Dec 1878, Shepherdstown, d. 6 fOct 1938, Shepherd Pratt Hospital, Baltimore, MD, m. ____, Katherine (BUTLER) NEILSON, d/o William and Catherine Hammond (LUCAS) BUTLER. Katherine was previously m. to a NEILSON. At the time of his death, Harry LICKLIDER was acting postmaster in Shepherdstown. He spend most of his life in the insurance and farm implement business. In 1920, they were living in Shepherdstown, with Katherine T., age 1 year. More on the genealogy of Catherine BUTLER NEILSON can be found in Stehl's, Genealogy of the Gower Family. Note: There is a biography of Harry Templin LICKLIDER on the internet, but it has some glaring errors. The site is located on the internet at the following URL:
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wv/jefferson/bios/licklider.txt
Correction of errors in biography:
In the text Para 2, lines 16-18: Albert HUMRICHOUSE was b. in Philadelphia, as was Peter HUMRICHOUSE; Para 3, lines 3-4: Mary Margaret Miller, wife of Peter, was the was the daughter of Mary Margaret MILLER BOLLINGER POST, and granddaughter of Gotfried MILLER; Para 4, line 18: Miss (Mary) RICKART; Para 5,: Line 6: Elizabeth HILL was the d/o Christian HILL and Catherine YEASLEY; Para 5, line 17: Samanna ENTLER; (BR8, O12, PI31, WVJE19) One child:
- 10.2a daughter
10.2a-daughter
- 10.2a1 daughter
- 10.2a2 son
- 10.2a3 son
- 10.2a4 daughter
- 10.2a5 daughter
- 10.2a6 son
10.3-Betty Butler LICKLIDER, b. 21 Apr 1880, Shepherdstown, d. 20 Mar 1965, Shepherdstown, never married. She graduated from Shepherd Normal School in 1897. She was the principal of Shepherd Elementary, and taught at Shepherd College. She then moved to Charleston, WV, where she was principal of Mercer and Kanawha schools in that city. She taught extension courses for Potomac State College in Keyser, WV, and Marshall University in Huntington, WV. She was counted twice in the 1920 census, once at home in Shepherdstown, and the other as a roomer with M. M. Wicklen, in Charlestown, Kanawha Co., WV The error probably occurred when she went home for the summer vacation to Shepherdstown, was counted there, and then reported by the Wicklens in Charleston where she roomed during the school months. You will see that the same thing happened with her sister Ruth LICKLIDER #10.13 below. When Bessie died, she left the share in the LICKLIDER home, to Mary A., her sister that had already died, and her two surviving sisters, Florence and Ruth. (O12, WVKA1, WVJE19,21)
10.4.-Charles William LICKLIDER, b. 20 Aug 1881, Shepherstown, d. 11 Nov 1966, Parkersburg, Wood Co., WV, m. 11 Jan 1908, Jefferson Co., Helen MCDONALD, b. 10 Jul 1888, Shepherdstown, d/o Walter P. and Eliza T. MCDONALD, d. 9 Jul 1966, Parkersburg. In 1910, they were living in Shepherdstown, with one child, Virginia L., age1 year. In 1920, they were in Elizabeth, Wirt Co., WV, with three children. At one time he worked for the Odd Fellow Home in Elkins, and according to sister Ruth TUCKER, went to Parkersburg with the railroad. (BR8, O12, PI30, 32, WVJE1, WVJE19, WVWO1)) Children:
- 10.4a Virginia Lee LICKLIDER b. 15 Dec 1909 d. 13 May 1961
- 10.4b son
- 10.4c daughter
10.4a-Virginia Lee LICKLIDER, b. 15 Dec 1909, Shepherdstown, d. 3 Apr 1966, Parkersburg, m. 1925, Orland Linn THORN, b. 1909, s/o Ervin P. and Maggie (CHEATHAM) THORN, d. 13 May 1961, Parkersburg. Virginia was killed in a car accident when her car was hit by a large rock fell out of the bank into the road. (O12, PI30,32) Children:
- 10.4a1 son
- 10.4a2 daughter
- 10.4a3 son
10.4a1-son
- 10.41a1a son
- 10.41a1b daughter
10.4a3-son
- 14.4a3a daughter
- 14.4a3b son
10.4b-William McDonald LICKLIDER, b. 15 Dec 1911, Shephderdstown, d. _______, m. 1st. Martha MCCLUNG,and had one son. He m. 2nd. Edith May SHAFFER, b. 5 Jan 1918, Reedsville, OH, d/o Forest and Glerman (BAILEY) SHAFFER, by whom he one daughter.He lived on Quincy Street, Parkersburg, Wood Co., WV. (PI30,32) Children:
- 10.4b1 son
- 10.4b2 daughter
10.4c-daughter
10.5-Florence Eggleston LICKLIDER, b. 21 May 1882, Shepherdstown, d. 26 May 1970, Shepherdstown, m. 7 Oct 1814, Shepherdstown, Raymond Ernest WAID, b. Elkins, WV, d. 26 Feb 1943, Parkersburg, WV. Florence taught in Elkins where where she met her husband. She graduated from Shepherd Normal School, teaching in Elkins, WV, where she must have met her husband, and in Parkersburg, where she retired from teaching. . They had one child, unnamed, who died at birth. (BR8, O12, PI1, 30, WVJE1)
10.6-Anna Virginia LICKLIDER..... See #16.3f MORROW Genealogy
10.8-Louise Moore LICKLIDER.... See #4/5 MORROW Genealogy
10.9-Edna Reika LICKLIDER..... See #8e MORROW Genealogy
10.11-Edmund Lee LICKLIDER, b. 14 Sep 1891, Shepherdstown, d. 21 Sep 1948, Shepherdstown, m. 4 May 1916, Julia MADDOX, b. 1 Jan 1893, d. 25 Oct 1959. (BR8, )12, PI30, LE36) One son:
- 10.11a son
10.11a-son
- 10.11a1 daughter
- 10.11a2 daughter
- 10.11a3 daughter
- 10.11a4 daughter
10.12-Samanna Entler LICKLIDER, b. 11 May 1893, Shepherdstown, d. 1980s, Inwood, Berkeley Co, WV, m. 26 Jul 1917, Duffield, Jefferson Co., WV, Garland MANUEL, b. 9 Oct 1888, Leetown, Jefferson Co., WV, d. 28 Jan 1969, prob. Berkeley Co., WV. He is buried in Rosedale Cem., Martinsburg, WV. Samanna was previously m. to Thomas Edgar ATHEY, by whom she had one child. (BR8, O12, PI33, WVJE1)) Children:
- 10.12a Maxwell Moore ATHEY b. 4 Apr _____ d. 1996
- 10.12b son
- 10.12c daughter
- 10.12d daughter
10.12a-Maxwell Moore ATHEY, b. 4 Apr ___, d. 1996, m. Thelma WALDECK, sister of Kenneth WALDECK of Shepherdstown. (PI33). One child:
- Michael Moore ATHEY, n.m., taught Berkeley Co., schools.
10.12b-Luther MAUEL, b. 17 Feb 1919, m. 1st. V. KEWES, no issue; m. 2nd. Dorothy MINGHINI. Luther was a veteran of WWII. (PI33) Children:
- 10.12b1 daughter
- 10.12b2 daughter
- 10.12b3 daughter
- 10.12b4 duughter
10.12c-daughter
- 10.12c1 son .
- 10.12c2 daughter
10.12d-daughter
- 10.12d1 son
- 10.12d2 son
- 10.12d3 daughter
- 10.12d4 son
- 10.12d5 daughter
10.13-Ruth LICKLIDER, b. 11 May 1893, Shepherdstown, d. 1980s, Shepherdstown, m. 17 Sep 1923, Shepherdstown, Fred Worthington TUCKER, b. 1890, Newark, NJ. They were divorced early in the marriage, and in all the years the compiler was in close contact with her, she never mentioned the marriage, or her divorced husband. There were no children. Ruth started her career as a teacher in the logging camps of Webster Co., WV, when she was about 16 years old. She later hired out to the Island Creek Coal Co., still one of WV's major coal companies, to teach in the area of Logan Co., WV. During the flu epidemic of 1917/18, she quit her job because the coal company would not take care of those with the flu. Traveling by train to Shepherdstown, she told of the coffins from flu related deaths stacked up at the railway terminals on her route home. In 1920 census, she was residing with sister Florence WAID in Parkersburg, where she was probably teaching. She was also in Shepherdstown at the time of the 1920 census, and was counted twice. She retired from Kanawha Co., WV schools where she had been an elementary principal for a number of years. (BR8, O12, PI30, WVJE1,3,19)
10.14-Laura Elizabeth LICKLIDER, b. 6 Oct 1896, d. 20 Deb 1937, graduated from Shepherd Norman School, She taught school prior to her death in Branwell, WV. She m. J. Ernest LIDDLE, Bramwell, WV, and died with her child in childbirth. (O12)
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