Barbara Alt [12374]

  General Notes:

Clara Mae Ross “Chapter XV: Michael Alt Family” ‘Children of
Michael and Mary (Boot)s Alt’ [manuscript: 2001]: of Michael
Alt’s 12 children, only first 8 are certainly those of Mary
Boots; remaining 4 likely a second marriage to a Mary after
presumed death of Mary Boots: ‘14 Jun 1798 — 3 Jan 1886/21 Jan
1887’; WPA copy from the Petersburg, WV Court Records [1936] for
North Mill Creek Church: ‘baptism, Barbara Alt, daughter of
Michael & [blank] 1799’; “Pendleton Co., WV, Past & Present”
[1991] p. 67: ‘baptized 9 Nov 1799’; baptism date from No. Mill
Creek Ch., Hardy Co., WV; family group chart (Mrs. Julia A.
Thompson, Baltimore, MD): ‘named in will of Adam Boots, 19 April
1802 & also a signatory to estate documents for 1824 and 1826
regarding her father’; “History of Pendleton County, West
Virginia” (Sketches & Biographies) p. 241: Ketterman family
described in genealogical outline — see note concerning 1850
census entry for a Daniel Ketterman with husband, Daniel — a
deathdate [21 Jan 1887] deriving from the family group chart
already mentioned, differing by a year from the Norman Ketterman
sources below; 1860 Pendleton Co., VA census at Hacker’s Mill:
age 59, born VA; 1880 Pendleton Co., WV census (Union district)
p. 55 [E.D. 47; Sh. 5; ll. 20-30]: age ‘79’ living with Wm.
Ketterman and ‘Lavina’ [=’Malvina’] (Hoover) Ketterman family &
“Descendants of Daniel Ketterman (III)” by Norman Ketterman
[2000 A.D.]: ‘died 6 Jan 1886 at Timber Ridge, Pendleton Co.,
WV’; Virginia Perry on the Ketterman/s Antecedents” [9-II-2001]:
an essay (prime source used here) ‘1880 Pendleton Co., VA census
indicates parents born in MD’; Virginia Perry to L. Ellingham
[e-mail 17-XI-2002]: ‘Pendleton Co., WV Birst, Deaths,
Marriages, Wills & Deeds: Babara Ketterman, white, female, died
Oct 1887 Pendleton Co., of old age; age 67 years, 6 months, 7
days; parents Michael and --- Alt; informant W.SW. Ketterman,
son’ [internal discrepancies prevent use here, i.e., age at
death & age know for birth]

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Occupation: housewife.

2. Religion: German Reformed.

Barbara married Daniel Ketterman [652] [MRIN: 4774] on 22 Jun 1825 in , Pendleton, West Virginia, USA. (Daniel Ketterman [652] was born on 13 May 1800 in Smoke Hole, , VA and died on 23 Jan 1886 in Timber Ridge, , WV.)