Mary M. Goodnight [651]

  General Notes:

“Descendants of Adam Boots (1733-1803)” [LDS film #1036425] by
Clyde S. Boots, pp. 623-624: vital statistics; family group
chart (Mrs. Julia A. Thompson, Baltimore, MD): per
father’s-in-law estate documents, alive in 1826; “Genealogies of
the Kimble & Alt Families” (in Hardy Co., VA) by H. A. Alt
[1937] p. 39; “A History of Pendleton County, WV” by Oren F.
Morton, ‘Sketches’ p. 173: ‘Alt Family’; “Pendleton Co., WV,
Past & Present” [1991] p. 67: married ‘1827 in Pendleton Co.’ —
also gives dates ‘born 1801, died 1855’ — deathdate seems
refuted by following census information; ‘1850 Pendleton Co., VA
census (50th district) p. 18: 48 years old’; 1860 Pendleton Co.,
VA census (Bushy Run P. O.) p. 70: age 59; 1870 Pendleton Co.,
WV census (Mill Run township) p. 419: age 68, living with her
daughter, Lutitia J. Alt, at the farm of her son-in-law, Henry
C. Hedrick, and daughter, Christina (Alt) Hedrick — her personal
essets are valued at $100; 1880 Pendleton Co., WV census (Mill
Run district) p. 13: ‘Henry C. Hedrick, age 35; farmer; with his
wife, Christina, 43 — with by ‘Ault’ neighbors, and household
members, including ‘Mary Ault, 78, mother-in-law’; Henry A.
Ault, 11, nephew, ‘farm laborer’; and Emily S. Ault, 8, niece;
Pat Neal to L. Ellingham [4-III-2003]: ‘I have Mary’s parents as
Christopher (born abt 1775/6, died 19 Jan 1854 @ Ritchie Co.,
VA) and Diana Watson (married 1810, Hardy Co., VA).
Christipher’s parents were Christian (born 22 Jan 1722 @
Germany, died 26 Dec 1795 @ Germantown, PA) & Maria Magdalena.
Christian’s parents were Michael Goodnight & unknown [wife].’

Mary married Jacob Alt [12369] [MRIN: 4773], son of Michael Alt (I) [12367] and Mary Boots [11201], on 24 Jun 1827 in , Pendleton, West Virginia, USA. (Jacob Alt [12369] was born about 1797 in , Hardy, Virginia, USA and died on 10 Dec 1869 in , Grant, West Virginia, USA.)