The Family of Edward Templin LICKLIDER
and Ellen Virginia ENTLER
(4th. Generation)

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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 (20/21), d. 26 Aug 1941, of accute uremia and arteio-aclerosis, age 88y 8m 6d, attended by Dr. H. Wanger, physician,  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 (22/23), d. 8 Jan 1929, of indocaridtis and myocarditis, age 76y 8m 16d, attended by Dr. Nathaniel Burwell, Shepherdstown. They were both residents of Jefferson Co., when they married. 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 that time the Mary A., the stay at home daughter, and the teaching daughters, Florence, Bess and Ruth bought the LICKLIDER house  (once Joseph ENTLER'S Hotel) for their father, and spent the rest of their lives after retirement there. As each daughter died, she left the house to the remaining daughters. Ruth the last to die left the house to Ikie ATHEY. 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, Evertt, were housed with the LICKLIDER family during part of their youth after the death of their parents. In 1910 and 1920 they were living in Shepherdstown District, Jefferson Co., WV, with Joseph MORROW, in the home. (BR8, O12, PI30, WVJE1-3, 15-17, 18) Children: 

BIBLE RECORD: Record of Edward Templin LICKLIDER, published by American Bible Society, NY 1881; owned by Mrs. Ruth LICKLIDER TUCKER, Shepherdstown, WV; recorded by Dale W. MORROW, Nov 1973: -Edward T. b. 20 Jan 1853 d. 26 Aug 19411, -Ellen Virginia b. 22 Apr 1852 d. 8 Jan 1929,  m. in Martinsburg 25 Oct 1876, by Rev. M. L. Culler, -Mary Amanda b. 29 Aug 1877 d. 6 Sep 19664, -Harry Templin b. 11 Dec 1878 d. 6 Oct 11938, -Bettie Butler (Bess) b. 211 Apr 1880 d.. 30 Mar 1965, -Charles William b. 20 Aug 1881 d. 11 Noov 1966, -Florence Eggleston b. 21 May 1883 d. 266 May 1970, -Anna Virginia b. 20 May 1885 d. 30 Aug 1962, -Helen b. 10 Aug 1886 d. 10 Oct 1886, -Louise Moore b. 24 Jan 1888 d. 21 Aug 11970, -Edna Reika b. 10 Aug 1889 d. 7 Dec 19500, -Edward Grandison b. 10 Jul 1890 d. 10 AAug 1890, -Edmund Lee b. 14 Sep ___, d. 21 Sep 19448, -Samanna Entler b. 11 May 1883, -Ruth b. 25 Oct 1895, -Laura Elizabeth (Dott) b. 6 Oct 1896 d.. 20 Feb 1937.

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, Jefferson Co., WV, d. 6 Oct 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, at one time in Winston-Salem, NC, and was general manager of LICKLIDER-Watson Union Insurance and Brokerage Company, and farm implement business with his father, which bankrupted them in the crash of 1929. In 1920, they were living on Princess Street 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 

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 Katherine Templin LICKLIDER, b. 17 Jun 1919, Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., WV, d. Fri., 20 May 2011, Greenfield Assited Living, Berryville, Clarke Co., VA, m. 5 May 1943, in the Trinity Episcopal Church, Shepherdstown,  Charles Leonard CRANE, b. 23 Nov 1919. They divorced in the 1970s. Katherine grew up at 'Fountain Rock' near Shepherdstown. She graduated in 1936 from Shepherdstown High School. She attended Shepherd College where she was co-editor of  "The Pickett" with her cousin Henry W. MORROW Sr. (see #4.4) She graduated in 1941 from Mary Baldwin College in Fredericksburg, VA. After college she lived in Washington, DC, and worked on Capitol Hill for Sen. Joseph Rosier of West Virginia. Katherine was interested in family history coming from the early familes of Jefferson County. After retiring from Shepherd College Library she was a volunteer at the Jefferson County Museum in Charles Town. She was a member of Zion Episcopal Church in Charles Town where she was a member of the Vestry, Keywoman and head of the Altar Guild. She was also a member of the Friday Book Club and the Jefferson County Garden Clum. Her husband Charles was a career army officer and throughout their army life lived in Oregon, Germany, California, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texan and Indiana. They returned to Jefferson in the 1970s. Catherine is buried in Zion Episcopal Church Cemetery in Charles Town. (MDNP1, 21 May 2011, PI31, WVNP1, 21 May 2011) Children:

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. Both of them use to come home for the summer when schools were out, which is probably the reason they were counted twice. 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,  WVJE2, 19, 21)

10.4 Charles William LICKLIDER b. 20 Aug 1881, Shepherstown, Jefferson Co., WV, d. 11 Nov 1966, Parkersburg, Wood Co., WV, m. 11 Jan 1908, Jefferson Co., by Joseph H. Wolf, minister, Helen MCDONALD, b. 10 Jul 1888, Shepherdstown, d/o Walter P. and Eliza T. MCDONALD, d. 9 Jul 1966, Parkersburg. Both were residents of Shepherdstown when they married. 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, 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, age 62, 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 John Lee THORN, b. 20 Nov 1926, Bayboro, NC, m. 4 Jan 1946, Pomroy, OH, Frances G. CARMICHAEL, d/o John R. and Ethel L. (NOLAND) CARMICHAEL. (PI30, 32) Children:

10.4a3 Irwin Linn THORN, b. 15 Aug 1933, Parkersburg, m. 17 Apr 1953, Parkersburg, Leatrice Jay CREEL, b. 7 Jan 1933, d/o Spencer and Bertha (GILLMAN) CREEL. (PI30, 32) Children:

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:

10.4c Mary Moore LICKLIDER, b. 13 Mar 1919, Parkersburg, m. 1 Feb 1938, Parkersburg, Orville Woodrow DILS, b. 5 Aug 1917, Parkersburg, s/o Samuel and Margaret (RIPLEY) DILS. No issue. They resided in Baltimore, MD in the 1980s. (PI32)

10.5 Florence Eggleston LICKLIDER, b. 21 May 1882, Shepherdstown, d. 26 May 1970, Shepherdstown, m. 7 Oct 1814, Shepherdstown, by Rev. C. Sydenstricker. Raymond Ernest WAID, b. Elkins, WV, d. 26 Feb 1943,age 68,  Parkersburg, Wood Co., WV. Raymond was a widower and resident of Elkins, Randolph Co., WV when they married.  Florence graduated from Shepherd Normal School and taught in Elkins where she must have met her husband. She was teaching in Parkersburg. They had one child, unnamed, who died at birth. (BR8, O12, PI1, 30, WVJE1)

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, O12, PI30, LE36) One son:

10.11a Grandison Templin LICKIDER, b. 13 Feb 1917, Shepherdstown, m. 22 May 1948, Evelyn Faye HISER, of Fayette Co., WV. They live at Charlton Hgts.on the Elk River outside of Charleston, WV. (LE36). Children:

10.12 Samanna Entler LICKLIDER, b. 11 May 1893, Shepherdstown, d. 1980s, Inwood, Berkeley Co, WV, m. 26 Jul 1917, Duffield, Jefferson Co., WV, by Rev. John G. Siler, Garland Jasper 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. The marriage record states she was a widow. Actually her first marriages was annulled because the family, probably the parents did not want her to marry ATHEY. Her son Maxwell Moore ATHEY was raised in the LICKLIDER home in Shepherdstown. (BR8, O12, PI33, WVJE1)) Children:

10.12a Maxwell 'Ikie' Moore ATHEY, b. 4 Apr ___, d. 1996, m. Thelma WALDECK, sister of Kenneth WALDECK of Shepherdstown. Thelma died prior to 3 Apr 2006 (death of her brother). In 1970 Ikie was working in Denver, CO, for an aircraft company. The compiler met and had breakfast with them one morning while on an education trip to Cherokee School System outside of Denver. (PI33, O2, 36). One child:

10.12b Luther MAUNEL, b. 17 Feb 1919, m. 1st. V. KEWES, no issue; m. 2nd. Dorothy MINGHINI. Luther was a veteran of WWII. (PI33) Children:

10.12c Mary Elizabeth MANUEL, b. 3 Apr 1921, m. 5 Jan 1942, Carl Clinton JONES Sr., d. 13 Oct 1971. Carl was a city fireman in Martinsburg, WV. (PI33) Children:

10.12d Ruth Virginia MANUEL, b. 15 May 1924, m. Frank Charles E. HAMMOND, d. c1980. Frank farmed, and at one time during the 1970s lived on Ned MORROW's farm at Swan Pond. (PI33) Children:

10.13 Ruth LICKLIDER, b. 11 May 1893, Shepherdstown, d. 23 1987, attended by Dr. William S. Miller, Shepherdstown, m. 17 Sep 1923, Shepherdstown, Fred Worthington TUCKER, b. 1890, Newark, NJ. Fred was living in Parkersburg, Wood Co., WV when they married. 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, WVJE3,19)

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 Bramwell, WV. She m. J. Ernest LIDDLE, Bramwell, WV, and died with her child in childbirth. (O12)

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