Jacob Charles Mayle
(1870-1958)
Jacob Charles Mayle was born in 1878 in Barbour County, WV, the son of Richard Z. and Mary (Minard) Mayle. As a boy, in about 1884, he and his parents and siblings settled for good in Doddridge County.
Jacob considered himself white despite his mixed race heritage. He married Emma Rowe (1887- ? ) on Sept. 18, 1907. She was a native of Upshur County, WV.
Circa 1917, at the age of 39, Jacob labored as a carpenter for the Robinson Coal Company's mine in Flemington, Taylor County, WV. That year, he registered for the federal military draft during World War I.
The Mayles had 12 children -- Dorrie A. Mayle (born 1910), Mary Lawson, Damie Warner, Agnes Holt, Thelma G. Morrison, Geraldine J. Goots, Stanley Mayle, Edward Mayle, Paul Mayle, Charles "Junior" Mayle and Clara B. Wetzel.
In 1910, when the federal census was
taken, the Mayles lived near the old farm on Long Run, and employed a 16-year-old
servant, Fanny (no last name given). They later moved to Clarksburg, Harrison
County, WV, where Jacob labored in local coal mines. (A typical Clarksburg coal
mine is seen here.)
He died at age 82, of cancer, on March 14, 1961. He was buried at Greenlawn Cemetery in Clarksburg. Emma's fate is not known, but will be reported here when learned.
Daughter Clara B. Mayle (1925-2005) married Leon Osborn Wetzel ( ? -1974) in 1944. They resided in Clarksburg, and had three sons -- Thomas D. Wetzel, Gary B. Wetzel and Leon Osburn Wetzel Jr. Said the Clarksburg Exponent, Clara "was Baptist by faith, an avid rollerskater, a homemaker, a member of the Poet's Society, and she dearly loved her cats." Leon passed away on April 9, 1974. Clara outlived him by more than three decades. She died at the age of 79 on Oct. 11, 2005. Burial was in Pleasant Grove Cemetery on Cherry Camp Run in Salem, Harrison County.Copyright © 2005-2008 Mark A. Miner