The Much-Married Minerd-
Miner and Mayle-Male Families
Of the Chestnut Ridge Community of Grafton
and Philippi, WV and Athens and Stark Counties, OH
The Mayle-Male family traces its lineage back in time to John Male and Wilmore Male of Hampshire and Randolph Counties, WV, who were military veterans of the American Revolution. Wilmore's wife, Nancy, was believed to have been the daughter of a black slave of Haitian descent, with Nancy set free in 1826 "on condition that she remains with me during my natural life in the quality of my wife," he wrote.
In her master's thesis at Marshall University (1979), Dorothy J. Cox researched these early connections, and published her findings in A Marginal Group in West Virginia: An Historical and Cultural Study. This page has taken her initial research and expanded it dramatically to focus on just the extensive Minerd-Miner family connections with the Mayles and Males.
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Family of Henry C. Minerd (1) |
| Name | Age | Mayle-Male Spouse | Age | Year |
| Ruth Ann Minerd - daughter of Henry C. Minerd | 18 | William Stephen
Mayle - son of John Male and Elizabeth Norris |
20 | 1887 |
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Family of John Minerd (1) |
| Name | Age | Mayle-Male Spouse | Age | Year |
| John Minerd | 27 | Martha Ann Male | 17 | 1870 |
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Family of William Minerd (13) |
| Name | Age | Mayle-Male Spouse | Age | Year |
| William Minerd | 23 | Margaret Male - daughter of Reese Male and Delilah Dalton | 18 | 1866 |
| William Minerd | 43 | Elvira Male - daughter of Anderson and Louisa Male | 16 | 1885 |
| Rachel Minerd | 23 | John Ellsworth Male | 23 | 1888 |
| Dewitt Minard | 21 | Rebecca J. Mayle - daughter of Isaac and Sarah Mayle | 28 | 1890 |
| Minerva B. Minerd | 18 | Ellsworth O. Mayle - son of Isaac and Sarah Mayle | 24 | 1891 |
| Minerva B. Minerd | Granville Male (not proven) | 1880 | ||
| William McKinley Minard | 22 | Mary M. Norris - daughter of Alexander and Rose (Mayle) Norris | 16 | 1918 |
| Emily Jane "Emma" Minerd | 14 | Charles Luther Male - presumed son of George W. and Margaret (Pritchard) Mayle | 22 | 1872 |
| Leona Gale Mayle | Clifford Lee Mayle - son of Lewis A. Mayle and Sarepta Kennedy - family of Ruth Ann (Minerd) Kennedy | |||
| Tilison Forest Minard | 26 | Mary Elizabeth Mayle - daughter of Lewis and Martha Male - family of Margaret (Minerd) Mayle | 24 | 1919 |
| Mary Louisa Minard | 22 | Edgar Male - son of Isaiah Mayle and stepson of Hulda Minard | 24 | 1926 |
| Hulda Minard | 16 | Isaiah Male - son of Elisha and Mary (Croston) Male | 40 | 1906 |
| Virgie Minard | 17 | Artemus Mayle - son of Isaiah Mayle and stepson of Hulda Minard | 28 | 1917 |
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Family of Margaret (Minerd) Mayle (10) |
| Name | Age | Mayle-Male Spouse | Age | Year |
| Margaret Minerd | 28 | Hiram "Poke" Male - son of William Male and Sarah Norris | 1870 | |
| Mary Male | Charles Croston - son of Ferdinand Croston and Rosanna Male | |||
| Martha E. Male | 18 | Lewis Male - son of George William Male and Nancy Dalton | 1893 | |
| Elsworth "Elzie" Male | 21 | Sarah E. Kennedy - daughter of Andrew Kennedy and Alice Male | 17 | 1897 |
| Frank Male | 21 | Huldah J. Male - daughter of (?) Norris and Lacy A. Male | 16 | 1900 |
| Reason Mayle Sr. | 23 | Edna Miner - daughter of Charles William Minard and Effie Curry - family of Sarah (Minerd) Male Wright | 15 | 1927 |
| Haymond Mayle | 30 | Bessie Decost - daughter of Doddridge "Tug" Decost and Rosa May Male | 32 | 1936 |
| Alva Male | Loretta Croston - daughter of John Wesley Croston and Sabina Male | |||
| Vernis Male | 16 | Grover J. Minard - son of George Riley Minard and Sally Croston - family of Sarah (Minerd) Male Wright | 26 | 1916 |
| Oscar Male | 21 | Murlenis "Sissy" Mayle - daughter of Bolger Mayle and Angelina Male | 16 | 1931 |
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Family of Sarah (Minerd) Male Wright (11) |
| Name | Age | Mayle-Male Spouse | Age | Year |
| Sarah Minerd | 25 | Alpheus Male | 23 | 1871 |
| Charles William Minerd Sr. | 28 | Amanda Male | 31 | 1890 |
| George Riley Minard | 19 | Sarah Ann "Sally" Croston - daughter of Thomas H. Croston and Nancy Mayle | 15 | 1887 |
| Marion Francis "Frank" Miner | Jessie L. Mayle | |||
| Camden Minard | 19 | Mildred Mahle - daughter of Jennie Mahle | 17 | 1923 |
| Rosetta Collins | 24 | Isaac Mayle | 35 | 1939 |
| Evelyn Miner | 18 | Denver Mayle - son of Eugene and Ossie (Mayle) Male | 21 | 1933 |
| Pansy Jane Miner | 18 | Denzil Mayle - son of Granville and Laura (Croston) Mayle | 21 | 1938 |
| Bradford Miner | 21 | Priscilla Mayle - daughter of Stephen Angelo and Fannie (Collins) Mayle | 17 | 1941 |
| Magdalene Miner | 18 | Bradford Mayle - son of Joseph and Missouri Mayle | 22 | 1944 |
| Sarah Elizabeth Minard | 19 | Virgil Mayle - son of Dow and Ettie Mayle | 24 | 1944 |
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Family of Mary (Minerd) Mayle (3) |
| Name | Age | Mayle-Male Spouse | Age | Year |
| Mary Minerd | 20 | Richard Z. Mayle - son of Aaron Mayle and Polly Newman | 55 | 1870 |
| Wallace Mayle | 20 | Genevieve (Male) Starkey - daughter of Columbus "Lum" Male and Myrtle "Ivie" Kennedy | 22 | 1934 |
| Uley Leo Mayle | 22 | Bytha Ernestine Male - daughter of Deskin Mayle and Lacy Ann Parsons | 18 | 1930 |
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Family of Ruth Ann (Minerd) Kennedy (14) |
| Name | Age | Mayle-Male Spouse | Age | Year |
| Ressie "Ray" Kennedy | Cora Bell Mayle - daughter of Charles Luther Mayle and Emily Jane Minerd - family of William Minerd |
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| Sarepta Kennedy | 18 | Lewis A. Mayle | 35 | 1893 |
| Sarepta (Kennedy) Mayle | Arthur Mayle | |||
| John H. Kennedy | Emma Mayle - daughter of Reece and Martha (Mayle) Mayle | |||
| Opha Kennedy | Birdie (or "Bertie") Male - daughter of Thomas and Mary Male | |||
| Thomas "Jefferson" Kennedy | 24 | Edith May Parsons - daughter of Reese Parsons and Susan Mayle | 16 | 1906 |
| Benjamin "Harrison" Kennedy | Elsina Male | |||
| Melba Kennedy | (?) Mayle | |||
| Christina R. Kennedy | (?) Mayle | |||
| Howard Lee Kennedy Sr. | Roxie Mayle - daughter of Deskin Mayle and Lacy Ann Parsons | |||
| Nancy C. Kennedy | Charles Mayle | |||
| Dessie K. Kennedy - daughter of Benjamin "Harrison" Kennedy | 25 | Sherman Mayle - son of Isaiah and Hulda (Minard) Mayle - family of William Minerd | 26 | 1936 |
| Lora Mayle - daughter of Sarepta (Kennedy) Mayle | 20 | Milton A. Mayle | 23 | 1914 |
| Opal Kennedy | 18 | Linsey Mayle - son of Eugene and Essie Mayle | 25 | 1934 |
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Family of Susanna (Minerd) Mayle Woody (1) |
| Name | Age | Mayle-Male Spouse | Age | Year |
| Susanna Minerd | 20 | Noah Males | 1883 | |
Copyright © 2007-2008 Mark A. Miner.
Reproduction forbidden without permission.
With appreciation to Bernard Mayhle and the late Digby Baltzell
for planting the seeds of this page.