Percival, Ira

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Title: Percival, Ira
Gender: Male
Biography: Perhaps the most well-known of Orrin and Eliza Percival’s children was their third son, Ira, born in 1839. Ira married Susan Jones, daughter of Sam Jones of Walton, in 1859 and began his own family. He was a farmer and businessman, eventually buying the old Farmers Hotel on Main Street in Walton in 1870. Renamed the Percival Hotel, the building burned in a tragic fire in 1871. Soon after the fire, Ira sold the property and moved his family to Union, where he bought another hotel.; Ira died suddenly in 1899 of Bright’s Disease, the newspaper account stated that he had hosted a family reunion just a week before, seemingly in good health.
Member: Percival family
Birth date: 1839
Father: Percival, Orrin
Mother: Ross, Eliza
Life event(s): Marriage 1: 25 Aug 1859; Kenton County (Ky.); Kenton County (Ky.); Marriage 2: 9 Aug 1876; Boone County (Ky.); Boone County (Ky.)
Spouse(s): Jones, Susan E.; Baker, Sarah Frances
Child(ren): Percival, Orville C.; Percival, Melvin Ira; Percival, Alice S.; Vest, Lena F. Percival; Rice, Dora Belle Percival; Percival, Elvira; Percival, Claude (twin); Percival, Maude (twin); Vallandingham, Lydia L. Percival; Percival, Clayton; Percival, William O.; Percival, Mary; Percival, Thomas; Percival, Lynn C.; Percival, Tete; Percival, Henry
Death date: 1899
Death and burial information: Cause of death: Bright's Disease; Percival Cemetery (Boone County, Ky.)
Occupation(s): Farmer; Hotel keeper
Employed by: Percival Hotel (Walton, Ky.)
Resided in: Kenton County (Ky.); Walton (Ky.); Union (Ky.)
Bibliographic citation(s): "Shocking Calamity at Walton, Ky.-A Hotel and Store Burned-Three Persons Perish in the Flames". The Cincinnati Gazette. January 12, 1871; "Shocking Calamity at Walton, Ky.". New York Times on January 15, 1871; 'Pioneers From the East: the Percival Family in Boone County' by Melinda Sartwell [PDF]
Source(s): Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965; Eighth Census of the United States, 1860; Ninth Census of the United States, 1870; Tenth Census of the United States, 1880; Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989

Item sets: Persons--Kentucky--Boone County

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