Continuing with the life of Ida Issadore Boughner, my great-great-grandmother on my paternal side. I need to mention here that the posts I am making consists of the research that I have completed to date. I have many holes of missing information that I need to fill in with more research but I wanted to lay down her life as I know it.
John T. and Ida Issadore Debolt continued to live in the Wetzel County, West Virginia area up to the year 1907. The year 1907 was a tragic year for the Debolt family. John T. Debolt died on 21 August 1907 in Clarington, Monroe County, Ohio. It is uncertain at this time when the Debolt family had moved to the Monroe County area, if they did move there. I have considered the possibility that they could have been visiting family when John died. More research into that aspect needs to be done.
There is no surviving death certificate for John T. Debolt and I have not found a death announcement in the newspapers. The family story is that he cut his foot during a major flood that took place in August 1907 and that he died from blood poisoning. I continue to try to find information to confirm this story. I will detail John's life in a future post thread. I can only imagine how this death effected the family. The Debolt's had 7 children and at the time of John's death, Ida would have been left with 3 of those children that would have been minors ranging in age of 8-15 years old. Their only son, Stephen Thaddeus Debolt was 15 at the time of his father's death and knowing the wrong turns that Stephen took in his life and his own tragic and mysterious death, I wonder if his father's death and absence in this life made a profound impact that caused his life to be so tragic.
I am posting a photo of John T. Debolt. This is the only known image of John that has been documented to date. I believe that this image was created around 1900-1905 date range.
In my next post I will start to document Ida's new life in Creek County, Oklahoma!
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