Maston James & Delilah Thrasher, Part V

Delilah continued to live in the Roanoke County area. In 1870, (June 18) she lived in the Big Lick Township of Roanoke County, Virginia. She was a 59 year old widow. The age recorded confirms her reported birth year of 1811 (meaning that she was born before June 18 of that year). She and her family run a farm.

The others living in the home are Susan James (25), James H James (19, and also listed as a farmer), Mary S James (18), Emma James (16), Mahala James (13) and a young black listed as "Minor John" (16), a farm laborer.

Trivia! Sixty years later, when the 1930 U.S. Census is taken, her son John MacNeil, after living halfway across the country, would return to live in Big Lick in the home of his son Louis (Della’s grandson).