We also find A John, Matilda, and Malissa Delany in Wayne Township in July of 1870 (#285,232). That's only five years after the Civil War...tumultuous times. John's a laborer and Matilda's keeping house. All born in Pennsylvania. Malissa's fifteen. It appears they're all literate as opposed to the John and Metilda who can't read in 1850.
Unfortunately we found a death record. In the registry of the 1874 Western District Monongalia County West Virginia. It looks like there was nobody there to give the details of the death, even though the death is told of by the informant, Isaac Delany, son.
The man is John Delany, a white male, age 70. Date of death--"squiggly line" Name of parents: just a squiggly line. Occupation, farmer. Name of disease or cause of death: unknown. This man was born in Pennsylvania.
The registry includes columns for colored people--free or slave, and, Name of the owner of the slave.
Place of death, John Delany, Battelle District. Consort of, or unmarried: Delany Matilda.
This is from the County Records. "West Virginia, Deaths, 1853-1970," index, Familysearch (https://familysearch.org/MM9.1.1/NMV1-FSG: accessed 11 JUNE 2013), Matilda Delany in entry for John Delany, 1874.
It's by the US Census 1880 for Battelle that we find our Matilda as head of household with son Isaac (age 28), and daughter Malissa, 23 years old, and granddaughter Adda J.; she's two.
We find her more in our West Virginia site too which we've been working on stocking with records.
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