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Portions of the text that follows, are from the Christlieb-Chrislip-Crislip Family Association-sponsored history
and genealogy publication, Ancestors and Descendants of Friedrich Carl and Anna Catharina Christlieb.

Elizabeth "Lessi" Melvina Crislip

1868–1945

Elizabeth "Lessi" Melvina Crislip (Friedrich Carl Christlieb¹, Jacob Christlieb², William Chrislip³, William Turner Chrislip⁴) [669], born 7 September 1868, Buckhannon, West Virginia; died 23 February 1945, Buckhannon, West Virginia; married, 3 January 1889, William Wilbert Ward, born 1867; died 1936.

Children of Elizabeth Melvina Crislip and William Wilbert Ward

Trottye Album Ward (Friedrich Carl Christlieb¹, Jacob Christlieb², William Chrislip³, William Turner Chrislip⁴, Elizabeth Melvina Crislip⁵) [669], born 1889; died 1948; married, 1910, Okey Blaine Tenney, born 1879; died 1977.
Lawson Forman Ward (Friedrich Carl Christlieb¹, Jacob Christlieb², William Chrislip³, William Turner Chrislip⁴, Elizabeth Melvina Crislip⁵) [670], born 1895; died 1971; married, Margaret Babb, born 1904; died 1975.
Phoebe Kathryn Ward (Friedrich Carl Christlieb¹, Jacob Christlieb², William Chrislip³, William Turner Chrislip⁴, Elizabeth Melvina Crislip⁵) [671], born 1889; died 1981; married, 1920, Merlin Ruhl Lawson, born 1899; died 1988.
William Isaac Ward (Friedrich Carl Christlieb¹, Jacob Christlieb², William Chrislip³, William Turner Chrislip⁴, Elizabeth Melvina Crislip⁵) [672], born 1907; died 1975.