Tazewell County, Virginia

 

 

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Clinch Valley News Folder - 1956

 

 

 

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1956

May 4, 1956 --

WALTER E. THOMPSON -- Walter Edmonson Thompson, 80 died Sunday at his home in this town.  He was of a pioneer
Tazewell County resident.  His parents were William T. and Ellen Hayter Thompson of Thompson Valley.  He went to California when a young man, where he was a rancher for 18 years and returned to Tazewell in 1918 and operated a mercantile business here for several years.   He was a licensed agent for the Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles at the time of his retirement several years ago.  He married Miss Mary Dorinda Thompson of California, who preceded him in death in 1954.  He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Earl Bowman of Richlands; two sons, W. W. Thompson of Richlands and Hayter Thompson of Tazewell, and one sister, Mrs. F. M. Buhrman of Wallace Va. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 10 am from the Presbyterian Church with Dr. H. S. Patterson of Bluefield, officiating.  Burial was in Maplewood.

JOHN T. WATKINS -- John T. Watkins, 84, of Grundy, died Wednesday in a
Grundy Hospital, after an illness of several weeks.  He was a pioneer citizen of Buchanan County and a retired businessman of Lynchburg. He attended Abingdon College in his youth and was a member of the Methodist Church of Grundy.  Funeral services were held in the Grundy Methodist Church and burial was in the Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery at Richlands.  Mr. Walkins was an uncle of Mrs. Ernest Lester of Tazewell

ALICE MCDONALD CHAPMAN BOYER -- Mrs. J. B. Boyer, one of Tazewell's most loved women and a member of a
prominent pioneer family, died Wednesday morning in the
Jeffersonville Hospital.  Although in her 90th year she was active until a few days before her death.  She was Miss Alice McDonald Chapman, daughter of Isaac E. And Eliza Gillespie Chapman and was born September 28, 1866.  She was educated in Tazewell and Sullins College, Bristol.  She married Col. J.B. Boyer on March 1, 1893 and with the exception of four years when they lived on their farm in Maryland, all their lives were spent in Tazewell. They had no children, but Mrs. Boyer had the care of her brother's son, Byrd Chapman whose mother died at his birth.  She was a devoted Presbyterian and was active in every phase of her church work.  She was interested in civic affairs; was a charter member of the Tazewell Woman's Club.  She was the last member of her direct family.  Col. Boyer died in 1945.  She is survived by a nephew, Justice A. C. Buchanan of the Virginia Supreme Court and two nieces, Mrs. V.L Sexton Sr. of Bluefield, Va. and Mrs. J. M. Morer of Walterbora, S.C. Judge V.L. Sexton of Bluefield, Va. and Dr. R. C. Chapman of Richlands are great nephews.  Mrs. Boyer will be remembered by her many friends as being kind, gentle and always thoughtful of others.  Funeral services were conducted Thursday morning at 10:30 from the Presbyterian Church by Rev. A.B. Montgomery and burial was in the Jeffersonville Cemetery.