Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wills, John E., 1924 

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         JOHN E. WELLS [sic; WILLS] 

  Suffolk, Jan. 12. - John E. Wells, 73, prominent citizen of Nansemond County 
and Confederate veteran, died this afternoon at the home of his nephew, R.W. 
Pruden, near Windsor, Va.  Relatives who survive are R.W. Pruden, of Windsor; 
L.D. Pruden, J.B. Pruden, P.D. Pruden of Suffolk, Mrs. P.D. Snipes, of 
Raleigh, N.C., and Mrs. R.G. Edgerton, of Suffolk.  Funeral services will be 
held Monday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at Woodland Church with burial in the 
church cemetery. 

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     FUNERAL OF MR. WILLS 

  Suffolk, Jan. 13. - The funeral services of John E. Wells, Confederate 
veteran, who died at the home of his nephew, R.W. Pruden, near Windsor, Va., 
will be held Monday afternoon at 2 p.m., at Woodland Church, with burial in 
the church cemetery. 

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            JOHN WILLS 

  Suffolk, Jan. 14. - Funeral services for John E. Wills, Confederate veteran 
and aged citizen, were held this afternoon at Woodland M.E. Church, Isle of 
Wight County, conducted by the Methodist pastor.  The pallbearers were: T.D. 
Mathews, J.W. Pitt, T.J. Saunders, Walter E. Godwin, W.G. Saunders, James Key, 
D.E. Edwards, R.L. Hooker.  Burial was in the church cemetery. 

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          CARD OF THANKS 

  Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Pruden and family desire to thank their neighbors and 
friends and Dr. L.L. Eley for their many kindnesses shown during the illness 
and at the death of their uncle, J.E. Wills.                 1t 


John E. WILLS, retired sawyer, Confederate veteran, 
b. 2 Feb 1846*, Isle of Wight Co., 
d. 12 Jan 1924, at nephew's home, near Windsor, 
interred in Woodland Methodist Church Cemetery*, near Rescue, 14 Jan 1924, 
"Virginian-Pilot and Norfolk Landmark," Vol. 95, No. 13, 
   Sun., Jan. 13, 1924, pt. 2, p. 8 {image 20}; 
"Virginian-Pilot & Norfolk (VA) Landmark, Vol. 95, No. 14, 
   Mon., Jan. 14, 1924, p. 10; 
"Virginian-Pilot & Norfolk (VA) Landmark, Vol. 95, No. 15, 
   Tues., Jan. 15, 1924, p. 9; 
"Virginian-Pilot & Norfolk (VA) Landmark, Vol. 95, No. 17, 
   Thurs., Jan. 17, 1924, p. 11 

*Additional information: 

Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #24: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

Photos of his gravestone - added by George Seitz & Ron Stewart - are posted 
   with Find a Grave Memorial #20047573; it shows b. 27 Jan 1846. 

His mother Ellen "Nannie" (PURDIE) WILLS TURNER ("1826 - 1909") is also 
   buried there, marked on a different side of the same pylon.  It shows 
   WILLS, not TURNER.  Widowed, she 2m. James Solomon TURNER (b. ca. 1811, 
   Southampton Co.), son of Solomon & Sally, 21 May 1868 in Isle of Wight Co. 
   Find a Grave Memorial #106035215 gives Ellen T. WILLS, d. 7 Aug 1908, but 
   her obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Aug. 9, 1908, p. 2) gives d. 8 Aug 
   1908.  The daughter of Thomas K. & Patsey PURDIE, she m. Lucien E.M. WILLS 
   17 Oct 1842 in Isle of Wight Co.  Lucien d. 24 Apr 1866 in Isle of Wight 
   Co. of typhoid pneumonia, age 48.  (IoW.Co. D.Reg. '66 p. 118, #31) 

His nephew "Reggie" Reginald Wills PRUDEN (1874 - 1947) is also buried there. 

D.Cert. 1118 (Newport #1) gives b. 2 Feb 1846. 

The 1900 Census - Newport Dist., Isle of Wight Co. - gives b. May 1845. 
   He is always enumerated in Isle of Wight Co. - never Nansemond Co. 

He served in Co. A, 19th Battalion VA Heavy Artillery.  He applied for a 
   pension 4 Jun 1923; Ancestry.com gives 1922. 

His sister Anna Cole (WILLS; Mrs. John Thomas Brooklyn) PRUDEN (1848 - 1922), 
   Reggie's mother, is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 


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