Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pulley, John L., 1935 

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John L. Pulley Is Buried Near Ivor Thursday 

  IVOR, Feb. 14 - John Levy [sic*] Pulley, 50, died at his home here 
Wednesday at 4:00 A.M. of a heart attack.  Although in bad health for about 
two years, he was not confined to bed but a few hours and his death came 
unexpectedly. 

  Funeral services were held at the home Thursday at 3:30 o'clock with the 
Rev. L.F. Callahan officiating.  Burial was made in the family plot near Ivor. 

  He is survived by his wife, Mary Holmes Pulley; three children, Mary Holmes, 
Cora and Jack; six brothers, Lloyd, Thomas, Douglas, Richard, of Ivor, Junius 
of Courtland and Frank P. Pulley, Jr., of Waverly; one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Holladay, of Farmville. 


John Levy* PULLEY, former merchant & Postmaster of Ivor, 
b. 27 Mar 1885, Ivor, d. 13 Feb 1935, at home, Ivor, 
interred in Ivor*, 14 Feb 1935, 
"Waverly (VA) Dispatch*," Vol. 48, No. 7, Fri., Feb. 15, 1935, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Added to the listed for Ivor Cemetery, where several of his brothers are 
   buried. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Ivor list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/ivor.txt 

D.Cert. 5510 (B&I #6) states he has worked the previous month as an 
   agricultural census taker; buried at Ivor by Ivor Hardware Co. 

He may have been buried with his parents, Franklin Pierce & Cora (STEPHENSON)
   PULLEY in a family cemetery near Ivor - site not known (Oct 2022) 
   to the SCHS Cemetery Project.  Find a Grave Cemetery ID #2647647 gives 
   "No location information available." 

His widow's D.Cert. 66-010059 gives buried Family Cemetery, Ivor, by 
   Peninsula Funeral Home.  That is unlikely to refer to the HOLMES family 
   cemetery, "Elmsdale," near Ivor, where her paternal great-grandparents 
   Peter James [I] & Mary Eleanor (WOODHOUSE) HOLMES are buried. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 7 (VII-28): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol7.txt 
   Her parents & paternal grandparents are buried in Wakefield Cemetery. 
   Wakefield list, an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

He may have been buried with his parents, Franklin Pierce & Cora (STEPHENSON)
   PULLEY in a family cemetery near Ivor - site not known (Oct 2022) 
   to the SCHS Cemetery Project.  Find a Grave Cemetery ID #2647647 gives 
   "No location information available." 

His parents appeared in the 1910 Census - B&I Dist., Southampton Co. - 
   on the road from Ivor to Unity [now Rt. 603].  (OFF #195) 

His WW-I draft card spells his middle name Levi. 

The LVA "Virginia Chronicle" newspaper project presents the "Waverly Dispatch" 
   under its subsequent name, the "Sussex-Surry Dispatch." 
   https://virginiachronicle.com/ 


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