Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wellons, John, 1918 

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JOHN WELLONS

   The entire Sedley community was in sorrow late Tuesday morning when the 
news came that John Wellons was dead.  Although he never went to school or 
had any educational advantages he was a man of fine judgment, straight and 
honest in all his dealings with his fellow man, always ready and glad to do 
deeds of kindness for his neighbors, prompt to keep all engagements and 
promises to his church and fellow man.  His word was yea, and nay, nay, and 
he had the love and respect of all who knew him.  He was born March 17, 1839, 
and died March 18, 1918.  His life from a small boy to manhood was spent on 
the farm with Jeremiah Chappel, a Quaker of the old school who treated him 
as his own son and who, no doubt, impressed in his mind many of those fine 
qualities shown in later life.

   He was married about 1865 to Miss Ann Turner who died in 1880 and although 
no children were born to them their home was always open to the young people 
of the community and many of the young people of that day still remember the 
many happy hours spent under their roof.  In 1882 he was married to Mrs. 
M.J.A. Whitehead, who still survives him, although an invalid for three years 
from paralysis.  To them were born four sons, three of whom survive; Levi T., 
J. Pressley and James Clyde Wellons; one daughter, Mrs. J.E. Butler all of 
Sedley, who will greatly miss his counsel, and help in their future life and 
work.

   He was a man of deep religious convictions and a most consistent member of 
Johnson’s Grove Christian Church for forty years, and a deacon since 1903. 
His family his lost a devoted husband and father, his church one of its most 
loved and earnest members, the community one of its very best citizens.  In 
the absence of his pastor, funeral services were conducted by Rev. Byron L. 
Osborne of the Friends church, and his body laid away in Rosewood Cemetery at 
Sedley, there to await the coming of our Lord.  The bereaved family has the 
sympathy of the entire community who also feels keenly the loss of so valuable 
a friend.


John WELLONS, farmer, Confederate veteran, 
b. 17 Mar 1839, Southampton Co., 18 Mar 1918, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, Mar 1918, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 29, 1918, p. 6 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Rosemont list (S-69): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 


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