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    William Addison Wells[1]

    Male 1862 - 1899  (37 years)


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    • Name William Addison Wells 
      Born 1862  Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 22 Apr 1899  Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID i7793  Devin Timber
      Last Modified 26 Feb 2014 

      Father Matthew Clay Wells,   b. 27 Jan 1827, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 02 Nov 1893, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
      Mother Mary Jane Shorter,   b. 1831 
      Married 21 Feb 1853  Henry County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Photos
      Wells Reunion (1945)
      Wells Reunion (1945)
      Matthew Clay Wells Family (1875)
      Matthew Clay Wells Family (1875)
      Standing - back row (L-R): William Addison, Peter Thomas, Olid Delin, Tabitha Gabrilla, & Sallie Fannie.

      Sitting - front row (L-R): Charlie Wesley, Joseph Sidney, John James with Robert Lee (in front), Matthew Clay with Minnie Kathryn (in front), & Exie Clay.

      Mary Henrietta and wife Mary Jane (Shorter) Wells were absent at the time.
      Matthew C. Wells Home (1990)
      Matthew C. Wells Home (1990)
      taken in July 1990
      Histories
      They Lived Closer to the Will of God
      They Lived Closer to the Will of God
      Newspaper article written by Myrtle Reynolds, who is a great-grandaughter of Matthew Clay Wells.
      Family ID F2667  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family William Addison Wells,   b. 1862, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Apr 1899, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years) 
      Married 28 Aug 1892  Prob. Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
       1. Mattie James Wells,   b. 1894,   d. 1954  (Age 60 years)
       2. Joel Estes Wells, Sr.,   b. 1895,   d. 1948  (Age 53 years)
       3. Mary Clay Wells,   b. 1898, Henry County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1984, Henry Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
       4. William Leonard Wells
       5. Willis Lee Wells
      Last Modified 10 Sep 2012 
      Family ID F2713  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Photos
      William Addison Wells
      William Addison Wells
      son of Matthew C. Wells
      William A. Wells
      William A. Wells

    • Sources 
      1. [S67727] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston.
        Instructions to Gravesite for William Addison Wells and his wife, Ella Stowe:


        From Hwy 41 you will travel about a mile down the Dry Fork Road.
        You will see Stowe Lane on your left.
        You will turn on to Stowe Lane and follow this road which will turn into a farm road..you will pass some barns and a Stowe Cemetery on your left (keep going), you will then come to a house, it is white, looks like two houses joined together with another house close beside it (in the summer this house is used for the Mexican workers to live in)...you will keep to the right , pass that house and drive across a creek. After you cross the creek you will go on maybe 5 or 6 car lengths and stop. You will then walk across a field on your right and into the woods where the cemetery is located. I call this the Joel T. Stowe Cemetery since he is the oldest person buried there. This is where William Addison Wells is buried: his tombstone reads:
        W. A. Wells
        Born 1862
        March 22 1899 (I have seen his death also listed as in April?)

        Now, lets go back to Hwy 41
        Again you will go down the Dry Fork, as before just under a mile. You will see Johnson Road on your left. You will not go down Johnson Road, this is just a starting point. Directly across the Dry Fork Road from Johnson Road is a field. You will need to cross this field to the woods, at the woods stay to the right and you will see the cemetery shortly. In the last year the woods have been cut down so now the cemetery is right in the edge of the woods. I call this the Davis/Wells Cemetery since the Davis Family were the first to be buried here. (the Davis family are my husbands family). This is where Lelia E. Stowe Wells is buried; Her tombstone reads:
        Lelia E. Stowe
        wife of W. A. Wells
        Jan. 3, 1868
        July 1, 1930
        In loving memory
        of our dear mother

        It has been quite some time since I was in this cemetery...when we were there the Davis family was buried in the woods and the Wells graves were in grass over 6 foot tall. My husband went into the grass to read the stones to me and I couldn't even see him. There were close to 20 graves there and some, I don't know how many had been moved away.
        Hope this is helpful to you...I enjoyed the Devintimber site. It helped me to draw some families together that I already had, but hadn't connected them to each other. I am anxious to look at your site. Have a great afternoon....Judy
        -----Original Message-----
        From: Mary Frances Eggleston
        To: jhstoe