Stella Jane WADE

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CENSUS RECORDS

Name: Stella Wade
Age: 12
Birth Year: abt 1908
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1920: Garden, Buchanan, Virginia
Street: Ridge Between Levisa River And Grassy Creek
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's name: Walter B Wade
Father's Birthplace: United States
Mother's name: Mallie E Wade [Mollie]
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Native Tongue: English
Able to Speak English: Yes
Attended School: Yes
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
Walter B Wade 42
Mollie E Wade 33
Carl Wade 9
Eunice Wade 16
Eady S Wade 14
Stella Wade 12
Vena Viola Wade 1

OBITUARY

Bluefield Daily Telegraph; 10 Aug 2004

Richlands, Va.-Mrs. Stella Jane Wade Gillespie, age 96, of Richlands Virginia passed away Saturday August 7 2004 in a Bland Virginia nursing home.

She was born in Buchanan County Virginia and was the daughter of the late Nathan Wade and Molly Chambers Wade both Buchanan county natives.

She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Rufus Franklin Gillespie, grandson Rodney Gillespie, sister Eady Wade Smith and three brothers Carl Wade, Marvin Wade, and Rufus Peach Wade.

Survivors are four sons--Cecil Gillespie of Richlands Virginia,Troy Gillespie of Abingdon Virginia, David Gillespie of Memphis Tenn and Darrell Gillespie of Roanoke Virginia; three sisters Eunice Wade Baldwin of Doran Virginia, Vinnie Viola Wade Newberry of Newport News Virginia, and Gladys Wade Boyd of Cedar Bluff Virginia; five grandchildren--Gayle Gillespie-Robert Gillespie-Layne Gillespie--Brooke Gillespie and Judy Blevins; three great-grandchildren--Bonita Gillespie--Elizabeth Blevins and Emily Blevins.

Funeral services for Mrs. Stella Jane Wade Gillespie will be conducted Tuesday Aug 10 2004 at eleven at the Hust-Scott Funeral Chapel in Richlands.

Pallbearers will be family and friends.

Burial will be in the Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery in Richlands Virginia.

Birth:
Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Stella Jane Gillespie
SSN: 223423680
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 22 Apr 1908
Birth Place: Raven Tazewe, Virginia
Father Name: Walter N Wade
Mother Name: Mollie Chambers
Death Date: 7 Aug 2004
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Nov 1951: Name listed as STELLA JANE GILLESPIE; 01 Sep 2004: Name listed as STELLA J GILLESPIE

Buried:
Grave location and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10757435&ref=acom

Died:
Virginia, Deaths, 1912- 2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia.
Name: Stella Jane Gillespie
Death Date: 7 Aug 2004
Death Place: Bland Co. VA

Social Security Death Index
Name: Stella J. Gillespie
SSN: 223-42-3680
Last Residence: 24641 Richlands, Tazewell, Virginia
BORN: 22 Apr 1907
Died: 7 Aug 2004
State (Year) SSN issued: Virginia (1951)

Stella married Rufus Franklin Gillespie. Rufus was born 1907; died 1958; was buried , Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery, Richlands, Tazewell Co. VA. [Group Sheet]