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Dewitt Walker Poe (1870 - 1941)

Dewitt Walker "D W" Poe
Born in Chatham County, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Died at about age 70 in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Biography

Like many other members of his family, he found few economic opportunities in Chatham County, North Carolina, where he was born in the years immediately after the American Civil War. He went to work for the Southern Railroad Company in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and he was a clerk for them throughout most of his life. He visited his relatives in Chatham County on a frequent basis, and he was very favorably remembered as a courtly gentleman by his niece Beatrice Hazel (nee Wilkie) Stradtman.

His death resulted from carcinoma of the head of the pancreas and liver, spread from his bone marrow. His burial was at the Mountain View Cemetery, Danville City, Virginia, USA.

Sources

  • 1880 U.S. Census - New Hope Twp., Chatham Co., NC - Roll# 957; FHL# 1254957; p79D; ED# 025; Image# 0655 - digital image viewed on Ancestry.com.
  • Poe, DeWitt Walker Jr. (b 23 Oct 1903, in Danville, VA) - Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Health--Bureau of Vital Statistics; birth certificate - viewed on Ancestry.com. [Verifies basic information, including employment, for his father DeWitt Walker Poe.]
  • 1910 U.S. Census - Reidsville Ward 3, Rockingham Co., NC; Roll# T624_1130; Page# 19A; ED# 0166; FHL# 1375143 - digital image viewed on Ancestry.com.
  • 1920 U.S. Census; Danville Ward 2, Pittsylvania Co., VA - Roll# T625_1886; p6A; ED# 33 - digital image viewed on Ancestry.com.
  • Suttlemyre, Chloe Edith - newspaper announcement of marriage to DeWitt Walker Poe Jr. on 10 Aug 1929, in Hickory, NC (Danville, VA: _The Bee_--13 Aug 1929), p2 - digital image of clipping shared by "racing06" to Ancestry.com.
  • 1931 Danville (VA) City Directory, p295 - digital image viewed on Ancestry.com.
  • Poe, Nannie Mitchell (d 27 Mar 1934, in Danville, VA) - Certificate of Death (Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics) - digital image viewed on Ancestry.com.
  • Poe, Dewitt Walker, & Mitchell, Nannie Willie - data abstract, re: marriage in Danville, VA, on 20 Jan 1901; fm Ancestry.com Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940.
  • Poe, DeWitt Walker (d 02 Feb 1941, in Danville, VA); Certificate of Death (Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics) - digital image viewed on Ancestry.com.
  • Harmon, Gladys Poe (d 29 Mar 1949, in Arlington, VA) - Certificate of Death (Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics) - digital image viewed on Ancestry.com.


Acknowledgments

  • Poe, Charles Coen - Information provided to George Stradtman Jr. during interview in Chatham Co, NC, in 1969
  • Personal memories of the Poe and Wilkie families, shared by Beatrice (nee Wilkie) Stradtman with her son George Stradtman Jr., 1963-2002.
  • Townsend, Ed. "DeWitt Walker Poe" FindAGrave Mem.# 118456795.

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