William Alfred Wells
BIRTH 18 Dec 1858
Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
DEATH 25 Dec 1935 (aged 77)
Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Spring Hill Cemetery
Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 41432171
Son of William H. Wells & Mary Elizabeth Ennis. After his father died, his mother remarried Austin Hundley.
This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.
Place: Charleston Ward 2, Kanawha, West Virginia[26]
Residence:
Date: 1920
Place: Charleston Ward 4, Kanawha, West Virginia[27]
Residence:
Date: 1900
Place: Charleston city, Kanawha, West Virginia[28]
Note
Note: Worked in a lumber company until he lost three of the fingerson his right hand. He then became a loan shark to local firemen. He employed his grandson Billy Wells to drive him around.
According to Phyllis Elaine Wells, her paternal uncles were "almost
without exception crooked" and "scoundrels" and Helen Bumgarner
didn't trust any of them. Uncle Fred was, I believe the exception.
Listed in 1880 census as a "sawyer" living with his grandmother, Jane Ennis.
He had a joke he liked to play on his grandsons. When they would visit, he would leave some coins out on the hearth, and when a grandson went to pick them up, he'd act like he was going to stomp on their fingers.
WikiTree profile Wells-3199 created through the import of GerkeFam.ged on Jun 14, 2012 by Matthew Gerke. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Matthew and others.
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