Bessie Rawls Wolling
Additional Resources:| ID: | I364 |
| Last: | Wolling |
| First: | Bessie |
| Middle: | Rawls |
| Birth: | 19 Jul 1888 at Marlboro Co., South Carolina 1 2 |
| Death: | AFT 1948 at South Carolina |
| Burial: | Beaverdam Cemetery, McColl, Marlboro Co., South Carolina 3 |
| Sex: | F |
| Notes: | Have photos (from Lula Feaster photo album) of Bessie Wolling as a baby and as young lady; a portrait by Rawls Studios of Columbia at about 25; also a photo of her son Bill Fletcher, papers of son Lewis A. Fletcher; and photo with a Mrs. Dickenson. Bessie Wolling Fletcher's mother, Maria Louisa "Lula" Georgiana Feaster Wolling, went to visit Bessie in North Carolina in 1931. Lula died while visiting Bessie, according to notes hand-written by Lula's grand-daughter (Bessie's niece), Cleora Clowney Hall. This may explain why no death certificate appears for Lula in South Carolina. The Fletchers apparently moved to Georgia before 1918 (when first child, Lewis, was born), perhaps for Joshua P. Fletcher's job as a railroad engineer. They lived in Savannah, Georgia in 1930, but later returned to Marlboro Co., South Carolina, where they are buried. |
| Sources: | 4 |
| Mother: | Maria Louisa Feaster b: 6 Sep 1847 d: 27 Oct 1931 |
| Father: | John George Wolling b: 6 Jul 1852 d: 1 Apr 1931 |
| Marriage 1 | Joshua P. Fletcher b: 7 Mar 1884 d: 7 Feb 1962 |
| Wedding: ABT 1913 5 | |
| Children: | |
| 1 J. P. Fletcher b: 14 Mar 1916 Marlboro Co., South Carolina | |
| 2 Lewis Allen Fletcher b: ABT 1918 Georgia | |
| 3 William S. Fletcher b: ABT 1921 Georgia | |
| 4 Living Fletcher b: withheld | |
| Sources: | |
| 1 | Title: Internet Note: Publication: rootsweb.com Blackman and Farmer database, contact: Larry & Elaine Blackman <leblackm@bellsouth.net> |
| 2 | Title: Tombstone Note: On p. 64, per Index of book, "Cemetery Records of Marlboro County, Second Edition (1984)", on Marlboro, Co. SC site (Mgr. Victoria Proctor) - on website: www.rootsweb.com/~scmarlbo/marlboro_cem.htm |
| 3 | Title: Internet Note: Bessie Wolling Fletcher is buried next to husband and toddler son in Beaverdam Cemetery, located just sw of McColl, SC town line on US-401/15. On p. 64, per Index of book, "Cemetery Records of Marlboro County, Second Edition (1984)", see Marlboro, Co. SC website (Mgr. Victoria Proctor): http://www.rootsweb.com/~scmarlbo/cemeteries/BeaverDam_cem.htm Text: Joshua FLETCHER, son of L. A. and Eliza, Mar. 7, 1884 - Feb. 7, 1962 J. P. FLETCHER, Jr., Mar. 14, 1916 - Sept. 14, 1919 wife Bessie Wolling FLETCHER, July 19, 1888 |
| 4 | Title: 1930 U.S. Census, Georgia, Chatham Co. Publication: T626_344 Date: 8 Apr 1930 Page: p. 210-a Note: Bessie W. Fletcher age 42 from SC, with husband Joshua P. Fletcher and 3 sons living on Bull St. (near Brady St.) in E.D. #30 of Savannah, Georgia. Text: HN/FN 1717/152/177 Name Sex Col Age Mar@Age Born-Fa-Mo Joshua P. Fletcher M w 46 Md-29 SC-SC-SC Rents home; Occup: Locomotive Engineer Employer: Steam Railroad Bessie W. F w 42 Md-25 SC-FL-SC Lewis A. M w 12 Sgl GA-SC-SC William S. M w 9 GA-SC-SC John R. M w 11/12 GA-SC-SC [Transcriber CMB] |
| 5 | Title: 1930 U.S. Census, Georgia, Chatham Co. Publication: T626_344 Date: 8 Apr 1930 Page: p. 210-a Note: Marriage year 1913 calculated from 1930 census data: Bessie Wolling married at age 25 (born 1888); and Josh Fletcher married at age 29 (born 1884). |
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