Tombstone Tuesday~ Great Grandparents–William and Mary Purvis

William James Purvis

b. Sept 25, 1863

d. June 8, 1941

his wife

Mary Hulda Previtte Purvis

b. Jan. 5, 1861

d. July 29, 1938

Both buried at Zoar UMC Cemetery

Chesterfield, South Carolina

William and Mary Hulda were married about 1879. They are enumerated in the 1880 census fro Anson county, North Carolina. Together they raised a family of six that lived to adulthood; three sons and three daughters. Their youngest daughter, Violet, born in May 1899 and died in  Oct 1899.

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• William J. Purvis Family Family Bible Holy Bible, (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), M. H. Pervis; Birth - 5 January 1862, Obtained from <name withheld>, Wadesboro, North Carolina.
• James C. Pigg, Chesterfield County Cemetery Survey; Self-Published, 1995, page 845. Tombstone of William J. Purvis; 25 September 1863 – 8 June 1941, Zoar Methodist Church Cemetery, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
• State of North Carolina, death certificate no. 17 (8 June 1941), William James Purvis; https://www.ancestry.com, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.
• Mr. W. J. Purvis obituary, The Anson Record, Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina, USA, 11 June 1941, Page 1.
• William J. Purvis Family Family Bible Holy Bible, (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), M. H. Pervis; Birth - 5 January 1862, Obtained from <name withheld>, Wadesboro, North Carolina.
• State of North Carolina, death (29 July 1938), Mary Previtt Purvis; https://www.ancestry.com, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.
• Mrs. Mary Hulda Privette Purvis obituary.