Sarah Kelson Purvis Gathings
b.22 June 1902
d.25 March 1979
bu. Mt. Beulah Church Cemetery
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| Photo courtesy of Julious Burr |
Sarah Kelson Purvis. the first born child of John William Purvis and Nancy Elizabeth Wallace was born 22 June 1902. She was the first of five children to be born to this union, three daughters and two sons.
Sarah Kelson Purvis and James Edgar Gathings, Sr, were married 24 November 1927. They had two sons. Sarah’s youngest child was just shy of three years of age when her husband passed away after an illness in three weeks in February 1938. His NC death certificate shows he died of a ruptured gastric ulcer.
Sarah never remarried and lived another 41 years passing away at the age of 76 in March 1979.
James and Sarah are buried at the Mt. Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery in Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina.
Sarah Kelson Purvis is my 1st cousin once removed.
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