Chesterfield County Military Veterans~Walter Joseph Johns, Jr.

In Honor of our Chesterfield County Military Veterans 

WWII Victory Medal

Walter J. Johns, Jr. served in World War II. Walter was born on 7 September 1918, a child of Walter Joseph Johns, Sr. and his wife Arletha Quick. Like most young men of this time, coming out of the Great Depression in 1929 and entering the 1930 as a teenager, Walter worked as a farm hand. There wasn’t much else left to do within the County. 

By 1935 when Walter was a young man, age 17, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration. This agency created millions of job throughout the United States putting the idle workers of the depression back to work. Then a few short years later we entered the War raging in Europe.

As shown by the chart below, Walter J. Johns, single, age 22 joined the US Army as a Private on 14 January 1941. 

Walter returned home and married Kathleen in June 1954. Walter Joseph Johns, Jr. died 8 July 1985 in Chesterfield, South Carolina and was buried at Bethesda United Methodist Church Cemetery, Chesterfield, South Carolina.  

Walter Joseph Johns, Jr. is my 1st cousin once removed.










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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Victory_Medal_%28United_States%29
[2] "U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010," on-line digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 2 May 2014), Walter Johns; citing Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: Department of Veterans Affairs.; Enlistment Date 1: 14 Jan 1941; Release Date 1: 3 Jul 1945.

Treasure Chest Thursday~Power of Attorney, George & Polly Dry

George Dry & wife to Preston W. Wooly Power Attorney

State of North Carolina}
Stanly County} Know all men by these presents that we George Dry and Polly Dry have hereby appointed Preston W. Wooly our agent and attorney in fact, in our name to draw the amount of money due us arising from the sale of the lands of Christopher Sides sold by the clerk and master in Equity for Stanly county and now in the names of John H. Treadwell the present Clerk and Master for said county and the money so drawn and received to pay over to the undersigned and to sign and deliver for us a full and ample receipt as though we were present at the acting and doing thereof we hereby satisfying and confirming all the Acts and deeds of our said attorney lawfully done in the premises Given under our hands and seals this November 1849.                 George Dry {s}
Polly X her mark Dry {s}
State of North Carolina}
Stanly County} I William Levasingane hereby certify that I one of the acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County was appointed at November sefsion 1849 to take the private examination of Polly Dry who signed the above power of attorney declares that she signed it freely and voluntary and not fro, any fear or compulsion of her husband November 1849
Given under my hand & seal                           W. Levasingane
Registered the 20^th Nov. 1849                         Saml. S. Stone, Reg.
NCarolina} Nov Sefsion 1849
Stanly County} Then this Power of attorney was acknowledged in open Court and ordered to be registered.                          R. Harris, Clk.

This power of attorney is very interesting to me primarily because it proves that Polly Sides Dry was alive on 20 November 1849. I have looked extensively for Polly Sides death date. Most on line trees shows that she died before 1850 or in 1850 with no specific date or information.
 
A check of the 1850 Mortality Census shows no listing for Polly Sides Dry.  Polly or Mary is enumerated in the 1860 census for Stanly County and it’s quite possible she is enumerated in the 1870 census. Regardless, it’s obvious she didn’t die in 1850 or before.
This Power of Attorney also names her father, Christopher Sides and her as the wife of George Dry.   
 
I’m still searching for Mary/Polly death date; if you have any information about Mary Polly Sides Dry please contact me through this posting.
 
 
 
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[1] Stanly County, North Carolina, Deed Book 2: pages 265 and 266, George Dry & wife to Preston W. Wooly Power Attorney; 20 November 1849, Register of Deeds, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina.