Oscar Pemberton Gill b. 6 Sep 1896 Raleigh Co., WV d. 24 Jun 1974 Lanark, Raleigh Co., WV: Meadow Bluff Meanderings

1896 - 1974 (77 years)

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Name	Oscar Pemberton Gill
Birth	6 Sep 1896	Raleigh Co., WV [1, 2, 3]
Gender	Male
Occupation	Between 1917 and 1918 [1]
	miner for Greenbrier Coal Company
Residence	Between 1917 and 1918 [1]
	Spring Dale, Fayette Co., WV
Death	24 Jun 1974	Lanark, Raleigh Co., WV [4, 5]
Burial	27 Jun 1974	Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Prosperity, Raleigh Co., WV [5]
Person ID	I31979	Meadow Bluff Meanderings
Last Modified	12 Jul 2014

Family Ola Lue "Olie" Jones, b. 11 May 1897, Little Sewell Mountain, Greenbrier Co., WV d. 20 Oct 1945, Beckley, Raleigh Co., WV (Age 48 years)

Marriage 15 Oct 1919 Spring Dale, Fayette Co., WV [6]

Children

	1. Mildred Gill, b. 1 Sep 1920, Spring Dale, Fayette Co., WV d. 21 May 2005, Dearborn, Wayne Co., MI (Age 84 years)
	2. Clayton Steward Gill, b. 17 Apr 1922, Spring Dale, Fayette Co., WV d. 27 Jun 1929, Lawton, Fayette Co., WV (Age 7 years)
	3. Cleo Jackson Gill, b. 2 Jul 1924, Morganette, Fayette Co., WV d. 23 Apr 2008, Beckley, Raleigh Co., WV (Age 83 years)
	4. Claude Bernard Gill, b. 29 Oct 1927, Lawton, Fayette Co., WV d. 20 May 2009, Crab Orchard, Raleigh Co., WV (Age 81 years)
	5. Clinton Franklin Gill, b. 18 Sep 1935, Backus, Fayette Co., WV d. 30 Oct 1935, Backus, Fayette Co., WV (Age 0 years)

Family ID F6159 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 12 Jul 2014

Notes

The Raleigh Register, Beckley, WV, 25 Jun 1974, 2F

Deaths...And...Funerals

Oscar P. Gill

Funeral services for Oscar Pemberton Gill, 76, Lanark will be held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with the Rev. Joseph Wilson officiating.

Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens.

Gill ded [sic] Monday at a local hospital after a long illness.

A retired coal miner, he was a member of the United Mine Workers local 5821.

Gill died Monday at a local Church of God of Prophecy in Lanark.

Born Sept. 6, 1897 in Raleigh County, he was a son of the late Harvey and Nancy Smith Gill.

Survivors include his wife, Verlie Ann; a daughter, Mrs. Mildres Berry, Dearborn, Mich.; two sons, Cleo Jackson, Beckley, and Claude Vernard, Piney View; three stepsons, Russell and Houston Redden, both of Crab Orchard and Clayton Redden, Oak Hill; four stepdaughters, Mrs. Fannie Jefferies, Minden, Mrs. Goldie Jeffries, Oak Hill, and Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson and Mrs. June Martin, both of Lanark; a brother, Walton Gill, Stanaford; three sisters, Mrs. Elsie Shirkey, Raleigh, Mrs. Elva Berry, Stanaford, and Mrs. Annie Mosley, Riverview, Fla.; 47 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.

Gill was preceded in death by two sons, Clayton and Clinton.

Friends may call at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Chapel Wednesday after 5 p.m.

Pallbearers will be Ronnie Mills, Daniel Brock, Bobby Baker, Bill Welch, Earnest Keller Jr. and Ralph Adkins.

Sources

[S1076] National Archives and Records Administration: Washington, DC, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, (Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.).
[S996] Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index, Master File, (Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.) (Reliability: 3).
lists date of birth as 7 September 1897
[S1687] West Virginia. Beckley., Raleigh Register, "Deaths...And...Funerals, Oscar P. Gill," 25 Jun 1974, p. 2, col. F; digital images, \i Newspapers.com\i0 ?(http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 9 Jul 2014). (Reliability: 3).
lists date of birth as 6 Sep 1897.
[S996] Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index, Master File, (Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.).
[S1687] West Virginia. Beckley., Raleigh Register, "Deaths...And...Funerals, Oscar P. Gill," 25 Jun 1974, p. 2, col. F; digital images, \i Newspapers.com\i0 ?(http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 9 Jul 2014). (Reliability: 3).
[S1288] West Virginia. Fayette County., Fayette Co., WV Marriage Register, (Digital images. West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Vital Research Records. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/ : 2009.), marriage register, 5: 62, Gill-Jones, 1919; accessed 12 Jul 2014. (Reliability: 3).