Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Tombstone Tuesday–John Calvin Deese


John Calvin Deese
10 November 1852 – 2 March 1930

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John Calvin Deese is my 2nd Great Grandfather. My grandmother was one of four daughters born to John Calvin and Louvena Huneycutt Deese. Louvena and the last child Louvena perished during that childbirth and are buried at the Cedar Creek Meeting House, to the left when entering the Church.

After the death of Louvena, John Calvin married Sarah Frances Gathings, daughter of William W. Gathings and Charlotte Jones.

John Calvin and Charlotte also had three daughter; no sons were born to either of these unions.

The NC Death certificate[1] for John Calvin Deese shows he died 2 April 1930; but it’s wrong. His tombstone shows that John Calvin died on 1 April 1930. His Obituary[2] found in the 3 April (Thursday) 1930, The Messenger & Intelligence, Page 10, Morven News states:

Death of J. Calvin Deese Tuesday night at 11 o'clock. Mr. J. Calvin Deese died at his home. He had been a victim of paralysis for a long time and the end was expected at any hour. The funeral was held in the Methodist church Thursday morning at 10 o'clock conducted by his pastor, Rev. C. L. McCain, and interment was in the Morven cemetery where a large number of sorrowing friends and relatives gathered to pay the last tribute to a man who had always la-bored with both heart and hand to do the right thing for his Master, his country and family. Mr. Deese was 77 years of age; he had been a citizen of Morven nearly all his life. He was twice married, first to Miss Lavenia Honeycutt and to this union three children were born, and second to Miss Fannie Gathings, and to them were born three children also. He is survived by his second wife and five daughters. They are: Mrs. Baldwin, of Palestine; Mrs. Jim Purvis, of McFarlan; Mrs. Reuben Philips and Misses Lizzie and Cora Deese of Morven. [The Messenger & Intelligence, 3 April 1930, Page 10, Morven News]

I have a photo of Louvena Huneycutt Deese but have been unable to locate a photo of John Calvin Deese. If you have one that you would like to share; please let me know.



[1] State of North Carolina, death (2 April 1930), Calvin Deere [Deese]; https://www.ancestry.com, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.
[2] John Calvin Deese obituary, The Messenger & Intelligence, Wadesboro, North Carolina, 3 April 1930, Page 10, Morven News.

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