Bessie Isabell Wood Wilmoth
May 24, 1909 - February 7, 1978
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Bessie was born in Surry County, N.C. She worked all of her life and raised
nine children. She lived the last years of her life in a wheelchair due to crippling rhuematoid arthritis. She loved to embroider and was able to make each one of her children a bedspread and pillowcases before she became totally crippled. We still have ours to this day. She was a member of Hanes Baptist Church. She is buried at Forsyth Memorial Park in Winston-Salem, N.C. |
William Early Wilmoth
February 20, 1905 - January 7, 1987
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William "Early" was born in Surry County, N.C. He was employed with P.H. Hanes all his life while also farming and raising nine children. He helped build some of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the mountains of N.C. He loved to farm and raised the best gardens around. He dabbled in beekeeping and producing sourwood honey. He developed Alzheimers in his later years and passed away. He is buried at Forsyth Memorial Park in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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