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John Edward Wilkinson

ID Number: T05323

Biographical Data
Basic Identification

Gender: male

Ethnicity:

Immigration:

Attributed Race: black

Free or Enslaved: unknown

Birth & Family

Birth Date: 1880/11/29

Birthplace: Lynchburg, Virginia

Mother: Fannie G. Wilkinson

Father: J. Tip Wilkinson

1st Spouse: Selina Warren Langhorne Wilkinson

2nd Spouse: male

Age Details

Age: 50

Age Group: unknown

Life Details

Occupation(s): barber

Last Church:

Military Service:

Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia

Last Address: 811 Taylor Street

Death

Death Date: 1931/06/08 or 09

Death Note: none

Place of Death: Found dead in woods on Candler’s Mountain, June 17, 1931

Cause of Death: suicide – pistol bullet

Burial & Undertaking

Burial Date: 1931/06/18

Funeral Home:

Diuguid ID Number:

Indigent?: pauper interment

Gravesite and Grave Marker Data

Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: none

Section: “Potter’s Field”

Confirmation Source for Location:

Grave Marker Erector(s):

Confirmation Source for Interment: official ledger

Notes

pauper; “found in woods June 17, 1931, body decomposed, probably dead since 8th or 9th”

Others In Same Plot (T0245)
Full Name
Birth Date
Death Date
John Tipton Wilkinson
1849/unknown/unknown
1906/03/26
Hudson G. Wilkinson
1887/unknown/unknown
1925/09/17
Rosa F. Wilkinson
1869 (c.1865)/unknown/unknown
1937/08/26
Obituary and Biographical Detials

From Diuguid record:
“Body was placed in box at place of death and transported via hearse to Methodist Cmty., City. No services.”