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1869 - 1944 (75 years)
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Name |
John Riley PACK |
Born |
5 Apr 1869 |
Indian Creek, Tazewell Co. VA |
- Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1917, P83 L121"
Name:John Pack
Date of Birth: 18 Sep 1869 [birth date different from other records]
Place: Sinking Waters, Tazewell, Virginia
Parents: Flem and Rebecca J. Pack
1900 Census gives his DOB as Apr 1871.
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Male |
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_UID |
A44893E1DB52414F94D7955608CC444AD50D |
Died |
7 Jul 1944 |
Cedar Bluff Tazewell Co. VA |
- Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014 Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia
Name: John Riley Pack
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age at Death: 73
Birth Date: 6 Apr 1871
Birth Place: Tazewell Co. VA
Death Date: 7 Jul 1944
Death Place: Cedar Bluff, Tazewell, Virginia
Cause of Death: Pulmonary TB
Registration Date: 18 Jul 1944
Father: Flem Pack
Mother: Jane Burress
Spouse: Rosa Beavers
Certificate Number: 1944016704
Informant: Russell McCann [son-in-law]
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- CENSUS RECORDS
1870 United States Federal Census
Name: John Pack
Age in 1870: 1
Birth Year: abt 1869
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1870: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male [in household of his father, Fleming Pack]
Post Office: Knob
Household Members:
Name Age
Fleming Pack 35
Rebecca T Pack 30
Eliza Pack 14
Levi Pack 7
James Pack 9
William Pack 5
John Pack 1
1880 United States Federal Census
Name: John Pack
Age: 10
Birth Year: abt 1870
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1880: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Fleming Pack
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Household Members:
Name Age
Fleming Pack 40
Louisa Pack 18
Levie Pack 16
William Pack 12
John Pack 10
Margret Pack 7
1900 United States Federal Census
Name: John Pack
Age: 29
Birth Date: Apr 1871
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1900: Big Creek, McDowell, West Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Rosa Pack
Marriage Year: 1890
Years Married: 10
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Occupation: Farmer
Household Members:
John Pack 29
Rosa Pack 22
Ellie Pack 8
Brook Pack 6
Robert Pack 4
Mack Pack 2
Charles S Pack 2 months
1910 United States Federal Census
Name: John R Pack
Age in 1910: 41
Birth Year: 1869
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1910: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mollie R Pack
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Occupation: Farmer, general farm
Household Members:
John R Pack 41
Mollie R Pack 33
Brooks F Pack 17
Robert W Pack 14
Charles R Pack 10
Nannie T Pack 8
Emory E Pack 5
1920 United States Federal Census
Name: John R Pack
Age: 49
Birth Year: abt 1871
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1920: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mollie R Pack
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Home owned: Own
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Occupation: Farmer, General Farm
Household Members:
Name Age
John R Pack 49
Mollie R Pack 42
Thelma Pack 19
Helen M Pack 6
John Pack 3 years 9 months
1930 United States Federal Census
Name: John R Pack
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1871
Birthplace: Virginia
Race: White
Home in 1930: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: May E Pack
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Occupation: Manager, Farm
Household Members:
John R Pack 59
May E Pack 29
Helen M Pack 16
John J Pack 13
1940 United States Federal Census
Name: J R Pack
Respondent: Yes
Age: 68
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1872
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Virginia
Marital Status: Widowed
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
House Number: 96
Farm: Yes
Inferred Residence in 1935: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Residence in 1935: Same House
Owned home, worth $800
Education: 2nd grade
Occupation: Farmer
Worked 40 weeks in 1939, amount earned is blank
Household Members:
J R Pack 68
Russell McCann 30
Hellen McCann 23
Bill McCann 6
Charles McCann 4
Mary McCann 1
ORAL HISTORY
Lived in home place in Baptist Valley until he died. Daughter Helen and her family took care of him.
Kept a stable of riding horses. Nancy Whitaker Tate broke her arm as a child when she, Uncle Buddy (John Riley, Jr.), and Theodore Pack, took one of the horses without permission. Theodore lost his balance and pulled Nancy off who then pulled Buddy off. Nancy was afraid to tell what happened and hid until after dark in the once the granaries. One of the boys told where she was, so they found her and took her to the doctor. John R. Pack didn't fuss. Cheryl Tate Duke remembers seeing Ella Pack Whitaker's side saddle in the garage when Cheryl was a teenager.
Owned land from the home place in Baptist Valley all the way to Pounding Mill.
Played the banjo well. He would sing the old songs he grew up with.
Never drove a car, he always rode horseback.
5 ft 8 in. to 5 ft. 10 in. Very slim, had red hair when he was young. According to Nancy Whitaker Tate, he didn't take anything off of anybody. People knew he has honest and didn't mess with him. Minded his own business. He always wore up in dress clothes. He always had money and sold beautiful riding horses.
LAND RECORDS
This Deed, made this 5th day of July in the year of 1913 between J.R. Pack and Rosie Pack his wife of the first part, and William Whitaker of the second part.
Witnesseth: That in consideration of two hundred and eight dollars cash in hand paid the receipt whereof is here by acknowledged, the said parties of the first part do grant unto the said parties of the second part, all that certain tract, piece or parcel of land, lying in Tazewell County, Va. and bounded as follows. To Wit: Beginning at a bunch of Lynn sprouts on the top of a ridge a corner to William Whitaker thense leaving ridge S. 20 - 10 E 528 feet to a stake on end of spur at a wire fence in a line of W.B. Steel and with his line N 61' 30 W 640 5/10 ft to a locust post on said ridge a corner to WB Steel and William Whitaker and with several of Whitakers line and with top of Ridge N. 44' 30 E. 132 9/10 ft. N 37' 30 E. 146 5/10 ft. to a stake 4 ft. north of a marked locust N. 52' 30 E. 145 ft. N 49 E 146 ft to the beginning containing 4 16/100 acres more or less the said Whitaker and the said parties of the first part do covenant that they will warrant generally the property hereby conveyed; that they have the right to convey the said land to the said William Whitaker and the said William Whitaker shall have quiet possession of the said land free from encumbrances; that they will execute such further assurance of the said land as may be requisite; and that they have done no act to encumber the said lands.
Witness the following signatures and seals:
J.R. Pack
Rosa Pack
State of Virginia County of Tazewell to Wit:
I, J.H. Beavers, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Tazewell aforesaid, in the state of Virginia, do certify that J.R. Pack and Rosa, his wife, whose names are signed to the within deed bearing date on the 5th day of July 1913 have acknowledged the same before me in my County aforesaid. Given under my hand this the 26th day of July, 1913 J.H. Beavers, JP
Virginia: In the Clerks Office of Tazewell Circuit Court, Oct. 18, 1913. This deed was presented and upon the annexed certification of acknowledgement, admitted to record.
Source:
Tazewell County Deed Book 75, Page 164
Date: 5 July 1913
WILL
Last Will and Testament of John Riley Pack
I, John R. Pack of Tazewell County, Virginia, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all wills by me at any time heretofore made.
First, I do give and bequeath all my money and a One Thousand Dollar Government Bond equally to my four children, namely: Brooks F. Pack, Ellie Whitaker, Thelma Christian, and Helen McCann.
Second, I do give and bequeath all other personal property found upon my farm at my decease equally to my four children above named. It is my desire that they divide the property in kind if they can come upon an agreement as to how it should be divided, and if they cannot do this, it is to be sold by my executor and the proceeds divided equally.
Third, I do give, devise and bequeath my two daughters, Ellie Whitaker and Thelma Christian, the lower part of my farm joining Bill Whitaker and starting below the house at a locust post on the edge of the public highway; thence from this post a straight line to the main branch and from there running with the fence as far as it goes, then dividing the spur a straight line to where my land joins the Gillespie heirs. The said devise is in fee simple.
Fourth, I do give, devise and bequeath to my daughter, Helen McCann, that portion of my farm where the home stands, starting at a small locust thence a straight line to a stake near the center of a point; thence a straight line to a stake in the short crook in the line between my land and the Gillespie heirs. The said devise is in fee simple with the exception of the cemetery. The said cemetery is to be excepted and reserved from any conveyance that might be made of the said land by the said Helen McCann, her heirs, assigns, or personal representative.
Fifth, I do give, devise and bequeath to my son, Brooks F. Pack, the balance of my farm up to the Duncan Line. The said devise is in fee simple.
Sixth, I give, devise and bequeath to all of my four children hereinbefore named, a right to use the spring located near my home place with a right of ingress and egress to the said spring.
Seventh, Although the portions hereinbefore set out and devised to each of my children is a fee simple, none of them shall sell his or her portion to any person other than a brother or sister within a period of five years. After the said period of five years each one of them may sell or transfer to any person they desire.
Eighth, I do give, devise and bequeath to each of my four children hereinbefore named and mentioned a right of way over the portions granted to all of them. This is, each and every child shall have a right to pass over the portions granted to the others.
Ninth, I do appoint my son, Brooks F. Pack, as the executor of this my last will and testament; and I do direct that no security be required of the said Brooks F. Pack as executor hereof upon his qualification.
In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal to this, my last will and testament, which is written without any interlineations of erasures on one side only of two sheets of paper, this the 20th dy of May 1944.
John R. Pack
The above signature of the testator was made and the foregoing will was acknowledged to be his last will and testament by the said testator, in the presence of us, three competent witnesses, present at the same time; and we, the said witnesses, do hereunto subscribe the said will on the date last above written, in the presence of the said testator and of each other, at the request of the said testator, who was then of sound mind and over the age of twenty one years.
J.K. McFarlene
John W. Buchanan
Mrs. Ida Buchanan
Virginia: In the Clerks Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Tazewell, the 15th day of July 1944
PROBATE RECORDS
In Re: Last Will and Testament of John R. Pack, deceased.
A writing dated the 20th day of May, 1944, purporting to be the last will and testament of John R. Pack was this day produced in said Clerk's Office and offered for probate. It appearing from the evidence introduced that the said John R. Pack died on the 7th day of July, 1944; that at the time of his death he was a resident of Tazewell County, Virginia, and owned personal property and real estate therein.
Thereupon came John W. Buchanan and Mrs. Ida Buchanan, two of the subscribing witnesses to said writing, who, after being duly sworn, stated that the said writing dated the 20th day of May, 1944, was signed and acknowledged by the said John R. Pack in their presence, and in the presence of J.K. McFarlene, the other subscribing witness thereto, and that they, the said John W. Buchanan, Mrs. Ida Buchanan and J.K. McFarlane, signed their names thereto as subscribing witnesses at the request of the said John R. Pack and in his presence and in the presence of each other, all four being present together at the same time, and that, in their opinion, the said John R. Pack was of sound mind and memory at the time thereof. It therefore appearing that the said writing was properly executed as a will is required to be executed by law, and that the same has been legally proven the said writing is hereby admitted to probate and ordered to be recorded as and for the last will and testament of John R. Pack, deceased.
Thereupon came Brooks F. Pack, who is named in said writing as Executor thereof, and qualified as such Executor by taking and subscribing the oath required by law, and by entering into bond in the penalty of Thirty-five Hundred ($3,500.00) Dollars, without security as set out in said writing.
Given under my hand this 15th day of July, 1944
Malve G. Hurt, Deputy Clerk.
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Virginia - Circuit Court of the County of Tazewell
Estate of John R. Pack, deceased:
I, the undersigned, who this day qualified before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Tazewell, Virginia, on my oath do say that I have diligently made inquiry and that I believe that following to be a true and correct list together with the ages and addresses of the heirs of my decedent, John R. Pack, or of those who would have been his heirs had he died intestate. I do further declare on oath that my name is Brooks F. Pack and my post office address is Cedar Bluff, Virginia.
List of Heirs:
Ella P. Whittaker 52 Daughter Cedar Bluff Virginia
Brooks F. Pack 50 Son Cedar Bluff Virginia
Thelma Christian 42 Daughter Bluefield West Virginia
Helen P. McCann 30 Daughter Cedar Bluff Virginia
Given under my hand this 14th day of July 1944
Brooks F. Pack, Executor
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of July, 1944
Detail: Last Will and Testament of John Riley Pack
Date: 15 July 1944
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Person ID |
I2817 |
Master File |
Last Modified |
1 Apr 2016 |
Family 1 |
Mollie Rosa BEAVERS, b. 24 Aug 1877, Berwind, McDowell Co. WV , d. 31 Jan 1923, Richlands, Tazewell Co. VA (Age 45 years) |
Married |
3 Jul 1890 |
McDowell Co. WV [2] |
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Children |
| 1. Ella Mae PACK, b. 26 Oct 1891, Berwind, McDowell Co. WV , d. 20 Nov 1978, Richmond, VA (Age 87 years) |
+ | 2. Brooks Foster PACK, b. 1 Aug 1893, Big Creek District, McDowell Co. WV , d. 16 Dec 1945, Cedar Bluff, Tazewell Co. VA (Age 52 years) |
| 3. Robert PACK, b. 4 Nov 1895, McDowell Co. WV , d. 20 Dec 1925, Tazewell Co. VA (Age 30 years) |
| 4. Mack PACK, b. Oct 1897, McDowell Co. WV , d. Bef 1910, McDowell Co. WV (Age ~ 12 years) |
| 5. Charles Roscoe PACK, b. 18 Mar 1900, McDowell Co. WV , d. 15 Oct 1918, Battle of Meuse-Argonne, Meuse, Lorraine, France (Age 18 years) |
| 6. Nannie Thelma PACK, b. 24 Jul 1902, Cedar Bluff, Tazewell Co. VA , d. 9 Dec 1957, Wise, Wise Co. VA (Age 55 years) |
| 7. Emory E. PACK, b. 13 Jun 1905, d. 15 Mar 1911, Baptist Valley, Tazewell Co. VA (Age 5 years) |
| 8. Helen Marie PACK, b. 5 Jan 1914, Cedar Bluff, Tazewell Co. VA , d. 15 Jan 2003, Parma, Cuyahoga Co. OH (Age 89 years) |
| 9. John Riley PACK, Jr., b. 8 Mar 1917, Tazewell Co. VA , d. 27 Oct 1932, Tazewell Co. VA (Age 15 years) |
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Last Modified |
22 Jul 2012 |
Family ID |
F1962 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 2 |
Mae SHREVE, b. 06 Sep 1901, Tazewell Co. VA , d. 27 Jun 1930, Tazewell Co. VA (Age 28 years) |
Married |
12 Oct 1927 |
Tazewell Co. VA |
- Source: Tazewell County Marriage Register 4 Page 48 and 50
May 26, 1927 (Not Executed) John R. Pack 56 (Widowed) and Mae Shreve 24 (Single). Both Born Tazewell County, VA. Husband resides: Cedar Bluff. Wife Resides: Raven. Husband Parents: Flem & Rebecca Wife Parents: R.W. and Ella Husband: Farmer
[Actual Marriage date is found Page 50, 10-12-27]
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Last Modified |
25 Jun 2013 |
Family ID |
F1998 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S3] Nancy Whitaker Tate Interview, Cheryl Tate Duke, (11/26/00-current).
- [S35] Marriage Book 1, McDowell Co WV, 1865-1886, p. 121.
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