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Record for Mary Bell Preece (31) facts
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Mary Bell Toler Preece
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Mary Bell Toler Preece
BIRTH 2 Nov 1872
Logan County, West Virginia, USA
DEATH 10 Jan 1932 (aged 59)
Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky, USA
BURIAL Toler Cemetery
Mingo County, West Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID93725260 ·
PHOTOS 1
FLOWERS 3
Daughter of Andy and Martha (Hatfield) Toler
Married to Hiram Wesley Preece in 1898 (Mingo Co, WV)
Had a child with Miniard Holbrook Thompson. The love of her life. No records of a marriage have been found between them. Preece would not grant her a divorce. After Miniard passed away, she went back to Preece until her untimely death.
She is buried beside her mother.
My ggrandmother, Wookie, was never told where her mother's body was taken. Wes Preece had shipped her by train to, what we find later, her family's cemetery. She never got to visit the grave & it always unsettled her. Once we researched & heard of the cemetery, some family members took the trip and found our Mary B. :) It was 80 years before we found her. A little strange that her daughter claimed she never knew where Mary Bell was buried, it was afterall noted in her obituary and on her death certificate.
A couple years before Mary B died, Wookie drove her to the Deaconess Hospital in Ironton, Ohio to have a breast removed due to cancer. They made another trip over a year later to see if the doctor would remove the other, but were told the cancer had already spread & there was nothing more that could be done. Mary B passed within 5 months before her 1st grandchild was born.
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MRS. MARY PREECE SUCCUMBS SUNDAY
Resident of Louisa Passes Away After Illness of Over Year
Mrs. Mary Toler Preece, 59 years old, died early Sunday morning at her home on Sullivan street after an illness of over a year.
Mrs. Preece is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Toler of Wharncliffe, W.Va., and moved here several years ago. Her husband, H. W. Preece, is a real estate dealer at Williamson. Mrs. Preece has been a member of the Baptist church for many years.
Besider her husband, she is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Willie Curnutte, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Herb Riddle, Williams, and Mrs. Zettie Livingston, Washington D.C., and seven brothers, Dewey Toler, Howard Toler, Wharncliffe, W.Va.; Mont Toler, Roll, W.Va.; Brack Toler, Glen Allen, W.Va.; Julius Toler, Williamson; Jud Toler, Indianapolis, Ind, and Ed Toler, Mateway.
A great nephew, Scott Thompson of Sinking Springs, Ohio, was here during her illness.
Brief funeral services were conducted at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, from the home by Rev. Frank Hardin and Rev. H. B. Hewlett. The body was taken to Wharncliffe where funeral and burial rites were conducted at 1 o'clock. Burial was made in the cemetery there.
*The sisters, Zettie, was actually in Washington State, and Lula Riddle was in Williamson, WV.*
Family Members
Parents
Rev Andrew Morris "Andy" Toler
1835-1902
Martha "Mattie" Hatfield Toler
1833-1891
Spouse
Hiram Wesley Preece
1866-1943
Siblings
James Montgomery Patterson "Mont" Toler
1859-1942
John Crimington Brackenridge "Brack" Toler
1861-1951
Anderson Howard Toler
1865-1945
Laura Zettie Toler Livingstone
1869-1962
Julius Caesar Toler
1873-1948
Half Siblings
Louetha Gay "Lula" Toler Riddle
1893-1977
John Goff "Judge" Toler
1896-1950
Rev Admiral Dewey Toler
1898-1977
General Otis Toler
1899-1917
Children
Wookie "Giggie" Thompson Curnutte
1911-1982
Flowers • 3
Left by Mueller Family on 1 Aug 2013
Left by Aunt Bee on the porch in Mayberry on 8 Feb 2013
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1866 - 1943 (77 years)
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