James Peery Pruett

Other Events:

• Newspaper: 8 Sep 1911, Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. Peery Pruett and children will leave on No. 6 tonight for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arch Brewster, near Gillespie.
• Newspaper: 12 Jan 1912, Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia; Peery Pruett has moved his family into the section house lately vacated by Mrs. Ida Baldwin.
• Newspaper: 25 Oct 1912, Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia; Peery Pruett has moved into the lower rooms of the Henry Robinett property.
• Newspaper: 28 Mar 1913, Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia; Peery PRUETT narrowly escaped death at the quarry Saturday afternoon of last week by a rock rolling down an embankment. The freight was switched about about the time he was thrown under the train. Had he not fallen or rolled under the train the immense rock of several tons would have crushed the life out of him. However, he escaped with a bad cut on the top of his head and a badly cut hand.
• Newspaper: 17 Oct 1913, Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. Peery PRUETT have a boy baby.
• Newspaper: 30 Apr 1915, Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia; On Monday afternoon about 5 o'clock the three room cottage belonging to Mrs. Joseph PRUETT and occupied by her son, Peery, was burned. Although Mrs. PRUETT was in the next room, entertaining a relative, the entire household effects, except a washing machine, at the kitchen door, were consumed. The origin of the fire is unknown, as there had been no fire in the room for a few days. The room was covered with several thicknesses of paper and burned rapidly. Friends and relatives have made them up a nice little purse.
• Newspaper: 17 Mar 1916, Tazewell County, Virginia; Peery PRUITT moved his family from this town to Tazewell, where he will farm for John MCGRAW on the county farm.
• Draft Card: 5 Jun 1917, Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Virginia; WWI Draft Registration
• Draft Card: 1942, Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia; WWII Draft Registration

Notes:

Draft Card:
Residence Pounding Mill, Tazewell, Virginia Age in Years 29 Birth Date 15 August 1887 Occupation Farmer Employed By RK Gillespie Employed Where Pounding Mill, Virginia Dependants Wife & 3 Children Married Yes Height Medium Build Medium Eye Color Brown Hair Color Dark Brown Registration Date 5 June 1917

Draft Card:
Residence Richlands, Tazewell, Virginia Age in Years 54 Birth Date 15 August 1887 (Pounding Mill, Tazewell Va) Employed By N & W Railroad Employed Where Richlands, Virginia Nearest Relative Carrie Pruett Height 5'8" Build 140 Eye Color Brown Hair Color Brown Complexion Ruddy

Died:
Peery Pruett, 61 years of age, died Sunday at this home in Richlands. He was a railroad carpenter for the Norfolk and Western railway but retired three years ago on account of ill health. He is survived by his wife, the former miss Carrie Brewster, of Maxwell, and four children: Virgil H. Pruett, of Bluefield; Perry B. Pruett and Arch Pruett, both of Richlands, and Miss Mary Elizabeth Pruett, of Richlands and the following brothers and sisters: John Pruett, of Pounding Mill; Baylor, of Newhall and B. E. Pruett of Wheelersburg, Ohio; Mrs. Lou Sparks of Princeton, and Mrs. Octavia Nunley of Pounding Mill.

James married Carrie M. Brewster on 27 May 1908 in Tazewell County, Virginia. Carrie (daughter of Archibald Brewster and Cynthia Elizabeth Earls) was born on 31 Jul 1885 in Tazewell County, Virginia; died in Dec 1974 in Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]