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1924 - 2002 (77 years)
1893 - 1977 (83 years)
Birth |
8 May 1893 |
Callands, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Died |
6 Jan 1977 |
Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia |
Buried |
8 Jan 1977 |
County Line Christian Church, Axton, Henry County, Virginia |
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Father |
Peter Thomas "Pete" Wells, b. 20 May 1866, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Mother |
Nannie Belle Palmer, b. 23 Nov 1874, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Married |
11 Feb 1893 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
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Family |
Elsie Elizabeth Aaron, b. 9 Dec 1895, Henry County, Virginia |
Children |
+ | 1. Doris Ann Wells, b. 14 Aug 1915, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
+ | 2. Mary Gladys Wells, b. 13 Oct 1917, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| 3. Living |
| 4. Eunice Irene Wells, b. 18 Nov 1921, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| 5. Robert E. Wells, b. 9 May 1924, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
+ | 6. Ryland T. Wells, b. 9 May 1924, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
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1895 - 1976 (80 years)
Birth |
9 Dec 1895 |
Henry County, Virginia |
Died |
11 Nov 1976 |
Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia |
Buried |
County Line Christian Church Cemetery, Virginia |
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Father |
Bruce James Aaron, b. 15 Aug 1864, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Mother |
Susan Clay "Susie" Marlowe, b. 25 Mar 1873, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Married |
26 Jan 1888 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
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Family |
Leslie Stone "Snorty" Wells, b. 8 May 1893, Callands, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Children |
+ | 1. Doris Ann Wells, b. 14 Aug 1915, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
+ | 2. Mary Gladys Wells, b. 13 Oct 1917, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| 3. Living |
| 4. Eunice Irene Wells, b. 18 Nov 1921, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| 5. Robert E. Wells, b. 9 May 1924, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
+ | 6. Ryland T. Wells, b. 9 May 1924, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
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1930 - 1991 (60 years)
Birth |
27 Dec 1930 |
Meadows of Dan, Virginia |
Died |
8 Aug 1991 |
Durham, Durham, North Carolina |
Buried |
Roselawn Burial Park, Martinsville, Virginia |
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Father |
Preston Yeatts |
Mother |
Virginia Spangler |
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Family |
Ryland T. Wells, b. 9 May 1924, Pittsylvania County, Virginia [3, 4] |
Children |
| 1. Michael L. Wells, b. 16 Apr 1949, Virginia |
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1949 - 2013 (64 years)
Birth |
16 Apr 1949 |
Virginia |
Died |
9 Dec 2013 |
Roanoke City, Virginia |
Buried |
Cremated |
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Father |
Ryland T. Wells, b. 9 May 1924, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Mother |
Opal Arlene Yeatts, b. 27 Dec 1930, Meadows of Dan, Virginia |
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Name |
Ryland T. Wells |
Born |
9 May 1924 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
1 Oct 2002 |
Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia |
Buried |
Roselawn Burial Park, Martinsville, Virginia |
Person ID |
I12831 |
My Reynolds Line |
Last Modified |
29 Jun 2021 |
Father |
Leslie Stone "Snorty" Wells, b. 8 May 1893, Callands, Pittsylvania County, Virginia , d. 6 Jan 1977, Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia (Age 83 years) |
Mother |
Elsie Elizabeth Aaron, b. 9 Dec 1895, Henry County, Virginia , d. 11 Nov 1976, Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia (Age 80 years) |
Family ID |
F3782 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Opal Arlene Yeatts, b. 27 Dec 1930, Meadows of Dan, Virginia , d. 8 Aug 1991, Durham, Durham, North Carolina (Age 60 years) |
Children |
| 1. Michael L. Wells, b. 16 Apr 1949, Virginia , d. 9 Dec 2013, Roanoke City, Virginia (Age 64 years) |
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Last Modified |
29 Jun 2021 |
Family ID |
F518495848 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Notes |
- Martinsville Bulletin (VA) - Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Ryland T. Wells, 78, of 78 Garden Drive, Ridgeway, died Oct. 1, 2002, at Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County.
Wells was a World War II Army veteran, having served in the European Theater. He was awarded five Battle Stars and an Arrowhead for the D-Day Invasion.
Born May 9, 1924, in Callands, he was the son of the late Leslie Stone Wells and Elsie E. Aaron Wells. He also was preceded in death by his wife, Opal Y. Wells.
He retired from LADD Furniture Co. with 25 years of service, and he had been a member of County Line Christian Church for 65 years.
Surviving are one son, Michael Wells of Ridgeway; a brother, Robert Wells of Martinsville; and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Roselawn Chapel Funeral Home with the Rev. J.D. Hunt officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Burial Park.
The family will receive friends at Roselawn Chapel Funeral Home from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today.
Memorials may be made to: D-Day Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 77, Bedford, Va. 24523.
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Sources |
- [S65] Military Record.
Ryland T Wells, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
Name: Ryland T Wells
Name (Original): WELLS RYLAND T
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 08 Mar 1943
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Event Place: Roanoke, Virginia, United States
Residence Place:
Race: White
Citizenship Status: citizen
Birth Year: 1924
Birthplace: VIRGINIA
Education Level: Grammar school
Civilian Occupation: Semiskilled warehousing, storekeeping, handling, loading, unloading, and related occupations, n.e.c.
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Military Rank: Private
Army Branch: No branch assignment
Army Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source Reference: Civil Life
Serial Number: 33534746
Affiliate Publication Title: Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946
Affiliate ARC Identifier: 1263923
Box Film Number: 06731.190
- [S150] Photograph.
- [S48] Ancestry Link.
Opal Arlene Wells, "North Carolina, Deaths, 1931-1994"
Name: Opal Arlene Wells
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 08 Aug 1991
Event Place: Durham, Durham, North Carolina
Birth Year: 1930
Birth Year (Estimated):
Burial Date:
Burial Place: Martinsville, Virginia
Cemetery: Roselawn Burial Park
Funeral Home:
Residence Place: Rt 3, Box 710
Address: Rt. 3 Box 710
Gender: Female
Age: 60
Marital Status: Married
Race (Original): White
Occupation: Homemaker
Birth Date: 27 Dec 1930
Birthplace: Meadows Of Dan, Virginia
Father's Name: Preston Yeatts
Father's Titles and Terms:
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Virginia Spangler
Mother's Titles and Terms:
Mother's Birthplace:
Spouse's Name: Ryland T. Wells
Spouse's Titles and Terms:
Additional Relatives:
Informant's Name:
Reference ID: v 35A cn 35308
GS Film number: 1991848
- [S3] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston, http://devintimber.org/getperson.php?personID=I12830&tree=dt001.
Mr. and Mrs. Wells who live on Route No. 2 have given three sons to the service. Two of them are nineteen-year-old twins who had never been separated and who betrayed all of the manifestations of affinity and attachment which often is betrayed by twins. Then the draft came along and picked up the brothers and inducted them the same day. Their only plea was that they be permitted to perform their war service together and they would not be separated. But the induction brass hats could not see it that way, and their pleas were resisted. Robert Wells was assigned to Camp Shelby, Miss., and Ryland Wells was assigned to Plattsburg, N. Y.
Their letters home were brave and assumed a guise of cheerfulness, but the intuitions of a mother told her that he boys, never before separated, were suffering from the dejection of isolation and that service with the forces was not as happy as it would be if they were together.
Mrs. Wells realized her difficulties in effecting a remedy and the, one day, she hitched her wagon to a star, sat down and wrote to the commander-in-chief and asked him if there was anything that he could do about it.
Mr. Roosevelt answered the letter promptly and told Mrs. Wells that he had referred the case of her boys to the War Department with the personal recommendation that the twins be reunited. The President saw a question of morale in their plight and he possessed the human sympathy of a father who himself has boys on the fighting front.
Nor was it long before Private Robert Wells was paraded one day before his commanding officer and was told that he had been reassigned. He was handed travel orders sending him to Plattsburg. Arriving there, he was assigned to the same ompany in which his brother was serving in an engineering outfit. Then they sailed together and are now at a point in North Africa.
They wrote home the other day separate letters each one relating that the twins now have a corporal?s stripes and are moving along together in promotion.
They are happier than they were when they first entered the army and they tell their parents not to worry over them and that they hope before long to be home to enjoy the comforts of peaceful life once more. The third brother, Carlton A. Wells is in service, somewhere in England.
Mrs. Wells treasures the letter of the commander-in-chief because it brought her a happy issue out of her affliction. It gave her renewed faith in the processes of democracy and realization that the President of the United States is not immured in an ivory tower, but can be reached directly by the people and that he made a personal issue of a war mother's distress case.
Answer to a Mother?s Plea
(Transcription of original letter)
The White House
Washington
April 6, 1943
My dear Mrs. Wells:
In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of March thirtieth, I want you to know that, by the President's direction, the matter about which you write is being brought to the attention of the appropriate officials of the War Department.
Very sincerely yours,
Edwin M. Watson
Major General, U. S. Army
Secretary to the President
Mrs. L. S. Wells,
805 Princeton Street,
Martinsville, Virginia
Letter from a Commanding Officer to a War Mother
July 1944
From 2nd Lieut. George A. Worth (England) to Mrs. L. S. Wells (Martinsville)
I am your sons platoon commander. Thought a few words to their mother would help convey the pride I feel in your two boys' So far I've been able to keep them together, in the same squad, one the leader and the other the assistant. They are a good team, too. I only wish I had all my men as young, capable, and willing to do a hard job day or night as your boys. They haven't any idea of this letter. Today we are resting. Both are in good health, tanned as Indians, toughened for the big job ahead (the letter was written before the invasion in which they are now participating) and doing excellent on their jobs now. You have reason to be proud of Robert and Ryland. Incidentally, even after a year I still get them mixed up.
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