Joshua Clay Stickles was the youngest of five sons from the marriage of Simon and Mary Anna Lee (Pier) Stickles. With the early death of his father in 1917, Joshua was forced to drop-out of school prior to the age of 10 "to bring in some money" for his family by his mother in a sock-mill, thus ending his formal education--which upset him greatly for the remainder of his life. Later, at the age of 12 to 13--and with the remarriage of his mother to a man he didn't like/care for, "Jake" left Bluemont for good by hopping a train to Washington, D.C. to live and work with his older brother--Hubert Montague Stickles.
After a number of years working there in D.C. area and trying to find himself, etc., Jake and Hubert began returning occasionally to Bluemont/Martinsburg West Virginia areas in the mid-to-late 1920's. It was on such a visit back to Bluemont in the early-1930's that Jake began noticing the only child from the marriage of Charles W. and Portia C (Fletcher)Littleton -- a Miss Doris Virginia Littleton.
A relationship soon developed betweens these two, and continued on-and-off for about a year--at which time Joshua proposed marriage to Doris, which she quickly accepted. Family and friends were in attendance when Doris and Joshua were married on 21 Aug 1937 in Washington, D.C.
Joshua soon began his tenure with the federal government with his first position at the U.S. Navy Yard (circa 1939). In addition, he and Doris bought their first and only house that same year, a place where they would live the rest of lives, raise a family in, on Roosevelt Street in north Arlington, VA.
In the early 1940's Joshua transferred to a position with the U.S. Naval Ship Research and Development Lab just over the American Legion Bridge in Maryland.
Then on 12 Aug 1943, just a month shy from being 36 years old, and with a pregnant wife and stomach ulcers, "Jake" was drafted into the U.S. Army--beginning his service at Ft. Myers, VA. Upon the completion of basic training he soon developed serious health issues relating to his stomach ulcers--so much so that just after the birth of their first child "Larry," he was ordered to Station Hospital at Camp Gordon Johnston, FL. where he was ordered to rest and attempt to regain back his health. But it was also here at Station Hospital that doctors finally determined that he could not return to active duty, and so he was Honorably Discharged from the Army on 15 Aug 1944. He soon returned to his wife Doris and new son back in their home in north Arlington, VA.
In 1946 another son "Wayne," was born to the happy couple, and these two children would be final number of children born of this union.
Joshua would continue to work at U.S. Naval Ship Research and Development Lab until his retirement of 28+ total years of federal service. He was retired just over seven years when he suffered a heart attack and passed away at his home on 18 Jan 1975; he was 65 years old, and he and Doris had been married for 38+ years. The Lord knows how much all the family members missed him--even now.
Joshua was buried in the family burial plot in Ebenezer Church and Graveyard, Loudoun County, VA--along with his mother and father -- Simon M. and Mary Anna Lee (Pier)Stickles; also with three of his four older brother's: William M.'Willie; Harmon L.'Puddy'; Hubert Montague Stickles.
NOTE: His fourth brother, James Edward, died at two-years old and he was buried in Clarke County Ebenezer Church and Graveyard; there is no gravestone there to mark his final resting place today as the orginal field stone/rock has been long-since lost.
NOTE: In circa 2001, Larry and Wayne Stickles petitioned the White House to award a certificate to honor their father's military service by a sitting Republican President. Subsequently, a few months later they received a signed certificate which reads: "The United States of America honors the memory of JOSHUA C. STICKLES. This certificate is awarded by a grateful nation in recognition of devoted and selfless consecration to the service of our country in the Armed Forces of the United States." The certificate was signed by the then sitting President, George W. Bush.
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After a number of years working there in D.C. area and trying to find himself, etc., Jake and Hubert began returning occasionally to Bluemont/Martinsburg West Virginia areas in the mid-to-late 1920's. It was on such a visit back to Bluemont in the early-1930's that Jake began noticing the only child from the marriage of Charles W. and Portia C (Fletcher)Littleton -- a Miss Doris Virginia Littleton.
A relationship soon developed betweens these two, and continued on-and-off for about a year--at which time Joshua proposed marriage to Doris, which she quickly accepted. Family and friends were in attendance when Doris and Joshua were married on 21 Aug 1937 in Washington, D.C.
Joshua soon began his tenure with the federal government with his first position at the U.S. Navy Yard (circa 1939). In addition, he and Doris bought their first and only house that same year, a place where they would live the rest of lives, raise a family in, on Roosevelt Street in north Arlington, VA.
In the early 1940's Joshua transferred to a position with the U.S. Naval Ship Research and Development Lab just over the American Legion Bridge in Maryland.
Then on 12 Aug 1943, just a month shy from being 36 years old, and with a pregnant wife and stomach ulcers, "Jake" was drafted into the U.S. Army--beginning his service at Ft. Myers, VA. Upon the completion of basic training he soon developed serious health issues relating to his stomach ulcers--so much so that just after the birth of their first child "Larry," he was ordered to Station Hospital at Camp Gordon Johnston, FL. where he was ordered to rest and attempt to regain back his health. But it was also here at Station Hospital that doctors finally determined that he could not return to active duty, and so he was Honorably Discharged from the Army on 15 Aug 1944. He soon returned to his wife Doris and new son back in their home in north Arlington, VA.
In 1946 another son "Wayne," was born to the happy couple, and these two children would be final number of children born of this union.
Joshua would continue to work at U.S. Naval Ship Research and Development Lab until his retirement of 28+ total years of federal service. He was retired just over seven years when he suffered a heart attack and passed away at his home on 18 Jan 1975; he was 65 years old, and he and Doris had been married for 38+ years. The Lord knows how much all the family members missed him--even now.
Joshua was buried in the family burial plot in Ebenezer Church and Graveyard, Loudoun County, VA--along with his mother and father -- Simon M. and Mary Anna Lee (Pier)Stickles; also with three of his four older brother's: William M.'Willie; Harmon L.'Puddy'; Hubert Montague Stickles.
NOTE: His fourth brother, James Edward, died at two-years old and he was buried in Clarke County Ebenezer Church and Graveyard; there is no gravestone there to mark his final resting place today as the orginal field stone/rock has been long-since lost.
NOTE: In circa 2001, Larry and Wayne Stickles petitioned the White House to award a certificate to honor their father's military service by a sitting Republican President. Subsequently, a few months later they received a signed certificate which reads: "The United States of America honors the memory of JOSHUA C. STICKLES. This certificate is awarded by a grateful nation in recognition of devoted and selfless consecration to the service of our country in the Armed Forces of the United States." The certificate was signed by the then sitting President, George W. Bush.
FMI: contact [email protected]
Joshua Clay Stickles was the youngest of five sons from the marriage of Simon and Mary Anna Lee (Pier) Stickles. With the early death of his father in 1917, Joshua was forced to drop-out of school prior to the age of 10 "to bring in some money" for his family by his mother in a sock-mill, thus ending his formal education--which upset him greatly for the remainder of his life. Later, at the age of 12 to 13--and with the remarriage of his mother to a man he didn't like/care for, "Jake" left Bluemont for good by hopping a train to Washington, D.C. to live and work with his older brother--Hubert Montague Stickles.
After a number of years working there in D.C. area and trying to find himself, etc., Jake and Hubert began returning occasionally to Bluemont/Martinsburg West Virginia areas in the mid-to-late 1920's. It was on such a visit back to Bluemont in the early-1930's that Jake began noticing the only child from the marriage of Charles W. and Portia C (Fletcher)Littleton -- a Miss Doris Virginia Littleton.
A relationship soon developed betweens these two, and continued on-and-off for about a year--at which time Joshua proposed marriage to Doris, which she quickly accepted. Family and friends were in attendance when Doris and Joshua were married on 21 Aug 1937 in Washington, D.C.
Joshua soon began his tenure with the federal government with his first position at the U.S. Navy Yard (circa 1939). In addition, he and Doris bought their first and only house that same year, a place where they would live the rest of lives, raise a family in, on Roosevelt Street in north Arlington, VA.
In the early 1940's Joshua transferred to a position with the U.S. Naval Ship Research and Development Lab just over the American Legion Bridge in Maryland.
Then on 12 Aug 1943, just a month shy from being 36 years old, and with a pregnant wife and stomach ulcers, "Jake" was drafted into the U.S. Army--beginning his service at Ft. Myers, VA. Upon the completion of basic training he soon developed serious health issues relating to his stomach ulcers--so much so that just after the birth of their first child "Larry," he was ordered to Station Hospital at Camp Gordon Johnston, FL. where he was ordered to rest and attempt to regain back his health. But it was also here at Station Hospital that doctors finally determined that he could not return to active duty, and so he was Honorably Discharged from the Army on 15 Aug 1944. He soon returned to his wife Doris and new son back in their home in north Arlington, VA.
In 1946 another son "Wayne," was born to the happy couple, and these two children would be final number of children born of this union.
Joshua would continue to work at U.S. Naval Ship Research and Development Lab until his retirement of 28+ total years of federal service. He was retired just over seven years when he suffered a heart attack and passed away at his home on 18 Jan 1975; he was 65 years old, and he and Doris had been married for 38+ years. The Lord knows how much all the family members missed him--even now.
Joshua was buried in the family burial plot in Ebenezer Church and Graveyard, Loudoun County, VA--along with his mother and father -- Simon M. and Mary Anna Lee (Pier)Stickles; also with three of his four older brother's: William M.'Willie; Harmon L.'Puddy'; Hubert Montague Stickles.
NOTE: His fourth brother, James Edward, died at two-years old and he was buried in Clarke County Ebenezer Church and Graveyard; there is no gravestone there to mark his final resting place today as the orginal field stone/rock has been long-since lost.
NOTE: In circa 2001, Larry and Wayne Stickles petitioned the White House to award a certificate to honor their father's military service by a sitting Republican President. Subsequently, a few months later they received a signed certificate which reads: "The United States of America honors the memory of JOSHUA C. STICKLES. This certificate is awarded by a grateful nation in recognition of devoted and selfless consecration to the service of our country in the Armed Forces of the United States." The certificate was signed by the then sitting President, George W. Bush.
FMI: contact [email protected]
After a number of years working there in D.C. area and trying to find himself, etc., Jake and Hubert began returning occasionally to Bluemont/Martinsburg West Virginia areas in the mid-to-late 1920's. It was on such a visit back to Bluemont in the early-1930's that Jake began noticing the only child from the marriage of Charles W. and Portia C (Fletcher)Littleton -- a Miss Doris Virginia Littleton.
A relationship soon developed betweens these two, and continued on-and-off for about a year--at which time Joshua proposed marriage to Doris, which she quickly accepted. Family and friends were in attendance when Doris and Joshua were married on 21 Aug 1937 in Washington, D.C.
Joshua soon began his tenure with the federal government with his first position at the U.S. Navy Yard (circa 1939). In addition, he and Doris bought their first and only house that same year, a place where they would live the rest of lives, raise a family in, on Roosevelt Street in north Arlington, VA.
In the early 1940's Joshua transferred to a position with the U.S. Naval Ship Research and Development Lab just over the American Legion Bridge in Maryland.
Then on 12 Aug 1943, just a month shy from being 36 years old, and with a pregnant wife and stomach ulcers, "Jake" was drafted into the U.S. Army--beginning his service at Ft. Myers, VA. Upon the completion of basic training he soon developed serious health issues relating to his stomach ulcers--so much so that just after the birth of their first child "Larry," he was ordered to Station Hospital at Camp Gordon Johnston, FL. where he was ordered to rest and attempt to regain back his health. But it was also here at Station Hospital that doctors finally determined that he could not return to active duty, and so he was Honorably Discharged from the Army on 15 Aug 1944. He soon returned to his wife Doris and new son back in their home in north Arlington, VA.
In 1946 another son "Wayne," was born to the happy couple, and these two children would be final number of children born of this union.
Joshua would continue to work at U.S. Naval Ship Research and Development Lab until his retirement of 28+ total years of federal service. He was retired just over seven years when he suffered a heart attack and passed away at his home on 18 Jan 1975; he was 65 years old, and he and Doris had been married for 38+ years. The Lord knows how much all the family members missed him--even now.
Joshua was buried in the family burial plot in Ebenezer Church and Graveyard, Loudoun County, VA--along with his mother and father -- Simon M. and Mary Anna Lee (Pier)Stickles; also with three of his four older brother's: William M.'Willie; Harmon L.'Puddy'; Hubert Montague Stickles.
NOTE: His fourth brother, James Edward, died at two-years old and he was buried in Clarke County Ebenezer Church and Graveyard; there is no gravestone there to mark his final resting place today as the orginal field stone/rock has been long-since lost.
NOTE: In circa 2001, Larry and Wayne Stickles petitioned the White House to award a certificate to honor their father's military service by a sitting Republican President. Subsequently, a few months later they received a signed certificate which reads: "The United States of America honors the memory of JOSHUA C. STICKLES. This certificate is awarded by a grateful nation in recognition of devoted and selfless consecration to the service of our country in the Armed Forces of the United States." The certificate was signed by the then sitting President, George W. Bush.
FMI: contact [email protected]
Gravesite Details
The fourth son born from the marriage of Simon M. and Mary Anna Lee (Pier) Stickles was James E. Stickles who died as an infant; see FIND A GRAVE #41913148. He is buried in Clarke Co. Ebenezer Church & Graveyard
