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Clarence Cecil Vest

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Clarence Cecil Vest

Birth
Jumping Branch, Summers County, West Virginia, USA
Death
24 Jan 1959 (aged 69)
Jumping Branch, Summers County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Summers County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Clarence C. Vest was born 18 Jan 1890 in Jumping Branch, W.Va., a son of Albert Vest and Hannah Smith Vest. He died 24 Jan 1959 in his Jumping Branch home after a long illness.

He was the husband of Alice Adkins Vest. Cecil and Alice were parents of 15 children. Five infants; sons Roscoe, Okey, Darlo, Orville (also seen as Orvel), Daniel, Robert and Hazel Darmon Vest; and daughters Pauline Vest Shelton, Maxine Vest Tickle and Florine Vest DiNuzzo. (Source: Roscoe's obituary, 2006.)

Mr. Vest worked in farming and mining and was a member of the United Mine Workers of America.

Funeral services were held in the Bluestone Primitive Baptist Church, Summers County, with Elder Eli Lilly and Elder Kenneth Lilly officiating. Burial was in the Anderson Vest Cemetery, Summers County.

SOURCES: C.C. Vest Dies; Rites Incomplete, Post-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 26 Jan 1959, Page 2; Vest Services Scheduled Today, The Raleigh Register, Beckley, 27 Jan 1959, Page 2.
Clarence C. Vest was born 18 Jan 1890 in Jumping Branch, W.Va., a son of Albert Vest and Hannah Smith Vest. He died 24 Jan 1959 in his Jumping Branch home after a long illness.

He was the husband of Alice Adkins Vest. Cecil and Alice were parents of 15 children. Five infants; sons Roscoe, Okey, Darlo, Orville (also seen as Orvel), Daniel, Robert and Hazel Darmon Vest; and daughters Pauline Vest Shelton, Maxine Vest Tickle and Florine Vest DiNuzzo. (Source: Roscoe's obituary, 2006.)

Mr. Vest worked in farming and mining and was a member of the United Mine Workers of America.

Funeral services were held in the Bluestone Primitive Baptist Church, Summers County, with Elder Eli Lilly and Elder Kenneth Lilly officiating. Burial was in the Anderson Vest Cemetery, Summers County.

SOURCES: C.C. Vest Dies; Rites Incomplete, Post-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 26 Jan 1959, Page 2; Vest Services Scheduled Today, The Raleigh Register, Beckley, 27 Jan 1959, Page 2.


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