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Submitted by Faye D'Amore

Beckley, WV July 10, 1930

Stotesbury Woman Dies At Glen White
Mrs. Samanthy Woosley
Will be Buried This Afternoon
 

Funeral service will be conducted from the Glen White church at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon for Mrs. Samanthy Woosley, 69 years old, of Stotesbury, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alice Mullens, at Glen White yesterday morning.

Mrs. Woosley is survived by two sons, Pete Woosley, of Stotesbury, and James Woosley of Oklahoma; five daughters, Mrs. Alice Mullens, of Glen White, Mrs. James Roberts, of Stotesbury, Mrs. Frank Holtzapple, of Sophia, Mrs. James Spicer, of Willow, Ky.. and Mrs. Harold Walk of Spicer, KY. In addition she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Charles Barnes, of Estill County Ky.; and Mrs. William Hall, also of Estill County; and two brothers, Jesse and John Puckett, of Kentucky.

The funeral services at Glen White this afternoon will be conducted by Rev. Casto, of Glen White and Rev. C. W. Sexton, of Crab Orchard. Burial will be made in the Jessup cemetery at Sophia with the Calfee Funeral Directors in charge of arrangements.

I found this listing in Pauline Haga's Raleigh County Cemetery book number 4.

Samantha Puckett Woosley was the daughter of Ancil and Martha Crowe Puckett of Estill County. She was born in September 1860. She married George Thomas Woosley March 11, 1880 in Estill Co. He died January 15, 1924 from injurys he sustained in a coal mining accident in Itman, WV. He is also buried at the Jessup cemetery in Sophia, WV. He was 57 years old, having been born April 16, 1858 at Millers Creek, Estill Co., to Jesse Woosley and Sarah Crutchfield.