Individual Details

Buried in Oakdale Cemetery in Mount Airy, Surry Co., NC in Section 8; L o t 0 06;Plot 03. This individual was found on GenCircles at: http:// w w w.gencircles.com/users/kgoins26/1/data/65 Note: Granny Bessie was a t i n y woman, barely 5 feet tall. But she had an adventurous spirit and st r o ng soul. She snuck out of her bedroom window when she was 15 years ol d t o a ttend a Saturday dance in town. Her dad was strict because she wa s h i s only daughter and he didn't believe in dancing. She almost got aw ay w i th it, until a cousin came by and bragged about Granny being the " bel l o f the ball". Her dad was not happy. She got married the first tim e w h en she was 16 years old and had my Uncle Bill 4 days after her 17th b i r thday. When her husband abused her; getting drunk, gambling away thei r m o ney, running around with rips [loose women] and making her stay hom e w i th his mother; she left him. She pried open her bedroom window [his m o t her had locked her in], put a blanket over the sill and crawled out w i t h her baby tied to her back. It was a good 3-4 foot drop to the groun d , b ut she jumped out and walked across town to her parent's home. She d i v orced her husband [George Clyde Stack], even though that was practica l l y unheard of in 1920. She worked hard, raised my Uncle Bill, and marr i e d my grandfather in 1932. She had my Dad that year. Later, she divorc e d J erry before my dad was 6 years old, for the same reasons she divorc e d h er first husband. She made sweaters at Pine State Mills for more th a n 3 5 years, walking to work because she didn't drive. She took care of m y d a d & uncle Bill; worked, attended church, took care of her mother, I da M a e Lowry Davis, and later her aunts, Grace Stewart Lowry and Marie L ow r y, for the rest of her life. She was opinionated, loving and a bless i n g to all of us. 9 Sep 2002 Kathy Midkiff Goins, grand-daughter of B e s sie Virginia Davis Stack Midkiff Name: Bessie D. Midkiff SSN: 2 4 3 -03-7255 Last Residence: 27021 King, Stokes, North Carolina, USA B o r n: 13 Mar 1903 Died: 16 Nov 1993 State (Year) SSN issued: No r t h Carolina (Before 1951 ) -- MERGED NOTE ------------ Buried in Oakdale Cemetery in Mount Airy, Surry Co., NC in Section 8; L o t 0 06;Plot 03. This individual was found on GenCircles at: http:// w w w.gencircles.com/users/kgoins26/1/data/65 Note: Granny Bessie was a t i n y woman, barely 5 feet tall. But she had an adventurous spirit and st r o ng soul. She snuck out of her bedroom window when she was 15 years ol d t o a ttend a Saturday dance in town. Her dad was strict because she wa s h i s only daughter and he didn't believe in dancing. She almost got aw ay w i th it, until a cousin came by and bragged about Granny being the " bel l o f the ball". Her dad was not happy. She got married the first tim e w h en she was 16 years old and had my Uncle Bill 4 days after her 17th b i r thday. When her husband abused her; getting drunk, gambling away thei r m o ney, running around with rips [loose women] and making her stay hom e w i th his mother; she left him. She pried open her bedroom window [his m o t her had locked her in], put a blanket over the sill and crawled out w i t h her baby tied to her back. It was a good 3-4 foot drop to the groun d , b ut she jumped out and walked across town to her parent's home. She d i v orced her husband [George Clyde Stack], even though that was practica l l y unheard of in 1920. She worked hard, raised my Uncle Bill, and marr i e d my grandfather in 1932. She had my Dad that year. Later, she divorc e d J erry before my dad was 6 years old, for the same reasons she divorc e d h er first husband. She made sweaters at Pine State Mills for more th a n 3 5 years, walking to work because she didn't drive. She took care of m y d a d & uncle Bill; worked, attended church, took care of her mother, I da M a e Lowry Davis, and later her aunts, Grace Stewart Lowry and Marie L ow r y, for the rest of her life. She was opinionated, loving and a bless i n g to all of us. 9 Sep 2002 Kathy Midkiff Goins, grand-daughter of B e s sie Virginia Davis Stack Midkiff Name: Bessie D. Midkiff SSN: 2 4 3 -03-7255 Last Residence: 27021 King, Stokes, North Carolina, USA B o r n: 13 Mar 1903 Died: 16 Nov 1993 State (Year) SSN issued: No r t h Carolina (Before 1951 )

Birth	13 Mar 1903	Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States
Marriage	1920	Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States - Clyde William Stack
Residence	1920	Age: 16; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter - Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States
Marriage	4 Jun 1931	Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States - Walter Jerry Midkiff
Residence	1935	Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States
Residence	1 Apr 1940	Age: 37; Marital Status: Divorced; Relation to Head of House: Daughter - Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States
Death	16 Nov 1993	King, Stokes, North Carolina, United States
Burial		Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States

Spouse	Clyde William Stack (1898 - 1954)
Child	George William Stack (1921 - 2003)

Spouse	Walter Jerry Midkiff (1903 - 1976)
Child	James Powell Midkiff (1932 - 1990)

Father	Jesse Franklin Davis (1879 - 1932)
Mother	Ida Mae Lowry (1878 - 1959)
Sibling	Winnie Marie Davis (1898 - 1908)
Sibling	Arthur E. Davis (1899 - 1960)
Sibling	James Davis (1900 - )
Sibling	Jesse Franklin Davis (1904 - 1960)
Sibling	Edward A. Davis (1905 - 1950)
Sibling	Jonathan Davis (1908 - 1909)
Sibling	Claude Decauter Davis (1912 - 1949)