Individual Details
Dr. Leonard Joseph Priestley
(Abt 1900 - Jul 1973)
He was a retired Baptist minister and had pastored churches in Greenbrier, Lincoln and Boone Counties of West Virginia. Mr. Priestley was a past president of the Temperance League of West Virginia. He was area missionary in the Guyandotte Baptist Association, and was a member and treasurer of the West Virginia Historical Society. He was ordained as a Baptist minister March 9, 1918. He received an honorary doctor of law degree from Alderson-Broaddus College and was a trustee of the college. A World War I Army veteran, he was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dunbar and lived in Dunbar 24 years. He was a native of Priestley, Lincoln County, which was named after his family.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1900 |  | |||
| Death | Jul 1973 | Morris Memorial Nursing Home, Milton, West Virginia | | ||
| Burial | Jul 1973 | Cunningham Memorial Park, St. Albans, West Virginia |  | | |
| Marriage | Maude E. Mitchell |
Families
| Spouse | Maude E. Mitchell |
| Child | Leonard Joseph "Leo" Priestley Jr. (1920 - 1993) |
| Child | Gordon R. Priestley |
| Child | Frances Priestley |
| Father | Wilburn Chapman Priestley Sr. |
| Mother | Edith Isabel McClure |
| Sibling | Wilburn Chapman Priestley Jr. |
| Sibling | D. Clyde Priestley |
| Sibling | Verna Priestley |
Notes
Burial
Funeral service was held at First Baptist Church in Dunbar, West Virginia with the Rev. George Pauley officiating.Endnotes
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