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Wesley Herbert Pearsol Sr.

Birth
Kunkletown, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
3 Dec 1953 (aged 68)
Kunkletown, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Kunkletown, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Son of James F Pearsol and Sophia Borger. He married Minnie M. Mohr abt 1906. They had three children:

1. Wesley Herbert Pearsol, Jr. B. 1907
2. Helen I Pearsol b. 1909
3. May Pearsol

Wesley attended Kunkletown school and the Gilbert Polytechnic Institute and was graduated from the Pierce School of Business Administration in 1903.

He married Sarah Ann Hawk after 1915.

Wesley was assistant postmaster at Kunkletown for 17 years and postmaster for 30 years, retiring in October, 1951. He was president of the Kunkletown
telephone exchange and operated a general store next door to his home. He was a member of Kunkletown Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Retired Postmasters Assn.

Despondent over his wife's death a year earlier, Wesley shot himself and died in the bedroom of his home in Kunkletown. He was buried in St. Matthew's Church cemetery, Kunkletown. (Obituary and story in "The Morning Call", Allentown,
Friday, 4 December 1953, pp. 5 & 52)
Son of James F Pearsol and Sophia Borger. He married Minnie M. Mohr abt 1906. They had three children:

1. Wesley Herbert Pearsol, Jr. B. 1907
2. Helen I Pearsol b. 1909
3. May Pearsol

Wesley attended Kunkletown school and the Gilbert Polytechnic Institute and was graduated from the Pierce School of Business Administration in 1903.

He married Sarah Ann Hawk after 1915.

Wesley was assistant postmaster at Kunkletown for 17 years and postmaster for 30 years, retiring in October, 1951. He was president of the Kunkletown
telephone exchange and operated a general store next door to his home. He was a member of Kunkletown Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Retired Postmasters Assn.

Despondent over his wife's death a year earlier, Wesley shot himself and died in the bedroom of his home in Kunkletown. He was buried in St. Matthew's Church cemetery, Kunkletown. (Obituary and story in "The Morning Call", Allentown,
Friday, 4 December 1953, pp. 5 & 52)


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