Wayne County

Pearl Marie (Sampson) Kingsley

Submitted by Lynn Snyder

Pearl was born 29 December 1907 in Fairfield,Wayne County, Illinois and died 1 February 1996 in Stoughton, Dade County, Wisconsin.   She was the daughter of Charles Thomas SAMPSON and Bessie Rosalie OVERALL; and the granddaughter of Victor N. SAMPSON and Josephine IDDING; and  Posey OVERALL and Isabell SIMMS.

Her siblings were: Roy H. SAMPSON 1900-1977, Jesse V. SAMPSON 1902-Present, Elmer SAMPSON 1904-1937, Hazel SAMPSON[KINGSLEY] 1906-Present, Raymond H. SAMPSON 1909-1980, Albert W. SAMPSON 1917-1917, Margaret SAMPSON 1921, Alice SAMPSON [GILLISON] 1925-Present.

She married Frank William KINGSLEY on 17 December 1924 in Logan County, Illinois. He was born 28 July 1904 in Elkhart, Logan County, Illinois and died 2 February 1949 in Lincoln, Logan Co, Illinois due to an accident while working on the Railroad. He is buried in the New Union Cemetery in Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois. He was the son of Joseph Anderson KINGSLEY and "Mittie" ELLEN DODD; and the grandson of William A. KINGSLEY and Lucy Ellen ANDERSON; and Joseph ANDERSON and Elizabeth DODDS.

To this union was born the following children:
*NOTE: due to the privacy act, I removed the last names and dates. Dianna Williams

1) Virginia Lee .
2) Edythe Evelyn .
3) Donald Dean

After the death of Frank, Pearl resided with her mother, Bessie SAMPSON in Lincoln, Illinois. After the death of her mother in 1959 she resided with her son Don in Minnesota. She later lived in the Madison, Wisconsin area with her daughter Virginia [Ginny], until she went to meet Frank for eternity.



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