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Mary Josie Davis Bullington

Birth	:	26 Sep 1883 Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
Death	:	18 Feb 1994 Stokes County, North Carolina, USA
Burial	:	Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Klinger, Bremer County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.6605000, -92.2378000
Description	:	110 years old at time of death, Josie was a daughter of Harden and Lula Edwards Davis. She married Ira Bullington in 1905 and they had 4 children. She was a member of Chatham Primitive Baptist Church. Josie is buried in the Bullington family cemetery in Axton, Va. Danbury Reporter Oct. 29, 1993: It was Sept. 26, 1883. Chester Arthur was President of the United States. On a farm in Axton, Va., a woman gave birth to a baby girl. Now, 110, that baby, Josie Davis Bullington of... Read More	110 years old at time of death, Josie was a daughter of Harden and Lula Edwards Davis. She married Ira Bullington in 1905 and they had 4 children. She was a member of Chatham Primitive Baptist Church. Josie is buried in the Bullington family cemetery in Axton, Va. Danbury Reporter Oct. 29, 1993: It was Sept. 26, 1883. Chester Arthur was President of the United States. On a farm in Axton, Va., a woman gave birth to a baby girl. Now, 110, that baby, Josie Davis Bullington of Lawsonville, can remember much about her life, the turn of the century, and much more---such as the train wreck of the old '97 in Danville in 1897. Failing eyesight has caused her to stop quilting, reading the Bible, and helping her daughter dry apples. She can no longer see the school picture that shows her as a young girl, or the picture taken about the time she married in 1905. In it, she's wearing a rose that she says she secretly snipped from someone's rose bush. He skin is so fragile that it can tear with a simple bump. But behind her wire rimmed glasses, her eyes are bright, and when she speaks, her voice is strong. "What's she writing?", she asked her daughter as the reporter took notes. "What's she getting up?" "She's writing a piece for the paper" her daughter answers. And when it's time to snap her picture, Bullington stresses that she wants it to "make her look pretty". "I just love to wear a hat---a red hat" Bullington says. "I love red." About 35 years ago, she sold her Virginia farm, and moved to Lawsonville to live with her daughter, Doris Wall. Wall says that her mother is not aware of much that goes on into today's world. She spends a lot of time in the past. When Josie Davis and Ira Bullington married in 1905, she included her favorite color, red. "I married in solid red stockings that I knitted myself. And they were pretty." Her dress she had made from brown material. When visitors ask if she wanted her groom to see the red stockings, she quickly replies "I didn't care." On her wedding night, she didn't have a nightgown, but wore "longhandles" instead. Looking further back into the past, Bullington can remember "going to the spring and getting a bucket of milk" as a girl. She remembers leaving school at the age of 16 to go home and work "cooking meals and washing dishes." "We didn't do nothing for fun" she says. "We played in the creek in the summertime. We would catch fish with our hands---I've had good times." When she was a child, her mother taught her to recite the alphabet backward, and she will gladly do it for visitors. She'll also recite Bible verses and poems. It's hard to stump her when it comes to spelling. "I learned a whole lot when I was a little girl", she says. After the couple married, the couple lived in Danville, where she worked in what she describes as a "overall factory". The couple then moved to Roanoke for awhile, and when they had one baby daughter, they moved back to Axton. They traveled by horse and buggy, and "waded across the river", she says. The couple began farming. "She worked so hard," Wall says. She cut and primed tobacco, loaded and hauled hay. She used to cook when we'd have wheat thrashings, corn shuckings, wood choppings, and barn raisings. "She'd cook for a lot of men." "Forty men" Bullington interrupted. "I enjoyed my work--milking cows and feeding pigs." "When my brother was in college, he'd mail his clothes home for mama to wash, and she'd wash them on a wash board, iron them and everything, and mail them back to Roanoke." Wall recalled. The Bullingtons had two daughters and two sons. There are two grandchildren and three great grandchildren from their union. Bullington says that she has "no use for a doctor. I don't need no doctor." She has been hospitalized once---briefly when she was 106. She's never had a pap test. She's never had a mammogram." Wall says of her mother. "She's not even on any medication. She doesn't even have high blood pressure. I've never seen her sick in the bed where she couldn't get up." "She's always said that she's honored her father and mother, and that may have something to do with her long life." Bullington says that her longevity is due to "having a good honest life. I trust in the Lord. The Lord knows best." And what does Josie Bullington think of the world?? "I think they're not enlightened a bit," she said.

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Where is Mary Josie Davis Bullington's memorial?
Mary Josie Davis Bullington's memorial is located at: Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Klinger, Bremer County, USA.
When did Mary Josie Davis Bullington death?
Mary Josie Davis Bullington death on 18 Feb 1994 in Stokes County, North Carolina, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Mary Josie Davis Bullington's memorial?
Latitude: 42.6605000
Longitude: -92.2378000

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Ira Fletcher Bullington

(1876 - 1954)

Children

Barney Boyd “B.B.” Bullington

(1911 - 2010)

(unknow - unknow)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
Klinger, Bremer County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6605000, -92.2378000

2. Gresham Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.6282997, -92.2202988

3. Saint Pauls Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.6996994, -92.2380981

4. Zion Lutheran Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.6996994, -92.2391968

5. Saint John Lutheran Cemetery
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6. Saint Matthews Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7154950, -92.2298440

7. German Burial Ground of Bennington Township
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Coordinate: 42.6282100, -92.3128410

8. Saint Pauls Evangelical Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.6906013, -92.3161011

9. Fairview Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.6707993, -92.3277969

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Coordinate: 42.6712250, -92.3290100

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Coordinate: 42.6568985, -92.3321991

12. Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.5845300, -92.2576900

13. Bennington Township Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.5844002, -92.2578964

14. Grove Hill Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7153015, -92.1457977

15. East Janesville ME Church Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.6405500, -92.3573200

16. Lester Township Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.5936012, -92.1511002

17. Saint Pauls Cemetery
Black Hawk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6288360, -92.3580370

18. Saint John Lutheran Crane Creek Cemetery
Tripoli, Bremer County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7440630, -92.3023920

19. Saint Peter Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
Bremer County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7080994, -92.1211014

20. Fairview-Lester Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.5628014, -92.1619034

21. Saint John Lutheran Cemetery
Buck Creek, Bremer County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7553690, -92.1410300

22. Saint Pauls Lutheran Cemetery
Artesian, Bremer County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7565980, -92.3376690

23. Fremont Cemetery
Tripoli, Bremer County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7818985, -92.2388992

24. Bremer County Farm Cemetery
Tripoli, Bremer County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7666480, -92.3251810