Ira LESTER

1918 - 1939  (20 years)

• Name	Ira LESTER
  Born	7 May 1918	Fanrock, Wyoming Co., West Virginia
  Gender	Male
  _UID	6F34C18FD14645989095ED7901D461872FEC
  Died	22 Mar 1939	Asco, McDowell Co., West Virginia
  Buried	Lester Cemeteries, Bailyville, Wyoming Co., West Virginia
  Person ID	I129904	Branch 167 Sampson Stafford b. 1824 TN
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2014

  
  

  Father	James T. LESTER, Sr.,   b. 11 Jan 1892, Wyoming Co., West Virginia ,   d. 7 Dec 1987, Fanrock, Wyoming Co., West Virginia  (Age 95 years)
  Mother	Ada MORGAN,   b. 17 May 1892, Wyoming Co., West Virginia ,   d. 5 Oct 1973, Wyoming Co., West Virginia  (Age 81 years)
  Married	1913
  Family ID	F42184	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thelma JACKSON,   b. 1919
  Married	1937	Asco, McDowell Co., West Virginia
  Last Modified	1 Jun 2023
  Family ID	F42185	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Married to Thelma Jackson-Lester (B. 1919) on August 28, 1937 in Asco, McDowell County, WV (per WV Marriage License Register, McDowell County, WV, 1937, Page 191, Application Date: August 23, 1937). Ira Lester worked as a coal miner. He died on March 22, 1939 at age 20 in Grace Hospital in Welch, McDowell County, WV from a fractured skull following a slate fall in a coal mine in Asco, WV (per WV Certificate of Death #3464 Dist #2431 Serial #100).