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Edward Lewis Darst
(Ref photos of Edward and his headstone attached to this website.Inscription reads, "Edward L. Darst Jan. 11, 1867 Dec. 22, 1935")
Birth: Jan. 11, 1867
Dublin
Pulaski County
Virginia, USA
Death: Dec. 22, 1935
Pulaski County
Virginia, USA
Darst Funeral
Is Held Today
Brief but impressive funeral services were held this afternoon at thePresbyterian church for Edward Lewis Darst, Pulaski county schoolsuperintendent, who passed away early Sunday morning following anextended illness.
The services were in charge of Dr. Frank P. Anderson, pastor. Burialwas in the Dublin cemetery.
Mr. Darst, superintendent of the Pulaski county schools since 1909,died at the Pulaski hospital as a result of injuries sustained in anautomobile accident near Fort Chiswell several weeks ago. He wasapparently regaining his usual vigorous health when a throat troubledeveloped and the end came quickly.
He was the son of James H. Darst and Margaret Trolinger Darst and wasborn at Dublin January 11, 1867, and attended the public schools andgraduated with high honors at Virginia Military Institute with thedegrees of B.S., and C.E., and was a sub-professor in that institutionteaching mathematics and military science, 1887-1888.
He has been an instructor in several colleges and was also connectedwith the engineering department of the Norfolk and Western railway.
He was active in the work of the Red Cross and Kiwanis and was amember of the Virginia Zeta and Kappa Sigma Kappa fraternities, and amember of the Masonic Order and Royal Arcanum.
On November 28, 1893, he married Miss Ellen T. Gilmer who diedFebruary 17, 1920, and of the marriage there survives Edward GilmerDarst, of Salem, and James Henry Darst, of Pulaski.
December 19, 1930, he married Miss Mary F. Turner, of Franklin county,Va., who survives.
He was a teacher of a bible class up to the time of his accident andhad long been an elder in the Presbyterian church.
He possessed many talents, but chief enjoyments were in promotingeducational work and in the upbuilding of religious work among thepeople of his section. He was a strong believer in doing thoroughlyanything that he attempted to do, and was a man of very strongcharacter. He had the greatest sympathy for the undernourishedchildren and an open hand and an open heart often went to those inneed that were never mentioned by him except in prayer.
Pulaski Southwest Times
December 23, 1935.
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Parents:
James Henry Darst (1838 - 1906)
Margaret Wesley Trolinger Darst (1840 - 1928)
Spouses:
Ellen Tapscott Gilmer Darst (1868 - 1920)
Mary Frances Turner Darst (1906 - 2008)
Children:
Edward Gilmer Darst (1895 - 1985)*
Infant Son Darst (1900 - 1900)*
James Henry Darst (1901 - 1963)*
Siblings:
John Chandler Darst (1861 - 1919)*
Mary Ella Darst Jordan (1862 - 1887)*
James Templeton Darst (1865 - 1890)*
Edward Lewis Darst (1867 - 1935)
Margaret Elizabeth Darst Witt (1869 - 1928)*
Claudia Benton Darst Vermillion (1871 - 1965)*
Aline Grigsby Glendy Darst (1874 - 1972)*
Henry P. Darst (1877 - 1898)*
Lula B. Darst (1879 - 1897)*
Carrie Grayson Darst Fry (1883 - 1963)*
John Chandler Darst (1888 - 1965)**
*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling
Inscription:
EDWARD L. DARST
JAN. 11, 1867
DEC. 22, 1935
Note: 4C2R
Burial:
Dublin Cemetery
Dublin
Pulaski County
Virginia, USA
Created by: Robert V Darst
Record added: Aug 08, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 40435679
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1867 - 1935 (68 years)
