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Robert Edwin Wilkes

Male 1926 - 2005  (78 years)


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  • Name Robert Edwin Wilkes  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 27 Jul 1926  Clarendon, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1930  Plowden Mills, Clarendon, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    SSN issued Bef 1951  South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 24 May 2005  St Matthews, Calhoun, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 24 May 2005  The Regional Medical Center, Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • Robert E. Wilkes Sr.

      ST. MATTHEWS - Robert Edwin Wilkes, Sr., 79, of 241 Murph Mill Road, died Tuesday evening, May 24, 2005, in The Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg. Service will be 11 a.m. Friday, May 27, at St. Paul United Methodist Church with Rev. James McGee officiating. Burial will be in West End Cemetery. Dukes-Harley Funeral Home is in charge.

      Mr. Wilkes was born in Alcolu, a son of the late Clyde A. and Pearl Victoria Wilkes. He was a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina in Pharmacy. Mr. Wilkes founded and operated Calhoun Pharmacy for 47 years until his retirement in 1996. Mr. Wilkes was a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church and was a former member of the Calhoun Development Board and of the Rotary Club of St. Matthews and was honored in 1995 as “Rotary Man of the Year.” He was predeceased by 2 brothers, Claude Warren Wilkes and James Lawrence Wilkes and a sister, Grace Louise Baker.

      Survivors: wife, Mrs. Barbara Lewis Wilkes of the home; son and daughter-in-law, Robert Edwin Wilkes, Jr. (Regina), Trubull, CT; daughter, Sherelyn Dale Wilkes, Bangor, Maine; stepdaughter, Mrs. Michael (Anne Lewis) Shealy, St. Matthews; stepson, Malcolm David Lewis, St. Matthews; sister, Mrs. Annie Elizabeth “Lib” W. Taylor, Manning; 2 brothers, Clyde A. Wilkes, Jr., Manning, William H. Wilkes, Swansea; a number of nieces and nephews.

      The family will receive friends Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home. At other times friends may call at the residence and the funeral home.

      Memorials may be made to St. Paul United Methodist Church, 1808 Bridge St. East., St. Matthews, SC 29135.
    Burial 27 May 2005  West End Cemetery, St Matthews, Calhoun, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I14374  tng Genealogy

    Father Clyde Alexander Wilkes, Sr,   b. 11 Feb 1884, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Dec 1952, Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning, Clarendon, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Pearl Victoria Sanders,   b. 10 Jul 1900, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Oct 1952, Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning, Clarendon, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F5204  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Delane Blake,   b. 20 Feb 1925, Georgetown, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Dec 1976, Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. Living
    Family ID F11694  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Living 
    Family ID F5205  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 27 Jul 1926 - Clarendon, South Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S337] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;).
      1930 U.S. Federal Census. Plowden Mills, Clarendon, South Carolina, ED 22, roll 2193, page , image 318.0.
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=95884735&indiv=try
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      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=95884735&indiv=try

    2. [S344] Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Database online. Number: ; Issue State: South Carolina; Issue Date: Before 1951.
      Record for Robert Edwin Wilkes
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ssdi&h=88726047&indiv=try
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ssdi&h=88726047&indiv=try

    3. [S304] Ancestry.com, United States Obituary Collection, (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006;).
      United States Obituary Collection 2006.Original data - See newspaper information provided with each entry.
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=web-obituary&h=7851334&indiv=try
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=web-obituary&h=7851334&indiv=try

    4. [S122] FindaGrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104371789
      http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=104371789.
      http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=104371789