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KP Cemetery - Peck Section 14 JOSEPH VAWTER PECK Tombstone reads: Joseph V. Peck 1856 1929 JOSEPH VAWTER PECK was the second child of Joseph Addison Peck and Ellenora Baker Peck. He was born on December 24, 1856, in Giles County, Virginia, on the "Springfield" plantation. He married LAURA FRANKLIN on March 14, 1888. Joseph and Laura were the parents of four children; three of them are buried in the Peck section of the KyserPeck Cemetery. Joseph died on November 8. 1929,
A partial copy of the obituary for Joseph Vawter Peck reads: "Mr. Joe V. Peck is Dead. Joe V. Peck died at the family home, five miles south of Rockwall... after an illness of about two years. Funeral services were held at the Peck Cemetery... The pallbearers were Homer Wallace, B. F. Jones, Earlie Darr, Bunk McDougal, John Bedingfield, and J. D. Latham. Mr. Peck was born in Giles County, Virginia, December 24, 1856 and came with his parents J. A. and Ellen Peck to Texas, settling in Dallas County, near New Hope on February 1, 1877, later moving to Rockwell County and settling in the neighborhood where he died. He came to this county on December 26, 1881. He married Miss Laura Franklin of Collin County on March 14, 1888, to this union four children were born, one child, Leigh Peck and the wife surviving. The daughter is teaching school at Caldwell. He is also survived by the following brothers and sisters: H.A., W.B., and R.E.L. Peck of Rockwell, Mrs. L.P.Hanby and Mrs, J. W. Hanby. Deceased children are infant son: Jan. 10, 1889-January 30, 1889; Lloyd Peck: Oct. 19, 1894 - August 6, 1902; and Jean Peck: February 19, 1890-December 3. 1906."
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