Young Martinsburg widow Lucy Woodson Lowell and her 2nd marriage to the painter Ellsworth Gettle
The family lived at 610 Faulkner Avenue, a two-story home just down the street from the Winchester Avenue School.
Iverson “Lewis” Woodson, a native and lifelong resident of Charlottesville, Virginia, served for four years in the Civil War. He entered the Confederate service at age 19 and mustered with the U.S. Army's 19th Infantry.
After a long life, died suddenly at age 85 in 1927. He was stricken, likely with a heart attack, just after getting in to a car to go home following a walk on Rose Hill.
Iverson and his wife, Susan, had eight daughters and two sons. When the couple were in their 70s, one of their sons, a married father of three who lived in Ohio, died, possibly of the flu as it was the fall of 1918.
Iverson and Susan's other surviving offspring scattered all over, including Canada and New York City.
One of their daughters, Lucy Permelia Gettle, settled in Martinsburg, W.Va.
Lucy was the second-oldest sibling in the family. She married a Mr. Lowell but was widowed while still in her 20s. After her husband died, she moved in with her sister, Curelia Carver, and Curelia's husband on South Maple Avenue in Martinsburg.
Lucy found work as a burler in a woolen mill, meaning she removed knots and burrs from the fabric as part of the operation's quality control.
At age 31, she remarried, to a 32-year-old man named Ellsworth Gettle, a Martinsburg native who worked as a painter. Their wedding took place on …
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