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Note: Dewey Pettry was born at Dry Creek in the Marsh Fork District, Raleigh County, WV and died in Beckley, WV. He was raised by his grandmother, Ellen Mae Pettry, at Dry Creek, WV. Dewey thought Ellen Mae was his mother until he was about eight years old and was told by other children that she was his grandmother. On 24 Dec 1924, he married Icie Marie Williams, the daughter of Charles Logan and Sarah Louise (Webb) Williams. They were married by Rev. Jordan Peters in the log house in Icie's parents' home at Pettus, WV. This log house was bought, removed and rebuilt at Naomi, WV by Roger Hamilton in 1988. The house now stands on Roger's property on State Route 3. Dewey worked at the Princess Dorothy Coal Company in Eunice, WV for about 25 years. Dewey and Icie first lived for a short time with Dewey's half-sister, Artie Irene (Pettry) Bradford, at Eunice, and later they moved into a log house near Icie's parents' home at Pettus, WV. A short time later, they moved to Packsville, WV. On 6 June 1927, they bought a home in Packsville from Wood and Rushis Jarrell where they reared their family. At Packsville, Dewey turned his hobby of beekeeping into a business and possibly became the largest beekeeper and honey producer in WV. Dewey retired to work-full time in his general mercantile store where he was the Postmaster at Packsville, WV. Dewey bought the Packsville General Store from J.D. and Annie Peters (originally built and run by Wood Jarrell) with a final payment made on 6 Jan 1945. He rented the store to Miller E. Pauley for about 4 years before taking over and running it until he retired in 1965. He gave the store and home to his youngest son, Allen, who ran it for about 5 years and then sold it to his brother Charles. Charles ran the store for a number of years and closed it for lack of business. Charles sold the store and the home to A.T. Massey Coal Company in about 1990. A. T. Massey destroyed the store but is using the home for one of its engineers.
Dewey and Icie bought a fishing camp in the town of Meadow Creek on the New River in Summers County, WV in 1951, and later bought the home of Thomas and Zama (Akers) Roads, where he and Icie retired in late 1964. Dewey died as a result of a stroke in the Veterans' Hospital in Beckley, WV and is buried in the Pettry Cemetery at Dry Creek, WV. The Pettry Cemetery is about 200 feet away from the one-room log house where he was born. Dewey and Icie's children are Verna Mae, Imogene Merl, George Dewey, Mary Irene, Nancy Lee, James Roland, Charles Stanley, and Edgar Allen.
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