On 13 April 1951, John Ferdinand Sadler died at Mizpah Nursing Home, Locust Hill, Pinetop Magisterial District, Middlesex County, Virginia, where he had been for one month. He was a resident of Upright, Essex County, Virginia; male; white; married; born 9 February 1867; 84; merchant in general store; born in Virginia; citizen of U.S.A.; father was John Sadler; mother was Sallie Billups; wife was Mattie Sadler; informant Martha Walden; cause of death congestive heart failure (duration 4 days) due to arteriosclerosis (duration unknown); buried on 14 April 1951 at Rappahannock, Essex County, Virginia. [Commonwealth of Virginia, Certificate of Death 9328.]