Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Eley, David H., 1917
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DAVID HENRY ELEY
DEATH OF D. H. ELEY
David H. Eiey died at his home in Franklin on Saturday, July 14th, in his
sixty-first year, after a lingering illness of several months. Mr. Eley was
a native of Nansemond County, but had made his home in Franklin for a number
of years, where he was a successful merchant. He was a good citizen, a
consistent member of the Methodist church and a faithful husband and father.
He is survived by his widow, who was Miss Mattie Antoinette Powell of King
William County; by a son, J. Powell Eley, and by one brother in Nansemond
County.
The funeral was conducted from his late residence in Norfleet street Sunday
afternoon at 4 o'clock by Rev. R.M. Chandler of the Methodist church, assisted
by the pastors of the Christian, Episcopal and Baptist churches, and the
interment was made in Poplar Spring cemetery. The pallbearers were: active,
E.C. Smith, E.C. Beale, W.J. Cross, Harry Steinhardt, J.A. Jackson, I.E.
Howell, C.A. Cutchins; honorary, Dr. W.H. Arthur, Dr. E.A. de Bordenave, W.T.
Pace, J.C. Parker, E. Frank Story, D.A. Holland, M.H. Moore, M.E. Lawrence,
W.C. Watson, C.C. Vaughan, G.M. Whitley, C.A. Bell, J.H. Holland, J.E.
Gilliam.
A CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this method of thanking all of the neighbors and friends who
were so uniformly kind and sympathetic to us during the last illness and at
the death of our husband and father, D.H. Eley. The many acts of kindness and
expressions of friendship and condolence are gratefully appreciated.
MRS. D.H. ELEY AND SON.
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MONUMENT UNVEILED TO D.H. ELEY
Holly Camp No. 18, W.O.W. unveiled a handsome monument to their deceased
brother, D.H. Eley in Poplar Spring cemetery last Sunday afternoon at 5
o'clock with the appropriate and impressive rites of the order, under the
direction of Consul Commander John R. Councill.
After the unveiling, the memorial address was delivered from the pavilion
in the cemetery by Hon. R.E.L. Watkins, and the memorial poem of the woodmen
was read by L.M. Barrett, an appropriate musical program being given.
The following obituary was presented and read by Hon. E. Frank Story, and
the closing prayer was made by Rev. J.L. McCutcheon.
OBITUARY
The subject of this sketch was born in Nansemond County, Virginia, on the
12th day of February, 1856, and died at his home in the town of Franklin,
Southampton County, Virginia, on the 14th day of July 1917.
He was married on the 15th day of November, 1893, to Miss Mattie Antionette
Powell, of King William County, Virginia, and of this happy union a son, J.
Powell Eley was born in 1896, both of whom survive him.
For the past thirty years the deceased had been a resident of Franklin,
Virginia, having been engaged in the mercantile business during the entire
time. He won and held the confidence and esteem of all with whom he had
business relations and was ever regarded as exemplifying the highest type of
business integrity. He was a man of quiet demeanor and of retiring
disposition and therefore, was seldom in evidence in the public movements of
his community and time, but he possessed those unquestioned qualities that
made him a good citizen, being both courageous and strong where the question
of right or wrong arose, always taking the side of the right, which in the
last analysis is the highest mark of a true and loyal man.
Mr. Eley was a devoted and consistent member of the High Street Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, of Franklin; was closely identified with its progress
and faithfully "attended upon its ordinances". His place in the Sunday
school, of which he was for many years secretary, and his pew in the church
were never vacant until the hand of affliction was laid upon him. He was
seriously ill for about six weeks prior to his death, and for four months had
been a great sufferer, but through it all he bore his affliction with
Christian fortitude, and during all of his intense suffering not one word of
complaint was heard from his lips.
The home life of no man could be more beautiful, and his going was in the
quiet of that home surrounded by his loving and faithful wife and son, who
will ever carry in tender memory his gentile and loving offices to them during
their happy union as a little family.
The high esteem in which he was held was evidenced by the beautiful floral
tributes sent by friends and neighbors to be placed upon the grave of their
departed friend.
We commend to his young and promising son the beautiful life of the father
as an example for him, and then to his Christian mother shall come a heritage
richer than silver or gold, until she too, shall fall on sleep and be reunited
in the happy land. by E. Frank Story
David Henry ELEY, merchant,
b. 12 Feb 1856, Nansemond Co., d. 14 Jul 1917, at home, Franklin,
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 19A*), Franklin;
monument unveiled 9 Jun 1918,
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 12, No. 39, Fri., July 20, 1918, p. 1;
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 13, No. 35, Fri., June 14, 1918, p. 8
*Additional information:
Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
Poplar Spring list:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt
Photos of his gravestone - added by Cyndi Harrison - are posted with
Find a Grave Memorial #256610226.
D.Cert. 18626 (Franklin #23) gives son of Josiah & Ellen (HOLLAND) ELEY.
His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," May 20, 1949, p. 5) is posted at:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e400m4ob.txt
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net),
and re-formatted by File Manager.
file at:
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