Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Eley, J. Powell, 1928 

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JAMES POWELL ELEY 

   James Powell Eley, only child of Mrs. Mattie Powell Eley and the late D.H. 
Eley of this town, died at Mt. Regis Sanitarium, Salem, Va. Tuesday afternoon, 
January 3, following an illness of several weeks. 

   Mr. Eley was 31 years of age, and a young man of exceptional ability and 
promise.  Graduating from the Franklin High School in 1912, and in February of 
the same year, prior to the completion of his school course, entered the 
banking house of Vaughan and Company where he continued as a valued and 
efficient employee until going to the hospital only a few weeks ago. 

    He was a loyal and consistent communicant of High Street M.E. Church being 
a member of the Board of Stewards and Superintendent of the Young People's 
Department of the Sunday school.  For a number of years he was Secretary of 
the Sunday school and had also held the position of Assistant Superintendent. 
An active member of Blackwater Lodge No. 141, I.O.O.F., he was Past Noble 
Grand of that order and its Treasurer at the time of his death. 

   On October 27, 1926, he married Miss Margaret Story Cutchin, daughter of 
Dr. and Mrs. Ashley Cutchin of this town, who, with his mother, survives him. 
He is also survived by two aunts, Mrs. S.R. Nicholson of Franklin, Mrs. J.E. 
Eubank of Richmond, and an uncle, J.D. Powell of King William County. 

   Funeral service were conducted from his late home in North High Street 
Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock by his Pastor, the Rev. Dr. Geo. H. Spooner, 
assisted by Rev. R.D. Stephenson. Mrs. J.J. Pace, Miss Cora Vaughan, J. Edgar 
Weede and J. Edward Moyler sang "The Haven of Rest" as a special number. 
Internet followed in the family burial plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The 
body bearers were: Cecil Vaughan III, Edgar B. Jackson, J. Linwood Edwards, 
W.M. Weede, J.F. Matthews, J. Edward Moyler, Sam Cutchins and Maynard Monroe 
of New York. 

   The honorary pallbearers were; General C.C. Vaughan, Dr. W.H. Arthur and 
the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Church, W.T. Pace, F. Franklin Story, 
C.W. Gary, J.R. Byrd, J.A. Jackson, Harry Steinhardt, W.C. Watson, Dr. W.E. 
Snipes, Geo. H. Parker, G.G. Smith, J.H. Boyd, E.C. Smith, J. Edgar Weede and 
C.V. McGehee. 

   Among out-of-town relatives attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. J.E. 
Eubank of Richmond and their daughter, Mrs. George Short of Lawrenceville, 
J.D. Powell of King William County and Edgar P. Nicholson of Milton, Delaware. 


James Powell ELEY, of Franklin, Vaughan & Co. bank employee, 
b. 5 Dec 1896, Franklin, d. 3 Jan 1928, Salem, Roanoke Co., 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 19A*), Franklin, 
   5 Jan 1928, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 23, No. 13, Fri., Jan. 6, 1928, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Buried in his parents' plot.  His widow (1901 - 1985) remarried, 
   to William S. ROGERS Jr., and they are also buried here. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by violajoe - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #236806605. 

D.Cert. 2033 (Salem #2) 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," July 20, 1917, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e400d1ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," May 20, 1949, p. 5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e400m4ob.txt 


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