Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Britton, Eley Washington 1949 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net February 3, 2014, 7:52 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 10-21-1949, P. 4 ELEY WASHINGTON BRITTON Eley Washington Britton died at his home in Ahoskie, N.C. on Thursday afternoon, October 6, of a heart attack. Funeral services were conducted from the Ahoskie Baptist Church on Saturday afternoon. Burial was in the Ahoskie cemetery. Mr. Britton was 63 years of age. He was a native of Northampton County, N.C., his parents being the late Junius Washington and Mary Sumner Britton. His childhood was spent at Winborne’s Mill in Southampton County. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Terry Britton, and two sons, B.W. and Eley Junius Britton, all of Ahoskie; three daughters, Mrs. Mary Courtwright of Richmond, Miss Thelma Britton of Raleigh, N.C., and Mrs. Leonard Smith of Conway, N.C.; one brother, Linwood Britton of Handsom; two sisters, Mrs. Ellie Brett of Portsmouth and Mrs. C.L. King of Ahoskie; two half-sisters, Mrs. George Walker of Portsmouth and Mrs. George Smuck of California; a stepmother, Mrs. Catherine Miles Britton of Portsmouth; and nine grandchildren. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/hertford/obits/b/britton2513ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb