Nansemond County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ames, John Wesley Sr., 1903 

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JOHN WESLEY AMES, SR.

DIED IN NORFOLK

   Mr. John Wesley Ames, Sr., died at his home, in Norfolk, on Wednesday, May 6, 
1903, at 2:50 a.m., in the eighty second year of his age. The deceased formerly 
one of Nansemond County best known and popular citizens, and in his death a good 
man has been removed from earth, full of years, and leaving behind the legacy of 
a well spent life. He was the father of Mr. John W. Ames, Jr., former town 
sergeant of Suffolk, who is now living in Norfolk, and a brother of Mr. Levi D. 
Ames, of Churchland, Norfolk county. He was a gallant soldier of the 
Confederacy, and after the war filled in an acceptable manner the position of 
magistrate in Nansemond County. For the past fourteen years he had lived in 
Norfolk.

   The remains were interred yesterday afternoon in the old family burial ground 
at Bennett’s Creek, Nansemond County. He was a prominent Mason, and was buried 
with the rites of that ancient order, which were participated in by members of 
Harmony Lodge, of Driver and Churchland lodge. 


[John Wesley AMES, Sr., d. 6 May 1903, Norfolk, age 82, 
 interred in family cemetery, Bennett's Creek, 
 donated obituary, newspaper unknown, circa May 8, 1903] 

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