Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Carroll, John E., 1953 

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JOHN EDWARDS CARROLL 

Rites in Suffolk For John Carroll 

  GATES, N.C., Feb. 15 - Funeral services for John Edwards Carroll, 57, who 
died Friday at a Norfolk hospital after a short illness, will be held this 
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Reynoldson Baptist Church with the pastor, 
the Rev. Oscar D. Edmonds, assisted by the Rev. R.T. Commander, of the Gates 
Methodist Church, officating.  Interment will follow in Holly Lawn Cemetery, 
Suffolk. 

  The body will remain at the Rountree and Hofler Funeral Home in Gatesville 
this afternoon until 12:30 p.m., at which time it will be taken to the church 
to lie in state until the funeral hour. 

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jennie Cross Carroll; two sons, J.C. 
Carroll, Gates, N.C., and R.J. Carroll, of Columbia, Tennessee; his mother, 
Mrs. Nina Carroll Ellis, Gates, N.C.; a sister, Mrs. George T. Ellis, of 
Whaleyville; a grandson, Bobby Carroll, of Columbia, Tenn.; two nephews, John 
C. Ellis, of Hampton, and Jarvis Ellis, of Chester, Va.; several cousins. 


John Edwards CARROLL, mechanic, Army veteran of WW-I, 
b. 18 Oct 1895, Gates Co., NC, d. 13 Feb 1953, Norfolk, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery (Sect. 3, Block R, Lot N 1/2*), Suffolk, 
   15 Feb 1953, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 31, No. 38, Sun., Feb. 15, 1953, p. 9 

*Additional information: 

Holly Lawn list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

Photos of his gravestone & lot - added by Jake Dog - are also posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #53507786, which gives John Edward. 

D.Cert. 3378 (Norfolk #337) also gives John Edward. 

His widow (1903 - 1982) 2m. James Nicholas KNIGHT in 1957, but they div. 
   in 1962, and she is buried with John.  James is also buried in Holly Lawn, 
   with his parents. 

He appears in the 1900 Census - Reynoldson Twp., Gates Co., NC - as 
   John E. EDWARDS, with his widowed mother and her parents. 

John's mother Nina Elizabeth (EDWARDS) CARROLL 2m. Mills ELLIS; they are 
   buried in Reynoldson Baptist Church Cemetery, Reynoldson, Gates Co., NC. 
   Nina's parents John A. & Elizabeth C. (GOODMAN) EDWARDS, and John's 
   in-laws "Charlie" Charles Edward & Claudia Penina (GOODMAN) CROSS are also 
   buried there. 


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