Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Ellis, W. Cohen, 1945 

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WILLIAM COHEN ELLIS 

FORMER COUNTY RESIDENT IS DEAD 

W. Cohen Ellis Dies In Alabama 

  SUFFOLK, April 11. - News has been received of the death of W. Cohen Ellis, 
62, Monday afternoon at his home in Gadsden, Alabama.  He was a native of 
Nansemond County and son of the late Benjamin C. and Maude Parker Ellis. 

  He is survived by his wife, Mary Grant Ellis; two sons and two daughters; 
one brother, George T. Ellis of Somerton, Va.; three sisters, Mrs. W.H. 
Mathews, of Winton, N.C.; Mrs. Charles Akers, of Hopewell, Virginia; Mrs. 
Maude Early, of Richmond, Virginia; and a number of nieces and nephews. 

  Funeral services were held in Gadsden Wednesday morning, after which the 
body was shipped to Suffolk.  The body will lie in state in the Somerton 
Methodist Church on Thursday from 2 o'clock until 4:30, at which time burial 
services will be conducted by Rev. S.B. [sic; J.S.] Cobb and Rev. Ratchford. 
Interment will be in the church cemetery. 

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WILLIAM COHEN ELLIS 

  SUFFOLK, April 13. - Funeral services for William Cohen Ellis, who died 
Monday in Gadsden, Alabama, were conducted at 4:30 yesterday afternoon at the 
grave in Somerton Church cemetery by Rev. W.T. Ratchford and Rev. J.S. Cobb. 

  Mrs. W.C. Eason and Mrs. C.V. Cross sang, "In the Sweet Bye and Bye."  The 
casket was covered with a pall of white gladioli, easter lilies and red roses. 

  Active pallbearers were E.J. Langston, J.H. Langston, Hewitt Freeman, Lloyd 
Freeman, B.T. Parker, J.E. Carroll, W.T. Howell and Stafford Moore. 


William Cohen ELLIS, businessman, 
b. 1 Apr 1883, Nansemond Co., d. 9 Apr 1945, at home, Gadsden, Etowah Co., AL, 
interred in Somerton Methodist Church Cemetery*, 12 Apr 1945, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 227, Wed., Apr. 11, 1945, p. 8; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 229, Fri., Apr. 13, 1945, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

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

Photos of his gravestone & plot - added by Jake Dog & Rootsrcher - 
   are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #44048226. 

His widow's obits ("Norfolk Virginian-Pilot" & "Suffolk News-Herald," 
   Aug. 1952) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/e420m6ob.txt 

He 1m. Nellie Virginia DAVIS 28 Aug 1907 in Gates Co., NC.  Nellie appears in 
   the 1930 Census - 237 High St., Petersburg - divorced, with their four 
   children & her parents, Ernest Lee & Ida Lee (SHEFFIELD) DAVIS.  Nellie 
   (1888 - 1979) 2m. in 1938 widower Theophilus Mack BLACKWELL; they & her 
   parents are buried in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg. 

Cohen was the son of Benjamin Crowder & Maude Lavinia (PARKER) ELLIS. 
   Find a Grave Memorial #224126717 gives Benjamin (1847 - 1918) as buried in 
   Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk.  However, his NC D.Cert. gives buried near 
   Somerton, VA. 


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