Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ellis, Eunice J. Nelson, 1938 

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MRS. ELLIS' RITES ARE HELD TODAY 

Service At Hill Funeral Home At 3 P. M.; Burial At Cedar Hill 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Eunice Nelson Ellis, aged 40, who died at 2:40 
p.m. yesterday after a long illness at her home, 426 Spring street, will be 
conducted from the funeral home of I.O. Hill & Co. this afternoon at 3 p.m. 

  Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery.  The rites will be conducted by the 
Rev. Dr. H.J. Goodwin, assisted by the Rev. W.W. Anderson. 

  Mrs. Ellis is survived by her husband, J.W. Ellis, and six children, Howard 
Drew, of Norfolk, Misses Louise and Marie Ellis, John, William and Melvin 
Ellis, all of Suffolk; four sisters, Mrs. Alma Draper, Mrs. Bessie Davis, Mrs. 
Rosa Babb and Mrs. Maggie Babb, all of Suffolk, and two brothers, Thomas 
Nelson and Charles Nelson, both of Suffolk. 


Eunice Jane (NELSON DREW; Mrs. John Wallace) ELLIS, 
b. 20 Jan 1896, Conway, Northampton Co., NC, d. 5 Jan 1938, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 6 Jan 1938, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 15, No. 245, Thurs., Jan. 6, 1938, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of her gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #175239461. 

Her father, Hezekiah Noah NELSON (ca. 1845 - 1912) is buried in 
   Block G, Lot 114: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_m.txt 

D.Cert. 873 (Suffolk #4) 

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

His obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Feb. 11, 1968, p. 3) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/e420j10o.txt 

Her first husband, Wallace Robert DREW (1895 - 1980), is buried with his 
   second wife in Gardens of Faith Cemetery, Rosedale, Baltimore Co., MD. 


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