Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ellis, Harry W., 1959 

************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

City Employe Dies In Wreck 

  Harry Wilson Ellis, of 428 Jackson Street, a truck driver of the city, was 
killed Thursday at 10:10 p. m. in an auto-truck accident about six miles west 
of Suffolk on Route 58. 

  Ellis was on his way to Holland when he crashed head-on into a truck headed 
east. 

  According to Dr. G. Richardson Joyner, county medical examiner Ellis, 
received a broken neck and a crushed chest. 

  Dr. Joyner said that the truck was over in the west bound lane of the three-
lane highway.  He said that it was difficult, due to the heavy snow, to tell 
where the shoulders of the highway began and ended. 

  Trooper C.F. Wheeler investigated the accident but was not available at a 
late hour this morning for details of the accident.  There was no report at 
the Louise Obici Hospital as to whether the driver of the truck was examined 
there or not. 

  Ellis, since May 1957, was an employee of the city.  He worked as an 
equipment operator and mechanics assistant. 

  Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Hill Funeral Home 
by the Rev. R.E. Brittle, pastor of Bethlehem Christian Church, and the Rev. 
Edwin C. Thornton, pastor of Beaver Dam Baptist Church.  Burial will be in the 
Holland Cemetery. 

  A member of the Holland Baptist Church, he was the son of the late Harry 
Wilson Ellis [sic*] and Elizabeth Rawls [sic; Rawles] Ellis of Nansemond 
County and husband of the late Dochie [sic; Doshie] Turner Ellis of Suffolk. 

  He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. W.C. Clark of Franklin; three sons, Robert 
Ellis and Carroll Ellis of Suffolk and Franklin Ellis of Nansemond County; four 
sisters, Mrs. Arthur Ellis of Portsmouth; Mrs. R.D. Carter of Suffolk; Mrs. 
Charlie Goodman of Holland and Mrs. Jim Davis of Portsmouth; four brothers, 
Frank Ellis of Suffolk; Ernest Ellis of Norfolk and Raleigh Ellis and Wilson 
Ellis of Nansemond County; nine grandchildren; one great-granddaughter and 
several nieces and nephews.


Harry Wilson ELLIS, City of Suffolk equipment operator & mechanics assistant, 
b. 8 Mar 1900, Nansemond Co., killed in crash 8 Jan 1959, Nansemond Co., 
interred in Holland Cemetery*, 11 Jan 1959, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 7, Fri., Jan. 9, 1959, p. 3, 
   clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #163049442, 
   by Martha Fontaine Byrum 

*Additional information: 

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

D.Cert. 2302 (Holy Neck #10) also gives his father as Harry Wilson ELLIS Sr. 

However, his brother Wilson Stanley ELLIS' D.Cert. 88-031527 gives his father 
   as Wilson Stanley ELLIS Sr. 

Their parents, Wilson & "Lizzie" Elizabeth Caroline (RAWLES) ELLIS, 
   are buried in the RAWLES-ELLIS family cemetery, Manning Rd., Whaleyville. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol 2 (NV-II-5), 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol2.txt 

His wife's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," May 17, 1957, p. 3) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/e420d3ob.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/e420h2ob.txt