Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lee, Elisha E., 1897 

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TOWN OF SUFFOLK 
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MR. ELISHA E. LEE DIES SUDDENLY
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Sitting in His Home When Without Warning the End Came - [...] 
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  Suffolk, Va., March 12. - (Special.) - [...] 

   OLD SOLDIER DROPS DEAD. 

  Mr. Elisha E. Lee, one of Nansemond's most noted citizens, and a large truck 
grower, fell dead last night about 9 o'clock at his home, in Lower Parish.  He 
was sitting in a chair reading a paper, when suddenly he toppled over.  In a 
few minutes his breath was gone.  He lived long enough to be put on a bed. 
Mr. Lee had been in feeble health for a year or more, being affected with 
heart trouble, but at supper time last night he was as well as usual. 

          THE FUNERAL. 

  The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon from his late 
home and will be conducted by the Revs. N.G. Newman and W.W. Staley, D.D.  The 
interment will be in the old family burying ground. 

  The deceased was a member of Berea Christian church, and of Harmony Lodge 
No. 149, A.F. and A.M.  He was a Confederate veteran, who did service in 
Company I, Twentieth Virginia Cavalry.  He was nearly 69 years old. 

  Mr. Lee leaves a sorrowing wife and two daughters, Miss Dollner Lee and Mrs. 
James Tourtellot, of Providence, R.I., who was married two weeks ago, and who 
is still in Florida spending her honeymoon.  He was a brother of Captain P.H. 
Lee, of this county, and John Lee, of Florida, a brother-in-law of Colonel A. 
Savage and John W. Lawrence, of Nansemond, and an uncle of Mrs. E.E. Holland, 
of Suffolk; Mrs. William M. Jones, of Norfolk; Mrs. J. P. Gay, of Franklin, 
and Willis J. Lee, of thiscounty. 


Elisha Everett LEE, truck grower, Confederate veteran, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 11 Mar 1897, at home, Lower Parish, age 68, 
likely interred in the GASKINS-LEE family cemetery*, Bennett's Creek, 
   13 Mar 1897, 
"The Norfolk Virginian," Mar. 13, 1898, p. 6, col. 1

*Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-33), 
   an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 

His bro Patrick & their parents, John R. & Mary A.W.G. (EVERETT) LEE, 
   are buried in Holy Neck Christian Church Cemetery. 
   Holy Neck list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holynk.txt 


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