Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Nelms, Mills C., 1953 

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Mills Nelms Will Be Buried Here Tomorrow 

  Burial services for Mills C. Nelms, 72, a former Suffolk resident who died 
yesterday morning at 9 a.m. at a hospital in Charleston, West Virginia, will 
be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at the graveside in Cedar Hill 
Cemetery with the Rev. R.H. Forrester, pastor of the Main Street Methodist 
Church, officiating. 

  Funeral services took place this afternoon in Charleston.  The body will 
arrive here tomorrow at noon and will be taken to the I.O. Hill and Company 
Funeral Home to remain until the burial hour. 

  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Bertha Poulson Nelms, of Charleston; a sister, 
Miss Eva Nelms of Norfolk and a cousin, Percy Green, all of Norfolk. 


Mills Clifton NELMS, of Charleston, WV, clerk, 
b. 6 May 1880*, Suffolk, d. 4 Feb 1953, Charleston, Kanawha Co., WV, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block H, Lot 65*), Suffolk, 6 Feb 1953, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 31, No. 30, Feb. 5, 1953, p. 1, col. 8 

*Additional information: 

His parents, Thomas W. & Clara Virginia (RODGERS) NELMS, have been added 
   to the Cedar Hill list, an extension of 
   the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_m.txt 

The 1900 Census - 78 Holiday St., Suffolk - gives b. May 1880. 

WW-I & II draft cards give b. 6 May 1880. 

Ancestry.com "WV Death Index" gives b. 6 May 1881, s/o Mills & Martha. 

His widow's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," July 8, 1953, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/n452b2ob.txt 


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