Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ellis, Alvin E November 9, 1896 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Suzy Ward Fleming wardflemin@aol.com November 14, 2014, 1:11 pm The Norfolk Virginian., November 20, 1896 There is now in the city morgue on the stone slab, the body of Alvin E. Ellis, a young sea-faring man, whose home is near Cleveland, Ohio. It was about eight o’clock yesterday when a colored man employed at the Government reservation at Fort Norfolk, perceived the body of a man floating on the surface of the water only a few yards from the shore. He at once procured a boat, and rowing to the spot took the corpse in two and brought it ashore. The patrol wagon was summoned and removed the gruesome find to the morgue. It was the body of young Ellis, horribly mutilated from exposure, having been in the water about ten days. Nothing was found about his person but a knife, a cheap shirt, brown overalls, and red underwear. Ellis was a sailor on the schooner Lucy Wheatly, now up the James loading with wood. He accidently fell overboard on the morning of the 9th instant, and was drowned before he could be rescued. The body could not be recovered at the time, though a strong effort was made to do so. A coroner’s jury viewed the remains yesterday and they will be interred in the Seaman’s lot in Elmwood Cemetery. The captain of the Wheatly is expected to be here at the inquest this afternoon. Additional Comments: Elmwood File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/e/ellis6396gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb