Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Graves, Edwin Melvin July 29, 1945
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot July 30, 1945

                      Edwin Graves, Gunsmith, Dies

Edwin Melvin Graves, 72, gunsmith for 58 years, died at his residence, 327 
South Main Street, Berkley, yesterday at 7 a.m., after an illness of four 
months.
A son of David A. and Rebecca Pullin Graves, who built ships for the 
Confederate Navy in Norfolk and Richmond, he was a life-long resident of 
Berkley.  As a boy he learned the gunsmith trade from his brother-in-law, 
George V. Dashiell, and later maintained his shop at the rear of his 
residence, where he repaired guns for huntsmen from all over the Tidewater 
section and for professional men of Norfolk and Portsmouth.  The last two 
years of his life he was compelled to learn how to carry on his work with 
one hand, after the loss of his left arm.
A sister, Miss Daisy A. Graves and a brother, David A. Graves, both of 
Berkley, survive.  He was a member of the Berkley Avenue Baptist Church.
The body was removed to the Sykes Funeral Home, Berkley, where funeral 
services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m.  Burial will be in Magnolia 
Cemetery.


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