Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Eley, Eugene S., 1930 

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EUGENE SUE ELEY

   One of Franklin’s oldest and most highly esteemed citizen died in Norfolk 
on Tuesday of this week, Eugene S. Eley, who had made his home in that city 
with his son, J. Laurence Eley, since the early part of the year 1928.  Mr. 
"Bose" Eley, as he was well and familiarly known here, was born at Mapleton, 
Hertford County, N.C., September 19, 1845, the son of Laurence Eley and Mrs. 
Susan Vann Eley.  As a young man he heard and heeded the call to arms in 1861, 
serving throughout the War Between the States in a Hertford County company. 
The writer had heard many of Mr. Eley’s former comrades speak of him as a 
brave and gallant soldier, and as was eminently fitting, his casket was draped 
with the beautiful battle flag of the Southern Confederacy at his funeral 
yesterday, the local chapter Daughters of the Confederacy reserving this last 
token of honor and respect for those who followed the Stars and Bars in that 
immortal conflict.

   Mr. Eley was a merchant in Boykins, this county, for some time where he 
married Miss Alice Darden.  There was one child of this union, Elmo M. Eley, 
one of Franklin’s finest citizens, who died here in 1918.  After the death of 
his first wife, Mr. Eley moved to Franklin and was engaged in the mercantile 
business here for more than 40 years, being successively with C.C. Vaughan, 
Sr., J.P. Gay, W.J.M. Holland and then in the clothing business with his son, 
Elmo Eley, as E.S. Eley & Son.

   On October 22, 1891, he married Miss Margaret Parker, sister of the late 
Jno. C. Parker of our town, who survives him with one son, J. Laurence Eley of 
Norfolk.  There are also two grandchildren, the daughters of Elmo Eley, Misses 
Emily and Marion Eley.  Two sisters in Hertford County, both of whom are dead, 
were Mrs. George Darden and Mrs. Nannie Parker.

   He was an upright and honored citizen, a consistent member of the Franklin 
Baptist Church where he was a member of its board of deacons for many years. 
He was a member of Urquhart-Gillette Camp of Confederate Veterans, and was one 
of those small bands which remained with General Joseph E. Johnston after the 
surrender at Appomattox, and was mustered out of service at Durham, N.C., 
April 16, 1865.

   Funeral services were conducted there yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock from 
the Franklin Baptist Church by Mr. Eley’s pastor, Rev. R.D. Stephenson, and 
interment was made in the family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The body 
bearers were: Geo. H. Parker, E. Frank Story, Joe Bynum Gay, W.H. Lankford, 
D.T. Prince, Thos. L. Parker, W.C. Watson and Dr. A.P. Cutchin.

   Among out-of-town relatives who were here for the funeral were: Mr. and 
Mrs. Homer Parker, Mr. and Mrs. David Parker of Mapleton, Henry B. Vann of 
Winton and Guy C. Picot of Como, N.C.; Miss Mary V. Parker of Richmond, Mrs. 
Jasper Cotton of Chuckatuck, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Branch, Oliver and Mae Branch of 
Smithfield, Va.


Eugene Sue "Bose" ELEY, Franklin merchant, Confederate veteran, 
b. 19 Sep 1845, Mapleton, Hertford Co., NC, d. 11 Feb 1930, Norfolk, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 2*), Franklin, 
   13 Feb 1930, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 14, 1930, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Additional information: 

Eugene S. Eley, 24, Single, b. Hertford Co., NC, res. Southampton Co., 
   sn/o Laurence/Lawrence & Susan Eley, Merchant 
Alice Darden, 21, Single, b. Hertford Co., NC, res. Southampton Co., 
   d/o Edward and Elizabeth Darden 
m.lic. 17 Jan 1870 by clerk L.R. Edwards; 
   cert. signed by Mills A. Britt for E.S. Eley 
m. 1870 Southampton [minister not given] 
[date not given in MB; date column cropped in online image of M.Reg.] 
(Southampton Co. MB1A:353; M.Reg. 1853-72, p. 34, ln. 9) 

Eugene S. Eley, 40, w, N.C., So.Co., 
   No parents listed [s/o Laurence Eley and Susan Vann Eley], Merchant 
m. 10-22-1891 Franklin, Southampton, by Rev. J.L. McCutcheon 
"Marmie" Margaret Parker, 26, s, IOW, So.Co., 
   d/o Jesse Atkinson and Mary Crawford Crump Parker 
(Southampton Co. MB7:284; transcribed & annotated by Bruce Saunders: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/mb07pt.txt) 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 8, 1938, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e400e2ob.txt 


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