Southampton-King William County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Eley, Mattie A. Powell, 1949 

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MATTIE ANTOINETTE POWELL ELEY

   Shortly after one o’clock yesterday afternoon, May 19, word spread 
throughout the town and community that Mrs. Mattie Antoinette Eley had passed 
away in Raiford Memorial Hospital after an illness which lasted less than a 
week.

   "Miss Mattie," as she was known to all her friends and acquaintance, would 
have been 83 years of age had she lived until September 4.  She was born on 
that date in 1866 at Mangohick, King William County, the daughter of the late 
James and Sarah Rainey Powell, and had made her home in Franklin for more than 
half a century.  She was a loyal member of High Street Methodist Church and a 
faithful attendant upon its services until a short time before her last 
illness.  That her faithfulness in the activities of the Ladies’ Aid Society 
and afterwards the Women’s Society of Christian Service was appreciated by her 
co-workers is attested by the fact that one of the groups in the latter 
organization was called the "Mattie Eley Circle" and is still know by that 
name.

   Her husband, David H. Eley, died on July 14, 1917, and her only son, James 
Powell Eley, died on January 3, 1928.  After the death of her son she made her 
home with her sister, Mrs. Della P. Nicholson, who preceded her to the grave 
several years ago.

   She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. J.E. Eubank of Richmond and Mrs. 
Marius Campbell of Mangohick; also by two nieces, Mrs. Harrison Haller of 
Washington, D.C., and Mrs. George Short of Lawrenceville, and two nephews, 
Barlett Powell of Richmond and Edgar P. Nicholson of Indianapolis, Ind.

   Funeral services will be held this (Friday) afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at 
the residence, 508 N. High Street.  Rev. E.N. Hassell will officiate, assisted 
by Rev. R.D. Stephenson.  Burial will be in the family plot in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery.


Mattie Antoinette (POWELL; Mrs. David H.) ELEY, 
b. 4 Sep 1866, Mangohick, King William Co., d. 19 May 1949, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 19A*), Franklin, 
   20 May 1949, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 20, 1949, p. 5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," June 14, 1918, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e400d1ob.txt 


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