Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gillette, James Ezra, 1954 

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JAMES EZRA GILLETTE

   James Ezra Gillette, 76, of Belle Meade, N.J., a native of Southampton 
County with several relatives in the Courtland community, died in Raiford 
Memorial Hospital on Tuesday night, December 14.  He had suffered for several 
years from a heart condition, which suddenly grew worse while he was visiting 
in Courtland. 

   Until his retirement four years ago Mr. Gillette had been connected with 
the River Crest Sanatorium, Long Island, N.Y. and with the Belle Meade 
Sanatorium in Belle Meade, N.J.  Since his retirement he had acting in an 
advisory capacity for both institutions.  It had long been his custom to spend 
the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas in his native county, visiting 
relatives and getting in some hunting. 

   Mr. Gillette was the son of the late Ezra Gillette and Lucy Magette 
Gillette.  He is survived by a brother, George W. Gillette of Temperanceville, 
and a sister, Mrs. Nettie Gillette Williams of Danville, and by several nieces 
and nephews. 

   Services were conducted at the grave in Riverside Cemetery Courtland, this 
(Thursday) afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. C.A. McCormick, Jr., pastor of the 
Courtland Methodist Church.  The Courtland Masonic Lodge rendered the order's 
funeral rites. 


James Ezra* GILLETTE, of Belle Meade, NJ, retired sanatorium employee, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 14 Dec 1954, Franklin, age 76, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Episcopal Section, Plot 14**), Courtland, 
   16 Dec 1954, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 16, 1954 

**Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, 
  Riverside list: 
  http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," July 11, 1919, p. 9) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g430l1ob.txt 

*D.Cert. 28672 (Franklin #117) gives James Elderidge [Eldridge] 


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