Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Moyler, J. Emmett, 1933 

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JAMES EMMETT MOYLER

J. EMMETT MOYLER’S DEATH MARKS PASSING OF EXEMPLARY CITIZEN

    James Emmett Moyler died at his home in Clay Street Monday morning, 
July 10, in his 75th year after an illness of about ten days and following 
a long period of ill health.  Mr. Moyler, a native of Southampton County, 
was the son of Henry Quarles Moyler and Mrs. Martha Rebecca Andrews Moyler, 
and was an alumnus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.  Moving to Franklin 
as a young man, he was engaged in the mercantile business here for a few 
years, and after the disastrous Franklin fire of 1881, became travelling 
representative for a shoe firm, an occupation which he pursued successfully 
for many years.  Numbering a host of friends and customers throughout 
Tidewater Virginia and Eastern North Carolina, he was widely and favorably 
known as a man of the highest type of character, of sterling worth and 
possessing fine conceptions of integrity and honorary dealings with his 
followmen.

   In 1881 Mr. Moyler married Miss Helen Calvert Massenburg of this county, 
daughter of Dr. William A. and Mrs. Elizabeth Myrick Massenburg, who died in 
1888.  Of this union there were two children, Miss Rebe Moyler of this town 
and William A. Moyler who died in April, 1913.  In 1892 Mr. Moyler married 
Miss Mary Ula Sebrell, daughter of James E. and Mrs. Anne Maria Bell Sebrell 
of Courtland, who died June 4, 1924. Surviving this union is one son, J. 
Edward Moyler, Jr.  Another grandchild, Miss Helen Calvert Moyler of this 
town, daughter of William A. Moyler and Mrs. Cora Cobb Moyler, survives him. 
He also leaves a half-sister, Mrs. J. Walter Pond of Wakefield.

   During his long residence in our town, Mr. Moyler had made many worthwhile 
contributions to the religious, civic and social life of the town and 
community.  He gave effective service to the town, both as a member of the 
town council and the local school board for a number of years; was 
Superintendent of High Street M.E. Sunday school for 25 years, and a member of 
official board of the church for a long period.  One of the charter member of 
Franklin Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias, at its organization here in 1879, 
his death leaves Captain A.L. Gardner as the sole surviving charter member of 
that order.

   Funeral services were conducted from the home Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 by 
the Rev. Roscoe Jones, pastor of High Street M.E. Church in the presence of a 
large assemblage of friends of friends, and interment was made in the family 
plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  Active pallbearers were: Roger I. Beale, 
Harry Steinhardt, W.T. Pace, Jr., Cecil Vaughan, 3rd, Geo. H. Parker, Claude 
J. Edwards, J.F. Bryant, Jr., and B.L. Holt.


James Emmett MOYLER, salesman, formerly on town council & school board, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 10 Jul 1933, at home, Franklin, age 75, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 21B*), Franklin, 
   11 Jul 1933, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 14, 1933, p. 1 

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

Additional information: 

James E. Moyler, 23, Single, b. & res. Southampton Co., Va., 
   sn/o Henry and Mattie Moyler, Merchant
Helen C. Massenburg, 22, Single, b. & res. Southampton Co., Va., 
   d/o Wm. A. and Bettie Massenburg 
m.lic. 4 Apr 1881 by clerk L.R. Edwards 
m. 7 Apr 1881 Southampton Co., Va., by J.F. Twilly 
(Southampton Co. MB4:315) 

Jas. Emmett Moyler, 34, w, Sussex Co., Va.*, So.Co., 
   s/o Henry Quarles and Martha Rebecca Andrews Moyler, Merchant
m. 11-30-1892 Courtland, Va. by George E. Booker
Mary Ula Sebrell, 26, s, So.Co., So.Co., 
   d/o James E. and Anna M. Bell Sebrell 
[*So.Co. MB4:315 & his obit both give Emmett as b. Southampton Co.] 
(Southampton Co. MB7:505; transcribed & annotated by Bruce Saunders: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/mb07pt.txt) 

Additional information: 

Emmett, age 22, appears as "Cousin" in the household of future mother-in-law 
   B.M. Massenburg, in the 1880 Census, Franklin.  Image posted at: 
   http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/census/1880/103-01.gif 

His death certificate (1933-1315-16860) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/deaths/m460e1dc.txt 


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