Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Porter, Minnie V. Ellis, 1946 

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MINNIE VIRGINIA ELLIS PORTER 

MRS. L.L. PORTER OF COUNTY SHOOTS SELF; ILL HEALTH IS CAUSE 

   Mrs. L.L. Porter of Newsoms was admitted to Raiford Memorial Hospital 
yesterday (Thursday) about 2:30 p.m. as the result of a self-inflicted wound. 
Mrs. Porter, who was said by relatives to have been in ill health for two 
years or more, shot herself in her upper chest with a shotgun, inflicting 
what are feared are serious, if not fatal, injuries, although no detailed 
reports as to her condition are available at his time.  A number of friends 
from Newsoms accompanied the wounded lady and her husband to the hospital 
here.

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MINNIE VIRGINIA ELLIS PORTER

   Burial services for Mrs. Minnie Virginia Ellis Porter, wife of Lonnie L. 
Porter of Newsoms, were conducted at the graveside in the Newsoms Cemetery 
Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock, her pastor, the Rev. J.W. Morrison, 
conducting the service.

   Mrs. Porter died Friday afternoon at Raiford Memorial Hospital from the 
effects of gunshot wounds in her upper chest, which were said to be self-
inflicted and brought on by prolonged ill health.  She was brought to the 
hospital here Thursday afternoon immediately after the shooting, but nothing 
could be done for her.  Mrs. Porter, 48 years of age, was the daughter of 
the late George Ellis and Mrs. Lillie Simmons Ellis of Newsoms.  Besides her 
husband and mother she leaves three sons, James H. Porter of Newsoms and 
Raymond Lee and Walter Lee Porter of Franklin; five brothers, Herbert and 
Pete D. Ellis of Portsmouth, Bennie F. Ellis of Newsoms; Willie B. Ellis of 
Courtland and J. Stanley Ellis of Franklin and three sisters, Mrs. G.W. 
Porter of Newsoms, Mrs. Fletcher Taylor and Mrs. W.R. Bryant of Portsmouth. 
She was a member of the Newsoms Methodist Church and of its missionary 
organization.

   The pallbearers were: Jack Bunn, A.W. Tucker, James Story, Richard Railey, 
E.J. Cogsdale, John Worrell, Russell Drake and Roy Bradshaw.


Minnie Virginia (ELLIS; Mrs. Lonnie L.) PORTER, of Newsoms, 
Southampton Co. native, shot self 2 May, d. 3 May 1946, Franklin, age 48, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 4 May 1946, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 3, 1946, p. 1; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 10, 1946, p. 4 

*Her parents are also buried there.
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-31&54): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," May 8, 1969, p. 7) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p636l4ob.txt 


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