Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Story, Elliott L., 1927 

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ELLIOTT L. STORY

   Elliott L. Story of this town died suddenly at his home in Clay Street 
Thursday morning at 7:20 o’clock. Mr. Story was in his fortieth year and a 
member of an old and well-known Southampton family, a son of the late J.M. Story 
and Mrs. Pattie Beaman Story. He was apparently quite well and was going 
squirrel hunting with his nephew, William Snipes, Jr.  Arising early and 
preparing for the hunt, their start was delayed by rain and he was lying down in 
his room waiting for the weather to clear up when the end came in a moment’s 
time.

   Mr. Story was a man of attractive and genial disposition and numbered many 
friends here and in Emporia where he had spent several years of his life. The 
writer remembers his first acquaintance with him 22 years ago when during 
Elliott’s school days here he was a most affable and courteous clerk with the 
Franklin Drug Company. He was born January 5, 1887, in this county; attended the 
Franklin Military Academy and Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, where he was a 
member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Soon after completing his college 
course he went to emporia and was employed in the Merchants and Farmers Bank of 
that town until 1917 when he returned to Franklin and was Assistant Cashier of 
the Merchants and Farmers Bank until April, 1926. At that time he established a 
real estate and bond business here, successfully conducting this until his death.

   On February 18, 1914, he married Miss Louise Curdts of Norfolk, who survives 
Him with two children, Dorothy Lanier and Elliott L. Story, Jr.,  He also leaves 
three brothers, J. Marion Story, Walter F. Story of Suffolk and Dr. Beaman Story 
of Franklin; two sisters, Mrs. Herman Cobb and Mrs. W.E. Snipes of this town and 
a large and prominent family connection.

   Funeral services will be conducted this (Friday) afternoon at 3:30 o’clock 
from his late residence by his Pastor, Rev. L.T. Williams of the High street 
M.E. Church, and the body bearers well be: Grady Miller of Norfolk, Eugene 
Brittle of Emporia, Jas. T. Knight, Walter H. Norfleet, J. Fenton Matthews, Sol 
W. Rawls, W.C. Watson and Barclay Pretlow. Interment will be made in the family 
plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.


[Elliott L. STORY, b. 5 Jan 1887, Southampton Co., d. 3 Nov 1927, Franklin, 
 interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, 4 Nov 1927, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 4, 1927, p. 1] 

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