3362. Velma Bernice Gillenwater
Li Gate City, VA 1987.
From her obit. Lifelong resident of Scott Co. Retired from the Scott
Co School
System. Member Midway Mem United Meth Ch. 6 g-ch, 2g-g-ch 1989.
Scott Co Marriage Records 5-92-33.
Info from his obit. Lived in Gate City. Retired miner. Vet of WW II -
US Army. Mem of DAV. 5 g-ch 1976.
Soc Sec Death Benefits Records.
Worked in shipyard at Newport News, VA until drafted in WW II
3363. Wilma Jerusha Gillenwater
Family from Myralin Gillenwater Trayer.
Lived at Gate City in 1969.
Info from funeral home obituary. Survived by wife, 2 sons, 2 sis.
Lived at Gate City in 1935.
3365. Ira Edwin Gillenwater
Lived at Gate City, VA 1987, 89, 96.
1996 address: Rt 2, Box 803, Gate City, VA 24251.
Scott Co Marriage Records 6-97-34.
Family info from Ed Nickels.
Lived at Midway 1993; Gate City in 2001.
3377. Robert Ernest "Robie" Gillenwater
Name, marriage - QF p. 208.
From his obit. Lived at Rt 1, Box 745, Ft Blackmore, VA. Livelong
resident of Ft Blackmore. Retired farmer. Member & deacon of
Gillenwater's Freewill Baptist Church, Ft Blackmore. 6 g-ch, 1 g-g-ch
1994.
Scott Co Marriage Records 5-73-19.
SSDI: ROBIE GILLENWATER
SSN 223-26-4570Residence: 24250 Fort Blackmore, Scott, VA
Born 25 Oct 1910 Last Benefit:
Died 13 Feb 1994 Issued: VA (Before 1951)
Name, marriage - QF p. 208.
Lived at Ft Blackmore 1960, 94.
8326. Betty Gillenwater
"The Gillenwater Family" by Myralin Gillenwater Trayer.
3387. Edgar Baise Elliott
Family from Myralin Gillenwater Trayer.
He was mayor of Gate City in 1961.
Hewas a business man in Gate City. (owned 2 restaurants)
Served on Gate City Town Council.
Edgar Baise Elliott was called E. B. he and his brother, Paris, were
both in the Midway section of Scott County. He attended Ervinton
Schoolthere. He also went to school in Nickelville, Va and boarded
with a familythere. He graduated from Shoemaker High School in 1917.
He and his classmate, Mary Edna Ellis, eloped to Bristol, TN on June
6, 1917. They lived for a while in Appalachia and he was a salesman
for a candy company. They moved to Gate City in 1918 and he operated
a restaurant. Their first child, Ottalee, was born there in 1918. Edna
sai d she baked 20 pies for the restaurant on theday Ottalee was
born. Their secind child, Edythe, was born in 1920. Edgar was
postmaster for Gate City. He was a city council man for four terms and
also served as mayor for four terms in the 50s and 60s. During his
terms as mayor, the sewer authority was approved, bonds were issued
for the town's waterfilitration plant , parking meters were
installed on the cirt streets, and Appalachian Power Co. was
contracted to supply the town with electricity. For over 50 years, he
was a businessman in Gate City. He owned the Pontiac-GMC automobile
dealership, owned and operated an apartment complex, owned Elliott
Sales Co. which supplied juke boxes to East TN amd SW VA. He also
owned theB & W Restaurant on the main street of Gate City where his
father and grandfather had also owned and operated businesses. (from
Ottalee Smith Winegar, 1999)
Lived at Gate City in 1940.
Mary Edna Ellis was called Edna. She attended school in Perry County,
MO., her birthplace. At about nine years of age she moved with her
family to Scott County, VA. Her older brother, Harry, stayed in
Missouri. After graduating from Shoemaker High School in 1917, she
eloped with her classmate, Edgar Elliott. She spent the night before
the elopement withfriends in Yuma VA. She told me this was the family
of "Bug" Shipley. She and Edgar lived briefly in Appalachia, VA while
he was a salesman for a candy company. They moved back to Scott
County, Virginia and operated a restaurant in Gate City. She told me
she baked 20 pies the day her first child was born.She was an
excellent cook!
She also owned and managed Elliott Sales Companywhich supplied juke
boxes and records to Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee.
Her grandchildren called her "Nanny".
She was a skilled crocheter and alsodid beautiful embrodiery work.
Even after her eyesight was damaged by glaucoma and cataracts, she
managed to crochet by "feeling' the yarn.
Her mother was Roman Catholic; there was no Catholic Church in Gate
City so she was baptized in 1914 and joined the Gate City Methodist
Church. (from Ottalee Smith Winegar, 1999)
3388. Paris Marshall "P.M." Elliott
Family from notes from Delores Charlene Lane Elliott.
He was a traveling salesman of Bristol, Va-Tenn. (Kilgore Book)
Lived at Gate City in 1960.
3389. Lovell Eugene Baker
Lived at Selma, Ala 1926; Marion, AL in 1934.
7 ch in 1934 (article about Marie in Gate City Herald.)
Scott Co Marriage Records 4-13-8.
8333. Marie Baker
She was selected at the outstanding 4-H girl in Ala and represented
the stateat the 4-H Club Congress in Chicago in Dec 1934. (Article in
Gate City Herald, 5/31/1934)
3392. Lois Victoria Strong
Lived at Weber City, VA 1993, 94, 95.
WEBER CITY, Va. - Lois V. Strong Nickels, 99, of 108 Greenwood Drive,
passed away at her home and went to be with herHeavenly family on
Tuesday (Dec. 12, 2000).
She was born May 21, 1901 in Scott County, Va., and was the daughter
of the late William B. and Lula GreearStrong. She was the oldest
member of Gate City United Methodist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her
husband, ClydeW. Nickels; two sons, Harry Nickels and George Nickels;
two grandsons, Russell Nickels and Robert Fields; three sisters, Clara
Strong, Emma Horne and Arvilla Collier; and one daughter-in-law,
Juanita Nickels.
Survivors include twodaughters and sons-in-law, Lucille and Edd
Neeley, Gate City, Va., and Janice and Otis Fields, Mount Carmel; two
sons and daughters-in-law, Edwin and Violeta Nickels, Blountville, and
W.B. and Myra Nickels, Johnson City; one daughter-in-law, Arlene
Nickels, West Palm Beach, Fla.; 13 grandchildren, Garold Nickels,
Kathryn Hunt, Ramona Gothard, Marsha Lawson, Vickie Lane, Lisa Neeley,
Brenda Townsend, Chris Cook, Eddie Cook, Audra Cook, Rick Nickels,
ScottNickels and Neil Nickels; 18 great-grandchildren, Joel Gothard,
Johnathan Nickels, Brandy Phillips, Travis Williams, Melissa Lawson,
Neeley Lawson, WestonLane, Cade Lane, Harry Townsend, David Cook,
Anders Cook, Harrison Cook, Andrew Cook, Hope Nickels, David Nickels,
Josh Nickels, Timothy Nickels and Travis Nickels; four
great-great-grandchildren, Brittany Phillips, Gaberial Phillips,
Alexander Williams and Callie Gothard; two nieces, Myrtle Ruth Large
and Frances Combs; one nephew, Charles Horne; and two special
caregivers, Betty Carter and Elmina Dougherty.
Calling hours will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Scott County Funeral
Home, Weber City, and anytime at the residence of Lucille and Edd
Neeley, 105 Cypress St., Gate City, Va.
Services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel
with the Rev. Dale Wyrick officiating.
Music will be provided by Marlene Peters and Carolyn McPherson.
Graveside services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at Holston
View Cemetery, Weber City, Va.
The family will be meeting at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Saturday to
go in procession to the cemetery.
Pallbearers will be grandsons and grandsons-in-law, Garold Nickels,
Charles (Buddy) Gothard, Dwight Hunt, Kurt Lane, Charles Lawson, Jimmy
Townsend, Chris Cook, Eddie Cook, Rick Nickels,Scott Nickels and Neil
Nickels.
Honorary pallbearers will be Jimmy Dougherty, Jack Dougherty, Nathan
(Junior) Dougherty, John Henry Dougherty, Charles Horne, Russell
Large, Darrol Nickels and Edward Carter.
Donations in Mrs. NickelsÆ memory may be made to either the Gate City
United Methodist Church or the Midway Memorial United Methodist
Church.
3393. Emma Mae Strong
Info from Ed Nickels.
Family info from Beverly Wolfe, "Jacob Wolfe of Scott Co and His
Descendants," Revised Edition, p. 188.
3395. Sarah Arvilla Strong
From her obit. Moved from Gate City to Ft Pierce, Fla, in 1971. 1
g-dau 1993.
3396. Maxie Irene Craft
Name, marriage - QF p. 187.
Name, marriage - QF p. 187.
8346. C. Edd Fraysier
PVT 9 INF 2 INF DIV World War II.
Wife's name from Myralin Trayer's book.
Lived at Weber City in 1999.
FT. BLACKMORE, Va. - Clalie Clarice Craft, 88, ofRoute 1, passed away
Monday evening (March 4, 2002) at Holston Valley Medical Center.
She was born in Scott County, Va., on November 12, 1913 and was the
daughter of the late John D. Fraysier and Aggie Gillenwater Fraysier.
She was a homemaker.
Mrs. Craft was of the Methodist faith.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband,
Henry Craft; sister, Opal Compton; seven brothers, Milligan, Palmer,
Wrightly, Barney, Garney, Gordon andOtis Fraysier.
Surviving are her daughter and son-in-law, Erma and Boe Lane, Ft.
Blackmore, Va.; son and daughter-in-law, Ronnie and Brenda Craft,
Chester, Va.; five grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, four
stepgrandchildren, two stepgreat-grandchildren; several nieces and
nephews.
Calling hours arefrom 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Colonial Funeral Home,
Weber City, Va., and anytime at the daughter's residence.
Services will be conducted at Peters ChapelChurch on Friday at 2 p.m.
with the Rev. Wrightly Salling and the Rev. Bill Tignor officiating.
The body will lie in state one hour prior to services.
Burial will follow at Craft Cemetery (Alley Valley community).
Serving as pallbearers are Daniel Williams, Nathan Williams, B.A.
Clendenin, Johnny Craft, GaryMcCoy and Jack Fraysier.