Charles Nelson Proctor, Sr.

1882 - 1936  (53 years)

• Name	Charles Nelson Proctor
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	12 Nov 1882	Bel Air, Harford Co., MD   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Between 1917 and 1918  [1]
  	Superintendent (Babcock Coal & Coke Co., Landisburg, WV)
  Death	2 Jun 1936	Charleston, Kanawha Co., WV   [2]
  	Cause: intestinal obstruction & toxemia
  Burial	4 Jun 1936	End of the Trail Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV   [2]
  Person ID	I13383	Meadow Bluff Meanderings
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2009

  
  

  Family	Leona Pansy Callison,   b. 5 Apr 1891, Corliss, Fayette Co., WV d. 22 Nov 1922, Landisburg, Fayette Co., WV (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	3 Jun 1914	Corliss, Fayette Co., WV   [3]
  Children	1. Charles Nelson Proctor, Jr.,   b. 8 May 1915, Fayette Co., WV d. 9 Jul 1987, St. Petersburg, Pinellas Co., FL (Age 72 years)   2. Catherine Lois Proctor,   b. Sep 1916, Fayette Co., WV d. 14 Jun 1985, Washington, DC (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F5890	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2009

  
  

• Event Map

  Burial - 4 Jun 1936 - End of the Trail Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The Charleston Gazette, 3 June 1936 Charles Proctor Dies at Hospital Services For Lumberman, House Delegate Will Be at Cliff Top Last rites for Charles Nelson Proctor, 53, of Cliff Top, widely known lumberman and member of the house of delegates from Fayette county, who died yesterday in a local hospital, are to be conducted at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the residence. The Rev. W. W. Pharr of Mount Hope is to officiate and burial is to follow in the End of the Trail cemetery near Rainelle. Active pallbearers are to be George T. Myles, Charles Vawter, Martin Manion, Adam Amick, Ralph Bean, H. E. Dillon, Claude Hill, Howard Gray, Mont Raine and George N. Woodyard. Honorary Pallbearers Honorary pallbearers are to be R. L. Matthews, Lee Savage, Cam Savage, Emery Champe, George Bean, Homer A. Holt, Charles Hamilton, R. G. Kelly, Dr. Albert Amick, Dr. J. S. Cannady, F. N. Baron, Dr. J. K. Hughart, R. T. Hubbard, George Parrish, E. V. Babcock, F. Edwin Mower, I. N. Nallen, Joseph Raine, George Weimer, Ward Hudson, John Raine, W. F. Shawver and Burton Raine. Mr. Proctor, Democrat, entered the house of delegates in 1933, having been appointed by Governor Kump to succeed H. O. Bowley, resigned. He was elected from the county in 1935 and recently won renomination in the primary last month. The son of Charles Wesley and Sophia Elizabeth Proctor of Bel Air, Md., he came to West Virginia in his early manhood and made his home at Landisburg and Cliff Top. He had been associated with the Babcock Lumber company since 1911. Was Church Steward Mr. Proctor was a steward in the Presbyterian church, a member of the Longdale lodge, No. 14, A. F. and A. M.; belonged to the Scottish Rite, the Beni Kedem Shrine, and was member of the Longdale chapter No. 83, Order of Eastern Star and Jabal Alreja White Shrine. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Allie Dickerson of Raven's Eye; two sons, Charles Nelson Proctor, Jr., a midshipman in the Annapolis naval academy, and Herbert Dickerson Proctor of Cliff Top; one daughter, Catherine Proctor of Charleston; his mother of Chambersburg, Pa.; two brothers, Burton Proctor of Preston, Md., and J. A. Proctor of Berkeley Springs, and one sister. Mrs. G. A. Simon of Chambersburg, Pa.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1076] National Archives and Records Administration: Washington, DC, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, (Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.). [S1071] West Virginia State Department of Health Death Certificate, #8813, Dist. No. 2021, Register No. 539 (Reliability: 3). [S646] Information from Charles Cohenour (2003).