Charles Nelson PROCTOR Sr.
- Born: 12 Nov 1882, Bel Air, Harford Co., MD 24,546
- Marriage: Leona Pansy CALLISON on 3 Jun 1914 in Corliss, Fayette Co., WV 95
- Died: 2 Jun 1936, Charleston, Kanawha Co., WV at age 53 546
- Buried: 4 Jun 1936, End Of The Trail Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV 546
Cause of his death was intestinal obstruction & toxemia.
General 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.
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation: Superintendent (Babcock Coal & Coke Co., Landisburg, WV), Between 1917 and 1918. 24
Charles married Leona Pansy CALLISON, daughter of Overton "Mac" CALLISON and Anzona Drucilla SHAWVER, on 3 Jun 1914 in Corliss, Fayette Co., WV.95 (Leona Pansy CALLISON was born on 5 Apr 1891 in Corliss, Fayette Co., WV 79 and died on 22 Nov 1922 in Landisburg, Fayette Co., WV 95.)
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