U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Nuckolls, Elbert Lee (b. 1868) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Men of West Virginia, Volume II Biographical Publishing Company George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas. Chicago, Illinois, 1903 Pages 749-750 E. L. NUCKOLLS, junior member of the prominent legal firm of Dillon & Nuckolls and mayor of Fayetteville, West Virginia, was born August 2, 1868, at Gambetta, Carroll County, Virginia, and is a son of Thomas and Charlotte J. (Stone) Nuckolls, both natives of Virginia. The Nuckolls family is an old and honorable one in the Old Dominion, to which State its early founders came with the settlers of Jamestown. The Stone family is of French extraction, and has long been established in Virginia. Thomas Nuckolls, the father of our subject, was born in Grayson County, Virginia, but the greater part of his life was spent as an agriculturist in Carroll County, where he died January 21, 1903, aged 85 years. His widow still resides on the old homestead. There were seven children born to our subjects' parents, the survivors being: N. G., a resident of Ketchikan, Alaska; E. V., a resident of El Paso, Texas: H. C., a resident of Gambetta, Virginia; C. B., a resident of Hillsville, Virginia; E. L., of this sketch; and Bertie, wife of Robert Wade, of South Boston, Virginia. E. L. Nuckolls was reared in Carroll County and was educated at Woodlawn Academy at Woodlawn, Virginia, and at Washington and Lee University at Lexington. In 1894 he was admitted to the bar and first engaged in practice at Hillsville, Virginia, where he remained five years. In 1899 he removed to Fayetteville and on January 1, 1902, entered into partnership with C. W. Dillon, having been associated with Judge D. W. Bolen, in Virginia. Both members of the firm of Dillon & Nuckolls are able lawyers and enjoy an extensive practice. They are the authors and compilers of "The West Virginia Pocket Code," a valuable work which since its issue in 1900 has had a larger sale than any other legal book in the State. In politics, Mayor Nuckolls is a Democrat and is now serving his second term as mayor of Fayetteville, his administration having been most satisfactory to all of his fellow citizens. He takes a prominent part in public matters and is one of the representative men in his section of the State. On June 22, 1895, he was united in marriage with Berta Thornton of Hillsville, Virginia, and they have one child, Jesse. Mr. Nuckolls is a prominent Mason and also belongs to the Bar Association. ------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: Virginia, Marriages 1785-1940 Elbert Lee Nuckolls AGE: 25 BORN-IN: Carroll County, Virginia PARENTS: Thos. & Charlotte J. Nuckolls Berta B. Thornton AGE: 23 BORN-IN: Carroll County, Virginia PARENTS: Wm. C. & Martha L. Thornton were married on June 27, 1894 in Carroll County, Virginia ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Fayette County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/fayette/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------