Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Mueller, Edward L., 1951 
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EDWARD LOUIS MUELLER

EDWARD L. MUELLER

   Last rites for Edward L. Mueller, 62, husband of Mrs. Bertie Pond Mueller of 
New York City, were conducted at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery on 
Wednesday afternoon. October 17, at 2 o'clock by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of 
Franklin.

   The pallbearers were R.J. Hotchkiss, of Sedley and W.T. Pace, Jr., J.F. 
Sandlin, R.E. Sandllin, Harry Steinhardt and Jesse A. Weed, Jr., of Franklin. 

   Mr. Mueller was born in Washington, D.C, on December 18, 1888, the son of 
the late Carl and Wilhelmina Bernhardi Mueller. For the past 30 years he had 
made his home in New York.

   A graduate of the Georgetown Law School, Mr. Mueller was for several years a 
patent attorney for Virginian? Telephone Company, after which he operated 
independently as a patent lawyer until 1943, when he went with the Control 
Instrument Company to head  up its patent department.  He served in this 
capacity until his fatal illness.  He died in the Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, 
early Sunday morning, October 14, after a brief illness. Funeral services were 
held in the Herbet Funeral Home, New York City, on Tuesday. 

   Mr. Mueller is survived by his wife, a former resident of Franklin; a 
daughter, Mrs. Floyd Townsley; three grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Wilma M. 
Nicholson.


[Edward Louis MUELLER, 18 Dec 1888, DC - 14 Oct 1951, Brooklyn, NY, obituary, 
 interred in Poplar Springs Cemetery, Franklin, 17 Oct 1951, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 26 Nov 1951] 

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