Caleb S. Ives, proprietor of the Eagle Café of this city, fell dead Sunday night about 10 o’clock at the Culpepper Hardware Company, just across the street from the café.
Mr. Ives worked in his restaurant practically all day Saturday and seemed in good health. He went across the street just before 10 o’clock and was joking with Mr. Culpepper a few minutes before his death.
Mr. Ives was 59 years old and has been a resident of Elizabeth City practically all his life. Five years ago, with his son C.B. Ives, he went into the restaurant business here and nearly three years ago he built the home in which his family are now living. At one time Mr. Ives owned several farms in the County and up to the time of his death was interested in farming and owned some property.
Besides his wife, who was Miss Essie Walker before her marriage, Mr. Ives is survived by three sons, Ray, Claude B. and Charlie Ives, all of this city; one daughter, Mrs. Dan Harris of this city; one brother, Pat Ives of Portsmouth; one half brother, Joshua Davis of Elizabeth City; and one granddaughter, Eleanor Ives of this city.
Funeral services were conducted by Mr. Ives’ pastor, Rev. S.H. Templeman, at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon, and interment was made in Hollywood cemetery. Caleb Ives was unassuming and unpretentious, but a man of sterling qualities. Urging Mr. Ives one day not long ago to purchase a preparation by the use of which an article made and sold by the café could be produced at a great saving of time, trouble and money, a salesman was setting forth how cheaply the product could be made by the use of his preparation.
“Young man,” said Mr. Ives, “I don’t want to know how cheap I can make what I sell my customers. I want to know how good I can make it.” And so, in the death of Caleb Ives, known all over Pasquotank County, there is a sense of loss and bereavement that goes beyond the circle of his immediate family and intimate friends.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., May 7, 1923
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