Benjamin Gordon Nunnally

(“BN,” or “BGN” or “Nunnally” 12/1914 to 4/1917)

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Benjamin Gordon Nunnally (7/30/1895 – 3/22/1922 (Maury Cemetery)) was an important early employee of the firm, starting as a clerk in 1913 and advancing to draftsman and then to architect, leaving the firm at the time that J. Binford Walford and Charles Custer Robinson were arriving and, sadly, passing away at the age of 26 in 1922, making him the Firm employee to pass away at the youngest age.  He died at 5:15 p.m. on March 2, 1922 at his life-long home at 108 East 10th Street of chronic nephritis and is buried at Maury Cemetery.  He never married.

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He was one of eight children born on July 30, 1895 to Auditor of Manchester, Virginia Luther M. Nunnally, Sr. and Linda Lee Nunally of Richmond.  His WWI daft card dated June 5, 1917 lists him as a “Draftsman/Architect” for “Charles M. Robinson, Inc., Times-Dispatch Building,” that he was supporting his mother and that he was tall and slender and had light grey eyes and “light” hair.  He did claim exemption for “physical disability.”  The Richmond Draft Board accepted his exemption on August 5, 1917.

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An exhaustive search of Richmond City Directories finds that he is first listed in the directories in 1913 as “Clerk, Charles M. Robinson, and living at 108 East 10th,” where he would always live according to the directories.  The 1914-1918 directories list him as “Draftsman, Charles M. Robinson, Inc.”  The 1919-1920 directories list him as “draftsman” but with no place of employment. The 1920 Census lists him as “draftsman, steam railroad” and living with his parents and four brothers and two sisters.  The 1921 and 1922 directories list him as “Draftsman, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.”   

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No newspaper obituary could be found.