Gustave "Gus" Abraham, born on18 December 1882 at Kosciusko, Mississippi, son of Simon and Fannie Abraham, died on Tuesday, 10 January 1933, at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, aged fifty years. His mother and a sister, Mrs. Morris S. Wile, both of Gallatin, Tennessee, survived him. Following services at a Nashville synagogue on Wednesday, 11 January 1933, Mr. Abraham's remains were shipped to Natchez, Mississippi. Rabbi Saul Habas officiated at services held there on Friday, 13 January 1933. Interment followed at the Natchez City Cemetery.

Mr. Abraham grew up in Kosciusko, moving later to Natchez with his brother, sisters, and widowed mother. He attended the University of Chicago and worked several years at the Chicago Tribune. He then settled in New York where he worked as a freelance writer and wrote "photoplays" (screenplays)—including "Moonbeam Magic" and "The Glorious Adventure"—under the name Felix Orman.

For Gustave's birth, see his gravestone inscription in the photo attached to this memorial. For his death, age at death, parents' names, surviving family members, Nashville funeral service, and place of burial, see Jan J.Barnes and Linda Carpenter, compilers, Sumner County, Tennessee Genealogists Companion, "Sumner County, Tennessee Obits, January 1933," (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~providence/obit_jan1933.htm), for "Gus Abraham." For his education, residences, occupation, "pen name," and Natchez funeral service, see "Gustave Abraham Dies," Daily Herald, Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, 17 December 1933, page 6, col. 6. [Note that the Daily Herald obit misspells his pen name as Felix Ormond.] For his screenplays, see IMDB [Internet Movie Database], database (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0650201/), for Felix Orman (1882–1933).