Halifax-Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Edwards, Talitha Frances Whitley 1942
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 01-16-1942, P. 5
TALITHA FRANCES WHITLEY EDWARDS

   Mrs. Talitha Whitley Edwards, 77, well-known and beloved resident of 
Franklin, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.C. Blythe, in West Franklin 
early Saturday morning after an illness of a few weeks.

   Mrs. Edwards was daughter of the late Everett and Mary Eliza Barnes Whitley 
of North Carolina, and wife of the late Newitt Calvin Edwards of Franklin. She 
was a consistent member of the Franklin Methodist Church, the Missionary Society 
and an active member of the Jean Craig Circle of her church.

   Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. J. V. Milteer, Mrs. C.C. Blythe, Mrs. Mary 
Jane Stephenson and Mrs. Roy Johnson, all of Franklin; two sons, William Calvin 
Edwards; two sons, William Calvin Edwards of Norfolk and Emmett L. Edwards of 
Washington; 15 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. 
Lizzie Bailey of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., and Mrs. Ethel Whitley Holland of 
Norfolk; one brother, Henry Whitley of Como, N.C., and a number of nieces and 
nephews.

   Services were held from the home of Mrs. C.C. Blythe Monday afternoon at 
three o’clock by the Rev. B.B. Bland, assisted by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson. The 
choir of High Street Methodist Church sang “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” and 
“Sometime We’ll Understand.” The casket was covered with a pall of pink roses, 
white carnations and fern.

   Pallbearers were Clyde Edwards, C.C. Blythe, Jr., Earving Blythe, Herman 
Bowles, Stanley Edwards, Claude Cook, Theodore Eason and Gordon Cobb. Interment 
was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.


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