Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Edwards, William Thomas 1949
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 07-29-1949, P. 16
WILLIAM THOMAS EDWARDS

   William Thomas Edwards, 72, a retired lumberman, died at four o’clock Tuesday 
afternoon, July 19, in the Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie, N.C., after an 
illness of three weeks.

   Born in Capron in May, 1877, he was a son of the late Argal A. and Mrs. Fanny 
Turner Edwards. He spent most of his life in the Ahoskie section.

   He is survived by five daughters, Mrs. B.R. Lea of Norfolk, Mrs. H.E. Shaw of 
Weldon, N.C., and Mrs. Lockwood Peele, Mrs. Waverly Coleman and Miss Florence 
Edwards, all of Ahoskie, six sons, Clarence Edwards of Norfolk; Luther Edwards 
of Lewiston, N.C.; James Edwards  of Windsor, N.C., and Lewis, Eldridge and 
William Edwards, all of Ahoskie; two sisters, Mrs. John R. Williford of Franklin 
and Mrs. A.A. Bryant of Plymouth, N.C.; and eight grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.

   Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon, July 20, at five o’clock 
at the Garrett Funeral Home in Ahoskie by Rev. Oscar Creech, assisted by  Rev. 
G.M. Pickard and Rev. H.M. McLamb. Burial was in the Ahoskie cemetery.


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