Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Porter, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Beale 1939
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 12-01-1939, P. 4
ELIZABETH "LIZZIE" BEALE PORTER

   Mrs. Lizzie Beale Porter, age 67, wife of A.P. Porter, well known resident of 
the Handsom community, died Wednesday night at the home of her brother-in-law, 
H.W. Porter. She was the daughter of the late Dread and Sallie Barnes Beale of 
Southampton County.

   Besides her husband she is survived by one brother, Hugh P. Beale of the 
Vicksville community; two sisters, Mrs. Annie Oberry of Newsoms and Mrs. Peggy 
Edwards of Richmond, and a number of nieces and nephews. Mrs. Porter was a 
member of Sunbeam Baptist Church, where she served faithfully until her death.

   Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2:30 at Mt. Horeb Methodist 
Church by the Rev. C.P. Cleveland and the Rev. F.L. Baker. Interment was made in 
the family cemetery near Handsom. Pallbearers were John Worrell, L.L. Bryant, 
J.T. Bryant, Kelly R. Bishop, Johnnie Bryant, William Beale, Robert Johnson and 
Algier Fowler.

THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 12-08-1939, P. 10

   The funeral of Mrs. Lizzie Beale Porter, who died suddenly Wednesday night, 
November 29, at the home of her brother-in-law, H.W. Porter, near Handsom, was  
conducted Friday, December 1, at Mt. Horeb Church by Rev. C.P. Cleveland and 
Rev. F.L. Baker. The choir sang several of Mrs. Porter’s favorite hymns and 
burial was in the family cemetery on the old Porter homestead about two miles 
from the church.

   The casket was covered with a pall of white and lavender chrysanthemums with 
fern and gypsophila. There were many other beautiful flowers and a large crowd 
of sorrowing relatives and friends, mostly from Southampton County in which she 
had spent her entire life of 67 years.

   Pallbearers were J.T., J.W. and L.L. Bryant, K.R. Bishop, J.A. Fowler, J.R. 
Worrell and J.C. Johnson.

   Mrs. Porter was a member of Sunbeam Baptist Church but had worked all her 
life in Mt. Horeb M.E. Church and was at the time of her death a member of the 
Sunday school, the Woman’s Missionary Society and an honorary member of the 
Young People’s division, having been treasurer of that division for many years.

   Perhaps no other person in the span of her life had attended as many services 
at this church as she, and of her it can well be said. She went about doing 
good, feeding and clothing the needy, nursing the sick and cheering the 
downcast.

  The prayer and sympathy of the community go out to the bereaved husband so 
lonely in the shadows of the even-tide of his life. He will miss her most and 
many others will miss Miss Lizzie too. – Communicated. 


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