Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Stone, Olie Draper 1948 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net January 21, 2013, 5:55 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 01-16-1948, P. 12 OLIE DRAPER STONE Mrs. Olie Draper Stone, 51, a resident of Portsmouth for the past 24 years, died Sunday, January 11, in King’s Daughters Hospital, after an illness of many months. Mrs. Stone, daughter of the late Thomas Draper and Mrs. Ellen Brotton Draper Cowan, was a native of Southampton County and a member of New Hope Methodist Church near Statesville. She was the wife of Cephas K. Stone of Portsmouth. Besides her husband she is survived by four sons Benjamin F., Joe Dunford, and William Kind Stone of Portsmouth and Stanford S. Stone, USN, now stationed in China; one brother, Rev. Millard F. Draper of Richmond; and five grandchildren. Funeral services for Mrs. Stone were conducted Tuesday afternoon at one o’clock at the W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by Rev. John W. Morrison of Newsoms, with interment in the family cemetery near Como, N.C. The active pallbearers were Bob Holland, Linwood Britton, Charles Bryant, Eddied Bryant, Calvin Jenkins, Lewis Holland, Pugh Holland and Leroy Kay. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/hertford/obits/s/stone2274ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb