Mecklenburg County NcArchives Obituaries.....Stroud, Mary Virginia Smith 1945
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 05-11-1945, P. 7
MARY VIRGINIA SMITH STROUD

   Mrs. Mary Virginia Stroud, widow of the late William H. Stroud of Franklin, 
died at her home in Portsmouth Sunday, April 29, in the 80th year of her life. 
She is survived by two children, Lee H. Stroud of Portsmouth, with whom she had 
made her home for the past 15 years, a daughter, Mrs. Stanley Crawford of 
Pittsburg, Penn., and a grandson, Lee H. Stroud, 2nd, of Portsmouth. She was a 
member of High Street Methodist Church, Franklin. Funeral services were held 
from the Snellings Funeral Home in Portsmouth and burial was made in the family 
plot in Oak Grove Cemetery, that city.

   Mrs. Stroud, who was a woman of many fine traits of character, and who 
numbered a host of friends, made her home in this town for about 50 years. Her 
husband, W.H. Stroud, a highly honorable and exemplary citizen, was Editor and 
Owner of the “Southampton Democrat” of this town from August 1886, until April 
1927, when ill health made his discontinue its publication, Mr. Stroud dying 
here August 19, 1930. A constant and conscientious member of the Methodist 
Church here, she was active in its church work and mission activities.

*Born in Charlotte, N.C. in 1865


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