Isle of Wight-Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bailey, Leafy D. Wills, 1948 

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Rites Held For Mrs. Leathy [sic; Leafy] Bailey 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Leathy Wills Bailey, who died Tuesday, were 
conducted at the residence in Windsor yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. 
The Rev. J.T. Morgan, the Rev J. Sidney Cobb, the Rev. B.A. Riddle, Dr. I.W. 
Johnson, the Rev. J.M. Roberts and the Rev. E.B. White officiated. 

  A mixed quartet, accompanied by Mrs Sarah Whitley, sang "Abide With Me" and 
"Nearer My God to Thee." 

  The pall was of red roses, Easter lilies and gardenias.  Pallbearers were 
W.H. Johnson, F.R. Steele, S.T. Holland, W.T. Joyner, J.D. Saunders, Jr., 
C.K. Fulgham, George Vick and Boise Bell. 

  Burial followed in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

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Mrs. Leafy Wills 
Bailey, 67, Died 
Dec. 15 in Windsor 
        * * * 

  Mrs. Leafy Wills Bailey, 67, wife of Lorenzo Bailey, died December 15th 
at her home in Windsor after a long illness. 

  She was a daughter of the late Octavius Wills and Mattie Bradshaw Wills. 

  Survivors are her husband; a daughter, Mrs. J.S. Cobb Jr. of Newport News; 
a son, C. Fred Bailey of Windsor; two brothers, A.O. Wills of Norfolk, and 
N.W. Wills of Sedley; three sisters, Mrs. J.G. Roberts of Windsor; Mrs. M.D. 
Boone of Norfolk, and Mrs. Raby Beale of Franklin; a granddaughter Carolyn 
Carolyn [sic] Cobb of Newport News, and two grandsons, James Leonard Cobb 
and Charles Sidney Cobb of Newport News. 


Leafy D. (WILLS; Mrs. Lorenzo) BAILEY, 
b. 7 Nov 1881, Southampton Co., d. 15 Dec 1948, at home, Windsor, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 25, No. 217, Fri., Dec. 17, 1948, p. 1; 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 22, No. 20, Dec. 22, 1948, p. 1, col. 2 

An obit also appeared in "The Daily Press," Dec. 17, 1948. 

*Additional information: 

Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

Photos of her gravestone & lot - added by Hixburg23958 - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #123310253. 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 27923 (Windsor #11). 

The 1910 Census (Windsor, IoW.Co.) shows the couple m. 1 year, with no 
   children; the m. 16 Jun 1908 in Suffolk. 
   Lorenzo 1m. Daisy D. ROBERTS (1877-1904), Dec. 4, 1902 (IoW.Co. #95) 

Lorenzo's obits ("Virginian-Pilot" & "Suffolk News-Herald," Jan. 17, 1958) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b400l14o.txt 

Her parents m. 23 Jan 1879.  (Southampton Co. MB3:419) 
   Widowed, her father 2m. 11 Feb 1886.  (Southampton Co. MB5:543) 

Her father & step-mother are buried in a WILLS family cemetery on Vicksville 
   Rd. (Rt. 645). 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 9 (MV-IX-44): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol9.txt 


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Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). 

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