Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Hattie Washington, 1969 

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HATTIE WASHINGTON EDWARDS 

   SMITHFIELD - A funeral service for Mrs. Hattie Washington Edwards was 
conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Colonial Funeral Home, Smithfield, by the 
Rev. Warren F. Taylor of Smithfield Baptist Church.  Burial was in Old St. 
Luke’s Cemetery, near Smithfield.

   Pallbearers were Carl W. Barlow, Thomas G. Barlow, Linwood J. Hundley, 
James E. Pierce, J. Ricks Wilson and Paul Godwin.

   Mrs. Edwards, 70, of Route 1 died Sunday in Hillcrest Nursing Home, 
Suffolk.

   A native of Southampton County, she was a daughter of William E. and 
Mrs. Josephine Turner Washington and the wife of Fitzhugh L. Edwards.

   She was a member of Smithfield Baptist Church and its Women’s Mission 
Society and the Auxiliary to the Pagan Pines Veterans of Foreign Wars 
Barracks.

   Besides her husband, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Theodore B. Ray, 
and a son, Fitzhugh L. Edwards Jr., both of Smithfield; two sisters, Mrs. 
Mitchell Simmons of Waverly and Mrs. Frank Ollice of Portsmouth; six 
brothers, W. Thomas Washington of Suffolk, J. Robert Washington of 
Goldsboro, N.C., Matthew T. Washington and James E. Washington of Norfolk, 
Joseph D. Washington of Boykins, and Augustine A. Washington of Jacksonville, 
N.C.; and two grandchildren.


Hattie (WASHINGTON; Mrs. Fitzhugh L. [Sr.]) EDWARDS, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 30 Nov 1969, Suffolk, age 70, 
interred in Old St. Luke’s Church Cemetery*, Benns Church, 2 Dec 1969, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 4, 1969, Sect. II, p. 8 

*Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #17: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

Additional information: 

Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," June 14, 1940) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w252w1ob.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 24, 1960), 
   with their marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w252j1ob.txt 

Both state thet were buried in the family cemetery. 

Apparently they were re-interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 3, Section J, 
   Plot 13), along with 2 sons, Joseph (1907-2001) and Lewis R. (1915-1963). 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Beechwood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 

Her paternal grandparents are indeed buried in a WASHINGTON family cemetery. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 5 (V-27): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol5.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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