Isle of Wight-Warwick County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Fuller, Martha A. B., 1924 

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MARTHA FULLER 

Newport News, Va., March 22 - Mrs. Martha Fuller, pioneer citizen and widow 
of A. C. Fuller, died after an illness of eighteen months at the home of her 
son-on-law, Robert Fleming, on Shenandoah Road Boulevard*.  Mrs. Fuller was 
born in Isle of Wight county November 11, 1837 and came to Newport News with 
her family in 1886, where she has since made her home.  She was one of the 
oldest members of the First Baptist church of this city.  She is survived by 
one daughter, Mrs. Robert Fleming, and a step-son, B. C. Fuller of Portsmouth. 


Martha A. (BRIDGES/BRIDGER/BRIDGERS; Mrs. Ambrose C.) FULLER, of Newport News, 
formerly of Portsmouth, 
b. 11 Nov 1837, Isle of Wight Co., 
d. 22 Mar 1924, at son-in-law's home, Newport News, 
interred in Greenlawn Memorial Park**, Newport News, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Mar. 24, 1924, p. 14, col. 1 

Additional information: 

**Find-A-Grave Memorial # 86492389  

She appears in Portsmouth, [then] Norfolk Co., VA, in the 1860-1880 Census. 
   Her mother had remarried, to a William MASLIN/MASSLING. 

*She appears with the family of son-in-law Robert GUNNING, 
   in the 1900-10 Census in Newport News, 
   and in the 1920 Census in Wythe Dist., Elizabeth City Co. [now Hampton]. 

The only Shenandoah Rd. found on modern maps is in Hampton. 

Her marriage record - 

Ambrose C. Fuller, 26, Widower, b. Alleghany Co., Penn*, res. Portsmouth, Va., 
   sn/o Russell Fuller & Eliza Fuller, Engineer 
Martha Bridgers, 22, Single, b. & res. Portsmouth, Va., 
   dt/o ___ & Eliza Maryline 
m. 25 Sep 1862, Portsmouth, by Jno. S. Briggs 
(Portsmouth M.Reg. {BVS copy}, p. 59) 
[*Census records give b. NY] 


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