Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Nelms, Roxie Wills, 1959 

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Mrs. Roxie Nelms Is Buried Today 

  ZUNI - Funeral services for Mrs. Roxie Wills Nelms were conducted today at 
2:30 p.m. at Central Hill Baptist Church Isle of Wight County by the Rev. 
Carey L. Steele, pastor.  Burial was in the church cemetery. 

  Pallbearers were L.E. Crocker, Bob Crocker, Alvah Wills, Eugene Robertson, 
Jack Wills, Gordon Wills, Herbert Bradshaw, and August Jenkins. 

  Mrs. Nelms, 78, died Monday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jasper 
Holland in Zuni, after an illness of three years. 

  Daughter of Matthew and Richenda Joyner Wills, she was the widow of William 
Decatur Nelms.  A native of Southampton County, she had lived in Isle of Wight 
County 50 years and was a member of Central Hill Baptist Church. 

  Mrs. Nelms is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Ruby Nelms Holland of 
Windsor, a son, William A. Nelms, a sister, Mrs. Maude W. Robertson of Zuni; 
two brothers, John R. Wills and Tony W. Wills of Windsor; six grandchildren 
and five great-grandchildren. 


Roxanna "Roxie" (WILLS; Mrs. William D.) NELMS, 
b. 22 Jul 1881, Isle of Wight Co., d. 27 Dec 1959, at daughter's home, Zuni, 
interred in Central Hill Baptist Church Cemetery*, 29 Dec 1959, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 206, Tues., Dec. 29, 1959, p. 3; 

*Additional information: 

Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #56: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Ron Stewart - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #105857421. 

No contemprary D.Cert. found 

Roxanna & widower William m. 23 Jan 1910 in Unity. 
   (Southampton Co. MB13:592; M.Reg. #21) 

Her parents are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block I, Lot 63. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 


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