Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Roberts, Mary E.W. Munford, 1971 

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MARY ELENA MUNFORD ROBERTS

   A funeral service for Mrs. Mary Munford* Roberts, 79, of Rt. 2, Franklin, 
was held Monday, December 20 at 2 p.m. in the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral 
Home by the Rev. Claude Catling.

   Burial was in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were G.W. Bulls, J.R. Tomlin, L.E. Beale, B.B. Barrett, Johnnie 
Lee Scott, Theo E. Beale and Crawford Munford, Jr.

   A native of Southampton County, she was a daughter of Joseph S. and Mrs. 
Frances Wyatt Munford* and the widow of James Henry Roberts.

   She was a member of Black Creek Baptist Church.

   She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Francis Hays of Zuni, Mrs. Maggie 
Bohannon of Patterson, Ga., Mrs. Annie Bulls and Mrs. Sue Boykins of Capron; 
one son, Willie E. Roberts of Franklin; one sister, Mrs. Maude Trueblood of 
Portsmouth; ten grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.


Mary Elena Wyatt (MUNFORD; Mrs. James H.) ROBERTS, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 18 Dec 1971, age 79, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Franklin, 
   20 Dec 1971, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

*Additional information: 

MUMFORD in original obituary replaced with MUNFORD throughout. 

Her parents have been difficult to identify. 

Her D.Cert. (#71-035473) gives dt/o Joseph S. & Frances (Wyatt) Munford. 

Josiah Thomas MUNFORD (b. Jan 1846) 
   1m. 14 Feb 1867 Sarah W. "Sallie" MANRY (b. ca. 1842) {IoW.Co.}; 
   2?m. 10 Jan 1896 Frances WYATT (1872-1958) 10 Jan 1896 {So.Co. MB9:1}. 

Mary does not appear with them in the 1900 or 1910 Census. 
   (Holy Neck Dist., Nansemond Co.) 
   The 1900 says Josiah & Frances had been married 3 years, with their only 
   child (son James A., b. Nov 1897) surviving, plus his son George T. 
   (b. Jan 1877) & daughter Minnie (b. Jan 1895). 

Mary does appear with her widowed aunt Maggie (Wyatt) Edwards in both the 
    1900 & 1910 Census in Windsor Dist., Isle of Wight Co. - in 1900 as Mary 
    Munford, b. Mar 1892, gdt/o Margaret H. Wyatt, with widower Joseph H. 
    Munford (b. Jan 1858) also boarding there. 

Margaret A. Harriet Mountford (Munford) m. 20 Aug 1857 Albert Wyatt (IoW.Co.). 

Margaret (M.A.) appears in the 1880 Census in Franklin Dist., Southampton Co., 
  with one son & four daughters - M.C. 18, M.A. {Maggie} 16, M.A. {Mary Alice} 
  13, & F.C. {Frances}). 

While this obit calls J.T. & Frances' dt (Bertha) Maude (Mrs. Dwight L.) 
   Trueblood her sister, their dt Minnie O. "Nannie" (Mrs. George W.) Walker's 
   donated 1921 obit mentions only 1 sister - Bertha; file at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/w426n1ob.txt 

Minnie seems to have been born a year before J.T. & Frances wed. 

It is possible that Mary was also born to them out of wedlock, or she may 
   have been the daughter of Joseph H./S. MUNFORD and M.C. WYATT. 

Frances is also buried (unmarked) at Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery. 
   Beaver Dam list (BD-66 & -59), an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

A transcript of Mary's marriage record included in notes appended to husband's 
   obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 7, 1952, p. 8), posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/r163j3ob.txt 


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William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com) & 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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