Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Richards, Sallie A. Eley, 1931 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ SALLY A. ELEY RICHARDS Mrs. Sally [sic; Sallie] A. Richards, 75 years old, widow of Solon B. Richards, died at 1:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon in the residence of her daughter, Mrs. W.M. Sykes, 514 Dinwiddie Street, after a short illness. Mrs. Richards was a native of Isle of Wight County but had resided in this city for many years. Besides Mrs. Sykes she is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. T.E. Edwards, of Richmond, and Mrs. A.J. Miller, of this city; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Keely, of Suffolk, and Mrs. Donnie Johnson of Chuckatuck; four half-sisters, Mrs. Peter Tebo, of Norfolk; Mrs. George Bradshaw, of Suffolk, and Mrs. Ada Lankford and Mrs. John Powell, of Isle of Wight County; eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Richards was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Funeral service will held in the Snellings Funeral Home at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. Burial will take place in Shiloh Cemetery, Isle of Wight County. Sallie A. (ELEY; Mrs. Solon B.) RICHARDS, Isle of Wight Co. native, d. 12 Oct 1931, at daughter's home, Portsmouth, age 75, interred in Shiloh Cemetery*, 24 Mar 1936, "The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Oct. 13, 1931, p. 10 *Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #4: http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 24317 (Portsmouth #537), which gives dt/o Lemuel & Elizabeth (Chapman) Eley. Her step-mother, "Indie" Indiana Virginia (BRADSHAW) ELEY, is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block F, Lot 45. Cedar Hill list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_d.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/r263s2ob.txt