Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Thorne, Inez G. Johnson, 1943 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Mrs. Inez Thorne, Of Smithfield, Buried Wednesday Mrs. Inez Gertrude Thorne, aged 62, died Monday morning at 4:30 o'clock at the family residence in Smithfield, after a long illness. She was a lifelong resident of Isle of Wight County, and is survived by two sons, Vernon Thorne, of Arizona, and Harvey Thorne, of Smithfield; two daughters, Mrs. Nick Jones, of Surry County, and Miss Selma Thorne, of Smithfield; two sisters, Mrs. T.P. Holland and Mrs. W.T. Bradshaw, of Surry; two granddaughters and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Roberts & Johnson Funeral Home, in Smithfield, by the Rev. L.F. Paulette, pastor of Smithfield Baptist Church. Burial was in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery. Inez Gertrude (JOHNSON; Mrs. James Henry Thomas "Tom") THORNE, b. 10 Jan 1881, Isle of Wight Co., d. 18 Jan 1943, at home, Smithfield, interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 12 Jan 1943, "Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 25, No. 44, Thurs., Jan. 21, 1943, p. 1 *Additional information: Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt Unmarked? Neither she nor her husband appear on: Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html Find a Grave Memorial #148331128. Her mother, Mary Susan "Sue" (HOLLAND) JOHNSON (1857 - 1929), is also buried there, unmarked. D.Cert. 1628 (Newport #4) gives her father as Benjamin JOHNSON. Her father, Bolden B. JOHNSON, was a Confederate veteran, having served as a private in Co. F, 61st VA Infantry. He was paroled 25 Apr 1865 in IoW.Co.; d. 25 Dec 1890 in IoW.Co. His widow applied for a pension Feb. 6, 1922. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/t650i1ob.txt