Nansemond-Norfolk County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....Murders, 1873 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ "Richmond Daily Dispatch," Vol. 44, No. 132, Tues., June 3, 1873, p. 3 TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Double Murder in Nansemond. TWO LADIES BRUTALLY BRAINED - ROBBERY THE OBJECT OF THE MURDERER - INTENSE EXCITEMENT AND PURSUIT OF THE CRIMINALS - FUNERAL OF THE DECEASED. [Special telegram to the Dispatch.] Suffolk, Va., June 2, 1873. A startling tragedy was enacted in Nansemond county, about nine miles from this place, on Sunday. The particulars are substantially an follows: Last Sunday morning while Mr. Dempsey Jones, who resides on White Marsh road near Cypress church, and his children were at Sunday School some unknown person or persons entered his house and murdered his wife and Mrs. Sarah N. Dozier, his sister, by BEATING OUT THEIR BRAINS WITH A CLUB. The murderers then proceeded to rifle the house, and took therefrom all the money and transportable valuables that could be found. The murder was not discovered until the return of Mr. Jones and his children. The news was rapidly communicated to the neighbors, and a number of gentlemen organized themselves for the putpose of following and, if possible, arresting the murderers, but up to the present writing with no success, though it is thought that a very intelligible clue to THE PERPETRATORS OF THE CRIME has been obtained. The club with which the ladies were murdered has been found, as also the tracks of bare feet in the upper portion of the house. Two more EXCELLENT CHRISTIAN LADIES than the deceased could not have been found in the county. The sad occurrence has caused great excitement, and there is universal sympathy for Mr. Jones and his interesting family. He has a son and three daughters, the former being a resident of Norfolk. The force in search of the murderer or murderers consists of 100 mounted men. Second Dispatch. THE FUNERAL OF MRS. JONES AND MRS. DOZIER, this afternoon, was the largest ever seen in the county. The excitement is intense. A negro man who has been working with Mr. Jones was arrested to-night on circumstantial evidence. The jewelry and watch supposed to be stolen were found thrown down, and left - only the pocket-book of Mr. Jones, containing thirty or forty dollars, was carried off. Some small articles belonging to Mr. Jones was found on the premises of the negro. A REWARD will be offered to-morrow for the detection of the murderer. ****************************************************************************** "Richmond Daily Dispatch," Vol. 44, No. 133, Wed., June 4, 1873, p. 1 THE SUFFOLK SLAUGHTER. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE MURDER OF MRS. JONES AND MRS. DOZIER. PERSONNEL OF THE PARTIES. A PRISONER, RELEASED AND RE-ARRESTED, ESCAPES, ETC. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Suffolk, June 3, 1873. The murder of the two ladies in the family of our countyman Mr. Dempsy [sic; Dempsey] Jones has produced such a sensation in this community as has not before been seen. The family are highly esteemed by all who know them, and for their hospitality they have been long reknowned. The family consisted of the father and mother and three lovely daughters - the youngest fifteen, and the eldest twenty-one - and Mrs. Dozier, a widowed sister of Mr. Jones. They had but one son, who has been for some time residing in Suffolk. The murdered ladies were both devoutly pious, most amiable in disposition, and cheerful and happy-hearted. Mrs. Jones was forty-six years old, and Mrs. Dozier was fifty-nine. She has an only son, who resides in Portsmouth. Mr. Jones and the young ladies at the time of the murder were at Sunday school, ONLY HALF A MILE FROM THE FAMILY RESIDENCE. Captain Jethro Riddick lives only two or three hundred yards from Mr. Jones, on the opposite side of the road. Mr. Jones's house is not more than forty feet from one of the most public roads in the county. The morning on which the foul deed was committed was bright and lovely. It was at such a place and under such circumstances that the foul murder was committed. The murderer seems to have had no plan. From THE POSITION OF THE PARTIES, it is supposed Mrs. Dozier was reading a copy of the "Christian Sun," her Church paper. The murderer must have been known to them. He entered at the end-door of the room. Mrs. Dozier had laid her spectacles on the window-sill while engaged in conversation with him. The piece of wood which was used in the murder was a split piece of white oak, seasoned, which an hour or two before had been laid near the door to be used, the morning being cool. The murderer seized this piece of wood and with it committed the horrid deed. TERRIBLE BUTCHERY. Mrs. Jones was struck but twice, the first blow, doubtless, shattering her skull. Mrs. Dozier was struck at least seven times. Her hand was broken, her shoulder was mashed, her forehead was split open, and the back part of her head was so crushed that the brains nearly all ran out on the floor. The blood of the victims was on the wall six or eight feet high. The scene was the most horrid that your correspondent ever looked upon. THE FUNERAL yesterday, as I telegraphed, was the largest ever seen in the county. The line of vehicles in the funeral procession was a mile in length. The funeral service was performed by Rev. W.B. Wellons, assisted by Rev. E.W. Beale. The text was - I. Thessalonians, IV, 13-14: "I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are sleep," &c. The minister was the intimate friend of the family, every one of whom had been brought to Christ under his ministry. His sympathies were deeply enlisted. APPEARANCE OF THE ACCUSED. A colored man present at the funeral was arrested on suspicion immediately after the burial. His name is Jim Brown. I looked him, and saw in him the most forbidding countenance I ever looked upon. He had been working with Mr. Jones, and had been heard to say that Mrs. Dozier he knew had a great deal of money. Detectives are engaged in working up the matter. Mr. Jones and the son of Mrs. Dozier have offered a liberal reward for the detection of the murderer or murderers, and it is hoped that the Governor will offer a reward. The whole country seems to be aroused to the enormity of the crime. Later, BROWN RELEASED, RE-ARRESTED, AND ESCAPES. James Brown (negro), arrested on Sunday evening upon suspicion of being implicated in the Jones murder, was released yesterday morning, as no evidence could be elicited from him. He was re-arrested yesterday evening, but made his escape from the guard last night at about 8 o'clock. It is now the general opinion that he is undoubtedly connected with the murder. Great excitement still prevails in the whole community. Two detectives arrived here this morning, and will proceed at once to the scene of the horrible tragedy. Another Account of the Tragedy. [From the Norfolk Journal.] Mr. Jones had gone a few miles from home into North Carolina to visit a friend. His daughters, about 10 o'clock, as usual, three in number, went to Sunday school at the church not more than one-half mile distant from and in sight of their home. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Dozier remained at home. Not another living soul was left there, for no one, neither black nor white, except the family, lives on the premises. The youngest of the daughters left the Sunday school a little earlier than the rest, and went home between 11 and 12 o'clock, having been absent about one hour and a half. A lady and gentleman, friends of the family, went with her. As soon as they arrived at the front gate this daughter jumped out of the buggy and ran into the house to tell her mother that this lady and gentleman had come to dine with them. She found THE FRONT DOOR LOCKED, but immediately ran around and entered through a back door which she found open, all the while in a merry mood, and wholly innocent of what had happened in the short time (one hour and a half) she had been absent. On into the house she went, and soon came upon the bodies of her mother and her aunt lying on the floor. Her first thought was that they were asleep, but before she opened her mouth to tell her mother of the arriival of their friends she discovered that the were lying cold in death where the assassin had executed his nefarious and diabolical plan to murder. What a convulsion of feelings she must have experienced - from the cheerful, innocent, and happy to the heart-rendering feelings she gave vent to in the wildest shrieks and cries! Out into the yard she rushed. Her cries were heard at the church, and soon a host of friends were there, but, alas! too late to catch the murderer. The oldest daughter FAINTED WHEN SHE HEARD THE NEWS, and for a long time her recovery was doubtful. Mr. Jones soon returned, and later in the day many from Suffolk were there to lend assistance to this large number of men searching the houses and country for miles around for the executor of the bloody deed. Inasmuch as the first daughter to return home was absent not more than one hour and a half, the deed was done within that time, and certainly soon after her departure to Sunday school, as the ladies were cold when she returned. The murderer therefore must have been somewhere secreted on the premises awaiting the departure of all or the most of the family, and the whole affair shows conclusively that the murderer was familiar with the house, etc. He entered a side door, which opened back against the wall in such a way as to leave a triangular corner behind it. Near the door was a fireplace, on the side of which, just at the door, sat Mrs. Jones, while on the other side, away from the door, sat Mrs. Dozier. One step inside the door placed the murderer by Mrs. Jones's side. Behind the door was A PIECE OF WHITE-OAK WOOD, about one or two feet long, and about as large as a man's arm, having the bark on one side of it. It was placed there in the morning by a small boy, who had brought it in with other fire-wood. With this Mrs. Jones was struck not more than one or two licks on the side of her head, which completely parted her skull all around. With one hand at the side of her face and the other at her side she was found lying beside the chair in which she was sitting when struck, her position indicating that she must have been KILLED INSTANTLY. Her pocket was torn from her dress, and her keys taken out and used to open the various drawers about the house. So she was found with the clotted blood from her head on the floor where she lay. In it pieces of the bark of the wood were found, several pieces in her hair, and the piece of wood was covered with blood and placed again behind the door. Mrs. Dozier received many licks upon the top of her head with the same or a like instrument, which crushed her skull into so many pieces that the whole could be raised up and moved about by raising the scalp by the hair. Her arm was broken, her shoulders severely bruised, and her finger-ring broken and mashed into the finger upon which she wore it. Her keys were not taken from her pocket, her spectacles were left in the window beside which she sat, and the newspaper she was reading was on the floor near her. The murdered being barefooted, and having gotten some of the blood on his feet, LEFT HIS TRACKS on the stairway and in one room. He wanted money, and nothing else, it would seem, for he did not take the jewelry that he found in the trunks and drawers - not a piece. He secured Mr. Jones's pocket-book, which had only a few dollars in it, and no valuable or important papers. One of Mrs. Dozier's bureau-drawers, in which she had a little money and all her bonds, &c., was not opened, although the attempt to open it was made. Everything showed that the party was in a great hurry. No one was seen going to or from the house about the time the murder was committed, although many were passing to and from church, nor has any but the slightest evidence against any particular person come to light. [Special telegram to the Dispatch.] SUFFOLK, Va., June 3. - Jim Brown, arrested last night, has escaped. His bloody clothes were found to-day, pointing him out as the murderer. He is surrounded in a body of woods, and can hardly get entirely away. ****************************************************************************** "Richmond Daily Dispatch," Vol. 44, No. 134, Thurs., June 5, 1873, p. 3 TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. The Nansemond Murders - Recapture of Jim Brown - He Confesses the Murders. [Special telegram to the Dispatch.] SUFFOLK, June 4. - Jim Brown, the negro supposed to be guilty of the Jones murder, was captured last night about 7 o'clock by Dr. T.E. Cripper and Mr. Robert R. Smith, of our town. He arrived here in charge of a strong guard about 12 o'clock last night, and was lodged in jail. Great praise is due Mr. Smith and Dr. Clipper for the untiring energy and strategy displayed in effecting the capture. No other arrest has yet been made. Second Dispatch. CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER. SUFFOLK, VA., June 4. - Jim Brown, the negro committed to jail last night upon suspicion of being guilty of the murder of Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Dozier, confessed the crime to the sheriff of the county and others to-day at 1 o'clock P. M. He says he told Mrs. Jones he wanted money. He admits that he was barefooted. Said he had seen himself on the gallows a year ago. He was at the funeral and burial of his victims. He has told where the missing pocket-book can be found. It is thought there is danger of his being lynched. Another Account. [Special telegram to the Dispatch.] SUFFOLK, VA., June 4. - Jim Brown was rearrested last night by Robert R. Smith and Dr. Cropper, of Suffolk, and lodged in jail. He has made a full confession. He says be went to Mr. Jones's and concealed himself in the fodder-loft before the family left. When the family left for Sunday school he entered the room with a piece of wood in his hand, and said to Mrs. Jones, "I want money," and with the words felled her to the floor. Mrs. Dozier cried out, "Jim, please don't hit me." He immediately struck her, and continued to strike her until she was dead. He then locked the doors and searched the house, but found only Mr. Jones's pocket-book. He says he had no accomplice, but it is now believed that he had. He declares he did the murder with a lightwood stick, and then put it in the fire and burnt it. The stick found was white oak, and white-oak bark was found in the head of Mrs. Dozier. The jail is strongly guarded to prevent an enraged public from lynching him. ****************************************************************************** "Richmond Daily Dispatch," Vol. 44, No. 135, Fri., June 6, 1873, p. 3 THE NANSEMOND MURDERS. THE MURDERER'S FULL CONFESSION - STATEMENT OF HIS WIFE - INTERESTING DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY. [Norfolk Journal, 5th.] Officers Steele and Evans visited the prisoner, and after much trouble obtained from him the following confession: "I left home Sunday morning for Mrs. Jones's house at sunrise. I was under the shelter near the house when the young ladies left the house to go to church. I knew that Mr. Jones was not at home. I went into the side door. Mrs. Jones was sitting near the fireplace. Mrs. Dozier was sitting near the window. I asked Mrs. Jones for money. She said if I did not go away she would tell on me. I made a grab for her pocket to get the keys. She attempted to rise from her chair, and I struck her twice over the head with a piece of wood and killed her. Mrs. Dozier got up out of the chair where she was sitting, and said, 'JIM, DON'T KILL ME!' and started toward the door. I struck her three times with the same piece of wood. As soon as I saw that they were both dead I locked the door and went into Mrs. Jones's room and took this pocket-book out of the bureau-drawer. I then went up stairs into Mrs. Dozier's room and found her keys in the drawers; did not disturb anything. I came down stairs and went out at the back door, and went up the road as far as Captain Jett's. I left the pocket-book and contents in an oak bush by the roadside. [The pocket-book, for the possession of which the deed was committed, contained only some four or five dollars.] I then went home. I did not intend to kill Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Dozier if they would give me money when I asked for it. I was not in Mr. Jones's house over twenty minutes." DESCRIPTION OF THE MURDERER. Jim Brown is a very black, repulsive looking negro, with a low, retreating forehead. His eyes are large, and over the left one is an ugly scar, which he said was occasioned by a mule kicking him. He is of medium build, about five feet ten or eleven inches in height, and weighs about one hundred and sixty- five pounds. He generally went barefooted. He was raised in Gates county, N.C., where his mother still resides. STATEMENT OF THE MURDERER'S WIFE. Myra Brown, the murderer's wife, made the following statement: Jim, my husband, left home Sunday morning about sunrise. He told me he was going to yet something to put on the fire. That morning he had on a bleached cotton shirt (which has since been found with blood upon it). He came back about 10 o'clock A.M. and eat his breakfast, but did not seem to be hungry; he is generally a big eater. About 12 o'clock I got news of the murder. Jim went off to some of the neighbors to inform them of the murder. In the afternoon I went down to Mr. Jones's. Jim didn't want me to go, but I went, and he finally went with me. He didn't go into Jones's TO SEE THE CORPSES. He left me there and came home in the night some time, and commenced to talk about parties searching his house. I was talking about the murder, and Jim told me to hush, that somebody might hear me. All this happened on Sunday. On Monday Jim got up in the morning and commenced ploughing. I had started down the road to Mr. Jones's, met Jim, and he asked me if I had anything to eat in the house. I went back and fried him some meat. He did not eat much. After dinner I asked him to GO TO THE FUNERAL. He said he would not go. He said he thought the best thing he could do was to go away. I kept after him, and asked him if he done the murder. At first he said he did, and next he said he did nor know whether he done it, or no. Then I had to coax him for some time to go to the funeral. It was a hard matter to get him out of the yard. Finally he started with me, but kept continually stopping on the road; he did not seem to want to go. When we got near Cypress chapel he stepped off the road into the woods, and held up his right hand and prayed that the LORD WOULD FORGIVE HIM for what he had done, looking toward Heaven at the time. He said if the Lord would forgive him he would not do so any more. I never heard him pray before in my life. When he came out of the woods I said to him, "Jim, I have told you dozens of times that you would be hung." He said, "THIS IS MY TIME." I said: You never would hear to me before; I reckon you can now. He started up the road ahead of me. I overtook him. He was talking to Jack Council. He said he believed he would go down to Captain Jett's and get his horse, and plough an hour or two, and then he would go over to Mr. Jones's. I said he would be too late if he did not go then. Officer Steele then asked her why she said they would be too late. She said: "We understood that the grand jury were to meet at Mr. Jones's, and everybody were to put their hands on the corpse, and whoever committed the murder the blood would run on their hand. Jim said he did not want to do it, for the blood might run on his hand, and they would say he done the murder." ****************************************************************************** "Richmond Daily Dispatch," Vol. 44, No. 140, Thurs., June 12, 1873, p. 4 TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. The Nansemond Murders. TRIAL OF THE MURDERER - HE PLEADS GUILTY, BUT IS TRIED, CONVICTED, AND SENTENCED. [Special telegram to the Dispatch.] SUFFOLK, Va., April [sic; June] 11. - Jim Brown was tried to-day in the County Court for the murder of Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Dozier - Judge Prentis presiding. He appeared in court without counsel, and when asked if guilty or not guilty, promptly answered, "Guilty." The Judge entered the plea of not guilty. The evidence, including his confession, was given and summed up by John D. Wright, attorney for the Commonwealth, to the jury, who were only out five minutes, and returned with a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The Judge inquired if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, when he replied, "I done the crime." The Judge then sentenced him to be hanged on Friday the 11th of July. Mr. Jones, the husband of the murdered woman, was in the court-room, and received sympathy of all. ****************************************************************************** "Richmond Daily Dispatch," Vol. 45, No. 11, Sat., July 12, 1873, p. 1 JIM BROWN HANGED. LAST ACT IN THE NANSEMOND TRAGEDY. LAST HOURS OF THE MURDERER. INCIDENTS OF THE EXECUTION. A Spectator Falls and Breaks his Neck. [Special telegram to the Dispatch.] Suffolk, July 11. - Jim Brown was hanged here to-day for the murder of Mrs. Sarah N. Dozier and Mrs. Elizabeth Jones. The foul crime thus expiated is of so recent occurrence that its details must be fresh in the memory of everybody in Virginia, and it is needless to reproduce them. Rarely has justice been so speedily satisfied in the arrest, conviction, and execution of a great offender against the law. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Dozier were killed on Sunday, June 1st; on the 2d Jim Brown was arrested and released; on tbe 3d the same man was rearrested and committed to jail; on the 11th he was arraigned, tried, and convicted of murder in tbe first degree; and now, after one month of delay allowed him to prepare for death, the soul of the murderer has been launched into eternity. LAST MOMENTS OF THE MURDERER. Jim Brown being interviewed yesterday evening said he was converted, had made his peace with his Maker, and was even sorry that his execution did not take place then instead of to-day. He slept soundly last night, but remained undisturbed in his cell until 9 o'clock, when the sheriff arrived. At 10, his manacles being stricken off he washed and dressed, and then his wife, who is in jail, was brought to bid him a final farewell. The meeting was no ways affecting, the conversation being limited to good-bye, repeated frequently by both, shaking hands meanwhile, indifferently by Jim but with a slight show of feeling by the woman. A colored preacher was then admitted to the jail, with whom the condemned engaged in prayer, sang a hymn, and seemed to be religiously comforted. THE SCAFFOLD was erected in front of the jail and not one hundred yards from the main thoroughfare of the town. It was a substantial and excellent structure of the sort, allowing a fall of six feet, with swinging doors in the drop. A square space was staked off around the scaffold, with ropes to keep the immense crowd present back. Thirty special constables sworn in by the sheriff, assisted by several volunteer policemen from Norfolk, preserved order. It is estimated that there were about 3,000 people present besides the citizens - the largest crowd ever assembled in Suffolk. At 11 o'clock, the condemned man was robed in a long, FLOWING WHITE SHROUD, his arms were pinioned, and he was led from the jail, accompanied by the sheriff, his deputies, and the colored preacher. He appeared to be greatly excited, and when he mounted the steps to the drop, fell on his knees and was heard to mutter a prayer. Soon after he stood up, and the sheriff read the death sentence. When asked if he had anything to say, he said: "Dear, Loving Friends, - I tell you all I have sinned, and I hope I'm going to a better land. Don't follow me, but try to make heaven your home. I say to everybody repent, repent, before it is too late. What I have done I did myself." A rope was then tied on his neck with a common slip-knot, but fearing this would not do, another, with the traditional hangman's knot, was substituted. As the cap was about to be drawn over his features the colored preacher said, "Jim, I wish you to say now, as you are standing ON THE THRESHOLD OF ETERNITY, was there any one concerned with you in the shedding of this innocent blood." Jim replied, "No." The cap was then drawn over the features, the condemned man crying out, "I'm going to a better land; good bye." At 11:20 A.M. the drop fell, and Jim's body fell into the vacuum of the scaffold, the fall being only three and a half feet. The neck was broken. Five minutes later, pulsation was feeble at 70. In ten minutes he was dead, the struggles being only convulsive movements of the limbs. The body was cut down and placed in a coffin for interment. Jim had disposed of his head and body separately to two persons for necessaries he required while in jail. ANOTHER MAN KILLED. While the body was suspended a negro named Tom Bacon, who was in the upper branches of a tree, lost his balance and fell, breaking his neck. He was carried off a corpse. A son of Mrs. Dozier, one of the murdered ladies, witnessed the execution from a privileged position within the ropes. Jim's wife also witnessed it from a jail window. ****************************************************************************** Additional information: Coverage also appeared in many other newspapers statewide. The ladies are often identified as sisters, rather than sisters-in-law. Nansemond Co. D.Reg. 1872 #11 gives Sarah N. DOZIER, 52, b. Nansemond Co., daughter of Arthur JONES, Murdered 1 Jun 1873; never married; reported by D. JONES, Head of the family. Nansemond Co. D.Reg. 1872 #11 gives Mary E. JONES, 45, b. NC, daughter of Jason HOLLAND, Murdered 1 Jun 1873; wife of Dempsey JONES; reported by D. JONES, Head of the family. They are likely buried with Dempsey & Mary's son William Thomas JONES (1850 - 1898) in a JONES family cemetery, near Cypress Chapel. Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (NV-I-39), an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt No Find a Grave Memorials Dempsey (b. ca. 1805 Nansemond Co.) 1m. Jincey Ann PILAND; their son Arthur JONES was b. ca. 1836 in Warwick Co. John & Sarah DOZER appear in the 1850 Census in Portsmouth, Norfolk Co. with 3 sons. John d. 9 Dec 1853 in Norfolk Co. (#43) of pneumonia, age 52. Eldest son Cornelius Matthias DOZIER (b. ca. 1833 Norfolk Co.) m. Eliza Susan DENNIS 1 May 1854 in Western Branch, Norfolk Co. (#37); he enlisted as a private in Co. I, 9th VA Infantry, was promoted to 3rd Lieutenant 18 Mar 1862 and KIA 1 Jul 1862 at Malvern Hill. Youngest son William A. DOZIER (b. ca. 1853 Norfolk Co.) m. Alexina "Zena" PARKER 8 Dec 1887 in Nansemond Co. (#149); he was Postmaster of Cypress Chapel from 27 Aug 1885 to 24 Dec 1887. William's wife Zena DOZIER (1853 - 1918) is buried in the DOZIER family cemetery, near Cypress Chapel (NV-I-28). The 1860 Census - Upper Parish, Nansemond Co. - states Dempsey owned $4000 in real & $7500 in personal estate, and 10 slaves. Boarder Sarah DOSIER had $6000 in personal estate. The 1870 Census - Cypress Dist., Nansemond Co. - states Dempsey owned $3000 in real & $3290 in personal estate. Boarder Sarah DOSIER had none. Ancestry.com Geneanet Community Trees Index gives Mary Elizabeth as the daughter of Jason & Ora HOLLAND. However, it mistakes her for Elizabeth JONES (of lawful age, say 21 years) who m. Dempsey L. JONES 29 Jun 1843. (Southampton Co. M.Reg. pp. 529 & 713) Note that there was another Dempsey JONES (b. ca. 1823 VA), who m. Mary Elizabeth O'BERRY (b. ca. 1825 VA). They appear in the 1880 Census in Holy Neck Dist., Nansemond Co. Their daughter "Sadie" Sarah Cornelia (JONES NORFLEET; Mrs. Hugh Kelly) RAWLES (1851 - 1937) is buried in Holland Cemetery. Holland list, another extension SCHS Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holland.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/newspapers/18730603dd.txt