Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries...... Abdell, Laura E. Hawkins, 1901 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ LAURA ESTELLE HAWKINS EDWARDS ABDELL Mrs. Laura Abdell, wife of Mr. R.D. Abdell, died at the family residence, on Pinner Street, this morning about 8:30 o’clock, aged about 46 years*. Mrs. Abdell’s health had been failing for several months, and she ahd been confined in her bed since Christmas Eve. Besides her husband, she leaves six young children to mourn their loss. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Suffolk Baptist Church. Laura Estelle (HAWKINS EDWARDS; Mrs. Robert D.) ABDELL, NC native, d. 17 Jan 1901, at home, Suffolk, age circa 46*, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block E, Lot 36*), Suffolk, donated obit, newspaper unknown *Additional information: Buried with her first husband, James Henry EDWARDS. Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt Her widower is buried with his first wife in Parsons Cemetery, Salisbury, MD. (Find a Grave Mem. #55742728) The cemetery list gives b. 4 Oct 1858. The 1900 Census (Pinner St, Suffolk, Holy Neck, Nan.Co.) gives b. Oct 1860 NC. Her son James Clifton ABDELL's D.Cert. (1940 #595) gives Laura Treadway EDWARDS, b. Louisiana. He was executed by the Commonwealth, having been convicted 1 Jul 1938 of murdering his wife 11 May 1938. He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk. (Find a Grave Mem. #14956458) 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/nansemond/obits/a134l1ob.txt