Nansemond-Norfolk County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Artman, Mary E. Blaine, 1896 

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MARY ELIZABETH BLAINE ARTMAN 

Death of a Suffolk Lady. 

  Suffolk, Va., Dec. 8. - Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Artman, who had been in failing 
health for several years, died at 4 o'clock this afternoon.  The deceased was 
the wife of Mr. H.T. Artman, one of our oldest and best-known business men, 
and mother of T.W. Artman, one of the commissioners of revenue of Nansemond 
county.  Mrs. Artman had been a resident of Suffolk for over a quarter of a 
century, and was held in high esteem by a large circle of friends. 

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  SUFFOLK NEWS GATHERINGS. 

  Mrs. Mary Artman, wife of our townsman, H. Artman, and mother of H.T. Artman 
and Mrs. E. Tatterson, died at the family residence in Franklin street on 
Thursday.  Mrs. Artman has been a sufferer for many years and bore her 
afflictions with resignation and fortitude, looking to the rest which 
remaineth for the people of God.  Her funeral was held yesterday at 8 o'clock 
at the family residence, the Presbyterian minister officiating. 

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Mary Elizabeth (BLAINE; Mrs. Hiram Townsend) ARTMAN, 
b. 7 Feb 1825, McEwensville, PA, d. 3 Dec 1896, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 105*), Suffolk, 4 Dec 1896, 
"Norfolk (VA) Dispatch," Vol. 1, No. 25, Sat., Dec. 5, 1896, p. 2 
"Norfolk (VA) Landmark," Vol. 43, No. 135, Sat., Dec. 5, 1896, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

Photos of her monument - added by Russ Pickett - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #11510912. 

Birthplace &c. from Nansemond Co. D.Reg. 1896 #2, which gives daughter of 
   George & Mary BLAINE. 

The family appeared in the 1860 Census in Portsmouth and in the 1870 Census 
   in Suffolk. 

Her husband was a Confederate veteran.  We show him as having served as a 
   private in Co. A, 3rd VA Cavalry; however, two of his obits state he.served 
   in the Ordnance Dept. 

His obits ("Virginian-Pilot," "Norfolk Landmark," & "Times-Dispatch," 
   Nov. 19, 1909) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/a635h1ob.txt 


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